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Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #CW 201
Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe
English, German (translation)
221 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1972
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Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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September 21, 2013
All the super-interesting things that this book says, whether I agree with them or not (yeah, I believe most of it):
- the conflict between the natural world of necessity/ destiny and man’s freedom, or morality; the two should not exist separately
- one link between them- art?
- ‘know yourself’, meaning know man as an entity and as he is integrated in the cosmos
- starting with the second half of the XVth century- intellectualism, where knowing the world is only based on the abstract
- the three spatial dimensions, too abstract to have a real relevance. Instead, we should use planes to define space, defining objects depending on those plans
- man can be defined by three plans: one splitting the left part from the right (discriminatory thinking), one separating front from back (will) and one separating the upper and lower half (emotion); different from animals
- animals don’t perceive the three conventional spatial directions; they feel like they belong to a precise spatial direction and sense any deviation from it
- the activity of the left part of the body could be described as ‘touching the object’,while the right part is ‘touching the touch’, perceving what the left part does; the same with thinking. Resting one hand upon the other is an representation of the self.
- While the seed is the only part of a plant that sustracts itself from cosmic influence (being underground), the head is the only human part that sustracts itself from earthly influence, therefore being able to think in an abstract manner; while the rest of the body moves, he is only transported by the body; like you’re in a moving train and you have no idea, you don’t feel the movement unless you look outside, realize the synchronization between you and the world. Through his head, man becomes independent from the order of the world.
- At birth, the head is brought as a product metamorphosed from a past life; it’s the first formation that develops, then attached to it grows the body. It acts in a different world, like the one between death and a new birth.
- The earth, moving in a spiral through the Universe
- Before birth, man spends nine months as an embryo, but the three months after birth are a continuation of the development started (the development of organs, of the brain), so it could be seen as a one-year cycle
- In the second year, the first teeth appear- these are all according to the flow of time in the cosmos, but then, the second dentition appears in a time that is slowed up seven times; this is a process that sustracts itself from the way the universe works, because man imprints it his own rhythm; it’s a second kind of natural order that inserts itself in the first. Hebrew occulists sais that Jehovah slowed down the order that we inherit from the Moon seven times, because ‘Lucifer runs seven times faster than Jehovah’ the energy necessary for the human form, and that’s why man is not influenced by luciferic forces
- The alternation between awakeness and sleep is an alternation between our ego and astral body being united with the physical and etheric body (awakeness) and our ego and astral body are separated from the physical and etheric body (sleep)
- The sun is the equivalent of the human heart. The heart doesn’t act as an organ that pumps the blood through the body, but it itself a result of the blood circulation, blood being the alive element. In the same way, the Sun isn’t the one pulling the planets through the gravitational field, but the result of the planetary system
- The sun is empty space, void, and its light is the accumulated reflection that reaches us from the cosmic space
- We are constantly asleep regarding the way our inner body works, we can’t perceive the processes directly; there is something foreign to them, something not pertaining to the terrestrial
- Man belongs to three worlds: the world he’s aware of, the unconscious world (manifested through the movements of the Moon) and the world that mediates them, that of breath (reflected in the Sun’s movements?), which lies between the metabolism process (the internal organization of the body, which pertains to the extraterrestrial) and the sensory experience (which pertains to the terrestrial)
- The normal rhythm is 18 breaths every minute; one day- 25920, the same number we get if we calculate the days in a 72-year life
- The sun needs 25920 years to circle the Zodiac (in this time, the equinox point moves)- this is a platonic year
- The Earth’s nutation movement lasts 18 years and 7 months; it’s the time in which macrocosmos fulfilled its 18 breaths, like it’s a minute since a window to a different world opened. That’s why this is an important age in one’s life, when our world opens to another one; also 37 years or 55
- The Moon needs 18 years to appear at the exact point on the sky that it appeared before; Earth’s nutation could be seen as a reflection of this movement
- So our world breathes the astral world, and we can perceive this process through these two movements
- The physical constituent of the world is pressing (Earth), the etheric one is absorbing (Sun).We are a mix of these two; the astral plane is neither
- The Sun moves slower than the fixed stars through the universe; after 72 years, a one-day delay can be noticed. If the Sun’s circuit round the Zodiac lasts 25920 days, a lifetime (~72 years) can be perceived as one day (25920/72=360) of the macrocosmos
- The Moon’s movements aren’t causally linked to the rest of the stellar system; it represents another world inserted in ours
- The astral body is something that ceased being spatial, but that has a certain link to the spatial. During awakeness, it establishes the link between the physical and the etheric body
- We are receptive in different ways to the cosmic space, to the current zodiac sign, for example; some diseases can be cured easier if the sick man’s bed is oriented east-west?
