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3 x 33 years "seed" planted by Rudolf Steiner at the
1923 Christmas Conference
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| | A Message from Adriana Koulias (With gratitude to Alberto Loya for sharing it with Wise Cosmos)
[What follows is edited from the original]
Dear friends, as we begin this Easter Vigil (here it is Good Friday), I wanted to share my thoughts with you.
Recently a dear friend translated what Rudolf Steiner gave during a number of lectures found in GA180 in German which points to the importance of this Easter (2022). The most relevant part I would like to share with you:
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| The time interval between Christmas and Easter is to be understood as consisting of thirty-three years. This is the key.
What does this mean?
It means that the Christmas festival we celebrate this year (1917) belongs to the Easter festival which will come in 33 years, while the Easter which we celebrate this year belongs to the Christmas of 1884. In 1884 mankind celebrated a Christmas festival that really belongs to the Easter of this year (1917). And the Christmas festival we celebrate this year belongs, not to the Easter of next spring (1918), but to the one that is thirty-three years hence (1950).
According to our reckoning, this period – 33 years – is the period of a human generation. Thus a complete generation of humanity elapses between the Christmas and Easter festivals that are connected with them. This is the key, my dear friends, for reading the new astrology, in which attention is directed to the stars that shine within the historical evolution of humanity itself.
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Nevertheless, everything that lies along this line belongs to the realm of those things which become effective after 33 years. And after the 33 years – when a seed which has thus been planted has had time, as it were, to ripen – then its further effective working continues. A seed of thought or nucleus of deed takes a whole human generation – 33 years – to ripen. When it is ripened, it continues working for another 66 years in historic evolution.
Thus the intensity of an impulse planted by man in the stream of history can truly be recognised in its working through three generations, that is, through a whole century.
~ Rudolf Steiner, Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse – Lecture 1: Et Incarnatus Est. Presented in Basel, Switzerland on Dec. 23, 1917 (GA 180).
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| Two Anthroposophists, Frank Span and Karin Lanz, have concluded from these indications, I believe, correctly, that the 3x33 rhythm which ends this year at Easter 2022 is the ripened seed that Rudolf Steiner planted at the Christmas Conference of 1923.
These are my thoughts on it.
This year we stand at the threshold of the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Conference, which will occur next year. The thought seeds laid down at the Christmas Conference and carried for 3X33 years will mature this Easter ahead of that anniversary. These thought seeds left the thinking and the astral body and entered the etheric body and the body of ‘Feelings’ during the first 33 years and culminated in 1956, then in 1989 these thought seeds left the Etheric body and began their entry into the physical body (into the womb) in 1989.
This Easter these seeds will be birthed into the world through each Anthroposophist and Michael Student, into the body of will as a deed, meaning that those who have carried this seed in their souls – whether they experienced the Christmas conference on earth or from the spiritual worlds – have a chance to birth them into the world as deeds on behalf of higher beings.
What in the heavens was created in 1923 will be birthed into the world ahead of the anniversary of the Christmas Conference at this time, and a window will open into the spiritual world so that our deeds might be consecrated.
In other words, what we bring to the world creatively out of the germ laid down at the Christmas Conference of 1923-24 will find a culmination this Sunday (Easter 2022). This is the foundation for us to inaugurate a renewed cycle beginning Christmas 2023-24. Then what shall rise up again after that Anniversary will be firstly imaginations from Christmas 2023 to Easter 2056, then inspirations from Easter 2056 to Christmas 2089, and finally again intuitions at Easter 2122.
May we remain mindful of this most important event. By now we should know why we have incarnated on earth and what the theme of our lives has been and what deed we had to perform. This point in time is the most propitious for gaining an understanding of why we have incarnated at this time.
May we be reminded of Rudolf Steiner's words this Easter:
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| | This Anthroposophical Movement is not an act of service to the earth. This Anthroposophical Movement in its totality and in all its details is a service to the divine beings, a service to God. We create the right mood for it when we see it in all its wholeness as a service to God. As a service to God let us take it into our hearts at the beginning of our Conference. Let us inscribe deeply within our hearts the knowledge that this Anthroposophical Movement desires to link the soul of every individual devoted to it with the primeval sources of all that is human in the spiritual world, that this Anthroposophical Movement desires to lead the human being to that final enlightenment – that enlightenment which meanwhile in human earthly evolution is the last which gives satisfaction to man – which can clothe the newly beginning revelation in the words:
"Yes, this am I as a human being, as a God-willed human being on the earth, as a God-willed human being in the universe."
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA260/English/AP1990/19231224b01.html
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| I have attached below the very worthy initiative of Frank Span and Karin Letz.
With hopes and prayers that you will have a peaceful warm Easter Friday.
Namaste
Adri.
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For additional inspiring and practical details on this topic, see:
The Easter Christ Cycle
The life of Jesus as the prototype for our lives and the future of humanity
A re-released video presentation by Brian Gray
In this deeply moving and profound presentation, Brian Gray reviews the life of Jesus as a paradigm that helps us look back and "re-member" ourselves in our previous incarnations, and then guides us to “understand the signs of the times”. This inspires living images that move us forward individually, which ensures the future salvation of humanity.
The whole arc of the life of Jesus is here, integrated in a profound and deeply moving manner. Brian weaves together the breathtaking tapestry of humanity’s cosmic adventure:
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| from the Fall to the Apocalypse . . .
from Krishna and Buddha to Zoroaster and the Magi . . .
from the two Jesus children to Jesus of Nazareth to Christ Jesus . . .
from birth to baptism, temptation to crucifixion, resurrection to ascension . . .from the Christ Impulse to the Mystery of Golgotha . . .
from Kali Yuga to the Age of Michael to Lucifer and Ahriman . . .
from astronomy to astrology to astrosophy . . .
from the Apostles and Mary Magdalene to Rudolf Steiner and each of us.
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| Brian then shares with us the fruit of decades of spiritual research. Building upon Rudolf Steiner's indications, Brian offers the 33.3 year life of Christ as a "lens” that helps us perceive how it is that what we “seed” is what we “manifest”. Steiner said that a fundamental rhythm of the earth is visible on a 1-year cycle, that a primary rhythm in human life progresses on a 7-year cycle, and that history progresses on a 33.3-year cycle. Brian explains how this understanding aligns us with the working of the spiritual hierarchies through rich and meaningful living imaginations.
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This video depicts Brian's original live presentation which was audio recorded in 2015. It includes all the blackboard drawings that Brian produced, as well as graphic re-creations of the drawing sequences, plus artistic illustrations of the stories and concepts.
Available on WiseCosmos.org Cost: $27 Permanent access to the video upon registration. |
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Brian Gray is a teacher, lecturer, and writer on many topics drawn from Anthroposophy – the work of Rudolf Steiner. He loves to share research from the realms of star wisdom, biography, cosmology, Waldorf Education, sacred architecture, and esoteric Christianity. Brian was core faculty at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California from 1981-2016. He also served as RSC’s Director of the Foundation Program from 1991-1998, and again from 2006-2016.
Brian earned a BA in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Inspired in 1979 by René Querido – one of his master teachers at RSC – Brian completed a certificate in Waldorf Teacher Education in 1981. Brian has helped lead tours through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, exploring sacred architecture, sacred sites, and Parzival’s quest for the Holy Grail.
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