By Kim Munch Michelsen. pdf 20240829
The more advanced a person is, the more he comes to recognise that human beings are on different levels of development and that there have always been those who were more advanced than their brethren – the spiritual leaders of humanity who are more advanced in their development, the highly developed, the most advanced individualities of humankind. ~Rudolf Steiner GA 264.
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 [soul world]. … It is from there that the impulse is brought to make brotherliness a reality here on the earth. [The soul is beauty, truth and caring love.] ~Rudolf Steiner, see later: Bonds of Love Between Souls.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
~Rabindranath Tagore, see later: ...loved you in numberless forms, numberless times....
“We are the poem's ancient band of twelve that proceeds through the ages. There were twelve of us, when we ruled the world on the cloud-covered top of Olympus, and twelve when we lived as birds in Ygdrasil's green crown. Wherever poetry went forth, there we followed. Did we not sit, twelve men strong, at King Arthur's round table, and did twelve paladins not go in Charles the Twelfth's great army? One of us has been Thor, another Jupiter, as any man should be able to see in us yet today. The divine splendor can be sensed under the rags, the lion's mane under the donkey hide. Time has treated us badly, but when we are there, the smithy becomes Mount Olympus and the cavalier's wing a Valhalla.” ― Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berling's Saga
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 old souls have followed the Logos from the start of earth, was selected and educated in old Lemuria to walk in the steps of the Logos. They have worked as group souls for the rest of humanity, have lead the tribes until Golgotha. Their souls worked from outside and into man until Golgotha, but at Golgotha the souls died in the outer world to resurrect with Christ into the inner of man. This was especially a shock for the old souls, where they had led the body from above they were now within the body, and it can be likened with a rider trying to tame a horse, and death meant that they had been thrown of.
In the start, the bodies were very primitive and only a select group of
people was ready to incarnate in these bodies. These pioneers had to walk the
path first to make sure that it was possible for every soul incarnating to walk
the path. As time went the bodies became more and more developed and more people
could incarnate. The oldest souls acted as teachers for the younger souls, and
these again became teachers for souls younger than them, and so forth.
Up through our life, we meet the people we have shared karma with so we can handle our karma, to dissolve it. The more lives we have lived the earlier we have to start our repetition, and the more compressed the lives are. And the problems comes as beads on a string.
There is, therefore, the rule, that the earlier in your life you gain knowledge about the spiritual, the older you are as a soul. I am born into a Rosicrucian family, I have never believed in death, and neither in an outer God. That I was an old soul was, of course, kind of an abstract idea for me, but later I was told that I had been incarnating from the very start. Another experience was when I found out who was incarnated as Peter Deunov/Beinsa Douno, a warm feeling filled me, and I heard the words that we were old friends, and I knew he was with us from the start.
Those who incarnate on Earth comes from four different development waves, we know them through the four human group souls, man, bull, lion, an eagle, where the eagle is the oldest beings, and man the youngest. Man developed from the animals or animal-like beings, where the others are stragglers from earlier development waves.
God is not a magician, he creates through his own example, and we are not developed on an assembly line, we are each an individuality with each our own history, so we can't be alike, and God wants us to be different as it increases the shared wisdom of humanity.
When the old souls were working for the Logos their etheric or astral body contained the powers of the Logoi, but when they were developing themselves they were without these special powers. Today they are all incarnated with their natural powers, to go through the initiation on their own. Many of them have the little pride coming from being the teachers of the Logos, so they have gone through an incarnation where they were the lowest of all, been the odd one out, to learn humility to be able to love themselves without a trace of egoism. As they are strong souls they meet their karma as beads on a string where younger souls handle much less karma, as this is hard enough for them.
The old souls live most of their lives without knowing other old souls, actually feeling quite alone and different, even as a aria, often as a servant and underpaid teacher. They long for company, but are usually disappointed as few understand their thoughts, so they actually feel good alone creating art or making their work to art.
They have karmic relation to the people around them, they are part of their soul group, and have followed them a long time, although some have left and others have come to their group up through time. They have love for them, but they long for a love that are as strong as their own. If the old souls met each other when they were young, they wouldn’t feel alone, they wouldn’t feel different as they had each other to mirror in. The biggest danger would be if they forgot the responsibility toward their soul group with the younger souls and only played with each other, what would be much more fun, they could enjoy each other’s creative ideas, they would be understood.
The old souls learns meekness through feeling different, and lives as a servant, as only those who understand others can be a true servant, what the young souls can’t. The often prefer to do things themselves, easier to do it themselves than instruct others and the result is better. They are born with love in their soul, they care. But they have to learn to give help to self help, to learn that they can’t handle others problems, others karma, they can’t save the world, bear the burden of the world on their shoulders alone. Their low self esteem makes them ready to give their life for others, makes them sacrifice their own happiness for others. Happiness are often a dream for them, not necessarily something they have experienced. But when they sacrifice their life for others they actually make the young soul to an ungrateful junkie of their service, a kind of vampire. They should understand it should be a joy to help others, if it isn't a joy, the relationship is fundamentally wrong.
The largest problem for the old soul is to understand that they are lovable, because they are! Their soul is beauty, truth and loving care, it’s the stuff the soul consists of. It’s actually a tragedy as most old souls are loved by their surroundings, but they don’t see it, they have been alienated through so many years. They can’t believe it, even when seeing it, and they often obstruct others when they try to show affection or love, not to be disappointed. They have many problems getting anima and animus to love each other, make thought, feelings and inspiration to understand each other, loving their own physical manifestation in the world, filling their heart with joy, love and courage.
Kim Graae Munch
The old souls are the people who were selected and educated in the start of the earth development to follow the Logos through the creation.
From Cosmic Memory, The Lemurian Race.
The fourth, the Atlantean root race, was preceded by the so-called Lemurian. During its development, events of the very greatest importance occurred with respect to the earth and to men.
Here, however, something will first be said of the character of this root race after these events, and only then will the latter be discussed. By and large, memory was not yet developed among this race. While men could have ideas of things and events, these ideas did not remain in the memory.
Therefore they did not yet have a language in the true sense. Rather what they could utter were natural sounds which expressed their sensations, pleasure, joy, pain and so forth, but which did not designate external objects.
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The Lemurians did not have dwellings in our sense, except in their latest times. They lived where nature gave them the opportunity to do so. The caves which they used were only altered and extended insofar as necessary.
Later they built such caves themselves and at that time they developed great skill for such constructions.
One must not imagine, however, that they did not also execute more artful constructions. But these did not serve as dwellings. In the earliest times they originated in the desire to give to the things of nature a man-made form. Hills were remodeled in such a way that the form afforded man joy and pleasure.
Stones were put together for the same purpose, or in order to be used for certain activities. The places where the children were hardened were surrounded with walls of this kind.
Toward the end of this period, the buildings which served for the cultivation of “divine wisdom and divine art” became more and more imposing and ornate.
These institutions differed in every respect from what temples were later, for they were educational and scientific institutions at the same time. He who was found fit was here initiated into the science of the universal laws and into the handling of them.
If the Lemurian was a born magician, this talent was here developed into art and insight.
Only those could be admitted who, through all kinds of discipline, had acquired the ability to overcome themselves to the greatest extent.
For all others what went on in these institutions was the deepest secret. Here one learned to know and to control the forces of nature through direct contemplation of them.
But the learning was such that in man the forces of nature changed into forces of the will.
He himself could thereby execute what nature accomplishes. What later mankind accomplished by reflection, by calculation, at that time had the character of an instinctive activity. But here one must not use the word “instinct” in the same sense in which one is accustomed to apply it to the animal world.
For the activities of Lemurian humanity towered high above everything the animal world can produce through instinct. They even stood far above what mankind has since acquired in the way of arts and sciences through memory, reason and imagination.
If one were to use an expression for these institutions which would facilitate an understanding of them, one could call them “colleges of will power and of the clairvoyant power of the imagination.”
From them emerged the men who, in every respect, became rulers of the others.
Today it is difficult to give in words a true conception of all these conditions. For everything on earth has changed since that time. Nature itself and all human life were different, therefore human labor and the relationship of man to man differed greatly from what is customary today.
The air was much thicker even than in later Atlantean times, the water much thinner. And what forms the firm crust of our earth today was not yet as hard as it later became.
The world of plants and animals had developed only as far as the amphibians, the birds, and the lower mammals, and as far as vegetable growths which resemble our palms and similar trees.
However, all forms were different from what they are today. What now exists only all in forms was then developed to gigantic sizes. At that time our small ferns were trees and formed mighty forests.
The modern higher mammals did not exist. On the other hand a great part of humanity was on such a low stage of development that one cannot but designate it as animal.
What has been described here was true only of a small part of mankind, The rest lived their life in animalism. In their external appearance and in their way of life these animal men were quite different from the small group. They were not especially different from the lower mammals, which resembled them in form in certain respects.
A very interesting part of this text is about the teaching of the men and woman, a little understood text.
The etheric body is added to the human constitution on the old Sun with the Michael as the archetype. The etheric body is the life-body behind the physical, it's plantlike in consciousness and is used by the gods when they work into the etheric or physical world.
The astral body is added to the human constitution on the old Moon with Sophia as the archetype. The astral is a younger body than the etheric, but more sophisticated, it makes humanity sentient.
The etheric body is the masculine side of man and the astral is the feminine side, where the astral is feeling and the etheric is thinking, and the goal of the earth is to make thinking and feelings trust each other, make the etheric and astral love each other, this is what is meant by loving ourselves.
Men have their I AM conscious in the etheric body and women in the astral body, and the masculine I AM have ascended from the physical and up, and the female I AM have descended from Manas and down, working together on the creation as a potters hands, from inside and outside. They are meeting in the soul in our time, he is Anthropos and she is Sophia and together they become Anthroposophia. [See Cosmic Christ.] Women are nearer the spiritual and men nearer the physical and it explains the difference between the genders. This difference is more expressed by young souls while old souls have developed both sides, but they become more their true gender with soul age.
Before man separated in two genders, before he received his astral body, the women inspired the masculine part below. She began incarnating when the bodies were ready for women to incarnate. The story about Moses and Zipporah, Krishna and Radha, Thor and Sif, Osiris, Isis and Horus, Orpheus and Eurydike, and Gilgamesh and Enkido/Shamhat is about this. These two I AM’s has always been connected and he has a copy of her astral body and she has a copy of his etheric body and they usually incarnate interchangeably with the one inspiring from above, alternating their work on these bodies. He is part of the Platonic wave and she is part of the Aristotelian wave, and today they are both incarnated in the epochal meeting.
