An Invitation from the Council

Dear Members,

Your Council has been working on ways to bring our membership together in meaningful ways across the miles of our huge Canadian geography. We want to strengthen our work together, build a stronger Community, and also come together out of a shared research.

One step in this process took place over the recent Holy Nights, where Council members were moved during a Goethean conversation to take up a joint meditation on the Foundation Stone as given by Rudolf Steiner at the Christmas Conference.

The research involved bearing each other in mind while working through the parts of the meditation. We also carried the question about how this activity could flow out to the membership. After the Holy Nights we came together to share our experiences. We did experience strength and joy in carrying each other in this way.

The 2017/2018 Annual Theme of the Anthroposophical Society is: “Light and Warmth for the Human Soul – How can the Foundation Stone Mediation promote peaceability – a hundred years after the birth of the social threefolding impulse?”

To follow the theme, and as a next step in this research, we would like to invite members to join us in taking up a joint working with the first panel of the Foundation Stone meditation leading into the AGM in May. Each Sunday, from now through May 14th at a time in the day of your choosing, we will meditate on the first panel only of the Foundation Stone meditation. We will also carry a consciousness that we are doing this with other members who are engaging in this meditation.

We also invite those who wish to make their participation known to the council to advise Ida Liedl at idapaints@gmail.com . We would be warmed by knowing you are there working with us. You may also choose to make contact with another Member(s) across the country.

Overall we felt that this may be a good geography-independent means to become aware of each other, leading to a newfound interest in each other and our various work.

Dorothy LeBaron, John Glanzer, John Bach, Ida Liedl, Micah Edelstein, Arie van Ameringen, Jef Saunders