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Citizens of the Cosmos
Life's Unfolding from Conception through Death to Rebirth
Paperback
April 2009
9780880106337
More details
- Publisher
SteinerBooks - Published
15th April 2009 - ISBN 9780880106337
- Language English
- Pages 220 pp.
$25.00
This volume is a sequel to the bestselling Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac by John Jocelyn, to whom the author was married. Beredene Jocelyn sheds valuable new light on the cosmic meaning of existence by charting life’s passages in concert with planetary laws. With compassion, authority, and deep knowledge of spiritual science, she explores in clear detail such subjects as life’s year-by-year development through the stages of human life, from childhood through adult life, to death and the process of one's journey from death to rebirth.
Beredene Jocelyn presents a far-reaching, holistic perspective on the place of human beings in the universal order—a major effort that recalls the immense achievement in the spiritual research of Rudolf Steiner.
Citizens of the Cosmos meets the growing and urgent need for spiritual wisdom and individual responsibility. It will appeal to general readers, as well as all who are interested in spiritual values and our place as human beings in the cosmos.
C O N T E N T S:
Preface by Rick Jacobs
Foreword
INTRODUCTION
1. Citizens of the Cosmos—Unknowingly or Knowingly
2. Changing Consciousness and Changing World-Pictures
3. Planetary Laws—The Key to Life’s Unfolding
PART I: LIVE’S UNFOLDING FROM CONCEPTION TO DEATH
4. Earthlife Begins
5. The Murcury Cycle, 7–14—From Birth to the Change of Teeth
6. The Venus Cycle, 14–21—From the Change of Teeth to Puberty
7. The Three Seven-Year Sun Cycles, 21–42
8. The Mars Cycle, 42–49
9. The Jupiter Cycle, 49–56—The Dangerous Forties or Dynamic Courage
10. The Saturn Cycle, 56–63—Awesome Father Time
11. The Uranus Cycle, 63–70—New Wonders, Universality
12. The Neptune Cycle, 70–77—The Lifespan: Years of Grace, Compassion, Self-bestowal
13. The Pluto Cycle, beyond the Norm—Conscience, Transfiguration
14. The Portal of Death
PART II: OUR JOURNEY THROUGH THE COSMOS BETWEEN DEATH AND REBIRTH
15. Overcoming Barriers to Spiritual Understanding
16. At the Departure Gate
17. The Inner Planetary Spheres—The Moon, Mercury, Venus
18. The Sun Sphere
19. The Outer Planetary Spheres—Mars, Jupiter, Saturn—and the Zodiac
20. The Descent from the Zodiac through the Planetary Spheres in Preparation for a New Life on Earth
Epilogue: Conscientious Citizens of the Cosmos
NotesBeredene Jocelyn
Beredene Jocelyn was married to John Jocelyn, author of Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac. Beredene was the leader of several anthroposophic study groups in the New York City area, and throughout her life worked hard to bring Anthroposophy into the world. She wrote several books and edited and promoted a monthly newsletter, which she mailed to thousands of readers.