From Cosmic Memory, The Lemurian Race.
Of special importance is something which occurred in the course of Lemurian development by virtue of the fact that the women lived in the manner described above. They thereby developed special human powers. Their faculty of imagination which was in alliance with nature, became the basis for a higher development of the life of ideas. They took the forces of nature into themselves, where they had an after-effect in the soul. Thus the germs of memory were formed. With memory was also born the capacity to form the first and simplest moral concepts.
The development of the will among the male element at first knew nothing of this. The man followed instinctively either the impulses of nature or the influences emanating from the initiated.
It was from the manner of life of the women that the first ideas of “good and evil” arose. There one began to love some of the things which had made a special impression on the imagination, and to abhor others.
While the control which the male element exercised was directed more toward the external action of the powers of the will, toward the manipulation of the forces of nature, beside it in the female element there developed an action through the soul, through the inner, personal forces of man.
The development of mankind can only be correctly understood by the one who takes into consideration that the first progress in the life of the imagination was made by women. The development connected with the life of the imagination, with the formation of memory, of customs which formed the seeds for a life of law, for a kind of morals, came from this side.
If man had seen and exercised the forces of nature, woman became the first interpreter of them. It was a special new manner of living through reflection which developed here. This manner had something much more personal than that of the men.
One must imagine this manner of the women to have been also a kind of clairvoyance, although it differed from the magic of the will of the men. In her soul woman was accessible to another kind of spiritual powers. The latter spoke more to the feeling element of the soul, less to the spiritual, to which man was subject. Thus there emanated from men an effect which was more natural-divine, from women one which was more soul-divine.
From Rudolf Steiner, lecture 15 february 1909. Disease Karma and Healing.
If we go back into the past to the remote Lemurian time, we find the most varied stages of development among the human beings then incarnated. All the souls embodied at that time have since repeatedly experienced reincarnations during the succeeding Atlantean and post-Atlantean periods.
These souls have developed with varying rapidity. Some have made relatively slow progress through their incarnations and still have long distances to travel in the future.
But there are also souls who have developed rapidly, who, one might say, have utilized their incarnations to better advantage and are therefore at a stage of soul-spiritual development that will be attained by normal men only in the far distant future.
Nevertheless, we may say that however advanced these individual souls may be, however far they may tower above normal men, they have still followed the same path in earthly evolution as the rest of humanity but have merely advanced more rapidly.
The Michael Power and the Michael Will are none other than the Christ Will and the Christ Power, going before in order to implant in the right way into the Earth the Power of the Christ. From Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address.
From The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis Steiners last address
That you yourselves, my dear friends, in so far as you truly and honestly incline to the Anthroposophical Movement, belong to these souls — this I have endeavoured to make clear to you in the lectures of the last weeks and especially also in the lectures where I spoke to you directly of the karma of the Anthroposophical Society. We can however carry these considerations a little further, and that is what I want to do today.
Let us now bring before our souls beings who are intimately connected, and will always be intimately connected, with the Michael stream, in the sense in which we have described it here.
This will be the fundamental characteristic of the Manus of the Sixth Root Race. Such Beings have to undergo all kinds of Initiation, to be initiated again and again.
Hence the Fifth Root Race from its outset has always had Initiates, men who were so initiated as to enable them to walk their own freely willed path. This was not the case during the Lemurian period, nor even in Atlantis.
Both in Lemuria and Atlantis, those who helped mankind forward, those who ruled and guided mankind, those who were political leaders and leaders of great religious communities, were under the influence of Higher Beings. They were directly dependent upon Higher Beings, Beings who had gone through their own development on other planets.
It is not until the Fifth Root Race that mankind is left free. Then we have Initiates who have a connection with Higher Beings, but to whom such comprehensive guidance is not given. More and more freedom is allowed to the Initiates of the Fifth Root Race in matters of detail. Guidance is given along general lines, not only to the Initiates but to those who are stimulated by them. Impulses are given to them but yet in such a way that it is out of their own spirituality that they have to carry things out ...
Steiner says that Alexander the Great is the hand of Michael on earth, like Krishna describe Arjunas mission. This is also the reason for the power of Gilgamesh, he is Michael on earth, like the Lion Avatar of Krishna.
From Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture VII: The New Age of Michael
To think — to live in thoughts that spring forth from within — as we do today, was impossible for the men of ancient times. They might be wise, indeed infinitely wiser than modern humanity, but they were not ‘clever’ in the sense of cleverness today. Today we call a man clever who is able to produce thoughts out of himself, who is able to think logically — to bring one thought into connection with another, and so forth. In olden times there was no such thing — no such thing as Thoughts independently produced.
The Thoughts were sent down to the earth at one and the same time with the Revelations that came to man from the spiritual world. Man did not think and ponder, but he received the spiritual content by Revelation, and he received it in such a way that the Thoughts came with it. Today we think and ponder about things. In those ancient times the impressions which the souls received brought the Thoughts with them. The Thoughts were inspired, not self-made Thoughts.
Now he who ordered the Cosmic Intelligence which thus came to man along with the spiritual Revelations — he who ordered this Cosmic Intelligence, who had, so to speak, dominion over it, — is the same spiritual Being whom we, when we make use of our Christian terminology, call the Archangel Michael. He had to administer the Cosmic Intelligence in the cosmos.
We must make clear to ourselves what this really means. It is a fact that such human beings as Alexander the Great, though in a somewhat different context of ideas, had a distinct consciousness of the fact that their thoughts came to them by way of Michael. True, the spiritual Being whom we mean, was called by a different name. We are making use of the Christian terminology, but it is not the terminology that matters.
Such a man as Alexander the Great regarded himself as none other than a Missionary of Michael, an instrument of Michael. He could think in no other way than this: Michael is acting on the earth, and I am the instrument through which he acts. Such was the conception, and this gave him the strength of will in deed and action. Nor did a thinker in that time think differently than thus, that Michael was working in him and giving him the thoughts.
From Atlantis and Lemuria by Rudolf Steiner
The chief leaders of the fifth Atlantean sub-race gradually prepared their charges so that in later days, and after the mode of life then obtaining in Atlantean times had fallen into disuse they might be ready to start afresh and regulate their lives entirely in accordance with thought power.
We have now to visualize that about the close of the Atlantean period there were various groups of man-like beings on earth : there were in the first place the ' Messengers of the Gods.' whose spiritual development far excelled that of the great mass of humanity ; and these taught spiritual wisdom and performed god-like acts. Secondly. there was the great mass of humanity itself, at that time destined to gradual extinction, where thought-power was as yet but dull, although these people possessed certain natural abilities which are lost to man in the present day. And, thirdly, there was a little group, whose thought-power was being developed.
The members of this little group, as they increased in intelligence, forfeited those natural gifts ; but on the other hand, they became capable of thoughtfully apprehending the principles made known to them by the 'Messengers of the Gods'; and having enjoyed the assistance given them by these 'Messengers' were now fit to undertake their own guidance.
It was from among the most capable members of this third group that the Manu (this being the name by which these principal leaders are known in theosophical literature), selected the fittest in order to form the new race, and those fittest were chosen from among the fifth sub-race.
As far as the sixth and seventh sub-race were concerned thought power had, in their case, wandered to a certain extent into bypaths-so to speak and no longer admitted of being developed to the best advantage. But what was now imperatively needed was that the best qualities characterizing the best type should be utilized to the fullest, and this was done when the leader of those fittest took this little group to a sequestered spot-the place was in Central Asia-and there separated them from all intercourse with those who were less advanced, or who had gone astray.
From Bernhard Lievegoed - Toward the 21st Century - Doing the Good: Lecture I: Old and New Mysteries
Of these godly Manus one never knew, “Is this a Manu or not?” This could only be known by clairvoyance, by seeing the light which was around such a person, and at one moment he might be a Manu, and at the next a human being. But these Manus led the best of the people of the Sun mysteries, in the fifth Atlantean period, over to the east. They led these people to the east in two streams.
One stream went from the north Atlantic region, where during the fifth period the people lived, to the north of the Mediterranean region, northwards through the south of Europe, going to the Gobi desert where Indians at that time were working with holy Sun powers in the etheric sphere. There they could bring a small group of people under the influence of the Sun forces.
I have said the Gobi desert. But when you read the old stories of the Chinese and of the Mongolian people, they tell of the Gobi desert as a lake, a region with islands and peninsulas, with a rich vegetation and a most beautiful climate. Three islands stood out. To these withdrew the old mysteries. These Mongolian stories are a remembrance of that old time.
On these islands were the highest mysteries of mankind. There these people could be protected and preserved. They lived there for long periods, to be prepared to go as Sun people to establish the post-Atlantean cultures.
The seven Rishis came from there. Zarathustra came out of these mysteries. And Hermes. They were sent from there to found new cultures in the post-Atlantean periods. This was the northern stream.
The northern stream was the main stream and this was under the direct Sun forces, as the godly Manu went with them. But you also had the helpers of the Manu, who stayed on the wayside here and there and worked among the population which afterwards came to live and develop in these countries. The Accadian period and the last pre-Mongolian period closed the seventh period of Atlantis.
There was a second stream, a southern stream. One went north, the other south. The southern stream was lead by a helper of the Manu. In the Bible he is called Noah.
In anthroposophical circles there are people who say Noah is the Manu. This is not untrue, because he was one of those highly developed men who could take into himself the forces of the Sun.
But this southern stream had another task. While the northern stream had to develop the Sun forces in thinking, the southern stream was more a stream of Moon forces — a stream in which the Sun was reflected in the Moon.
People of the southern stream gave much importance to heredity. They had in their mysteries the mystery of heredity. When you read in the Bible about all those hereditary tables from Adam to Jesus of Nazareth, you find something which is out of the tradition of the southern stream — the southern stream which tries to keep mankind pure.
In the purity of their bodies they could receive the inspiration of the Sun there. But it was reflected through the Moon. So the mysteries of the southern stream were Sun mysteries coming through the Moon. And the mysteries of the northern stream were direct Sun mysteries.
In the Bible are places where people of both streams meet. Abraham was one of the great initiates of the southern stream. He had to meet Melchizedek. Melchizedek was one of the great messengers of the sun Manu, the northern stream.
Melchizedek brought wine and bread to Abraham. This was a sign of uniting the northern and the southern streams.
