I developed a recipe for a liqueur of Angelica root and seed and honey made with a quality vodka, quite good. I call it Saint Michael’s Liqueur. An old name for the herb Angelica archangelica is “The Root of the Holy Ghost”. Once when I was chopping a pile of fresh stalks with the air filled with the fragrance - a blend of celery and frankincense I was touched with the feeling I get during certain group manifestations of the Holy Spirit, what I call the Holy of Holy’s sensation. I said to myself, “That’s why they called it The Root of the Holy Spirit!” The Herb had triggered the part of my frame that responds to the Presence.
That experience was a one off. Still happens at times through the presence of the Holy Spirit given through Jesus from the Father in group gatherings and at times alone in prayer.
Michael (I hope you don't mind the familiarity - I've been reading your essays (& etc.) for at least 7 yrs., which makes 'you' a dear friend of my heart, despite 'my' being a stranger to yours!)
I have no 'Faith Community' except for a scattering of 'like-spirited' internet aquaintances (literally, persons to whom 'I' am acquainted, yet who don't know me from Adam - or Eve as the case, femininity-wise happens to be) such as yourself...
...which makes for some level of potential embarrassment (especially for a 61 yr.old suburban house-wife!) in writing what follows:
Soooo, this is awkward for me, and I wish I didn't have to do it 'publicly', but just in case I am 'supposed to' (as a God's Will sort of thing) here goes:
I'm not a person who has 'important' dreams, but I woke up first thing this morning from a vivid dream about being among a group of Christian spiritual warriors in the midst of 'battle' (literally using the spiritual Light of Christ against individual 'powers' of darkness/Evil).
And I felt a strong impulse (compulsion?) to contact what few 'True hearted Believers' (my term, not sure where from) I know and convey to them that this may be an important day, that we might 'be needed' to pray that St. Michael be empowered to 'come into' the world in order to initiate the beginning of His ultimate work.
Thank you for taking the time to write, Carol—and I think you’re right. Now, as they say, is the time. I’ve never felt it so strongly before. And the agents of darkness are scrambling to do as much damage as they can in the meantime.
Beautiful. I was just telling my mom that as Protestants our knowledge of Christian history is impoverished. For us, the calendar only intersects with Christian observance at Easter and Christmas, whereas in other traditions every day is a commemoration of the life of Christ or the Saints. I mentioned that I wouldn’t know what Michaelmas was except that I’ve read books that take place at Oxford (ie Michaelmas term). It sounded like she never heard of it, and this is a lady who named her son after Saint Michael!
I think I will steal your manner of celebration. My eight-year-old son recently confided that he’s scared of Halloween imagery, which really has become more like a festival for horror fans, and said “ I think I just like harvest.” And he’s a big fan of Saint Michael, who he understands chamber-kicked Satan into the abyss shouting “THIS IS HEAVEN!” (isn’t that the way it happened? :-))
Sad that Halloween got so co-opted and damaged. I’m old enough to remember what amazing feats of payback to mean neighbors and fun with friends happened on Halloween.
Right! Not to mention that our neighbourhood was so safe that at eight years old we could roam all night without our parents trailing behind. But it really has changed from a night to step out of your everyday persona and have a bit of of irreverent fun to a celebration of the perverse. What scared my son so was a Halloween “decoration” in the form of a grotesque dead baby that you could hang from a tree (at the suburban craft store Michael’s, oddly enough now that I think about it.)
safe because it was a neighborhood... not just a random collection of people...
That "decoration" scares me!! It's evil... perverse...
irreverence is not evil and is perverse only to polite conventions... it expresses a reverence for the reality of life behind/under/hidden by conventions....
You've stirred up stuff I've been thinking about for decades as I saw All Hallows Eve attacked by the forces of convention ...
The last five years have shown me that in order to get through this phase of history we would have to be able to handle being judged and alienated by family and society as a whole at times.
A high amount of those in spiritual communities, whether it be pagan, Christian, new age, etc… are there for social and self-identity reasons. Not because it brought them a clearer flow from the Divine. It was still about them and others, as opposed to them and God (or whatever names one uses).
Before Covid I would have thought that if anyone could see through the agenda it would have been anthroposophists seeing as Steiner directly addressed the role of vaccines in the future.
