July/August 2002 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE rom the Women's Court we declare that pat- F ents on life and patents on bio-piracy are im- moral and illegal. They should not be protected, because they violate universal principals of reverence for life and the integrity of cultures' knowl edge systems . We will not live by rules that are robbing millions of their lives and medicines, their seeds, plants and knowledge, their sustenance and dignity and food . We will not allow greed and violence to be treated as the only values to shape our cultures and lives . We will take back our lives, as we took back the night. We know that violence begets violence, fear begets fear, but also that peace begets peace and love begets love . We will rewea ve the world as a place for sharing and caring, peace and justice, not a market place where sharing and caring and giving protection are crimes and peace and justice are unthinkable . We will shape new universals through solidarity, not hegemony. Women's worlds are worlds based on protection Swim with the tide, card print, Marga Schnell of our dignity and self-respect, the well-being of our children, of the earth, of our diverse beings, of those who are hungry and those who are ill . To protect is for us the best expression of humanity. The people who run the global corporations or the WTO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and G7governments have tried to transform 'protection' into a dirty word, the worst crime of the global market-place . Protecting health, nutrition, livelihoods, all call for trade sanctions and 'punishment'by the WTO and the World Bank . To those who ha ve tried to make protection of life a crime we say, echoing Archbishop Tutu : 'You have already lost. You need to get out of the way so that we can protect each other, our children and life on this planet?' Vananda Shiva, The Violence of Globalisation See article by Christoph Jensen Contents The Celtic mysteries Kar Könfg III A christianising of ordinary life Christoph Jensen 1 New forms in architecture and community Jan Bang 4 Stained glass project Felix 8I<c'iiiuelil 5 Social auditing Richard Firth 7 What is advocacy? What is its relevance for Camphill? Jack Reed 9 Obituaries Nina Maria Rice 10 / Susan Cartwright 11 / Munda Dudok van Heel 12 I David Austin Reid 13 News from the Movement Building Inclusive Communities, A Conference on Social Renewal 15 / Kfar Ra hael is 21 ! Yiftach Ben Shalom 16 I 'Neta Erez'- Waldorf Initiative in Beer Sheva 17 /The story behind a photograph Andrew Hoy 18 / Svetlana-a portrait in four seasons Mark Barber 19 Tagging Children Johannes M. Surkamp 16 Announcements 20 The Celtic mysteries Karl König Preparatory notes for a lecture in Glasgow, January 25th 1949 The text is presented here unedited and uncorrected . .. .J LtQ, & - iFtit cg4&4 t - P s ~ Dreams, visions, second sight . C L'C 4 f fi's . The Cromlechs Midday Mid-Year The reading of the Script of the Sun . Wu (e-eh c L1 The outer light of the Sun was kept away. The inner light of the Sun was found . The Frost-Giants fRsca~ Storm-Giants % ,( Fire-Giants The Healing-powers of the Druids . _& co444J_J/- q /a :4 'J a. 1iA4 III 1 .The tragic condition of the Druids, 1) It seems to be the right time to speak on Celtic Mys- The dawn of human clairvoyance . teries, as in so many a places a revival of Celticism is 2 .Hu and Ceridwen asked for. As so often, it is entirely misunderstood and The powers of the sun is true for the revival of one or another Nationalism . The searching human soul . (General de Gau I le! !, Hitler a.s.o.) 3 .The island Staffa 2) We have first of all to ask ourselves two questions : The Ear of the Initiation Who are the Celtic People? Ossian What are the Mysteries? 4 .The Irish, Hibernian Mysteries . 3) It is known, that in ancient Britain two different races The two statues were living. The one, which built the 'long barrows' Sun and Moon Male and Female called the Iberian-Silurian or Eurbarian race . Similar to the Pelasgoi in Greece or the Etruscans in Italy . This I am the knowledge I am the Phantasy race, dark, small, vivid was the aboriginal race in the But what I am But what I am whole of Britain . has no existence has no truth They were partly conquered, partly superseded by Science Art the so called Gaelic or Celtic people . Where did both of them come from? Winter Summer Iberian - Etruscan - Pelasgoi - Lemuria Christ Celtic-Atlantis 'Receive of Him, what the two figures 4. The wandering of the Atlantean tribes . attempted to give to you . The Roman Conquest of Britain is a war among Brothers . 