Lent, love, Pentecost

Lent Day 6

Lent is an excellent time to contemplate love, especially our love for Christ and for Jesus. Using our imagination, as we work on our relationship with these beings and create images of them, we will feel love. Our love for them, and their love for us, will be palpable. When we focus on this idea of love we will feel enveloped by it and quickened by it. We can think of Sophia’s love for her child.

In the Fifth Gospel, which Rudolf Steiner accessed in the Akashic Records, he explained what happened to the disciples at Pentecost, an experience that can happen to us at any time.

“The Apostles felt as if there had actually descended upon them from the Cosmos, something which could only be called the Substance of all-prevailing Love. They felt as if they had been quickened from on high by this all-prevailing Love, which awakened them from the dream-state into which they had fallen. It seemed to them as if they had been wakened to life by the primal force of Love pervading and warming the Cosmos, as if this primal force of Love had come down into the soul of each one of them.”

Image: Sophia by Iris Sullivan

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Kristina Kaine

Kristina Kaine has worked with people all her life: during her early career in medical sales and staff recruitment, and since 1987 in her own business which matches people in business partnerships. Through this rich interaction with people, Kristina has observed the struggle for self identity from many angles. She was awakened to the ideas of Rudolf Steiner by Rev Mario Schoenmaker, attending all of Schoenmaker's lectures for 14 years. After Schoenmaker's death in 1997, Kristina realised the need to explain the knowledge of the threefold human being in simple terms that could be applied easily in daily life. She has set this out in her book, 'I Connecting : the Soul's Quest', which was published in 2007 by Robert Sardello through Goldenstone Press. It is not unusual for Kristina to receive comments about her book like this: "It seems like a very lucid treatment, like looking through a clear glass window through which one can discover and recognize the landscape of the soul." Since 2003 Kristina has written weekly reflections which apply this knowledge of the threefold human being to Bible texts. This is not done in the context of any particular religious beliefs but from a broader perspective that all religions could apply. These reflections are distributed by email and are read worldwide. They are now available as Kindle books.

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