Newsletter 3: Sunday 19 January 2025

Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay          

Calendar of Coming Events-- Diary Dates

In the Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
unless stated otherwise.

• Tuesday 21 January 7:30pm Memorial Meeting for Alan Keats.
• Friday 31 January 7pm.  Leading Thoughts
• Saturday 1 February 9:30 to 12 noon. School of Spiritual Science.
• Sunday 30 March 2025. 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death.
• Kolisko Conference "Great Expectations "in Taikura School 11-14 April 2025. 
  Taikura was founded as a Rudolf Steiner School 75 years ago.
  

  The Committee ask that visitors to events in the Centre pay a contribution into the Koha box in the Foyer, as we we have regular bills for electric power, city rates, insurance, and maintenance for an aging building.

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On earth, death is terrifying only because we view it as a kind of dissolution, as an end. But when we look back upon the moment of death from the other side, from the spiritual side, death continually appears to us as a victory of the spirit that is extricating itself from the physical. It then appears as the greatest, most beautiful, and most significant event.

Rudolf Steiner

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Memorial Meeting for Alan Grant Keats
Tuesday 21 January at 7:30pm
in the Rudolf Steiner Centre,
401 Whitehead Road, Hastings.

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This Memorial Meeting is for all who know Alan Grant Keats.  We endeavour, by sharing memories and anecdotes, to build a picture of Alan, his life’s course, his passions, achievements and challenges for which we are grateful.  Our gratitude is a supporting gift to Alan as he embarks on the next phase of his spiritual journey towards a further, future life on earth.  

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Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there,
I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there.
I do not die.

                         Mary Elizabeth Frye  

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Rudolf Steiner:  

"If we have lost someone we love, we must be able to raise ourselves to a feeling of thankfulness that we have had them with us; we must be able to think selflessly of what they were to us until their death, and not upon what we feel, now they are no longer with us. The better we feel what they were to us during life, the sooner will it be possible for them "to speak" to us, to speak to us by means of the common air of gratitude." 

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