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Newsletter of the Portland Branch of Anthroposophical Society

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LIBRARY NEWS
Last week the branch Library
received a donation of 102 books
from Marion Van Namen. This
brings us to a total of 1,475
books. Most of these new books
are titles that we did not already
have. Marion is a music therapist
and there were many books of a psychological nature,
and many Dutch books. These are the first Dutch
books in the library and constitute the second most
books of any language in our collection.
Marion Said she could use the space the books took
up, and by donating them to us she could always
borrow them if she wanted them. Marion, thank you for
this donation. And thanks to Jannebeth Roell her for
help in cataloging these books.
~Tom Klein

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August 2013

forces of heaven and earth come together in


alignment. Now for the first time since that setting of
spring in Aquarius, the Leo glyph shows us a
parabola, or reflex curve, as a mathematical image
hovering in a new kind of sensory dynamism between
the material and spiritual worlds. It's a physical
manifestation of the anciently derived "quadratic
equation", which expresses this new relationship
between spiritual activity and material form. In Man:
Hieroglyph of the Universe: Lecture 3, Steiner
described this new relationship as the "plane of Will,
the plane of the Zodiac itself [the plane of Leo
opposite Aquarius]", separating us materially from our
past, yet recapturing its memory in a new
representational form. In mathematics, a quadratic
equation maps a connection between more than two
things in dynamic relationship, such as in the dynamic
vortex of Cancer, for example.
This mapping allows the relationships to be plotted
into a 3-D that captures the relational dynamic as
completely as it is possible to capture it in
frozenmatter. (continued on p. 2)

THE GLYPH OF LEO


BY DONNA KELLUM

From mid August to mid


September the sun in Leo is
moving to the south. The bright
light of summer is dulled by
damp autumn air and the coming
storms. One of the lines of the Cancer glyph has, as
Klocek describes it, "burst free into a kind of swagger".
From the tiny beginning circle -"seed" in Cancer, a
whole new seed is now sprouting in Leo as the mirror
image of the plant that produced it, except it appears
to be reaching out now on its own, sensing into
unforeseen dimensions, stretching beyond itself as it
takes root.
Leo stands directly opposite Aquarius in the Zodiac
circle.

The Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society


invites you to

Save The Date!


Thomas Meyer, of Basel Switzerland
Friday, September 13: The Temple legend and its completion by
Rudolf Steiner
Saturday, September 14: The Twelve Cosmic Viewpoints
Sunday, September 15: The Michael School
All lectures at 7:30 pm, Bothmer Hall
Sunday, September 29, 7pm: Michaelmas Celebration: In
Search of the Michael Impulse

Man, descending from spiritual realms, first made his


sensory appearance when the sun stood in Aquarius.
Remember the Aquarius glyph of two waves flowing
gently in a cadence? In the stirrings of spring the

The First Class will not meet in August


For more information about these branch-sponsored events, and
other events and initiatives in our community, see the calendar
section of this newsletter or visit the branch website.

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Leo brings us out of the spiraling motion of Cancer


into a greater sensory awareness of 3-dimensional
earthly realities expressed as moments in time, as the
4th dimension. While that dynamic can have many
unknowns, they are limited in a quadratic equation to
what can be expressed on a square grid as a
parabola. Leonardo da Vinci captured this idea with
his drawing of Vitruvian Man, balancing himself
between the cosmic sphere and the earthly square.

At every moment of the parabola's story, images


everywhere in nature show a relationship between
plan and being that gets expressed in an unfolding
process, in a growth pattern that is not strictly bound
to the material. The beauty and simplicity of a rainbow
plots for us a quadratic equation in which we see, in a
slice of reality, the formative forces of a cosmic etheric
arch expressed in visible physical parabolic
dimensions. All light entering a parabola, in parallel
with its axis of symmetry, is reflected in a way that lets
us see how the vertex of the parabola acts like a focus
for the shaping of matter out of the etheric field.

