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Witzenmann's book doesn't seem to be available in English.
The Power of Soul by Robert Sardello gives a 230 page coverage of them. Available at his website, Amazon, and used book sites. Enjoy!

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This has been such a rich experience. It seems to open up my practice of the Rose Cross exercise to a whole community.
Lois Beardsley

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See all the wonderful things mwalkerebersole has made

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I'd like to share this Holly Love project (Holly - Holy) . It's all about Love. Transforming adverse 'Prickly' feelings, through a meditation and Flower Essences - especially Holly - into Unconditional Love - even when you don't agree with or need to change the other. I originally began this to clear adverse feelings towards someone I was having a difficulty in loving. I offer it as a gift for anyone who would like to partake.A few of our Orange County Holy Nights group in California are taking it up.So, get a photo or symbol of someone known to you personally, a public figure - even yourself. Someone you have adverse feelings towards. Put that picture, in an altar type space and with deep reverence for that person  as a fellow human send and see them with love; wish them well - You can do this for about five minutes a day (longer if you feel drawn to) for either, one, two or three weeks (21 days is a good time period.) You can take your Holly essence (4 drops in the mouth)when you do this project and then another at least three times during the day.First thing in the morning and last thing at night as you go to sleep are good times.Wishing you well in this and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts - maybe we could even discuss; I'm interested to see what people experience.
Here's a description of the Holly Essence from Richard Katz and Patricia Kaminski of FES - Flower Essence Society in Nevada City. They are featured in the movie - "Challenge of Rudolf Steiner"
"Above all else the soul seeks in its evolution to experience real love. This is the most fundamental lesson for the soul, and at the same time the most challenging. Holly is therefore a foundational remedy with many broad based applications for it restores the soul's ability to feel unity and wholeness.When we feel separate from others we can take no joy or compassionate interest in their affairs; instead our isolation is compounded into negative states of jealousy, envy, suspicion or anger. The soul grasps for its share of love as though it were a limited commodity rather than realising that love is an infinite resource which is divinely available to all, Holly essence nourishes the heart, helping the individual to make and sustain the shift from a limited and narrow conception of the Self, to one which is expansive and inclusive of others. In this way, the soul experiences wholeness or "holiness', for it feels permeated with divine love. The sense of sacred unity is the very special gift and teaching of Holly flower essence." Positive qualities:  Feeling love and extending love to others; universal compassion, open heart.

How to take the flower essence (If people are fairly local (S. California) I can make essences up and send them out. How to create your personal Holly Remedy:You will need - small amber glass dropper bottle,  1oz,     Holly remedy, spring water.  Fill the bottle to the shoulder with water. Then drop 6 drops of the Holly remedy in the bottle.  You can also add a 1/2 tsp of brandy if you like for a preservative. Close bottle and label it so you know what it is! Lightly tap the bottle with your hand or against the body. I say a prayer or verse as I am doing this - no need to shake it or turn it upside down. Take 4 drops in mouth at least 4 x day, as you look at the photo of the person where you are focusing love. You can take it many more times a day as needed or guided.

Questions - helenagorka@gmail.comTowards a Community of Love...Helena Gorka

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5th Gospel Study Sunday's 7-8pm CST starting up again on 10 January 2021

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5th Gospel Study Sunday's 7-8pm CST starting up again on 10 January 2021

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Our Holy Nights Study Group will continue to work with this seminal text received by Rudolf Steiner from the Akashic Record. We are on Lecture 8.
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Resources for the Six Basic aka Subsidiary Exercises 

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Resources for the Six Basic aka Subsidiary Exercises 

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For each of our daily contemplations, I drew the traditional Zodiac symbol corresponding to the Holy Night.  I started, as we all did, with Virgo- I just had a pen that day- and then Leo, in pencil, after which I broke out the colored pencils and crayons.  Each was on its own page, so I have assembled them here and added the Rose drawing for Epiphany.  Blessings on you all, Chris Barron

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May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

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Meeting at 12:20 PM Eastern Time Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (right after the 6BE group). We just started Chapter 6 (Our Knowledge of the World) of the Hoernle translation. All are welcome. The only requirement is to read to where we are so the etheric of the group stays healthy. (Chapter 6 Paragraph 3). We are following a rhythm that Christina experienced with a group in France.
For more information: sharleenleonard61@gmail.com

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Thank you all for sharing this courageous journey into a joy and wisdom filed future.
Here is the next stage of my drawing begun before your first presentation and developed through listening to all the beautiful seed thoughts.
Sophia Montefiore (here is a link to my new and very underdeveloped website http://www.sophia-art.site/)

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Thanks to everyone who organized and presented. I found it truly inspiring!