'Accept the word and the power of this Being into thy Heart' . I I 1 .What are the 'Mysteries' . Caesars and the Romans destroyed, what here has been We have knowledge of Mystery-Centres all over the alive as Cosmic Christianity . Eastern World . India, Persia, Egypt, Hebrew, Greek, Roman . From these Centres of Learning and Initiation, IV the Light of Spiritual knowledge was carried into the 1 . Where do the Celtic Mysteries live to-day? surrounding people. The priests as the leaders of their To understand this we shall use a picture : people. The Wise Man and the Shepherds, 2 .All these Mystery-Centres have their origin in the The Wise Man receive the message by the stars, Atlantean Mysteries . the Shepherds by the voice of the Angels . Again we must see the Wandering of the Atlantean 2 . Like Shepherds we have to imagine the Druids . people to the East. Those who remained in the Western They perceived the Mystery of Golgatha in their parts of Europe, became the priests of the Western races . experiences of the Sun . The Druids . A Cosmic Christianity found its fulfilment . 3 .What are the Druids? Those initiated into the 3rd grade . 3 . From the East to the West Christianity and espe- Bards 1 St grade Raven cially Roman Christianity conquered Europe. The exo- Vates 2nd grade Occult teric stream prevailed . Druids 3rd grade Fighters 4. The Esoteric stream of Christianity went so to say 4.What did the Druids teach and do? 'underground' . This esoteric Christianity is the changed The primitive condition of the souls of man . Celtic Mystery, Rose crucianism, the new Spiritual Sci- They were clairvoyant . ence. A christianising of ordinary life . A contemplation of spiritual history, Africa and global economy Christoph Jensen, Camphill Village Alpha, South Africa This essay, which is an extract of a longer piece, is prefaced by the words by Vananda Shiva quoted on the Front Cover. History and empathy f we want to understand history we have to take into account a spiritual dimension . Much of what appears as historical fact-treaties, declarations and so on-is merely the 'ash' deposited by inspiration, intuition and the grasping of opportunities . Undoubtedly the Zeit- geist plays a crucial role in history . Rudolf Steiner was sure that much of history would have to be re-written when viewed in this light . History is also the outcome of spiritual battles whose victories and defeats are not recorded in books and documents . Victory may only be a temporary occurrence, with the loser trying to ex- plore ways and means to retaliate later. Steiner describes one such occasion when looking at the defeat of the Roman state machinery . It was not a foregone conclu- sion that humanity would not succumb to the thorough organisation of the Roman state . He maintains it was the egotism and selfishness of 'the civic' that rendered the machinations of the state-sector useless . It was this unpredictable factor, an emerging selfishness and ego- tism that ultimately made the Roman Empire fizzle out . (R . Steiner, Sept. 24th 1916) . A mood, not an organ- ised battle, brought this empire to its knees . Wodaabe man, Niger In the 21St century it is another unpredictable factor that makes it difficult for any accurate prognosis to leader who appeared as a knight on a white horse come about : empathy. It is the acquired faculty of feel- with a fire-spewing lance . ing oneself into another person, just the opposite of Before the founding of the Order of St . Jago di selfishness. In many people this develops into a deter- Compostel la fifty-four members of the Templars and mination to work with, or show solidarity with, the their Grandmaster had to die . The knights erected a marginalised, handicapped, downtrodden or vulner- little temple on the grave of St . James . The custom was able . This has given rise to a new culture of dealing to form a ring around this miniature temple before the with one another. The other person becomes the de- knights set out for their journeys of discovery. These termining factor of one's actions . The question we are journeys were financed by the gold of the Templars . confronted with now is, how can we surround this This second degree will come to fruition when the gold unfolding, new-found faculty with the required eco- has made its way back to its 'rightful owners' . nomic-financial parameters? Today more than ever, 3 . The third degree is that of St . John. This degree ordinary life is subject to economic-financial consid- comes about in the events so evident in the harmful erations that seem to stifle empathy. practices of a world-economy unable to unfold in true christian love .