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° Raphael's Madonna Sequence Brian Gray (ASA series) December 21, 2022
° The Hidden Holy Night Burning of the First Goetheanum
Lelan Harris & Alison Meredith
December 30, 2022
° The 'Envy of the Gods' – The 'Envy of Human Beings" Adriana Koulias
December 21, 2022
º Truth, Beauty, & Goodness (series) ASA Holy Nights daily experience December 21, 2022 - January 06, 2023
° Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago
(series)
Holy Nights presentations
December 27, 2022 - January 08, 2023
° Faust Branch (series)
Holy Nights online presentations
December 28, 2022 - January 04, 2023
° The Great Night Vigil at the
Goetheanum in Dornach
Goetheanum presentation
December 31, 2022
° Epiphany
Orland Bishop (ASA series)
January 06, 2023
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| All of a Feather
The idiom "birds of a feather flock together" appears in literature at least as early as 1545 AD, but as a proverb and metaphor it likely goes back much farther in history.
It seems fitting to use Feathers for our newsletter that highlights events sponsored by other organizations. It reminds us that there are other "flocks" worth getting to know, building relationships with, and learning from.
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| | Truth, Beauty, and Goodness - Raphael's Madonna Sequence
Brian Gray, Alice Stamm, Orlando Bishop, Mary Stewart Adams, and other voices – ASA Holy Nights 2022/2023
Contemplating these fifteen images has a remarkable effect upon the human soul. Each image can awaken inner pictures that lift us into communion with realms beyond the physical world, stirring our feelings of wonder and reverence, and opening our souls to divine mysteries.
~ Brian Gray, Discovering the Zodiac in the Raphael Madonna Series
This year, we will work with a series of images of the Madonna, created in a sequence in 1908 by Rudolf Steiner, that serve as a healing impulse for the soul. These images were first used in a clinical setting for patients to relieve stress and strain on the etheric and astral bodies. This series is arranged in a specific sequence of 15 images and is composed of works by Renaissance artists Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello.
Dates: December 21 with Brian Gray & Alice Stamm
Other presenters in the series include Mary Stewart Adams and Orland Bishop from December 24, 2022 - January 5, 2023 (13 consecutive days).
Time: All sessions take place at 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) / 9:00 AM (PST, UTC -8)
Sessions are 15 minutes long on each of the holy nights, with 90 minute sessions on December 24 and January 06.
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The Hidden Holy Night Burning of the First Goetheanum
Presented by Lelan Harris & Alison Meredith
Date: December 30 Time: 2:00-4:00 PM (CST, UTC -6) / 12:00-2:00 PM (PST, UTC -8)
Cost: Free
Please type "Lelan & Alison" in the memo of your payment.
This presentation will be recorded. For more information: contact Andrei Onegin at aonegin@rschicago.org
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| | | The 'Envy of the Gods' – The 'Envy of Human Beings'
Presented by Adriana Koulias
A Winter Solstice offering preparing us for the Centennial commemoration of the burning of the first Goetheanum.
During this presentation Adriana will speak about the three gifts given by Rudolf Steiner in 1913: The naming of Anthroposophy, The Fifth Gospel, and the laying of the Foundation Stone of the First Goetheanum. She will explore with us how we can link our hearts to the old Goetheanum during the coming 12 Holy Nights to prepare ourselves for the coming 12 months in 2023, so we can work towards a Cosmic New Year.
In this way we will celebrate the Jubilee of the Christmas Conference and the resurrection of the living impulse of the First Goetheanum in the most auspicious way. For Rudolf Steiner exhorts us:
And so, my dear friends, let us look back to the terrible flames of fire which filled us with such inexpressible sorrow. But let us also, in making that vow before whatever forces are the best and most divine in each of us, feel the holy flame in our hearts, the flame which is to enlighten and warm that which was willed in the Goetheanum, by bearing this will onwards through the waves of progress in human evolution . . . .
My dear friends, may this link our hearts to the old Goetheanum which we had to consign to the elements. May it link our hearts also to the Spirit, to the Soul of this Goetheanum. With this vow before whatever is best within our being we want not only to live into the new year in strength of deed; but also, bearing the spirit, leading the soul, we want to live into the new cosmic year.
~ Rudolf Steiner, The Christmas Conference, Part II: The Proceedings of the Conference – Lecture XVII: The Envy of the Gods – the Envy of Human Beings. Presented on December 31, 1923, beginning at 8:30 PM.
Date: December 21
Time: 7:00 PM (CST, UTC -6) / 5:00 PM (PST, UTC -8)
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Holy Nights 2022/2023
offerings by
The Rudolf Steiner Branch (Chicago)
Schedule of Online Presenters
The following are being held online.
December 27
Rev. Craig Wiggins, WE ARE becomes I AM inspires the new WE ARE: Celebrating the festival day of John the Evangelist by traveling through the metamorphosis of consciousness and wondering what will still become.
December 29
Mary Stewart Adams, Mercury 1922-2022.
December 30
Lelan Harris (USA) & Alison Meredith (New Zealand), Engaging and Experiencing the Hidden Holy Night Burning of the First Goetheanum: Northern and Southern Hemisphere Perspectives.
