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Anthroposophical Society in Canada 

 

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Network Update
 
BEST WISHES to Nicolette Genier for the BIG MOVE this weekend.  May the Web be ever stronger.

Membership Update
 
MELINA MARIN (Burlington ON) has joined the Society,
 and TH�R�SE FAVETTO-FRANCOZ (Montr�al) has been reinstated.

WELCOME!
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Contact Info
Anthroposophical Society    in Canada 
# 131 - 1 Hesperus Rd.
Thornhill, ON
L4J 0G9

Mark McAlister
Administrator
416-892-3656



Council 

Jean Balekian (QC), President
Judith King (NS), Secretary
Douglas Wylie (ON), Treasurer
Dorothy LeBaron (ON)
John Bach (BC)
Arie van Ameringen (QC), General Secretary


School For Spiritual Science 

For list of Class Holders,
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For a list of Collegium members, click here.

 

- by Monica Gold

 

...Every young child when he or she draws a house experiences unconsciously that he lives in his house.

The roof, he feels, is a separation from the spiritual world, and the whole house is experienced by the child as his physical body. When the house has a chimney with straight smoke coming out of it, everything is well, but when there is big heavy smoke coming out or even blowing downward, one can experience as an educator that a desired harmony is absent, that the breathing is disturbed. Another child has grass on a flat roof, on which birds and angels are going for a walk. This is a happy child because he is aware of heaven and earth. The windows of a child's drawing also speak: are they black or bright yellow? Are there colourful flowers on the windowsill? Is the door open or closed?  There is much to be learnt from children's drawings.

When one looks at the house below [see diagram in article] and carries in one's consciousness the tip of the triangle it becomes the symbol for spirit man, Atma. It is the highest stage of development, which can be undertaken by a human being through a developed will in the transformation of the physical body. Rudolf Steiner connects the first words of the Lord's Prayer with this fact...Read full article

Child's drawing of a house
Child's Drawing of a House
Upcoming Events

COUNCIL VISITS NOVA SCOTIA.  10-13 October.  Program.

MEDITATION: OUT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY.  Public talk by Arie van Ameringen.  12 October, Dartmouth NS.  Poster.

ANTHROPOSPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA Annual Conference.
10-12 October, Sacramento CA  Details

THE MYSTERY JOURNEY OF JOHANNES AND MARIA.  Highlights from Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas.  2 November, 2:30pm, Novalis Hall, Angus.  Poster.

ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN CANADA.  Annual members meeting and annual Classholders Conference, 15-18 May, 2015, 
Thornhill, ON.  Details TBA
2016 Conference...
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WORLD MOVEMENT
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