We can consider the parabola of Leo as a young


shoot that is growing as it's reaching out and sensing
its environment. It has a certain inherited form and at
the same time it has a relationship in time with spirit to
unfold according to its karma. Every moment of Leo is
one of sensation, of actually feeling the relationship
between spirit and matter and struggling to express it
in harmony through the growth of one's own being.
Note the red Leo-parabolic glyph superimposed on the
pharyngeal arch of a human embryo at the 4th week,
and how that arch sprouts out as its bodily being,
defining a series of smaller arches within it that will

evolve into the oral cavity, palate and throat, and so


forth.

SOUND GESTURE: Leo gives us the T and Dgestures, both of which, in their human expression in
sound, involve the tongue touching the upper palate-the material world coming into sensory contact with
the heavenly arc of a parabola. T is the first gesture of
ego activity in the blood physiology. We have seen
this ego activity in the "I" (ee) breathing itself free
within the central axis of negative space in the Cancer
vortex. The Leo T-ee gesture is expressed
eurythmically in the metabolic limbs of the arms upreaching with fingertips coming down to make contact
with the center line of the parabolic arc of the convex
skull (that rises up to meet it), the point at which spirit
and matter touch in materialization. Then in the Dgesture, the two arms come down with outstretched
hands, as if to touch/sense the earth sphere. Like a
rainbow that touches two points on earth, a parabola
that intersects a plane, the D-gesture captures the
movement of spirit through matter within the concave
aspect of the material side of the etheric cosmic arch.

In the T and D sound gestures then, we can


experience a breathing back and forth between
etheric imagination and concrete intellect. Breathing
between spirit and matter incorporates into human
nature both the warmth in blood (spirit infusing into
matter) as it circulates the ego through an
independent astral body, as well as the beginning of
the human heart, as material formed vortically through
blood out of spirit (see Frank Chesters work), to
rhythmically sense our resistances/challenges in the
physical realm, and keep our soul in balance. As we
achieve and maintain soul balance, our blood
processes warm with the ego-energy of the T-gesture.
We can experience ourselves as

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personalities (beings with historically derived identities


in time) because Leo's cosmic/karmic-memory
capacity for this has been lying in our soul with a dull
clairvoyant consciousness, like a sleeping lion, since
the Saturn stage of planetary evolution. In an act of
cosmic representation, memory and conscience are
activated in our thinking processes to the extent that
the T-gesture of in-spiring ego activity meets the Dgesture of our ex-spiring sensory capacity --the lens
through which we see ourselves and the world. Every
human astral quality the ego meets has by nature two
opposing aspects that complement one another. The
positive side of a choleric raging-lion nature, for
example, lies in its transformative higher expression of
warmth. To grasp and evolve this antithesis over time,
requires us to activate our memory-connection to the
real meaning and purpose of our life, through
awakening a sensory apparatus that came into
dormant being with our densification in matter. The
ancients did not need to discern the Divine through
concepts and ideas because the underlying natural
order of the universe came through them. They
breathed God in and out and then expressed the
Name/Word/Logos/TAO of what they in-spired in a
sound. Today, the Leo forces send us on the long
road back to that realm now with consciousness,
where we may begin to know it for ourselves. T, the
gesture that awakens the ego, is also the initiating
sound gesture of the TAO. To become one with the
Tao, to achieve effortless action, is the object of
spiritual-meditative and moral practice in Taoism. The
TAO that can be named, of course, is not the TAO,
and yet today one of the exercises we have for
achieving a soul-sense experience of spirit, that
surpasses the illusory world of our senses, and brings
the ego to waking consciousness, is the practicing of
the primary soul-sounds of the three main vowels to
which we give expression in naming the TAO: I-AO. "Stand upright" were Steiner's words to eurythmy
students, who then tried to experience a column, with
the balls of their feet as its base, and their forehead as
its capital. "Learn to experience this column, this
uprightness, as "I" ('ee') the consolidation of your
spiritual being within yourself. Just to the front of the
physical experience of standing upright, he told them,
is a distinct feeling activity within this column of light.
The sound of the ee activates the inner-experience of
a vertical impulse, as we identify ourselves with our
own true self. This is something of how the meditation
and eurythmy exercise begins. The whole structure
and sequence of the three vowel speech sounds
correspond to the three soul-forces of wonder (I-"ee"),
love (A-"ah") and conscience (O "oh"). We can begin
to recognize these in our inner soul-life as soundgestures to regain spiritual awareness through our

