August

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Family Garden Tea

Saturday 6 July dawned cold as the first tendrils of a cold front could be felt.

Undeterred the preparations were set in motion for a Family Garden Tea.

​The sun shone warm from a deep azure sky and as the morning progressed jackets and jerseys were removed.

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St John – The Messenger of Light by Rev. Michaël Merle

We can thus say that the first spiritual task of St John is to be a witness to the light.

The first thing is to consider what this light is. We can consider the experience of light in the material world, the world of material existence. We will consider this and also ponder the concept, from the Prologue, that this light is the life of human beings. Light and life; life and light.

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St John – witness to the Incarnation of Christ by Rev. Michaël Merle

This is the witness of John: that he bears witness to the revelation of the only Son of the Father. “And John testified (witnessed): ‘I saw how the Spirit descended like a dove from heaven upon him and remained united with him. … He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend, so that it remains united with him, he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I saw this, and so I testify (witness) that this is the Son of God.” This is an extremely powerful witnessing of the incarnation.

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St John's Saturday morning workshop: The relationship of St John the Baptist to the Christ presented and led by Rev. Michaël Merle

John the Baptist is the messenger and the witness of the light power and earthly reality of Christ. This is the relationship between John the Baptist and Christ. Hold this in the understanding of what the ether light is. The light power is the light ether which is the forming force of light. It is the spiritual light that enlightens; the true light that is the life of a human being; and the true life of a human being is the light that now shines from the human being.

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​The Christian Eightfold Path, an understanding for life and an element of the Act of Consecration of the Human Being, by Rev. Michaël Merle

This is a perspective on the Christian Eightfold path from a modern Spiritual Knowledge perspective. Christ has renewed the path through his incarnation on earth. Christ states: “I make ALL things new”. This is the renewing power of Christ. For a modern conscious spiritual practice, we would have to recognise what the renewed path is.

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Biography sharing

In the first of what is hoped will be many such talks, Derek Cook shared his life story. ​

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Priest Synod

The priests of the Southern African Region met with the Lenker in Cape Town from Monday 22 July to Friday 26 July.

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