The household is actually an alchemistic laboratory.

Manfred Schimdt-Brabant, from his excellent short book, The Spiritual Tasks of the Homemaker

Schmidt-Brabant here refers to the mysteries of everyday life:

The mysterious process of cooking - which involves the breakdown and transformation of plants, animals, and minerals.

The materials of the home from different esoteric domains (the astral nature of wool, the ego nature of silk, the etheric nature of linen, etc.) and how their placement relative to each other creates a certain feeling (in other words a sort of Western esoteric feng shui).

The duties of cleaning the house - the encounters with dust and air and closed/openness.  (“When you clean your living room, you release elemental beings,” Rudolf Steiner said. “When you read a lecture cycle, you release no elemental beings.”)

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My thinking seems dream-like compared
to the hard-edged sense world,
which grows heavier each day
in accordance with a universal plan.
But the holy and the spiritual
find light in my thinking,
and so the world of thought
which only seems dream-like
is now the home of the Divine.

Verse 7 - Seventh week after Easter -  from The Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner.

Each week of the year has a different verse.  Each verse is meant to be meditated on and lived through for a week.

Take the verse and meditate on it, even if for just five minutes, each morning this week.

 I’ll be posting them here every week.

These versions aren’t direct translations, but rather my own versions based on a combination of the various English translations and my own understanding through meditation.

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It’s all in your head; you just have no idea how big your head is.

Lon Milo DuQuette, occultist, freemason, musician, writer.

DuQuette is one of the most accessible and best-known magicians of our time.  His writing is funny, profound, and always working toward freeing the individual.  

A great introduction to his work is his spiritual autobiography, My Life with the Spirits .

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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Paracelsus - Swiss occultist and major contributor to therapeutic medicine 

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If your dream is big enough, you don’t need a crisis.

Paul Chek, founder of the CHEK Institute and natural health practitioner.

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Everything cynical that is said about the life of the body occurs through the fact that those who say such things lack the experience of the soul permeating the body

Rudolf Steiner

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To my Intuitive Gesture,
to my Deepest Knowing,
I say come, assume your rights.
In place of thinking which loses itself
in the dazzling sense world,
my Intuition, my Deepest Knowing now stand.

- Verse 7 - Seventh week after Easter -  from The Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner.

Each week of the year has a different verse.  Each verse is meant to be meditated on and lived through for a week.

Take the verse and meditate on it, even if for just five minutes, each morning this week.

 I’ll be posting them here every week.

These versions aren’t direct translations, but rather my own versions based on a combination of the various English translations and my own understanding through meditation.

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Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Rudolf Steiner

This is Steiner’s Sophia ethos - the divine feminine love, the Holy Ghost, the mother principle.

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Jesus Christ by The Pupils

Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
You hang on high in the hanging sky
Upon a crown that you expel
from your womb bright,
from your bladder and your brain
Like a silver tear
from an ancient flood
of alien blood
that we must drink to bathe
our compound face
O, Jesus Christ

Yesu Christus
Pure and polluted,
you’re the devil in a fable
a corpse at the banquet table
You’re stuffed with the first fruits
of the quasi-evoluted
You can not be refuted
You can not be explained
You can not be worshipped
You can not be contained
You’re a trail through the trackless
and a toil for the taskless
You’re a carnivorous tree
A cyclopean star
You’re a plesiosaur
A crested wave
You destroy what you save
And then you save it all again
Establishing the end of all mental mind signs

O, Jesus Christian
on a magic mission
with your mammary glands, one at sea and one on land

You irrigate the ashes.

You communicate in flashes.

O, Jesus Christ.

Song lyrics from ”Jesus Christ” by the Pupils - words by mystic/musician/poet/tattoo artist, Daniel Higgs.

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The brain does nothing on its own. You have to tell your brain what to do.

Michael Lipson - anthroposophical psychologist.

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Anyone who professes to have knowledge of the spirit and remains indifferent in his feeling and will has not been rightly affected by this knowledge.

Rudolf Steiner

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All exercises of consciousness…depend on our continually improving our relationship to distractions…

Distractions are never creative. They are all about ‘me’ in one way or another - what I already want or dread. They never really break new ground.

Michael Lipson - anthroposophical psychologist.  From his excellent book of inner development based on Rudolf Steiner’s soul exercises, Stairway of Surprise.

 

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Despite their immense difference in mass, an electron’s negative charge exactly cancels out the positive charge on the proton…

Science seems to gloss over an extraordinary fact - that ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ exist at all. What a mystery it is that like charges repel, and unlike attract…

Aristotle said that two mysterious forces run through the universe - attraction and repulsion…Attraction and repulsion have something to do with the intelligence, with the ‘soul’ of the universe itself - they are the manifestation at the level of matter/energy of the participatory nature of electrons and protons, perhaps no different in principle to the attractions and repulsions that we humans feel towards each other.

Stephan Harding, ecologist.  From Animate Earth.

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My self arises,
leaving the trappings of “me”
and finding itself to be the revelation,
the worlds spinning in space.
The image of the universe,
the work of the gods,
confirm themselves
in my self.

- Verse 6 - Sixth week after Easter -  from The Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner.

Each week of the year has a different verse.  Each verse is meant to be meditated on and lived through for a week.

Take the verse and meditate on it, even if for just five minutes, each morning this week.

 I’ll be posting them here every week.

These versions aren’t direct translations, but rather my own versions based on a combination of the various English translations and my own understanding through meditation.

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