Welcome Spring!
'But always when an age of Michael dawns, a longing begins to arise in mankind to overcome racial distinctions and to spread through all the peoples living on the Earth the highest and most spiritual form of culture produced by that particular age. Michael's rulership is always characterised by the growth of cosmopolitanism, by the spread of a spiritual impulse among peoples who are ready to receive it, no matter what language they speak. Of the seven Archangels who send their impulses into the evolution of humanity, Michael is always the one who gives the cosmopolitan impulse — and at the same time the impulse for the spreading of whatever is of most intrinsic value in a particular epoch.'
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The Motueka Anthroposophical Group invites you
FESTIVAL of Micha-el
The tendency exists in mankind to wipe out the various differences which were fostered by the blood and nerve temperament. It is not a tendency of the spiritual worlds to create further differences among mankind, but it is a tendency of the spiritual worlds to pour a cosmopolitan element over mankind."
Signs of the times, Michael's Battle and its Reflection on Earth, Rudolf Steiner.
You are invited to join us for a
Clay Forming Workshop 11.am
Lead by Erika Vink.
Erika will bring us her experience from a Teacher Conference in this relaxing and enjoyable activity. (Family Friendly)
Followed by shared lunch 12 pm
1 pm
Reflections on Michael and Raphael
and Report back from the Anthroposophical Conference held the weekend before in Hastings.
Music.
(adults only)
Attend Any or All activities
Saturday, October 10th.
Motueka Community House
Decks Reserve
11 am -3 pm.
RSVP
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Eating in the future
The man of the future will approach plants that are of use to him consciously; not as now when he reflects on which yield the best substances for his body; he will then have a vital relationship to every plant, for he will know what it is they have absorbed, and what passes from them to him. Eating will not be to him a mean occupation, but an act consummated with soul and spirit, for he will know that everything he eats is the external form of something spiritual. In our immediate age, when men know little about the vital inward relations between themselves and the world, all kinds of substitutes are made use of. Why have the Initiates of all ages urged people to say grace before eating? The grace should be a token of the recognition that, together with the food, something spiritual enters into man.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 105 – Universe, Earth and Man – Lecture III – Stuttgart, 6th August 1908
Therefore
Rudolf Steiner's Grace before Meals.
The plant seeds are quickened in the night of the earth,
The green leaves are sprouting through the power of the air
And all fruits are ripened in the might of the sun.
So quickens the soul in the shrine of the heart,
So blossoms Spirit-power in the light of the world,
So ripens Man's strength in the glory of God.
Rudolf Steiner
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Bucket List
The business must look to how it can serve the community out of its gifts from the community who find a value in what is offered from the business.
So, we need a Steiner Association of like minded businesses who seek to excel at their product that the community is finding a value for which serves their love also for a healthy earth existence.
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Ernst Lehrs:
"Rudolf Steiner told us young people: 'Anthroposophy is meant to be the great school of courage.' ... Later on we were to learn more exactly the ac...tual character of this courage. It was the courage to say to oneself, 'The life of the world must be made new again from its very foundations.'"
"Rudolf Steiner told us young people: 'Anthroposophy is meant to be the great school of courage.' ... Later on we were to learn more exactly the ac...tual character of this courage. It was the courage to say to oneself, 'The life of the world must be made new again from its very foundations.'"
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The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will. - Philosophy of Freedom
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Edith Maryon's sculptures
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The time will come that people will say: It is pathological for people to even think in terms of spirit and soul
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The time will come, and it may not be far off, that people will say: It is pathological for people to even think in terms of spirit and soul. ‘Sound’ people will speak of nothing but the body. It will be considered a sign of illness for anyone to arrive at the idea of any such thing as a spirit or a soul. People who think like that will be considered to be sick and — you can be quite sure of it — a medicine will be found for this. At Constantinople the spirit was made non-existent. The soul will be made non-existent with the aid of a drug. Taking a ‘sound point of view’, people will invent a vaccine to influence the organism as early as possible, preferably as soon as it is born, so that this human body never even gets the idea that there is a soul and a spirit.
The two philosophies of life will be in complete opposition. One movement will need to reflect how concepts and ideas may be developed to meet the reality of soul and spirit. The others, the heirs of modern materialism, will look for the vaccine to make the body ‘healthy’, that is, makes its constitution such that this body no longer talks of such rubbish as soul and spirit, but takes a ‘sound’ view of the forces which live in engines and in chemistry and let planets and suns arise from nebulae in the cosmos. Materialistic physicians will be asked to drive the souls out of humanity.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 177 – Fall of the Spirits of Darkness – Lecture 5 – Dornach, 7th October 1917
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A VERY ENDEARING PERSONAL STORY ABOUT RUDOLF STEINER
concerns this little dog that you see in the foreground of this picture. His name was Malcomb and he adored Dr. Steiner.
The dog would follow him around and jump in the backseat of the car whenever the Herr Doktor would get in. Malcomb would sit beside Steiner and they would have all sorts of humorous conversations.
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concerns this little dog that you see in the foreground of this picture. His name was Malcomb and he adored Dr. Steiner.
The dog would follow him around and jump in the backseat of the car whenever the Herr Doktor would get in. Malcomb would sit beside Steiner and they would have all sorts of humorous conversations.
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One day Steiner announced to those in the car with him: “Malcomb wants to start The Canineosophist Society!”
We wonder if it was Malcomb who inspired Dr. Steiner to say that if dogs could speak they would say "I smell, therefore I am."
from Sophia Sun - Newsletter 2012
See MoreWe wonder if it was Malcomb who inspired Dr. Steiner to say that if dogs could speak they would say "I smell, therefore I am."
from Sophia Sun - Newsletter 2012
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The destiny of our physical earth-planet in another two thousand years will not depend upon the present constitution of our mineral world, but upon what we do and allow to be done. With world-consciousness, human responsibility widens into world-responsibility. Rudolf Steiner
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“Despite all animosity Rudolf Steiner went calmly on his way. He went all through the spiritual world just as exactly a geologist goes over the Earth, and brought his findings down in such a way that they could be grasped by present day thinking. That was what was exceptionally interesting in Rudolf Steiner. Unnoticed by the people confronting him, he transformed scientific thinking into imaginative thinking, and this was again grasped by day consciousness; and he transposed ...what was imagined into concepts and mental pictures. So it was always a continuous transformation of day – consciousness into seership and vica versa.
I often heard him say about himself that the Imaginations were really always there, and day consciousness only had to intervene so that they could be regulated and put in order. ‘Yes,’ he once said, ‘I am on Earth and in Heaven at the same time, and while I look at you I experience you, and your supersensible being tells me significant things. I know what is around you.”
Ita Wegman
Address on Rudolf Steiner's birthday
February 27 1933
Ita Wegman
Address on Rudolf Steiner's birthday
February 27 1933
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A few days after the first EVER union at a Target store was formed, Target announced they plan to replace many workers with fleets of robots. ...because, you know, capitalism.
http://usuncut.com/class-war/target-union-robot-workers/
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Best to You.
Anne Perry.
