Really neat! I am working through GA228 as of right now which heavily is reflecting on things mentioned in this post. I am not far enough into these studies to give what I would call my true impressions... But theories where I slice the mold from the bread(or try to lol).
Regarding the painting, it strikes me of a myriad of possibilities. The polarity present in the colors of each side. Presumably of the same mineral-like material.. A few of the stones, I believe 3, casting shadows and a presumable mountain like peak making a fourth to the left.
The idea of things above my head regards zodiacal and cosmic purposes there;
But with irony, Then is what I believe to be an altar for the dead with the swirling 'cross' upon it. This representing something alive, along with the dead, or rather in symbiosis with it.
The man below meditating in the direction of the altar/stones, replicating for me the values held in such a culture in this drawing. As the observer becomes the encased; And the cycle continues on microcosmically, adjacent to the macrocosmic of the Henge-stones.
It captures in a way the separation of red and blue in the natural world. While representing a glimpse of the cosmic relation as well. I would go as far as the say the person in meditation down below, can represent time/patience as well.
A thought which I considered and still do, is of the significance of someone bringing to life... Our deaths.
Memorials and so on as examples. Something possibly so intertwined in Western society, that the significance evades like an obvious truth. Though, this takes time for the individual depending on a myriad of factors to come to terms with in life.
How for granted we can take something so seemingly simple.. Yet imo may be a corner-stone to the building of all civilization.
Really interesting. Thank you for posting this... I would have regrettingly passed by an art of this sort with no second thoughts if not given context for.
That makes me curious on the significance/art needed to enliven these archetypes of human history into current-day culture. Perhaps the cycle has turned in favor of these ancient truths to spark back to life
Edit; Seeing a different view of the picture, I notice two other men with halos of some sort.
Edges black and white; Inners blue, red, green, yellow, brown, orange
Thank you sister M – I’d love to be able to study the original! So interesting to me how Steiner, having as he did an ability to read the akashic record, was then able to affirmed in such a personally powerful way when he actually stood in the spot he could remotely view in his clairvoyance. And how it always takes an individual to ask the initiate a question to unlock an impulse that can then come into the world. Thanks for tuning in & exploring these mysteries with me.
Mistletoe is a plant that draws its whole life without ever touching the ground, growing instead by wrapping itself around something that's already rooted deep enough to hold both of them up. That's not a bad description of what any genuine healing practice actually requires, drawing sustenance from a source rather than manufacturing it independently, staying wound around something with real roots rather than trying to grow one's own from scratch in thin air.
Your lovely description helps to get past the parasitic nature that is always emphasized when speaking materialistically about mistletoe. The Druid Healer/Priests intuited this quality of being living between worlds to strengthen what is already there & to bring in untouched heavenly influences – canceling out as homeopathic medicine can the parasitic quality that is the disease of cancer
I'll copy it here :( concerning post onThe Hidden Church of the Holy Grail by Michael Martin)
Hi Hazel…I am not a paying member for Michael. Can you ask him please if he has read “ How the Grail Sites Were Found “ by Werner Greub and if so what does he think of it. Also have you read it ? It was quite controversal in the Anthroposophical Society when it came out.
I found it during one of thise serendipitous moments. I had recently returned to the US ( 25 years ago ) and I was grappling with questions about the Celtic Wisdom and the Grail. This was in New Hampshire. Well two books came into my life as answers. First book at the airport … I had been sad to leave behind Europe where I had been on the trace of the Celts. As I was thinking this, before me on the bookshelf of the airport bookshop was “ 4000 BC “ . A book talking about the presence of the Celts in the “ New World “. It mentioned Vermont's Stonehenge which I went later to see.
Then later I was needing answers about the Grail … I was in a small, independant NH bookstore just browsing. An intuition told me to go to à certain self and pull out a spiral bound book. The only copy. I t was the book by Hans Greub. Realy fascinating. When I returned to France I waw able to go to some of the places he mentions. But I do not know anyone who has read it.
I had a A-ha experience reading Parzival by Eschenbach when I studied it in Waldorf highschool. Woods, sorry for the long comment.
Really neat! I am working through GA228 as of right now which heavily is reflecting on things mentioned in this post. I am not far enough into these studies to give what I would call my true impressions... But theories where I slice the mold from the bread(or try to lol).
Regarding the painting, it strikes me of a myriad of possibilities. The polarity present in the colors of each side. Presumably of the same mineral-like material.. A few of the stones, I believe 3, casting shadows and a presumable mountain like peak making a fourth to the left.