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Resumes MONDAY JAN 11
We meet for 15 min each weekday. We are picking up with the 3rd exercise, Equanimity on Monday, Jan 11.
Topic: SixBasicExercises

Time: weekdays 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Sharleen has info via email for newcomers: sharleenleonard61@gmail.com

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Can someone share info on the Mediation Group,  is it open to all?

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Calendar of the Soul Verse for Week # 40 (Jan. 5-11), Eurythmy Choreography by Rudolf Steiner:

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Calendar of the Soul Verse for Week # 40 (Jan. 5-11), Eurythmy Choreography by Rudolf Steiner:

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This is an unusual form, encompassing the entire verse, and held by the red element in a rose like pattern. The verse:

And when I live in spirit depths
And dwell within my soul's foundations,
There streams from love-worlds of the heart,
To fill the vain delusion of the self,
The fiery power of the cosmic Word.

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Nicholas
1-5-2021

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Relating to our Sagittarius truth, also to the Scorpio presentation today with our soul-forces, and to all of life:

"All striving for truth must be built upon trust and true love for humanity.  Although such striving must be built upon this trust and love, it does not originate from it, but can only flow from the individual's own soul-force. And this love for humanity must gradually expand into love for all beings, and indeed for all existence."

~ Rudolf Steiner, Knowledge of Higher Worlds

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this is from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_and_tropical_astrology#:~:text=While%20sidereal%20systems%20of%20astrology,to%200%20degrees%20of%20Aries

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Someone asked for the name of the book that I mentioned in the presentation today. Here it is.

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Deep Peace of the running waves to you
Deep Peace of the flowing air to you
Deep Peace of the shining stars to you
Deep Peace of the quiet Earth to you

Tenha a paz das ondas do mar
Tenha a paz do sopro do ar
Tenha a paz das estrelas brilhando
Tenha a paz da Terra repousando

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I've been fortunate to sing this choral interpretation of the song that Jolie sang-- enjoy!

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Deep Peace - New Thought Choir Music - by Bill Douglas (traditional Gaelic Blessing)

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Nicholas

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The Archer
Eagle, Dove and Pheonix
Thank you all for this special time,
Nicholas

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from Renate in Australia

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I awoke this morning remembering a beautiful dream of last night in which I was reading something...First it indicated it was said by R. Steiner and read "Let us, as the fiddler plays, all make music together!" The rest of the text was blurred out. It was so joyful - then this morning, as I opened my emails, a newsletter from Being More Consciously Human included information about Beethoven and Steiner's beautiful words: “We can now understand wherein the deepest significance of music lies, why all who know the inner relationship of things concede to music the highest place among the arts, why music touches and makes the deepest strings in our soul resound.

The higher world is man’s original homestead and the echoes from this native world, the world of the spirit, resound for him in the harmonies and melodies of the physical world. They permeate this lower world with intimations of an existence filled with glory and wonder; they move his innermost being and thrill it with emotions of purest joy, of loftiest spirituality, such as this world cannot give him.

Painting speaks to his astral, or sentient nature, but the world of music speaks to his very inner being. And as long as man is not yet an initiate, his home world, the world of spirit, is given him in music.”    This was SUCH a perfect gift today!

