{"id":2414,"date":"2010-01-24T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2012-12-04T20:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T03:52:26","slug":"uncommon-events-at-mount-ecclesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Events At Mount Ecclesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday evening, January 10, several friends lingered at Mount Ecclesia after the Chapel Service and\u00a0two afternoon lectures, for Dolores\u00a0Demick’s<\/strong> 99th birthday<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Her birthday\u00a0would not\u00a0actually be until January 12, but this was an opportunity to give recognition and have a little celebration with birthday cake\u00a0and lighted candles while friends were present to recognize her special day. \u00a0Dolores ate her cake and seemed to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

She thanked everyone for coming and invited\u00a0us to come again.\u00a0 \u00a0Richard and Amelia H, Jean d, Patricia T, Madeline B, Massimo D (visiting from Italy), Angela P, and\u00a0I all wished her a Happy Birthday, remarking on her wonderful achievement of 99 years and many, many years of service to the Fellowship.\u00a0 Not quite a week later, in the early morning of January 16, Dolores must have decided that she had had enough birthdays.\u00a0 She parted from us to join the others who had gone before her, all of whom remain pleasantly in our memories.<\/p>\n

In the 1970’s, Dolores and her sister, Juana, came from Puerto Rico to live and work at the Fellowship.\u00a0Dolores married Van\u00a0D in 1982.\u00a0\u00a0Dolores’s sister\u00a0 predeceased her,\u00a0and her husband died in 2002, but Dolores stayed on and continued to work in the Healing Department for several more years, until she retired in her 93rd year.<\/p>\n

Dolores is survived by a stepdaughter, Mary Elizabeth R, a niece Angela in Florida, a nephew Francisco in Puerto Rico, and a grand niece with children in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0A well-attended Memorial Service\u00a0was held on January 24 in the Pro-Ecclesia Chapel with a happy gathering of friends wishing her Godspeed.<\/p>\n

The second uncommon occurrence can best be told with a letter that we sent to the director of horticulture at San Diego Botanical Gardens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Ehrlinger,<\/p>\n

In 2002 and 2003 my husband and I were in your docent program.\u00a0\u00a0We lived at the time in\u00a0Oceanside\u00a0and worked at The Rosicrucian Fellowship.\u00a0\u00a0At the end of one of your sales, you generously donated many plants to the Fellowship for the memorial garden that my husband was building at the RF headquarters at\u00a02222 Mission Avenue,\u00a0Oceanside.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plant, Mediterranean Spurge, “Humpty Dumpty” or\u00a0Euphorbia characias subsp. Wulfenii,<\/strong>\u00a0is what I believe to be in the photo in the left foreground of the bigger plant.\u00a0 It or its parent may have come from SDBG.<\/p>\n

The parent produced seed, evidently, and now there is a very interesting growth on one of the offspring\u00a0which you will see in the second photo. \u00a0These pictures were taken a week ago when I was in Oceanside, visiting from Wisconsin.\u00a0 This\u00a0strange growth may not be unusual, but if it is, I thought\u00a0perhaps it would be of interest to you.<\/p>\n

I am no botanist, but it brings to mind the rogue growth of a witch’s broom and of their value in propagation for creating dwarf specimens.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"IMG_0238\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The odd branching with the serpentine edge that has the dense fringe of little leaves was very\u00a0interesting to me.<\/p>\n

Is this a rare anomaly or just a common occurrence?<\/p>\n

Mr. Ehrlinger responded:<\/p>\n

Hello<\/p>\n

Yes, that is quite interesting.<\/p>\n

It is a rare witches’ broom anomaly that I haven’t seen before.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the photo!<\/p>\n

Dave \u00a0Ehrlinger<\/p>\n

Director of Horticulture<\/p>\n

San Diego Botanic Garden<\/p>\n

P.O. Box 230005<\/p>\n

Encinitas, CA 92023-0005\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As long as you use asexual reproduction, (vegetative propagation) you can multiply\u00a0a new organism true to form.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>If it is successful it could be a new\u00a0species that might be sold to a large nursery company.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It has a very distinctive and attractive form.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Ken R and I, with the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, had visited a man in <\/span>Iowa<\/span> several years ago who specialized in propagation from hard-to-find witches’ brooms and created\u00a0new species from them.\u00a0 Ken actually persuaded the man to part with one of his “babies” which was a dwarf pine\u00a0that he had named the ‘Saint Clare,’<\/em> and had propagated from the witch’s broom found in a standard sized pine.\u00a0 The new dwarf specimen, one of about 15 that the man was able to\u00a0extract from the broom, still grows in its tiny size where Ken planted it in our yard.\u00a0 This was where I learned about witches’ brooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jean\u00a0d recommended Seth R, a volunteer worker at Mount Ecclesia who has an interest in plants, to be God’s co-creator to see if he can produce a new species\u00a0from Euphorbia characias.\u00a0 <\/em>We will inform you of all positive developments.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, in the third uncommon development<\/strong>, it may have been only a few minutes after Angela P began her new volunteer occupation in the Business Office at Mount Ecclesia when a woman came through the door announcing that she wanted to buy some books.\u00a0 She wanted one copy of every book that Augusta Heindel wrote.\u00a0 Angela scurried to find the price list and to determine if there is any other book in print by Mrs. Heindel other than \u201cMemoirs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMemoirs\u201d<\/em> seemed to be it, and the woman started talking about how she had possessed all of Augusta\u2019s books, 3 or 4 of them, and also some mementos of her great aunt, but all had been lost by happenstance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer great aunt?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Our visitor, K. Curliss of Joshua Tree, California, informed us that she is the grand niece of Augusta Heindel!\u00a0 Her\u00a0grandmother was Augusta\u2019s sister, Louisa Foss Brockway.\u00a0 Almost immediately, the camera jumped out of the bag, and, “click,” we got a picture of Angela selling Mrs. Heindel’s book to Mrs. Heindel’s grand niece. \u00a0Kathleen Louise May Curliss, who now goes by K. Curliss<\/em>,\u00a0left with her new copy of Memoirs<\/em>\u00a0and with The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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