The Esoteric Connection

Lent: First Sunday

06 Mar 2022

First Sunday – How is Your Relationship With Your Guardian Angel? During Lent, as we walk towards Easter – the event that saved humanity from certain destruction – it is good to resolve to understand at least one spiritual idea more fully. Let’s consider some ideas about Angels and other... Read More

Lent 2022

02 Mar 2022

We begin our journey through Lent today. This year we can focus on Lent and our relationship with our Guardian Angel. On Ash Wednesday, if we go to a church service, we receive ashes on our foreheads to remind us of Genesis 3:19: “For dust you are and to dust... Read More

Criticism

29 Jan 2022

Why is criticism so prolific in our thoughts and conversations? Criticism knocks other people down as Steiner explained to his esoteric students in 1912: “When an esoteric (student) applies forces to his inner development, he’ll notice that certain bad qualities had become more manifest. One of these is criticism, but... Read More

Holy Night 2 applied to February

20 Jan 2022

December 25-26 – Aquarius Night of John. The Eagle of the soul circling high on its wings and looking back from a great height, observes its own life. And now the man recognizes the Laws of Karma. The Mystery: Choosing the narrow and difficult path or the path that is... Read More

Holy Night 1 applied to January

09 Jan 2022

Indications given by Rudolf Steiner to Herbert Hahn for the Twelve Holy Nights For one whose eyes of spirit are opened the Thirteen Days and Thirteen Nights between the 24th of December and the 6th of January are a time of deep spiritual experience. Parallel with the experience of the... Read More

Holy Night 13

05 Jan 2022

Now we come to the 13th Holy Night. On the first Holy Night we celebrated the birth of Jesus. This birth awakened the deep memory within us of who we really are. It meant that we could touch the purity of our being as we were before we ever incarnated... Read More

Holy Night 12

04 Jan 2022

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

03 Jan 2022

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 by Laura Zanutto... Read More