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Branch Library For information, to take out a book or to arrange a visit, contact Valerie Hope, portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com The Book Catalog is now on our website – the ‘search’ function is really helpful. You can now return books at any time to the box on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave. To schedule the space for an event or meeting Contact James Knight, j365@yahoo.com Contact the Branch Council: portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com Website: portlandbranch.net |
| | | | Contents and Calendar: The Lives of the Two Marys with The Madonna Series Dec. 1 at 4pm, Bothmer Hall. Please see flyer. Holy Nights and Epiphany Dec.26, 2pm-4pm, Jan 1st, 2pm-4pm, Jan 6th, 6pm-8:30pm Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back. Portland Branch Council Meeting Monday, December 9th, 6:30 pm, Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back. All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. Please contact us at info@portlandbranch.net to let us know you are coming. Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month. Council Members In the Spirit of Giving Portland Biodynamic Stirrers Library News Local Artists Highlighted Priest Visit to Portland Community Fri. Dec 6th, 7pm Sat December 7th, 9:30am Children’s Program, 10:30 am Consecration of the Human Being (see flyer) Shephards’ Christmas Play Dec. 20th, 5pm Dec. 21st, 1pm Bothmer Hall, 5195 SE Division St. Portland Classes offered through Portland Eurythmy Renaissance Portraits with Valerie Miles Micha-el Institute, Foundation In-Person Course On-going study/groups
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| |  | | AN INVITATION FOR THE HOLY NIGHTS AND EPIPHANY
May we seek to acquire the calm steady wisdom that gives birth to The Christ within. |
|  | December 26th, 2 pm - 4:00 pm January 1st, 2 pm - 4:00 pm January 6th, 6 pm - 8:30 pm
We will be inspired by readings leading up to Epiphany. On Epiphany we will have an artistic activity to reflect your souls deepening out of your Holy Nights experiences. Light snacks and beverages will be had on this day as well as community, laughter, and comradery. We will have eurythmy lead by James Knight each session.
Branch Library/Community Space 5415 SE Powell Blvd. Entrance off parking lot in the back.
Please let us know if you are attending. We want to have enough copies of the lecture available. |
| | | In The Spirit of Giving
Giving encompasses and uses all parts of ourselves including our head, our heart, and hands to make a positive difference in our community. With this gesture, in freedom, we have what Maya Angelo says, "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
We ask you now, in love and kindness, to help your Portland Branch complete the $4,000 matching grant generously offered for our operational expenses including rent, website, and branch sponsored events. We still have approximately $2,400 to go before the end of the year. To use the full amount of this gift, we must match it with funds so freely given by our members and patrons.
The opportunity to give is just a click away using the link below.
Merry Christmas and may the Holy Nights nourish your souls! |
| | | THE PORTLAND BRANCH Who are the council members of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophic Society in America? We realized recently that as new members arrive our membership may not be apprised. The dedication, inspiring work, and hours devoted to planning events, keeping the library up to date, cleaning house, bookkeeping, the newsletter, and managing the website and the space is enormous.
Valerie Hope - President Walter Rice - Secretary James Knight - Treasurer Kathy Rem - Newsletter Timothy Kennedy - Member Denis Tester - BD organizer Pamela Rico - Member
Mark Hope - Bookkeeper
Many hands make it easier and gratitude goes out to these members as well as the volunteers whose tasks round out a community of family.
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| |  | The Portland Biodynamic Stirrers |
| November 9ths Horn manure stirring (BD 500) was, once again, a festive event. Watching the transformation from beginning to end was like an artistic activity. The alchemy that is visually present astounds the eye in such a way that the souls involved cannot deny the presence of Spirit. The next stirring will be determined. Please contact Denise Tester at deeprootsfarm@harbornet.com if you would like to be included. |
|  | | |  | If you have outstanding books it would be helpful to complete the process. We ask that you return them if you are finished. They can be returned 24/7 to the book box located on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave. Portland, Or. Books can be checked out during all our events. For more information you can call Valerie Hope at 503-775-0778 |
| | LOCAL ARTISTS HIGHLIGHTED
“It is none other than the sense granted us for the appreciation of art; the artistic sense can transmit to us spirit shining in matter, and revealed as the beauty we appreciate in art.” Rudolf Steiner
Every month, it is my intention to bring to you a piece of art by local artists. All artists in any medium are encouraged to email me at kathyrem@gmail.com and to use this opportunity to share your art with us.