senses in thinking, feeling and willing activities as we


meet the world. In this way we harmonize the will with
the primordial essence of Nature in order to evolve
through the counter-actions that every D-gesture of
sense activity unavoidably creates, as a natural
development out of the "I"- being within the limitations
of matter.
BODY PARTS: The region of the heart, which defines
the inner life of man, developed when Saturn was
under Leo.
The "lion people" are described in
Steiner's Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part
2, Lecture 3, in context with the four group souls of
ancient times, as the powerful and aggressive ones
who developed their etheric body, heart and blood
circulation the most. In its purr, a lion is masterful at
experiencing a rhythmic relationship between its heart
and lungs, building harmonics in the cavity of its throat
and chest that rhythmically aligns the inflow-outflow of
air with its heartbeat. Our heart-lung rhythmic system
continues to be challenged to bring these breathing
processes of the lion to higher expression --as in the
great power that lies in being resonantly in touch with
ones feelings in every moment. The human heart
houses the spirit and has to adapt through breathing
to all sorts of life experiences/conditions. The bronchi
invest down into us from above, like an upside down
tree, with our larynx and pharyngeal columns as the
root. Each branch ends in a little bulbous bud that
directly connects blood with incoming air. At that
space, the blood and the heart have a window on
tasting the world, bringing it into direct experience for
processing, and presenting us with the challenge of
developing a higher sensory capacity for taking in our
environment. The lion is always in touch with its
relationship with its blood (and thus ego), giving the
idea of being blood-thirsty a whole new meaning. the
blood pulses up toward the mouth in hunger, gluttony,
craving, avarice, selfishness, etc., the breath pulsing
down can potentially spiritualize it to a higher calling.
Deep inner satisfaction can accompany the inner
mastery at this reciprocal crossing of these opposing
forces in continual rhythmic interplay. The interface of
spiritual and material processes, in breathing and
digestion, involves an alchemical transmutation of
hydrogen (fire) in its etherization of the blood. ATP,
carried in the blood, provides a font of energy by using
hydrogen bonds of water to liberate warmth into
human metabolism, at the same time that it mediates
hydrogen flow to the stomach for purposes of
digestion as HCL. With the fiery capacity of ancient
Saturn to dissolve matter and re-expose it to the
world, hydrogen (the gas that burns) moves the
human ego in the blood from the primal realm to that
of human warmth as its foundation -- to "lift toward the
upper Man what was more animalistic lower down,

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transforming it into a truly human element, one that


moves in the direction of mental picturing [as "food for
thought"] and supports the development of the thinking
apparatus" (Steiner, August 8, 1920). We feel warmth
as something belonging to us when we stretch out our
hands and arms as extensions of our heart to touch
something or someone. And with our sense of warmth,
when that warmth streams back towards us, we feel
something inside. Each of us, with every breath we
take back and forth between intellect and imagination,
is preserving "the heart of the world" in the warmth of
our blood. A continual transformation of the blood
warming in our heart streams upwards towards our
head. Its flow can be perceived clairvoyantly as the
aura of memory--rays of light shining continually from
the heart towards the head during all our waking
hours. Convolutions (parabolas) of gray matter build
up in the uppermost part of our body where the
dynamic reciprocity of energy currents coursing
upwards is pressed back the least. Our soul sense of
inner warmth, the spiritualized fire associated with
Leo, becomes involved with our thoughts, memory
and sleep, opening us more to the world nonmaterially and giving us more heart in our thinking, so
we might connect more deeply with the I being of
another. In the spirit world then, the lion forces are a
good guide for opening ourselves to life, for monitoring
the rhythm of our breath while staying connected with
deep heart issues, and for experiencing the blood as
an opportunity for learning, and healing, through
surrender. Studies support that specific frequencies of
different cat purrs have healing properties, including
bone healing. Electrographs of the sinus rhythm of the
heart are composed of parabolic images, which
resemble the curve of the lion's mouth.

