Today 24 August in 1912 was the 1st performance of Rudolf Steiner’s 3rd Mystery Drama: “The Guardian of the Threshold” These Mystery Dramas strike a deep chord - bringing notes of Destiny-Wisdom to resound within our life circumstances. They contain extremely concentrated karmic insight. ‘And actually, one must understand that if some trouble were to be taken to read the things that lie within these dramas—not reading between the lines, but if one were to take the trouble to read what lies in the words themselves, spiritually—if one were to take the trouble to grasp the Rosicrucian Mystery in just such a way, seeking for these things, then it would not be necessary for me to give so many lectures about this or that in the time to come.’ ~Rudolf Steiner
In relation to the Mystery Dramas, Hans Pusch, who worked deeply with them, states: ‘It is a clear sign of a genuine relationship to Anthroposophy that our forces of destiny become more and more active, even though they may be disturbing and uncomfortable. The Spirit of our Time is an awakener, a conscious troublemaker, and a dis-illusioner. Anyone who feels inner turmoil as a necessary tribute to the forces of progress will be prepared to enjoy the seemingly long speeches in the dramas. In their composition, he will sense inner laws and rhythms that will bring order to his own soul. The dramatic events in the spirit scenes become as real as any physical happenings.’ Insights into our personal trials help us to understand & have compassion for one another. As Hans says, sometimes it is indeed a daily, almost hourly inner battle with our self to say ‘Yes’ to what destiny throws in our path.
As the scenes of the Mystery Dramas unfold, we become aware of the various interactions between individuals in the course of time. In the lecture series ‘The Secrets of the Threshold’ Steiner speaks often of the Mystery Dramas. They give us an objective overview, ‘of knots from threads that karma spun in world becoming’ (in the words of Benedictus in the Temple Scene of the first Mystery Drama.) In these threads, human lives are interwoven.
In these Mystery Drama Temple Scenes, we experience the manifestation of karmic configurations & their progression in the spiritual development of individuals & of humanity as a whole. Within our present incarnation, there are deeds to perform to help rectify misdeeds, before we cross the threshold into the life between death & rebirth. We all have knots to loosen & unbind in our personal destiny. By recognizing the characters & situations in the plays, which are similar to our own life, unexpected karmic understandings can be glimpsed.
We can think about the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, well known in Charles Dicken’s story, ‘A Christmas Carol’ - How his retrospective is similar to those in the Mystery Dramas - It was thru the grace of destiny that Scrooge was confronted by the ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’. Dickens’ story is a Michaelic-kamaloca experience. Seeing the pain of the people he was hurting, Scrooge felt the need to make amends for his miserly ways, thereby changing his future destiny, & that of others, as well. This striving for atonement is to be developed at every turn on the wheel of the year. May we take stock of what we have reaped & sown as we move forward in the harvest season. It is the joys & sufferings in destiny situations, which lead to soul-growth. Our present state of mind may hold clues to understanding past deeds or misdeeds. Our heightened consciousness assists in planting new seeds of service for the future of humankind. ~hag
Benedictus:
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL, translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler - LAMMASTIDE IV - v20 - The Nemesis Of The Lower Self - a Luciferic challange And so I come to feel my being, Who not communing with the world - Would perish... self-confined - And building only on its own ground - Its inward outcome would be suicide.
24 August 2025 – “Speaking with the Stars”
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. burning down the White House, the Capitol & many other buildings
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the Council of Three Fires (united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, & Potawatomi) residing on the Illinois and Milwaukee rivers. By signing the treaty, they relinquished all right, claim, & title to their land, also a 20-mile strip that connected Chicago & Lake Michigan with the Illinois River. In exchange the tribes were to be paid $1,000 in merchandise over 12 years. Today, Indian Boundary Park in West Ridge, Chicago commemorates this Treaty.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. Since the years immediately preceding the Panic were prosperous, many banks, had seized the opportunity to take risks with their investments & as soon as market prices began to fall, they quickly began to experience the effects of financial panic (will we ever learn?)
1864 – Deathday of Jakob Lorber “scribe of God” a Christian mystic &visionary. Lorber’s prose, an ‘inner voice’ from the region of his heart, has been compared with writings by other mystics such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Jakob Boehme & Rudolf Steiner
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
1912 – 1st performance of Rudolf Steiner’s 3rd Mystery Drama: “The Guardian of the Threshold”
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to New Jersey) 1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union
1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom
2004 – Deathday of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist & death advocate
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines Pluto as a dwarf planet
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Sunday, 24 August 2025
Karmic Knots
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