Unification by Pablo Feliz |
|  | This is a drawing made as a study about the unification power of Christ connecting human streams that are wrapped up with either the Luciferic or Ahrimanic forces, which have the effect of separation. This is still a topic I am new to, but I wanted to explore our bias toward these forces and the role of Christ in overcoming them. |
| | | | |  |  |  |  |  | | | | First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. December 8. 9:30 am sharp • (no admittance after the class starts) • Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St. • Remember your Blue Card. For more information contact: Cheri Munske cherimunske@gmail.com, Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or Rebecca Soloway rrsoloway1@gmail.com
Please join us to celebrate Advent. We will read “The Pre Earthly Deeds of Christ “GA 152. Saturday November 30, 4:30 PM Sunday December 8-15-22, 4:30 PM 3135 NE 17th Ave. Please RSVP (971) 219-5567
Foundation Stone Study Group The Foundation Stone Group is beginning a new study with the book The Christmas Foundation; Beginning of a New Cosmic Age, by Rudolf Grosse. The group meets each Thursday at 7 pm • If you would like to join in, contact Valerie at valerieannhpdx@aol.com, 503-775-0778 The author’s purpose was “to learn to see Rudolf Steiner within the overall process of world history…enthusiasm and new impulses will be born out of encountering and experiencing the nature of the Christmas Conference.”
Community Eurythmy Wednesday mornings from 8:45 to 9:30 at the Portland Waldorf School
Astrosophy Class First and Third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St. • Contact Diane Rumage, 971-271-7479 drumage@comcast.net This class will introduce participants to the basic principles of Astrosophy in a study of the works of Willi Sucher and Diane Rumage’s work with the stars, with indications that Rudolf Steiner gave for those interested in the cosmos. No previous knowledge necessary. Please bring blank paper and colored pencils to the class in case we need to use them. If you are just curious if you’d be interested, please feel free to come and check us out. Free
Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, (GA 175). Ten lectures given in Berlin between March 27, 1917 and May 8, 1917 by Rudolf Steiner • First Monday of the month, 7:00-8:30 pm • Currently conducted in person and on Zoom • Contact Heidi Sheppard, HSHEPPAR@LHS.ORG Free Please join us for lively discussions.
Speech Formation and Mystery Drama Group 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St, Portland, OR 97220 • Contact Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or 971 271-7479. Free. No experience necessary, just enthusiasm and a love of the Word. Besides speech formation and acting exercises, we are currently reading and discussing Rudolf Steiner’s book of lectures, Speech and Drama, copies of which are available in the Branch Library.
The Tarot in Light of Spiritual Science • Presently once per month For more information contact James Knight (j365k@yahoo.com), This is a free class. Registration for the class happens through Meetup (meetup.com) where you can learn more about the class and RSVP at this page: https://www.meetup.com/experiences-in-spiritual-science/. |
| |  | A feature of the newsletter is this Community Bulletin Board, the brainchild of Christine Badura, who now finds that she has time to make it a reality. Community members can post their offerings and/or things they are looking for. To post, please call Christine at 707-494-6741 or email badura88@hotmail.com. Possible categories that can be posted: Housing, Give Aways, Help Wanted/Offered, Announcements, Items Wanted.
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| | Great gratitude to the members and friends whose 2024 memberships and donations make this newsletter and our library/community space possible. For donations and membership please click link below |
|  | | | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | |  | Embryo in Us & Embryo in Motion: Two Seminars with Jaap van der Waal. Two separate DVD sets recorded live in Portland in 2010 & 2017, available only here. These two seminars explore human prenatal development and show how biology is expressing the essence of human spiritual enfoldment. Jaap van der Wal, PhD, MD now retired, was an associate professor for anatomy and embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland. Contact the Portland Branch. |
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