CULTURAL EPOCH:
As ancient Earth evolved
through the non-physical "pralaya" or seed stage of its
development, known as old Saturn, it peaked at the
elemental condition of fire or warmth, then "died" into
the next stage of planetary evolution, referred to as
Old Sun. From these beginnings, the spiritual beings
of the Zodiac comprise a single entity which remains
alive in the astral world as twelve animal group-souls.
As the Virtue of Lion-courage within the human ego
springs fearlessly to earth and continues to evolve

within the red blood of each individual human being,


humanity as a whole maintains a spiritual connection
while becoming ever more deeply entrenched in the
material sense world. The fourth of seven degrees in
Christian Initiation practice, called the Lion in the
Mysteries, was reached when ones consciousness
could extend beyond the bounds of individuality, over
a whole tribal stock.
Humanity's sense-based cultural development of both
the alphabet and mathematics has given us concrete
experiences of continuing connection with the spiritual
world. In ancient days Man came to know Truth
through the alphabet. He knew instinctively that the
consonants he uttered were cosmic sounds coming
from his inner nature to express his own stellar
relationship to Spirit, and he knew that each being
communicated his own true name in a definite sound
or tone. And as the epochs progressed through
Lemurian and Atlantean times, and men gained the
earth-bound consciousness needed to note the
movements of the planets, with their being they
created vowels, voicing the "A" (ah) or the "I" (ee)harmonies
of
the
planetary
spheres
(of
consciousness). Through this sensory vocalization
they grasped an instinctual awareness of their material
descent to earth, adding harmonies to the soundgesture of their cosmic name in relation to the zodiacal
origins of their passage. The various groupings into
the "root races" were first conceived by men who were
instinctively aware that how they harmonized with the
universal all-embracing Word or Logos would
constitute how they had descended to material form.
These harmonies, in which we can hear the voice of
all beings, were called by both Plato and Pythagoras
alike, the Music of the Spheres, as the living, Cosmic
Word. Pythagoras taught that mathematical entities,
such as numbers and shapes, were the ultimate stuff
out of which the real entities of our perceptual
experience are constructed, such as our concepts of
the real world as exhibiting the evolution of our ideas.
While in Egypt, Pythagoras began a lifelong study of
math and geometry, which he believed would lead to
the essence of things. For the ancient Egyptians, for
example, the number four was the basis of eternal
stability. Both Pythagoras' mathematical formulas in
the sixth century BCE and those of Plato in the fifth
century BCE generated triples using a square and
triples to solve quadratic equations. The smallest and
best known Pythagorean triple is the right triangle.
The union of the three bodies -- the physical, etheric
and astral-- with the Ego was then venerated by
Pythagoras in the sign of the Tetragram as shown
below. Tetraktys in Greek means "fourness", the root
of ever-flowing nature regarded as the expression of
Divinity, and the Hebrew letters translate to the four

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consonants,YHVH meaning Yahveh, the ineffable


name of God. Leonardo da Vinci used the fourness of
the Tetragram as inspiration for his drawing of the
Vitruvian Man, within the square as denoting
"universal manifestation" and within the cosmic circle
as expressing the perfection and harmony of the
three-fold human body.

