By Kim Munch Michelsen.
(...) all my life, my search for you had no end.
And what made me seek, to such a measure,
was yourself, in me. Goethe about Ulrike von Levetzow
The souls have derived from God two by two. These are kindred souls. … The two kindred souls merge to form one whole. … The kindred souls are human souls, above which there is a perfect Spirit. … The kindred souls have an equal purpose, but have two different functions. … The kindred soul is a window, through which we see all souls and their beauty, that is why in the Love towards the kindred soul we love everybody. … After that, a pair will merge with another pair, then with a third, etc; eventually, all souls will merge, and the Cosmic human will be formed. ~Beinsa Douno
All creation starts with the one becoming two, and ends when the two become one.~#KimMM
Love is born into every human being, it calls back the halves of our original nature together, it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. ~Plato, The Symposium
There is a love beyond love that outlasts life.
Two souls born from one.
United like two flames. Identical and yet separate.
Sometimes together, by feeling and desire welded.
Sometimes separated to learn and grow. But always finding each other.
In other times, other places. Again and again.
~Tradition from the 6th century by the Japanese patriarch Tatsuya
Love as Nectar for the Gods
Love which is created by man is food to the gods. That is much more real than — say — electricity, however peculiar it seems at first, Love appears to begin with as sex-love and evolves up to the highest divine love. But all love, lower and higher, is breath of the gods. ~Rudolf Steiner
Where the cause of love lies not in the one who loves, but in the object of love, this form and kind of love in the sense world is absolute proof against every Luciferic influence. [egoism] ~R. Steiner
The kind words spoken to us have a direct effect on us, just as color affects our eyes directly. The love living in the other's soul is borne into your soul on the wings of the words. This is direct perception; there can be no question here of interpretation.… We live with the souls of others just as we live with colors and sounds. ~R. Steiner
Countless phenomena of life will become clear to us if we think of human nature as the working together of two polar opposites. In the man the masculine pole works outwards and the feminine lives more inwardly, while in the woman the opposite holds true. ~Rudolf Steiner GA 56
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. ~Dante Alighieri
In a private conversation with a brother, the Master said:
The souls have derived from God two by two. These are kindred souls. It is presumed that man will have 777 cardinal rebirths, and 12 of them will be epochal. Epochal rebirth is when two kindred souls meet on Earth. When the two that love each other meet on Earth, they say no bitter word to each other, and perform great things in Life.
In the other rebirths, when a soul is below, the other is above. The one that is above will choose somebody here, who looks like him, and through him he will manifest [Avatar.] However, that is beguilement and in that case man must have patience to wait.
Left hemisphere of the brain represents the etheric body and here the I AM of men are at home. the right hemisphere of the brain represents the astral body and here the I AM of women are at home.
▪️The two kindred souls merge to form one whole. The kindred souls are placed in order for the two of them to work like the right and the left hemisphere of the brain. This is called polarization. The other soul might be on the other side of the world or in the Invisible world; they will connect together. Space or matter can’t obstruct. That is a law of Love.
They are connected because her etheric body is a copy of his, and his astral body is a copy of hers. They differ in their I AM’s and that her I AM is conscious in her astral body and his I AM is conscious in his etheric body. What they each refine in these bodies are usable for both when they rebuild these the next time.
When you find your kindred soul, you come to the thoroughness of Love, then God manifests through you, and should He manifest, you learn, and when you learn, you will manifest. When the kindred souls help one another, the kinship becomes realized. It had been there earlier as well, but it is now being realized in another form.
The ideal Love is the love between the kindred souls. There is a difference between the love of the kindred souls and the love towards the others. The love between the kindred souls is a measure. There is nothing better than the kinship of souls. People consider marriage to be what it is not. When two kindred souls get married, the kinship disappears. When two kindred souls connect, they look for a third creature - God.
Every Angel has a kindred soul, as well as people.
The archetypal pair is Radha and Krishna, and the relationship is called Shakti and Shaktiman. See Radha-Krishna.
Steiner have described how the feminine I AM descends and the masculine I AM ascends and meet in the soul in our time, how Anthropos meet Sophia becoming Anthroposophia. See The Cosmic Christ. The two streams we know as Platonic and Aristotelian incarnate in this way, one person inspires from above while the other incarnate on the earth. This is why the platonic at the School of Chartres talked admiringly about Sophia who stayed above and why the Aristotelians/Anthroposophists at the start of the twentieth century talked so much about Michael.
