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Rosicrucianism
and Maitreya Buddha
Preparing Mankind for the Future Understanding of Christ
Adriana Koulias
When mention is made in
the outer world regarding the ‘Rosicrucians’ invariably one encounters
similar reactions to those encountered at the mention of the
‘Templars’. Unfortunately what is known of them is stained with
ignorance and suspicion since all most people know of them, thanks to
people like Umberto Ecco and others, is
that they were either Charlatans or Magicians who experimented with
making gold, or Alchemists hell bent on searching for the stone of the
wise, while in their spare time creating living beings in laboratory
beakers.
The truth is Rosicrucian wisdom has existed since the
Atlantean times, but it only became known by this name in the fifteenth
century. History tells us very little about the real Rosicrucians
because in the past it was required of initiates that they work
quietly, whilst living ordinary lives. The lessons learned from the
burning of the Cathars and the destruction of the Templar Order had
been well learned.
At the end of the age of Kaliyuga
or Darkness when the Archangel Michael ascended to Archai and was
passed the regency of our fifth cultural epoch between 1879 and 2229
ending the archangelic period of Gabriel, it was possible for Rudolf
Steiner to begin to throw light over this stream. What
I am about to explore with you tonight encompasses the results of
Rudolf Steiner’s painstaking spiritual investigations interspersed with
those of other anthroposophists such as Prokofief and myself. We will explore the
origins of Rosicrucianism, and its past
present and future tasks as the leaders of Esoteric Christianity who
prepare the way for the coming Maitreya
Buddha. Next week we will explore the role of a Bodhisattva in
particular we will discuss the Bodhisattva of our present Post
Atlantean Epoch, how he is working to become, in the next two thousand
nine hundred years, the Maitreya Buddha,
and what this means for humanity as it stands at the threshold of
perceiving the Etheric Christ Event in the
sixth cultural age. The great Russian epoch or Philadelphia.
Before we begin I must first say, that since we grow
nearer to Christian Rosencreutz every time
we use our own faculties of clear unbiased thinking, I exhort you to
take nothing on faith, but to examine these things for your self. Truth
is not so difficult to recognise when the thinking is logical and
warmed by heart forces.
Our first question must then be,
Who were the Rosicrucians?
The Rosicrucian path that lies between the Yoga path and
the Christian path of initiation was prepared before Christianity and
took on a special form through the great initiate, Dionysus the Areopagite, who in the esoteric school of Paul
at Athens inaugurated the training from which all later esoteric
wisdom and training has been derived. In
time the guidance and development of this stream was taken up by a very
exalted individuality whose name became synonymous with it.
I am filled with a deep sense of awe and reverence
whenever I think of the great individuality that has been associated
with this stream, Christian Rosenkreutz.
This individuality belongs to the Cain stream,
there is perhaps some grounds for even saying that he was Cain himself
who is incarnated once more as Tubal Cain, Joshua who led the Jewish
people across the Jordan and took Jericho, and importantly as Hiram Abiff.
Some of you may have been here during my last couple of
lectures, when we explored the two streams of humanity the Cain and the
Abel streams, that is the stream of the fire of enthusiasm and the
stream of the calm waters of wisdom, practical knowledge of the outer
world that works through the inner upstreaming
of the will, and the wisdom that is particularly occupied with what
works downward from above into thought and becomes inner knowledge.
We heard that Hiram Abiff
belonged to the Cain stream, or the stream of those who can ‘do’ and as
such worked in the service of Manes. This Cain stream is the stream
that is mainly concerned with working in the world. Hiram Abiff is the builder of the Temple of Solomon. Solomon is a representative of the Abel stream that is
mainly concerned with the inner life, ‘those who know’.
In the time of Christ Christian Rosenkreutz
was incarnated as Lazarus who dies and is raised again by Christ and is
inspired by John the Baptist to the extent that he becomes known as
John the Beloved. The word ‘beloved’ is a word used in ancient Egyptian
initiations when a neophyte is brought back to life after three days by
the hyerophant he is then called the
‘beloved’. He becomes John when the Ego of John the Baptist completely
merges with his and overshadows it. The Templars revered the two Johns
and called their initiation Johanine, this
is what is meant by the Seal with the two Templars sitting upon a
cross. John is the apostle of Christ who stands at the foot of the
cross as the son of the Sophia and the future creator of the gospel of St John
and the Apocalypse.
Subsequently he passed through a series of incarnations
in the early Christian centuries in which he suffered martyrdom, and he
incarnates as Charibert von Laon grandfather of Charlemagne and the founder
of the Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. Later he returns as Prester John, who is characterised by Wolfram
von Eschenbach as the son of Feirefis brother of Parzifal
in the ninth century.
He returns to the earth again in 1235 AD in order to
accomplish a great deed.
What was this deed?
There is a Cosmic Law that what the Gods prepare for
mankind can only be brought to humanity through the sacrificial deed of
a single human individuality. Every new element that serves a rightful
progress of humanity must be brought into the world by individuals and
completely experienced and carried out as a potential won for the
further development of humanity.
In the fourth
century a great conference was held by Manes where the greatest of
earthly teachers or Bodhisattvas came together to decide on the how the
wisdom of the Bodhisattvas of the Post Atlantean age should flow more
strongly into the future of mankind. This was a preparation for a time
when man, due to evolutionary necessity would become entirely cut off
from the worlds of spirit. Human vision into Spiritual worlds through
the old mystical inspirations that were acquired by adherents of the
inner way would become less and less possible. A new initiation based
on the inner striving through personal freedom was necessary so that in
the future mankind might approach the mysteries in full clear
consciousness through the dint of personal effort.
This wisdom, that is, the amalgamation of all the
mysteries of antiquity and of the foreknowledge of future times became
known as the mysteries of the Rose Cross. Those present at this
conference held by Manes were the human reflection of Buddha, Scythianos and Zarathustra.
As a result of
this conference Manes himself had developed further and was in a
position to return as Parzifal in the
ninth century where he united the inner and the outer paths in the
Grail stream and the further forming of the Brotherhood of the
Holy Grail which had been
inaugurated by Charibert von Leon three
centuries earlier. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail, through a process
that I shall go into more fully next lecture, safeguarded
the profound mystery of the preservation of the copies of the I of Christ/Jesus until the appropriate
moment in the evolution of the earth and of humanity. They were the
guardians of this secret. The chalice used by Christ Jesus at the Last
Supper caught the blood flowing from the wounds of the Redeemer on the
Cross – that is the expression of the `I' in the chalice of the Holy
Grail. And the chalice with the blood of the Redeemer, with the secret
of the replica of the `I' of Christ-Jesus, was preserved in a holy
place, in the Brotherhood (The Templars formed the exoteric aspect of
this brotherhood) of those who through their attainments and their
Initiation are the Brothers of the Holy Grail.
It was chosen that Christian Rosenkreutz
be the individuality that should undergo this initiation, since he had
been preparing for it since before the Mystery of Golgotha and in his
life as Lazarus/John.
It stands to reason then that the individuality who would
become Christian Rosenkreutz in a future
life should not have been born into the stream of priests, that is,
those who belonged to the old way, or the Roman Catholic church but to
those who looked to a new way - the Cathars.
He was born to a Cathar
family in Germany around 1235 and was brought to France when he was only a baby. As a young child he was taken
by his parents to Montsegur to the Cathar priests who had been expecting this
leader of humanity. They guarded him and kept him safe in the fortress
in anticipation of taking him to a monastery prepared for him by the
Templars with the help of St Bernard, in the Pyrenees mountains.
These were terrible times, the Crusade against the
Cathars was ongoing, though it waxed and waned. However
it was around the time of the young child’s change of teeth in 1243
that a new crusade was instigated by the Pope and it was no time before
king Louis made his way to Montsegur to
besiege the fortress. The Cathars lasted eleven months before they
surrendered. The young child was spirited away by four Cathar perfects, Amiel,
Hugo, Poitevin and another not recorded by
history in a sack. They hid in a cave and escaped through one of the
many tunnels that ran beneath the fortress, as the gigantic bonfire
fuelled by the human flesh burned to a climax. This special child – the
treasure of Montsegur - was then taken to
this Cistercian monastery and safely guarded and instructed by twelve
individualities. Seven of these wise men possessed all the knowledge
passed over from Atlantis to the Holy Rishis
of India. In the other four lived the wisdom of the sacred mysteries of
the Indian, Persian, Egypto Chaldean, and
Greco Roman epochs and the twelfth was possessed of all that would
characterise the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.
