The Esoteric Connection

Lent Day 18

18 Mar 2017

Imagine if you will the mood in the spiritual worlds at this time over 2,000 years ago as Jesus prepared himself for crucifixion. All the beings in the spiritual worlds felt as if something was leaving them. It must have felt like how we would feel at the impending death... Read More

Lent Day 17

17 Mar 2017

Understanding our I-being is the greatest challenge we face in our time. We only have a personal sense of ourselves as individuals because of Christ. Before Christ, and indeed now, without Christ, we were part of a tribe or nation. Tribalism is found in sport, in music, in academia, and... Read More

Lent Day 16

16 Mar 2017

In his book “And the Earth Becomes a Sun, Sergei Prokofieff enters into an extraordinary study of the Deed of Christ on Golgotha. He says “… it became possible to impregnate the pale mirror image of the earthly ego with its full reality, thus raising it from the stage of... Read More

Lent Day 15

15 Mar 2017

“The course of human evolution has brought it about that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence.” Rudolf Steiner October 31st, 1920 Reading these words gives cause for review of our... Read More

Lent Day 14

14 Mar 2017

Another way to understand the Christ Mystery is to look at the growth of a plant from a seed. When a seed is planted, it first grows roots. Once these roots take hold of the earth, a small stem will begin to emerge and eventually break through the soil. When... Read More

Lent Day 13

14 Mar 2017

Trying to understand the Christ Mystery is not easy. The thing is, we have to do it here, we can’t say, “Oh I will do it when I die, when I am in the spiritual worlds without the hindrance of my body. I will see Christ and I will understand... Read More

Lent Day 12

12 Mar 2017

How do we give birth to Christ within us? How do we make the inner experience of Christ real? Rudolf Steiner explain one way this can happen. The important part of this is to be conscious of what we feel. “if a man feels within him only the Divine spark,... Read More

Lent Day 11

11 Mar 2017

The mystery of Christ will never be understood as long as we think of Him as a being ‘out there somewhere’. He is no longer out there; from the moment his blood flowed from the cross into this earth he became anchored here. He is part of the life force... Read More