I THINK SPEECH – I EAT Five Sacred Floral Foods I think, speech I speak, I have spoken I seek for myself in the Spirit I find myself in me I am on my way to the Spirit – to myself “Why do we do that ‘I think speech’ thing at the beginning of eurythmy […]
BLOCK RESOURCE: Verses
Sacred Places: Australian 3: The Blue Mountains
Stone, Bone, and Tone — The Blue Mountains Australia’s Third Sacred Place We now turn our gaze from the heavens to the earth. In determining a more immediate nature of sacred place, we try to perceive the Element hence Elemental aspects of any given site or area. We begin this with a series of questions; […]
The Australian Word: Poetry and History
A PAINTED SHIP James Cook: So what have you got down already? Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Not much really, Part 1 Begins with a kind of introduction that’s all. You told me the voyage was an initiation into the mysteries of the Southern Ether; so I have planned seven parts – seven is a pretty good […]
I am Because I Write, Speak and Read: Speech and Poetry in 11th Grade
MY FAIR TEENAGERS Speech & Poetry – Main Lesson – Class 11 When the ancient Cypriot sculptor, Pygmalion, crafted a statue of a lovely maid, he was so entranced by his creation that he beseeched the gods to make her come alive. Aphrodite, soft-hearted goddess of amour (and Regent of Adolescence), obliged. Galatea stepped from […]
La Pleroma: 8th Grade Plant Classification
THE LILY AND THE ROSE Plant Classification – Class 8 – Main Lesson Greetings readers, I’m a Main Lesson Book. In a Rudolf Steiner School, I am the tangible evidence of the success or otherwise of that all-important first 2 hours of the school day, that ‘head’ or academic lesson. We Main Lesson Books are […]
La Pleroma: Botany in 7th Grade
TALE OF TWO FLORAPHILES Australian Botany – Class 7 – Main Lesson You can create a similar lesson for your own country’s plant life. Or you can study Australian botany in 7th grade… “And how did it go?” asked the Aboriginal Elder, his dark eyes sparkling in interest. His pretty companion cocked her curly head […]