Alchemy
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[ED: This series is a transcription of the Alchemy of Holy Week workshop that Dennis gave in 2018 at Rudolf Steiner College in California. We have included the images in the text from the handouts, and added additional references and handouts where it enhanced the experience. If you wish to listen to the lectures, they…
Andrew Mason – Vedic Alchemist/Researcher – neterapublishing.com While the science and practice of Rasa Shastra is most commonly associated with Ayurvedic medicine, it is a discipline in its own right. It is also a living tradition, with many pharmacies in India and Sri Lanka devoting some portion of their production facilities to the production of…
Patricia Kaminski – Flower Essence Practitioner Patricia Kaminski is the Executive Director of the Flower Essence Society, an international collegium of flower essence practitioners who research and heal with the subtle essences of plants. She will discuss the origins of alchemy in Egypt given by Hermes Trismegistus through the Emerald Tablets. A key principle of these…