From that moment on, the people of Abraham had both the forces of the Moon and the reflected Sun working through Abraham and the pure hereditary line, and, on the other side, the direct forces of the Sun working in the celebration of the wine and the bread.
In this way, we see how the incarnation of Jesus Christ was prepared. This could only take place where the northern and the southern streams came together. A small group of people was preserved so that both human stature and rightful thinking could go together.
Luigi Morelli:
Karl Julius Schröer and Rudolf Steiner:
Anthroposophy and the Teachings of Karma and Reincarnation.
The year 1888 was clearly a turning point in Steiner’s life in relation to his faculties of karmic perception. Steiner had been touched by the poems of Fercher von Steinwand, and had an opportunity to meet the reclusive poet. In him he recognized someone whose strong individuality could not be explained by his environment. Steiner felt that, although advanced in age, Steinwand was the youngest in spirit of all the people around him. “His facial expression and every gesture revealed to me a soul being who could only have been molded at the time of Greek paganism and its influence on the development of Christianity at the beginning of the Christian era,” is Steiner’s comment in his autobiography.(1)
1) Rudolf Steiner, Autobiography, Chapter 20. Friedrich Zauner has continued the poet’s characterization and come to the conclusion, agreed upon by T. H. Meyer, that he was the reincarnation of Dionysius the Areopagite. This had played an important part in Aquinas’ education. See Rudolf Steiner’s Core Mission: the Birth and Development of Spiritual-Scientific Karma Research, T. H. Meyer, 2009 (translated 2010) (Forest Row, UK: Temple Lodge, 2010) 44.
The old souls acts as group souls for each their group of younger souls before Golgotha. The souls hovered above the bodies before Golgotha as the bodies wasn't ready to contain the souls. At Golgotha the souls entered the bodies and it was especially a problem for the old souls as it limited them significantly, they couldn't teach their students in their soul group as they could before.
Christ was the group soul of humanity, he have hovered above the bodies of humanity from the start, lead them from animal to a body the soul could incarnate in. He was both an individual god, but contained also all the souls that have lead each body from outside through long times. Humanity couldn't recognize him when he was incarnated, only his nearest disciples and a number of other highly developed understood who he was. He knew humanity better than they knew themselves. He knew precisely who they were, so he didn't take it personal, he was sad on their behalf. They were children.
When Christ died the outer gods died, they no longer were outside man. When Christ resurrected the gods resurrected inside man, the soul incarnated inside the body, they didn't hover above man like before. This was a shock both for the body and the soul, the soul can be likened with a rider trying to tame a wild horse, the ego.
Old heroes like Hector and great philosophers like Empedocles were group-soul's for large groups of younger souls. For them it was a great shock to incarnate into a body after Golgotha. They were in the same situation as Christ, they were still the teacher of the group, but many in the group didn't recognize them or wouldn't accept them as their wise older brothers, or expected more of them than they could give. These old souls, teachers, had to find out how to work as teachers again, and it was hard.
I think many old souls who have been in the hands of narcissists have been in the hands of very young persons from their group, that they had to learn to teach, instead of sacrificing themselves for these young souls. They loved really these young souls, but they couldn't find out how to help them, they often sacrificed their own lives for them instead of teaching them through their own example. See also Esoteric Earth History.
From The Gospel of St. Mark, Lecture 1.
Consider one of his [Homer] characters, Hector. If you have any time available, you ought to study the figure of Hector in the Iliad — how plastically he is described so that he stands as a complete personality before us; how we see his affection for his paternal city, Troy, his wife Andromache, his relationship to Achilles, and to his armies; and how he commanded them. Try to call up this man before your minds, this man who possessed all the tenderness of a husband, and who clung in the ancient way to his home city of Troy, and who suffered such disillusions as only really great men can. Remember his relation with Achilles. Hector, as presented by Homer, is a towering figure from very ancient times, a man of great all-embracing humanity, for of course what Homer is describing belongs to a period well before his own, in the darkness of the past. Hector stands out above all the others, all those figures who seem mythical enough in the eyes of modern men.
Now take this one figure. ... Hector was a living person who strode through Troy, and Achilles and the other figures were equally real. They still stand before us as personages of real earthly life. We look back to them as people of a different kind from ourselves, who are difficult to understand but whom the poet is able to bring before our souls in every detail. Now let us place before our souls a figure such as Hector, one of the chief Trojan commanders, who is defeated by Achilles. In such a personage we have something that belongs to the old pre-Christian age, something by which we can measure what men were before the time when Christ lived on earth.
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The real figure underlying Hamlet, as presented by Shakespeare, is Hector. The same soul that lived in Hamlet lived in Hector. It is just by such a characteristic example as this, and the striking way the two different souls manifest themselves, that we can interpret what happened in the intervening time.
A personality such as that of Hector stands before us in the pre-Christian age. Then comes the intervention of the Mystery of Golgotha in human evolution, and the spark it kindled in Hector's soul causes a figure, a prototype of Hamlet, to arise, of whom Goethe said, “This is a soul that is unable to deal with any situation and is not equal to its position, who is assigned tasks but is unable to fulfill them.”
... Why does Shakespeare choose particular qualities in Hamlet and sharply emphasize them, qualities that perhaps Hamlet's own contemporaries would not have noticed? Because he observes them against the background of the era. He feels how different a soul has become in its transition from the old life to the new. Hamlet, the doubter, the skeptic, who has lost the ability to cope with the situations with which he meets in life, the procrastinator and waverer, this is what Hector, once so sure of himself, has become.
... I have mentioned two characteristic figures, in both of whom we can perceive that when great men of earlier times reappear in a modern post-Christian age, they are shaken to the very depths of their souls and can only with difficulty adjust themselves to life. Everything that was within them in the past is still within them.
For example, when we allow Hamlet to work upon us, we feel that the whole force of Hector is in him. But we feel that this force cannot come forth in the post-Christian era, that it then meets with obstacles, that something now works upon the soul that is the beginning of something new, whereas in the figures of antiquity something was coming to an end. So do these figures stand plastically delineated before us; both Hector and Empedocles represent a conclusion.
But what is working on further in mankind must find new paths into new incarnations. This is revealed with Hector in Hamlet and also with Empedocles in Faust, who had within him all the abysmal urges toward the depths of nature. Because he had within him the whole nature of Empedocles, he could say, “I will lay aside the Bible for a time and study nature and medicine. I will no longer be a theologian.” He felt the need to have dealings with demonic beings who made him roam through the world leaving him marveling but uncomprehending. Here the Empedocles element had an after-effect but was not able to adjust itself to what a man must be after the new age had begun.
... If we inquire what happened between the two incarnations of such individualities, the answer always is the Mystery of Golgotha, which was announced by the Baptist when he said, “The time is fulfilled, the kingdoms of the spirit, or the kingdoms of heaven, are passing over into the kingdom of man.” Yes, the kingdoms of heaven did indeed powerfully seize the human kingdom, but those who take this in an external sense are unable to understand it.
They seized it so powerfully that the great men of antiquity, who had been in themselves so solid and compact, had to make a new beginning in human evolution on earth. This new beginning showed itself precisely with them, and lasted until the end of the old epoch, with the Mystery of Golgotha. At that time something that had been fulfilled ebbed away, something which had presented men in such a way that they appeared as rounded personalities in themselves.
Then came something that made it necessary for these souls to make a new beginning. Everything had to be transformed and altered so that great souls appeared small. They had to be transformed into the stage of childhood, for something quite new was beginning. We must inscribe this in our souls if we wish to understand what is meant at the beginning of the Gospel of St. Mark by the words “a beginning.” Yes, truly a beginning, a beginning that shakes the inmost soul to its foundations and brings a totally new impulse into human evolution, a “beginning of the Gospel.”
What then is the Gospel? It is something that comes down to us from the kingdoms we have often described, where dwell the higher hierarchical beings, among whom are the angels and archangels. It descends through the world that rises above the human world. So do we gain an inkling of the deeper meaning of the word Gospel. It is an impulse that descends through the realms of the archangels and angels; it comes down from these kingdoms and enters into mankind. None of the abstract translations really covers the matter adequately.
In reality the word Gospel should indicate that at a certain time something begins to flow in upon the earth which formerly flowed only where there dwell the angels and archangels. Something descended to earth that shook the souls of men and shook the strongest souls most. It is here noted that this was the beginning, and the beginning has a continuation. The beginning was made at that time, and we shall see that fundamentally the whole development of humanity since then is a continuation of that beginning when the impulse began to flow down from the kingdom of the angeloi, or what we call the “ev-angel” or Gospel.
The "Initiates of the Grail" or "Servants of the Grail" is also the old souls, those who walk with Christ. The Holy Grail
There are hints about the New Humanity in the New Testament and specially in Revelation. The Evangelist John, two thousand years ago, saw the woman pregnant with this great idea, the New Humanity, and fixed the number of the chosen ones, the bearers of this idea at 144 000 persons. If you add these numbers 1+4+4 = 9, the number 9 signifies an evolution of men who have all the positive, noble qualities.
Some would say that these l44 000 persons are in heaven. No, they are now here, on earth; they are incarnated among the intelligent people. Some of them are writers; others, poets or men of science; and all of them push humanity forward on the path toward the new idea, toward the Divine.
These are the enemies of darkness, of the fetters that enchain humanity. And the world-wide unrest, this great change that is coming, is due to them. They will turn this world upside down.
The teachers can work at least in two ways on earth, as a normal incarnation or as a Bodhisattva also called Avatar. As an Avatar the teacher creates a body with karma and gives it to a compatible person and takes over this person's body with its karma, and through the first thirty years, he works with this person's karma while also preparing his own mission. First, between thirty and thirty-three does he manifest visibly that he is an Avatar, and it happens when his etheric and or astral body is replaced with the bodies needed for his mission.
The teacher can both be incarnated in his own body with its karmic restrictions, and at the same time work through an Avatar body. Alexander the Great was an Avatar incarnation with one of the most important missions in the history of the earth, but at the same time the being behind Alexander had a normal incarnation as the Greek sculptor Praxiteles.
Through the first thirty years the Bodhisattva goes through a normal life purifying the physical, etheric and astral bodies, first thereafter he becomes the Bodhisattva.
Only those possessed of understanding will recognize the presence of a Bodhisattva in such a human being, manifesting between the ages of thirty and thirty-three and not before. Something akin to an exchange of personality then takes place. ~Steiner: The Etherization of the Blood, ga130
When we reach a certain level we are not forced to handle our karma unconsciously, we can choose to take over karma and traumas from people we have hurt to help them on their way. And we do that by preparing a body for them to take over while we move into their body. Without this the human development would take much longer.
