The 2024 season

A Harmonist spiritual center where we are one in the spirit and the earth is our family.

When the unseen becomes seen, the world changes, and the universe becomes one and whole. In this world of strife and divisiveness, it can be difficult to believe that we are part of a unified spirit. The question becomes how to recognize the spirit at all even though it's all around us. A blind person cannot see the sun even when staring directly at it. However, its presence becomes known by its warmth on the skin. It's like being part of an unfolding play being written daily by an all-creating, all-sustaining spiritual force manifesting itself at every moment. 

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Our image is the lily, a beautiful flower in a garden that needs to be tended. 

The Hermitage comprises historic buildings, the Mahantongo Heritage Center, exhibits, collections and craft shops, but, most of all, it is community and family; a place where the spirit incarnates in healing, beauty, harmony, and many, many animals and birds. It is a glowing facet of the jewel that is our sacred mother earth

We lived in the barn for nearly two years until moving a small log cabin and rebuilding it. 

Now the Hermitage comprises nearly 30 structures, including craft houses, a restored one-room school house, a restored general store and the 1758 community house. Many of these were moved to the site and adaptively reused. 

Our founder was Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf, who died in London in 1752 at the age of 24 and was the leader of the Moravian Single Brothers. They believed his spirit was reborn in a spring in Pennsylvania, and he remains our role model for uniting earth and spirit. 

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