On the crisp autumn morning of October 1st, we met at HARPA – parents, teachers and friends – to join the various Iberian anthroposophical initiatives that were celebrating St. Michael in unison on the same day and at the same time.
We had sent St. Michael’s Imagination as a preparatory reading and based on it we decided to hold this celebration around autumn, which is slowly enveloping HARPA in stillness, silence, calling for a calming recollection with ourselves.
After singing the praises of the hero Micael and the call of autumn and immersing ourselves
in the gifts of nature at the autumnal table and in the symbols surrounding the iconographic representation of Micael, we were invited to answer the call by observing the nature around us, in the hope of grasping the meaning of its shapes, gestures and colors so that, through them, we could be graced with revelations of the supra-sensory world, whose enigmas must be unraveled from nature, as the Imagination of St. Michael appeals to us. Miguel.
The reflection that followed in small groups, then shared in the large group, spoke to us of the power of the stripping away that the autumnal gesture bears, calling for us too to know how to free up spaces within ourselves so that something new can emerge and remake the world. The apparent vulnerability of this gesture inspires us to humility in the face of the greatness of the gift it offers to life.
We remembered Steiner’s words about the challenge that Michael presents to humanity: “To give back to the spirit what is made by man on earth and to give back to the earth its lost spirituality”.
In a fluidity that marked the entire meeting, we arrived almost without realizing it at the great theme of our time: (self-)education.
As new creators, now in the social area and at the universal level, we have to face our dragon(s), integrating them into my consciousness as an essential part of my destiny and thus carry out the act of (self-) transformation to give the world back a new era.
When we take our children out into nature every day so that they can drink in the source of the truth and uplifting goodness that only nature contains, we are helping them to build a living knowledge whose concepts will grow with them, making them much more capable than we are of unraveling the enigmas of the spirit hidden in matter!
We ended with a Michaelic invocation, taken from the collection “Sword of Light” by Karin Stasch:
Be brave,
But be humble,
For proud courage
is not the courage of St. Michael.
Only courage
that arises in the heart
from the desire to help people
is the courage that will receive
help from the spiritual worlds.