Through the present leadership of Michael man will now learn to make a very significant decision at the moment when he has already taken on his Karma — taken it into his new ether-body — but is still only setting out upon the way into the physical. With the increasing spread of spiritual knowledge on the Earth and with man’s growing experience within himself of universal human love, the following possibility will arise for mankind in coming time. …
Through something that I did in former lives I see that I have gravely hurt some other human being. … Here too in future time the light of Michael will be working, and the love of Christ. And we shall then be enabled to bring about a change in our decision, — namely to give to the other man the body we have been preparing, while we ourselves take on the body he prepared, whom we have injured. Such is the mighty transition which will be taking place from now onward in the spiritual life of men. It will be possible for us of our own decision to enter into the body prepared perforce by another human soul to whom we once did grievous harm; he on the other hand will be enabled to enter into the body we prepared.
What we are able to achieve on Earth will thus bring about Karmic compensation in quite another way than heretofore. We human beings shall be able even to exchange our physical bodies. Indeed, the Earth could never reach her goal if this did not take place; mankind would never grow into a single whole. ~Steiner: Christ and the Metamorphoses of Karma
Humanity was created in pairs, the feminine and masculine. In the first part of earth the feminine part worked from above as group soul inspiring their other part below. When humankind separated into the two sexes, as we got the astral body, the feminine part entered the physical too. The masculine came from below creating in the physical sphere where the feminine came from above. This is also visible in our bodies, the masculine is more physical and the feminine more spiritual.
The Aristotelian stream is the feminine stream and the Platonic is the masculine stream. When the Aristotelian stream is down the Platonic partners inspire from above, this is why Michael is so important in their thinking. When the Platonic stream is incarnating they talk about Sophia as they are inspired by their feminine half who stayed above. The partner staying above may work through an avatar as a helping hand or muse for the one incarnating.
The two streams work on the astral and etheric bodies, the feminine and masculine side, to perfect both:
Only that man is a complete human being who is capable of combining an external masculinity with a beautiful feminine character within. And it is precisely this that the greatest spirit, namely, those of a mystical nature, have always felt in the spiritual life of the past. ~Rudolf Steiner. From the lecture 'Woman and Society'.
In between both streams incarnate at the same time, called an epochal incarnation, where both halves can meet becoming whole. The Platonic stream is the stream of Anthropos whereas the Aristotelian is the stream of Sophia and incarnating together they become Anthroposophia. Today both streams incarnate, now are all the prophets of old walking the earth.
See Kindred Souls by Beinsa Douno.
The Pillars Connecting Heaven and Earth
There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of physical forests, as of old, but through the forest of darkened minds.
They are armed with a spiritual armor, and an inner sun makes them radiant.
Out of them shines healing, healing that flows from the knowledge of the human being as a spiritual being.
They must create inner order, inner justice, peace and conviction in the darkness of our time. They must learn to work side by side with angels.
By Rudolf Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism, June 7 1909 Budapest.
“Threads from soul to soul are woven here in the physical world as the result of the manifold circumstances of existence. Bonds of friendship, of love, and so on, are firmly knit, and every contact made between one human being and another has significance and reality not only for this physical world but also for the spiritual world. Indeed, it may be said that the more spiritual the relationships here have been, the more significant they are for the world of Devachan [the soul-world]. When the individual dies, everything that is physical in these relationships of love and friendship falls away from them and only what was of the nature of soul and spirit remains.
(…) 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. When a clairvoyant gazes at the earth from the standpoint of Devachan, he perceives this web of spiritual relationships that a human being finds again when he passes into Devachan after death. He is involved in all the spiritual relationships he himself has woven.
(…) In Devachan, souls confront each other directly. The relationship of soul to soul is far more intimate and inward than it is in the physical world. Recognition of loved ones is not particularly difficult here, for each soul bears his inner, spiritual reality inscribed as it were upon his spiritual countenance. He himself proclaims his name, indeed, in a much truer form than is possible here, as the basic tone, which, as it is said in occultism, he represents in the spiritual world.
(…) Companionship in Devachan is, to say the least, as intimate as any life here on earth. Fellow feeling in Devachan is much more alert, much more intimate than it is on earth; one experiences another’s pain there as one’s own. On earth, greater or less personal prosperity is possible at the costs of others but in Devachan that is out of the question. There, the misfortune caused by someone to another human being in order to better himself would reverberate upon him; nobody could prosper at the expense of another.
Adjustment starts from Devachan. It is from there that the impulse is brought to make brotherliness a reality here on the earth. A law that is a matter of course in Devachan is a task that has to be fulfilled on earth.”
By Rabindranath Tagore:
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain, You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount. Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you |
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The nineteenth century was the most materialistic century of humankind, and that was the background for Michaels fight with the Dragon, where the chaotic Luciferic beings was thrown down to earth to draw humanity away from the calcifying ahrimanic influence, and that gave the violent twentieth century.
From Rudolf Steiner – Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse, lecture 3:
The nineteenth century will one day be described as the materialistic century in the history of humankind.
The people of the twentieth century cannot really imagine how deeply the nineteenth century was entangled in materialism. Only later when people have again become spiritual will that be possible.
Everything, even the religious life, was permeated by materialism. Anyone who can look upon human evolution from higher planes knows that in the forties of the nineteenth century there was an extreme low point in the spiritual life. Science, philosophy, and religion were in the grip of materialism.
Mankind was now placed between Ahriman and Lucifer and we should now find the equilibrium by transforming these opposite powers to wisdom, and in the start of the twenty-first century, we are fighting with the last rest of fear which physical representation is the coronavirus and the vaccine.
One of the greatest problems is that technological development is soulless, it's mainly led by the desires of humanity and not through our true needs. Without a soul technology becomes inhuman. A collection of texts by Steiner on Taming Technology.
The leaders of today are young souls who don’t know what they do, it’s where all the misery in our states comes from, not from speculative ill will but from incompetence.
From The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History, Lecture V, GA 222:
The young do not want to be led by the young — even if they insist that they do, they are deceiving themselves; they would like to have as leaders - men who have understood how to grow old in the genuine sense and have brought with them into old age the living seed of the development of thoughts.
If youth can perceive this it will follow such leaders, knowing that men have something real to say if they have known how to become old in the right way.
But what does youth encounter today? Its own likeness! Men have not understood how to become old and have remained infantile. They know no more than the fifteen and sixteen-year-olds know already.
No wonder that the fifteen and sixteen-year olds refuse to follow the sixty- and seventy-year olds who have grown no older than they are themselves. The others have not understood how to bring activity into their old bodies.
▪️Youth wants people who have become old in the real way, people who may be old in appearance, with wrinkles, white hair and bald scalps but who, despite old hearts, are fundamentally as young as themselves. Youth wants human beings who have understood how to become old, who therefore in becoming old have increased in wisdom and inner strength''.
The new Michael Age started in 1879 with Michael raising to Archai, a spirit of time and personality, where he from being the face of God became the face of Christ. It simply means that his I AM became the soul of Christ. In 1899 Kali Yuga ended and in the start of the twentieth century the return of Christ began and he was supposed to descend slowly into the earth sphere through the century to enter the hearts of humanity and end materialism. Rudolf Steiner tried to speed this up by bringing a number of people through the initiation in an attempt to hinder the darkness that came the following years, but he failed in this, and predicted that it would then take hundred years before it was possible again, which is now.
Because it is written above us in supersensible script: Be aware that you will return before the end of the twentieth century and at the end of this twentieth century, which you have prepared! Become aware then how that which you have prepared can unfold! ~Rudolf Steiner on 28 July 1924.
…after you have gone through the gate of death, you will find in the spiritual super-sensible worlds … all those [the Platonic stream] with whom you are to prepare the work that shall be accomplished at the end of the century, and that shall lead mankind past the great crisis in which it is involved. This work is: to let the Michael Power and the Michael Will penetrate the whole of life.
The Michael Power and the Michael Will are none other than the Christ Will and the Christ Power, going before in order to implant in the right way into the Earth the Power of the Christ. ~From Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address.
I have indicated how those individuals who are fully engaged in the anthroposophical movement will return at the end of the century, and that others will then join them, because it will be decided at that time whether earth civilization will be redeemed, or lost. ~Rudolf Steiner on 3 August 1924.
Therefore, in its fundamental nature, the anthroposophical movement, which is to prepare the sixth period, must cast aside the division into races. It must seek to unite people of all races and nations, and to bridge the divisions and differences between various groups of people.…
▪️It is the deeper task of the anthroposophical movement to enable a number of human beings to enter their next incarnation with an I each remembers as his or her own, individual I. These people will then form the nucleus of the next period of civilization.… These individuals will be scattered over the earth, and thus everywhere on earth there will be a core group of people who will be crucial for the sixth epoch of civilization. ~Rudolf Steiner: Individuality and the Group-Soul
The anthroposophical movement is really there for nothing else than to impart to man that which is attainable for him today. For since 1879, the Dark Age — as the, prophets of old called it — is past and over.…
That is the aim and purpose we have in view in this anthroposophical movement of ours; we want to make men attentive to the revelations of the spiritual world. Verily, that is a task and mission that is no affair of mankind alone, it concerns the cosmic worlds.
~Rudolf Steiner: The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ
Krishna told five thousand years ago that the blissful time would start now:
From Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies - Volume VI
Since the last third of the nineteenth century we have been living in the initial stage of the new reign of Michael; throughout this time, and above all in our own day, preparation has to be made for what must come to pass in the twentieth century.
For before the end of this present century a considerable number of human beings who have unfolded real understanding of Anthroposophy will have passed through a briefer period between death and rebirth than is usual and will again be united on the Earth under the leadership of those who were the Masters of Chartres [the Platonic stream] and with those who have remained in direct connection with the Sovereignty of Michael [the Aristotelian stream].
This will take place in order that under the spiritual guidance of these two groups of beings the final, hallowed impulse may be given for the development of the spiritual life on Earth.
There is much pessimism about the future by many, but change is painful, to end the materialistic thinking people have to experience why it's dangerous, and that is what the last century has been about.
From Rudolf Steiner: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
Just as an age was once ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity.
And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen, no matter what powers rise up against it.
When reincarnation and karma are truly understood, everything else follows of itself in the light of these truths.
