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May our feeling
Rudolf Steiner, 1923
Practices Leading to a Culture of the Heart
– an international theme for study in 2008.
Sep 13/14,
Sat/Sun, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm: Sep 26-28,
Fri/Sat/Sun: Oct 13-Dec
15, 7pm, ten Mondays: |
Sep 5
– General Society Members
Sep 8/22/29 –
Linda Larson
Sep 11 –
David Lowe
Sep 12 & 14
–David Lowe
Sep 13-4 –
Alison Rose Levy (affiliated program)
Sep 15 –
David Lowe
Sep 17 –
Group
Sep 18 –
Dorothy Emmerson
Sep 20 – Art
Exhibit Opening
Sep 22-27 –
10% Off All Merchandise
Sep 24 –
Gertrude Reif Hughes
Sep 26 – Hans
Schumm
Sep 27 – Hans
Schumm & David Anderson
Sep 26-8 – Threefold Educational Center
(affiliated program)
Sep 28 –
Hospitality Committee
Sep 30 – Lynn
Jericho
Oct 10 / 11 –
Tim Hoffman Oct 13 - Dec 15 – Lynn Jericho Biography Workshop (affiliated program - see at left) Oct 17-19 – Annual General Meeting, Anthroposophical Society in America, and Conference on Christian Rosenkreuz, in Los Angeles
Oct 18 –
Laurie Portocarrero & Matthew Dexter
Oct 19 / Nov
23 / Dec 16 – Linda Larson
Oct 31 –
Eugene Schwartz
Nov 8 –
Robert McDermott
Nov 13 –
Keith Francis |
It's a great month for the arts, as you see at left, and our
Gallery 138 opens a new season Sept. 20th
with an exhibit from
ArtSpirit
called "Many Faces." These masks and collages (right; click to
enlarge) are created by the Holy Apostles’ Soup Kitchen Drumming and
Art Group. Read more
here about this project that combines social, musical and visual
arts.
As I sit down to write this letter it is high summer – July 28th,
to be precise – and, thanks to superabundant rain, the Massachusetts
countryside is lush and green. When you read my words it will be
September, the first autumn colors will be appearing, and we shall
be close to Michaelmas. The significance of today’s date is that
exactly eighty-four years ago Rudolf Steiner gave a magnificent
lecture [1] in which he described the
process by which, under the guidance of the
I say “belief” rather than “knowledge” because it is not a foregone conclusion that things will work out that way. We must strive to create the Michaelic spirit of courage within ourselves so that we can defeat the Ahrimanic powers that wish to bind the human being to the material world and take the divine intelligence for themselves. At an earlier stage of our history the human heart was united with the cosmic intelligence, but now, through the work of the hierarchies, the intelligence has moved into our brains and nerves, a process so powerful that it was accompanied by cosmic thunders and lightnings. We became head-men instead of heart-men, and when Michael returned he found an intelligence bereft of spirituality through its exposure to Ahriman’s forces. As Steiner says, if we are to succeed in following the path of Michael, “these thunders and lightnings must become enthusiasm in the hearts and minds of anthroposophists.” Head and heart must be united so that, in Steiner’s words, “hearts begin to have thoughts.” Thinking is a divine gift, and, like many gifts, it can become a burden, so that one is often tempted to remain in a realm of unformed feeling. To unite heart and mind is to bring feeling and thinking together, so that feeling is given form and direction and thought is endued with warmth. Let us use our capacities joyfully and remember that when the divine powers decided to download the cosmic intelligence into the human soul they certainly expected us to use it. Keith Francis [1] Karmic Relationships, Vol. 3, Lecture 7, Dornach, July 28, 1924 Keith directs the 15th Street Singers which resumes weekly rehearsals on Oct. 19th. He will give a series of lectures on the "Evolution of Consciousness" beginning Nov. 13th. Click here for
some other recent letters.
Open the new September newsletter (PDF); right-click to download.
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