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

NOVEMBER Newsletter/Calendar

Contents:

• All Souls Day

• Portland Biodynamic Stirrers

• Library News

• October 2024 National Society Conference

• Classes offered through Portland Eurythmy

• Renaissance Portraits with Valerie Miles

• Celtic Knots with Timothy Kennedy

• The Lives of the Two Mary’s with The Madonna Series

• Micha-el Institute, The Being of the World of Man

• Micha-el Institute, Foundation In-Person Course

Lecture Link

The Portland Biodynamic Stirrers

You are invited to join the Portland Stirrers and Spreaders for their next stir party on Saturday November 9th at 1 pm. Fair weather only. We will be stirring horn manure (BD 500). Please contact Denise Tester for more details at deeprootsfarm@harbornet.com.

Library Update

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

Step Into a Modern Esoteric Stream!

The Annual Anthroposophical Society in America, along with our Portland Branch, had a highly successful event. People from all over the states, Canada, and Europe joined us for a moving interaction with inspiring initiatives, thoughtful offerings, and many inciteful talks. New friends were made and old friends reunited. We found ourselves in a community of Anthroposophia.

Many thanks go out to all those who volunteered, and there were many of you!

Here are some pictures of the event and the pages in the traveling dodecahedron book that will be in Chili next and then on to Germany. We give our overwhelming gratitude to all those who helped finance the shipping.

Timothy Kennedy took a tour group to The Grotto, also known as the National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother.

Marc Desaules brought this verse to share with us all.

Thou Spirit of mine earthly realm,

Unveil thou the light of thine age

To the Christ-begifted soul,

That striving it can thee find

In the choir of the spheres of peace

Resounding with light and night

Of the sense of one dedicated to Christ.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

PORTLAND BRANCH CALENDAR

All Souls Remembrance Saturday, November 2nd, 7pm,  Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back.

Portland Branch Council Meeting   Monday, November 14th, 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’re coming. Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month.

The Lives of the Two Marys, accompanied by the Madonna Series - Dec. 1 at 4:00 - Bothmer Hall. Please see flyer 

ON-GOING STUDIES/GROUPS

First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. November 10th. 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

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 newer 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.

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      

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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.