The Lord’s Prayer and the Human Form
In his lectures on the structure of the Lord’s Prayer Rudolf Steiner spoke above all about the nature of petitional prayers, and pointed out that the archetypal prayer consist of […]
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Apocalypse 1: The Writer1
The Revelation to John, the last book of the New Testament, belongs to those four centuries around the birth of Christ, two before and two after, which many people experienced […]
Looking Westward
As my days in Toronto become numbered, I find that leaving is not easy, but I feel it is the right step to make. Last year during the retrospection of […]
The Revelation to John: Structure1
Introduction1:1-8 1:1-3 John’s Preface and the 1st Beatitude (reading and hearing this book 1:4-8 John greets the Seven Churches in Asia – Voice of the Lord God Opening Vision1:9-3:22 1:9-20 […]
Cosmic Lights
The universe offers us two kinds of cosmic light—the sun by day, and the stars by night. The one is all round and full, shining everywhere equally, with its great […]
Easter Sunday
The magnificent meaning and significance of Easter is to overcome matter and death! Easter is also always mankind’s victory over heaviness and inertia. And this is true even if we […]
Temptation
Christ did his most significant work in the time between the temptation and the crucifixion, or better said – his sacrifice. Temptation and sacrifice belong together like night and day. […]
Workers in the Vineyard
Our embedded childhood memories often echo the voices of our parents, or teachers calling on us to perform various tasks. Most of the time, we heard them and did what […]
The Sower and the Seed
In paintings by Vincent van Gogh, it is not unusual to see a farmer sowing seeds with a typical one-arm gesture. Even though it is only a painting, we can […]
A Few Thoughts on Membership and its Relationship to Other Paths
I am sometimes asked what it means to be a member of The Christian Community. It means that an individual has taken part in the sacramental life of the congregation […]