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photograph by D. Daley - Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park - June, 2001
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America Dio- He- Ko So sang the maidens of an Iroquois agricultural society. They worshiped a three-in-one
goddess who appeared in the world under the guise of corn, beans, and squash, the three crops that were planted together in Iroquois village plots.
What where the virtues of this goddess? She was herself a community. As Dio, corn, she grew tall and sustained the people with her
fruit. (A native farmer could sing the song that counted every leaf, every joint, every tassel in the order that it appeared on the plant from seedtime to harvest.) As He,
beans, she twined about the corn stalk, making of it a living trellis on which to support the vine and its fruits. In return, as beans, she fed the roots of the corn and the
squash. And last, as Ko, squash, she put on spiny leaves and stems to defend the plot from marauders.
This triple goddess- a kind of New World Hecate- is the founder of the Thanksgiving feast, and so it might be said she is ruling deity not only of the agricultural native peoples but
also of the newcomers who survived their first winter only owing to her bounty. It is not just bad policy to reject her, as we have done over the past three centuries. It is
sacrilege, and it is being avenged every day in farm fields across the continent. pg. 168 Dirt~ The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth Home
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The Other America, The Western World in the Light of Spiritual Science by Carl Stegmann (51) America with its rich original forces of growth! Rudolf Steiner draws our attention further to something very significant in connection with
the deeper knowledge of the will. When the human should ascend into the higher spheres of existence after death, then above all else the consciousness
of man changes. Man attains an all-comprehending, highly will-imbued cosmic consciousness which becomes constantly brighter. Through this he gradually
becomes one with his own higher spirit-being. Later there comes once again his descent into a new earthly life, and here a reverse process takes place.
When man or woman descends again to a new incarnation on earth, then in stages they lose their brightness, the strength and breadth of their
cosmic consciousness. Shortly before they unite themselves with the germ of a new embryo, their consciousness's become totally dimmed and the
spiritual forces of consciousness thus released are transformed into the forces of growth of the future man and women. There where we have
received the first illumination for the spiritual world, in a more wakeful consciousness than we can have on earth, just there on our return
to earth, the consciousness is dimmed, until it is so far dimmed down that it is then nothing but forces of growth.
Palladium 1. A sacred object having the power to preserve a city or a state possessing it. 2. A safeguard, especially one
viewed as a guarantee of the integrity of social institutions: 'the Bill of Rights', palladium of American civil liberties.
[Latin, from Greek Palladiom, the fabled statue of Pallas Athena that assured the safety of Troy as long as it remained
within the city, from Pallas (stem Pallad-), Pallas (Athena).] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
America, you're better off than
Our continent, the old.
You have no castles which are fallen,
No basalt to behold.
You're not disturbed within your inmost being
Right up till today's daily life
By useless remembering
and unrewarding strife.
Use well the present and good luck to you
And when your children begin to write poetry
Let them guard well in all they do
Against Knight-robber-and-ghost story.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749 - 1832 (Weimar, 1812)
Dio- He- Ko
Corn Beans Squash
Corn Beans Squash
by William Bryant Logan
Something tremendously important is expressed by this. The inner relationship between consciousness
and life is made clear! Especially important is the fact that life and growth processes are related to consciousness forces. "Everything that expands
in us as growth is at the same time will-related; externally observed in the body, it is growth process; observed in the inner soul life, it is will. This
brings us to the conclusion that the expansion of growth, everything that is any way expresses itself within the forces that lie in growth,
in nourishment, in life, is will-related. When we observe this from the point of view of the soul, then we must say, that is connected with
the will.
And here we come very close to the secret of the will. The will contains the secret of life
within it. Will is life; life is transformed higher consciousnesses. When one bears this in mind, then here in America one immediately thinks of the
land as such, with its rich original forces of growth. Everyone knows that here there are giant trees which were growing even at the time of Christ;
you can carve a tunnel in them large enough to drive a car through. Powers of growth are dimmed down powers of consciousness. Where strong powers of growth are at work in humans,
as in the small child, there is little consciousness. The child at first lives in the will-saturated powers that build up the body. Only gradually
does it awaken to consciousness, and to that same degree as it grows up the forces of growth become freed from the body. In this, one can find a wonderful
confirmation of what was said above, that forces of growth transform themselves into forces of consciousness into forces of growth. If man thus awakens more deeply to cognition of their will, as it
continues to work in otherwise unconscious creative spiritual forces within
them, then in their waking day-consciousness humans attain the stimulating
certainty that their physical body is penetrated by the highest spiritual
powers, in all their growth processes, in all the secret occurrences of their
digestion, in all the movements of their limbs. The West lives in the body. What
will it mean for the West to come one day to such an experience of the body! In
addition to this humanity also wins an equally significant knowledge, that every
night they ascend into high spiritual spheres, there to be immersed into a
spiritual moral world of splendor, a world where will, love, life and
consciousness are one; where human beings are at one with the world. Here we
experience our human cosmic being, our higher spiritual being. This is the
mission of earth evolution, to bring earthly humans slowly into unity with their
cosmic being. This can happen in that humanity illuminates the depths of it's
will with spirit thoughts. Without this light of cognition , the noblest social
forces remain nothing but blind instinct which man can misinterpret, and which
then can fall away from them. These social forces can then be taken over by
opposing ahrimanic forces and flow into group-soul-like communities which are
egoless. For this reason, it is an all important task of the present to become
conscious of the secrets of the will.
The West-people of England and North America
Rudolf Steiner lecture in 1918 summarized and translated below by Mr. Wim A. M. Leys of The Netherlands.
In the ages to come, humanity will develop three new occult faculties,
in the same natural way as it developed her mental faculties in the past. These will be: 1. The material occultism. (Or mechanical occultism.)
2. The hygienic occultism. 3. The eugenic occultism.