Newsletter: 45. Sunday 9 November 2025

Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay       
Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings 

Events over next 2 weeks

[9 to 23 November]

  • Friday 14 November. 7 pm. [ and 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month] Friday Study Group has finished the Leading Thoughts and will be embarking a study (read and discuss) of Karmic Relationships (Vol VIII), 6 lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave (in Torquay and London) on his last visit to England, when he also visited King Arthur's Tintagel and a Druid centre in Penmaenmawr, North Wales.  New members are welcome to join us.  There are copies of the text in the Library.
  • Sunday 16 November.  10 to 3pm. Taikura Fete.  We have a stall selling second-hand books to raise funds for our library.  Helpers [Contact Angela, 027-4436737] and buyers needed. 

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  • Thursday, 20 November, 7.30 pm Lecture by Thomas Mayer,
    "Living with the Deceased and the effects of materialism on the afterlife
    Rudolf Steiner Centre, Independent of the workshop. Entry by Donation
  • Friday 21 to Sunday 23.  Meditation Workshop. 
  • Saturday 6 December, 9:30.  School of Spiritual Science. General discussion on issues concerning members.  There will not be a reading of a lesson.  The cycle of 19 lessons will begin again in February next year.

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2026

  • Weekend 17-18 January. 'Deepening Course' at Titirangi RS School**
  • Saturday 28 February.  Van James from Hawaii.
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2025_11_Anthroposophic_Meditation_Hastings.pdf

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 Bookstall at Taikura's Fete

 REQUEST:

If you have any anthroposophical or related books on your shelves that you have read sufficiently and would like to make available to other readers, please box them up and bring them to the Library by 12 November.  Fran will look to see if there are some suitable for the Library; the others will be offered for sale on our stall in the Taikura Fete on Sunday 16 November
Volunteer helpers needed for this
Proceeds from the Fete will be used to purchase new publications for the Library.  If you have suggestions for purchases please send a note to info@anthrohb.nz  

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Repairs and Maintenance

We have several jobs that handy members could help with.

1. Kitchen cupboards.  A couple are sticking and are hard to open,  They need planing, sanding and painting.

2. Downpipe and watermain.  Recently we had a plumber fix the watermain near the toby by the footpath.  The work has been covered by gravel which needs to be covered by earth and grass,

The turf with grass could come from a patch of ground of the same size by the rear downpipe on the corner of the Library.  This downpipe has a problem in that it is not connected to a drain, so in heavy rain the water runs under the house, which is not a healthy outcome.  This could be fixed by having a soak hole nearby, filled with pebbles.  Proposal: to dig a hole from where the turf is cut, and fill with small river pebbles.

3. Access Door (to the space under the Foyer from where we removed 160kg of junk a few weeks ago) needs repair and refitting.  Saw, drill, screws and screwdriver required.

Can anyone (or team) help us with one or more of these jobs?  Please contact me on robin@bacchus.co.nz or 022-398 2805.  We often ask for financial help but this is another way of contributing that we can recognise.

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From latest edition of Anthroposophy Worldwide 11

Report on a Conference at Sekem includes:

"Rudolf Steiner responded to the growing impact of capitalism and technology with social threefolding as an attempt to bring order to a chaotic society: freedom in the spiritual life, justice in the social and legal life, and solidarity in the economic life."

Based within human co-creativity in Ecological activity on the earth.

Posted: Sat 08 Nov 2025

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