POD (Poem Of the day) ~Searching for the Peace Path
Today we meet the Octave of the Assumption: Tradition celebrates two main Feasts of Mary in August. The first is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 15 August, & the second is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary on 22 August (also celebrated as The Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) Our ancestors celebrated all major feasts for 8 days = for an octave - Essentially the same liturgy was invoked, using the same liturgical texts & songs each day of the octave. Then on the 8th day - The Octave - we receive a heightened experience, honoring the spiritual themes of the Feast for the last time in a special celebration. pope Paul VI decided to add his papal Bull into the mix - switching the Feasts of the Immaculate Heart & the Queenship of Mary - & so it was that the date of the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was changed - co-joined to the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (celebrated around the Summer Solstice 20 June) Change is good - sure 2 hearts are One, I get it - And what’s also cool is that this then encourages the focus on the imagination of Mary’s Queenship - Coupling it with Her attribute as the Dove of Peace -
I’m usually not one to give much authority to papal Bull, but when it comes to the ‘Mary’s’, I always seek to bring forth the essence of the Divine Feminine even if it comes from the church Matrix - So I will share this inspired pope quote which came thru none the less & all the more: “May all recognize more clearly and venerate more devoutly the merciful and maternal sway of the Mother of God. May this feast help to preserve, strengthen and prolong that peace among nations which daily is almost destroyed by recurring crises. Is she not a rainbow in the clouds reaching towards God, the pledge of a covenant of peace?” ~pope Paul VIAmen! & So mote it Bee!
After her Assumption into Heaven, Mary is Queen of Heaven - right there beside her Son, The Being of Love - & the ‘Father Ground of the World’ - in a restoration of the Trinity. & Yes, Let’s join together to work with Her as “Queen of Peace,” to help us turn the tide of constant war & conflict - thru Her powerful intercession.
May we strive to make our hearts Immaculate - to share the true Crown of our Queen - & become a beacon of Love & Peace in the world. ~hag
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
22 August 2025 - “Speaking with the Stars”: Have you noticed a very bright, scintillating star in the early morning sky? It’s Sirius - shining with glints of red & flashes of blue. In late August & early September, we are given hints of the changing Season in the predawn sky: Orion the Hunter & Sirius the Dog Star. Orion is easily recognizable by the short straight line of 3 bright stars that make up his Belt. It rises before dawn at this time of year - & the sky’s brightest star - Sirius – also known as the Dog Star, in the constellation Canis Major – following Orion the Hunter as the predawn darkness gives way to dawn.
565 –Birthday of Columbaa, Christian saint - one of the ‘Twelve Apostles of Ireland’ reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
1241 – Deathday of Pope Gregory IX, established the papal Inquisition 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
1862 – Birthday of Claude Debussy
1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President to ride in an automobile
1913 – 1st performance of Rudolf Steiner’s 4th Mystery Drama: The Souls’ Awakening1932 – The BBC begins television broadcasting using John Logie Baird’s system 1941 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German force
*1947 – Deathday of Francis Delaisi, French social economist spoken of by Rudolf Steiner in ‘Fall of the Spirits of Darkness’ Lecture 14 Dornach, 28 October 1917 “You will no doubt have heard that certain people are over and over again proclaiming to the world that democracy must spread to the whole civilized world. Salvation lies in making the whole of humanity democratic; everything will have to be smashed to pieces so that democracy may spread in the world… Concepts are taken for reality, and as a result illusion may take the place of reality where human life is concerned by lulling people to sleep with concepts. They believe the fruits of their endeavours will be that every individual will be able to express their will in the different democratic institutions, and they fail to see that these institutions are such that it is always just a few people who pull the wires, whilst the rest are pulled along. They are persuaded, however, that they are part of democracy and so they do not notice they are being pulled and that some individuals are pulling the strings. Those individuals will find it all the easier to do the pulling if the others all believe they are doing it themselves, instead of being pulled along. It is quite easy to lull people to sleep with abstract concepts and make them believe the opposite of what is really true. This gives the powers of darkness the best opportunity to do what they want. And if anyone should wake up they are simply ignored. It is interesting to note that in 1910 Francis Delaisi wrote that large scale capitalism had succeeded in making democracy into an effective tool for exploiting the whole population. Financiers run democracy and encourage it, for it provides a screen behind which they can hide their method of exploitation, and they find it their best defense against any objections which the populace may raise. For once, therefore, a man woke up and saw that what mattered was not to proclaim democracy but to see the full reality, not to follow slogans, but to see things as they are. This would be particularly important today, for people would then realize that the events which reign with such blood and terror over the whole of humanity are guided and directed from just a few centres. People will never realize this if they persist in the delusion that nation is fighting nation, and allow the European and American Press to lull them to sleep over the kinds of relations that are said to exist between nations. Everything said about antagonism and opposition between nations only exists to cast a veil over the true reasons. For we shall never arrive at the real truth if we feed on words in order to explain these events, but only if we point to actual people. The problem is that this tends to be unpalatable today. And the man who woke up and wrote these statements in 1910 also presented some highly unwelcome accounts in his book… The book contains impulses which allow one to see through much of what we should see through today, and also to cut through much of the fog which is made to wash over human brains today. Here again, we must resolve to look to reality. The book has, of course, been ignored. It does, however, raise issues which should be raised all over the world today, for they would teach people much about the reality which others intend to bury under all their declamations on democracy and autocracy and whatever the slogans may be… So for once someone did wake up. He is well aware of the threads which run from the actions of the different insurance companies. But such things, reported by someone who is awake and sees the truth, are ignored. It is, of course, only too easy to talk about democracy in the Western world. It is not a bad thing to know these things, which are ingredients of reality. They must be seriously considered. And one is guided to develop something of a nose for reality when one takes up anthroposophy, whilst the materialistic education people have today, with innumerable channels opening into it from the Press, is designed to point not to the realities but to something which is cloaked in all kinds of slogans. And if someone does wake up, as Delaisi did, and writes about how things really are, how many people get to know about it? How many people will listen? They cannot listen, for it is buried by—well, by a life that again is ruled by the Press. Delaisi shows himself to be a bright person. He is entirely scientific and serious, for he understands the whole system which leads to these ‘voting machines’, where people are made to believe that a convinced majority is voting against a mentally unhinged minority. He knows that something else will have to take the place of this if there is to be healthy development. This is not yet possible, for people would be deeply shocked if you were to tell them what will take its place. Only people initiated into spiritual science can really know this today. Forms which belong to the past will definitely not take its place. Apart from my efforts to introduce you to the laws of spiritual life and the impulses of spiritual life, I also regard it to be my function to draw attention to significant elements in present-day life…” ~Rudolf Steiner, The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, GA 177, lecture 14 - Into the Future
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Friday, 22 August 2025
Reach the Octave
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