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Joan’s Epiphany ‘What Joan of Arc Calls for Today’

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Joan’s Epiphany ‘What Joan of Arc Calls for Today’

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Wednesday 6 January 2021,
2 pm – 4 pm CST
Online Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/7052931041
Meeting ID: 705 293 1041

On this Day of Epiphany - the Birthday of Joan of Arc, We Welcome Special Guest Nancy Poer

Social Sculpture: “The Passage” with Lucien Dante Lazar,
+ An Artistic exploration

We will also explore ‘The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations’,  ‘The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It’ by Rudolf Steiner, with Leading Thoughts
by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

Group Eurythmy with Mary Ruud

Dear friends please consider making a good will donation
to The Rudolf Steiner Branch, our HVAC got destroyed in the Tornado
http://donate.rschicago.org/

For more info. contact hag@rschicago.org

Blessings of the Season
~Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Events & Festival Coordinator for the Rudolf Steiner Branch
of The Anthroposophical Society

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Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily Recording and Information 

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Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily Recording and Information 

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Rudolf Steiner described fairy tales as “the most actual link between the spiritual world and the world of external reality” (lecture, 12/01/1911). Still today, fairy tales can serve as a bridge for human beings seeking the path the spirit. As students of spiritual science, Goethe’s Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily is one of the most powerful tales to which we can turn our attention. As a Holy Nights offering to our community, a group of thirteen individuals came together via Zoom on the night of the final full moon of 2020 to read the Green Snake together. We spoke for a friendly audience, with a few simple slides drawn in chalk pastels as accompaniment, and the mood was open and attentive. Thank you to both the brave volunteer readers and the kind audience, as both were necessary to create the perfect mood.

You are invited to view the recording here: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/cULaa-Kj0O_znlrdJTeoj-N6IGNWXvb5NFoYa9WFl6afryDWLnS0btso5DJR9MOG._l3sTmcvcDeih7Kx?startTime=1609286829000

Future "folk readings" are in the planning for 2021. If you are interested in reading or in creating new slides for the story, please contact Angela Foster at afoster@thirdbody.net. No experience necessary; we are a learn-together-as-you-go community! I can say from personal experience that each time I work with this amazing fairy tale, new secrets are revealed. Its power is limitless. So whether this is your first reading or your fiftieth, please feel invited to join in the fun!

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Here is my next stage of my sketch - imagining the Lily of the Annunciation and the Rose of future sacrifice....
Sophia Montefiore

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references for the study and practice of the Holy Nights and the virtues:

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references for the study and practice of the Holy Nights and the virtues:

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1. The Power of Soul; Living the Twelve Virtues, Robert Sardello
2. The Virtues Seasons of the Soul, Herbert Witzenmann
3. The Twelve Holy Nights and the Spiritual Hierachies, Sergei O. Prokofieff

Also an excellent book, Meditations on the Twelve Holy Nights by Christina Kaine

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Sunset along CT River a living mural of today's gathering

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This poem came this morning before our gathering.

REDEMPTION OF LOVE
Nicholas
1-2-2021

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Episode 4: Lecture 4: Cosmic New Year: The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson (31 December 1914) by Rudolf S

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I loved Leland's image of the plant, with the fruit in the plant likened to a virtue in the human being. Taking this image a bit further, with the plant the seed within the fruit falls to the earth and disappears for the winter becoming enlivened from the earth and cosmos, while what's left of the plant gets put into the compost pile and essentially disappears from sight. When I actively meditate I essentially disappear from this world and become active in the invisible world within myself and in the cosmos. Just as the composting process brings together physical warmth and cosmic forces, so in meditation my heart is warmed by the disappearance of everyday thought to be filled by cosmic warmth; and from this a conscious discretion that informs my speech and action.
Happy New Year to all.

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Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Soo. Recommended by Gina McGarry as work on Sophia by a woman
Ariadne's Awakening on Hawthorne Press : Chapters by Betty Staley, Margli Matthews, Signe Schaefer

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Rudolph Steiner's Lecture about the Dream Song of Olaf Asteson

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Rudolph Steiner's Lecture about the Dream Song of Olaf Asteson

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Listen to an English recreation of Steiner's lecture about the Dream Song of Olaf Asteson... This Norwegian story is about Olaf Asteson who falls asleep on Christmas Eve and sleeps through the Holy Nights, experiencing the Spirit World in his dreams. Narrated by Dale Brunsvold.

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Episode 4: Lecture 4: Cosmic New Year: The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson (31 December 1914) by Rudolf S

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Fostering Resilience: New Forces for the New Year

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Fostering Resilience: New Forces for the New Year

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A series of free webinar sessions dedicated to building more physical and spiritual vitality. After a long and challenging pandemic year, we want to collectively move towards the future with open hearts and strong intention. Sessions will take place the evenings of Jan 26, Feb 23 and March 23, 2021. There is no cost, the webinars are open to all, but registration is required: https://anthroposophicmedicine.org/event-4098818
Co-sponsored by the Anthroposophic Health Association, the Foundation for Health Creation, and the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine.

