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The Poor Also Have the Right to Buy and Sell
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21st Mar 2013; 18:00 @ The RSA
RSA Keynote
Like the spring season the Arab Spring augurs trees full of fruit.
But that’s where the comparison stops: nature can make apples grow on trees ready to be picked and eaten without human intervention; but political opportunities for change that arise from popular uprisings cannot fructify unless someone figures out what frustrations made millions of Arabs so unhappy that they took to the streets, so that governments can address them.
At the RSA, influential economist and president of the Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), Hernando de Soto will share the latest findings from ILD research into the economic causes of the on-going Arab revolutions. Hernando de Soto argues that there is now compelling evidence to claim that the Arab Spring was rooted in the desire among millions of people throughout the Middle East and North Africa region for a modern market-based economy.
Speaker: Hernando de Soto (@ReadingSignals), president, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Chair: Rohan Silva, senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister at No 10 Downing Street
Big thanks for image post-production assistance from Corinna Linzas - Follow Corinna's photo stream on Facebook and Twitter.
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
The Poor Also Have the Right to Buy and Sell
www.thersa.org/events/our-events/the-poor-also-have-the-r...
21st Mar 2013; 18:00 @ The RSA
RSA Keynote
Like the spring season the Arab Spring augurs trees full of fruit.
But that’s where the comparison stops: nature can make apples grow on trees ready to be picked and eaten without human intervention; but political opportunities for change that arise from popular uprisings cannot fructify unless someone figures out what frustrations made millions of Arabs so unhappy that they took to the streets, so that governments can address them.
At the RSA, influential economist and president of the Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), Hernando de Soto will share the latest findings from ILD research into the economic causes of the on-going Arab revolutions. Hernando de Soto argues that there is now compelling evidence to claim that the Arab Spring was rooted in the desire among millions of people throughout the Middle East and North Africa region for a modern market-based economy.
Speaker: Hernando de Soto (@ReadingSignals), president, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Chair: Rohan Silva, senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister at No 10 Downing Street
Big thanks for image post-production assistance from Corinna Linzas - Follow Corinna's photo stream on Facebook and Twitter.
The Poor Also Have the Right to Buy and Sell
www.thersa.org/events/our-events/the-poor-also-have-the-r...
21st Mar 2013; 18:00 @ The RSA
RSA Keynote
Like the spring season the Arab Spring augurs trees full of fruit.
But that’s where the comparison stops: nature can make apples grow on trees ready to be picked and eaten without human intervention; but political opportunities for change that arise from popular uprisings cannot fructify unless someone figures out what frustrations made millions of Arabs so unhappy that they took to the streets, so that governments can address them.
At the RSA, influential economist and president of the Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), Hernando de Soto will share the latest findings from ILD research into the economic causes of the on-going Arab revolutions. Hernando de Soto argues that there is now compelling evidence to claim that the Arab Spring was rooted in the desire among millions of people throughout the Middle East and North Africa region for a modern market-based economy.
Speaker: Hernando de Soto (@ReadingSignals), president, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Chair: Rohan Silva, senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister at No 10 Downing Street
Big thanks for image post-production assistance from Corinna Linzas - Follow Corinna's photo stream on Facebook and Twitter.
Linda Bruins of Thunder Bay helped establish Evergreen in 2005, a United Way community project aimed at promoting a safer community. She works with youth who are at risk of gang and drug influence, and is also an active volunteer with the PARO Centre, an organization that helps women across Northern Ontario to start, grow or build new business opportunities.
Linda Bruins (Thunder Bay) a participé à la fondation d’Evergreen en 2005. Evergreen est un projet communautaire de Centraide axé sur la promotion d’une plus grande sécurité communautaire. Elle travaille avec des jeunes qui risquent de tomber sous la coupe de bandes de rue ou de devenir toxicomanes, et elle est également une bénévole active auprès de PARO Centre, un organisme qui aide les femmes du Nord de l’Ontario à créer leur propre entreprise, à la faire fructifier ou à profiter de nouvelles possibilités d’affaires.
Hace unos días encontré sobre un tronco de Eucalyptus un plasmodio amarillo, con especímenes inmaduros en proceso de fructificación. Ha resultado ser Physarum flavicomum, muy común sobre eucaliptos en la zona arenas del sur de Huelva. Es una especie que fructifica bastante fácilmente en "cautiverio", todo el plasmodio se convirtió en pocas horas en estructuras amarillas y en un día todo eran Physarum correctamente madurados. Fotografías realizadas con el teléfono móvil, microscopio y objetivo Laowa 25 mm. Utilizando en algunos casos carril macro Stackshot y posteriormente Zerene Stacker para el apilado.
A few days ago I found on a trunk of Eucalyptus a yellow plasmodium, with immature specimens in the process of fruiting. It has turned out to be Physarum flavicomum, very common on eucalyptus trees in the sands area of southern Huelva. It is a species that fructifies quite easily in "captivity", all the plasmodium became in a few hours in yellow structures and in one day everything was Physarum properly matured. Photographs taken with the mobile phone, microscope and Laowa lens 25 mm. Using in some cases macro lane Stackshot and later Zerene Stacker for stacking.
Bonares Huelva España
Diciembre 2018
Day 62 of 365, Friday, July 13, 2012 ----------------------------------------------
A very kind and unusually perceptive Flickr contact gave me what might seem like an unlikely tip – Elmira! I had an appointment in Vacaville today, so on the way home I took a short detour to this rural town on the east side of Solano County, Northern California. My photostream today includes a few of the images I brought home.
I have been interested in the history of Solano County and purchased a book published in 1879. In part, this is what the author had to say about Elmira:
The site was originally the property of Stephen Hoyt, who laid out the plat of the city and filed it for record October 20, 1868. “Comparatively speaking, not an inch of it is there but what will fructify and produce . . . The thriving little town on the line of the California Pacific Railroad, formerly called Vaca Station, was renamed after the City of Elmira, in the State of New York . . . The population is about 500.”
