Soul Health

Trust in Life

By Dennis Klocek May 15, 2024
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A great force in the human soul is the capacity to trust. This capacity is abundant in children. It arises out of the tremendous forces of life that pour into the embryo and then into the growing child. At the age of 21 the growth forces that form the life organs have completed their task…

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Heart-Gemuet – Arms of the Heart

By Dennis Klocek May 14, 2024
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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…

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Conflict and the Examined Life

By Dennis Klocek May 14, 2024
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In ancient times philosophers never considered their own soul life as existing separately from the world. It was widely believed that the personal will of a soul had a weak but perceptible effect on the way that the world unfolded. The weak effect became perceptible only if a soul took up the spiritual practice of…

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Easter Sunday

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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…

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Holy Saturday

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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…

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Last Supper to Good Friday 

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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…

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Thursday of Holy Week

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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…

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Wednesday of Holy Week

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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…

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Tuesday of Holy Week

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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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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Monday of Holy Week

By Dennis Klocek March 24, 2024
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This morning in the first session, we will focus on Monday of Holy Week, where there is the cursing of the fig tree. Gospel reading from Matthew 18:  “Early in the morning as Jesus was on his way back to the city, He grew hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up…

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