VIDEO: Understanding Salves: Gels, Creams, Carrier Oils and Ointments
This video explores the history, formulation, and properties of topical salves, including gels, creams, ointments, and carrier oils. Dennis describes the challenges in creating effective salves, the importance of transdermal properties, and the role of surfactants, emulsifiers, and essential oils in enhancing medicinal properties. Example essential oil blends and their effects on inflammatory responses are…
Read MoreIn the Lab: Creating a Simple Still for Home Distillation/Extraction of Essential Oils
In this detailed tutorial, Dennis demonstrates how to convert a standard four-gallon pressure cooker into an effective essential oil distilling apparatus. (For more on its use, see our video In the Lab: Using a Simple Still for Home Extraction of Essential Oils.) The video covers the conversion process, including creating a custom adapter for the…
Read MoreHeart-Gemuet – Arms of the Heart
If we want to work with the idea of transforming the soul forces, one of the most potent areas for inner work is the region of the heart chakra. It is good to state right away that the heart chakra is not the actual physical heart. The chakra is a little more in the center…
Read MoreWhy use oils on the body
Since the most ancient times, the application of fragrant oils to the body has provided a special and harmonizing experience. From the language of anointing in the ancient texts to the current research in essential oils the recognition that a unique dimension is offered to humans in the application of fragrant oils to different areas…
Read MoreEaster Sunday
On the handout, go to figure 3 on the lower left. That’s an alchemical diagram of the relationship between what’s known as salt and sulfur. This relates to the idea of form and then sublimation. And so the Alchemist had a word for the way in which the invisible became visible. They would look at…
Read MoreHoly Saturday
Today I will focus on Holy Saturday, and then the next session will focus on Easter Sunday, the resurrection. We could put a subtitle to this, which would be The Transformation of the Senses. That in my understanding is the central issue in the Rosicrucian work. The new mysteries are based on the transformation of…
Read MoreLast Supper to Good Friday
Hopefully, the ‘Son of Man’ means more than it did before you came. We are talking about the future human. The one who betrays the future human will not be happy. “It would be better for him that he not be born.” This is about the betrayal of the son of man. Gospel reading: “While…
Read MoreThursday of Holy Week
On Thursday, they go to celebrate the Passover. They rent a room. Reading from the John gospel… “Jesus knew the hour had come for Him to leave this world and go to his Father…” When Judas decided to act, and Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus for his burial, that was the beginning of the Passion. At…
Read MoreWednesday of Holy Week
In this session, I will combine Wednesday and Thursday. We will focus on work and prayer. Work is in the lower right. That is the upward pointing triangle with the lightning bolts. Prayer is in the Star of David on the trunk of the tree with the starry realm around it and the zodiac symbols…
Read MoreTuesday of Holy Week
The theme is Tuesday of Holy Week. Monday is the cursing of the fig tree. Tuesday is when there is a kind of turning. Tuesday is Mars day. Mars is aggression. There is a war of words that Christ was having with the Pharisees because he was out in the countryside preaching. He was cutting…
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