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Brighid’s Healing, Ireland’s CelticMedicine Traditions, by Gina McGarry. A book about Sophia written by a woman who leads an academy in Ireland.  From Lucy O’Neal

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Brighid’s Healing, Ireland’s CelticMedicine Traditions, by Gina McGarry. A book about Sophia written by a woman who leads an academy in Ireland.  From Lucy O’Neal

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On New Year’s Eve our folk soul briefly releases us, and consequently what we then think is perceived by the highest hierarchies and has the power in it to be brought into reality. ~ Rudolf Steiner

FROM MARY STEWART ADAMS:
JCH- stands for I AM
IN GERMAN
That image appeared three times in the original calendar of the soul
Lends itself to the three “eves” I spoke about last year: Christmas Eve, new year’s eve, eve of epiphany.

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Surrender is a state of mind which does not seek to investigate truth from out of itself, but which looks for truth to come from the revelation that flows out of the things, and can wait until it is ripe to receive the revelation. An inclination to judge or form opinions wants to be continually arriving at truth at every step;  surrender, on the other hand, does not set out to force an entrance, as it were, into this or that truth, rather do we seek to educate ourselves and then quietly wait until we attain to that stage of maturity where the truth flows to us from the things of the world, coming to us in revelation and filling our whole being.

Rudolf Steiner, GA 134 Dec 28, 1911

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Poem by Nicholas Morrow
12-30-2020

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Birdsong’s Journey into the Land of Tomorrow

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Too emotional to share this morning, but liked that Birdsong turned to Aruna for advice. Knowing that Today's future is in the actions of our youth, it's reassuring to know that some of them have enough wisdom that their first reaction isn't "I've got this; I can handle it", but instead is to turn for advice to an "Aruna", who has seen more days and has some very powerful, very helpful friends (like Doran (sic)).  The real "songs" are those that are above Time and Space, looking down on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.  Those songs join with the Music of the Spheres to teach us unending truths, and this tale has the ability to do that.

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welcome to my lil corner of the net - make yourself comfortable n stay awhile! here u will find loops, lines, and other odds & ends if you're here, I am loving u :) xox uva

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New Images of the Zodiac:  Thank you Mary Stewart Adams, Margot Rössler, Imma von Eckardstein, and the ASA.

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New Images of the Zodiac:  Thank you Mary Stewart Adams, Margot Rössler, Imma von Eckardstein, and the ASA.

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From 2017 Holy Nights experience with Mary Stewart Adams

The new images of the zodiac, originally done by Imma von Eckardstein with Steiner, were included in the original calendar of the soul. Imma von Eckardstein composed these images as part of a sunrise meditation.

"At dawn, the Sun sends out a green flash ahead of its emergence on the horizon. One may, with stillness of mind, in contemplation, ask the Sun and the corresponding constellation what the intentions of the day are to be."

*[ When I was perhaps 9 or 10, My grandmother showed me that a green flash also occurs on the horizon at sunset-dusk, just after the sun orb slides below the horizon. As a child, I recall seeing it for a split second, gazing westward from Cape Cod].

The new images of the zodiac work directly with the breathing process of the year and especially the Elemental Beings.

Margot Rössler worked with the images and created the glass etchings now in Ann Arbor, MI. which are now beautifully showcased digitally.  Thank You.

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Fairy Tale reading on Tuesday night, Dec 29, 7pm ET

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Fairy Tale reading on Tuesday night, Dec 29, 7pm ET

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The ARC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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https://soundcloud.com/ultra-violet-archer

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A prayer that the Light of those gathered during these Holy Nights might lead to Love.

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This image combines the Virtues of the Month with the new constellation logos with the I... statements for each from Rudolf Steiner.   Here in case helpful to anyone.

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Birdsong’s Journey into the Land of Tomorrow By Ultra-Violet Archer December 2020

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Birdsong’s Journey into the Land of Tomorrow By Ultra-Violet Archer December 2020

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I have a question about zodiac dates you are using.  

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I have a question about zodiac dates you are using.  