Before we continue let us recap on what Steiner has told
us concerning the human being.
Rudolf Steiner characterises the human being to be made
up of three physical aspects three soul aspects an Ego and three
spiritual aspects which will come into their own in the far distance
future; Physical body which he shares with the mineral world, Etheric body which he shares with the plant
world and which gives life to the physical, the Astral body by way of
which he takes in the outside world. Three soul parts, the Sentient
soul, which makes him a feeling being, the Intellectual soul which
makes him a thinking being and the consciousness soul, which allows him
to act with the help of his spirit, that is the Ego.
Three Spiritual aspects being Manas
or Spirit Self, Buddhi or Life Spirit and
Atman or Spirit Man.
The seven who possessed all the knowledge of Atlantis
were the reincarnated seven Holy Rishis of
India, who Steiner tells us were led by the divine Manu, the biblical
Noah to the Tarim Basin
or Gobi desert after the Great Flood had submerged Atlantis.
These men carried over into our time a condition of consciousness that
had relinquished the old clairvoyance which was as time passed like a
second flood submerging into man’s being towards a time of darkness or Kaliyuga. These seven were the least clairvoyant
but the most capable of the rudimentary form of what we now call clear
thinking and they carried with them the knowledge of all seven Oracles
pertaining to the planetary influences. This knowledge was imparted by
seven of the twelve who gathered around Christian Rosenkcreutz.
The eighth imparted all the knowledge gathered by the
ancient Indians during the course of time. Because the Etheric body of the ancient Indian occupied a
space beyond the physical body, the Ego of the ancient Indian acquired
its knowledge through the organs of the Etheric
body – an Etheric body not influenced by
Lucifer - in order to see what streamed in from the cosmos. In the
first Post Atlantean Epoch a man who worked in the everyday world used
his physical senses, but when he wanted to acquire knowledge he had to
learn by using a different state of consciousness – a consciousness
acquired through his Etheric organs to see
into the Astral or the stars that spoke to him. This made it possible
for him to distinguish two types of knowledge; knowledge of the outer
world of Maya and knowledge of the higher world of spirit. This gave
rise to the Vedas, Yoga, and the profound Bagavad
Ghita. The Indian considered the
physical world as something that had to be shunned - a Luciferic
Temptation which gave rise to a wisdom
concerning the mystery of the tree of knowledge the Astral body and the
overcoming of Lucifer. This became a seed for a future knowledge
concerning the Catharsis of the Astral body that was given in Buddha’s
eightfold path.
In the times of the Persians the Etheric
body began to descend down into the physical body and the Ego was more
and more able to acquire wisdom through the Astral body as it was
directed to the outer world through the faculties of the senses and
less and less through the Etheric organs. Zarathustra at this time was able to see Christ
in the aura of
the Sun. The feeling for duality arose, because the physical world now was as
important as the Spiritual world. Zarathustra
was able to see the darkness of Ahriman and the eagle Marduk as the emissary of the Sun being Ahura Mazdao. The
old Sun mysteries, the mysteries of the bread of life, the sun forces
that enter the earth and fertilise it. The mysteries of the Tree of
Life or Etheric body that is seen through
the perfection of the Astral body this the
ninth bestowed upon the young man.
The tenth Initiate possessed the knowledge of Egypto Chaldean times, when the Astral body
began to experience sensations inwardly and the Ego was able to acquire
wisdom through the Sentient soul. All that could be absorbed concerning
the world and inwardly felt was then the knowledge of this time; star
knowledge, the calendars for instance and knowledge concerning the
spiritual nature of man as could be known through the sentient soul,
that is, the experience of the Macrocosm within the Microcosm. All
initiation of this kind was directed towards man experiencing the
Spiritual world within himself within the
physical body that is resurrected in the spiritual – the Temple
sleep. This was therefore the mystery vouchsafed by the tenth and
imparted to the young man.
The eleventh possessed all the treasures of the Greco
Roman period in which the Ego of man was capable of grasping the world
through the intellect. This was a marriage
of spirit and matter, when man’s Etheric
body moved down further into the physical body and coincided most
directly with it. It is the time of the lowest ebb of man’s spiritual
consciousness. The Ego received its knowledge directly from the outer
world and fashioned thoughts from this knowledge that became philosophy
- Plato. However this was also the time when the Christ impulse
descended into the world to save mankind from falling further and
further into matter. After the mystery of Golgotha when the Christ
impulse descended into the earth and into Man himself what knowledge
had been acquired outwardly was now to be known inwardly. Man was in
preparation for the consciousness soul.
The
preceding eleven could only impart what was a memory of what they had
been experienced in previous incarnations, the twelfth on the other
hand was responsible for imparting to the young man all that was
vouchsafed of the knowledge of natural science and of the time to come
– the Fifth Post Atlantean Epoch, that is
the German Anglo – our times when the Ego
will receive knowledge through the workings of the consciousness soul
as our Etheric body rises up once more out
of the confines of the head. Since 1413 – interestingly the Templars
who were the guardians of the age of the consciousness soul were
exterminated in 1314 - thoughts and feelings have begun to stimulate
the will and, will eventually lead to the soul acquiring imaginative
qualities; the Imagination soul. This was the knowledge of all that was
acquired by way of the consciousness soul, which was imparted by the
twelfth.
The Human Etheric body as it stood in relation to the
human head during the various epochs:
Rudolf Steiner tells us
that this Initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz
by the 12 was only possible due to a special dispensation. One individuality had to win for all mankind the
potential for further development. In previous times those who were to
be initiated were guided by a hierophant into a world into which
descended those higher beings from their lofty heights, who could
communicate with him. Now a man had to rise through his own effort and
alone ascend to the sphere where reside these
lofty beings. This sphere is the sphere of the Bodhisattvas – Buddhi Plane - or the sphere of providence or
foreknowledge.
Because of his life
passed as St John, the individuality that was the young man in the midst
of the twelve, as he lay as though dead for three days,
could be brought to the experience of Paul at Damascus. Whilst there he was the first human being to
take into the Sophian substance of his
soul what had been safeguarded by the Brotherhood of the Holy Grail, an
imprint of the I of Christ/Jesus that had been prepared long before at
the foot of the Cross when Christ had told him that Mary would now be
his mother and he her son, that she would take him into her house, that
is into the higher reaches of the sphere of the Cosmic Sophia to the
region of Eagle/Scorpion where through the influence of the Spirits of
Form, right into his physical body, he received the teachings of the
twelve irradiated through and through by the light of the Christ being,
out of the contemplation of the central spiritual Sun of Christ.
When he returned he was
able to bring about a synthesis of all that he had learned
, he could unite the twelve rays of human world conceptions in
his soul in one single radiance toward the future goal of further
unifying the two streams – Cain and Abel - philosophy/ religion and
science and art. This became known as Rosicrucian Christianity.
As a result of
the influence by the spirits of form working right into Christian Rosekruetz’s physical body he was permeated by
the impulse of the Eagle - or the impulse of the Ego. This means that
in the future he will take upon himself a new mission of transforming
the lower Ego - scorpion into the higher Ego the Eagle – a task that
will cause him the greatest suffering that a man can undergo.
A short time
after this intiation the young child left
the physical plane and was reborn again in 1378. Once again we are told
that he is born to heretical parents in Germany; and that when
he was twenty eight years of age he began a seven year journey to
occult centres in particular to the middle east, where he experienced
the event of Damascus in Damascus itself. He
returned when he was thirty five, now able to grasp with the intellect
what he had grasped with the feeling life in the past life as the young
man. He found Europe to be
unresponsive to his knowledge and so he established a school in which
gathered around him the twelve who had been his teachers and were now
his pupils. At eighty-one years he was once again united with Zarathustra, Buddha, Scythianos when he underwent an initiation
with Manes as hierophant. This is recounted in symbolic form in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.
Prokofief tells us that the cosmic region of the scales is where
the marriage between the bride and the groom is consummated. Christian Rosenkreutz during his Chymical
wedding must therefore have reached up to the level of Scales where The
Christ being meets a Buddha, and so we can see how he can be described
as Buddha’s friend and teacher. Like Buddha he need never have
incarnated again, however, since it is his task to maintain contact
with the physical earth he incarnates every one hundred years, and even
when discarnate he works from spiritual worlds. Because he has purified
his Etheric body, it does not disperse
into the world Ether when he leaves the physical world, and is able to
remain intact for those who can make use of it.