It is interesting to note that the 2010 United States Census reported that Elmira had a population of 188.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmira,_California
History source:
History of Solano County : comprising an account of its geographical position, the origin of its name, topography, geology, and springs, its organization, township system, early settlement, with descriptions of scenes as viewed by the pioneers, the first American argonauts of California, the bear flag, the discovery of gold, the progress of population and agriculture, the Mexican grants, the principal murders, incidents of settlement, elections, and table of county officers, and histories of its cities, towns, villages churches, schools, secret societies, etc. : as also, a full and particular biography of its early settlers and principal inhabitants. San Francisco, Calif., Wood, Alley & Co.. 1879.
Hace unos días encontré sobre un tronco de Eucalyptus un plasmodio amarillo, con especímenes inmaduros en proceso de fructificación. Ha resultado ser Physarum flavicomum, muy común sobre eucaliptos en la zona arenas del sur de Huelva. Es una especie que fructifica bastante fácilmente en "cautiverio", todo el plasmodio se convirtió en pocas horas en estructuras amarillas y en un día todo eran Physarum correctamente madurados. Fotografías realizadas con el teléfono móvil, microscopio y objetivo Laowa 25 mm. Utilizando en algunos casos carril macro Stackshot y posteriormente Zerene Stacker para el apilado.
A few days ago I found on a trunk of Eucalyptus a yellow plasmodium, with immature specimens in the process of fruiting. It has turned out to be Physarum flavicomum, very common on eucalyptus trees in the sands area of southern Huelva. It is a species that fructifies quite easily in "captivity", all the plasmodium became in a few hours in yellow structures and in one day everything was Physarum properly matured. Photographs taken with the mobile phone, microscope and Laowa lens 25 mm. Using in some cases macro lane Stackshot and later Zerene Stacker for stacking.
Bonares Huelva España
Diciembre 2018
En esta temporada tan extraña que estamos teniendo, con altas temperaturas y ausencia de lluvias prácticamente habían desaparecido las "setas" de nuestros montes y bosques. Sin embargo aquí en la Sierra de Huelva, las precipitaciones han vuelto, no de manera contundente, pero si lo suficiente como para que vuelvan a fructificar algunas especies, veremos hasta donde llega esta nueva eclosión.
In this strange season we're having, with high temperatures and no rain had virtually disappeared "mushrooms" of our mountains and forests. But here in the Sierra de Huelva, rainfall has become, not forcefully, but if enough to return to fructify some species, will see the future of this new hatch.
Aracena Huelva España
Enero 2016
The letter Y represents the Rebis (Two-thing), that is, the unification of male and female principles in the androgyne. In general it is the unification of all opposites. It is also associated with Janus, as the god present at the fork in the road. The Y (like a similarly shaped hieroglyph) is also a feminine sign, thereby reflecting the apparently female sex of the dancer. (Cooper s.v. Y; Liungman 109) Of course, Y is derived from the Greek upsilon (U), the meanings of which have already been listed: Hugies (Wholesome, Authentic), Hustatos (Utmost) and Hupsos (Height), all attributes of 21.World. In an engraving from Michael Maier's Symbola Aureae Mensae (1617) we see Albertus Magnus pointing to an alchemical androgyne holding the letter Y. Zola (42) explains, "The Y is, as Philo taught, the symbol of the Word which pierces the essence of being. The Nassine Gnostics taught that it represented the intimate nature of being, which is male and female and, as such, eternal."
The Y also appears in a variant of the Chinese Tai-Kih (i.e., the T'ai Chi T'u, the familiar Yin-Yang), which is a symbol of the Great Uniter: a circle divided by triple arcs, often with the arc from above touching the double arc of the Yin-Yang, and thus representing its unification. Goldsmith (49) says this symbol, "expresses the completest and highest creative force. Thus the universe being made up of opposites was brought into fructifying union by the Tai-Kih." She goes on to quote Brinton on the symbol: "Abstractly the latter [the T'ai-Chi] would be regarded as the synthesis of the two universal antitheses which make up all phenomena." (Goldsmith 48-9)
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic dephs of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of every one who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the woolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
PUTHRA KAMESHTI SANTHANA GOPALA HOMAM/HAVA
Homam/havan for being pregnant, to conceive & beget kids.
Puthra kamesti santhana gopala homam/havan is devoted to lord mahavishnu. None other than lord maha vishnu himself bestowed information of this homa on sanatkumara, who in flip told this to sage bodhayana. It is stated in the suta samhita. Overall performance of this homam/havan as ordained in atharvana veda fructifies begetting kids, redeeming of all paternal inherited doshas and blessed with vibrant and extended healthful life with the benefits of narayana. Vibandaka maharishi's son rishya singar changed into the only who helped king dasharatha conduct the putra kameshti yagam which resulted inside the beginning of raama. onlinehavan.in/havan-homam-for-pregnancy-to-concieve-bege...
Hace unos días encontré sobre un tronco de Eucalyptus un plasmodio amarillo, con especímenes inmaduros en proceso de fructificación. Ha resultado ser Physarum flavicomum, muy común sobre eucaliptos en la zona arenas del sur de Huelva. Es una especie que fructifica bastante fácilmente en "cautiverio", todo el plasmodio se convirtió en pocas horas en estructuras amarillas y en un día todo eran Physarum correctamente madurados. Fotografías realizadas con el teléfono móvil, microscopio y objetivo Laowa 25 mm. Utilizando en algunos casos carril macro Stackshot y posteriormente Zerene Stacker para el apilado.
A few days ago I found on a trunk of Eucalyptus a yellow plasmodium, with immature specimens in the process of fruiting. It has turned out to be Physarum flavicomum, very common on eucalyptus trees in the sands area of southern Huelva. It is a species that fructifies quite easily in "captivity", all the plasmodium became in a few hours in yellow structures and in one day everything was Physarum properly matured. Photographs taken with the mobile phone, microscope and Laowa lens 25 mm. Using in some cases macro lane Stackshot and later Zerene Stacker for stacking.
Bonares Huelva España
Diciembre 2018
The Poor Also Have the Right to Buy and Sell
www.thersa.org/events/our-events/the-poor-also-have-the-r...
21st Mar 2013; 18:00 @ The RSA
RSA Keynote
Like the spring season the Arab Spring augurs trees full of fruit.
But that’s where the comparison stops: nature can make apples grow on trees ready to be picked and eaten without human intervention; but political opportunities for change that arise from popular uprisings cannot fructify unless someone figures out what frustrations made millions of Arabs so unhappy that they took to the streets, so that governments can address them.