Plato taught that the essential property of


mathematical thinking is that Truth does not lie within
any single material, sense-perceptible form (a circle,
parabola, square, etc.), but in the way that image
leads us beyond itself to a comprehensive spiritual
fact. Plato presented projective geometry exercises to
his students as ways to think about something the
senses could perceive, but at the same time not to
think in terms of sense-perception in order to know
spiritual truths. Today, as then, those mathematical
forms do not serve as metaphors but as a distinct
order
and lawfulness
by
which
visualized
memories/ideas can be taken into our sleep. And
what then comes to awareness upon awakening are
the various self-serving ideas and beliefs we were
holding subconsciously. By using the first steps in
mathematical knowledge, we can stimulate our soulforces to spiritually transcend our sense-based
perceptions. This was the all-important point for Plato-to engage the senses in order to work with
mathematical figures so that one could think
independently of the senses, transcend the world of
images and come to know Pure Truth. Similarly,
Socrates envisioned human beings as having three
animals inside them: a multi-headed beast, a lion, and
a human. For Socrates, unjust behavior feeds the
beast and the lion, and starves the human being. It
also fails to accustom the three parts to one another
and leaves them as enemies. In the just person, the
human takes care of the beast like a farm animal,
feeding and domesticating it, while also making an ally
of the lion, in the service of human development.
WORLDVIEW: The Sensualism/Sensationism of Leo
maintains that world reality consists of sensations and
strives to explain everything, from mans perceptions
to world politics, through what the intellect is able to
cognize out of what the senses are able to observe-without necessarily seeking a connection with the
supersensible. Still, our capacity to really know the
world can come not by denying our sensuality, but

rather by expanding it, by allowing our soul to


become permeated by Leo forces. The human soul is
not a vague, nebulous something, but an essential
part of our being, consisting of three distinct members
within which the Ego is actively engaged: Sentient
Soul, Intellectual/Mind Soul, Consciousness Soul.
The Ego created the Sentient Soul at a time when we
lacked the degree of consciousness needed for
transmuting our own instincts and passions; then the
Ego created the Intellectual/Mind Soul to work in our
etheric body, and finally, the inner Consciousness
Soul to work in our physical body. From our physicalsense perceptions, our lower ego/intellect receives
impressions that create our lower mental state of
feelings, which flow upward continuously from our
heart to our brain as an etheric stream which then
meets another stream flowing downward from the
intellectual soul and consciousness soul. Christ was
called "the Lion of the stem of David" because with
lion courage and balance in his soul-life, he
transcended the subjective sense-based world by
maintaining inner harmony with the objectivity of his Iconsciousness. Ever since the Mystery of Golgotha,
Christ's etherized blood has lived in the Earth's ether,
permeating all its physical the intellect alone can
surmise from the senses, but from both etheric
currents which meet in the brain with a tension
demanding discharge, by imprinting as a memory
(concept) picture in the evolving etheric body. The
positive side of the lion-raging aspect of our passions
lies not in its annihilation, then, but in its purification, a
leading upwards through the chaos and congestion of
the sentient/sensation body to a higher stage. The
Pythagoreans argued this long ago, that Pure
knowledge is the purification (catharsis) of the soul,
which means striving to rise above what we think we
know based upon the immediacy of our material
senses. In conscious meditative practices that make
us slow ourselves down, slow our breath, cause our
heart to slow down blood flow throughout the body, we
open the portal to "sensing" with our blood in new
conscious and internal ways, and increase our
capacity for reaching a conclusion different from what
our purely externally-based senses might tell us about
forming or transforming our being and the world.
The Twelve Moods: Leo
Stream through with senses power
Developed world-existence,
Perceptive beinghood
To firm resolve to be.
In streaming glow of life,
In stress of growths becoming,
With senses power arise!
~ Rudolf Steiner,12 verses for Eurythmy performance: Dornach, August 29, 1915

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The Mission of Rudolf


Steiner

Telephone Study Course Available

Excerpted from an essay by Dr. Ernst


Katz, 2004. For the entire essay,

These courses are designed for anyone,


but can be especially helpful for people
who are not able to get to study groups,
but would like to study the books of Rudolf
Steiner or other Anthroposophical writers.

which can make great summer reading, go to:


http://www.rsarchive.org/RelAuthors/KatzErnst/AGM_Address.php

Did Rudolf Steiner ever actually state what he


considered to be his mission? In his
autobiography he describes eloquently and
sensitively all the people he met and what they
felt as their mission, but nothing about his own
mission. Of course, his autobiography covers the
period only up to 1907, and most of his esoteric
work came later. But once, on his sickbed, only a
couple of weeks before he died, he wrote a poem
that tells what he felt as his mission. Unlike many
other poems he wrote during his creative life
(which start typically with The light of the sun, or
The sphere of spirit is the soul's true home) this
last verse is a declaration of his Will, what he
wanted to accomplish against the odds of the
forces that want to degrade the human being to
the level of being merely a thing, a thing that can
be fashioned to specifications, that is bound by
external rules, and can be discarded after being
used. The human thing. This verse starts with the
words I want ... (Ich mchte ...):

