via The Path of the Sun Keepers ------- When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you.
~ Marcel Proust 1871-1922.
Memento Mori - My memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again. ℵ☉Ω
Painting by - Salvator Rosa
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"The person who spends too much time in pulling other people's weeds can have no time to pull his own and all the most beautiful flowers of life; will soon choke and die out. And nothing will remain but a barren and unfruitful land full of nothing but weeds and thorns." -Kemetic Proverb-
via Abcedarian Ma'at ------- Art: Archangel Micha-el by Daniel Mirante
Rudolf Steiner speaks of the Archangel Michael who maintains the balance in the world between too much disembodied fantasy (dominated by Lucifer) and too much cold intellectuality and materialism (dominated by Ahriman). Lucifer and Ahriman are in Steiner’s view two polarities of evil but they are also actual spiritual beings, who are active within humanity. They are evil in the sense that they both strive to hinder the human being’s spiritual development. But Steiner does not have a simplistic view of Lucifer and Ahriman as merely oppositional to humanity; in a lecture given in Munich on February 17th 1918, he had this to say:
“The spiritual Beings, whose task it was to fight against the Michaelic principle, were the same ones whose task it was to bring differentiation into humanity, to split unified humanity into races and peoples, to bring about all those differences connected with the blood, with nerves, with temperament. This had to happen. We may call these spiritual beings who had to bring such differentiation into humanity “Ahrimanic” Beings. We may call them such, but we must realise that the Ahrimanic principle was a necessity in the whole course of human evolution.” (Schmidt Number S-3482)
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Rudolf Steiner also called for laying the foundation for a Michael festival during the September Equinox (to add balance to the Easter Equinox). Please consider this for your Equinox group and solo meditations and esoteric ritual work.
Art by Daniel Mirante