At the RSA, influential economist and president of the Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), Hernando de Soto will share the latest findings from ILD research into the economic causes of the on-going Arab revolutions. Hernando de Soto argues that there is now compelling evidence to claim that the Arab Spring was rooted in the desire among millions of people throughout the Middle East and North Africa region for a modern market-based economy.
Speaker: Hernando de Soto (@ReadingSignals), president, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Chair: Rohan Silva, senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister at No 10 Downing Street
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Brooklyn, Michigan
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.
- Kahlil Gibran
This is a photo of Holly and her father walking down the aisle!
The ancient Egyptians did not worship the River Nile as a deity but personified the fructifying annual flood as the god Hapy. The Greeks and Romans on the other hand did worship rivers which they personified as older gods representing them with full heads of long locks and flowing beards and mustaches, often depicted, as here, reclining. Several details allude to the role of the River Nile personified as Nilus, the source of bounty and prosperity. These details include his corpulent body and the two attributes he holds. The cornucopia symbolizes abundance in general and the stalks of wheat refer in particular to Egypt’s role as the bread basket of the ancient world. The association of Nilus with the agricultural bounty of the land is furthered stressed by the presence of the lotus buds which adorn the fillet in his hair. The annual flooding of the Nile was measured in cubits, each of which might be personified as a nude male child, but here they are collectively represented by a single boy. The presence of a hippopotamus on which Nilus rests his left elbow visually reinforces his identification.
Marble
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 2nd cent. CE
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, El-Mehamara (Sidi Bishr
(29448)
Graeco-Roman Museum
Alexandria Egypt
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
le résultat de " mon test" ...
Vous possédez l’ouverture au ressenti sans vous soumettre pour autant, béat(e), à vos émotions. Vous avez de belles qualités de cœur qu’il s’agit encore de faire fructifier sans nier votre libre-arbitre en toute chose et toute situation. Vous possédez en vous les deux qualités Yin et Yang que vous cherchez à équilibrer. Ce chemin est souvent fait d’obstacles qui sont autant d’occasions pour vous de progresser. Peut-être, faut-il que vous portiez plus d’attention d’amour à votre côté Yang afin qu’il existe en toute chose.
You have openess with felt without you to subject for as much, happy, with your emotions. You have beautiful qualities of heart that is still to make bear fruit without denying your free-referee in any thing and any situation. You have in you two qualities Yin and Yang which you seek to balance. This way is often made obstacles which is occasions for you as much to progress. Perhaps, it is necessary that you carry more attention of love to your Yang side so that exists in any thing.
www.spiritsoleil.com/boutiques_micro/astronews/test_yin-y...
I have been out in woods today and taken a few more photographs of fungi before the threat of a cold snap fructifies next week.
Have attempted to name these fungi BUT if I am incorrect please ley me know.
Narora is home to one of the India' network of nuclear power plants, operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), a public sector undertaking under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India . Its twin reactors are an Indianised version of the Canadian CANDU-Type reactors, which operate on natural uranium as fuel and heavey water as the moderator-cum-primary coolant. This is one of the reactors for which fuel would be procured from U.S.A., if and when the ongoing (as of 2008) negotiations between the two countries fructify.
Info from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narora"
Cultivada en el Jardín Botánico de Iturraran, procedente de Valdenuño Fernandez, Guadalajara.
Sinónimos: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Ex Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Hierbas perennes glabras. Rizoma horizontal u oblicuo, alargado y sin restos fibrosos. Raíces con tubérculos radicales largos, fusiformes, desarrollados a menos de 8 cm del rizoma. Tallos de 80-250 cm, lisos. Catafilos membranáceos pardos. Hojas planas, más o menos aquilladas, de hasta 70 cm de largo x 3 cm de ancho, insertas espiralmente. Inflorescencia en racimo compuesto con 5-16 ramas de 11-45 (60) cm, erecto patentes, las inferiores ramificadas. Tépalos 11-16 x 2,5-5 cm, de oblongos a oblongo-elípticos, caedizos en la fructificación. Estambres de 10-15 mm, algo más largos que los tépalos. Ovario apenas hundido en el receptáculo. Cápsula de 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoide, con el ápice obtuso, rodeada en la parte inferior por un anillo formado por los restos de la base del perianto, de color verde brillante, viscosa. Vive en claros de bosques de quercíneas y pinares, en matorrales y pastizales, sobre distintos tipos de suelos, se encuentra desde los 0 a 1250 m de altitud. Especie nativa del centro y oeste de la Península Ibérica (España y Portugal). En Iturraran se encuentra en la zona1.
Synonyms: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Former Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Glabrous perennial herbs. Horizontal or oblique rhizome, elongated and without fibrous remains. Roots with long, fusiform radical tubercles, developed less than 8 cm from the rhizome. Stems 80-250 cm, smooth. Brown membranaceous cataphylls. Leaves flat, more or less keeled, up to 70 cm long x 3 cm wide, spirally inserted. Inflorescence in a compound raceme with 5-16 branches of 11-45 (60) cm, erect, patent, the lower ones branched. Tepals 11-16 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong to oblong-elliptic, deciduous when fructifying. Stamens 10-15 mm, somewhat longer than the tepals. Ovary just sunk into the receptacle. Capsule 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoid, with an obtuse apex, surrounded at the bottom by a ring formed by the remains of the base of the perianth, bright green, slimy. It lives in clearings of oak and pine forests, in bushes and grasslands, on different types of soils, it is found from 0 to 1250 m above sea level. Species native to the center and west of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). In Iturraran it is in area 1.
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
The Wedded Life
by T A Ramesh
Friendships can be fixed in the human world
Marriages may be made in the heaven above
But, love blooms like a bolt from the blue,
Though friendship, love and marriage are linked in life.
Love is the mother, and knowledge is the father
While love inspires, knowledge guides everyone
Love and knowledge in unity fulfils life's destiny
Without love and knowledge will there be human perfection?
Marriage is a must for harmonious human life in the world
Perhaps man learnt about joint family life from the forest elephants
Representatives of all stages of joint family live together
But nuclear families have broken away for material benefits now.
Can money buy all the cares, company and affection of a joint family?
Can lovesickness and affection last longer in the nuclear family?