After his passing on
into a discarnate condition, on earth Rosicrucians continued to work in
quiet circles. Outward life was to remain untouched by what came to
them as revelations from the spiritual worlds. All
was conducted in great secrecy due to the terrible persecutions that
would be brought down upon those pupils of Christian Rosenkreutz by the Catholic Church. There were
usually only seven initiates incarnated at one time who could carry out
this work. Three brought down the symbols from the spiritual world and
four deciphered them, this is how we have acquired the secret symbols
of the Rosicrucians.
Despite the best
efforts of those human beings incarnated in these subsequent years
humanity was descending further into materialism so that in the
sixteenth century it became clear to Christian Rosenkreutz
that the two streams of mankind instead of coming together were
becoming ever more rigidly divided. The
two classes of men were becoming more distinct, those who,
- Wanted to
live for the inner life, or the spirit only
– to withdraw altogether from practical affairs – Abel Stream –
religion and philosophy.
- Those who
became more and more entangled with the world engulfed in the affairs
of practical life – Cain Stream – art and science.
Christian Rosekreutz, therefore called an assembly of initiates some
years before the end of the sixteen century. Present at this conference
were his former teachers the twelve, those who were his closest pupils,
it also included the Buddha or his earthly reflection, Scythianos, Zarathustra,
and Manes. The only way to help mankind through the age of Maya or
increasing materialism was to influence human beings in the life
between death and rebirth. Here they
specifically investigated the Jupiter mysteries of thinking or
intellectual life for which Christian Rosenkreutz
felt a special affinity.
Some of you may know
that in the life between death and rebirth man must become an
inhabitant of all the planets whose beings bestow wisdom to him.
Steiner tells us that the fifteenth and sixteenth century was a
catastrophic time on Mars the equivalent of the time prior to the
Mystery of Golgotha on earth. And so at this time mankind when passing
through the Mars sphere between death and rebirth experienced an
impulse towards the materialistic view. The declining culture on Mars
needed salvation, also for the sake of the world. The Mars culture
needed an upward impulse. The task therefore fell upon the Rosicrucians
to solve this problem. At this conference Christian Rosenkreutz decided to transfer the activities
of the Gautama Buddha to Mars. In 1604 the
Gautama Buddha the Prince of Peace
accomplished for Mars the planet of war and conflict a deed similar to
what the Mystery of Golgotha accomplished for the Earth. The teachings
of Nirvana of peace, experienced through the Mars sphere were suited
directly to the practical life. Conversely
different forces stream down from Mars to men who meditate in a
Rosicrucian way, thereby acting on those who seek the inward life.
Therefore it is that every human being is in a sense a Buddhist when he
passes through the Mars sphere in life between death and rebirth. A
healthy practical life and a healthy esoteric life is the result. A
Rosicrucian must not be torn away from the practical concerns of life,
but must live in accordance to Karma while going about his esoteric
training.
It is interesting to
note that the year before this sacrifice by Buddha, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was completed by Valentin Andreae.
Not long after it the thirty-year’s war began, perhaps as an echo of
the great tumultuous events on Mars. An interesting note is that Mars
is also connected to the larynx since it is when passing through this
sphere between death and rebirth that mankind elaborates this organ.
This will become important in our next lecture when we discuss the
coming of the Maitreya Buddha and the new
singing/speech that must be developed.
In his next life as the
Count of St Germain he brought back the
knowledge concerning the social future, the Grail Brotherhood’s ideal
that was so disastrously misunderstood. Brotherhood in the physical
body or world, Liberty in the soul, and
Equality in spirit.
Christian Rosenkreutz entered incarnation again and became
the spiritual teacher and initiator of Rudolf Steiner whose
individuality was to impart the knowledge concerning the macrocosm that is cosmic knowledge and the knowledge of
the microcosm of man, that is the training of the soul, in a modern way
to all of mankind.
The Rosicrucians added
the roses to the black cross, the symbol of death which is resurrected
in the red roses a symbol for the principle of the
I or Blood purified of all its selfishness. In order to
accomplish this a practical moral
development that purifies man’s lower nature must accompany inner
meditation. The Rose cross was also a symbol for the 12 petalled chakra, or the heart chakra
that belongs to the Astral body situated in the chest region and
destined to be a future organ of wisdom. 12 virtues must be developed
in all, six petals were acquired through
unconscious initiation. The conscious acquisition of six virtues will,
in times to come, develop the other six. These six virtues are: control
of thought, power of initiative, balance of the faculties, optimism
which enables a man always to see the positive side of things, freedom
from prejudice, and finally, harmony in the life of soul. When these
virtues have been acquired, the twelve petals begin to move. They
express the sacred quality of the number twelve which we have in the
twelve Apostles, the twelve knights of King Arthur, and again in all
creation, in all action.
Rudolf Steiner received
this initiation directly from Christian Rosenkreutz,
and it consisted of wisdom from both mystery streams: Since the Mystery
of Golgotha, what has been outer becomes inner so that the knowledge of
the Macrocosm –Cosmic knowledge can be used for inner meditation and
the knowledge of the Microcosm that explores the training of the soul
is a achieved in a practical outer way.
This initiation
consists of seven steps which corresponds
with the Seven Chakras that exist in man’s
Astral body.
1 preparation,
2 imagination, 3 inspiration, 4 Preparation of the
Philosopher’s Stone that is the total purification of the physical
body and thereby the attainment of 5 Intuition which
understands the 6 Correspondence between Macrocosm and Microcosm,
allows one to 7 Live into the Macrocosm thereby finding Divine Bliss.
Which correspond with seven charkas that exist in man’s body..
How did Rudolf Steiner
teach the mysteries of Micro
and Macro?
Knowledge of Higher
Worlds is the Microcosmic wisdom of the outer practical way that
explores the inner being of man.
Occult Science is the
Macrocosmic wisdom that explores the inward experienced knowledge of
the spiritual science of the outer world.
These two streams must
come together if we are to create the right conditions for the coming
of the Sixth Cultural Epoch, since everything human beings ennoble on
earth, everything they turn from nature into culture will form the germ
of the next age. Everything that we have ennobled in the past cultural
ages of the earth will bear fruit again.
Rudolf Steiner
performed his own sacrifice on Earth in order to plant these tender
seeds, and was crucified on the cross of the soul body of the
Anthroposophical society. Rudolf Steiner,
a Rosicrucian initiate whose spiritual gaze was able to reach up to the
Buddhi sphere and above to the
Nirvana plane, paved the way for the future incarnation of the Maitreya Buddha.
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Time into Space
Macrocosm
New Mysteries
Initiation Knowledge
Development Sat – Vulcan
Occult Science
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12 into 7
Space into Time
Microcosm
Spiritual Development
Balance of Soul Forces
Development Physical Atma
Knowledge of Higher
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Alongside
Meditation, we have a practical path of inner development.
What is this
path?
Rosicrucian
exercises enable us to perfect our soul faculties alongside the
learning concerning the wonderful symphony of cosmic mysteries so that
we can come to supersensible cognition.
This can only happen if man is prepared to perform at each stage a
self-sacrificial act
What is
this self sacrificial act?
The
Rosicrucian exercises cause a change in Thinking Feeling and Willing.
Rudolf Steiner
tells us that in the past during Atlantean
times man had been facing a danger.
Thinking feeling and will were threatened with disorder – they would
have become independent through the entrance of selfishness due to the
combined co-operation of Lucifer and Ahriman. Christ performed a
sacrifice before his sacrifice in the physical world, by ensouling an archangelic being – the angelic
Nathan soul through whom worked the archangel Michael - in order to
bring about harmonisation of thinking feeling and willing. We can see
this as the imagination of Michael conquering the dragon.
Now mankind
must perform its own sacrifice, it must make the thinking feeling and
will independent and free while at the same time, strengthening the Ego
so that it can take the place of the Spiritual beings that keep these
soul entities in balance and harmony. This Ego strength comes from
selflessness. There are therefore three sacrifices;
Feeling
must through will and through thought become ordered and controlled.
Passions and drives must conform to the dictates of moral reason -
feeling begins to think – the heart is the thinking organ of the
future. This requires a sacrifice of lower desires needs and wants of
the Ego for a selfless love that encompasses all beings of the world
and of the cosmos. This feeling life will become so acutely sensitive
that the well being of the individual will depend entirely on the
well-being of the whole and the whole of the individual. At the sight
of a hungry person, another will feel the hunger right down into his
physical body.
