The Esoteric Connection

Advent Week 4

23 Dec 2023

The fourth light of Advent is the light of humankind– The light of hope that we may learn to love and understand. R. Steiner How brightly can we light this fourth light in our being over the next few days? To be able to love and understand sets us apart... Read More

Advent Week 3

16 Dec 2023

Week Three – the astral body The third light of Advent is the light of beasts– All await the birth, from the greatest and in least. R. Steiner During the week ahead we contemplate our astral body, the body of consciousness. It is the vehicle of pleasure and pain, urges,... Read More

Advent Week 2

09 Dec 2023

Week Two – the etheric body The second light of Advent is the light of plants– Plants that reach up to the sun and in the breezes dance. R. Steiner After contemplating our relationship with our physical body, during the second week of Advent we turn our attention to our... Read More

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