Not at all, if the nuclear families or love marriages don't have friends.
Even if friends are there, can they substitute joint family members?
Peace, love and brotherhood every religion preaches in the world
Education, job and congenial society are needed for a good life
Through friendship, if love fructifies into marriage, it is the best life
That can be enjoyed for harmonious human perfection only in a joint family.
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
Típica especie nivícola de Myxomycete, estas especies necesitan a que la nieve cubra al menos tres meses el lugar en que luego se desarrollan. Tras el deshielo de la nieve y con condiciones adecuadas (por desgracia este año no se han dado), fructifican de manera masiva sobre sustratos varios tanto de vegetales vivos como restos de los mismo.
Typical nivicola kind of myxomycete, these species need the snow cover at least three months place where they after develop. After the melting of snow and suitable conditions (unfortunately this year have not occurred), fructify massively on various vegetables substrates (Living and death vegetables).
Valle Ellero Italia, Alpes Marítimos.
Típica especie nivícola de Myxomycete, estas especies necesitan a que la nieve cubra al menos tres meses el lugar en que luego se desarrollan. Tras el deshielo de la nieve y con condiciones adecuadas (por desgracia este año no se han dado), fructifican de manera masiva sobre sustratos varios tanto de vegetales vivos como restos de los mismo.
Typical nivicola kind of myxomycete, these species need the snow cover at least three months place where they after develop. After the melting of snow and suitable conditions (unfortunately this year have not occurred), fructify massively on various vegetables substrates (Living and death vegetables).
Valle Ellero Italia, Alpes Marítimos.
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.
Kahlil Gibran
En esta temporada tan extraña que estamos teniendo, con altas temperaturas y ausencia de lluvias prácticamente habían desaparecido las "setas" de nuestros montes y bosques. Sin embargo aquí en la Sierra de Huelva, las precipitaciones han vuelto, no de manera contundente, pero si lo suficiente como para que vuelvan a fructificar algunas especies, veremos hasta donde llega esta nueva eclosión.
In this strange season we're having, with high temperatures and no rain had virtually disappeared "mushrooms" of our mountains and forests. But here in the Sierra de Huelva, rainfall has become, not forcefully, but if enough to return to fructify some species, will see the future of this new hatch.
Aracena Huelva España
Enero 2016
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
Típica especie nivícola de Myxomycete, estas especies necesitan a que la nieve cubra al menos tres meses el lugar en que luego se desarrollan. Tras el deshielo de la nieve y con condiciones adecuadas (por desgracia este año no se han dado), fructifican de manera masiva sobre sustratos varios tanto de vegetales vivos como restos de los mismo.
Typical nivicola kind of myxomycete, these species need the snow cover at least three months place where they after develop. After the melting of snow and suitable conditions (unfortunately this year have not occurred), fructify massively on various vegetables substrates (Living and death vegetables).
Valle Ellero Italia, Alpes Marítimos.
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
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CONFIRMED: Padmavati is on schedule, will release on time
There are doomsday reports in sections of the nosier media announcing that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s opus won’t release on time because of the workers’ strike. “Wishful thinking on the part of those who hope to jump in with their own films on November 17,” is how a source close to the Padmavati team describes these reports. “They are very much on schedule. In fact they would have completed the film had Shahid Kapoor and Deepika Padukone not chosen to go away on their family vacations just when the last lap of the shooting remained.”
Apparently Bhansali requested his actors to complete the film before leaving. “But Shahid and Deepika insisted on taking their holiday now. However Padmavati is 95 percent complete. Only some scenes remain. There’s no way the film won’t release on time.”
The producers Viacom 18 Motion Pictures intend to unleash Padmavati in an unprecedented numbers of theatres and screens. “Padmavati will get thrice the number of screens allotted to Viacom 18’s last release Toilet – Ek Prem Katha. In fact it will get the biggest release ever given to a Bollywood film,” says source.
The film will be promoted vigorously by its three principal stars. “But Ranveer and Deepika won’t promote the film together,” reveals the source.
Some over-fertile imaginations claim that Padmavati was first offered to Salman and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and that Salman refused to do the film because he had no scenes with Aishwarya.
Laughing at the conjecture the source close to Bhansali says, “Salman and Aishwarya stopped working together in 2002. There was no Padmavati then. The story fructified in 2008 when Sanjay Bhansali did the opera version in Paris. The film was only offered to Ranveer and Deepika with whom Sanjay had done two other films. Padmavati completes his Ranveer-Deepika trilogy. After this he is unlikely to work with this pair again.”
CONFIRMED: Padmavati is on schedule, will release on time
Ashes of soldiers South or North,
As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes,
And again the advance of the armies.
Noiseless as mists and vapors,
From their graves in the trenches ascending,
From cemeteries all through Virginia and Tennessee,
From every point of the compass out of the countless graves,
In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or
single ones they come,
And silently gather round me.
Now sound no note O trumpeters,
Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah
my brave horsemen!
My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,
With all the perils were yours.)
Nor you drummers, neither at reveille at dawn,
Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for burial,
Nothing from you this time O drummers bearing my warlike drums.
But aside from these and the marts of wealth and the crowded promenade,
Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,
The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead soldiers.
Faces so pale with wondrous eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
Draw close, but speak not.
Phantoms of countless lost,
Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions,
Follow me ever--desert me not while I live.
Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living--sweet are the musical
voices sounding,
But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead with their silent eyes.
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
But love is not over--and what love, O comrades!
Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the foetor arising.
Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers,
Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.
Perfume all--make all wholesome,
Make these ashes to nourish and blossom,
O love, solve all, fructify all with the last chemistry.
Give me exhaustless, make me a fountain,
That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
For the ashes of all dead soldiers South or North.
