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SPRING 2025
LYRE NOTES
Letter from the Editor Easter this year, as cosmically determined from the equinox, full moon, and day of the week, is the latest that is possible for this festival: April 20. On April 19, 1924, Rudolf Steiner lectured about the Easter festival in Dornach, Switzerland. This, and the subsequent three lectures, would be the last time he would lecture on this topic. In 2025, Easter falls on a date near the one of Steiner’s final lectures on the Easter festival in relation to the evolution of the mysteries, which can allow us to cultivate a particular resonance with those lectures this year. We celebrate Easter in the Spring now, which, in temperate zones, is the time of the renewal
of plant life after the sleep of winter. Each time that Easter comes around (and we must be particularly conscious about the time as it is not a fixed date), we have a chance to renew our awareness of death, coming out of death, and the mystery of the Christ events at the time of Golgotha. But we are also aware that the Resurrected Christ continued to work with the disciples for another forty days. Music gives us the potential to be aware of the spiritual world in this regard, and, also, to give something back to the spiritual world, especially with the freed tone of the lyre. –Catherine Read
Morning Prayer This poem has been part of my Morning Prayers writing, as taught to me some years back by another poet, who said to ask oneself each morning, upon waking: “How is it now with me?” One awakens from dreams and attempts to get the hint of remembrance or feeling of where we were in our ‘night out’, and then, in the second stanza, really address how earth (one’s life), seems on awakening – in the spirit of Adam Bittleson’s prayer from Meditative Prayers for Today, “I come from the Realm of the Invisible and penetrate anew...”
Veils Clouded veils close down our dreams To seeming nothingness as night recedes-Darkened shadows retire from view Moving fresh forces and well I knew... That Day awakens, spring has blossomed Trees are full of budding welcome Cloud forms lighten out of night Green of earth, sing the Risen One’s sight. –Margaret Collinson from Morning Prayers
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