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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…
Read MoreToday 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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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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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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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 MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThis 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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[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…
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Dear friends, As winter and spring tease with us with their comings and goings, we are passing through a sacred time for many spiritual people. In the Christian calendar, we are in Passiontide, leading toward Holy Week ending in Easter. For those raised in a Christian faith, much of these events and days may be second…
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[Republished from the Journal of Anthroposophical Medicine Vol.9 1992] From a mechanical point of view the motion of the earth as it revolves around its axis brings into being the diverse set of phenomena known as the sunrise. From a more poetic point of view the sunrise is a rune of high significance for human…
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