-Walt Whitman
Fotografiada en Valdenuño-Fernández, Guadalajara, España
Sinónimos: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Ex Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Hierbas perennes glabras. Rizoma horizontal u oblicuo, alargado y sin restos fibrosos. Raíces con tubérculos radicales largos, fusiformes, desarrollados a menos de 8 cm del rizoma. Tallos de 80-250 cm, lisos. Catafilos membranáceos pardos. Hojas planas, más o menos aquilladas, de hasta 70 cm de largo x 3 cm de ancho, insertas espiralmente. Inflorescencia en racimo compuesto con 5-16 ramas de 11-45 (60) cm, erecto patentes, las inferiores ramificadas. Tépalos 11-16 x 2,5-5 cm, de oblongos a oblongo-elípticos, caedizos en la fructificación. Estambres de 10-15 mm, algo más largos que los tépalos. Ovario apenas hundido en el receptáculo. Cápsula de 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoide, con el ápice obtuso, rodeada en la parte inferior por un anillo formado por los restos de la base del perianto, de color verde brillante, viscosa. Vive en claros de bosques de quercíneas y pinares, en matorrales y pastizales, sobre distintos tipos de suelos, se encuentra desde los 0 a 1250 m de altitud. Especie nativa del centro y oeste de la Península Ibérica (España y Portugal). En Iturraran se encuentra en la zona1.
Synonyms: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Former Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Glabrous perennial herbs. Horizontal or oblique rhizome, elongated and without fibrous remains. Roots with long, fusiform radical tubercles, developed less than 8 cm from the rhizome. Stems 80-250 cm, smooth. Brown membranaceous cataphylls. Leaves flat, more or less keeled, up to 70 cm long x 3 cm wide, spirally inserted. Inflorescence in a compound raceme with 5-16 branches of 11-45 (60) cm, erect, patent, the lower ones branched. Tepals 11-16 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong to oblong-elliptic, deciduous when fructifying. Stamens 10-15 mm, somewhat longer than the tepals. Ovary just sunk into the receptacle. Capsule 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoid, with an obtuse apex, surrounded at the bottom by a ring formed by the remains of the base of the perianth, bright green, slimy. It lives in clearings of oak and pine forests, in bushes and grasslands, on different types of soils, it is found from 0 to 1250 m above sea level. Species native to the center and west of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). In Iturraran it is in area 1.
Cultivada en el Jardín Botánico de Iturraran, procedente de Valdenuño Fernandez, Guadalajara.
Sinónimos: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Ex Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Hierbas perennes glabras. Rizoma horizontal u oblicuo, alargado y sin restos fibrosos. Raíces con tubérculos radicales largos, fusiformes, desarrollados a menos de 8 cm del rizoma. Tallos de 80-250 cm, lisos. Catafilos membranáceos pardos. Hojas planas, más o menos aquilladas, de hasta 70 cm de largo x 3 cm de ancho, insertas espiralmente. Inflorescencia en racimo compuesto con 5-16 ramas de 11-45 (60) cm, erecto patentes, las inferiores ramificadas. Tépalos 11-16 x 2,5-5 cm, de oblongos a oblongo-elípticos, caedizos en la fructificación. Estambres de 10-15 mm, algo más largos que los tépalos. Ovario apenas hundido en el receptáculo. Cápsula de 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoide, con el ápice obtuso, rodeada en la parte inferior por un anillo formado por los restos de la base del perianto, de color verde brillante, viscosa. Vive en claros de bosques de quercíneas y pinares, en matorrales y pastizales, sobre distintos tipos de suelos, se encuentra desde los 0 a 1250 m de altitud. Especie nativa del centro y oeste de la Península Ibérica (España y Portugal). En Iturraran se encuentra en la zona1.
Synonyms: Asphodelus apiocarpus Hoffmanns. Former Kunth; Asphodelus pratensis Purr. ex Willk.
Glabrous perennial herbs. Horizontal or oblique rhizome, elongated and without fibrous remains. Roots with long, fusiform radical tubercles, developed less than 8 cm from the rhizome. Stems 80-250 cm, smooth. Brown membranaceous cataphylls. Leaves flat, more or less keeled, up to 70 cm long x 3 cm wide, spirally inserted. Inflorescence in a compound raceme with 5-16 branches of 11-45 (60) cm, erect, patent, the lower ones branched. Tepals 11-16 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong to oblong-elliptic, deciduous when fructifying. Stamens 10-15 mm, somewhat longer than the tepals. Ovary just sunk into the receptacle. Capsule 6-8 (9) x 4m5-6 mm, obovoid, with an obtuse apex, surrounded at the bottom by a ring formed by the remains of the base of the perianth, bright green, slimy. It lives in clearings of oak and pine forests, in bushes and grasslands, on different types of soils, it is found from 0 to 1250 m above sea level. Species native to the center and west of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). In Iturraran it is in area 1.
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
Aracena Huelva España
Octubre 2015
Creo que se puede tratar de esa especie, muy parecida a D. nigripes pero con las esporas más grandes y oscurar. El diámetro de la esporoteca es mayor que la longitud del estípite en la mayoría de los individuos. Fotografías apiladas de disparos realizados con el microscopio y ensambladas con Zerene Stacker. Muestra de herbario, recolectada hace un par de años fructificando sobre hojarasca de encina y acículas de pino.
I think it can be that species, very similar to D. nigripes but with the largest and darkest spores. The diameter of the sporotheca is greater than the length of the stipe in most individuals. Photographs stacked with shots made with the microscope and assembled with Zerene Stacker. Sample of herbarium, harvested a couple of years ago fructifying on oak leaves and pine needles.
Galaroza Huelva España
Noviembre 2015
This is a Blossom of the Brain—
A small—italic Seed
Lodged by Design or Happening
The Spirit fructified—
Shy as the Wind of his Chambers
Swift as a Freshet's Tongue
So of the Flower of the Soul
Its process is unknown.
When it is found, a few rejoice
The Wise convey it Home
Carefully cherishing the spot
If other Flower become.
When it is lost, that Day shall be
The Funeral of God,
Upon his Breast, a closing Soul
The Flower of our Lord.
[Emily Dickinson]
I have been out in woods today and taken a few more photographs of fungi before the threat of a cold snap fructifies next week.
Have attempted to name these fungi BUT if I am incorrect please ley me know. This black fungi was on recently felled timber.
100 years ago Edith Maryon crossed the threshold into the Spiritual world, she was a very close coworker of Rudolf Steiner 🌿
She worked for ten years with Rudolf Steiner on this sculpture, that was finally carved into a nine and a half meter high sculpture. The sculpture can be seen in the 2nd Goetheanum.