Thinking must
become at times inwardly suppressed. It must stop developing its own
thoughts. Thinking that comes from the self must be suppressed. The
result is thinking that sacrifices a lower logic for a higher one, then
the thinking is freed from the bonds of the physical brain and grows
beyond itself to encompass cosmic truths - Universal ideas, common
universal interests of the cosmos. In such a way will it become warmed
through by feeling and so developed, through bringing about a co
operation of the will.
Will must
become conscious and permeated by the warmth of goodness. In this way
it is freed from its sleep, and sacrifices its reliance on the physical
limbs. It gains courage and begins to act out of love of moral feelings
and thoughts. Then the personal opinions of the I
are sacrificed for the truths that are eternal. This means that the
Consciousness soul as far as it is fashioned from external impressions
must be suppressed. Only then can imaginations begin to arise in it.
Then will the consciousness soul be transformed into an organ of
Imagination. This brings about freedom of the I
which is the first step towards its task of taking into itself Manas or spirit self.
In the
thinking the I recognises freedom
In the Feeling
the I experiences freedom
In the will
the I participates in freedom.
We live in the
age when we must participate in freedom and this freedom will result in
the Astral body becoming light-filled, permeated by the light of the
Ego that has been made self-less. Steiner
tells us that we see with our eyes because the eye sacrifices its
cognition. That is the physical eye allows light to pass through it. If
the eye becomes selfish we are not able to see at all because the eye
takes all the light into itself and passes none to the optic nerve and
so to our brains – this is the cause of illness. In a similar way the
Ego must become gradually selfless by following the guidelines of
esoteric development and the strengthening subsidiary exercises that
will cause it to allow the light of Manas
to pass through it selflessly and into the vessel of the Astral body in
the sixth cultural age.
Repetitions ; each
cultural epoch lasts for 2,160 years,
There will be a
reflection on a higher level of all that was once achieved for the
world. We see this for instance in our own age, especially those of us
who are living here in Australia. Our 5th Post Atlantean is a repetition of
Egyptian times which is a repetition of Lemuria
which is a repetition of the Moon incarnation. If we look at Lemuria, at that time man was beginning to walk
upright, with the down-pouring of the Ego. We see this reflected in
Egyptian times in the construction of Obelisks the rising upward to the
heavens to defy gravity, in our own times, sky scrappers and rockets.
Our desire to explore the cosmos in particular our ascent to the moon
is in a materialistic sense, in line with the desire felt by the
Chaldeans to understand the stars and their significance which falls
into line with the fact that in Lemurian
times higher being who now reside in the moon, the teachers of humanity
walked the earth.
Christian Rosenkreutz knew that mankind must plant now the
seeds of tomorrow. Man must become inwardly ready for the Christ
Impulse ahead of time, and work must be done now so that bodies may be
found for the initiates of the future, that are sufficiently equipped
with the ability to speak and hear a new language. The language of the
heart. This is important if the Emissary of Christ, the great Maitreya Buddha is to find a body in which to incarnate, and
to find persons who will understand and therefore be in a position to
aid this great spirit in his task of promulgating his message
concerning Christ.
It takes 5000 years for
this Bodhisattva to become the Maitreya
Buddha. This means that it will coincide directly with coming of the
Russian epoch, or Philadelphia. This will occur after the end of the rulership of
Michael in 2229 and will be as Willi Sucher tells us, a time when the perihelion of
Jupiter will be in Aries characterised in the Apocalypse of St John by
Christian Rosenkreutz as the white horse.
The white horse being the white intelligence and Aries signifying the
hierarchy of Kyriotetes whose head is the
Christ being. The Jupiter forces connected as they are with the spirits
of wisdom precisely correspond to all seven hierarchic members of the
heavenly Sophia. This signifies that mankind must, by this time have
acquired the white intelligence, that is the intelligence of Christ
through the Sophia forces. This time will be a repetition of the Sun
condition of the earth when the Etheric
will be elaborated in a higher way, a repetition of Hyperborea - a repetition of the Persian epoch
when Christ will be seen in Etheric
garment in the Astral plane, as he was previously seen by Zarathustra in the aura of the Sun. Before this
can take place however a sufficient number of people must be living in
the intelligence of Christ.
Those of us who choose to follow this path do so for the
sake of all of mankind because in the sixth cultural epoch only a few
will be able to overcome materialism.
A real Rosicrucian endeavours to reach a stage that is
higher than his contemporaries not for his own sake but for the sake of
others – as a form of sacrifice. In the same way Initiates have devoted
their lives and sacrificed many things for us.
Rudolf Steiner tells us that Christian Rosenkreutz will be the greatest martyr among
men, apart from the Christ who suffered as a God. Martyrdom of
Christian Rosenkreutz will be caused by
the fact that so few make the resolve to look into their own souls, in
order there to seek for evolving individuality that comes from an
intense struggle to recognise objective truth, since it is through
objective truth that man can be led into the spiritual world. Christian
Rosenkreutz will in the words of Prokofieff take upon himself
the task of transforming the Scorpion into the Eagle. That is, he will
sacrifice himself for those who will hide from spiritual light for the
scorpion is that being that hides from the light and stings itself if
it cannot hide from it. The Egoistic Ego that seeks only individual
subjective opinion and not an objective knowledge that is
individualised. This feeling for the objective truth, this thinking
heart, will be the fruits of Manas
acquired through intense work on spiritual exercises and meditation in
order to bring a conscious wholeness to the human individuality. This
is what is meant by healing the breach between inner and outer man
because only by unifying the Abel and Cain streams can we make
ourselves ready for the sixth epoch, the Sun epoch, and the renewal of
the epoch of Zarathustra - or
Philadelphia.
The Bodhisattva – the future Maitreya Buddha
The Laws of
Spiritual economy.
It is difficult
to discuss this topic of the Bodhisattva without first referring, if
only in a very abbreviated way to the laws
of spiritual Economy.
What is
Spiritual Economy? It sounds ominous, and I can tell you that when you
first look at it certainly is ominous. I will not go into it fully
because this would take several lectures, nor do I pretend to
understand it fully, because that would take many lives. I will only
try to elucidate it as best as is possible for me to do at this time.
To understand
Spiritual economy we have to understand the human being’s journey after
death. When the physical body is laid aside the Etheric
body disperses into the Etheric world
after three days – with the exception of an extract, the fruit of the
past life. Then the Astral body disperses again with exception of the
extracted fruits. Leaving the Ego alone in its journey through the
spiritual world towards a future life.
Rudolf Steiner tells us that it is a principle of
Spiritual Economy that what has been gained cannot perish, but is
preserved and transplanted on the spiritual soil of posterity. Progress
made by a human being is not lost. On its way back the Ego passes
through the Astral sphere and Etheric
sphere and picks up so to speak those extracted fruits. There is a law,
which allows one to tap into, if you like, the fruits of another human
being a great initiate whose Etheric body
has not dissipated. It is also possible for it to work a third way from
higher beings to human beings who are meant to accomplish a special
task on earth. In this way one can weave another
individuality’s Etheric body or
Astral body or even in some exalted cases an imprint of the Ego into
theirs. For instance, Zarathustra donated
his Astral body to Hermes and his Etheric
body to Moses. It may also work from higher spiritual beings to human
beings Ego an Avatar to an exalted human being whose higher elements
are not only preserved but also multiplied. In the case of Shem for
instance, whom was indwelled by an Avatar-Bodhisattva this made it
possible for his Etheric body to be
multiplied and woven into his descendants – the Semitic people. His Etheric body then became the vehicle by which
Melchizedek the great Avatar-Bodhisattva, the divine Manu, entered into
humanity in order to communicate with the Semitic peoples.
Paul saw the Christ in Damascus through an Etheric
body that had been multiplied out of the individuality of Jesus of
Nazareth. Any one who readies himself can ‘put on’ one of these bodies
and therefore in spiritual reality actually embodies the Christ within.
It gives a new meaning to the biblical quote, ‘Behold I stand at the
door and knock, if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will
come in to him and eat with him and he with
me.” As I stated last week, Christian Rosenkreutz
as John the Beloved received an imprint of the Ego of Christ during his
incarnation in the thirteenth century. He
was the first among the whole of the humanity to receive this imprint
of Christ’s Ego that had been preserved by the brotherhood of the Holy
Grail. Rudolf Steiner as a pupil of Christian Rosenkreutz
also received into his Ego an imprint of the Ego of Christ.
What is a Bodhisattva?
What is a Buddha and what is a Dhyani Buddhi?
