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unknown Brazilian artist.
For when at a certain time of year the larks and the nightingales sing, what is thereby formed streams out into the cosmos, not through the air, but through the etheric element; it vibrates outward in the cosmos up to a certain boundary... then it vibrates back again to Earth, to be received by the animal realm — only now the divine-spiritual essence of the cosmos has united with it. -Rudolf Steiner See more at: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Dates/19230403p01.html#sthash.8vKQdALr.dpuf
Image what the Tui s are bringing back!
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Last year of his life.....
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FESTIVAL DATES.
FESTIVAL DATES.
Easter: Easter Sunday the 27th of March 5pm at Alistair and Carolyn's place
St John Festival: Saturday the 25th of June at 4pm at Gundula's place
Michaelmas: Saturday 1st of October at 5pm at Gundula's place
Christmas: Saturday the 17th of December at 5pm at Gundula's place
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EASTER
Rudolf Seiner's picture for Good Friday.
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Everyone is cordially invited to our Easter Festival.
Easter Sunday
Home of Alistair Munro and Carolyn Hughes
Te Awa RD
Tasman.
5 pm.
We are fortunate to be having a presentation by Marije Laarakker around the Isenheim Altar.
"Autumn brings us the celebration of Michaelmas, a time we can use to conquer our inner demons and prepare ourselves to receive the Light in the darker days of Winter.
Simultaneously the Northern hemisphere celebrates the cosmic event and the mystery of Death and Resurrection at Easter.
Both elements are obviously present in the Isenheim Altar piece that was painted between 1512 and 1516 by Matthias Grunewald.
The intense paintings of the altarpiece were used as a medium for very sick people who suffered from Ergotism. They were put in front of the altar piece to contemplate their disease and receive insight in a healing process, to conquer their demons and meditate on Death and Resurrection."
The presentation will be flanked by music from Patsy and Edith, and some Taize music to finish.
POTLUCK.
Venue
113 AWA AWA ROAD, which is off Marriages Road, Tasman
PH 03 5403435 if anyone is having difficulty finding us.
Link to Map:https://www.google.co.nz/maps/
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Venue
113 AWA AWA ROAD, which is off Marriages Road, Tasman
PH 03 5403435 if anyone is having difficulty finding us.
Link to Map:https://www.google.co.nz/maps/
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GROUPS
Thursday Group Motueka.
Our Thursday Group really enjoys the Mystrey Plays! We appreciate that the whole of Anthroposophy is contained in them, and revel at the gems of wisdom that fall from the lips of the various characters. Like a true picture of life unfolding through the imaginations and pictures we enter in to. All welcome! Ask Michael Wilson [michael-wilson@ihug.co.nz] to put you on our mailing list!
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Nelson Group
Please contact
Heather
heatheric
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MEDITATION GROUP TASMAN.
Please contact
Alistair Munro
ackm
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Please Support the Motueka Steiner School Fair.
10th APRIL
High St
Motueka
Autumn comes, the Summer is past, Winter will come too soon,
Stars will shine clearer, skies seem nearer
Under the Harvest Moon
Autumn comes, so let us be glad, singing an Autumn tune...
Hearts will be lighter, skies seem brighter
Under a Harvest Moon
See More
Under the Harvest Moon
Autumn comes, so let us be glad, singing an Autumn tune...
Hearts will be lighter, skies seem brighter
Under a Harvest Moon
See More
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HEY!!!!!
Link to the New Zealand Anthroposophical Website: http://www.
Check it out!
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Report from:
Alamandria Meditation Retreat
A group of fourteen of us took part in ‘The Art of Meditation 1’, a three day retreat held at the end of February. We were a mixed group, including a range of ages and backgrounds, some coming from further afield. We all seemed to fit in well with each other.
We were fortunate that our workshop leaders, Emily Fletcher and Mark Geard brought their retreat to Motueka with the venue being the Riverside Community. This lovely space was ideal for a wide range of activities including meditative movement, meditation exercises, impromptu mime, chalk pastel painting and form drawing.
Our day began with Tai Chi to settle and relax us, which took us into our pastel drawings. Colour, and our relation to it, came into all aspects of our work. Some of us felt less confident in using the colours but the process was more important rather than the result. It felt very nourishing to do this twice a day.
Most of us felt the meditation exercises given made coming into meditation more accessible, especially those who were fairly new to it. Some of these exercises were for soul protection.
The longer meditations proved challenging for some but the process was well presented and supported throughout.
Movement happened throughout the day giving a real feeling of contraction and expansion over the rhythm and flow of the day. Our breathing and movements became slower and any tension disappeared taking us into a more peaceful place. By the end of the weekend we all felt able to take back what we had learned into our everyday lives.
We left with a feeling of gratitude for Mark & Emily’s sensitive and humorous approach to this workshop.
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FROM AFAR.....
FROM AFAR.....
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Tamarack Waldorf School, Milwaukee, USA...East stairwell
as in all true lazure painting the aim is to en-soul architecture with life and warmth
as in all true lazure painting the aim is to en-soul architecture with life and warmth
JOHN STOLFO
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Centuries ago, with the future development of humanity in view, secret Orders which set themselves the highest conceivable tasks were established. One such Order was the Manichean. The individual members of the Order were specially trained for their great work. The Order knew that some day there will be men in whose karma there is no longer any evil, but that there will also be a race evil by nature, among whom all kinds of evil will be developed to a higher degree than in th...e most savage animals, for they will practice evil consciously, exquisitely, with the aid of highly developed intellects.
These evil races will not be like bad children in whom there is goodness which can be brought out by precept and example. The members of the Manichean Order are already learning how to transform quite radically those who by nature are wholly evil. And then the transformed evil will become a quite special good. The power to effect this change will bring about a condition of moral holiness on Earth. -rudolf steiner
sin eater
See Moresin eater
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Meet Uncle taz!
THE SECRET LODGES OF THE WEST
and their sinister plans with the world population
and their sinister plans with the world population
Introducing Tarjei Straume http://uncletaz.com/seclodg.
The primal motive these opponents had (apart from all the hatred), was to stop Steiner's habit of making public occult secrets. But when we read his description of activities attributed to so-called secret lodges during and after the first world war, it becomes clear that if there was only a hint of truth in his pronouncements about the power and influence of these circles, he must have been aware that he took an enormous risk by speaking out as boldly as he did.
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