The Esoteric Connection

Advent Week 1 2023

02 Dec 2023

Advent is an important time of the year for spiritual development. Each week in December is a step towards Christmas. Advent comes from the Latin word adventus meaning a coming, approach, arrival. During this time we can prepare ourselves for a birth. It is ‘a birth’ because for each of... Read More

Holy Night 12 for December

22 Nov 2023

January 4-5 – Sagittarius During the 12th night the crowns won are placed at the feet of the divine, because we have struggled against ourselves, but what we have wrung from it is grace, is the law of the spirit. Because grace is a stream from a source that a... Read More

Holy Night 11 for November

22 Oct 2023

Holy Night 11 January 3-4 – Scorpio The eleventh night: the struggle with the Guardian of the Threshold. Mystery: building up the Grail Castle in ourselves. Confessing ourselves more and more in faithfulness to the highest! Rudolf Steiner’s indications for the Holy Nights given to Herbert Hahn Translation from German... Read More

Michaelmas 2023

29 Sep 2023

The Festival of Archangel Michael is not celebrated much today but the time is coming to revive it once more. How soon this will be we cannot tell, but first there is a condition to be met. We can only revive this Michael Festival if esoteric truth lives in us.... Read More

Holy Night 10 applied to October

22 Sep 2023

January 2-3 – Libra The night in which the greatest sacrifice grows from service: learning to listen to the inner voice and the signs of divinity, and to hear them obediently. Mystery: the voice calling in us through our various incarnations. Its clarity grows through sacrifice and decision. Rudolf Steiner’s... Read More

Holy Night 9 applied to September

21 Aug 2023

January 1-2 – Virgo Now come the three nights of the crown. Release from the only intellectual, or release of the intellect from its earthly bonds and purposefulness. This is the thrice-holy night, in which the lower ego falls away and only the desire to serve, to devote oneself, remains.... Read More

Holy Night 8 for August

21 Jul 2023

December 31 – January 1 – Leo The cross on the sword pommel: the sacrifice. Girded with the sword of the power of Christ, the tongue speaks the truth, without being able to wound. It is the night of re-setting. Mystery: The knight, the fighter with the lance of the... Read More

Holy Night 7 applied to July

21 Jun 2023

December 30-31 – Cancer The serpent on the sword pommel: wisdom. We should busy ourselves with uplifting readings. It is the night of the great command. The mystery of activity: who exercises command over our soul? Who is the master of our soul, the doer of our deeds? We have... Read More