From Rudolf Steiner: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers
So we see how Powers work together in the world, how everything that appears to oppose the progress of mankind subsequently turns out to be a blessing … For everything in the great world Plan is good and the evil endures only for a season.
Therefore he alone believes in the eternity of the evil who confounds the temporal with the eternal; he who does not rise from the temporal to the eternal can never understand evil.
Until the new epoch comes, you will live on the earth where Michael rules with his fiery sword. For a long time, the Archangel Michael's sword will play an important role on the earth.
Wherever this sword touches it will always cleanse. In the personal area, family, public area, and the people's life, a great change is happening which has never happened ever before, but everything will be for a good end. Why? Because the conditions of the present age are very favorable.…
▪️Now Archangel Michael is reigning and purifies the world with his fiery sword. It will not be long before all the kingdoms of the earth become kingdoms of the Lord. It is time and it is now, when there will be one flock and one Shepherd on the Earth.
It is only in the twentieth century that a renewal of the Christ-Event will take place, for this is when a certain general heightening of human powers of cognition begins.
▪️It brings with it the possibility that in the course of the next 3,000 years, and without special clairvoyant preparation, more and more persons will be able to attain a direct vision of Christ Jesus. This has never happened before. …
▪️And, now from the twentieth century onwards, a third begins. It arises because for more and more people an extension, an enhancement, of their cognitional powers, not brought about through meditation, concentration and other exercises will occur. Rudolf Steiner From Jesus to Christ, Lecture 2, ga 131
We are in the time of the Second Coming, the meeting of Christ in the Etheric, and not in the age of Ahriman, Ahriman is only a lesser disturbance for the Christ powers now forming in the outer world. Through the next 2500 years humankind will work to meet Christ in the etheric. This is the Golden Age Krishna said would start now.
From The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric.
What is important is that we are living just at the time when the Dark Age has run its course and a new epoch is just beginning, in which human beings will slowly and gradually develop new faculties and in which human souls will gradually undergo a change.…
Kali Yuga has run its course, and now human souls are beginning to develop new faculties, faculties that — because this is precisely the purpose of the age — will cause souls, seemingly out of themselves, to exhibit certain clairvoyant powers that were necessarily submerged in the unconscious during Kali Yuga. … Through what we call esoteric training, these clairvoyant faculties will be acquired much more readily, but because humanity progresses they will appear, at least in rudimentary form, in the most elementary stages, in the natural course of human evolution.…
This epoch could pass by humanity without notice, as it were, although we are letting the call sound forth today, even as John the Baptist, as the forerunner of Christ, and Christ Himself once let it resound: A new age is at hand, in which the souls of human beings must take a step upward into the kingdom of heaven! …
The event to which we refer is that human beings can acquire the new faculty of perception in the etheric realm — a certain number of human beings to begin with, followed gradually by others, because humanity will have 2,500 years [Dvapara Yuga] in which to evolve these faculties increasingly.… He will have pictures and premonitions of events in the spiritual world and will find that such events are carried out on the physical plane after three or four days. He will see certain things in etheric pictures and will know that tomorrow, or in a few days, this or that will take place.
From Rudolf Steiner: GA 130 – Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
From the thirties to the forties of this [20th] century onwards, individuals will appear who have developed in a way that will enable them to see the etheric Form of Christ, as at the time of Jesus of Nazareth they saw the physical Christ.
And during the next three thousand years the number of those able to behold the etheric Christ will steadily increase, until in about three thousand years, reckoning from the present time, there will be a sufficient number of human beings on the Earth who will need no gospels or other such records, because in their own life of soul they will have actual vision of the Christ.
The New Age
From The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World, Lecture II
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The last three millennia prior to the founding of Christianity belong to an epoch in the history of human evolution called the Dark Age, the lesser Dark Age — Kali Yuga. Kali Yuga began in the year 3101 B.C.
With it is connected everything we recognise nowadays as the great achievements of humanity, as the fundamental characteristics of present-day culture.
Before this Dark Age, before Kali Yuga, all human thinking, all the powers of the human soul, were in a certain respect differently organised.
The year 3101 B.C. is an approximate date, for in the process of development qualities of one kind passed over gradually into others; but before that time the last vestiges of ancient clairvoyance were still present. In the course of evolution the sequence of the ages is: Krita Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, Kali Yuga. It is the last that is of particular interest to us to-day. …
…we call the first millennium of Kali Yuga the Abraham-epoch; it was the epoch when man did, it is true, lose the direct vision of the spiritual worlds, but when there unfolded in him something like a consciousness of the Divine which gradually made its way more and more deeply into his ego, with the result that he came to conceive of the Deity as related to human ego-consciousness.
In the first millennium of Kali Yuga — which at its conclusion we can call the Abraham-epoch — the Deity is revealed as the World-Ego.
This Abraham-epoch was followed by the Moses-epoch, when the God Jahve, the World-Ego, was no longer revealed in the form of a mysterious guidance of human destinies, as a God of a single people; in the Moses-epoch this Deity was revealed, as we know, in the burning bush, as the God of the Elements.
And it was a great advance when, through the teachings of Moses, the World-Ego as the Deity was experienced in such a way that men realised: the Elements of manifested existence, all that is seen with physical eyes — lightning, thunder, and so on — are emanations, deeds of the World-Ego, ultimately of the one World-Ego.
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You know that when we rise into the spiritual worlds we find there the Hierarchies of spiritual Beings. They, naturally, are under a unified guidance, but this was beyond the grasp of consciousness in those ancient times. Men beheld the individual members of the Hierarchies, a multiplicity of Divine Beings. To grasp them as a unity was possible only for the Initiates.
But now the World-Ego, grasped for the first time by man himself with the physical instrument of the brain — a faculty that had developed in a specially marked way in Abraham — confronted him, and he conceived the World-Ego as manifesting in the different kingdoms of Nature, in the Elements.
A further advance was made in the last millennium before the founding of Christianity, in the Solomon-epoch.
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… we are led through this last epoch to that point in evolution where the same Divine Being whom the Abraham-epoch and the Moses-epoch, too, beheld in Jahve, where the same Divine Being takes on human form.
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A repetition of these three pre-Christian ages takes place in the Christian era, but now in reverse order.
The essential and fundamental trend of the Solomon-epoch is repeated in the first thousand years after Christ, in that the spirit of Solomon lives and is active as an impulse in the most outstanding minds of the first Christian millennium.
And fundamentally speaking it was the wisdom of Solomon through which men endeavoured to grasp the nature and essence of the Christ Event.
Then, following the Solomon-epoch, came the era that can be called the revival of the Moses-epoch ... and in the second millennium after Christ the best minds of this era are permeated by the spirit of Moses.
The spirit of Moses does indeed come to life again in a new form. In the pre-Christian age the spirit of Moses had been directed towards the outer world of physical Nature in order to find the Divine World-Ego as Jahve, the World-Ego manifesting in lightning and thunder, in the great revelation from the Elements of laws for men.
Whereas the World-Ego streams into Moses from outside, is revealed from outside, in the second millennium after Christ the same Divine Being announces Himself within the soul.
The experience which came to Moses as an outer happening when he withdrew from his people in order to receive the Decalogue this significant happening is repeated in the second Christian millennium in the form of a mighty revelation from within man.
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But the course of the evolution of humanity is such that from our time onwards a renaissance of the Abraham-epoch will take place as we pass slowly into the third millennium.
… We are moving towards the Abraham-epoch, and this will inevitably bring momentous consequences in its train.
… But on the other hand, in the new Abraham-epoch exactly the opposite path is taken — the path Which leads humanity away from vision confined to the physical and material, away from intellectual inferences based upon material data.
We are moving along the path leading into the regions where men once dwelt in times before the Abraham-epoch. It is the path that will make states of natural clairvoyance possible for man, states in which natural clairvoyant forces will be in active operation.
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We are passing into the Abraham-epoch and are being led out into the spiritual world. This means that it will be possible for a certain number of human beings, and more and more in the next two thousand five hundred years, to experience a repetition of the event of Damascus.
The great and momentous feature of the coming era will be that many human beings will experience this event. The Christ, now to be found in the spiritual sphere of the earth, will be perceptible to those faculties which, as we have said, will make their appearance.
When men become able to see the etheric body, they will learn to see the etheric body of Christ Jesus, as did Paul. This is what is beginning as the characteristic trait of a new age, and between the years 1930-40-45 it will already become evident in the first forerunners of human beings possessed of these faculties.
If men are alert they will experience this event of Damascus through direct spiritual vision and therewith clarity and truth concerning the Christ Event. A remarkable parallelism of happenings will come about.
… the Event of Golgotha was an event that affected not only the physical world; its influences reached into all the spiritual worlds.
Christ's descent into the underworld was an actual fact and the effects of the Christ Event that is to take place in our century will also work — though not in the same form as on earth — into the world in which man lives between death and rebirth.
The return in the Bible:
„And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.“
~Luke 21:27
„And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.“
~Mark 13:26
„Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.“
~Revelation 1:7
The clouds symbolizes the etheric world and the Son of Man is the Jesus being, who Steiner sometimes calls Nathan Jesus, where the Son of God is Christ.
But there is one essential. The faculties by means of which men will be able, between death and rebirth, to behold the Christ Event, cannot be acquired in that world; they must be acquired on the physical plane and carried from there into the life between death and a new birth.
There are faculties which must be acquired on the earth, for we have not been placed on the physical earth for nothing.
It is an error to believe that there is no purpose in living on the earth. Faculties have to be acquired there that can be acquired in no other world — they are the faculties for understanding the Christ Event and the events that will follow it.
Those human beings who now develop these faculties on the earth through the teachings of Spiritual Science will carry them through the gate of death.
It is not through Initiation only, but through a clear-minded acceptance of spiritual-scientific knowledge, that the faculties are acquired which make it possible also to be aware of the Christ Event in the spiritual world between death and a new birth.
From The Event of Christ’s Appearance in the Etheric World, Lecture I
It will be of the utmost importance to recognise and understand this event of Christ’s Appearance, for it will be followed by other events.
Just as other happenings preceded the Christ Event in Palestine, so will those who prophetically foretold His coming follow Him after the time referred to, after He Himself has become visible to mankind again in the etheric body.
The preparers of His coming will be recognisable in a new form to men who have experienced the new Christ Event. Those who lived on earth as Moses, Abraham and the Prophets will be recognisable once again.