A Bodhisattva is
a master of wisdom and harmony of sensations and feelings.
What does this
mean? It means that a Bodhisattva has so perfected his Astral body that
it is well on the way to becoming Manas. A
stage that humankind will only have reached, en masse in the distant
future, by the Jupiter incarnation of the earth. His Being or Sattva is illumination Bodhi
and on the way to Buddha hood.
All great teachers have been an incarnation of a
Bodhisattva.
There are two aspects to a Bodhisattva:
- An Archangelic being who inspires the
Bodhisattva, and may enter incarnation into the body of a human being
prepared for this. He does not do this for his own personal benefit or
progress but for the benefit and progress of mankind. This however
helps him to achieve a higher development. This aspect of the
Bodhisattva then progresses when he descends into the physical world.
·
A
human being, an initiate who is capable of working in full
consciousness with his angel upon transforming his Astral body into the spirit self. His progress is his
concern, from life to life, however when it is achieved with the right
moral attitude it enables the progress of mankind. An initiate ascends
to the spiritual world and works consciously through the inspiration
and incorporation of an archangelic being who
may live in any of his sheaths eg,
Physical Etheric or Astral. Zarathustra for instance was a Bodhisattva in
whose Astral body there worked an Archangel.
He so perfected his Astral and Etheric
bodies that he was able to donate them respectively to Hermes and Moses
who were both inspired by Archangelic beings and became Bodhisattvas
themselves.
A human
initiate who is not yet a Bodhisattva may be inspired by a discarnate
Bodhisattva who is inspired by an Archangel.
Rudolf Steiner
tells us that there are twelve Bodhisattvas. Out of the twelve
Bodhisattvas only seven incarnate at any one time. Five remain
invisible. If the eighth incarnates the first becomes discarnate. Each
possesses to perfection the qualities of, eg
1st,
the harmony of the Physical body, 2nd a harmony of
the Etheric that is Temperaments, 3rd
a Harmony of knowledge that is the Astral body, 4th the
above qualities expressed in terms of feeling, Sentient soul,
5th the above mentioned qualities expressed in terms of understanding,
Intellectual soul, 6th the above expressed in clear
consciousness, consciousness soul, 7th is the servant of
the other six and holds sway over the other five and brings them into
incarnation. The 8th Manas
9th Buddhi 10th
Atma, 11th Holy
Spirit, 12th Son .
There is one Bodhisattva who underlies our seven successive
civilisations as there was a Bodhisattva who was responsible for the
cultural epochs of Atlantis the entire circle of Bodhisattvas works
through him to achieve this necessary task. Working
for this Archangelic Bodhisattva are also the human Masters who have
achieved Bodhisattva-hood inasmuch as they have raised themselves to
the sphere of the Bodhisattvas; Manes Indian Civilization, Serapis from Indian to Persian, Zarathustra Persian, Hermes/Moses Egyptian, Kut Humi inspired
the transition from Egyptian to Greek, Master Hilarion
inspired the Greco Roman times (interesting to note that St Hilarion was the patron saint of the Templar
Order) Master Jesus inspired the transition from Greek to Germanic,
Master St Germain inspired the Germanic
times, Master Rudolf Steiner inspires the transition from Germanic to
Russian Master Morya inspires Russian
Epoch. One always inspires an epoch while another inspires its
transition.
We can divide this diagram into seven and five. Five from fishes to Scorpio and seven from
scales to Ram. The five forms the dark aspect of the Zodiac and the
seven the light aspect. Why do we say this? We have to explore the
mystery of twelve and seven for this.
- In the number seven we have to do with
everything Temporal the impermanent – everything that runs its course
in time. Therefore we speak of the seven planetary incarnations of our
planet, Saturn Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan.
There are the stages of development of man, physical, Etheric, Astral, Ego, Manas,
Buddhi, Atma.
There are also the seven notes of a musical scale. Therefore when we
are speaking concerning the seven wise men the Holy Rishis that act as teachers and guides of
humanity we must speak of men who promulgated the truths that belong to
Time.
- In the number twelve on the other hand, we have
all has to do with the Permanent, or the enduring, everything that runs
its course in space everything that lies beyond planetary influences
but extends to the stars. We have the twelve zodiacs, the twelve hours
the twelve months of the year etc. When we speak of those Teachers of
mankind that teach concerning those things that are lofty, that exist
beyond the realm of time in the realm of space in the starry cosmos we
are talking about 12 disciples of Christ, the twelve Macabees, the twelve Bodhisattvas or Avatars.
These promulgate the truths that belong to Space.
Those beings that moved from space to time were those
beings (the spirits of form) who separated
themselves from the permanent deities. These became divided into good
and evil influences on mankind. So everything that encompasses the
influence of those beings that descended from Scorpion belongs to
either good or evil. Above Scorpio, from the region of the scales and
upwards we cannot speak of good and evil. It is beyond good and evil.
The Christ was that being that was capable of changing
what had once been represented by twelve to seven. He was that being
who brought the number twelve into seven without dividing into good and
evil. He brought what was Spatial into the Temporal. It is He who
stands in the middle of the circle of twelve. Christ is known as the
‘greatest Avatar’ the Sophia the most exalted Avatar after Christ is
called the Great Teacher who also descended to a certain extent into
another human being, the Luke Mary.
The difference between a Bodhisattva and Christ is that
Christ is not is not a great Teacher, he is an object of initiation, he
is life that pours into other beings like a Bodhisattva and can make
them great teachers merely because they enjoy the bliss of being able
to see Him.
Another being that belongs mainly to the realm of space
and is on the side of good is that Being that inspires the
Bodhisattvas. This Being encompasses both the dark and light aspect of
the Zodiac in that it sends down its directives from the region of the
Bull to the third hierarchy from waterman to archer.
This being was known in the old Christian tradition as the
totality of the Holy Spirit. Each Bodhisattva therefore stands as a
part of that great being the Holy Spirit – the wisdom of the world. It
is this Holy spirit that rays down to the Bodhisattvas the image of the
Christ being in his planetary aspect. And it was from the archangelic
circle of Bodhisattvas - being an expression of the Holy Spirit - that
there rayed down light-wisdom to the seven Holy Rishis.
A Bodhisattva then works on turning his Astral body to Manas and lives in contemplation of the glory of
the Christ Being from His planetary aspect, that
is up to the sphere of Scorpio, where he sees Him raying from the Sun
as a Planetary body. When a Bodhisattva achieves Buddha-hood he will
have advanced to a stage where he begins to work on turning his Etheric body into Life Spirit or Buddhi and is capable through his own forces to
perceive the Zodiacal and planetary aspect of Christ in rhythmic
alternation. Because this is the sphere
where the Sophia meets the Christ being it is called the Chymical wedding.
Spirit man
Virgin
--------------------------- Dhyani
Buddha
Life Spirit
Scales
-------------------------- Buddha-ChymWed True S
Spirit Self
Scorpion/Eagle
------------------ Bodhisattva - Higher self
Ego
Archer
Astral Body
Goat
Etheric Body
Waterman
Physical body
Fishes
In the past
mankind was only able to receive inspiration that descended downward to
it from above from Super Human beings such as Manu. It was not
necessary for them to descend into a human body for they could be
observed by mankind while in an Etheric or
Astral form. This became more and more difficult as mankind lost his
spiritual eyes and could no longer be guided. The
Christ cosmic-earthly path of sacrifice has made it possible for man to
overcome death, that is the shadowing of consciousness and endow his
‘I’ with eternal life, that is to preserve individual consciousness on
all planes of existence. Christian Rosenkreutz
was the first human initiate to ascend to the sphere of the
Bodhisattvas in full consciousness in the thirteenth century and in so
doing has made it possible for the rest of us to achieve the same. This
means that we do not merely have Bodhisattvas that are Archangelic
beings who inspire man from above by descending into the physical body
of human beings prepared for them, but also high human initiates who
ascend to the heights where the third hierarchy has its abode, and make
their way to the level of Scales where it is possible to experience the
Chymical Wedding having fashioned
their own destinies and therefore physical bodies.