I want with cosmic spirit


To enthuse each human being
That a flame they may become
And fiery will unfold
The essence of their being.
The other ones, they strive
To take from cosmic waters
What will extinguish flames
And pour paralysis
Into all inner being.
O joy, when human being's flame
Is blazing, even when at rest.
O bitter pain, when the human thing
Is put in bonds, when it wants to stir.
~ Rudolf Steiner

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It is a one-to-one meeting of the minds


over the phone! Improve your knowledge
and articulation through conversation and
reading out loud. Reading from the New
Testament is an opening to the main study
material.
Ann Watson has been a member of the
Anthroposophical Society for over 30 years
and has been offering telephone study
courses for more than five years.
References are available on request. The
cost of the calls is covered by Anns
telephone package, but donations are
gratefully accepted.
Please call 250-653-4184 for more
information.

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of the Anthroposophical Society, contact Diane Rumage at
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THE FARMERS MARKET


BY ROBERT KELLUM PORTLAND, 6-22-13

At the farmers market in Portland,


Its a beautiful vibrant day.
We could be in Philly on 9th Street,
Or Perralta in Santa Fe.
But were here at the Hollywood Market,
And the air is alive and fresh.
We could be at Carmel in Tel Aviv,
Or Medina in Marrakesh.
People are carrying sickles and knives
To be sharpened, yet no ones concerned.
We could be at de Cuyp in Amsterdam,
Or Wochenmarkt in Lucerne.
Are you getting this? Can you feel it?
Theres a breath of life in the air.
We could be in Yangshuos Fuli town.
We could be in Tehrans Four Square.
Here in this public kitchen,
Transcending space and time,
Theres a moment free from terror and war,
From hate and fear and crime.
Theres a guy with guitar and harmonica.
Theres a lively marimba band.
There are kids with painted faces,
And colored balloons in their hands.
Theres a small girl playing a cello.
Theres a guy on a bike with one wheel.
This could be Borough Market in London,
Or Marche at Raspail or Bastille.
There are mushrooms of every persuasion,
Rainbow chard, purple kale, fava beans.
There are four year old ballerinas,
From the dance class at Miss ilenes
There are berries, and cherries and peaches,
Piled high under colorful tents.
This could be Barcelonas Boqueria,
Or the market in old St Laurent.

Will you sign the petition to finance the arts,


Stop GMOs, and end the war?
Will you pause for a brief reflection,
To consider what weve come here for?
Are you getting this? Can you feel it?
Theres an energy thick in the air.
Like a shut up room thats been opened;
Like a day at a Country Fair.
Baguettes stick up like bagpipes,
From colorful handbags and packs.
Theres a farmer selling duck eggs,
And jerky from bison and yaks.
There are home-made candies, kombucha and wines,
New starts of basil and snap pea vines,
Sauces and pickles and jams for gourmets,
Freshly caught salmon, floral bouquets.
Theres a girl with no bra in a skimpy T-shirt.
No ones in danger, no one is hurt.
Small children ponder a case full of bees,
There are samples of pita with bits of goat cheese
There are smells of tamales,
Crepes, quiche, and curries,
There are moms out with strollers,
Who chat without hurry.
Begging for money, a man with his dog,
Reads Brautigan s Revenge of the Lawn.
Here for a moment, no one is homeless,
No ones alone or withdrawn.
Children are singing, dogs bark, sniffing
A man in a goriila suit.
We could be in El Galpon Mercado,
Or Souk el Tayeb in Beirut.
Are you getting this? Can you feel it?
Theres a moment of hope in the air.
This eternal public kitchen,
Thats nowhere,
and everywhere.