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Virgo dates are August 23-September 22
Your dates for Virgo are Sept 17-October 17
After those dates, each zodiac sign you are going through has wrong dates.  Is there a reason you chose those dates?

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Recordings posted here each day with image of the new zodiac

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Recordings posted here each day with image of the new zodiac

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A Rose By Any Other NameDecember and January 2020-2021

Schedule, Resources and Recordings
A Holy Nights Seed

Click here to visit our Holy Nights online bulletin board to view and share resources

Zoom Information at the bottom of this webpage
December 24- January 5 (No Meeting December 31)

** See below for the corresponding zodiac and virtue for each day and recordings added daily **

9:00-9:10 Welcome and silent contemplation with the new zodiac image and virtue

After our gathering, continue your reflections on the zodiac and virtue through sunset and into your sleep.

Upon waking the next day, and before our daily meeting, record the dreams of the previous night, waking thoughts, and any reflections that come for that zodiacal month ahead in 2021.

At sunset on December 24 continue the contemplation of the constellation Virgo between September 17 and October 17 of 2020, and the virtue "courtesy becomes steadiness of feeling."

Wake on December 25 and record your dreams from the night as well as any inspirations or imaginations you have for 2021 during the month of Virgo between September 17 to October 17, 2021.
Inspirational Verse:
O Holy Sophia, Holy Wisdom, Holy Joy hidden for so long
come forth and reveal yourself in the world and in our souls!
Help us to see with a loving eye
Help us to hear with wit and intuition
Show us how to be natural and kind
Show us how to find ourselves in one another
Lead us from who we think we are to who we really are
Let us learn from the flowers that we need not strive so hard.
Teach us to allow that Light from within
to unfold us as a gift like your lily or the Rose.
~Alice O. Howell

Schedule with Constellation, Zodiacal Month, Color, Virtue and Presenter
Suggested to bring a candle, journal, colored pencils, paints, etc.

Click here for the Slide
On the Cross of the World-Body

The World-Soul reveals Herself:

Living in five radiant streams

The Mystery which the Christmas Child brought into the world contains this - to look at a goal in common, without discord among us. For the common goal implies union and harmony. The light of Christmas should shine as a light of peace, a light that brings peace outside, only because first of all it sheds an inner peace into the hearts of all. We should understand this and say together: Let us realise this and work together with love in the great task. Then, and only then, shall we understand Christmas.
-Rudolf Steiner, The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia, Dec 24 1920

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A Rose By Any Other NameDecember and January 2020-2021 Schedule, Resources and Recordings A Holy Nights Seed Click here to visit our Holy Nights online bulletin board to view and share resources Zoom Information at the bottom of this webpage December 24- January 5 (No Meeting December 31) ** See below for the corresponding zodiac and virtue for each day and recordings added daily ** 9:00-9:10 Welcome and silent contemplation with the new zodiac image and virtue After our gathering, continue your reflections on the zodiac and virtue through sunset and into your sleep.

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On the Cross of the World-Body

The World-Soul reveals Herself:

Living in five radiant streams

Through Wisdom,

Love,

Power of Will,

All-sense

And I-sense,

She finds

In Herself

The World Spirit.

- Rudolf Steiner

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The Mystery which the Christmas Child brought into the world contains this — to look at a goal in common, without discord among us. For the common goal implies union and harmony. The light of Christmas should shine as a light of peace, a light that brings peace outside, only because first of all it sheds an inner peace into the hearts of all. We should understand this and say together: Let us realise this and work together with love in the great task. Then, and only then, shall we understand Christmas.
-Rudolf Steiner, The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia, Dec 24 1920

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Foundation Stone printed copies- requests sent to deb@anthroposophy.org

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Foundation Stone printed copies- requests sent to deb@anthroposophy.org

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If you would like a Foundation Stone Meditation brochure with original artwork by Ella Lapointe, includes the rhythms and panels you can email Deb at deb@anthroposophy.org and one will be mailed to you!

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This may be an interesting picture of Taurus - it may represent well the power of the young girl in relationship with the raging bull

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This may be an interesting picture of Taurus - it may represent well the power of the young girl in relationship with the raging bull

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Once upon a time in the lands of ancient Greece, long before garden centers and packaged seeds, Persephone kneeled in a large bed of flowers and began to remove all the dead flower heads from their stems. As she lifted the brown parts, she smiled to herself. She was happy in the Underworld with Hades, living as queen of all those below, but she was grateful to be home with her mother Demeter once more.

