The Esoteric Connection

Holy Night 13

05 Jan 2023

As we stand on the summit of the Twelve Holy Nights and look into Epiphany, that moment when the mighty God, Christ, entered into the body of a human being, Jesus, for the first time ever in evolution, these words of Rudolf Steiner can fill us with awe as we... Read More

Holy Night 12

04 Jan 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

03 Jan 2023

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

Holy Night 10

02 Jan 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

Holy Night 9

01 Jan 2023

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 devote oneself, remains.... Read More

Holy Night 8

31 Dec 2022

December 31 – January 1 – Leo The cross on the sword pommel: the sacrifice. Girded with the sword of the power of Christ, the tongue speaks the truth, without being able to wound. It is the night of re-setting. Mystery: The knight, the fighter with the lance of the... Read More

Holy Night 7

30 Dec 2022

December 30-31 – Cancer The serpent on the sword pommel: wisdom. We should busy ourselves with uplifting readings. It is the night of the great command. The mystery of activity: who exercises command over our soul? Who is the master of our soul, the doer of our deeds? We have... Read More

Holy Night 6

29 Dec 2022

December 29-30 – Gemini Now follow the three nights of the sword. Peter’s night. Night of the consecration of the sword. Each of us must forge his or her own sword of discernment. Each of us must unite our spiritual will with the eternal, the immortal, and the perishable, and... Read More