From a cosmic aspect we can speak of the Bodhisattvas
working not only individually as separate individual archangelic beings
but as members of a single twelve fold whole. This constitutes a being
that is described as the personified all wisdom of our world. The third
hierarchy which represents the Holy Spirit which is irradiated by the
life wisdom that streams down from the Sun hierarchy or second
hierarchy whose totality is the Sophia and whose leader is Christ or
the Sun. So we can see that at the centre, Christ is reflected down to
Bodhisattvas from the region of the Scorpio and they become a part of
the physical aspect of the Divine Sophia. Man is now able to ascend
spiritually from Fishes to Virgin in his development. When the Ego
ascends to Scorpion Eagle it will have begun the journey towards the
development of his Spirit Self. When it ascends to the region of the
Scales, it will have begun working on Life Spirit and when he ascends
to the virgin, it will have begun working on Spirit man.
Man has three Egos. Ego is archer, the other Ego or higher
self is Scorpio Eagle and the True self is the scales.
All the
Bodhisattvas will have incarnated and become Buddhas
by the end of our earth evolution.
When then
does a Bodhisattva become a Buddha?
A Bodhisattva
must descend directly into a physical body in order to have an effect
on human beings. He must have an understanding of all that it entails
to be human and to live right into human destiny insofar as he is
guided by an angel. When all earthly experiences are absorbed, that is
the individuality knows how to make use of every single thing and has
taken into himself to a sufficient degree the Bodhi
or Buddhi of the earth he becomes Buddha.
We can see now the legend of the initiation under the Bodhi tree and what this means. A Buddha is then
capable of receiving the streaming down of Christ’s aspect from as high
up as the region of the scales and the beginning of the light aspect of
the Zodiac, thereby he becomes the light of
the world. It is interesting to note that when Gautama
Buddha was inititated his angel was freed
- because a Buddha never needs to incarnate again in the physical body
and became the Archangel Vidar who
succeeded Michael when he became spirit of the Times.
So far there
have been four Buddhas. The Archangelic
Bodhisattva of our epoch, succeeded the Gautama Buddha and incarnates every hundred
years into the Astral body of human initiates who have succeeded by the
most intense self discipline in developing to the utmost the forces of
their thinking feeling and will. When the human initiate who is
preparing for the physical incarnation of this Bodhisattva has achieved
the perfection of his physical members then the Maitreya
Bodhisattva will descend into him and he will coexist with it.
Early in the
last century the Theosophical society began promulgating that the Maitreya Buddha would incarnate into the body of
a young Indian boy called Krishnamurti
that this Maitreya Buddha was the supposed
second coming of Christ. This caused a rift in the Theosophical society
and resulted in the withdrawal of Rudolf Steiner’s supporters from the
society. After Rudolf Steiner died there were those who supported the
idea of Rudolf Steiner being the Bodhisattva who would one day
incorporate the Maitreya Buddha. Many
still believe this. In the spiritual world there is no individual
belief, nor is there individual opinion there is only what is true. Rudolf Steiner was indeed a Bodhisattva, however he was not the Bodhisattva
who would become the Maitreya Buddha. The Maitreya Buddha did descend down into his Astral
body, we can see that by the wonderful
lectures that he gave around this time on the Etheric
Christ. The fundamental difference between Rudolf Steiner and the human
initiate that Rudolf Steiner has said will incorporate the coming Maitreya Buddha, is
that this descent will occur right down into the physical body of this
initiate. Jeshu ben
Pandira is that exalted human being
who prepares the physical body for the coming of the Maitreya Bodhisattva in the same way that Zarathustra prepared the physical body for the
coming of the Christ being. However, when the archangelic Bodhisattva
enters into the body prepared for him his Ego will not leave as the Ego
of Zarathustra left that body he prepared
for the Christ being, but will co-exist with it. This will occur in the
thirty first year and he will not be known to the world until this time.
Who is Jeshu ben Pandira?
Jeshu ben Pandira, or Jeshu son of the Panther, lived on the earth one
hundred years before Christ. He was the personage whom the dead sea
scrolls aptly describes as the Moreh Sedek ‘Teacher of Righteousness’ the noble
leader of the Essenes. He was one of the
great Spiritual masters connected in particular with the power of
speech, of the word. He was accused of blasphemy and was stoned and hanged on a tree.
It is now
believed even by worldly scholars that Essene
beliefs and rituals are based on the Catharsis of the Astral body or
soul had more in common with Zoroastrianism and Buddhism than Judaism.
These beliefs found their way to Christianity through Matthew successor
of Matthai pupil of Jeshu
ben Pandira
who was the originator of that gospel, eventually to the Eastern
fathers, through them to the Cathars and then to the Templars. It was
another pupil of Jeshu ben Pandira who
created a colony in which Jesus/Zarathustra
would come into contact with Essene and
therefore Zarathustran mysteries. The
impulse of the colony of Nazareth whose Essene teachings of Jeshu ben Pandira would influence the Jesus of the Matthew
gospel came from Netzer pupil of Jeshu ben Pandira. The Nazarite
order was part of that that was promulgated by Moses who having
inherited his Etheric body passed on the
teaching of Zarathustra.
In the
thirteenth century Jeshu ben Pandira’s
stream united with the stream of Christian Rosenkreutz
and since then the two streams work together toward the future
understanding of Christ . Five thousand
years are needed for him to attain the level of Buddha. This means that
he will become Maitreya Buddha somewhere
in the sixth cultural epoch. This coincides with the time when the
Michael regency will come to an end. Mankind must by that time have
acquired the white intelligence, that is, the cosmic intelligence.
Rudolph Steiner’s task was to open up the initiatory process that had
only been conducted in secrecy before the end of Kaliyuga,
to all of mankind in preparation for transforming the Michael
intelligence into human intelligence.
Where does
Manes fit in and what is a Dhyani Buddhi?
Since the
turning point of time and the mystery of Golgotha it is now possible for a human being to ascend to an
even higher level then that of Buddha. This is the level of that
Eastern terminology calls Dhyani Buddhi – or Manu. If
you will remember our last lecture on Manes he is due to become the
first human Manu at the end of the Seventh Epoch. This
means that he is in the process of developing himself with the help of
an Archai to the stage of Atma, or Spirit
man. He will be able to perceive Christ from the region of the Sun,
which is in direct influence of the zodiacal forces of Virgo or the
Cosmic Sophia. He will be able to perceive the Cosmic nature of Christ
or the whole activity of the Sun being his planetary and his starry
within the bounds of what is allowed him from forces of Virgo. This Man
will become the highest human Sun initiate of humanity. The last
Superhuman Manu led humankind from one root race the Atlantean to the Post Atlantean
bringing about the transition from physical to Etheric
evolution. Manes will become the new Human
Manu in the seventh cultural epoch so that he can lead mankind in the
transition from life Spirit to Spirit Man. That is from the sixth root race to the
seventh.
What
conditions must exist for the incarnation of the Maitreya
Buddha?
We know that
one important aspect of his coming will be that he will be able to
speak words that will directly inspire men concerning the Christ being.
What do we mean by that?
Last week we
explored how the human being today stands in relation to the
advancement his Ego that has acquired wisdom during the course of
several incarnations, through various soul members of his Astral body.
In the past the human I acquired wisdom through the sentient soul, the
intellectual soul and in our age the consciousness soul or spiritual
soul. In the near future the I will gain wisdom through the spirit Self
or Manas that is the I will experience
consciousness in the spiritual realm by way of Spirit Self in the same
way that he acquired consciousness of the world by way of the Astral
body. In the past man communicated the
experiences of his Etheric, Astral or
sentient natures respectively, in our times men communicate their
thoughts very effectively because the ability to do so has been
developed through the training of the thinking or the intellectual
soul. The foundations for this thinking were laid down by Apollo taught
mankind through the medium of music in preparation for when Materialism
would enter into the evolution and sever mankind from the spiritual
world. This teaching was necessary for today’s clear logical thinking
to develop. Man felt the outside world around him and he thought about
it, he created concepts that enthused him
or repulsed him, that caused him to do this or that. These concepts
then were capable of being communicated and we see the height of this
occurring in the age of the philosophers, since the beginning of Greco
Roman times. Our cultural epoch, the German Anglo epoch of the
consciousness soul, has taken this thinking to new heights through the
work of Rudolf Steiner, who through his book Intuitive Thinking as a
Spiritual Path was able to bring new concepts that explored how man
looked at the world. Initially belonging to the Abel stream, of the
priests, that is those who receive revelation from above mysticism,
Rudolf Steiner in his Germanic life developed clear thinking as a
spiritual pathway and thus united the two streams of Cain and Abel in
co-operation with Christian Rosenkreutz
with the goal of helping mankind to achieve this collectively by the
time the Bodhisattva ascended to Maitreya
Buddha. Why is this important? Because it
is this marriage which will lead to a change in the being, physically
and spiritually of man.