The land was happy to have her home, too. She tended flora and fauna (plants and animals) with compassion and care. She rested when she needed. She took care of herself to ensure that she was ready to care for others around her. She spent a lot of time with people, you see. She loved the community that springtime renewal brought about. People joined together to share experiences of the blooming flowers, the swaying grasses in the ocean breezes, and the crashing waves and singing birds.

The people of Greece also gossiped a lot. So when Persephone heard a loud "STOMP, CLOMP, STOMP," she placed her pickings in a large basket, walked gently over the hill, and was unsurprised to see a great bull running around in the flower beds.

The bull looked so fierce running about that Persephone was not sure if she should approach it. It was no wonder the Greeks had such a fascination for the animal they had all thought was immortal--one would think Zeus crafted this bull from the marble produced at the highest peak of Mount Olympus. Yet, Persephone knew all eternal beings, and this bull was not one of them.

She moved closer to the giant beast, fully ready to jump back quickly if the animal made any sudden movements. Apparent to Persephone, the bull was thinking the same thing, for when a rare branch cracked under her weight, the bull slowly turned in her direction and bowed its head.
Stunned and curious, Persephone kneeled once more and placed her head against the earth. She peered up into the bull's eyes. It peered back. She had heard a lot about this bull, but she had never listened to what its name might be. "What is your name?" she asked.

The bull was stunned, for no one--let alone a Greek god--had ever asked him anything.
"Cerus," the bull replied. He saw Persephone smile to herself. Then, she ran up the nearest hill and rolled down the other side. Cerus quickly followed. Pollen flung into the air and the flowers danced after her. He was comforted by the goddess's behavior. Her playfulness made him feel calmer than he'd ever felt. He could feel his strong emotions breaking down at the sights and sounds of Persephone and her flowers.

They were friends forever after that. When Persephone would move down each year with Hades, Cerus would run over the Grecian hills, keeping the ground always changing and nourished for Persephone's arrival. When Persephone would return each year, Cerus would again have his best friend to calm him. The blooming flowers, ever- beaming around her, never failed to amaze him. And it was not unusual to see Persephone riding peacefully on Cerus' large, sturdy back when she herself needed some time to calm herself and rest.

Many of the Greek people, gods, and goddess grew to know and care about the relationship between Cerus and Persephone. Eventually, people even began to talk to Cerus as he tromped soils or tended roses. If Hades and Demeter agreed on one thing, it was the importance of Cerus and Persephone's friendship. Along with Zeus, who had been observing, these gods immortalized the bull in the sky as the constellation Taurus. No matter the season, no matter how high in the air or how deep in the Underworld, Cerus and Persephone would never be apart.

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Some years ago, I decided to go through each Holy Night working to forgive someone - or myself. This year I chose to work with thankfulness in the same way. During the first few days, I came up with thankfulness toward human beings in my circles. Today, Higher Angelic Beings came to my mind. And it is only the fifth Night ... How will this end?

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Special on PBS. 1 hour 24 minutes. All is Calm. The Christmas Truce of 1914. Appears to be available to watch through 12/31/20 https://www.pbs.org/video/full-episode-all-is-calm-the-christmas-truce-of-1914-zepfsb/
From Sharleen

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TOWARD THE "ROSE CROSS MEDITATION" USING THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS

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TOWARD THE "ROSE CROSS MEDITATION" USING THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS

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https://threesimplequestions.blogspoThis is the entry point to four blog entries, which offer a step-by-step building up of Steiner's exercise.

This has had 499 visitors to date. Most comment: "Simple and clear."

The fourth blog post includes links to the Southern Cross journal posting quoting Steiner on this exercise and Eileen Bristol's article in the Anthroposophical Prison Outreach (APO) newsletter.

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The 4th Holy Night with ~hag

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The 4th Holy Night with ~hag

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GEMINI - on the Twin Nature of Mother & Child

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GEMINI - on the Twin Nature of Mother & Child

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Perseverance Becomes Faithfulness
Perseverance: “Mothers Nuture, Steadfast Forgiving”
Becomes: “Walking in First Steps, Holding Hands”
Faithfulness: “Leading Our Longing Home”

Matt Richter

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"For if we were to look
from the cosmos
towards the earth,
through the shining of the stars, it would be as though the earth were wishing to shine inwardly, beneath its surface,
in rainbow colours."