One family member who wasn’t too excited about getting it mainly did so because she didn’t want her or her children having to wear a mask in school (she thought those that got it wouldn’t have to and it would end up being a scarlet letter. Turns out they all still had to anyhow).
I spent quite a bit of 2021 researching how my husband and I were going to continue to earn money and support our two children if our jobs were lost.
The whole thing lost steam relatively quickly. However, our parents and siblings all got it and who knows what the future holds health-wise for society.
My father died of a turbo cancer on September 29th, 2023 after being diagnosed two months earlier. Nothing had shown up on his tests the year before. I quietly believe it was the jab that did it.
First, stop being afraid of speaking the truth and getting cancelled for it. Even with friends. Then ask yourself what you're willing to risk. Are you willing to be arrested, as is happening in the UK? Are you afraid of losing your job? Then ask yourself what you're not willing to risk. If you can answer those questions honestly, you should be able to figure out what courage means to you. Then other actions can follow--but if you're afraid to speak, you're probably part of the problem.
So many of us were dumbfounded by the level of distortion coming from traditionally accepted groups and communities who have secured their stances on “natural healing” and plant medicine for example. I’ll never forget the facade we witnessed fall down in front of our own eyes.
I'm not sure those who failed during covid, during the reign of terror, can all be blamed for cowardice. We made it through evolution, without knowledge of germs or disease transmission, by developing (according to Randy Thornhill) behavioral immune systems which turn us into tribalist xenophobic assholes, for one thing, and this disease avoidance is so powerful that it should probably be up there w/ the 4Fs. His data shows an incredible correlation between authoritarianism and pathogen stress. The enemy shapeshifts, though, and the International Planned Parenthood Comprehensive Sexuality Education seems to be dovetailing with the child and human traffickers and the pornographers by trying to remove the barriers to childhood sexuality internationally, which is, possessed or not, on beyond evil and there's no pathogen excuse for it.
(see Colin Wright's X post on this)
We used to trick or treat near where Google is, a neighborhood of cheap Eichlers, most bought on the GI Bill (now off the map buku bucks real estate), for Unicef, which I now think of as "trick or treat for pedophilia", and there would be competitions between the fathers, who had Cuban Missile Crisis bomb shelters, to one up each other in costumery. I had to bob for apples as Medusa once. We could use some Gorgon energy I think, but it seems sort of majestic and attuned to invoke the Archangel and the harvest on that day as you are, the veil between the worlds thinning, it seems for a few days. That's quite a fine poem too. I love the line about angels and clouds. My mom used to sing this in the car to Yosemite in the dark, though none of us liked the old Dyer-Bennet man then,but it was uncanny and reflects the thinning of the veil. The Reaper's Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0t_on7XH2o&ab_channel=RichardDyer-Bennett-Topic
Hey thanks for this, this is great! I too have dabbled in the Waldorf world and retain a decent sized in-home Michaelmas celebration ourselves.
Also this may be the first time ever that I have encountered someone in the wild who gets the Michael/Ahriman/Lucifer dynamic AND understands how egregiously wrong and contrary to all that the “anthropop” response to COVID was. Awesome.
I developed a recipe for a liqueur of Angelica root and seed and honey made with a quality vodka, quite good. I call it Saint Michael’s Liqueur. An old name for the herb Angelica archangelica is “The Root of the Holy Ghost”. Once when I was chopping a pile of fresh stalks with the air filled with the fragrance - a blend of celery and frankincense I was touched with the feeling I get during certain group manifestations of the Holy Spirit, what I call the Holy of Holy’s sensation. I said to myself, “That’s why they called it The Root of the Holy Spirit!” The Herb had triggered the part of my frame that responds to the Presence.
I love that
Wow this [experience] sounds so powerful, I wish I could try some!
That experience was a one off. Still happens at times through the presence of the Holy Spirit given through Jesus from the Father in group gatherings and at times alone in prayer.
In the USA a conscious gentle well mannered knightly warrior ethos is most apt to be found among well raised conservative men and boys.
Good morning - Happy Michaelmas!!
