June 2025 Bulletin
Warm greetings to you, dear friends, as we approach Pentecost this Sunday.
Pentecost is pre-eminently a festival of flowers. If a human beings have a true feeling for this Festival we will go out among the buds and blossoms opening under the influence of the sun, under the etheric and astral influences — and we will perceive in the flower-decked earth the earthly image of what flows together in the picture of Christ's Ascension, and the descent of the tongues of fire upon the heads of the disciples which followed later. The heart of humanity as it opens may be symbolized by the flower opening itself to the sun; and what pours down from the sun, giving the flower the fertilizing power it needs, may be symbolized by the tongues of fire descending upon the heads of the disciples.
Rudolf Steiner, The Festivals and Their Meaning: Ascension and Pentecost GA 224 Chapter 1, The Whitsun Mystery
In this spirit we offer several opportunities to join in spiritual community.
Our August Annual Sophia Meditation Retreat in Hillsdale NY in August is filling up, and we’d love to have you join us. Read more below in our Upcoming Events section for complete details on this special event.
Also coming up are Robert Powell’s European events for this Summer. He begins in Dornach August 1st, and will be in Assisi August 15th, and Roncegno September 7th. You can also view those events and get complete details in the Upcoming Events section below.
You might enjoy this new article posted on our website by Karen Rivers called, “No Greater Love than This: Christ and the Archangel Jesus.” You’ll find this and other inspiring articles on our website Articles page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Annual Sophia Meditation Retreat with Joel Matthew Park, Lucian Schloss, Phillip Malone and Sam Guzman
Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother Engaging with Our Primal Archetypes
This is a special event filled with exploration and spiritual exercises to heal our relationships to both our spiritual heredity above us, and our family heredity behind us. Join us August 28-31, 2025, at Mettabee Farm in Hillsdale, NY. You can view the event page here, and a flyer with full details here.
Robert Powell’s Upcoming European Events
Dornach Choreocosmos Seminars
Dornach, August 1 to 8, 2025The World Significance & Meaning of the Foundation Stone of Love
Assisi, August 15 to 21The Healing Miracles of Christ in the Gospel of John
Assisi, August 22 to 28The Rose of the World, International Choreocosmos Week
Roncegno, September 7 to 12
ONLINE COURSE
The Seven Miracles of the Second Coming
A new video was recently added to this course. Be sure to check it out for deep nourishment and contemplation.
This series of videos shared by Joel Park is based on working intensively with the Gospel of St. John. It is a self-guided course with 3 lessons, and more to come.
FEATURED PRODUCT
Italian artist Mara Maccari has offered her beautiful paintings as the backdrop for our Note Cards and Altar Cards, including cards with Archangels Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Gabriel, as well as the Etheric Christ.
You will find these and other wonderful specialty items in the Specialty Items area of our online web shop.
Wishing you a blessed and joyous Pentecost!
Many Blessings,
The Sophia Foundation
P.S. If you have articles, poems or a review of one of our courses or events, we’d love to hear from you, and explore sharing them with our Starlight readers. Please contact us with your offerings.
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