The Esoteric Connection

Which disciple’s traits are working in you?

11 Jan 2019

The 12 disciples represent 12 different characteristics and they also represent 12 ways to understand or approach spiritual truth. This could mean that one person approaches spiritual truth in the Andrew way, while another approaches it in the Phillip way. It is said that there are 12 paths up the... Read More

What is a Disciple?

10 Jan 2019

I am preparing my book about unlocking the Bible. It is a collation of posts I have written over the years about the esoteric way to read the bible. I love this description about the disciples who are not just 12 guys randomly collected by Jesus as we walked around... Read More

Holy Night 13 – Epiphany 2019

05 Jan 2019

As we stand on the summit of the Twelve Holy Nights and look into Epiphany, that moment when the mighty God, Christ, entered into the body of a human being, Jesus, for the first time ever in evolution, these words of Rudolf Steiner can fill us with awe as we... Read More

Holy Night 12 – 2019

04 Jan 2019

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 – 2019

03 Jan 2019

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

Holy Night 10 – 2019

02 Jan 2019

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 – 2019

01 Jan 2019

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 – 2018-19

31 Dec 2018

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