Steiner describes how the feminine astral and masculine etheric prepared themselves in Lemuria.
The brother asked the Master: "What relation do the kindred souls have to the Spirit that is sent to man?"
The kindred souls, in their development, come down to Earth, when at one moment one of them becomes embodied, at another the other one does. Together they walk and help one another. The kindred souls are human souls, above which there is a perfect Spirit. This is namely the Spirit that guides them and distributes all goods. The kindred souls have an equal purpose, but have two different functions.
▪️When the kindred souls merge [b, c], the unity comes, and then the outward
contradictions disappear, a merger with the Lord [a] happens as well. Or, more properly speaking, these two kindred souls do not merge, but form a system. They do not become depersonalized.
▪️After that, a pair will merge with another pair, then with a third, etc; eventually, all souls will merge, and the Cosmic human will be formed. Thus, when the kindred souls merge two by two and more, they will become one whole; without becoming depersonalized, they will work together and will form a powerful force. All pairs, united together, will form a Universe, a whole.
▪️The two poles of a pair cannot be drawn together entirely. They have a certain relation between each other, as the two poles of the Earth. In the future, when two kindred souls merge, they will not be born in the same body on Earth, but in separate bodies; however, they will have a shared body, which will be uniting them. And then, they, with their separate bodies, will function like poles in that bigger body. The body that will unite them will be finer, thinner, and will invisibly envelop with its powers these two bodies.
Those things are not said to everyone. They are only for the devoted. They are spoken only to the most advanced students.
I was shown the earth from above. They placed me as a transparent soul on earth. Next to me another was placed and more and more were placed and we took the form of a very large transparent foundation stone.
We should not see ourselves as single individuals who have to fight to survive or to impose our will on the world, we are part of a larger context. If we follow our inspirations, then the world will help us because everyone's inspirations come from the same source. We should act in the now, we can't plan long into the future as we can't control the details, the world will fill in what's needed if we follow our inspirations. The spiritual world inspires us and makes sure that everything is carried out without risk and uncertainty, everyone completes their task, we should not worry about the tasks of others. Everything follows the plan, we should just follow our intuitions describing our roles.
The brother asked the Master: What is the relation between the love towards the kindred soul and Love towards everybody?
▪️The kindred soul is a kernel. All souls compose the common organism. When man loves the other people, with this he can love the kindred soul more. The kindred soul is a window, through which we see all souls and their beauty, that is why in the Love towards the kindred soul we love everybody.
▪️When man loves all people, he makes a connection with his kindred soul. The Love towards the others is the connection with the kindred soul. Should you meet with your kindred soul, there are no contradictions for you, you love everyone.
When the Love is selfless, the manifestations are ideological, elevated; if the idea in man does not alter, if his love does not alter as well, this shows that we are with real kindred souls. Once we come to the kindred souls, it already pertains to the Divine order.
In order for man to be able to manifest, two centers are needed; those are namely the kindred souls. The two kindred souls might be on the same stage of development, and it is also possible for the one to be more developed than the other. When two kindred souls meet on Earth, if there are favourable conditions, then both of them remain to work together. And sometimes, after a certain sojourn here, one of the kindred souls goes above, and the one that is below works under the impression of the latter, when it was on Earth.
▪️Through the kindred soul everything passes. If it is in the Invisible world, it is the hand, through which the things come to you. It is the inspirer. Everything that comes from God passes through it towards us, and through us towards it.
When man receives what comes from the kindred soul, he will then love everybody. The kindred souls represent the Divine side of Life. Without love towards the kindred soul, no Love towards the others can manifest. The Love towards the others is a polarization of the love towards the kindred soul. Imagine that there is a garden created by you. The one who plants and prepares the garden is your kindred soul.
When do the kindred souls merge? Ultimately, when they complete their evolution, they merge and work together.
The brother asked, "Is it good to direct our thought towards our kindred soul?"
You have to aspire to make room for the kindred soul to manifest through you. Open your heart towards it. Everything most ideal, which you can imagine, you shall deem your kindred soul.
▪️All kindred souls compose one whole. That body is Christ. In the kindred soul you will feel the presence of the Lord and the Christ.
