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The Angel
Where have you gone? Just now I felt you here.
Why have you turned away again, my friend,
Toward that life I cannot comprehend,
When just a moment since you were so near?
I should with you into your world descend,
From which I feel up wafting evil breath,
Dive down with you into the realm of death
That like a corpse is rotting without end.
Some of my kind, I know, have learned to climb
Down dreadful stairways into your dead land.
But I have not. I cannot understand,
And fear, the troubled tales from realms of time.
O let me veil my head, until anew,
And pure as you are dear, you come returning,
With nothing filled but sweetest spirit-yearning,
And to your archetype in radiance true.
Christian Morgenstern
Is our universe
the outcome of an experiment carried out by a superior intelligence in
another universe?
The practice
of prayer appears in a new light during the course of the sun path. Whoever
lives within the great, world-embracing shining of the light, has no need
to call impotently upon a distant God. It is again only a question of opening
doors or windows so that the omnipresent, flowing light can stream in.
It is a question of putting obstacles aside and removing barriers. Prayer
opens doors, makes dull windows transparent, forms more sensitive, far
reaching sense organs. 'For your Father knows what you need before you
ask him. Pray then like this: Our Father...'( Matt.6:8f ). It is a question
of swinging ourselves into the great cosmic movement of the colourful,
life- living source of the light which bears all existence along.
The Sun- The
Ancient Mysteries and a New Physics
Georg Blattmann
(24)
Angels
Here lies the
great danger for the age of the Spiritual Soul. This is what might still
happen if, before the beginning of the third millennium, men were to refuse
to turn to the spiritual life. The third millennium begins with the year
2000, so it is only a short time ahead of us. It might still happen that
the aim of the Angels in their work would have to be achieved by means
of the sleeping bodies of men — instead of through men wide awake. The
Angels might still be compelled to withdraw their whole work from the astral
body and to submerge it in the etheric body in order to bring it to fulfillment.
But then, in his real being, man would have no part in it. It would have
to be performed in the etheric body while man himself was not there, just
because if he were there in the waking state, he would obstruct
it. (par.49)
They will give
us strength to be vigilant and alert. We can season ourselves to be watchful
human beings by paying heed to many things. We can make a beginning in
this direction now; we can discover that in reality no single day passes
without a miracle happening in our life. This last sentence can be turned,
and we can also say: If on some day we find no miracle in our life, then
we have merely overlooked it Try one evening to survey your life and you
will find in it some event of slight or great or middling importance of
which you will be able to say: It came into my life and took effect in
a truly remarkable way. You can realise this provided only that you think
comprehensively enough, provided only that you have in your mind's eye
a sufficiently comprehensive picture of the circumstances and connections
of life. But in the ordinary course this does not happen, because as a
rule we do not ask ourselves: What was it that was prevented from
happening by this or that occurrence? (par.66)
The
Work of The Angels in Man's Astral Body
Rudolf Steiner
1918
The human spirit
which had become the son of man would perish in the physical world if this
son of man were not to climb upwards again to the Divine Beings, to the
light of the spiritual, finding delight in times to come in the daughters
of the Gods. It was necessary for the evolution of mankind that the sons
of the Gods should unite with the daughters of men, with the souls who
are fettered to the earth, in order that as the son of man the human spirit
should learn to master the physical plane. But it is necessary that the
human being of the future, the son of man, shall take delight in the daughters
of the Gods, in the divine-spiritual light of wisdom with which he must
unite in order then to grow upwards again into the world of the Gods.
Rudolf Steiner
(47)
On the Origin of the World
Nag Hammadi
Texts
Then the authorities
received the knowledge (gnosis) necessary to create man. Sophia Zoe - she
who is with Sabaoth - had anticipated them. And she laughed at their decision.
For they are blind: against their own interests they ignorantly created
him. And they do not realize what they are about to do. The reason she
anticipated them and made her own man first, was in order that he might
instruct their modelled form how to despise them, and thus to escape from
them.
Now the production
of the instructor came about as follows. When Sophia let fall a droplet
of light, it flowed onto the water, and immediately a human being appeared,
being androgynous. That droplet she molded first as a female body. Afterwards,
using the body she molded it in the likeness of the mother, which had appeared.
And he finished it in twelve months. An androgynous human being was produced,
whom the Greeks call Hermaphrodites; and whose mother the Hebrews call
Eve of Life (Zoe), namely, the female instructor of life. Her offspring
is the creature that is lord. Afterwards, the authorities called it Beast,
so that it might lead astray their modelled creatures. The interpretation
of the beast is the instructor. For it was found to be the wisest of all
beings.
Now, Eve is the
first virgin, the one who without a husband bore her first offspring. It
is she who served as her own midwife. For this reason she is held to have
said:
It is I who am
the part of my mother; and it is I who am the mother.
It is I who
am the wife; it is I who am the virgin.
It is I who
am pregnant; it is I who am the midwife.
It is I who
am the one that comforts pains of travail.
It is my husband
who bore me; and it is I who am his mother.
And it is he
who is my father and my lord.
It is he who
is my force; What he desires, he says with reason.
I am in the
process of becoming; yet I have borne a man as lord.
On the Origin of the World
Nag Hammadi Texts
Its title Zohar (light, splendour) is derived from the words of Genesis 1:3 ("Let
there be light") with the exposition of which it begins.
Kabbala
In the soul the
I flashes forth, receives the impulse from the spirit, and thereby becomes
the bearer of the spiritual human being. Thus man participates in the three
worlds, the physical, the soul and the spiritual. He is rooted in the physical
world through his physical body, ether body and soul body, and through
the spirit self, life spirit and spirit man he comes to flower in the spiritual
world. The stalk, however, that takes root in the one and flowers in the
other is the soul.
Rudolf Steiner
(33)
Dreams
"Bardo is a Tibetan word that simply means a transition or gap. ... Of course,
the bardos of death are much deeper states of consciousness than the sleep and
dream states, and far more powerful moments, but their relative levels of
subtlety correspond and show the kind of links and parallels that exist between
all the different levels of consciousness," writes Sogyal Rinpoche in The
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. "For example, the way in which you react
to dreams, nightmares, and difficulties now shows how you might react after you
die."
The Emerald Tablet with Isaac Newton
1.Tis true without
lying, certain most true.2. That wch
is below is like that wch is above that wch is above is like yt wch is
below to do ye miracles of one only thing.
3. And as all
things have been arose from one by ye mediation of one: so all things have
their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
4. The Sun is
its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly,
the earth its nourse.
5. The father
of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
6. Its force
or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
7. Seperate
thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from the gross sweetly wth great indoustry.
8. It ascends
from ye earth to ye heaven again it desends to ye earth and receives ye
force of things superior inferior.
9. By this means
you shall have ye glory of ye whole world thereby all obscurity shall fly
from you.
10. Its force
is above all force. for it vanquishes every subtile thing penetrates every
solid thing.So was ye world created.
11. From this
are do come admirable adaptaions whereof ye means (Or process) is here
in this.
12. Hence I
am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of
ye whole world.
13. That wch
I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished ended.
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