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Welcome to our south-east Star Centre autumn 2019 veritable breath of God. It will rise from the depths of newsletter. darkness, though rooted in decay. In this issue you’ll find: A letter from Michaela This it is, beloved child that the masters see coming to Autumn poem glorify God’s earth- a human life of beauty, breathing the Poem on duality/oneness from Virginia essence of the God life. And so we say whatever your Short piece on the Cathars circumstances or your troubles at this present time, be Book Review from Nick thankful; for they are the soil about your roots, from Regular Events which the blossoms will spring forth in due season. Upcoming Events (The Way of the Sun p70) With love and every blessing, now and always, Michaela x from Michaela: My dear friends, Welcome to our Autumn newsletter. I love this rich season as summer gives way to Autumn and then Autumn to LUGHNASADH: The Autumn quarter in the Celtic Winter. There is a gentle withdrawing of life from the tradition…1 August to 31 October. Lughnasadh brings the outer physical plane to deeper within. It can be a time for gift of maturity and is the time of physical harvest and us too to take the opportunity to withdraw a little and spiritual garnering. mirror the quietude of the natural world. It’s a time to give thanks for all our blessings, to contemplate, to rest, to A farewell to the season of Lughnasadh feed our souls with peace and love and time. We can allow our outer experiences and lessons, our Autumn harvest, to Go with thanks and go with blessing, be built into our soul’s understanding. As we breathe forth Season of soul’s nurturing, a sweeter fragrance from our hearts, we grow in love and Souls with fruit are deeply freighted, understanding towards all life. Hearts are healed rejoicingly As ripened fruit and grain have travelled, White Eagle: A thought for Autumn You have come to Autumn’s barn. Sovereign Lady who has poured, Know that from the darkness of the earth life, there Touch the hidden mystery in us, springs and flourishes that which flowers in beauty, giving Aid us to find Winter’s hoard. forth perfume and radiance. When you plant a bulb in the autumn you have faith that from that brown globe will (From the Celtic Devotional by Caitlin Matthews) spring a creation so charged with beauty as to seem a We’re living in strange times! Conflict and disagreement Bogomils, a Bulgarian sect also persecuted for ‘heresy’, appear to be the norm. Here’s a poem from Virginia which which spread as far as Italy. There is a theme running helps us to gain a more spiritual perspective, and to step through here of splitting away and causing division – in time back a back and hold things in the Light. of political split and the country divided it seems ever more important to try to hold together as One. In a Time: In a time of Duality, The following books on the Cathars are recommended: Cathars, Each thing spins White Eagle and St John by Colum Hayward and The Cathar View – On its own axis. both from Polair Publishing. The early history of the WE Lodge and the connection to SW France and its mysteries can also be When each sees itself found in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Book of the Beyond (WE Publishing). As separate – the Dance Of conflict arises. In speaking of the brotherhoods of the past we would draw your attention to that brotherhood known as the In a time of wholeness, Albigenses. We do this because there is a particular link Each thing spins between their early work and that of this Lodge. We On one axis. hope you will treat what we say with respect and not When each knows itself misinterpret our meaning. The Albigenses were a group In the One – the Dance of men and women who sought first and foremost for Of Peace arises. purity in their lives. This brotherhood was directed, brought into being and influenced and guided from the Virginia Crowe Masters in the Far East. They had their place and they had their work to do at their particular time. Later The Albigenses or Cathars: apparently, they were wiped out by the Church. It looked as though they were massacred in their Autumn is a time of passing, after the Harvest, a time of thousands, but only the physical bodies were destroyed slowly sinking into the earth again and the rich soil inside. - the work of such a brotherhood is never destroyed. It Remembrance Day is on the horizon. So, we are beginning a remains. Their prayers, their purity, their spiritual period of reflection/remembrance of past influences on power impregnated the very earth. They too were linked the Lodge. On our roots, so to speak. The Cathars, or with the Rosicrucian Brotherhood and with Rosenkruez. Albigensians, were a Christian sect based in SW France, You see, the same power was behind all these th th towards the Mediterranean side, in the 11 -13 centuries. brotherhoods, and the Albigenses were to provide a They were what’s known as a ‘Dualist heresy’ –in that they channel through whom a certain world teacher would saw the material world as an ‘evil’ creation, while things of someday work. Now it looks as though their work is the spirit were ‘good’. The church had gone astray, in their finished, yet if you will carefully and quietly watch you view, and they rejected both the Cross and the Eucharist. will see miracle after miracle. You will see the They were persecuted by the Catholic church for 2 outworking in a wonderful way of the power of God on centuries, sometimes being killed in their thousands. It was earth. an unusual movement because it had no central leader, just (Stella Polaris Feb-Mar 1968 pp57-58) regional ‘bishops’. Their priests were called ‘parfaits’ and both men and women officiated. They were semi- vegetarian, they lived and worked in community and Eds: We’d like to keep the Cathar theme going over the winter and believed in reincarnation. Both the nobility and workers into the spring, so if anyone has pictures of Cathar castles/a snippet of history/personal experience/something interesting were involved, and it was estimated that in small towns and they’ve found in a book OR a good book on the Cathars in general villages in the Toulouse area 1 in 10 of the population was a to do a review of – then please let us know and pass your material Cathar. It is thought that their roots were in the on to us. Thanks .... Book Review: The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes Nick ISBN1-891396-83-8 Eds: We would love to have more book reviews! If you’re not sure whether a particular book is suitable for review in this journal, I was sad to find out that Louise Hay had died aged 90 in just send us an email and we can discuss it. Pema: [email protected] 2017 but was intrigued by how she discovered the Patrick: [email protected] knowledge she applied to her healing work. Louise herself was abused throughout her early life. She had very low self-esteem and was diagnosed with terminal cancer. However, she went on to become a top fashion model and Regular Events: 2019 later a marvellous healer using the knowledge which healed her and saved her life. Her book ‘’You Can Heal your Life’’ Public Services/Polegate: 3rd Sunday of each month at really opened my eyes to how our thoughts and beliefs 11am shape our lives and that if we can change our thought patterns, we change our universe and affect the necessary Do join us for a time of quiet reflection, inspiration and healing. If you listen to Louise Hay’s ‘’ Morning and Evening meditation, followed by Contact Healing. Meditations’’ tapes they are very effective, although Dates for 2019/20: Nov 17th, Dec 15th, Jan 19th, Feb 16th seemingly in a non-spiritual way. ‘’You Can Heal Your Life’’ All held at: Polegate Community Centre 54 Windsor Way, went on the ‘’ New York Times Best Seller Book List’’ and Polegate, E. Sussex BN26 6QF sold 50 million copies worldwide. Parking available/5 mins walk from Polegate station/regular Four years after moving to New York in 1950 Louise came buses from Eastbourne, Brighton and Lewes. across the Church of Religious Science, which bases its teachings on a book by Ernest Holmes called ‘’The Science of Mind’’, written in 1926. So, I thought: this is book I must read and Michaela kindly got a copy for our White Eagle Library then lent it to me to read. I can see how Louise Hay would have found this fascinating book an eye opener and how it led her on her path. The Discussion group: ideas in this book seem way ahead of its time but surprisingly Ernest Holmes quotes several books I did not Held on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month from 1.30- know, so seemingly these ideas that I think of as ‘’new age’’ 3.30pm have been discussed in certain circles for a long time. Come along and enjoy the opportunity to discuss White Eagle’s teaching in more depth, as well as consider other ‘’The Science of Mind’’ covers a wide range of topics. It is traditions and how we can apply these to our everyday lives.

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