Michael (I hope you don't mind the familiarity - I've been reading your essays (& etc.) for at least 7 yrs., which makes 'you' a dear friend of my heart, despite 'my' being a stranger to yours!)
I have no 'Faith Community' except for a scattering of 'like-spirited' internet aquaintances (literally, persons to whom 'I' am acquainted, yet who don't know me from Adam - or Eve as the case, femininity-wise happens to be) such as yourself...
...which makes for some level of potential embarrassment (especially for a 61 yr.old suburban house-wife!) in writing what follows:
Soooo, this is awkward for me, and I wish I didn't have to do it 'publicly', but just in case I am 'supposed to' (as a God's Will sort of thing) here goes:
I'm not a person who has 'important' dreams, but I woke up first thing this morning from a vivid dream about being among a group of Christian spiritual warriors in the midst of 'battle' (literally using the spiritual Light of Christ against individual 'powers' of darkness/Evil).
And I felt a strong impulse (compulsion?) to contact what few 'True hearted Believers' (my term, not sure where from) I know and convey to them that this may be an important day, that we might 'be needed' to pray that St. Michael be empowered to 'come into' the world in order to initiate the beginning of His ultimate work.
God's Love be with you,
Carol
Thank you for taking the time to write, Carol—and I think you’re right. Now, as they say, is the time. I’ve never felt it so strongly before. And the agents of darkness are scrambling to do as much damage as they can in the meantime.
Beautiful. I was just telling my mom that as Protestants our knowledge of Christian history is impoverished. For us, the calendar only intersects with Christian observance at Easter and Christmas, whereas in other traditions every day is a commemoration of the life of Christ or the Saints. I mentioned that I wouldn’t know what Michaelmas was except that I’ve read books that take place at Oxford (ie Michaelmas term). It sounded like she never heard of it, and this is a lady who named her son after Saint Michael!
I think I will steal your manner of celebration. My eight-year-old son recently confided that he’s scared of Halloween imagery, which really has become more like a festival for horror fans, and said “ I think I just like harvest.” And he’s a big fan of Saint Michael, who he understands chamber-kicked Satan into the abyss shouting “THIS IS HEAVEN!” (isn’t that the way it happened? :-))
thanks, Molly—and good luck!
Sad that Halloween got so co-opted and damaged. I’m old enough to remember what amazing feats of payback to mean neighbors and fun with friends happened on Halloween.
the wonders of soap and toilet paper…
and handfuls of shucked corn (borrowed from a nearby field) to chuck inside the front door of disfavored neighbors...
[a variation on a trick (that I personally never did) taught by oldsters for the absolute worst neighbors.... — a flaming paper bag of dog shit ... ]
{can't believe I'm sharing such intimate americana... 😈 )
my dad did the flaming bag when he was a kid in the late 40s
sounds right... I was born mid-40s... the experts in that art were a few years older...
Right! Not to mention that our neighbourhood was so safe that at eight years old we could roam all night without our parents trailing behind. But it really has changed from a night to step out of your everyday persona and have a bit of of irreverent fun to a celebration of the perverse. What scared my son so was a Halloween “decoration” in the form of a grotesque dead baby that you could hang from a tree (at the suburban craft store Michael’s, oddly enough now that I think about it.)
safe because it was a neighborhood... not just a random collection of people...
That "decoration" scares me!! It's evil... perverse...
irreverence is not evil and is perverse only to polite conventions... it expresses a reverence for the reality of life behind/under/hidden by conventions....
You've stirred up stuff I've been thinking about for decades as I saw All Hallows Eve attacked by the forces of convention ...
enough for now.
The last five years have shown me that in order to get through this phase of history we would have to be able to handle being judged and alienated by family and society as a whole at times.
A high amount of those in spiritual communities, whether it be pagan, Christian, new age, etc… are there for social and self-identity reasons. Not because it brought them a clearer flow from the Divine. It was still about them and others, as opposed to them and God (or whatever names one uses).
Before Covid I would have thought that if anyone could see through the agenda it would have been anthroposophists seeing as Steiner directly addressed the role of vaccines in the future.
One family member who wasn’t too excited about getting it mainly did so because she didn’t want her or her children having to wear a mask in school (she thought those that got it wouldn’t have to and it would end up being a scarlet letter. Turns out they all still had to anyhow).
