At Last!

Dear Friends, Dear Readers, It is with much pleasure that we post the next major Section of our book “The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Freedom.”  This present Section is in two parts: the first part is entitled “Old Moon Evolution,” and the second part with the title, “The Rebellion and the Fall.”

Both parts can be accessed as one Section and are available for reading or printing.

Please click here to access this section.

 Dear Friends, Dear Readers, The posting for the next section of our "Book" is almost ready, and will appear very soon. In the meantime, to meet a special request, A Michael Play is here  posted. For those who are interested, it can be clicked for reading or printing here.

6,107 All Time Views

Dear Readers, Dear Friends, We're very glad to let you know we have arrived at the 6000 plus hits. As you will know, it has taken quite a long time for our journey from 5000 hits but, thanks to the last posting on Old Sun evolution, there has been increased activity--especially from Russia-- to get us to the present level.
Old Moon, with a special section on the all-important details concerning Moon preparation for the later "Fall in the Garden"  on Earth is almost complete and will be posted as soon a ready. With best wishes for enlightened reading to everyone  from your editor-compiler.

Next Posting - Old Sun

Dear Friends, Dear Readers, Here you will find Section Three of Book Three. It tells of Old Sun evolution and the germination of the seed of man into stem and leaf. 
You may download it here.

Overview the of the Book So Far

Dear Friends, Dear Readers,

Here you will find the next posting of Book Three: (Section Two) of "The Mystery of Golgatha." The title is, "Old Saturn and the Seed--Birth of Man’s Physical Body (Phantom)." Click Here.

For new readers, here is all of the material of the book that has been posted before--in essence, an overview:

Book One: From the pre-Earthly beginnings of the Mystery of Golgotha to Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday. Additionally, the New Age of Michael and its significance is presented. Click here.

Book Two: Preparing for the Cosmic Drama of the Turning Point of Time. Introductory material including details of the physical body (Phantom) of man.
Also, descriptions of the nine layers of the Earth’s interior. Click here.

Book Three: “At the Turning Point of Time: The Cosmic-Earth Drama”: (Section One) Christ Self-Revealed in the seven I Am’s of the John Gospel. Click here.

Book Four: 

New Postings for the Mystery of Golgatha Book

Dear Friends, Dear Readers, Since the last posting much has been achieved to add substance to this work in general with its theme of “can a free being be created?” and also with the intent in particular to reveal as much  as can be gained at this time concerning the Mystery of Holy Saturday and Christ’s Descent into Hell.

 The last posting of “Conquering Death: from Good Friday to Easter Sunday” has been renamed “Preparing for the Cosmic Drama of the Turning Point of Time” and the details concerning the nine levels of the Earth’s interior are presented in a simpler form. It is available for download by clicking here.

Additionally, as of the present, the attempt will be made to go further in a context now of seeing the Mystery of Golgotha as a three-act drama, a cosmic one with the title “The Turning Point of Time,” with Saturday as the second act with nine scenes, the nine levels of the Earth’s interior.

 Those nine scenes will have two principal players: the physical body of the human being, the Phantom, and the other, the Christ, the cosmic I Am.
To ensure the significance of what unfolds in these nine scenes between the Phantom and the Christ, details concerning them follow in book three in which The Christ reveals Himself in the John Gospel’s seven I Am’s. Also appended is a brief statement concerning the nature of Christ  by R.Steiner. (Details concerning the Phantom will soon follow.)
The first part of the material is given here as a clickable link.


2): In our research several other items of interest came to light and are listed here as supplements, should you choose to read them.
Readers will perhaps be astonished when they read the first item,  which is a poem by Goethe written when he was sixteen years of age; it is entitled “Thoughts on Jesus Christ’s Descent into Hell.” Click here:

3) Finally, with regard to Holy Saturday, we have reported before that there is very little to be found in the Gospels concerning it, but we can now add the Catholic Church as having little to add also in its public teaching. 
And yet there are many, many details concerning Holy Saturday available. Where then is the source?
Here a few personal details: several years ago the local Christian Community church presented an Easter drama with the title, “The Redentin Easter Play.” It is a medieval folk play and it unfolds Holy Saturday and Christ’s Descent into Hell in great detail and with much humor. (Waldor teachers will remember the quality of the Oberufer plays.) This Redentin play is considered the best of all Holy Saturday plays and it, like the others, appear to have their one source in the Nicodemus Gospel, one of the apocryphal Gospels. The essential details concerning Saturday from that dococument are given here for those who would like to read it in this form: Click here.

