Thank-you for your words of encouragement. Illness in the past has for me indeed been a time presaging profound change and this one looks no different (in the area of marriage, now ending, and life tasks). In my ongoing quest for the new wine I came across the writings of this beautiful lady, whose life seems so full of significant suffering: Elizabeth Ancrum Mackenzie M.A, The Shepherds’ Fire, http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/bgeam6x.html (Joel Wendt is her publisher).

xx,

T.

I too think with great affection of what we shared and I greatly valued your perspective, ideas and characterful contributions to the A_T group. The other nameless group is still stuck in their usual habits and patterns of thought and I contribute to neither group these days – A_T went on lit de parade a while ago: perhaps its mission had finished, and it had been very quiet for years. There’s a new PhD diss out by an independent Canadian researcher on the Waldorf movement in the National Socialism period in Germany that in part takes on PS. The author is a professor now and had a recent seminar on the subject where she talks about the ‘abuses of history’ – I think we can perhaps imagine what she had in mind.

I’m still fighting a degree of illness and in general looking around for what my next tasks in life are (my job unexpectedly came to an end last Summer).

xx,

T.

I often think of you, I enjoyed our chats – blessings to you dear friend.

Cx

Hope you’re well.

Thought you might find the below interesting on this topic. The whole book is seminal IMO.

xx,

Ted

“”At the beginning of the Thirties the Revelation was taking place above,
bringing to a certain culmination a process of preparation lasting two thousand
years since the Mystery of Golgotha. A new earthly realm was created in which a
seed group of Christ-permeated humanity will be spiritually and self-consciously
active for the sake of humanity’s future as a whole. On the Earth below the
exact polar opposite takes place. Here also a kingdom is created and revealed,
led by a seed group of human beings. But it is the kingdom in which the first
self conscious evil is systematically practised and developed as a basis for the
whole future evil Ego evolution of humanity…Above freedom and love are
practised for the first time as a self-conscious, creative, magical redeeming
power; below hatred is systematically developed as the future black art intent
on the destruction and annihilation of the truly and uniquely human. A new
spiritual Michaelic ‘race’ is developed consciously above, while a new,
sub-physical, demonised race is produced below, in which human souls learn to
suppress in themselves all individual human elements by means of subhuman
practises.”

Jesaiah Ben Aharon, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century

‘The real and complete existence of a being created by God….to be free and to exist are synonymous from a moral and spiritual point of view….Freedom is the spiritual existence of beings…..Freedom once having been given, God does not take it back….’

It then goes on to talk about the act of Tsimtsum – the withdrawal of God and resulting formation of the void that is necessary for the creation of the world ex nihilo. This void is seen as the place of original freedom, the origin of existence in absolute potentiality, not determined.