▪️The two kindred souls are a collectivity. ✨The one kindred soul is a total of all creatures that have loved you, and the other - a total of all the souls that have loved those souls that form the collectivization of the other kindred soul.✨
So the two kindred souls are a collection of souls, loved and loving. This is for the Inner school. The two kindred souls walk in parallel and are connected with Supreme creatures that are on this path. The parallel lines are paths of Rational creatures. They do not come into collision, they do not intersect.
When two souls love each other, when they aspire to the Lord, their ways are parallel, there is harmony between them.
Rudolf Steiner on a Network of Love:
(…) If you try to picture the whole human race on the earth and all the bonds of friendship and love that have been woven, you must picture these relationships as a great network or web, which is, moreover, actually present in Devachan. June 7, 1909, Budapest, “Rosicrucian Esotericism.”
The brother asked, "Why are the two kindred souls, throughout the entire human evolution, found only 12 times simultaneously on Earth?"
▪️When the two kindred souls meet on Earth, if they are not ready, they will forget everything, they will forget to fulfill their duties, they will be entranced. And that is why it is allowed for them to meet only 12 times in favourable conditions. Then they display genius.
From Harmonizing the Human Soul, Kindred Souls p.173. http://petardanov.info/Knigi/en/HARMONIZING_OF_THE_HUMAN_SOUL.pdf
None other than the man can recognize the woman. Someone says: deep is the woman's heart! Indeed, deep down is the woman's heart! No one can recognize and measure it because its measure is great. Only one measure can determine the size of a woman's heart. What is this measure? The male heart. Only the male heart can swim across the ocean of the female heart. No other ship is able to sail this ocean.
Only the male heart has withstood the storms and the waves of this ocean. As many storms and waves occur in this ocean, the male heart is able to swim it, thanks to the female heart that protects it. Therefore, the male heart is a measure of the depth of the female heart. The man determines the character of the woman's heart. If the woman is dry, she will choose a little chubby man. If she is chubby, she will choose a slightly delicate, tall man.
If a woman's feelings are highly developed, she must choose a man with a highly developed mind. The law of contrasts manifests itself everywhere in life. When I talk about relations between men and women, I am looking at the intrinsic meaning of these relationships, not superficial relations. There is no point in talking about superficial relationships because they do not constitute strong relationships.
Nature recognizes only divine relationships, only divine relationships between men and women. Man and woman represent souls who have come out of God. Release the man from his form as well as the woman from her form and observe how they will love each other as souls.
Therefore, from the viewpoint of higher mathematics, by bringing these two souls together and merging them into one, their light will increase twice. At the same time, the warmth of these souls will increase twice. And we are not talking about the heat that burns, but the heat that brings life to itself.
As soon as the heat and light of these souls is doubled, at the same time, their intelligence and all other abilities will be increased. Until such a combination occurs, no future culture will be created.
In the future, men and women will not marry, but will unite as souls if they want to create a new generation that bears new ideals, a new life.
Future people must become the bearers of a lofty, divine ideal. Love is not just about being close to people, not just holding hands or just looking in the eyes. To look a person straight in the eyes, it means to look through the windows in his lit room.
If you love at least one person in the world, then knowledge, wisdom, poetry, art, science, and philosophy makes sense.
Who is this person whom you should love? Is it a person of the Earth? Should you love the pson? No, people of the Earth are only shadows, reflections.
You must find the soul of the one you love. Indeed the soul lives in the human body, but because of it, you will love the person.
There exists an ancient script in which the greatest ideal for the evolution of the “I,” the Christ Jesus, is characterised by the saying: When the two become one, when the external becomes like the inner, then man has attained the Christ nature in himself. That is the meaning of a certain passage in the so-called Egyptian Gospel. ~Rudolf Steiner
Fearing their [the androgynes] power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
…and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a moment...
and there is not a man or woman of them who, when they heard the proposal, would not acknowledge that this melting into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of their ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love." ~Plato, The Symposium
“Wenn ich einen Menschen wahrhaft liebe, so liebe ich alle Menschen, so liebe ich die Welt, so liebe ich das Leben. Wenn ich zu einem andern sagen kann: "Ich liebe dich", muss ich auch sagen können: "Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst." ~Erich Fromm, Die Kunst des Liebens