Follow-up to " The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Freedom."

Dear Readers, Please note to the left that there is a new page where you will find a link to the follow-up to " The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Freedom."

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Our First 5000 Hits

Dear Readers, Today's Posting-Page is to mark the occasion of the blog having received its first 5,000 "hits." Alas, we have no way of knowing whether the hits were momentary, with a short or long reading, or with pleasure or not (comments are few). However, what does stand out quite clearly is the fact that it's of international interest, as can be seen by the illustration and information to the left. To grow our numbers, we ask our readers to please consider sharing the blog with others, if you will. That will help.

The First Section of the follow-up booklet to   "The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Freedom" will be posted very soon. Its new title is, "Conquering Death: From Good Friday to Easter Sunday."

Michaelmas 2015

Introduction: For Michaelmas last year I posted here a number of new verses I thought appropriate for the occasion (see under September Posts 2014) Here is a group of older ones which I hope you will find of interest for this 2015 Festival time:

R.S. and The Turning Point of History He observed the Light Source By which the world was known And that was how the Wall of Faith At last was overthrown. And now the Mysteries of Wisdom and Love Are opened to human knowledge, The which, like him, we can  confirm With Michaelic courage. 10/5/05 One Moral Deed Forever Christ is the Archetype of Freedom And His descent at the Jordan River Sacrificed that freedom in the following three years By uniting with humanity forever. Then He who had willingly become unfree On Golgotha became free again To the extent the humanity He loved Followed him in becoming free men. 11/26/05 It’s My Decision Michael follows the Cosmic Intelligence Which in time has been passed to me, And it is needed to govern the cosmos But to return it or not I’m free.  “Don’t give up this treasure now yours,” Says the Tempter in the Earth Garden. “You are now free and together with me The Cosmos can become your New Eden.” And O the power that therein speaks As my intelligence to intellect grows And  into the Cosmos from the earth-made-Brain That technological Intellect goes. 2/21/06 Seed of the Logos As Adam of Old my biography was In the original evolutionary stream; In it I slept, then gradually in time I came to the state of dream. But with the Turning Point of Time Autobiography in history began As I woke to the “logos spermatikos” As the truth of who I am. And now I strive that there come to be Evolution fulfilled in my history. 5/29/06 Seed of the Logos As Adam of Old my biography was In the original evolutionary stream; In it I slept, then gradually in time I came to the state of dream. But with the Turning Point of Time Autobiography in history began As I woke to the “logos spermatikos” As the truth of who I am. And now I strive that there come to be Evolution fulfilled in my history. 5/29/06

The New Tempter Christ no longer evolves the world, Though Evolver He has been in time, But the Cosmic Intelligence from the Beginning Is now completely mine. And that will further evolve the world But to use it evolved I must be, And the how of that the Christ has shown With Love that leaves me free. And I am trying to follow Him While resisting the best I can The power that’s offered by Earth’s Dark Lord For the price of who I am. 4/8/064 Eve Remembers Her heart knew the very truth of him, So she embraced him when he came; He who was her free letter of love  In the envelope of her shame. (But in freedom he could not have come at all If she had not brought him to the Fall.) 4/10/06 The Would-Be-Free Each day he strives for a little while (This truth I’m allowed to tell) To take the world from out of his mind And then in pure thinking to dwell. He says it’s not easy to do at all But the Bread of Life does come, No longer feeding the old Adam of him But the new one of Life now begun. And once a week he meets with friends Who’re striving the same as he, And at that time there flows the Wine Of the Communion of the would-be-free. 4/12/05 While Michael Waits I’m a Being whose relation Is essential to the Earth at this time, But another Being is attempting through me To usurp this relation of mine. And this He does only because My thinking inclines so much to His kind of thinking which lacks Earth relations  Except through the thinking I do. And this is the way He will come to rule The Earth and embalm it forever As the prison of all who think like him, A thinking diabolically clever. All this while Michael waits to be Called into this battle by thinking that’s free. 4/17/065

Verses for Children (Waldorf School Perspective) Grades 1-3

Introduction: ( This Post was written a long time ago and was forgotten for posting. The other blog promised below is now on its way to reality)
( Another blog connected with this one will be available later on that covers the 1-8 grades with some plays as well as verses of different kinds.)
 The Ideal: (Condensed from the lecture here noted.) Moral nature is awakened through feelings stimulated by pictures authoratatively conveyed primarily by a teacher possessed of imagination and is a model for the children. "Human Values in Education" by Rudolf Steiner.

