Virtue of the month (September 21 to October 21)
“Devotion becomes the power of sacrifice”.
Table of Contents
- Annual General Meeting of the Anthroposophy Group
- in Aberdeen and North-East of Scotland
- About Michaelmas as a spiritual event
- Fieldfare CSA Garden
Annual General Meeting of the Anthroposophy Group
in Aberdeen and North-East of Scotland
INVITATION TO MEMBERS FOR THE AGM-MEETING
on Saturday the 2nd of November, 10 A.M. TO 12 A.M
We will meet at the Old Chapel in Newton Dee.
About Michaelmas as a spiritual event
Rudolf Steiner considered the Archangel Michael as a cosmic being which is close to the intellectual prospects of humankind. He names him as the bearer of cosmic intelligence. He yearns for humanity to fill its thinking “once again with the spirit-substance of the Cosmos out of his own creative mind”. The following is an excerpt of a lecture by R.Steiner from the 23rd of March 1924.
“Thought construction lost itself for a while in the material of the Cosmos. It must come to itself once more in the cosmic Spirit. Into the cold and abstract world of Thought may enter warmth and the living fullness of spirit’s reality. This announces the dawn of the Michael-Age.
Only in separation from the living Thought-Reality of the world could there grow up in the human soul the consciousness of Freedom. What came from the heights, had again to be recovered from the depths. Therefore, the development of this consciousness of Freedom is involved in its first beginnings with that science of the natural world which is directed solely to the world’s external aspect. Whilst inwardly Man was unconsciously developing his spirit to pure clarity of Ideas, outwardly his senses were directed solely to the world of Matter, that left undisturbed the first tender shoots of what was dawning in his soul.
But into these views of external materiality, there may enter anew a living, inner realization of the spirit in the world, and therewith once more a spiritual view of it. The science of Nature, that has been acquired under the sign of Materialism, may receive a spiritual form of conception in the inner life of the soul. Michael, who once spoke ‘from above,’ may be heard ‘from within,’ where he will make his new abode. In more imaginative language, it may be thus expressed: That Sun-life, which through long ages Man drew from without, from the Cosmos only, will begin to shine within, in the soul. Man will learn to speak of an ‘inner Sun.’ He will know none the less well on this account, that he is a being of the Earth in his life between birth and death; but he will be conscious that his own being is Sun-guided on its earthly travels. He will learn to be aware in truth of a being that lives within him and that sheds a light which lights the life of Earth, but is not lit there. In the first dawn of the Michael Age, it may still seem as though mankind were very far from all this. But ‘in the spirit’ it is not far; it is close at hand; it only needs to be ‘seen.’ That Man’s Ideas do not remain merely ‘thinking’ only, but turn in thought to ‘seeing,’ is a fact on which immeasurably much depends.
Fieldfare CSA Garden
is a grower of seasonal, organic and biodynamic vegetables, fruit and herbs, based in Aberdeenshire.
At Balmakewan Farm, Walled Garden, Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire
Please see below a link to the website and a description of the project
We aim to provide the public with a source of sustainable, affordable, and freshly picked produce.
The produce is available through our community supported agriculture scheme, which anyone can join by subscription thus becoming a member by purchasing one, or more, Shares of produce.
The CSA model we have chosen to work with allows us to have direct communication with our members and gives our members a fixed price for the year.
We offer weekly pick-ups of fresh produce, starting in the first week of May and running through until Christmas.
Once May arrives, members who have signed up for the season come to the farm once a week on their chosen pick-up day. We have a pickup room at the walled garden in which the various items for those weeks. Share are laid out with indications on how much to take.
Members bring their own bags/basket in which to place the items which they have selected themselves.
We farm Biodynamically and organically which means we use no artificial chemicals at all, growing over 100 varieties of vegetables and other edibles on raised beds. We view the CSA as a self-sustaining organism, working with nature, not against it and in doing so create an environment in which the ecosystem can thrive and naturally bring itself into balance.