The idea of things above my head regards zodiacal and cosmic purposes there;
But with irony, Then is what I believe to be an altar for the dead with the swirling 'cross' upon it. This representing something alive, along with the dead, or rather in symbiosis with it.
The man below meditating in the direction of the altar/stones, replicating for me the values held in such a culture in this drawing. As the observer becomes the encased; And the cycle continues on microcosmically, adjacent to the macrocosmic of the Henge-stones.
It captures in a way the separation of red and blue in the natural world. While representing a glimpse of the cosmic relation as well. I would go as far as the say the person in meditation down below, can represent time/patience as well.
A thought which I considered and still do, is of the significance of someone bringing to life... Our deaths.
Memorials and so on as examples. Something possibly so intertwined in Western society, that the significance evades like an obvious truth. Though, this takes time for the individual depending on a myriad of factors to come to terms with in life.
How for granted we can take something so seemingly simple.. Yet imo may be a corner-stone to the building of all civilization.
Really interesting. Thank you for posting this... I would have regrettingly passed by an art of this sort with no second thoughts if not given context for.
That makes me curious on the significance/art needed to enliven these archetypes of human history into current-day culture. Perhaps the cycle has turned in favor of these ancient truths to spark back to life
Edit; Seeing a different view of the picture, I notice two other men with halos of some sort.
Edges black and white; Inners blue, red, green, yellow, brown, orange
How glorious that you are enlivening the painting thru your Goethean observation. There is so much there that speaks.
Thank you Hazel for including the Druidenstein painting in this post.
I had never seen this before and found it to be profound… and so alive….
You are truly incredible in how you access & share so much…
This painting for me has for me chalk line qualities. I hope to visit this place one day.
Always with much gratitude to what you bring forth
Thank you sister M – I’d love to be able to study the original! So interesting to me how Steiner, having as he did an ability to read the akashic record, was then able to affirmed in such a personally powerful way when he actually stood in the spot he could remotely view in his clairvoyance. And how it always takes an individual to ask the initiate a question to unlock an impulse that can then come into the world. Thanks for tuning in & exploring these mysteries with me.
Mistletoe is a plant that draws its whole life without ever touching the ground, growing instead by wrapping itself around something that's already rooted deep enough to hold both of them up. That's not a bad description of what any genuine healing practice actually requires, drawing sustenance from a source rather than manufacturing it independently, staying wound around something with real roots rather than trying to grow one's own from scratch in thin air.
Your lovely description helps to get past the parasitic nature that is always emphasized when speaking materialistically about mistletoe. The Druid Healer/Priests intuited this quality of being living between worlds to strengthen what is already there & to bring in untouched heavenly influences – canceling out as homeopathic medicine can the parasitic quality that is the disease of cancer
Thankyou Hazel for your very moving words.
Left you a long message on chat.
can't seem to find it?
I'll copy it here :( concerning post onThe Hidden Church of the Holy Grail by Michael Martin)
Hi Hazel…I am not a paying member for Michael. Can you ask him please if he has read “ How the Grail Sites Were Found “ by Werner Greub and if so what does he think of it. Also have you read it ? It was quite controversal in the Anthroposophical Society when it came out.
I found it during one of thise serendipitous moments. I had recently returned to the US ( 25 years ago ) and I was grappling with questions about the Celtic Wisdom and the Grail. This was in New Hampshire. Well two books came into my life as answers. First book at the airport … I had been sad to leave behind Europe where I had been on the trace of the Celts. As I was thinking this, before me on the bookshelf of the airport bookshop was “ 4000 BC “ . A book talking about the presence of the Celts in the “ New World “. It mentioned Vermont's Stonehenge which I went later to see.
Then later I was needing answers about the Grail … I was in a small, independant NH bookstore just browsing. An intuition told me to go to à certain self and pull out a spiral bound book. The only copy. I t was the book by Hans Greub. Realy fascinating. When I returned to France I waw able to go to some of the places he mentions. But I do not know anyone who has read it.
I had a A-ha experience reading Parzival by Eschenbach when I studied it in Waldorf highschool. Woods, sorry for the long comment.
Have you read Werrner"s book ?
I love when the books find us. No I haven't read that one, how great that it inspired you to travel to the site. I'll mention it to Michael
He has not read it
OK, thankyou for asking.