Consonants and Vowels) (First Grade) M Mighty are the mountains, Massiveness is theirs, And an M they often make When they meet in pairs. Blended Consonants  TH Thistle, thistle though you be Prickle thick and sharp to me, Above your thorns I love your crown, Soft feathered thatch of thistle-down. Sounds from the Soul (Vowels) (With Fun) A, AI ,EI, An elephant is of very great weight, A butterfly is of a weightless state, I'd wait with a butterfly on my nose But not with an elephant weight on my toes. From the Fairy Tale the "Fisherman and His Wife" (First Grade) Five times the fish in the ocean foam Gave to the woman a very fine home, But she was greedy and asked for more, So the fish sent her back what she's had before.

Saints and Animals (Second Grade) Stubborness Two goats met at a chasm Each on the different side, And each began to cross over on the tree trunk That bridged that chasm wide. Alas the trunk was narrow And no passing could there be, So stubbornly they butted each other until Both fell to die most miserably. The Song of the Birds (For morning singing) Bluebird was so very sick He lay abed and could not fly, And all his many friends then thought That he would surely die. But when good Hummingbird was chosen As the wisest of all birds, To all his feathered friends around him Sang he to them these learned words: “When the Lord of Light arises From his cave there in the East, Sing we all with joy and pleasure, Sing the greatest and the least.” So they did, and O the wonder! Bluebird chirped then flew away, So for good health the birds then decided The’d all sing each dawn of day. (Third Grade Material at another time.)

New Page

Introduction, Dear Readers, This Saturday's Post is to give notice of a new Page, an excerpt from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner entitled "The Michael Path to Christ." Enjoy!

The Prodigal Son

Dear Readers, For what I hope will be a return to more regular posts, I’m placing here a verse recently written concerning what I think is the best of all parables from the New Testament: the parable of the “Prodigal Son.” This parable tells in few words the story of Man’s journey from Heaven to Earth and then back again to Heaven--but with his being now greatly changed. I’ve made it even briefer with my rhymed verse and related it to the theme of freedom. The modification of the original is really quite small, but readers wishing to see the extent of it can go to Luke15:11-32. (For the greater context consider reading Luke15: 1-32.) (It's a great story for a Waldorf sixth grade.)

Rembrandt - The Father Embraces the Prodigal Son

The Free Prodigal Son Comes Home

There once was a father who had two sons And the younger came to him one day And asked from his father his inheritance Saying, “Into the world I must now find my way.” His father gave to him his inheritance And the son into the world then went, And quickly fell into much riotous living Until his inheritance was all spent. And a famine then came to that land And in very great need was he, Until he was given the lowly work Of feeding some pigs in a "piggery." But then came that most glorious moment When at last to himself he came, And said he, “I have sinned and must return home And be there a servant in my father’s domain.” But as yet he was travelling homeward He saw his father toward him coming, Who greeted him with joy and with love: His young prodigal son now returning. And at home he was dressed in finest robes And a special ring upon his finger was placed, And shod was he in the very best shoes For the son was now in his rightful place.

“Bring the fatted calf and kill it,” The joyous father to his servants said, “My son was lost but is now found again; He’s alive, he’s returned from the dead.” Then great was the joy and celebration Sounding through that kingdom so great, And from afar the elder son heard it And enquired of a servant why the loud, happy state. “Your brother’s come home safe and sound,” said the servant, “And for him the fatted calf’s been slain.” Then the older son refused to celebrate And very angry indeed he became. And his father came to him and begged him to join In the festivities for his lost-and-found brother, Who had been dead and was alive again now And had freely come home that the three be together. But the elder son to his father replied, “I stayed home while he wandered at will And wasted with harlots his inheritance, And never for me did you a fatted calf kill.” Then the Father said,

“Dear son, in future all will be yours that’s now mine,

But come now, rejoice now, it’s your brother’s moment divine.”

8/11/15

New Post at Last!

