A Temporary Change of Pace.

Introduction: Dear Readers, We much regret the absence of a posting last Saturday, but for this week, as a transition to  something larger in the future, we are offering a single verse recently written, for your reading pleasure. Any comments offered would be greatly appreciated.

The Child: A Growing, Individual Work of Art

Imagine a teaching faculty as an Art- Collective
All striving together in mind and heart
To help the growing child its nature to work on
So it becomes for each child his own work of art.

Some will help the child form a flexible mind,
Some will make sure color and form are there,
And others will bring modeling, music and verse
And gardens that are growing with loving care.

And with the arts of math and science integrated 

And reverence and wonder birthed artistically well,

The whole will one day be that work of art

In which the child's true being can in freedom dwell.

A dream you might say, but a beginning’s been made

And these faculties grow ever stronger in this Michael Age.

10/22/14

From Image to Reality (Part 2)

Introduction: Image, Revelation, and the New Jerusalem.

Here follows St. Paul's description of that Armor of God we need put on for our progression through the apocalyptic unfolding given to us and for us in the Book of Revelation:

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

It is only when we are so armored, that we can with the Archangel Michael participate in the three great Revelation events so challenging to understand.  And yet, with the aid of anthroposophy, the new knowledge brought to us by the great spiritual achievements of Rudolf Steiner, we can now begin to achieve an understanding of these events, how they are related and how they relate to the Being Realization of the Image of Man.

 1: The Michael Battle in Heaven (Rev.12) begins with the woman, "clothed with the sun.... And she was with child and cried out in the labor and pain of giving birth."  and then continues, "see, a great fiery red dragon with seven heads and ten horns... stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so he could devour the child when it was born." But the Dragon is overthrown my Michael and his followers, and the Child "is caught up to God."

2: The Rider on the White Horse (Rev.19): "He is clad in a blood-sprinkled robe whose name is the Word of God. And the armies of heaven, clad in pure white linen follow him on white horses.... And on his robe and thigh is written: KING OF ALL KINGS, LORD OF ALL LORDS." And the two great Adversaries and all who follow them are then overthrown.

3: And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth (Rev. 21)  and I saw also the holy city, the New Jerusalem, which "In its beauty of form it was like a bride adorned for marriage,"

All that follows right to the end of John's Revelation  reveals  great insights concerning the progression of how we, who in the Beginning were Man in the mere Image of God, can now freely bring about its Realization of Being that fulfills the Image, a Realization that profoundly relates us to the birth of the New Jerusalem.

Secure in the knowledge of the significance of the Great Turning Point of Time, we can commence  this great journey of Knowledge and Will with those activities which cannot but ensure that we come to the Marriage Feast in our pure White Garment.

The Literal Cannot Understand

(Revelation: 7:13-17)

Soiled were my garments

At the Paradise Time,

But I’m striving to clean them

With will I’ve made mine.

Who of the world can understand,

A world now literal grown,

How pure white I’m now making my garments

In the Blood on Golgotha sown?

11/13/07 

Update for the First 3000

Dear Readers, 
      Here again we post the world picture for the sources of those who in the last month or so have come to the blog. It is quite different than what was given before when we posted at the time of reaching 2,000 visitors. The United States is again number one with about the same number of visits as before, but Germany, so very prominent at that prior time, now shows hardly any interest at all, while the  Netherlands, also in large numbers then, has disappeared altogether. The United Kingdom, with so little presence before, now shows much increased activity. Have these numbers a story to tell? If they have, perhaps that story will be clearer when we come to post for the next thousand visitors. 
      Again, there will be a special posting on the blog to mark this visitor "milestone." It will be in two parts and can be viewed under the titles of "Man Made in the Image of God." (Part 1.) and "The Image of Man Made Reality." (Part 2.)

Man Made in the Image of God. (Part 1)

Introduction: From Wedding Garment to the Armor of God

Beginning as a created image, man in world evolution can awake to find himself in a process in which the opportunities are given him to realize himself as a creative, free, loving and Divine Being. The freedom to choose this future for himself has been made possible for him by Christ's Great Loving Deed on the Hill of Golgotha at the Turning Point of Time.

Today, in our New Age of Great Archangel Michael, we find him ready to lead us, if we so choose, to union with our higher self, to the King's Son, as given in the great Michaelmas Parable of the "Wedding Feast," which here follows:

1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

   As we in our purified white garments are brought into union with the King's Son, the Adversaries who know that the sublime offspring of this union will have birth in a New Heaven and Earth, a"Christmas Child" no less, they rage against that birth, for with it they know they will come to utter defeat of their  diabolic and satanic powers. And so the new bridegroom must put aside his pure wedding garment and replace it with the Armor of God and side by side with Michael he must engage in the Great Heavenly Battles that will determine the next stage of his Image being Realized as Divine Being, and with that ensure the birth of the "Christmas Child."

 And God's Armor? Let us hear of it as described so gloriously by St.Paul. (See next post.)