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Holy Night 11 applied to November

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

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

Holy Night 10 applied to October

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

Does Your Soul Fornicate?

“Human Beings have to develop individuality, which is as yet tenuous and feeble. Nothing we do is only due to us, but the awareness of all we think, feel and will, this alone is due to us.” Karl Konig “The Grail and the Development of Conscience.” Lecture given in 1954... Read More

Our I AM is our servant

Do we realize that our I Am is our servant? What does this mean in our lives? “For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.” Luke 22:27... Read More

Holy Night 9 Applied to September

Holy Night 9 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... Read More

The Chalice Prayer

This prayer always fills me with courage when I struggle to find balance in this alarming world. The Chalice Prayer Father, to you I raise my whole being,  a vessel emptied of self; accept, O Lord, this my emptiness, and so fill me with yourself, your life, your light, your... Read More

Evil has its place

The forces of evil are so misunderstood today. Why are we so keen to be rid of them when they could be of great assistance when seen in the right light. In my series “Who is Jesus : What is Christ? I wrote this. “We could also ask: Is the... Read More