Dear Readers,

While preparing material for another posting, it was found that the link to the book, “The Mystery of Golgotha and Human Freedom” no longer offered the option to “read” but to “download” only.  With the help of my good friend, Talib Huff, it is now available on the blog itself in a newly revised edition by going to “Pages” on the left and clicking on the title, which will allow you to read and download, if you wish.

I’m presently working on a follow-up to it with the title, “Conquering Death: From the Harrowing of Hell to Whitsun.”  If it becomes too long, I’ll make it available in sections.

Distinguishing Imagination and the Fantastic

Dear Readers, While waiting for the next installment concerning the question of freedom and whether it can be created, which I'm working on and will post quite soon, please consider the following as a possible, pleasurable interlude.

Introduction: A Confession! During my year in the Waldorf Teacher Training Course at Highland Hall Waldorf School in 1961-62, I was asked, early in the year, before Christmas, like the other six students,  to create a first-grade story out of which a letter of the alphabet, a consonant, could  be introduced to the children. Consonants are to be derived from forms of objects in the outer world, but presented in an imaginative way, a way appropriate to the child's consciousness. So, flowers and animals can talk to each other, be friends or not, have adventures, grow and become old;  rocks and rivers can, of course, too. 

For my assignment I decided to create a story and verse to introduce the letter G.  Here is what I wrote. It was never presented to children, only to the assignment teacher and classmates. I will keep the result that followed from the presenting of it until after you've read it, if you will: 

Grandmama

Once upon a time there lived on a hill an old Grandmama,

Whose hair was gray and whose eyes were green,

Who'd ceased to grow, O a long time ago, 

And was in fact so small she could hardly be seen.

But one day in the month of May when the sun was high and bright

Grandmama started to grow again. My, it gave her a fright!

Anew she grew, right into the blue and the people gathered round

Pointing and gaping and holding their breath, not daring to make a sound.

Up and up and up she grew, higher than the trees

Bending over slightly in the midday breeze;

And when the sun, that day in May, passed through it highest points

Grandmama was stretched out so far all thought she'd surely crack her joints.

But then, as the sun began to set in a lovely glow

She slowly curved and began to descend to all the people below.

"Stand back! Stand back! Run for your lives," the people shouted with fear.

They ran for their homes, hid under their beds, as Grandmama came near.

Goodness gracious, O my golly, 'twas the day of Grandma's folly

As fast and faster she came down, casting her shadow upon the town

Until at last with a noise like thunder

She hit the earth -- GRUUUUUUUUMMMPPPHHH! -- and tore it asunder!

The valley shook, the houses groaned, and many a heart stood still
Wondering abut the Grandmama who lived upon the hill.
For a long time there was silence, in which no sound was heard,
Then slowly, very slowly, the gleaming moon appeared.

A door opened here and a door opened there and into the soft night's glowing
Came the grocer, the grinder, and the chimney-pot mender quietly tip-toeing.
Holding hands and holding breath they went down the road under cover,
While the villagers waited with beating hearts for what they might discover.

Tick-tock, tick tock, went the village clock as slowly passed the night,
And many a head was now nodding in spite of the terrible fright.
Then suddendly, dramatically, there appeared on the village green
The grocer, the grinder and the chimney-pot mender who told what they had seen.

"Oh, dear Grandma, she's still going down, down into the earth below,
Down through the darkness, ever down, where goblin's gold doth glow;
Down through the rocky canyons with all their glittering jewels,
Down through the graying granite and the bubbling, molten pools."

All the villagers spoke out at once of the urgent need
To bring Grandmama back to the light again with all the greatest speed.
But then the village wise man spoke out again quite loudly and quite plain
Saying "Do not worry, with the rising sun she'll pop up again."

"But what will happen then?" a voice was heard to cry.
"Will she keep on going, right back into the sky?"
The village wiseman spoke again and left them all astounded
By telling them what they must do to keep their grandma grounded.

"You must bake a big flat cake that's heavier than lead,
And when grandma comes forth again, pop it on her head."
At that moment a grumbling sound was heard from down below,
While over the eastern hilltops the morning sun did show.

All hurried off to the bakery as fast as they could run,
Hurriedly, hurriedly working to beat the morning sun.
Currents and raisons, eggs and bran, Water and figs went into the pan.
Hurriedly stirring they mixed in flour, racing against the morning hour.

