Living as if one is part of the Ashram.
This is our Ashramic place of learning.
Class in session –
Today is Sunday, the beginning of a new week.
A day of rest, preparing for our new week ahead.
August 6, 2023 – the Sun’s Day.

Aries moon today, Leo Sun & Venus today.
Another fiery day – Sun/Jupiter – Leo/Taurus –
Stabilizing ourselves in the Burning Ground.
The whole of humanity is moving across the burning ground, en masse through the fires which prepare us for & precede the 1st Initiation (the personality recognizing that there is a Soul).

Everyone creates their own burning ground & everyone takes their stand within it. And eventually passes through it (in suffering), & then out of it to stand before the Angel of the Presence at the very door of Initiation.

There is one fire to recognize.
That is the Fire of Comprehension of what is occurring.
This fire is related to the blinding light of realization.
This Burning Ground & the blinding light destroys all glamours, confusions, separations, limitations on the path towards the Soul.

All glamours hide the Illumination of the Soul.
Everyone approaches the Burning Ground in their own timing. Often from the emotional plane.

Thus we have fire & water – creating a fog & a steam.
But also within the fogs & steams – the Fires of Comprehension.
Then we must proceed to act within what one knows & comprehends

One is then asked to act “as if” one lives always within the Ashram. The Ashram has no glamours. We are told to “go forth, be a Light in the world” and live always within the illumination of one’s creative imagination.
Initiation is a simplification of life. So we are to live simply.
Living within Divine contemplation and living simply.

We are to ponder on these words.
For “as we thinketh, we become.”
Leo’s words – I am That & That am I” – the soul & personality fused & in a relationship of awareness & recognition.

Below – Sunday by Steiner