„This relationship of the Christ impulse to the Lucifer impulse and the Ahriman impulse is something that humanity will increasingly be able to understand in the near future. Lucifer powers and Ahriman powers hold sway throughout the world; and the human being, through his Christ consciousness, must become like a being sitting in a boat that inevitably rocks back and forth in the storm unleashed by Lucifer and Ahriman but must still find its passage through the ocean- whose living substance consists of Lucifer and Ahriman, but through which, nevertheless, the human being steers his Christ boat.“
Rudolf Steiner, GA 159
The above text is published in Peter Selgs book, titled:
Edith Maryon, Rudolf Steiner and the sculpture of Christ in Dornach.
Templelodge 2022
Fifth Draft by RSteiner
for the sculpture 1915, height 48cm
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THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHA
GA 97
2 December 1906, Cologne
The Mystery of Golgotha is one of the profoundest secrets of the evolution of the world. In order to understand it, we must shed light upon the occult wisdom of thousands of years ago, an the remote past of the world's development. It is not a plausible argument against a more penetrating knowledge of the Mystery of Golgotha to say that the life and work of Christ Jesus should be accessible to the simplest mind. This is indeed the case. But a full, encompassing comprehension of this greatest event on earth must be drawn out of the depths of Mystery-wisdom.
In this lecture we shall penetrate into the depths of Mystery-wisdom in order to understand how an event such as the Mystery of Golgotha could take place. In this connection we should bear in mind that with the appearance of Christ Jesus upon the earth something occurred which divided mankind into two parts. We can grasp this best of all by seeking an answer to the question: Who was Christ Jesus?
For the occultist this question is a double one: For we must distinguish between the personality who lived at that time in Palestine and reached the age of thirty, and what became of him afterwards. In the 30th year of his life Jesus became Christ.
In the case of ordinary people, only insignificant portions of the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body are transformed into Manas, Buddhi and Atma, or into Spirit Self, Life-Spirit and Spirit-Man. Jesus of Nazareth was a Chela of the third degree, and his bodies were therefore in a state of high purification.
When a Chela has absolved the purification of his three bodies, then he acquires at a certain moment of his life the capacity to sacrifice himself. In his 30th year, the Ego of Jesus left his three bodies and passed over into the astral world, so that the three sanctified bodies remained behind on earth, emptied as it were of their Ego, so that room was made for a higher individuality. In the 30th year of his life, the Ego of Jesus of Nazareth made the great sacrifice of placing his purified bodies at the disposal of the individuality of Christ. Christ filled out these bodies. And from that time onwards we speak of Christ-Jesus who lived upon the earth for three years and fulfilled all his great deeds within the body of Jesus.
In order to understand the true being of Christ, we must go far back into the history of the development of the earth and of mankind. Before the earth became Earth, it was the old Moon, and the present moon is only a fragment of the old Moon. Before the Earth was Moon, it was Sun, and at a still earlier stage it was Saturn. We should bear in mind that milliards of years ago there existed in the cosmic spaces a heavenly body, Saturn. Also planets develop through different incarnations: Before the Earth was EARTH, it existed as Saturn, Sun and Moon.
Let us now transfer ourselves upon the Sun. There, the so-called Fire-Spirits had the same rank which human beings now have upon the earth. Of course, they did not have the same appearance, they did not look like men of to-day; these high individualities passed through the human stage upon the Sun under conditions which were quite different from the present human conditions. Also upon the Moon a host of Beings passed through the stage of humanity, and they came down to the Earth as higher Beings, as Lunar Pitris or Moon-Spirits, that had reached a higher stage than that of man upon the Earth. In Christian esotericism they are called Angeloi = Angels. Only upon the Earth the human being became MAN. The Lunar Pitris are Beings one degree higher than man, and above them stand the Fire-Spirits, who are one degree higher than the Lunar Pitris. The Fire-Spirits have reached a very high stage of development.
Now we come to the Earth, to the Lemurian race which lived upon a continent situated between present-day Asia, Africa and Australia. There, man took on his present form through the fact that below, upon the physical earth, there lived highly developed beings, but physical beings, higher than the present animals and less developed than present-day man. These physical beings formed a kind of shell, a dwelling-place and they would have been condemned to decadence had they not been fructified by higher Beings. Only at that time the human souls entered the physical human bodies, and then began to shape the Subsequent form of the human body. In the past, the human soul was an integral part of higher Spiritual Beings. The physical shells of human bodies were upon the earth, and into these streamed the souls of higher Beings coming from above, from the spiritual worlds. In the spiritual worlds the souls were connected like drops of water in a sea, which were then poured into a number of vessels.
The beings who poured out the souls from above were those who had passed through their human stage upon the Moon, the Moon-Spirits, whose stage of development was one degree higher than that of Man so that they could pour one part of their being into mankind, thus enabling it to develop further, Man could then transform his organism more and more. He could lift himself up from the earth and stand upright, he learned to walk, to speak and to become independent.
There was a certain relationship between all these souls, for they came from a common spiritual chorus. All those who had received a drop from the same being, greatly resembled each other. Members, of the same tribe first had such related souls, then the members of a race or nation, for example, the whole Egyptian or the whole Jewish nation. They had souls that had come from a common source. From the Moon-Spirits man had received the Spirit-Self and this enabled him to become an independent being, an Ego.
But something which man could not obtain from the Moon Spirits, could only be given to him by a still higher Being, common to all men, who had already completed its humanity upon the Sun: a Fire-Spirit. Many Fire-spirits had developed upon the Sun and exercised their influence upon the Earth, for they were high spirits. One of these Fire-Spirits was called upon to pour out his being upon the whole of mankind. A Spirit who belonged to the whole Earth was able to pour out over the whole of mankind, into each one of its parts, the element of the Sun or Fire-Spirits, the Buddhi, or the Spirit of Life. But in the Lemurian and in the Atlantean age the human beings were not ripe enough to receive this from the Sun-Spirit.
When we read the Akasha Chronicle (See Rudolf Steiner's bookThe Akasha Chronicle) we find that something very strange took place at that time: The human beings consisted of physical body, etheric body, astral body and Spirit Self, but this only lived in them in a very weak form. The Buddhi or Life-Spirit soared above every human being — it could be perceived in the Akasha spaces. In the astral space every human being was surrounded by Buddhi, but it remained outside and was not strong enough to enter man. This Buddhi was a part of the great Fire Spirit who had poured out his drops on the human beings, but these drops could not enter the human beings.
