Spiritual
Science
The
Spirit represents the essence of our Liberty.
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Articles
of
Interest:
It is a Necessity of Our
Earnest Times to Find Again
the Path Leading to the Spirit By
Rudolf
steiner
On
the
Ilnesses of Our Time
by
Dr. Karl Konig
What
was the 20th
Century
and
What
was
Hong Kong Actually?
by Terry Boardman
If,
within the limits of ordinary consciousness, the
human being wishes
to study his soul, it will not suffice for him
simply to direct his
mind's eye backward, so to speak, in order to
discern by introspection
his nature as someone who looks out upon the
world. He will see nothing
new by this means. He will perceive himself in
his capacity as a
spectator of the world—merely from a different
direction. In his waking
life man is almost entirely occupied with the
external world. He lives
by his senses. In their impressions the external
world continues to
live in his inner life. Thoughts weave into
these impressions. The
outer world lives in the thoughts as well. Only
the force with which
the world is grasped in thoughts can be
experienced as man's autonomous
being. The sensation of this force, however, is
of an entirely general
and vague character. By means of ordinary
consciousness one can
differentiate nothing within this sensation. If
one had to discern the
human soul in it, one would obtain no more about
the soul than a vague
sensation of self; one would be unable to
identify what it was.
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The
archetypal phenomenon of man, the
pentagram
of the microcosm within the "triangle"
of evil, is reversed in this
"complex"
way if it refuses Christ’s helping
hand (fig. 16). It will be
"reversed"
in the sphere of social life as it has
come to particularly great and
even decisive importance in the epoch
of the consciousness-soul. The
setups of
evil shown in the figure basically
integrate the entire spiritual elite
of
today’s humanity. Everything that in
one way or another is gifted and
creative
serves one or even several forms of
evil. Hardly has a human being
discovered
his creative abilities, he is seduced,
attracted or recruited by
corresponding associations, parties
and orders. Other paths to
self-realization will be
closed to him. Human talent and the
ability to develop are turned into
colossal
dangers. Average people within the
mass are manipulated.
We have
arrived at
the conclusion of our
consideration. Five-headed evil
working in the five centers of
worldly
power
is not the result of "free" play of
bad tendencies in individuals, but
a strictly
integrated, spiritual (or better,
anti-spiritual) unity, we
could
even say –organism that
is
super-sensibly personified. It
denounces
civilization and humanity as well as
inevitably itself due to its
inherent
lawfulness (explaining the grim
fight of its individual aspects),
but
still
existing as a whole. Looked at
purely from the cognitive point of
view,
it
is an utterly interesting phenomenon
of reversed dialectics. It
contains
a striving for synthesis ruled only
by negation; its rudimentary
elements
do not attain higher existence due
to cancellation. (This opens for us
a
deep understanding of the essential
difference between Marxist and
Hegelian
dialectics.) In this case
egocentricity acquires eternal
character –the
attribute
of the higher world. But man should
not enter this "infinity" because
nobody
knows what could happen to him if he
were to be transferred back into
the
original condition of a "clump of
clay".
From:
Crisis of Civilization By
Gennady Bondarev
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At the Gates of Spiritual Science
By Rudolf Steiner
Lecture
I: |
The
Being
of Man |
August
22, 1906 |
Lecture
II: |
The
Three
Worlds |
August
23, 1906 |
Lecture
III: |
Life
of
the Soul in Kamaloka |
August
24, 1906 |
Lecture
IV: |
Devachan |
August
25, 1906 |
Lecture
V: |
Human
Tasks
in the Higher Worlds |
August
26, 1906 |
Lecture
VI: |
The
Upbringing
of Children. Karma. |
August
27, 1906 |
Lecture
VII: |
Workings
of
the Law of Karma in Human Life |
August
28, 1906 |
Lecture
VIII: |
Good
and
Evil. Individual Karmic Questions. |
August
29, 1906 |
Lecture
IX: |
Evolution
of
the Earth |
August
30, 1906 |
Lecture
X: |
Progress
of
Mankind Up To Atlantean Times |
August
31, 1906 |
Lecture
XI: |
The
Post-Atlantean
Culture-Epochs |
September
01,
1906 |
Lecture
XII: |
Occult
Development |
September
02,
1906 |
Lecture
XIII: |
Oriental
and
Christian Training |
September
03,
1906 |
Lecture
XIV: |
Rosicrucian
Training
— The Interior of the Earth —
Earthquakes and Volcanoes |
September
04,
1906 |
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The Enigma of
Canon XI
The
'Abolition' of the Spirit – The Year 869 &
Its Significance in the
Destiny of Europe
By
Terry Boardman
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At
the Christmas Conference for the refounding of
the Anthroposophical
Society Dec. 24th 1923 – 1st Jan. 1924 , Rudolf
Steiner restored to
western culture something that had been lost for
nearly 1100 years,
namely, the threefold image of Man – once known
as the Trichotomy - the
image of Man as consisting of body, soul and
spirit. This had been
missing since the year 869, when it was
deviously 'abolished' by
fiat of a Church Council. In the years 1916-1924
Steiner laid ever
greater emphasis on the historical significance
of the 8th Ecumenical
Council of Constantinople 869 (1), which is
usually completely ignored
in conventional histories, and which, he often
said, had "abolished the
human spirit". By that he meant the Council had
denied the separate
existence in each individual of a spiritual soul
through which the
individual could seek communion with the
spiritual world; instead, the
individual was to depend on the Church and its
hierarchy for guidance.
The 11th Canon (ruling) of the Council closed
off for westerners the
individual's path to the spiritual world, which
remained open in Asia
through meditation and other spiritual
practices.
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