Friday, July 17, 2026, 7:00 pm
At:
Pan O’ Rama Farms
2987 Sumac Rd, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Potluck: Bring your favorite summertime dessert!
Please email contact@sandiegoanthroposophy.com if you intend on attending this event.
Rev. Anna Silber is a priest of The Christian Community, Movement for Religious Renewal. She was ordained in 2021 after attending the North American Seminary of The Christian Community. She is currently serving at the altar in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and two teenage daughters. Before attending Seminary, Anna was a Waldorf educator and supported Waldorf teachers in training at Sunbridge Institute in New York. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, attended U.C. Berkeley for undergraduate studies and Sunbridge College for her master’s degree in education.
In-person study group in San Marcos at 10AM
Email contact@sandiegoanthroposophy.com for details.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whitsun Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension , By Rudolf Steiner 07 May 1923, Dornach, GA 224 Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/AscenPent/19230507p01.html
Other suggested studies by Rudolf Steiner include:
The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity
GA 349, 9 May 1923, Dornach Translated by Steiner Online Library
XIII. Christ's Death, Resurrection and Ascension
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230509p02.html
Fifth Gospel (D. Osmond): Lecture II/ GA 148/ 02 Oct 1913, Oslo
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/RSPC1950/19131002p02.html
The date of Ascension is 40 days after Easter. In 2026 that will be Thursday, May 14. Pentecost is 50 days after Easter, Sunday, May 24.
Dear Friends, a celebration of the Easter festival will be held on:
Saturday, April 4th, at 11am
at the home of Elizabeth Olley
Please email contact@sandiegoanthroposophy.com for contact details/directions.
The gathering will include the study of The Festivals and
their Meaning II
EASTER, Lecture I: EASTER; THE FESTIVAL OF WARNING
The Event at Damascus and the new Knowledge of the Spirit
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/Easter/19200402a01.html
The festivals are reminders of great happenings in the amazing story of man’s evolution. They are celebrations of man’s intimate connection with all in the universe.
Once upon a time before there was time as we know time to be, before there was space as we know space to be, before Time and Space was as it is now, the Earth was not simply the earth and the Sun and Moon were not as they are now. The Sun and Moon and Earth were One body, One Being. The human being had a very different body, a very different soul and the spirit did not yet have a home in this body temple.
For the immortal, imperishable Soul, the Divine Spark of Being, existed in another space, in a higher planetary sphere, until it was time and when it was time it descended into the evolving human body which, before the Divine Spark entered was only at the stage of consciousness as the animals (was not yet fully human) -- it was preparing for something new, something more. And this descent of the Divine Spark of the Spirit was celebrated as the victory of the Light over the Darkness. The celebration of Human Becoming. The Temple Priests transmitted this knowledge to the disciples of the Mysteries at midnight on the Winter Solstice.
At the same time everything changed in the universe. The SunMoonEarth being was shifting and first the Sun separated out and then the Moon. And for the first time, and forever after, the Sun and Moon played down upon the Earth from the outside. Now, man and woman, dwellers on the Earth are also Sun and Moon Beings, they have the Spirit of the Sun and Moon in them. The Spirit of Man and the Spirit of the Universe are intimately connected. The human body is a Body of Spirit, a bearer of the Spirit. We are children of the Sun Spirit.
—Joseph Rubano
Thirteen lectures given in Oslo, Berlin, Cologne between
October 1, 1913 and February 10, 1914
By Rudolf Steiner
There are several translations and editions of this book available.
We will be following the sequence of lectures in the edition pictured left:
https://steinerbooks.org/products/9781855840393-the-fifth-gospel
NOTE: Some of the reading times have/may change. Please check back and confirm time with the hosts before attending.
Please email contact@sandiegoanthroposophy.com if you need directions/contact information for any of the hosts/ study days.
| Thu, December 25 (or before) | Lecture 1 | *Read at home* | Archive: Lecture 1 | ||
| Fri, December 26 | Lecture 2 | Jacqueline and Soleil | 1:00 pm | Fallbrook | Archive: Lecture 2 |
| Sat, December 27 | Lecture 3 | Johanna | 1:00 pm | San Diego | Archive: Lecture 3 |
| Sun, December 28 | Lecture 4 | Blake | 1:00 pm | Encinitas | Archive: Lecture 4 |
| Mon, December 29 | Lecture 5 | Lori and Carlos | Escondido | Archive: Lecture 5 | |
| Tue, December 30 | Lecture 6 | Diane | 1:00 pm | Oceanside | Archive: Lecture 6 |
| Wed, December 31 | Lecture 7 | Read at home | Archive: Lecture 7 | ||
| Thu, January 1 | Lecture 8 | John and Cristy | 1:00 pm | Vista | Archive: Lecture 8 |
| Fri, January 2 | Lecture 9 | Mary | 1:00 pm | Poway | Archive: Lecture 9 |
| Sat, January 3 | Lecture 10 | Scott and Andrea | 1:00 pm | La Mesa | Archive: Lecture 10 |
| Sun, January 4 | Lecture 11 | Joseph and Patricia | Oceanside | Archive: Lecture 11 | |
| Mon, January 5 | Lecture 12 | Karen | Poway | Archive: Lecture 12 | |
| Tue, January 6 | Lecture 13 | Elizabeth and Victor | San Marcos | Archive: Lecture 13 |
While we recommend getting a copy of the pictured book to follow along with, the lectures are also available on the Rudolf Steiner archive with the links specified above. There are two translations available on the archive. We recommend / have links supplied for the Frank Thomas Smith edition.
Please read Lectures 1 and 7 at home.
Bring your Christmas caroling voices!