And it will be known that just as Abraham preceded Christ as a preparer, he also takes over the mission, after Christ’s coming, of being a helper in His work. Thus a man who does not sleep through the event of supreme importance in the immediate future gladly finds his way into fellowship with all those who, as the Patriarchs, preceded the Christ Event; he allies himself with them.
The whole choir of those to whose level we shall thus be able to rise is again revealed. The one who led mankind downwards to the physical plane appears again after Christ and leads men upwards again, unites them again with the spiritual worlds.
Shamballa is the purified etheric world and it’s the seed for the coming earth incarnation called New Jupiter. In the Bible, it is called New Jerusalem or New Israel, or simply Paradise. The meeting with Christ in the etheric is in this world, he is the world.
From Rudolf Steiner, The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 5.
Initiation, however, always led into that mysterious land, which is spoken of as a country that seemed to have vanished out of the sphere of human experience.
It withdrew during Kali Yuga, but for those who had received initiation there was always the possibility of guiding their steps into it.
The accounts of this ancient country are touching. It is the same land to which the initiates again and again repair in order to fetch from it the new streams and impulses for all that is to be given to humanity from century to century.
Again and again those who stand in this relationship with the spiritual world enter this mysterious land, which is called Shamballa.
It is the primal fountainhead, into which clairvoyant sight once reached but which withdrew during Kali Yuga.
It is spoken of as one would speak of an ancient fairyland, one that will return, however, into the realm of human beings.
There will be Shamballa again after Kali Yuga has run its course. Humanity, through normal human faculties, will again grow into the land of Shamballa, from which the initiates bring strength and wisdom for their mission.
There is Shamballa; there was Shamballa; Shamballa will come to be again for humanity. Among the first visions that human beings will have when Shamballa shows itself again will be Christ in His etheric form.
Humanity has no other leader than the Christ to take it into the land that Oriental writings declare to have vanished. Christ will lead humanity to Shamballa.
Michael's I AM enters the masculine Archangel of Humanity, the Second Logos, in whose picture man is created. It means that the I AM of Michael permeates the masculine part of the human archangel and Sophia permeates the feminine part, the Third Logos. It can be said that the union of Michael and Sophia is the union of macrocosm and microcosm, and they are together Christ. The deeds of Christ are the steps that led toward Golgotha where Christ Jesus entered the earth, where Christ became unified with the archangel of humanity.
From Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel, III
The ordinary man is a microcosm in relation to the macrocosm, he is an image of the whole macrocosm. Such is the body of the individual human being — that is to say, what comes to manifestation in the physical body of a man. What man becomes on earth reflects the great universe.
With the Christ Being the opposite is the case. The macrocosmic Sun Being shapes Himself into likeness with the form of the human microcosm, narrows and contracts more and more into the human microcosm. Exactly the opposite!
Anthropos and Sophia
Christ in the human form of Michael or Anthropos and the human form of Sophia has always been our companions in whose footsteps we have trodden. He was the Manu and the leader of the Platonic Stream and she was the leader of the Aristotelian stream.
Steiner mentions the Nordic gods Vidar and Balder in connection with the return of Christ as the Scandinavian countries are central in the coming activities. As Steiner’s most important lecture on Vidar was held in Scandinavia it is clear that he uses other names for the being dependent on context.
Vidar is the Archangel of humanity, he is the body of Christ, and so are each human being, we are created in his picture. Vidar is not taking over the role of Michael, he is not above humanity, he is the first between equals, but as the sun compared to the planets, and when we go through the initiation we leave our archangelic group souls and groups around him in the etheric world as his friends and not as subjects.
As Michael is the Face of Christ is Vidar the body of Christ:
[The] Etheric form of Christ will embody in [the] etheric form of Vidar, who has all this time been silent, and he will overcome [the] Fenris Wolf. ~Steiner in The Mission of Folk-Souls, GA 151.
This is an important lead to understand who Vidar is, as we already know that the Jesus being is the body of Christ, who Steiner calls the Nathan Jesus, who have been the body of Christ from the start of earth, and even before that. Vidar is known as the silent one and so are the Nathan Jesus.
It was also explained that at that time in our Earth-evolution there took place the union of the Christ-Being with the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and that thereby a Being walked upon the Earth of whom it may be said: "By virtue of this Being moving on the physical plane the Cosmic Christ was present in our Earth-existence". Se Rudolf Steiner's "Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ," lecture 7, GA 152.
I have here the main text on Vidar by Steiner, and a few others, and puzzle pieces from old Scandinavian texts, and I try to show that we know much more than we had thought: Vidar.
Vidar is the Nathan Jesus, but we know him also from the Hindu tradition as Vishnus avatar Kalki who incarnate before the end of Kali Yuga (1899) so he can begin destroying the darkness in the new century, after 1933. This incarnation is known as Kaspar Hauser, described in the following, and with link.
The nineteenth century was the darkest and most materialistic epoch and the Jesus-being Christ worked through when reaching down to humanity was permeated with darkness, he had sacrificed himself so humanity could develop without egoism for a time. For the return of Christ to be possible a new astral body had to be created, so Michael could release the old astral to help humanity to become free of the Ahrimanic stifling influence, egoism versus heartlessness.
The Jesus-being incarnated under the name Kaspar Hauser to rebuild a new pure astral body. It was a success but under extremely difficult conditions. It’s a success because of the platonic culture Goethe et. al. created. Goethe, and the people around him and Heinrich Heine was the original twelve from Golgotha, and the John the Baptist-being incarnates as Novalis.
Ten years after Kaspar Hauser was killed, Michael's war against the Luciferic powers start. If Kaspar Hauser's mission had failed this and the Return of Christ would have failed, but the powers of Michael should not be underestimated. See The Mission of Kaspar Hauser.
Rudolf Steiner continues the Hauser incarnation, working to prepare the Return of Christ, to start a process that will lead to a spiritual understanding a hundred years later in our time, what he called the New Age, what he succeeded with. He tried, as Hauser did, to influence the political powers to hinder WW1 and to create a Grail Center, but failed as also Hauser failed.
Here Steiner describes how we will experience Christ:
Christ will take the side of man and become his advisor. This is not meant only as an image, but people will actually receive the advice they need from the living Christ, who will become their advisor and friend, who will speak to human souls, like a person physically walking next to us. ~Rudolf Steiner GA 152.
From Rudolf Steiner “The Ahrimanic Deception”, CW 193
"Just as there was an incarnation of Lucifer at the beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium, as there was the Christ Incarnation at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, so there will be a Western incarnation of the Ahriman being some little time after our present earthly existence, in fact, in the third post-Christian millennium.
To form a right conception of the historical evolution of mankind during approximately 6000 years, one must grasp that at the one pole stands a Luciferic incarnation, in the center, the incarnation of Christ, and at the other pole the Ahrimanic incarnation.
Steiner says that the sunspot activity is expression of the activity needed by Michael on earth. when the activity is low the world is relatively peaceful, when its high there is tension between Michael and the adverse powers, causing wars and epidemics. We are now at the return of Christ and the adverse powers, antichrist, are working against his return, which can be seen in increased numbers and sizes of sunspots and flares, giving auroras and glowing plasmaspheres all over the world.
An attack from the adverse powers starts typically at the top of sunspot activity and ends at the bottom, when the energy have been taken out of the process, when karma have been understood. When it takes more than one cycle the second top is usually lower, as the energy is somewhat depleted.
Luciferic angels had formed a barrier to the spiritual worlds to keep human consciousness out of the spiritual world since 1250 AD. They were cast down to earth by the Michael forces in 1879. The new Michael period was starting in 1879, and the forces was slowly descending to earth, permeating earth.
The Luciferic forces tried to hinder the descent trying to win humanity over to their side through materialism. Until 1960 the powers of darkness was increasing, but from then their powers became lesser and lesser while the Christ powers was increasing.
The top tells where the dark powers are extremely active and the bottom where the Michael powers are strong.
Each sun-spot cycle is 11 years long and three cycles give 33 years, another known cycle.
Here a diagram over sunspot minima thousand years back in time.
Interestingly, Michaels's fight from around 1841 to 79 is at a local maximum. Goethe (1749-1832) has a local minimum from his fiftieth birthday to his death, and shortly thereafter starts Michaels's fight. The Napoleonic Wars starts on a top 1803 and ended in a valley 1815, but consists of more wars in the period. Both the School of Chartres and Scholasticism are placed in large minima. It's typically that there are minima where the cultural expression is big.
It was expected that the next top would be low, but it seems to become large, indicating that a major transformation is ahead, including a war started by China.
WW1 starts in 1914-15.
From September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 we have WW2.
1930-31 The return of Christ, where the Christ powers slowly began to permeate the earth, to take power when the new yuga starts. This was met with the great depression and the rise of Nazism.
In 1948 Korea was split into two states and the war started in 1950 and ended in 1953. Mao defeated the Nationalist Chinese in 48-49.
The Vietnam war started at the end of 1955 and ended in spring 1975, two cycles. The Vietnam war was aggressive in the first cycle, but the world grew weary in the second cycle.
In 1982 AIDS became known and we had the depression with the US Savings and Loan Crisis, the Falklands Island War and the Lebanon War.
Normally epidemics is starting at the top, but sometimes they are starting at a low, like in 2020, where they are not evil in themselves.
In early 1841 to late 1879 the adverse Luciferic powers rebelled against the Michael powers, and they were thrown down to the physical plane.
The new Michael period was starting in 1879, and slowly descending to earth. The Luciferic forces tried to hinder the descent trying to win humanity over to their side through materialism.
The old Michael raised to Archai, a spirit of time and personality. He became the face of Christ, and this is the background for the return of Christ, he is the most powerful spiritual being in our reality, if not at all.
From The Evolution of the Michael Principle
“My dear friends, that which goes on externally, which the astronomers describe, is after all only the outer side.
You know that approximately every 11 years we have a period of sunspots when in the shining of the Sun upon the earth certain places are darkened, covered with spots or blotches.
This was not always so. In very ancient times the Sun shone down as a uniform disc of light. There were no Sun-spots.
Moreover, after some thousands of years, the Sun will have very many more spots than it has today. The Sun is growing ever more spotted.
This again is the outer manifestation of the fact that the Michael Power, the Cosmic Power of Intelligence is still decreasing.
In the increase of the Sun-spots in the course of Cosmic Evolution is revealed the Sun's decay; the Sun within the cosmos grows increasingly dim and old.
