The Esoteric Connection

Advent Week 2

09 Dec 2019

During the second week of Advent we can come closer to understanding the spiritual faculty of Inspiration, the second stage of knowledge which gives us access to the higher worlds. In fact though Inspiration we hear the inner world, a world that is silent to our external ears. Inspiration is... Read More

Advent Week 1

02 Dec 2019

Imagination Advent is a journey towards a new birth. Each week we light a candle representing four awakenings along the path to the birth of deeper self-knowledge. The outer light can ignite our inner light if we experience the truth of this Advent festival. This year let us have a... Read More

Holy Night 12 applied to December

21 Nov 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... Read More

Usual Self or Higher Self

04 Nov 2019

In a lecture given in 1913 called “Theosophy and Antisophy”, Steiner speaks about the natural opposition in our soul to the basic principles of Theosophy, which we now call Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science. He explains this as a natural response to ideas that seem to contradict our understanding of the... Read More

Holy Night 11 applied to November

21 Oct 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

The Human Role in the Life of Angels

19 Oct 2019

We play an important part in the life of Angels “Thus, life is something that is not known here, while death is something that is not known in the higher worlds. It is senseless to think that death could occur in the higher world. Pain and suffering have a meaning... Read More

Dealing with our bitterness

18 Oct 2019

Every word in the Bible is there with great purpose. This is particularly the case in The Revelation, the last book. Why does John speak about Wormwood? And what is wormwood? “The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it... Read More

Michaelmas 2019

29 Sep 2019

“We can now trace the Michaelic impulse further in Rudolf Steiner’s work. In the autumn of 1917 he speaks about a new mighty deed undertaken by Michael. Now, the time has come that the spiritual world ultimately must be cleansed of the opposing forces that seek to prevent the approach... Read More