Christ's deeds on earth gave man the capacity to absorb into his Manas what we designate as Buddhi.
What Christ fulfilled upon the earth, was prepared by other great teachers who had preceded him, by Buddha, by the last Zarathustra, by Pythagoras, who all lived about 600 years before Christ, and who were men who had already absorbed a great deal of what lived in the surroundings of man. They had absorbed the spark of Christ. Also Moses belongs to them. But the Ego of the other people had not yet absorbed this spark.
Into the physical, etheric and astral body of Jesus of Nazareth had entered the whole Fire-Spirit, the one source of all the different sparks that lived in the human beings. This Fire-Spirit is the Christ, the only divine Being who lived on earth in this form. He entered the body of Jesus of Nazareth and as a result, all those who feel united with Christ Jesus are able to absorb Buddhi. The possibility to absorb and take in the Buddhi begins with the appearance of Christ Jesus. St. John the Evangelist designates it as the Divine Creative Word. The Fire-Spirit that poured his sparks into men is this Divine Creative Word.
As a result, the following took place: Whereas the Moon-Spirits could create differentiated tribes among men by sending down their drops, Christ was a uniting Spirit for the whole earth, and the human beings were thus united into a family all over the world. Whereas the differentiations among men were brought about by the drops poured out by the different Moon-Spirits, the unity among men was brought about by the Spirit poured out by Christ Jesus. What unites men came down to the earth through Christ Jesus.
When speaking of the last Judgement, Christ says in his prophecy: “When the Son of Man shall Come in his glory” (he means by this: when the drops of Christ shall all have entered into the human beings, when all shall have become brothers) “he shall say unto them on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungred and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink.” (St. Matthew 25, 35) Then the only difference among men will be that between good and evil.
Christ says to His disciples: “What ye have done unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done unto me.” This signifies: Christ Jesus indicates the time when the drops poured out by Him will all be absorbed, so that when one man faces another, this drop of Christ within him will face the drop of Christ in the other. The power whereby the Buddhi could be called into life in man, this power went out from the life of Christ upon the earth. We should therefore look upon Christ as the uniting Spirit of the Earth.
If we could look down upon the earth from a distant star, through an epoch of many thousands of years, we would find a moment when Christ was active on the earth, so that the whole astral substance of the earth was permeated by Christ. Christ is the Spirit of the Earth, and the Earth is His Body. Everything that grows upon the earth is Christ. He lives in every seed, in every tree, all that grows upon the earth. That is why Christ indicated the bread and said: “This is my Body.” And of the juice of the grapes (at the LAST SUPPER the juice of grapes was passed round, not fermented wine) he had to say: “This is my Blood,” for the juice of the fruits of the earth is his blood. Consequently mankind must appear to him like beings who walk about upon his body. That is why he told his disciples after having washed their feet: “He that eateth bread with me, lifts up his heel against me.” (Treads on me). This must be taken literally, in the meaning that the earth is the body of Christ Jesus. Because he took upon himself the evolution of the earth, a distant spiritual being might see that more and more of Christ's spirit flows into the human beings; the single drops of Christ Jesus penetrate into the individual human beings. Finally the whole earth will be peopled by transformed, Christianised men, by men who have become divine through Christ. Only those who do not participate in this, will be put aside as evil; they must wait for a later time in order to follow a course of development leading to goodness.
All the different nations had Mysteries, before Christ appeared on earth. The Mysteries revealed what was to take place in the future. After a long training, the pupils had to undergo a preparation which consisted in a sepulchre. The hierophant was thus able to transfer the pupil into a higher state of consciousness which made his body lie inert in a kind of deep slumber. In ancient times, the consciousness always had to be abated in order that the divine essence might enter man. In this lowered state of consciousness, the soul was led through the spheres of the spiritual world and after three days the hierophant called the pupil back into life. Through this experience he felt that he had become a new man and he obtained a new name. He was called Son of God. The whole process took place upon the physical plane, when Christ appeared and passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. In the ancient initiations the life-drops of Christ's spirit first called the pupils back into life and they were told: “He who will Christianize all men, will appear one day. And He will truly be the Incarnated Word. You can only experience this for three days, when you travel through the kingdoms of heaven; but One will come, Who will bring the Kingdoms of Heaven down to the physical world.”
The Initiate experienced upon the astral plane what Christ lived through upon the physical plane, namely that from the very beginning there existed a Divine Word that poured out its drops over the human beings; but the Ego-men could not absorb these drops. St. John, the herald of the Christianized Ego-man who has taken in the Christ, or the Word, reveals this. St. John speaks of the Word that existed upon the earth from the very beginning:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.
In him was life and the life was the light of men.
And the light shone in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not the light-, but a witness of the Light.
For the true Light that lighteth every man was to come into the world.
He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not.
He came to each man (to the individual Ego-man) but the individual men (the Ego-men) received him not.
But as many as received him, to them he gave power to manifest themselves as children of God.
Those who believe in his name, are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we have heard his teaching, the teaching of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.
The word “grace” in verse 14 has for St. John the same meaning as Buddhi; “truth” is Manas, the Spirit-Self.
John bare witness of him and cried saying: This was he of whom I spoke. After me cometh one who existed before me. For he is my predecessor.
And of his fullness have we all received grace upon grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath at any time seen God with eyes. The only begotten Son who lived in the bosom of the Cosmic Father hath become our guide in this vision.
[Dr.Rudolf Steiner's rendering of the text.]
All initiations into the Mystery of the Spirit pointed to the coming of Christ Jesus. This initiation was attained in the Yoga sleep, in the Orphic sleep, in the Hermes sleep. When the initiate woke up again and returned into his body, so that he could again hear and speak with his physical senses, he uttered the words which are rendered as follows in the Hebrew language: “Eli, Eli, lama sabathani.” The pupil of the Mysteries woke up with the words: “My God, My God, how thou hast raised me!”