In our age
when a concept is communicated such as one plus one equals two, there is no dispute. All
men agree on these first principles. If they don’t they risk going
against logic being seen to be either not very intelligent illogical or
stupid.
In the same
way in the future when moral impulses are communicated through the
larynx, all men who hear them will understand this moral logic and will
agree. Morality will be taught in the same way that we teach
mathematics today. Then there shall be no dispute concerning what is a
moral impulse and an immoral one, what is good will be made known
through the larynx and men will not be able to dispute it without going
against the universally regarded moral logic, and therefore being seen
as immoral or evil. Truth beauty and goodness will stand in a similar
relationship to man as thinking feeling and willing do now and their
transformation in the Etheric body will
lead to : -
Truth the Etheric equivalent of Thinking-----Truth in
thought, feeling and will----moral Inspiration----conviction of the
truth /moral logic
Beauty/artistic
Religious - the Etheric equivalent of
Feeling-------Beauty in feeling thinking and will----Moral
Intuitions-----feeling for aesthetics /reverence/Love
Goodness the Etheric equivalent of willing------Goodness
in
Deed Thought and feeling-----moral Imaginations ------conscious
experience of conscience/ courage
How will such
truth beauty and goodness be communicated and taught?
This now leads
us to a great mystery. The mystery of the larynx.
It was in Ancient
Atlantis that man first began to speak. This was the first time he said
‘I’. It was a result of the Ego being breathed into man by the Elohim Jahveh. Speech is the finest expression
of the Ego. The larynx is the most complex and enigmatic instrument
ever known to humanity. It is set into motion through thought. Without thought and an Ego consciousness,
there can be no speech or singing. We can now see how Apollo in his
tragic incarnation as Orpheus made way for clear thinking through music.
Let us examine
how when the human being became a reproductive being in Lemurian times, a part of the forces necessary
for reproduction was separated off for thinking. At the time of the separation of the sexes, the Astral
body of man divided: the lower part producing the sexual (physical)
organism and the higher part giving rise to thought, imagination, speech. In days of
yore, the sexual organs (the procreative forces) and the organ of the
voice (the word creative) were united. Two poles have appeared in man's
being, where formerly there was but one single organ. The negative pole
(animal) and the positive pole (divine) were once united and have
separated. In ancient Hebrew there is one word for sex and speech
Think how the
voice changes in a man at puberty and how the tissue of the larynx
resembles the tissue of the female vagina. It is a well known fact in
operatic circles that when a woman menstruates her voice changes. The
larynx stretches and contracts thins or
thickens, vibrates the entire length or only a portion, slowly or
rapidly. All of it manipulated through the forces of thinking. I think
speech!
I was
privileged for eight years to be the student of a remarkable woman, Jan
Light, formerly of the Australian Opera company. She taught singing as
though she were teaching concerning the subsidiary exercises. She said that one had to think the note for
the larynx to create the note. The larynx itself could not ‘think’ the
note the concept a C above middle C had to be sung in the head before
it was sung by the larynx. She taught the lower voice had to do with
the whole body – the body voice – this elucidated by anthroposophy
becomes the ‘Will’ voice, and the high voice the head voice - the
‘Thought’ voice and the harmony of the two - the middle voice the chest
voice or as we will call it The feeling voice. The voice was only
healthy if a harmonious interaction of these three voices was possible.
This was the task of the middle or feeling voice. The middle or feeling
voice had to harmonise both upper and lower, thinking and will. The
lower voice had to give strength to the upper voice the upper voice had
to give lightness and beauty to the lower voice, the middle had to be a
perfect seamless marriage of the two.
In the same
way, those of us who practice Steiner’s subsidiary excercises
must attempt to balance our thinking and our will through the life of
feelings. The life of feelings must become for us the balance that
prevents the will from becoming ruthless, and the thoughts from
becoming cold. In turn thought must prevent feeling from becoming
irrational and will must prevent feeling
from falling into sentimentality that achieves nothing.
Through Steiner’s
subsidiary exercises as well as the eight-fold path in conjunction with
meditation we work directly on our thinking feeling and willing life,
on the Astral body, so that we transform our physical larynx which is
closely bound up with the heart into an organ of moral or Etheric communication. It is interesting to note
that the larynx is regulated by Mars forces wherefrom since 1604 there
streams the wonderful beneficent forces the great Gautama
Buddha in preparation for the words that will be spoken by the Maitreya Buddha and heard by the people of the
earth. For it is not just the spoken
aspect of communication that is meant here but also the hearing aspect,
since the Eustachian tubes connect the ears to the throat. The
development of the organ of hearing necessary to hear inspired speech - Etheric sound will go hand in hand with the
development of the organ of speech.
What will this
inspired speech be?
Today a human
being thinks and his or her thoughts pass out through speech. The next
stage will be that feeling, warmth passes outwards. The word will be
the expression of the inner warmth – pituitary gland. Then not only the
warmth imbued word will go forth, but the word will remain, will be
given form through the will which lives within it and it will become an
actual being. The word passes through stage of consciousness that is
thinking, life that is feeling, and will that is form.
In
the sixth epoch, when
the sun rises
in the constellation of Aquarius or waterman, the human voice will
become the instrument through which the sphere of the Bodhisattvas will
stream down to humanity and proclaim a new Christianity. Through the Maitreya Buddha the Holy Spirit will be
communicated. It will stream into the hearts of men through the Astral
world via the vehicle of the Sound Ether. This shall be the sixth
epoch, the epoch when mankind will become sensitive to the sound ether
and begin to hear what lies behind words – the bells will toll from the
spiritual world for mankind.
It is
interesting to note that of the throat chakra
- the sixteen petalled chakra, the first
eight petals are the result of the action of unconscious initiation - Buddha’s eight-fold path
- the
other eight of the conscious initiation attained by dint of
personal effort. The eight new petals correspond to the Beatitudes of
Christ. They will be developed when
the eight beatitudes of Christ are understood, that is the new
eight-fold path that is concerned with the conscious development toward
mankind’s future mission. The seven beatitudes describe the development
of Physical , Etheric,
Astral, Sentient soul, Intellectual Soul, Consciousness soul, Manas, Buddhi + Atma in relationship to how much of the Christ
impulse enters into the various members of man’s being.
Does this remind of the octave?
In the
developing human being Etherised blood moves from the heart through the
larynx to the pineal gland. The Etherised blood of Christ follows it
but does not unite with it until a person can takes up the Christ
Impulse. This will be the possession of those who prepare themselves in
sixth epoch. We can see how the development of these Chakras the head throat and heart are future
missions. When this is accomplished by a certain number of human beings
concepts will be communicated from out of imaginations – Manas - from spiritual worlds working into the
pineal gland and downwards through to the larynx and to the heart, and
from heartfelt inspirations that work upward from the heart to the
larynx to the pineal gland. The larynx as such becomes a vessel, a
grail for the macrocosmic and microcosmic etherised blood. We see then
the intimate connection between the head and the heart through the
larynx. The heart that is filled to the brim with moral thoughts, moral
feelings and moral impulses. The truth will be the Manna that is poured
out then from the larynx to exert a three-fold effect.
1.
A
direct imagination of the Christ in Etheric
garment
2.
An
inspiration that resounds with the harmony of the spheres that is
capable of proclaiming Him
3.
An
intuitive moral power that will lead to the enthusiasm to do good deeds
in the name of Christ.
Steiner tells
us that what human beings transform of the spiritual organs in the
Astral body will become the physical organs of the future physical body. The ear will then have become so transformed
that it will be possible to hear not only the musical seven tones but
five others. Even today pure tones have been known to be produced (sine
waves) with human voice. If you think of each human being as having his
or her own signature sound, or individual series of frequencies thought
to emanate from the living systems so that they correspond to
physiological and psychological status then one can see how these
frequencies may correspond to the astrological sign given at birth, and
therefore death. You start to get an interesting picture of how Karma
works from one life to another – again what is initiation knowledge in
one life leads to an ability to resonate the music of the spheres in
another through the vehicle of the physical body.
The seer
experiences twelve tones in the Devachanic
plane this will be experienced by humanity in the future when twelve
tones will resound in the perfected resurrection body of man.