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Portland Branch Calendar

August 2013

Portland Branch Council Meeting


Monday, August 12, 7-9 pm 2606 SE 58th Ave. Contact 503-775-0778 email valerieannhpdx@aol.com.
All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or to call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe.
Meetings are on the second Monday of each month.
First Class of the School of Spiritual Science
The Class will not meet in August. 9:30 am sharp Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St, Portland, 97206, Contact Diane Rumage at
971-271-7479 or Cheri Munske at 503 772-2632 Blue card required. Second Sunday of each month
Thomas Me yer on Three Important Topi cs: The Michael School; The Tw elve W ord View s;
and The Templ e Legend
Friday Sept. 13, The Temple Legend and its Completion by Rudolf Steiner; Saturday Sept. 14, The Twelve Cosmic Viewpoints; &
Sunday September 15, The Michael School 7:30-9pm Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St., Portland $15/lecture, $40 all three
evenings; Portland Branch members $12/lecture, $36 all three evenings. Pre-registration not required. No one will be turned away
because of finances. For more information contact Tom Klein at 503-777-3176 or tgklein@aol.com
The Friday lecture will take a look at the legend which touches upon the mystery of evil and its transformation into a higher
good. On Saturday, both examples and exercises of the twelve cosmic views and seven cognitional moods will be considered.
The purpose will not be to gather theoretical information, but to make our thinking both more exact and more versatile, which
can become the basis of the social tolerance which is needed so desperately today. On Sunday we will look at three phases of
the Michael school, and consider the question: How should we relate today to the class lessons?
Michaelmas Painting Workshop: A Passion for Col or, w ith Cheri Munske
Saturday, September 28, 10 am 2 pm Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St. For questions and to register contact Cheri at
503-484-4133 or woolhorse@mindspring.com .
German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde brought a Michaelic impulse into the world through his pioneering artistic work. The
workshop will include a biography of Nolde and painting exercises based on his South Sea sketches. $55 includes materials and
snack.
In Search of the Michael Impulse Michaelmas Obser vance
Sunday, September 29 (Michaelmas), 7pm Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St. contact Timothy Popoff, timothy@efn.org
Al l Souls Obser vance
Saturday, November 2, 7:30 pm Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St. For more information or to get involved contact Valerie Hope,
valerieannhpdx@aol.com
Beginning Anthroposophy w ith Tom Kl ein
Wednesdays October 2 through December 11 (except November 27), 7:30 pm -9pm place tba Cost $60 including text contact
Tom at tgklein@aol.com
This class is for those who know little or nothing about Anthroposophy. They may not even be able to pronounce it. The class
will provide an overview of the basics with suggestions for further study.
Easter Sunday Obser vance
Sunday, April 20, 7:30 pm Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St.

Ongoing Local Acti vities and Stud y Groups


Council Meetings of the Portland Branch Second Monday of the month 7-9 PM
2606 SE 58th Ave., Portland Contact Valerie Hope, (503) 775-0778, valerieannhpdx@aol.com
All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or to call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe.
First Class of the School of Spir itual Science Second Sunda y of the month
No August Meeting
9:30 am sharp Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St, Portland, 97206 Blue card required. Contact Diane Rumage at 971-271-7479 or
Cheri Munske at 503 772-2632