I spent quite a bit of 2021 researching how my husband and I were going to continue to earn money and support our two children if our jobs were lost.
The whole thing lost steam relatively quickly. However, our parents and siblings all got it and who knows what the future holds health-wise for society.
My father died of a turbo cancer on September 29th, 2023 after being diagnosed two months earlier. Nothing had shown up on his tests the year before. I quietly believe it was the jab that did it.
Be blessed 🙌
CHRIST IN US! 🍻
Fantastic! And topped off with Steve Winwood no less!
We have lost so many of these traditions and Catholicism is very much the poorer for it.
Wolfgang Smith expressed it well when he said that since VII “exotericism” has run amuck.
I’m currently reading “The Submerged Reality” and the arguments you present therein explains a lot of what’s happened.
Great, let's get started. What is your vision or mission?
First, stop being afraid of speaking the truth and getting cancelled for it. Even with friends. Then ask yourself what you're willing to risk. Are you willing to be arrested, as is happening in the UK? Are you afraid of losing your job? Then ask yourself what you're not willing to risk. If you can answer those questions honestly, you should be able to figure out what courage means to you. Then other actions can follow--but if you're afraid to speak, you're probably part of the problem.
So many of us were dumbfounded by the level of distortion coming from traditionally accepted groups and communities who have secured their stances on “natural healing” and plant medicine for example. I’ll never forget the facade we witnessed fall down in front of our own eyes.
https://youtu.be/wq_Ek0vo9ag?si=RlkalCyyhAPycEOf
Loved this, thank you! Blessed Michaelmas!
Thanks—same to you!
Happy feast day, Michael!
same to you!
I'm not sure those who failed during covid, during the reign of terror, can all be blamed for cowardice. We made it through evolution, without knowledge of germs or disease transmission, by developing (according to Randy Thornhill) behavioral immune systems which turn us into tribalist xenophobic assholes, for one thing, and this disease avoidance is so powerful that it should probably be up there w/ the 4Fs. His data shows an incredible correlation between authoritarianism and pathogen stress. The enemy shapeshifts, though, and the International Planned Parenthood Comprehensive Sexuality Education seems to be dovetailing with the child and human traffickers and the pornographers by trying to remove the barriers to childhood sexuality internationally, which is, possessed or not, on beyond evil and there's no pathogen excuse for it.
(see Colin Wright's X post on this)
We used to trick or treat near where Google is, a neighborhood of cheap Eichlers, most bought on the GI Bill (now off the map buku bucks real estate), for Unicef, which I now think of as "trick or treat for pedophilia", and there would be competitions between the fathers, who had Cuban Missile Crisis bomb shelters, to one up each other in costumery. I had to bob for apples as Medusa once. We could use some Gorgon energy I think, but it seems sort of majestic and attuned to invoke the Archangel and the harvest on that day as you are, the veil between the worlds thinning, it seems for a few days. That's quite a fine poem too. I love the line about angels and clouds. My mom used to sing this in the car to Yosemite in the dark, though none of us liked the old Dyer-Bennet man then,but it was uncanny and reflects the thinning of the veil. The Reaper's Ghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0t_on7XH2o&ab_channel=RichardDyer-Bennett-Topic
Hey thanks for this, this is great! I too have dabbled in the Waldorf world and retain a decent sized in-home Michaelmas celebration ourselves.
Also this may be the first time ever that I have encountered someone in the wild who gets the Michael/Ahriman/Lucifer dynamic AND understands how egregiously wrong and contrary to all that the “anthropop” response to COVID was. Awesome.
Thanks!
Your Michaelmas festival looks like a blast
It is!
Not sure if you've come across Will Parsons, but you might enjoy this
https://youtu.be/WLYKsFTU51E?feature=shared (ETA: a lovely rendition of John Barleycorn)
(And in case it's of interest: https://www.britishpilgrimage.com/about-will )
LOVE
Thought you might :)
There's a bit about the song here and another of his versions with three voices - audio only, but I'm sure there are others on his youtube channel https://www.britishpilgrimage.com/songs-for-pilgrimage
oh...and are you stateside?
Not until end of Octoberish