And at the appearance of a sufficiently large number of Sun-spots, the other Planetary Intelligences recognised that they would now no longer be ruled by the Sun.
They resolved no longer to allow the earth to be dependent on the Sun, but to make it dependent henceforth on the entire cosmos directly.
This took place through the planetary Counsels of the Archangels. Notably under the leadership of Oriphiel, this emancipation of the Planetary Intelligences from the Sun-Intelligence took place.
It was a complete separation of Cosmic Powers that had hitherto belonged together. The Sun-Intelligence of Michael and the Planetary Intelligences gradually came into cosmic opposition one with another.”
From They will seek to push these in the wrong direction. - Rudolf Steiner
“You have been given images which may serve to demonstrate the intentions of the spirits of darkness in the 1840s, 50s, 60s and 70s when they fought the followers of Michael.
These spirits have been down here among human beings from the autumn of 1879. They have failed to achieve their aims: spiritualism will not become the general human persuasion; people will not grow so clever from the materialistic point of view that they fall over themselves with their cleverness. The spiritual truths will take root among human beings.
On the other hand, the spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found.
The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present. For it makes no difference to their reality whether they are recognized or unrecognized.
It will be the main concern of these spirits of darkness to bring confusion into the rightful elements which are now spreading on earth, and need to spread in such a way that the spirits of light can continue to be active in them.”
From Behind the Scenes of External Happenings, 6Nov1917, GA 178 - Rudolf Steiner
The year 1841 was, in truth, the critical year in respect of the onset of the age of materialism, for at that time a very definite battle began in the spiritual worlds — a battle waged by certain Spirits, Spirits of Darkness as we may call them, belonging to the hierarchical rank of the Angeloi.
In the spiritual worlds they fought out this battle until the autumn of 1879. They were striving for many and definite aims, only one of which shall be mentioned today.
Between the years 1841 and 1879, decision was to be taken as to whether a certain store of spiritual wisdom could be made sufficiently mature to trickle gradually down to the Earth from the last third of the nineteenth century onwards, that is to say, to enter into the souls of men as a stimulus to spiritual knowledge, to the knowledge described today as that of Spiritual Science, which has only been possible since that time.
The aim of these Angeloi-Spirits between the years 1841 and 1879 was to prevent what was thus to flow down to the Earth, from coming to maturity in the spiritual world. But these Spirits of Darkness were defeated in the war they waged against the Spirits of Light during this period.
In the year 1879, on a smaller scale, an event came to pass of the kind that has several times come to pass in the course of evolution, and has always been pictured symbolically as the victory of Michael, or St. George, over the Dragon.
In the year 1879, too, the Dragon was overcome in a certain realm. This time the “Dragon” was the Angeloi-Spirits who were striving for but could not achieve the aim I have indicated.
In 1879, therefore, they were cast out of the spiritual world into the world of men — and here, in this world, they wander among humanity. They are present here, sending their forces into men's thoughts, feelings and impulses of will, egging them on to this undertaking or another."
From Fall of the Spirits of Darkness - Rudolf Steiner
“The event I have been referring to in the preceding lectures, the occasion when certain spirits of darkness were cast out of the spiritual realm and down into the human realm in the autumn of 1879, holds great importance.
We have to reflect again and again what it really means to say that a battle raged for decades in the spiritual realms.
The battle started in the early 1840s and ended when certain spiritual entities, which had been acting like rebels in the spiritual world during those decades, were vanquished in the autumn of 1879 and cast down as dark spirits into the realm of human evolution.
They are now among us and the effect of this is that they send their impulses into our view of the world, not only into the way we think about the world, but also into our inner feelings, our will impulses and even our temperaments.
Human beings will be unable to get even a partial understanding of the significant events of the present time and the immediate future, unless they are prepared to recognize the relationship which exists between the physical world and the spiritual world and take as much account of important events like this as they do of natural phenomena.
At the present time people generally give validity only to natural phenomena, phenomena of the physical world which are part of historical evolution.
They will have to give validity again to spiritual events, which can be perceived with the aid of spiritual science, for only then can the events in which human beings are caught up be really understood. ...
The Christ, who is to appear in a specific form in the course of the twentieth century, will know nothing of the ideals proclaimed by people today.
In earlier times Michael, the spirit from the hierarchy of Archangels was the representative of Yahveh; thanks to the functions given to him in 1879, he will be the earthly representative, the vicar, of the Christ, of the Christ impulse to create spiritual bonds between human beings which will take the place of the purely physical blood bonds.”
From The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World, Lecture II - Rudolf Steiner
“The great and momentous feature of the coming era will be that many human beings will experience this event. The Christ, now to be found in the spiritual sphere of the earth, will be perceptible to those faculties which, as we have said, will make their appearance.
When men become able to see the etheric body, they will learn to see the etheric body of Christ Jesus, as did Paul. This is what is beginning as the characteristic trait of a new age, and between the years 1930-40-45 it will already become evident in the first forerunners of human beings possessed of these faculties.
If men are alert they will experience this event of Damascus through direct spiritual vision and therewith clarity and truth concerning the Christ Event.”
From The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, lecture 5.
Initiation, however, always led into that mysterious land, which is spoken of as a country that seemed to have vanished out of the sphere of human experience.
It withdrew during Kali Yuga, but for those who had received initiation there was always the possibility of guiding their steps into it.
The accounts of this ancient country are touching. It is the same land to which the initiates again and again repair in order to fetch from it the new streams and impulses for all that is to be given to humanity from century to century.
Again and again those who stand in this relationship with the spiritual world enter this mysterious land, which is called Shamballa.
It is the primal fountainhead, into which clairvoyant sight once reached but which withdrew during Kali Yuga.
It is spoken of as one would speak of an ancient fairyland, one that will return, however, into the realm of human beings.
There will be Shamballa again after Kali Yuga has run its course. Humanity, through normal human faculties, will again grow into the land of Shamballa, from which the initiates bring strength and wisdom for their mission.
There is Shamballa; there was Shamballa; Shamballa will come to be again for humanity. Among the first visions that human beings will have when Shamballa shows itself again will be Christ in His etheric form.
Humanity has no other leader than the Christ to take it into the land that Oriental writings declare to have vanished. Christ will lead humanity to Shamballa.
“Over past years, the rather weak cycle that had peaked in 2014 has been progressively declining, heralding the approach of the minimum that marks the transition to the next cycle and is characterized by long fully quiet and spotless periods. Month-after-month, SILSO has carefully monitored the general trend in the activity.
A February 2018 without sunspots:
In January 2020, the 13-month smoothed sunspot number rose for the first time since the maximum of cycle 24 (April 2014). Now, by September, this reversal of the trend was firmly confirmed, officially placing the minimum between cycles 24 and 25 in December 2019. The Sun has thus now started its ascending phase towards the next maximum. This date also sets the duration of the past solar cycle at exactly 11 years, as the last minimum occurred in December 2008, thus almost exactly the average length of all past sunspot cycles, which ranges from 9 to 14 years. ...
Another indication of the transition between the two cycles can be drawn from counts of individual sunspot groups belonging to the old and new solar cycles. While most sunspot groups belonged to the last solar cycle until September 2019, the dominance switched to groups of the new cycle in November 2019.
So, this transition in terms of the number of active regions falls in October 2019. This matches rather closely the above date of the lowest sunspot number, and demonstrates in a different way that the new sunspot cycle has definitely taken the lead since the start of 2020. This late-breaking upward trend is now expected to accelerate over the coming months. So, be prepared for a more eruptive and interesting Sun!”
A Decade of Sunspots - Science Mission Directorate.
I believe the return started in 2020, and that all old souls will awake to the occasion and know what to do when materialism breaks down. The Coronavirus has forced people into a worldwide contemplation and it will draw people out of their materialistic slumber.
As the focus point of materialism is USA the thought that the Manu is incarnated in USA or Canada is natural, but this is not about materialism, it's about the return of Christ, and it's about love, so the incarnation will be in the middle between East and West, in Europe, and not in the center but in the periphery.
We are generally too pessimistic about what will happen, underestimating the power of Christ, and it's not only about the return of Christ it's also about the 2000 thousand years return of the karma of the Roman empire that are now incarnated in the USA. The power of karma will end materialism, the period with revolutions and wars is going toward its end, people are tired of materialism and the fights about things, money and power.
The old souls are born all over the world and everywhere in the societies, within the governments, public administrations, public services, healthcare, education, private companies, everywhere, and they will be fundamental in creating a new age. See The Horoscope for Earth 2020 - Dissolving Opposites.
| ”Our materialistic civilization, Rudolf Steiner said, stands under the sign of Judas. Just as Judas went and hanged himself, so will our civilization destroy itself.” From Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner |
In the future people will work with what they have inherent abilities for. A person with a specific set of skills will be accepted as the authority within his area of expertise, this will become a factor in changing our society away from power and money as decisive.
Division of work even to the smallest detail will take place; work will be so organized that a holder of this or that position will not find it necessary to impose his authority on others. All authority will be voluntarily recognized, … From Rudolf Steiner, Universe, Earth and Man, ga 105.
The teachers of humanity leads each their group of people and they will in the future be recognized by the group members and they will be inspired by their leaders and will work together to change the societies away from materialism.
So we see how Powers work together in the world, how everything that appears to oppose the progress of mankind subsequently turns out to be a blessing … For everything in the great world Plan is good and the evil endures only for a season.
Therefore he alone believes in the eternity of the evil who confounds the temporal with the eternal; he who does not rise from the temporal to the eternal can never understand evil. From Rudolf Steiner, The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers
I have described what happens now in The Horoscope for Earth 2020 - Dissolving Opposites.
Rudolf Steiner says in ga 143, p. 163 that our calendar should start in the year 33 when the new spiritual reality was founded. It means that the first Day of God began in 33, the second in 1033, and the third in 2033, the Millenial Kingdom.
We wanted to draw attention to the fact that it is extremely important to take the year of the Mystery of Golgotha as the beginning of our calendar, and not the year of Jesus' birth. The Mystery of Golgotha took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday, April 3, the year 33. ~Rudolf Steiner, DeepL translation from German of GA 143, page 163, German original:
“Da wollten wir aufmerksam machen darauf, daß es außerordentlich wichtig ist, das Jahr des Mysteriums von Golgatha als Anfang unserer Zeitrechnung zu nehmen, und nicht das Jahr der Geburt des Jesus. An einem Freitag, am 3. April des Jahres 33, drei Uhr am Nachmittag fand das Mysterium von Golgatha statt.”