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First Class Stud y Second and Fourth Tuesday of the month Blue card requi red
7:30-9pm Contact Tom Klein, 777-3176, Tgklein@aol.com.
This group works with the contents of the First Class.
Anthroposophi cal Cour se for Young Doctors First Tuesday of the month
7-8:30 pm Pohala Clinic, 12050 SE Holgate Blvd. contact Julie Foster 503-572-4196, julie@pohalaclinic.com
Karmic Rel ationships Stud y First and third Thur sda y of the month
7-9:30 pm Contact James Lee, 503-249-3804, anthroposophy@earthlink.net This group will not meet in July and August
The study group will continue working with lectures from the Karmic Relationships lecture cycle and applying Rudolf Steiners
karma exercises.
Singing Classes w ith Vladimir Baba Friday Evenings beginning Jul y 5
7 pm 8 pm Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St, Portland, 97206 $40 per session contact Vladimir Baba at 503-515-1771 or
email hildago6@me.com
I will be offering singing classes to members of the Portland Branch, or anyone else in town interested in cultivating their Godgiven instrument, the human voice. I am a classically trained singer and over the years have performed operatic and art song
works of the masters world-wide. I have also given numerous performances as fund-raisers to benefit Waldorf Schools and other
not for profit institutions throughout the world.
The Spiritual Hierar chies and the Physi cal World First and third Tuesda ys
7:30-9 pm 3046 NE 33rd Ave. contact Donna Patterson and Bob Kellum, 503-331-7393 All are welcome
M yst er y Dr amas w ith Speech-Formation Exer cises 2 n d & 4 t h Wednesdays
7:30-9:00 pm in SW Portland Starting anew on March 13, 2013 with Steiners 4th Mystery Drama, The Souls
Awakening Beginners Welcome Contact Diane Rumage by e-mail at drumage@comcast.net or by phone
at 971-271-7479
Portland Wal dorf School Communit y Choir Frida y Mor ni ngs
8:45-10:15 am Portland Waldorf School, 2300 SE Harrison St., Milwaukie, in the Orchard Room Free. Contact Marion Van Namen,
503-956-4046
Waldorf Education and Teacher Traini ng Lect ures and Courses

Conducted throughout the year by the Micha-el Institute. Contact John Miles, 503-774-4946 johncmiles@usa.net
Waldorf Teacher Education, Eugene
September-June Eugene Waldorf School Now enrolling for September, 2013 Foundation Year Contact Lee Ann Ernandes @
message phone, 541-686-9112
Preparing Waldorf teachers for their future vocation since 1990.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (Shepherds Play Update)


Calling all able folk to join in a traditional seasonal pageant The Shepherds Play the story of the birth of the Child
of Light told simply in verse and song. The cast of players is coming together. We are still looking for shepherds and
innkeepers and those that want to sing in the merry chorus at intervals throughout the play. Contact Sandra or Wes
Burch 503 353-1818 or galenalyn@gmail.com. Dont miss your chance to be part of this humble vignette celebrating
the Nativity.

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Three Evenings with Thomas Meyer!

September 13, 14, 15, 7:30 pm - 9 pm


Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St., Portland, OR
$15/lecture, $40 all three evenings; Portland Branch Members $12/lecture; $36 all three evenings.
Pre-registration not required. No one will be turned away because of finances.

Friday, September 13: The Temple legend and its completion


by Rudolf Steiner
This lecture will take a look at the legend which touches upon the mystery of
evil and its transformation into a higher good. Hiram, its central figure, has to
penetrate into the interior of the earth to find Cain as he was before he became a
murderer. Cain had been in a state of readiness to sacrifice, which was perverted
into the desire to kill. This original Cains state is to be regained by us.

Saturday, September 14: The


Twelve Cosmic Viewpoints

There are 12 possible world conceptions, and seven cognitional moods


through which we gain knowledge.
We will consider both with examples and exercises. Our purpose will
not be to gather theoretical information, but to make our thinking
both exact and versatile. Such versatility can become the basis of the
social tolerance which is needed so desperately today.

Sunday, September 15: The Michael School

We will look at three phases of the Michael School: The purely supersensible school existing through centuries in the spiritual world and culminating in the cosmic cultus around the turn of the 18/19th century; the
short phase during which Rudolf Steiner incorporated it on earth, giving
the class lessons of the Michael School; and the third phase which again
started to take place in the spiritual world after Steiners death. We will
look at the question: how should we relate today to the class lessons,
which are the earthly documents remaining from the second phase?
Thomas Meyer (b. 1950) is a resident of Basel Switzerland, where
he is fully engaged in Anthroposophical work as a freelance
writer, author of several Anthropsophical books, publisher (see
www.perseus.ch), lecturer and teacher of Rudolf Steiners legacy
of Spiritual Science. Thomas publishes a monthly magazine Der
Europaer which includes historical and current events seen from
the light of an Anthroposophical world view.

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