January 01
Richard Ramsbotham (UK), New Year 1923 To New Year 2023: The First Goetheanum And The New ‘Johannine’ Stream In Civilization.
January 03
Andrew Linnell, Hiram Abiff and the Birth of Christ.
January 04
Rev. Jeana Lee, “Who do you say that I Am?” - Getting to know Christ through the Gospels.
January 06
Florian Sydow (Hawaii), From Celebrating Three Kings Day and Epiphany to Preparing the Sixth Cultural Age and Co-Creating The Future New Jerusalem.
January 08
1:00 PM Dr. Matthias Girke (Medical Section), The Development of the Human Soul – The Foundation Stone Meditation given by Rudolf Steiner.
Time: 2:00-4:00 PM (CST, UTC -6) / 12:00-2:00 PM (PST, UTC -8) except January 08.
Cost: All events are free, but a suggested donation of $15 per event is welcomed on http://www.rschicago.org/donate. Please type presenter's name in the memo of your payment.
For more information: contact Andrei Onegin at aonegin@rschicago.org
Rudolf Steiner Branch (Chicago):https://www.rschicago.org/happenings/calendar
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| | | | Holy Nights 2022/2023 offerings by Faust Branch (Sacramento)
We will be studying According to Matthew (The Gospel of St. Matthew). Lectures given by Rudolf Steiner September 1-12, 1910, in Bern, Switzerland. Link to Lectures in RSArchives.
Schedule of Online Presenters
The following are being held online.
December 28
Lecture 3, Afshin Jalalian and Nanci Zecchin
December 30
Lecture 5, Bruce Donehower
January 01
Lecture 6, Nicholas Morrow
January 02
Lecture 7, Christine Burke
January 03
Lecture 8, Brian Gray
January 04
Lecture 9, Anne Dale and John Beck
Time: 7:00 PM (PST, UTC -8)
Cost: Free
Donations welcome, follow the link here:
For more information: Sacramento Faust Branch Website
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Goetheanum Nachtwache: A Great Night Vigil
Night Watch: A Night of Culture
Begins: December 31, 2022 at 10:00 PM (CET, UTC +1) Ends: January 1, 2023 at 10:00 AM (CET, UTC +1)
Cost: Free
Overnight events until dawn to commemorate the fire in the first Goetheanum 100 years ago. This is then followed by New Year's daytime speeches and eurythmy, readings, thoughts, meditations, workshops, fire bowls, exhibitions and New Year's concert in the morning.
New Year's Eve 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the fire at the First Goetheanum. Thousands of people from the Basel region came to see the huge fire that lit up the landscape in Dornach on a cold winter night.
Anthroposophy would not be anthroposophy -- and Rudolf Steiner would not be such an indefatigable spirit -- if not for the fact that the very next day, from this tragic end to so much work and artistic creativity, the beginning of something new was born. It is the great "die and become" in the history of anthroposophy.
We want to commemorate this moment with a shared Nachtwache, a night watch of anthroposophical life, with many initiatives spread across the entire campus. On New Year's Eve, the long night begins at 10 PM, then continues until the next morning at 10 AM.
For example, here are the simultaneous opportunities across the campus during just the first hour of the Nachtwache (from 10:00-11:00 PM) includes: (1) Opening speech by Constanza Kaliks; (2) historical violin concert; (3) reading of Rudolf Steiner's last lecture; (4) reading with singing and punch by the fire; (5) eurythmy -- walking in the larynx of the gods; (6) film screening of The First Goetheanum: A Human and Cosmic Architecture; (7) sculpture exhibition; (8) building history and model of the first Goetheanum; and (9) exhibition of the room of sculptor Edith Maryon.
Highlights of the following eleven hours include: Readings of eyewitness reports in the Helene Finckh house, where Rudolf Steiner spent the night of the fire; a midnight reading of the Foundation Stone verse; indoor and outdoor concerts; fire bowls on the site that invite you to talk; a star guide journey to silence through the planetary worlds of Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus; a New Year's speech leading into the new year and a New Year's concert leading into the new day.
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Wherever you are in the world, we wish you to join us in remembering and entering into the story of the spiritual fire that blazed in and around the Goetheanum this night!
At midnight at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, people will be gathering for “The Great Night Vigil at the Goetheanum”. We invite you to join us on Zoom to meet with other anthroposophical friends and groups from all over the world for a speaking of the Foundation Stone Meditation.
Date: December 31, 2022
Time: 11:45 PM (CET, UTC +1) / 5:45 PM (EST, UTC -5) / 2:45 PM (PST, UTC -8)
Convert the date and time of the event to your time zone here.
Cost: Free
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| Images Feather Passage by Nico Frey, Unsplash.com Epiphany by Fiona Campbell, Painted-Space.com Sistine Madonna (close up) by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael First Goetheanum, Goetheanum Archives, plus Flickering Flames & Sparks by hellvideo, Adobe Stock Resurrection of the Temple (The First Goetheanum) by Rita de Cassia Perez, Adriana’s mother
Candles in the Church, Adobe Stock
Season Table Display, Faust Branch Collection
The Goetheanum, Goetheanum Archives
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