The symbolic form of Kalki is on a white horse wielding a sword. The Name Kalki literally means "The Annihilator of Ignorance.” The sword symbolizes the power of the I AM and the white horse is Manas, wisdom.
His Divine Mission is to close Kali Yuga, the Dark Age, and usher in the Golden Age, Dvapara Yuga, a new period of peace prosperity and harmony starting now. Vishnu and Lakshmi will incarnate in Shambhala as the pair Kalki and Padma. Shambhala is the new Paradise, the etheric world where we find the etheric form of Christ. The incarnation of Kaspar Hauser is the birth of the Avatar shortly before Kali Yuga ends, here starts the fight against darkness.
I have above shown the connection between sunspots and the concentration of evil/wars as Steiner have described it and shown that since the Vietnam War the intensity has fallen and the wars have also become weaker and weaker showing that humanity have become much better. This is said to be the work of Kalki or Michael’s work through man in the last century.
Materialism is at its end, and now the Averse powers try to hinder the Return of Christ, with all they can muster, and Its shown through increased sunspot activity, and through the increased tension of China, Iran, and Russia, against the rest of the world, breaking out in 25 I believe.
Putin’s war against Ukraine started on the upward slope, not at a maximum, so the war has been slow. I expected the Chinese war to become ferocious so I thought it would start at the maximum in 2025, but it seems it first comes at the downward slope. It was the second term of Trump that started at the absolute maximum, so he will have the biggest impact on the decline of materialism. The third war is with orthodox Islam and it started with human sacrifices in 2023 at the local maxima.
In the following I describe the years from 2018 to 2032 following I Ching, and it seems 2031 is the ending of the old. Interestingly a Theologian has reached the same conclusion concerning the start of the Kingdom of Christ. From 2023-24 people begin to meet Christ in the etheric. The people who are channeling haven't spoken about anything other than this through 2-3 years. Theoreticians talk about the situation a hundred years ago, they haven’t understood that the spiritual world is full of light.
Rudolf Steiner says that our calendar should start in the year 33 when the new spiritual reality was founded. It means that the first day of God began in 33, the second day in 1033, and the third day in 2033, the Millenial Kingdom, or Dvapara Yuga.
The elements and animals of the Chinese star signs are added for each year:
⚔️ Metal. 🌊 Water. 🪵 Wood. 🔥 Fire. ⛰ Earth.
䷑ 2018 Beginning to remove the corrupt/rotten 🐕 ⛰
The world is in decay🐕, the reason has to be removed.
“We must first know the causes of corruption before we can do away with them… Decisiveness and energy must take the place of inertia and indifference that have led to decay, in order that the ending may be followed by a new beginning.”
䷒ 2019 Here starts the spring, the winter is ending 🐖 ⛰
We have been at the deepest point, we are leaving winter behind us and are ready to ascend through spring, success is sure but perseverance is needed. Here the seed to the corona virus is created🐖.
䷓ 2020 A contemplative year 🐀 ⚔️
Purification and raising of God in the inner, transforming and inspiring. A hidden spiritual power emanates, influencing and dominating others without being aware. Here the change starts in the physical world disrupting materialism🐀, the coronavirus gets its first death toll and its name on January eleventh as Saturn conjuncts Pluto.
Purification and raising of God in the inner is also the theme for this century!
䷔ 2021 A year about biting through 🐃 ⚔️
Is about law and penalties, and finding an equilibrium to overcome the disturbances of harmonious 🐃 social life.
䷕ 2022 is about grace 🐅 🌊
A fire 🐅 breaks out of the secret depths and is purifying the earth.
“By contemplating the forms existing in the heavens we come to understand time and its changing demands. Through contemplation of the forms existing in human society, it becomes possible to shape the world.”
This will be a good year for contemplation and creativity in the small.
䷖ 2023 Splitting apart - Collapse 🐇 🌊
The systems are collapsing, not by direct means, but by undermining 🐇 it gradually and imperceptibly. The wise keep a low profile, karma at work, only time can handle this. Now the wise souls become conscious about who they are so they become ready to change the world in the coming years.
“The mountain rests on the earth. When it is steep and narrow, lacking a broad base, it must topple over. Its position is strong only when it rises out of the earth broad and great, not proud and steep. So likewise those who rule rest on the broad foundation of the people. They too should be generous and benevolent, like the earth that carries all. Then they will make their position as secure as a mountain is in its tranquillity.”
䷗ 2024 Return - The Turning Point - The time of darkness is past 🐉 🪵
The ascend is beginning, not by force but by grace and devotion, it's natural and spontaneous. The old is discarded and the new introduced without much resistance. Societies of people sharing the same views are formed publicly and in harmony with the time and without selfish separatist tendencies or errors. It follows the cycles of nature so it's not necessary to hasten anything artificially it comes at the appointed time.
“After a time of decay comes the turning point. The powerful light 🐉 that has been banished returns.”
Its not a coincidence that the birth of Christ is the 24-25, the Twelve Holy Nights before and after Christmas are also related to I Ching.
䷘ 2025 Innocence - The New Start 🐍 🪵
The wise 🐍 are inspired by his inner self to act rightly.
“When movement follows the law of heaven, man is innocent and without guile. His mind is natural and true, unshadowed by reflection or ulterior designs. For wherever conscious purpose is to be seen, there the truth and innocence of nature have been lost.”
“Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage.”
Here the purified snake cast its skin. The teachers of humankind throw off the hides that suppress their powers and their consciousness about who they are.
It’s both a year of endings and implied beginnings, #9, and its a year of changes and adaptability, #5, here the loose ends should be knitted through ingenuity.
䷙ 2026 Taming the Power of the Great 🐎 🔥
The sages are entrusted with leadership and they engage in the society with care and nourishing. They are in harmony with heaven and even great and difficult undertakings will succeed. Driven by the quintessential creative force, 🐎 #1, indicating vision, rugged individualism, and courageous spirit, dedicated to humanity at large and to the earth and all living beings, #6.
䷚2027 Taking Care of Ourselves and Others 🐏 🔥
The wisest teachers 🐏 of humanity inspire the leaders of the soul groups whose members again listen to their leaders.
“The great man fosters and takes care of superior men, in order to take care of all men through them.”
A new kind of culture spreads over the earth in harmony with nature:
“Thus the superior man is careful of his words and temperate in eating and drinking.
… tranquillity keeps the words that come out of the mouth from exceeding proper measure, and keeps the food that goes into the mouth from exceeding its proper measure. Thus character is cultivated.”
Practical analytical knowledge and inner wisdom, #7, with heightened ability to emote, communicate, harmonize, and understand the energies and emotions that surround it, #11.
䷛2028 Heavy problems to be handled 🐒 ⛰
Major but temporary problems 🐒 has to be handled.
“It is an exceptional time and situation; therefore extraordinary measures are demanded. It is necessary to find a way of transition as quickly as possible, and to take action.… Nothing is to be achieved by forcible measures. The problem must be solved by gentle penetration to the meaning of the situation (…); then the change–over to other conditions will be successful.”
In circumstances where old ideas have begun to fail, #3 is a welcome blast of new energy, joyful enthusiasm and new inspiration and concepts. The year represents a business-like attitude and the attainment of dreams, #8. It radiates victory, accomplishment, and the successful grasping of dreams.
䷜2029 The Abysmal, the Son between pillars of darkness 🐓 ⛰
The hexagram consists of a repetition of the trigram K’an ☵, representing the Son and humanity placed between 🐓 pillars of darkness or living Water between ravines.
“In man’s world K’an represents the heart, the soul locked up within the body, the principle of light inclosed in the dark — that is, reason. The name of the hexagram, because the trigram is doubled, has the additional meaning, “repetition of danger.” Thus the hexagram is intended to designate an objective situation to which one must become accustomed, not a subjective attitude.”
This is the human condition, we will always have to find the equilibrium, in contrast to the temporary problem of 2028. We will follow in the steps of Christ and by listening to our spiritual guides/heart we will know how to handle the situation.
“Thus likewise, if one is sincere when confronted with difficulties, the heart can penetrate the meaning of the situation. And once we have gained inner mastery of a problem, it will come about naturally that the action we take will succeed. In danger all that counts is really carrying out all that has to be done — thoroughness — and going forward, in order not to perish through tarrying in the danger. …
Water reaches its goal by flowing continually. It fills up every depression before it flows on.
The superior man follows its example; he is concerned that goodness should be an established attribute of character rather than an accidental and isolated occurrence. So likewise in teaching others everything depends on consistency, for it is only through repetition that the pupil makes the material his own.”
䷝2030 Sophia - Nature in it's Radiance 🐕 ⚔️
Humanity work toward living together with nature. It's also a double trigram, Li ☲, the middle daughter, Fire.
“Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree🐕, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success.… By cultivating in himself an attitude of compliance and voluntary dependence, man acquires clarity without sharpness and finds his place in the world.…
The great man continues the work of nature in the human world. Through the clarity of his nature he causes the light to spread farther and farther and to penetrate the nature of man ever more deeply.”
䷞2031 New Love 🐖 ⚔️
This year is a year with little evil.
“Kên ☶, the lower trigram, is the youngest son; the upper, Tui ☱, is the youngest daughter. Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented. In courtship, the masculine principle must seize the initiative and place itself below the feminine principle.…
This attraction between affinities is a general law of nature. Heaven and earth attract each other and thus all creatures come into being.
Through such attraction the sage influences men’s hearts, and thus the world attains peace. From the attractions they exert we can learn the nature of all beings in heaven and on earth.”
In this year the biggest comet seen — measuring around 80 miles across and thought to have a mass of about 500 trillion tons — is coming the nearest it comes to Earth, it's still outside Saturn. See Comet “C/2014 UN271”.
䷟2032 Dynamic Stability 🐀 🌊
Here the new love changes to a union, the masculine and feminine meets in a way we have difficulty understanding today. Above we have the eldest son, Chên ☳, and below the eldest daughter, Sun ☴.
“The two images are thunder and wind, which are likewise constantly paired phenomena. The lower trigram indicates gentleness within; the upper, movement without. In the sphere of social relationships, the hexagram represents the institution of marriage as the enduring union of the sexes.”
Quotes from Richard Wilhelm’s and Cary F. Baynes’ translations of the classic “I Ching: Or, Book of Changes“.
The deeper understanding of the form of the I Ching signs and and their background: The Taoist Triad and the Three Logoi.