The fires were burning and all was hot
As into the oven they popped the lot.
It quickly cooked and a hundred men
Drew it forth from the oven again.
Huffing and puffing they ran to the mound
That the up-swinging grandma made in the ground.

As the sun got higher, the mound got bigger and grumbling got lounder, too,
Until at last, with a terrible crash, grandma broke into view.

As she burst forth and saw the crowd
 She shouted out a a voice so loud,
"Save me! Save me! I'm almost dead"
 So quickly they popped the cake on her head.

Ah! The sun went up and there came more light
But grandmama stayed down, to the villagers' delight.
So there she is still on the village green
And if things haven't changed she can still there be seen.


The verse found its way to the College of Teachers of the school and though I was not privy to their discussions about it, they seemed to have decided something like, "if we can help him get this fantastic stuff under control during the training course, he might well make an acceptable teacher for next year's first grade." And the end of story? I was called into a meeting in which I was offered the position of the following year's new first grade--at a salary of $3,500.00 a year with a promise of a raise to $5,500.00 as soon as the first child in my most recent marriage came along. 

I sketched a picture for the letter G out of this verse, but would like to ask my readers to attempt a  drawing of it themselves from the above.  And any Waldorf teachers reading here who would like to share the " unfantastic" letter G's  they used in their classrooms are warmly invited to respond. Many, I'm sure, would like to see them

(Dear Readers, please note that the key to this verse being termed fantastic lies in what is written above where it says "consonants are to be drawn from forms of objects in the outer world." Comments welcome.)

Can a Free Being Be Created?

Introduction: The question asked above  is given in the midst of endless attempts today by individuals and groups, large and small, that are seeking for freedoms such as economic, social, religious, artistic, personal, political and even more specific ones. But what is actually the state of being free? Its spiritual state? That which would have to be so that it could be  modified in reality by all of  the above? And how is it to be achieved if it cannot be created and must be achieved? And if achieved, how will it be realised? What context would be needed for the attempt to be made? And how is it related to Truth? (see below.) To Love? To Purpose?

Here we begin with some statements of interest:

·        Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.

·        Elbert Hubbard, in his essay on Booker T. Washington in Little Journeys For 1908, p. 21; Franklin D. Roosevelt later used this line on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation: "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved".

·        If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

·        Jesus of Nazareth as quoted in John 8:31 (NIV)

·        Variant translation: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

·        Jesus as quoted in John 8:31 (KJV).

·        The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

·        John F. Kennedy: "Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba," April 18, 1961. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.

And this from Rudolf Steiner:

Now it is possible to attain complete freedom in our inner life if we increasingly efface and exclude the actual thought content, in so far as this comes from outside, and kindle into greater activity the element of will which streams through our thoughts when we form judgments, draw conclusions and the like. Thereby, however, our thinking becomes what I have called in my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity: pure thinking. We think, but in our thinking there is nothing but will. I have laid particular emphasis on this in the new edition of the book (1918). What is thus within us lies in the sphere of thinking. But pure thinking may equally be called pure will.
(see The Path to Freedom and Love, December 19, 1920.)

And finally, from an unknown source:

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

  Drawing on the work of Rudolf Steiner and related authors, I'd like to make a beginning with the question here posed in different ways in my own individual way with the following verse:

Preparing the Free in the Unfree

“You need me!” You need me!”

The Great Lord Lucifer  said,

When before God's Throne so long ago

He strutted with prideful tread.

“You cannot create a free being.

No! Not even You, the God Supreme.

You know it and You must admit it

That creating a free being is for you but a dream.

“But create for me a Paradise Garden

And place a man and woman within,

And I will give you the foundation

For a Free Being to arise from mortalizing Sin.

But when so prepared You must let them be

Free ever to choose between You and me!”

God granted to Lucifer his request

For He knew full well there and then

That later He could send to Adam and Eve His Son,

And through Him gain free allegiance from them.

(But God also knew that would later come the day

When Lord Ahriman  would also try to steal them away.

And for this Great Danger God prepared mankind well

By sending to aid them His Dragon-Slayer Michael.)

10/4/14

Being Driven to the Spirit.

Introduction: In the beginning of Rudolph Steiner's book "Riddles of Philosophy," published in 1914, the author characterizes how the consciousness of the very early Greeks was an imaginative one and that as the Greek time progressed it changed into the three streams of philosophy, art, and religion. The author then  follows the development of  philosophy and philosophers right into his own time. However, in the penultimate chapter (the ultimate one is on the maturing of philosophy into anthroposophy), he ends quite surprisingly with the scientist Albert Einstein and the significance of relativity for the modern human being.

