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Faust Branch 2024-25 Holy Nights

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This year we will study Rudolf Steiner‘s lecture cycle THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE, new title ACCORDING TO LUKE (10 lectures given in Basel, September 15th-26th, 1909) – GA114
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA114/English/RSP1964/GosLuk_index.html

Steiner addresses the genealogy and childhood of Jesus in the Matthew and Luke Gospels, unveiling for the first time the mystery of the two Jesus children. He also describes the workings of Zarathustra, and the relation between the Jesus child and Buddha.

All Evenings begin at 7 pm – In Person, (either at The Christian Community, 
10030 Fair Oaks Blvd., or in Homes, addresses below), or on Zoom.
There will be 2 special presentations – on New Year’s Eve, and on January 6.
All events are open to members and friends.
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The full schedule is attached below:

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The Shepherds Play from Oberufer

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Friday December 20, 2024 – 5 pm @ SFWS Grade School Dakin Hall

Come join us for this holiday tradition as members of the faculty of SFWS will perform. A light reception will follow the performance. We look forward to seeing old and new friends. Ut Hoy!

The George O’Neil Group:

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Twelve Christmas Nights Study of 

Chapter I of Knowledge of Higher Worlds

Online ZOOM STUDY SESSION 12/26/24 to 1/6/25

8:00-9:15 am Hawaii time zone (NYC 1:00 pm)

Open to anyone with an interest in Steiner’s new thinking. 

Prerequisite: Prepare synopses of every paragraph of the entire chapter.

Go to www.organicthinking.org for texts, ZOOM invite, and latest information: or Email me: mark@organicthinking.org 

Optional Christmas Nights Preparatory Meetings: On Saturdays at 8:00 am Hawaii time zone (December 7th 14th and 21st) we will have Zoom meetings preparing for the Christmas Study open to all.  We will share and discuss our synopses of the Knowledge of Higher Worlds and look at the forms ahead of time. 

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Get to Know Your Heart

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A zoom talk with Frank Chester

ZOOM TALK with Frank Chester – Get to Know Your Heart

November 20 – 7 pm Pacific Time

This lecture will cover:
 The essence of all forms
 Cube
 Vortexes and muscles have the same movement.
 Organic forms
 Pentagram and the right ventricle of the heart
 Balance in life experiences

Biography of Frank Chester
Frank is an artist, sculptor and geometrician who lives in San Francisco. He has taught
art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Frank has been exploring the
relation between form and spirit. In 2000 he discovered a new geometric form never
seen before. This geometric form demonstrates a remarkable correlation to the formand functioning of the human heart.

We appreciate your support of the ongoing work of The Faust Branch in making these offerings available.

Admission for lectures (no one excluded for lack of funds) :
Faust Branch members: $5, Non- members: $10, Supporting Members and Donors: –no fee.

Admission fees may be paid:

  • Online (here or by using the donation button on our website https://www.faustbranch.org/
  • By Check to Sacramento Faust Branch (mail to Treasurer, Carol Nordaas, 7620 Woodglen Dr, Fair Oaks, CA 95628)

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All Souls Gathering in San Francisco

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on Sunday, November 3 @ 3 pm

You are invited to gather in the eurythmy room at the SF Waldorf High School, 470 West Portal Ave

Please arrive promptly and find your way quietly to the eurythmy hall downstairs. We are offering music, eurythmy and some readings to set and develop a mood of openness and calm in which to honor the connection we have with those across the threshold. Candles to light will be provided.

This is an event for adults and held in a quiet mood. If you choose to bring children please make sure they are able to sit quietly for an hour, thank you.

Parking at the HS on that Sunday will be limited due to other activities in the Bushnell Gym. Use public transport or prepare to park in the neighborhood streets.

