Newsletter 40: Sunday 5 October 2025

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–  Spring Festival –

– the Festival of Enlightenment –

– ‘Oh Human being, know thyself’ –

– Sunday 12^th October 2025 –

 Events:

Saturday, 11th Oct at 3pm – There will be a stirring of the Biodynamic Preparation 500 with Jen Speedy. 

Sunday, 12th Oct at 3pm – a reading of Lecture 5   "The Working together of the Four Archangels" from ‘The Four Seasons and the Archangels’with John Jackson

Sunday, 12th Oct at 7pm – social gathering and Festival Celebration

This will be a celebration of spring, the joy in nature – with an earnest note addressed to each of us:

Alexandre Pushkin presents us with an initiation in the desert in his ‘Prophet’ – spoken by the festival chorus;

Leslie Waite will give the festival address on the forces at work in the spring time.

There will be a presentation of Scene 4 from the ‘Portal of Initiation’, Rudolf Steiner’s first Mystery Drama – holding up a mirror to our time and consciousness, our extreme cleverness and immersion in material gold, as perceived by the natural and spiritual world.

A small group of singers will present Benedictus’ verse spoken in Scene 7, in the higher Devschan, put to music by Julian Pook –

Light’s weaving spirit streams
From man to man
To fill all the world with truth
Love’s blessing warms
Soul beside soul
To bring all world to happiness
The heralds of the spirit marry
Men’s works of blessing
With the world’s puposes;
When these can be united by the man
Who in man finds himself,
The light of spirit streams through warmth of soul.

           ( Translated by Adam Bittleson)

 Verses, poems and music – our CHB friends will be there again to enliven us with music, and we will sing and move together.

All welcome – bring some friends.

With many thanks to all involved, preparing this event! –

Jenny Speedy, Leslie Waite, John Allison, Robyn Hewetson, Tania Diedericks, Matthew Frear, Jenny Sutherland, Robin Bacchus, Tobi Hensel, Bob Cross, Jenny Dobson, Deryn Menzies, Claire Morgan, Kathy Allen J Alexandr Pushkin, Julian Pook and Rudolf Steiner, composers and poets...

Astrid Anderson & John Jackson.

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I am collecting ingredients for making liquid manure and can’t seem to be able to source any stinging nettle (preferably urtica dioica) and comfrey.
If you have either or both of these growing in your garden and can spare some, I’d be very grateful.

Thank you,
Gerrit
gwr@actrix.co.nz