Man is
gradually rising from the temporal sphere to the spatial sphere that
is, man is taking the seven into the twelve. At the same time his
physical body which resounds with twelve notes is becoming more like
his Etheric body which has seven tones
resounding in it. So that as he physically etherises his physical body
from twelve to seven, he is spiritually moving from seven to twelve
from the Temporal to the Spacial. Man will therefore become the instrument on
which higher beings will make manifest the music of the spheres. Christ will appear in the sixth epoch in lower
devachan, in Astral form, here he
will ring out, that is he will be proclaimed as a sounding word.
Man
Microcosm
Physical dev
Physical 12
--------->
Etheric 7 Etherised blood
Spiritual dev
Temporal 7 ----------> Spacial 12 Spiritualised
Ego
Christ
Macrocosm
Spititual Sacrifice
12 cosmic Space/Zodiac
------> 7 earthly time Temporal/
Planetary Region
Comes
from
Physical Sacrifice
Temporal 7 --------------->
Spacial 12
Brings cosmic time
into
Earthly space
The forces of Buddhi
If we
compare three examples,
a)
Indian
singing ----we can hear even in today’s interpretation of it an Etheric quality – language still bore a
connection to the things spoken of.
b)
Greco
Roman times -----middle ages we can hear the
intellectual metered and darkened aspect of a mankind losing its
connection to the spiritual world and grasping with the hardened world
of intellectual thinking – language moves from the inspired Homeric
verses to prose. Loses connection with things and becomes abstract.
Things to keep in mind:
- The effects of Darwinism in wrap and heavy metal
that seeks to bind the consciousness soul to the physical body by the
use of tribal- backward rhythms.
- Noise of electrical buzz, machines, television,
cars etc dull out the tender voice of the spirit.
- There is never any silence! In our cars, in our
homes at the supermarket! Musac plays even
in the toilets of large shopping malls.
- We must cultivate silence in order to hear.
- We must stop using empty language. Slogans that
are abstract and have lost their connection with the reality of a thing
- Political correctness eventually leads to the lie. Resist ready made
phrases and use creative thinking to lead to creative speaking.
Today we all sing, at every moment, if we only pay
attention to ourselves when we speak there is more and more melody.
This will become more and more prevalent in the future when the voice
will be permeated with the force and impetus of the spirit. Then it
will begin to ring out in wonderful harmonics, and one will perceive
the inner gesture of speech which will point to love and truth on the
one hand or lies and deception on the other – the relationship of the
speaker to the third hierarchy. Sounds will evoke the sensations of
colour, speech colour in the same way that a colour is either warm or
cool cheerful or drab. The speech will also evoke in us a feeling for
the constitution of another human being in the breathing. Our breathing
will slow down or speed up depending on the breathing pattern of the
speaker. The speech will either be melodic or discordant and in the
same way that we cringe when we hear a nail strike a path over a
blackboard, even the thought of it, will we feel when someone speaks an
untruth or in an illogical/immoral way. We must be working now on
training ourselves to speak what is morally true good and beautiful.
These words will be rayed back to the beings of the hierarchies and
then in our life between death and rebirth to fashion our physical
bodies for our next life. Language will then develop a move away from
words to a poetic imagination understood beyond language barriers. The
intellect will be moral. – clairvoyant
imagination.
The real Rosicrucians, work
out in the world and also in the spirit, developing soul forces with
the help of exercises that purify the Astral body and so make possible
the incarnation the Maitreya Buddha who
will proclaim the impulse of goodness and blessedness that is the
Christ Being. Right now he is being made manifest through the Etheric forces of Buddha’s angel who stepped
into the Archangel Michael’s place when he ascended to spirit of
the times at the end of Kaliyuga. This
Angel, who was known as Vidar in the north
has taken the name Ramael, since his
ascent. The word Widdar in German means
Aries or Ram, and we know that his sacrifice by remaining at the
angelic stage through the Greco Roman period also occurred during the
time when the sun was rising in the constellation of Ram. It also
indicates his connection to the Christ being. We see the great
connection between the Christ and he who will proclaim him, if we also
take a look at the fact that as Buddha’s angel he was the son of Wottan the Archangel who, through Buddha, helped
the northern people acquire language – once again the larynx.
The Maitreya will make his
heart concepts live in the imaginations of those who listen to him and
from out of these soul thoughts will come the a
direct vision of Christ in Etheric
garment.
The sixth epoch will be a recapitulation of the age of Zarathustra, it will be possible for man to see Christ in Etheric in the same way that Zarathustra saw him in the aura of the sun. In
the fourth epoch Apollo the archangelic Nathan soul permeated by Christ
who radiated the Christ in order to help mankind master his thinking
feeling and willing through music – the nervous system played like a
lyre. Man was played like an instrument by the Gods. Once the Astral
body is perfected man will learn to play his own instrument and be
receptive to the instrument of the one who will proclaim Christ – the Maitreya Buddha. Then will enthusiasm for the
good become a reality and mankind will have achieved the ideal of
brotherhood.
This redemption of the Astral body points to another
great mystery, it will be the redemption of
Luciferic beings that are present in the Astral body. It will thus be
through the work of the Maitreya Buddha
that the work of the coming Dhyanni Buddhi will be made possible.
Manes will become the human Manu or the angelic messenger
of the Macrocosmic Sophia at around the end of the seventh cultural age
after the war of all against all and will teach concerning the
knowledge and redemption of Evil the outer work which will rely more
and more on man’s new heart forces. This complements the inner work of
the Maitreya Buddha the fifth Buddha - teaching and proclaiming the impulse of
goodness and blessedness that is the Christ being who overcomes evil
for mankind in the same way he overcame death – the inner work which
will rely on the forces of the new larynx and the Etheric
heart. This is the marriage of the outer
and inner paths that will be the creator of social order for the sixth
cultural epoch and will lay the seed for the sixth great epoch.
The great Maitreya will then
sit under the Bodhi tree with his back
against the trunk of it and will await on
that Diamond throne in fourfold determination.
Those of us who are capable of paving the way for such
great and momentous happenings, those of us helpers who seek to work in
the outer circles of the White Lodge are given the task of developing
our souls ahead of others, in order to aid our fellow man, come
together in groups such as this one. Such groups will then have the
great responsibility of helping those who in the future will have
become submerged in materialism. Manes will lead those who have become
capable of all that is possible after the war of all against all at the
end of the seventh cultural epoch to the new Post Atlantean
age. Only a handful will follow Manu. How many will depend on us. What
we do in this life has great relevance for the next. We sow the seeds
now in our souls and we reap the fruits much later. By the fruits we
are told you shall know the tree!
Rudolf Steiner said, ‘humanity may wait in vain for a
successor to the old Bodhisattvas, for the question as to whether one
will appear or not depends on whether or not men would encounter him
with understanding.’
I leave you with an extract from the Hodayot
a poem by Jeshu ben
Pandira, Teacher of Righteousness;
That spirit that lies in man’s speech,
Thou didst create.
Thou hast known all the words of man’s tongue
And determined the fruit of his lips
Ere those lips themselves had being.
It is thou that disposeth
all words in due sequence
And giveth to the spirit of
the lips
Ordered mode and expression;
That bringeth forth their
secrets
In measured utterances,
And granteth unto spririts,
Means to express their thoughts
That thy glory may be made known,
And thy wonders told forth,
In all thine unerring works,
And that thy righteousness may be proclaimed
And thy name be praised in the mouth of all things,
And that all creatures may know Thee,
Each to the need of his insight
And bless Thee alway.
Kut Humi, Morya, Serapis,
Christian Rosenkreutz, Master Jesus,
Rudolph Steiner, Hilarion, Scithyanos, Rama,
Venetian master
Suggested Reading.
Esoteric
Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz - Rudolf Steiner
Occult Science. Rudolf
Steiner
The East in
Light of the West. Rudolf Steiner
Reading the
Pictures of the Apocalypse Rudolf Steiner
Twelve Holy
Nights and the Spiritiual Hierarchies Sergei O Prokofief
The Burning Bush
Edward Smith
The Heavenly
Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia Sergei O Prokofief
Earthly Man / Cosmic Man Rudolf Steiner
The Cosmic Word
and Individual Man Rudolf Steiner
The Tree of Life
and the Holy Grail -Sylvia Francke and
Thomas Cawthorne
The Pre-Earthly
Deeds of Christ Rudolf Steiner
The Four
Sacrifices of Christ Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
and the Founding of the New Mysteries, Sergei
O Prokofief
The Effects of
Esoteric Development. Rudolf Steiner
Gnosis, Andrew
Welbury.
The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation – Sergei O Prokofief
An Esoteric Cosmology – Rudolf Steiner
The Sermon on the Mount – Rudolf Steiner
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