The Esoteric Connection

Holy Night 1 2017

24 Dec 2017

Indications given by Rudolf Steiner to Herbert Hahn for the Twelve Holy Nights On December 24th the 12 holy nights begin. The 12 holy nights are symbols for the 12 forces of the soul that live in us. And so this indication is valid forever, not only for the 12... Read More

Advent Week 4

23 Dec 2017

We stand before the mightiest event in the universe, a God becomes a man. We can’t possibly comprehend how this came about but we can show deep gratitude to the whole Celestial Hierarchy for making it possible. And, we can bow before the tenth Hierarchy, mankind, for being ready to... Read More

Advent Week 3

16 Dec 2017

As we draw a step closer to the Christmas event, we move down to the third group of ‘Celestial Intelligences’ as Dionysius refers to them at times. These are the Archai, Archangels, and Angels. Angels, as mentioned last week, can be a generic term referring to all the beings in... Read More

Advent Week 2

10 Dec 2017

In sacred writings, the word ‘Angel’ can refer to any of the beings in the Celestial Hierarchy. It is by their activity that we can know which one is at work. These beings sustain the Cosmos in which we live, without them we cannot live. They weave into all things... Read More

Advent Week 1

01 Dec 2017

St Paul’s pupil, Dionysius the Aeropagite, is said to be the first person to write about the Celestial Hierarchy. This Hierarchy consists of nine kinds of Angelic Beings operating between man and God. Each one is a veil or mask for the next one. If we understand something of the... Read More

Holy Night 12 applied to December

30 Nov 2017

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 applied to November

03 Nov 2017

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

Staying Calm in the Face of Fear and Anxiety

05 Oct 2017

Things will get more intense while human beings fail to experience soul and spirit – in themselves and in the world. However we do this is up to us, but do it we must. When we regard ourselves simply as physical beings, and this earth as dust, we are essentially... Read More