Celebrating the Holy Nights at Anthroposophy NYC The Rudolf Steiner Bookstore 138 West 15th/btw 6th-7th Avenues 212-242-8945 www.asnyc.org Wed 12/24 Christmas Eve – No program, help decorate! Thu 12/25 Christmas Day – No program, branch closed Fri 12/26 Joyce Reilly The Christmas Truce of 1914 Sat 12/27 Jesús Amadeo – Compassion Sun 12/28 Fred Dennehy – The Esoteric Dimensions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest Mon 12/29 Cliff Venho Exploring Artistic Depictions of the Threefold Human Being Tue 12/30 Gisela Wielki The Call of the Time Edging Our Way Towards the Sphere: The Crystal & the Water Drop Wed 12/31 Kevin Dann - The Fourth Sacrifice of Christ & the Three Preparers of the Path to Golgotha Thu 1/1 Joyce Reilly – A “Janus” Evening Fri 1/2 Albert Spekman – Rhythms of Time Sat 1/3 Rita Costanzi, harp – “The Christ Child's Lullaby” Epiphany Legend & Song; "Three Kings" Sun 1/4 Festival & Pot-Luck: 4–7 pm Opening talk by Walter Alexander Artistic program “In a Midwinter Mood”: Dorothy Emmerson, Natasha Guruleva, Vincent Ropolo, Joyce Monges Mon 1/5 Brigida Baldszun – Eurythmy: "Behold that Star" (Inspired by a poem of an inmate in the Anthroposophic Prison Outreach Program) Tue 1/ 6 Epiphany/Three Kings: Linda Larson, Eurythmy – The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson Except January 4, all evenings start at 7pm and include refreshments, carols, and social time. Donations are welcomed! T hat which we believe to be born anew symbolically every Christmas Night, is the human soul in its original nature, the childhood-spirit of man as it was at the beginning of earth-evolution; then it descended as a revelation from the heavenly heights. And when the human heart can become conscious of this reality, the soul is filled with the unshakable peace that can bear us to our lofty goals, if we are of goodwill. Mighty indeed is the word that can resound to us on Christmas Night, do we but understand its import. —Rudolf Steiner, 26 December, 1911 From Owen Barfield’s The Year Participated, an interpretation of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul. Week of 22–28 December: Christmas I seem, from trance now free, nursed by a soul the Spirit-Child to see, the fruit of heaven-ward hope in cloudless heart by holy Word begot, waxing, triumphing, world-filling, my Essence and my God’s from whence I spring. Week of 29 December–4 January Devoted whole to Spirit’s revelation I win as my reward the Light that is the substance of the world; Mind, grown more clear, lets now my Self appear; hid in the might of Thought true Selfhood shakes its sleeping wings and wakes. Week of 5–11 January Once I am truly in the Spirit’s deeps straightway from out my soul’s foundation – from boundless love within the heart – the fraud, the hollow shell of private inclinations fills with the might, the fire of the Word. www.owenbarfield.org/year-participated/