For questions please contact skyleitz@gmail.com

Exercises for differentiating our Astral, Etheric and Elemental Bodies

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An Online Practical Workshop with Are Thoresen

November 2, 
Saturday 12pm – 2 pm ET, US 11 am – 1 pm CT, US 9 am – 11 am PT, US 
4 pm – 6 pm GMT
Please check time of the event for your region on https://24timezones.com/difference/

Unfortunately, Are Thoresen’s planned tour of Canada, and the West Coast of the US was cancelled, so, we have organized his planned seminars in an online format. We are opening a new series of PRACTICAL Workshops with Are Thoresen, dedicated exclusively to practical exercises.The ability to read in the book of Nature is one of the tasks set by Rudolf Steiner for us 100 years ago during the Christmas Foundation Meeting. These seminars are for those who want to implement this in life.The basics of this group of exercises were described by Rudolf Steiner in his lectures in Helsinki in 1912, GA No. 136, April 3.

To Register 

1. make your payment using credit/debit cards or PayPal, please, follow the link 

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Workshop fee $15.00

!!! Please type “Are Thoresen- practicum #1“!!!

 on the first line of your payment application.

2. !!!  Email your payment confirmation (electronic receipt)  to 

threefoldmankind@gmail.com    !!!

3. We will reply with the link to zoom workshop 

REGISTRATION will be stopped 4 hours before the workshop

Are Thoresen is an anthroposophist, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he has also studied anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy and agriculture. Since 1981 he has run a private holistic practice in Sandefjord, Norway, for the healing of small animals and horses, as well as people.

He’s the author of many books, including Spiritual Translocation: The Behavior of Pathological Entities in Illness and Healing and the Relationship Between Human Beings and Animals; Transforming Demons: The True Story of How a Seeker Resolves his Karma; Demons and Healing: The Reality of the Demonic Threat and the Doppelgänger in the Light of Anthroposophy; The Lucifer Deception: The Yellow Emperor Unveiled; Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation, and more.

Andrey Onegin

Chicago Program Initiative

Renewal of Science Conference

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The Foundation for Cultural Renewal  https://www.renewalofculture.org/ – invites you to a conference that will bring together various streams of science under one umbrella, including color, heat, electromagnetism, astronomy, chemistry, biology, social science and a discussion on AI.

The Natural Science Section, Medical Section, and (tentatively) the Pedagogical Section of the Anthroposophical Society will be represented at this conference.  It will be ideal for anyone who has an interest in the basic ideas of science, and even suited to those in a university or tech sector setting. Both those who are familiar with anthroposophy and those who are not should find significant value in the presentations. It would also be a great help for Waldorf pedagogy, and hence could also double up as teacher training for faculty or as a field trip for 10th-12th grade students. If parents want to know more about the source of the scientific ideas their kids are being taught – this should work for them too. Note that students have the option of requesting a scholarship. 

Date: October 31st – November 2nd, 2024

Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

Event Website and video: Here https://www.renewalofculture.org/renewalofscience

Ticket link:  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/foundationforculturalrenewal/1268808

Michael Festival this Sunday in San Francisco

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You are warmly invited to join us for a Michael Festival on Sunday, September 29, 3-5 pm, @2938 Washington St., Dakin Hall, Grade School campus of SFWS. The Bay Area Eurythmy Ensemble in collaboration with Bruce Donehower are preparing to take you on a journey through the themes of Rudolf Steiner’s last address culminating in the Michael Imagination. You may wish to read the text prior to the gathering but you are certainly welcome without having done so.

Parking in the neighborhood is limited and public transportation or ride share is encouraged. If you come in your own vehicle please leave ample time to find parking in the neighborhood.

A sliding scale donation $10-20/person at the door is welcome. Thank you for supporting the artists.

We are using the following translation:

Michael Imagination

Springing from powers of the sun,

Luminous, world-blessing

Spirit-powers, to be Michael’s garment of rays

You are foreordained by the thinking of gods.

He, the Christ-proclaimer, reveals in you––

Mankind sustaining––holy cosmic will;

You, the bright world-ether beings,

Bear the Christ-Word to human beings.

So Christ’s herald appears

To waiting, thirsting souls.

To them, your word of light streams forth

In the world-age of spirit-man.

You, students of spirit-knowledge,

Take Michael’s wise directing,

Take the word of love of the will of worlds

Into your souls’ high aims––actively.

Rudolf Steiner