For all who have striven to grasp the significance of something of Einstein's special and general relativity and the radical change it has brought in different ways, especially for physics and rapidly changing human life, will find this brief summation quite magnificent!  Please read; you won't be disappointed.

"A new thought current has been stimulated through the transformation of fundamental physical concepts that has been attempted by Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955). The attempt is of significance also for the development of philosophy. Physics previously followed its given phenomena by thinking of them as being spread out in empty three dimensional space and in one dimensional time. Space and time were supposed to exist outside things and events. They were, so to speak, self-dependent, rigid quantities. For things, distances were measured in space. For events, duration was determined in time. Distance and duration belong, according to this conception, to space and time, not to things and events. This conception is opposed by the theory of relativity introduced by Einstein. For this theory, the distance between two things is something that belongs to those things themselves. As a thing has other properties it has also the property of being at a certain distance from a second thing. Besides these relations that are given by the nature of things there is no such thing as space. The assumption of space makes a geometry that is thought for this space, but this same geometry can be applied to the world of things. It arises in a mere thought world. Things have to obey the laws of this geometry. One can say that the events and situations of the world must follow the laws that are established before the observation of things. This geometry now is dethroned by the theory of relativity. What exists are only things and they stand in relations to one another that present themselves geometrically. Geometry thus becomes a part of physics, but then one can no longer maintain that their laws can be established before the observation of the things. No thing has any place in space but only distances relative to other things.

The same is assumed for time. No process takes place at a definite time; it happens in a time-distance relative to another event. In this way, temporal distances in the relation of things and spatial intervals become homogenous and flow together. Time becomes a fourth dimension that is of the same nature as the three dimensions of space. A process in a thing can be determined only as something that takes place in a temporal and spatial distance relative to other events. The motion of a thing becomes something that can be thought only in relation to other things.

It is now expected that only this conception will produce unobjectionable explanations of certain physical processes while such processes lead to contradictory thoughts if one assumes the existence of an independent space and independent time.

If one considers that for many thinkers a science of nature was previously considered to be something that can be mathematically demonstrated, one finds in the theory of relativity nothing less than an attempt to declare any real science of nature null and void. For just this was regarded as the scientific nature of mathematics that it could determine the laws of space and time without reference to the observation of nature. Contrary to this view, it is now maintained that the things and processes of nature themselves determine the relations of space and time. They are to supply the mathematical element. The only certain element is surrendered to the uncertainty of space and time observations.

According to this view, every thought of an essential reality that manifests its nature in existence is precluded. Everything is only in relation to something else.

Insofar as man considers himself within the world of natural things and events, he will find it impossible to escape the conclusions of this theory of relativity. But if he does not want to lose himself in mere relativities, in what may be called an impotence of his inner life, if he wants to experience his own entity, he must not seek what is “substantial in itself' in the realm of nature but in transcending nature, in the realm of the spirit. It will not be possible to evade the theory of relativity for the physical world, but precisely this fact will drive us to a knowledge of the spirit. What is significant about the theory of relativity is the fact that it proves the necessity of a science of the spirit that is to be sought in spiritual ways, independent of the observation of nature. That the theory of relativity forces us to think in this way constitutes its value within the development of world conception.

It will not be possible to evade the theory of relativity for the physical world, but precisely this fact will drive us to a knowledge of the spirit. What is significant about the theory of relativity is the fact that it proves the necessity of a science of the spirit that is to be sought in spiritual ways, independent of the observation of nature. That the theory of relativity forces us to think in this way constitutes its value within the development of world conception

It was the intention of this book to describe the development of what may be called philosophical activity in the proper sense of the word. The endeavor of such spirits as Richard Wagner, Leo Tolstoi and others had for this reason to be left unconsidered, significant as discussion of their contribution must appear when it is a question of following the currents that lead from philosophy into our general spiritual culture."

The Light of Being

(Maria to Johannes,

“Portal of Initiation,” Scene 11)

How can you truly experience

Your eternal spirit Being?

Only when the Light of the World

In you is Itself perceiving.

(Light for my path to Being must be

All that I’m taking from the world with me.)

8/3/11

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