This was the initiation during the ancient Jewish epoch. During his three days' sojourn in the higher worlds, the initiate experienced the whole course of mankind's future development, all that awaited him in the future development of humanity. As a rule, these future stages of human development were not perceived abstractly in his vision.. Each stage was represented by a personality. The seer saw twelve individualities. They represented twelve stages of soul-development. The soul-forces thus appeared in the external form of twelve persons. At a certain moment, the initiate saw a certain scene: His own individuality became transfigured — the stage which the whole of humanity will reach when it shall be filled by Buddhi, when it shall be Christianized. He identified himself with God and behind him he saw the twelve soul-forces. John was immediately behind, he was the last of the twelve who announced his fulfilment. And he saw himself transfigured, he saw the stage which he would reach when perfection will be attained; he saw his soul-forces in the external form of persons, and perceived St. John, the herald of the Christ-stage of development. During the Yoga-sleep, these twelve figures grouped themselves around him, and the scene arose which was designated as the Mystical Supper. This image had the following meaning: When the initiate sits there surrounded by his soul-forces, he says to himself: These are one with me; they have led me through the development of the earth; the feet of this apostle enabled me to walk on along my path, the hands of that apostle gave me the power to work. ... The Holy Supper is the expression of man's fellowship with the twelve soul-forces.
Human perfection consists in the falling away of the lower soul-forces, so that only the higher forces remain behind; in future, man will no longer have the lower forces; he will, for example, no longer have the forces of procreation. John's soul-power above all will raise those lower forces to the loving heart. It will send out streams of spiritual love. The heart is the most powerful organ, when Christ lives in man. The lower soul-forces are then raised from the abdominal regions to the heart.
Every initiate experienced this in the Mysteries of the heart. It re-echoed in the words: “My God, my God, how thou hast raised me!” With the appearance of Christ Jesus, the whole Mystery, the whole experience, became reality upon the physical plane. At that time there were brotherhoods in Palestine which had developed out of the old order of the Essenes. Among their institutions, they also had a meal symbolizing the mystical Holy Supper. “To eat the Easter Lamb” is a general expression for something which took place at Easter. Jesus sat down with the Twelve and inaugurated the Holy Supper with the words: “At the end of the evolution of the earth, all men will have absorbed what I brought down to the earth, and the words, ‘This is my Body, This is my Blood,’ will then be true.” Afterwards he said: “There is one among you who will betray me.” This is brought about by the power of egoism. But as surely as this power of egoism is the source of treason, so surely will this lower soul-force be raised to a higher stage. One of the disciples rested upon Jesus' bosom, he rested upon Jesus' heart. This means that all the lower forces, every form of egoism, will be raised to the heart. At this point Jesus repeated to his Disciples the words: “Eli, Eli, lama sabathani” — “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him!”
The same event which took place upon Golgotha took place in the ancient Mysteries. Under the Cross stood the Disciple “whom the Lord loved,” the Disciple who had rested upon his bosom and had been raised to his heart. Also the women are there under the Cross: the mother of Jesus, his mother's sister Mary, and Mary Magdalene. John does not say that the mother of Jesus was called “Mary,” but that this was the name of his mother's sister. His mother's name was “Sophia.”
John baptises Jesus in the river Jordan. A dove descends from heaven. At this moment a spiritual act of conception takes place. But who is the mother of Jesus who conceives at this moment.
The Chela, Jesus of Nazareth, at this moment divests himself of his Ego, his highly developed Manas is fructified and the Buddhi enters into it. The highly developed Manas that received the Buddhi is Wisdom — Sophia, the Mother who is fructified by the Father of Jesus. Maria, which is the same as Maya, has the general meaning of “Mother name.” The Gospel records: “The Angel came in unto her and said: Hail thou that art highly favoured, — behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son — the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.” The Holy Ghost is Jesus' father: the descending dove fructifies the Sophia that lives in Jesus.
The Gospel should therefore be read as follows: “Under the Cross stood the mother of Jesus, Sophia.” To this mother Jesus says: “Woman, behold thy son.” He himself had transferred the Sophia that lived within him to the Disciple John; he transformed him into a son of Sophia and said: “Behold, thy mother.” “Henceforth you should recognise the divine wisdom as your mother and dedicate yourself to her alone.” John had recorded this divine wisdom; Sophia is embodied in the Gospel of St. John. Jesus had given him this wisdom, and he was authorized by Christ to transmit it to the world.
The highest Spirit of the Earth had to incarnate in a physical body; this body had to die, it had to be killed and its blood had to flow. A special meaning is attached to this. Wherever there is blood, there is Self. The Self rooted in the blood had to be sacrificed in order that the old communities based on Self might come to an end. All individual forms of egoism flow away with the blued of the Crucified Christ. The blood of racial communities changes into a blood which is common to the whole of mankind, because the blood of Christ was sacrificed at the moment when he hung upon the Cross.
Here too something took place which might have been observed by an astral observer in the astral atmosphere. When Christ died upon the Cross, the whole astral atmosphere changed, so that events could take place which could never have taken place before. This has become possible because by shedding His blood, Christ gave the whole of mankind a Self that is common to all. The blood that streamed out of the wounds of Christ Jesus gave to the whole of humanity a Self which is shared by all. His three bodies remained hanging upon the Cross and were then revived by the Risen Christ. When Christ abandoned his physical frame, the three bodies were so strong that they could utter the words of initiation which follow the transfiguration: “Eli, Eli, lama sabathani!”
To all who know something of the Mystery-truths, these words must have revealed that a Mystery had been enacted. A small correction in the Hebrew text therefore gave rise to the words contained in the Gospel: “Eli, Eli, lama sabathani!” “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”
La segunda especie de este género que he encontrado, muy abundante sobre los restos en descomposición de Pteridium aquilinum (helecho), en lugares sombrios donde los helechos al morir caen entrando en contacto con el suelo húmedo, en esa ubicación fructifican gran cantidad de myxomycetos, grato descubrimiento realizado este otoño. Son unos myxomycetos menores de 2 mm. Las fotografías, excepto las esporas y los granulos de calcio son apilados de entre 20 y 50 imágenes realizadas con Zerene Staker.
The second species of this genus that I found. Very abundant on the decomposing remains of Pteridium aquilinum (ferns) in shady places where the dying fall fern contacting the soil moist, at that location many myxomycetos fructify, pleasant discovery I made this fall. Esporcarps size of this species is less than 2 mm. The photographs, except spores and calcium granules are stacked between 20 and 50 images taken with Zerene Staker.
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