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Each year, the School celebrates the festival of Easter and we will try to reflect on the background of this World Event. We all know the coming of Easter is marked by the turning of the year at the Equinox and the full moon immediately following this. This indicates the link between the Cosmos and the Earth that was initiated in the most profound way two millennia ago. In the 2009 Easter Assembly, we contemplated what it meant to sacrifice something precious, and we heard about the sacrifice of a most remarkable individual, Caspar Hauser. This special soul was deprived of not only his childhood but also his destiny and finally his life by a mysterious set of events. The School reflected on the significance of his life. The Assembly closed by sharing a poem on Peace.
As part of Holy Week the Lower School classes plant bulbs. It is always a challenge for teachers of the younger classes to find the right metaphor for the Easter event, especially when Easter is in Autumn. In the Southern Hemisphere we do not have the pictures in nature of sprouting and the new life that speak to the resurrection, rather a dying-away that is more resonant of Good Friday. Whatever we bring must be borne not as image, but as imagination — what the bulb will become. The bulb in its unassuming solidity and brownness may appear dead, but it holds mystery and promise; a miracle is wrought out of what sleeps inside. In planting a bulb we plant hope — a belief in the power of the earth to transform and create.
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