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When We Speak to the Stars - A Southern Hemisphere Christmas gathering online

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When We Speak to the Stars - A Southern Hemisphere Christmas gathering online

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Being in Australia, I can't join you live, but appreciate waking up to a new video contemplation each day. Perhaps you might like to watch our Australian Anthroposophical Society Christmas online gathering,  held on December 20th at 5pm AEDT.
Theologian Martin Samson and I, researcher/artist Fiona Campbell, spoke about the starry heavens in the Southern Hemisphere at Christmas, followed by a contemplation on the journey of the Heavenly Madonna and Child.

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Rudolf Steiner Archive & e.Lib

The Fifth Gospel

Investigation of the Akasha Chronicle

On-line since: 15th July, 2012

By Rudolf Steiner

Translated by D. S. Osmond with the help of M. Cotterell
Bn/GA 148

After a shattering struggle to arrive at the truth, Steiner presents here the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the Baptism and the life of Christ after the Baptism. Among the scenes described are Jesus in the Essene community, the conversation between Jesus and Mary before the Baptism, Jesus discovering the reverse Lord's Prayer, and the temptation of Christ after the Baptism.

Five lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Christiania in October of 1913. Translated by D. S. Osmond with the help of M. Cotterell, from shorthand notes unrevised by the lecturer. In the collected edition of Rudolf Steiner's works, the volume containing the German texts is entitled: Aus der Akasha-forschung. Das Fuenfte Evangelium (vol. 148 in the Bibliographic Survey).

This volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

Copyright © 1950
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Rudolf Steiner Archive & e.Lib By Rudolf Steiner Translated by D. S. Osmond with the help of M. Cotterell Bn/GA 148 After a shattering struggle to arrive at the truth, Steiner presents here the findings of spiritual research regarding the life of Jesus before the Baptism and the life of Christ after the Baptism.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1Gst7pEqc

St. Francis of Assisi (Astral body of Enlightened Buddha)

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I was journaling and writing prose from dreams and our group efforts and in silent darkness, this experience and poem happened in the wee dark morning hours of today:

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I was journaling and writing prose from dreams and our group efforts and in silent darkness, this experience and poem happened in the wee dark morning hours of today:

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Poems like dewdrops to my Kidney.
Sweet sanctified Holy Light,
Like rain on skin,
Involuted Quicksilver,
A lubrication Legend
and Legendary.
A key to a map of eternity,
Threshold keepers guide my way on.
The Sun shines sweetly.

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JOYFUL CHRISTMASTIDE is here at White Feather Ranch with a long hoped for visit from

Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity. A visit made possible through a dear friend, Bradley. The Sisters loved being in the woods where they found a Christmas tree and greens to take back for their mission in San Francisco. There they work to feed the homeless.  Bradley said there are few places for them to get out into nature and have social/soul places for renewal. The Sisters are known for their joy in service,  (I love the picture of the Sister smiling through the Christmas tree! ) It was such an honor to have them and experience their dedication, with a blessing of our home of singing and mid day prayers. What fulfillment for me to see them taking rest by the fire!  They came from Haiti, Chili, India, Peru, and the US.  They loved our famous old truck, picking persimmons in the orchard and hope to return.May the unwavering devotion and zest for a practical life of service to humanity of these beautiful Sisters inspire us this Christmas to live in awe and grace of the Cosmic love blessing us with the rebirth of the Blessed Holy Child in our hearts. ❤️

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HN1-Indigo-Virgo-Courtesy becomes steadiness of feeling-September/Oct.

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Blessings and appreciation for all that is and will be...

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Blessings and appreciation for all that is and will be...

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In this quote from Rudolf Steiner: "To feel and experience Christmas in this way will enable the soul to realise how the glory of the divine-spiritual beings – whose images are revealed in the stars – announces itself to the human being, and how the human being’s liberation from the powers striving to alienate him from his origin takes place within the precincts of the Earth.”
Helped me to realize the virtue of compassion into freedom is both enabling freedom to truly be, to to do, and also, freedom from the adversary powers who would entrap us in hard heartedness.

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“Are you willing to own, that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness… to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings? Then you can keep Christmas.”
-	Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)

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I like this verse very much. I find the line "let us learn from the flowers that we need not strive so hard" meaningful for this difficult year of 2020, also a way to help us build the virtue of compassion that leads to freedom.

Sophia Verse

O Holy Sophia, Holy Wisdom, Holy Joy hidden for so long
come forth and reveal yourself in the world and in our souls!
Help us to see with a loving eye
Help us to hear with wit and intuition
Show us how to be natural and kind
Show us how to find ourselves in one another
Lead us from who we think we are to who we really are
Let us learn from the flowers that we need not strive so hard.
Teach us to allow that Light from within
to unfold us as a gift like your lily or the Rose.
~Alice O. Howell

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The next part of my drawing - I am imagining I will add in a wreath for each forehead and a third rose with a dropping petal.
Sophia Montefiore

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As I live in Australia I am unable to join the sessions in real time. Coincidentally on my Christmas afternoon I was sketching a Lily and Rose exploration and then I read today the poem by Alice O. Howell posted for the first Holy Night. Here is my sketch (still unfinished).
Thank you,
Sophia Montefiore

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from simple shepherd hearts!

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The 3-Fold Mystery of Birth During the Holy Nights

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The 3-Fold Mystery of Birth During the Holy Nights

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Sharing Mary Stewart Adams'  35 minute clip. A Holy Nights pattern also beginning in Virgo! Insightful as ever.

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The 3-Fold Mystery of Birth During the Holy Nights

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As you remember through the year backward, this little chart I created from Rudolf Steiner's MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM might help you orient yourself for your meditation! The symbol for VIRGO is just above the text for "Oct" about mid-way through the chart. You progress backward to the left. - Jean

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Greetings all!
Are the dates we will be using for zodiacal transitions sidereal dates, and if so, is there a good resource for identifying the transition dates for 2021?
I painstakingly annotated my book-of-days with the (tropical) transition dates precisely in anticipation of this year-end review, and now I’m finding they aren’t even close so I’m revising it at the last minute... I’m wishing to pave a smoother path for next year.
If it is NOT the sidereal dates (the dates we’ve been given don’t match what I’ve found on the internet so far), then I am in need of further education on the matter.
Thank you!

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Sacramento Faust Branch online Holy Nights Offerings every evening! 

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Sacramento Faust Branch online Holy Nights Offerings every evening! 

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Visit Anthroposophy NYC website daily to view a new post with the indication for each of the Holy Nights and links to the audio recording and the lecture series Christianity as Mystical Fact by Rudolf Steiner.

Click here or on the image for more information…

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Post your Holy Nights offering or resource here 

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Post your Holy Nights offering or resource here 

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Hello All!
Feel free to post your events, offerings and resources for the 2020-2021 Holy Nights. This will be a community harvest of all activities happening this time of year :)

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Holy Nights Diary Course from the Hummingbird Principle Chris Burke and Anne de Wild

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Holy Nights Diary Course from the Hummingbird Principle Chris Burke and Anne de Wild

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12 Holy Nights Diary Course | The Hummingbird Principle

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Waking Up In Dreams Over the Threshold We can Discover the Divine Sophia

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Waking Up In Dreams Over the Threshold We can Discover the Divine Sophia

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"Dreams are the witness of real spiritual experience; their content is a garment which clothes the experience.  ~Rudolf Steiner"

The worlds of waking, sleeping, dreaming, and dreamless sleep contain the realms where we can begin to live a conscious life - Over the Threshold. Following the guidelines given by shamanic, academic and professional dream researchers, as well as Rudolf Steiner’s methodology, this dream presentation will outline the importance of dreamwork as a foundational esoteric practice. Topics include; Learn the 3 broad categories of dreams, how to begin a daily dream practice, the spiritual bodies, as well as dream and art journaling and staying connected with those over the threshold. Following the tracks of dreams we can meet the Divine Sophia. Dream Council Sharing.
GUIDANCE IN ESOTERIC TRAINING
at www.WiseCosmos.org
Wednesday Dec.  16 FREE SIGN UP