- What we perceive are images; behind them is the real world, the forces that made us be. Once with the Earth era, these forces have moved and now act within us
- The Zodiac represents our external body form (unchanged), the Earth represents our metabolism (cyclical)
- Meteorological phenomena, in synchronization with the movement of the stars
- The Earth doesn’t revolve around the Sun, this is just the external appearance, but the Sun and the Earth move together in a certain relation
- The moment of falling asleep and the moment of waking up are equal, they’re differentiated just through their direction. Falling asleep is reaching the zero point of our being. When we look back at our life, it doesn’t appear as a succession of moments of sleep and awake, but as a continuous awakeness
- The Greek had the same word for yellow and green; they didn’t see blue as we see it and had four main colours: yellow, red, white, black. This shows that transformations took place in the human eye during the time
- Beyond the Zodiac there’s something that our Ego is related to, something that we depend on more than we depend on the movement of the stars and that gives us our human freedom. It’s a different world in which we can inscribe the moral world
- The body parts from the previous existence transform into our sensory organs in this life (not as substance, obviously, but as specific energy and force)
- Every organ is a center for memory; we hear sounds with our ear and we remember sounds with what corresponds to our ear in our current body
- Diseases that are seen as only linked to the soul are also linked to body imbalances, for example hypochondria has its origins in a stiffening of the lower body; also, spleen
- The liver is linked to music; but not the physical organ as much as the etheric organ. The physical organ is shaped by the etheric one
- We are helped by superior beings in the time between death and a new birth with regard to how our inner body transforms in the next life
- Vertebrae-> cranial bones (Goethe noticed this)
- What pertains to the spiritual needs a longer time to be fully processed (seven years)
- While during life on Earth we perceive the universe outside us and are blind to what happens inside our organism (what we are), after death we are the universe (without being able to perceive it) and perceive what was inside our organism (vastly richer than the external universe). This is because we lose the structural forces of the head after we die
- Between death and a new birth, we inhabit the Sun like we inhabit our human heart here
- The birth of a human-> external forces, the macrocosmos acting in the parents’ organism
- Even in the smallest molecule, there is the external sky acting through certain forces; the energies of the macrocosmos are sythetized here
- The mediation between the superior and the inferior man is realized through the astral, with the help of the ego entity
- The forces of the circulatory system become the forces of the nervous system in the next life
- Religions insist on the persistence of life after death, which is a concession made to feed the human ego. But it’s as important to insist on the continuity of life before birth, to understand our structure better
- The ‘rhythmic man’ which mediates between our various structures is constantly in a state of dreaming; the sentimental world pertains to him
- The ego entity is the one that exercises will over/through us, for example body movements; the neural pathway only signals the existence of certain parts of our body, but the ego entity transmits the command
- The movement of our legs, mostly unconscious; the hands pertain to the rhythmic man, in semi-consciousness, elevating us above the terrestrial nature
- Catholicism believes that man: body and soul, when he’s actually body, soul and spirit
- Our head is organized for a life of representation. If it only developed on the basis of non-terrestrial forces, he would exclusively be an organ of representation we’d lose the link to the world, we’d go through life with the impression that we only have representations, images of life on Earth while we’re strangers to it
- The rest of the organism sends the volitive forces to the representation ones in our head
- Up to seven years- life of representation; after that- will
- Man’s metabolism processes are interrupted earlier than those of animals, to provide the forces that send will to the head
- In ancient times there was a primordial wisdom, something that people knew through an atavic dream-like state, their connection to the stars and the movement of the skies were perceived directly, even though it had the aspect of a dream
- Pedagogy has to take into account that only after sleep, after the physical body was separated from the astral one, the child puts in practice what he’s been learned; so, even if the falling asleep and the waking point are equal, there is always a progression
- We don’t die every night just because the astral body and the ego are able to return before the physical body can continue its vegetal existence
- Venus and Mercury are linked to the spiritual world, they have opposite forces than the rest of the planetary system; they’re linked to immortality after death and are the most important night planets, while Jupiter and Saturn are day planets and are linked to immortality before birth. Jupiter and Saturn occupy a space where the Earth is; Venus and Mercury-> Antiearth
- Saturn leads our planetary system through the cosmos
- Johannes Schlaf proving the impossibility of the solar system? Because if the Earth would spin around the Sun, we shouldn’t see solar spots as we see them
- Primordial wisdom started to fade 6-7 centuries BC, replaced by philosophy starting with the XVth century
- Cultural eras: protoindian, protoiranian, caldeanic-babilonian-egyptian, grco-roman and ours (starting with the XVth century)
- Christ’s resurrection is an intervention in the normal evolution of the eras, coming from foreign worlds; what gives meaning to Earth erupts as a force intervention of another world
- The foundation of Rome-> 747
- The stellar day of the Moon: 27 days, the solar day: 29 days (from the sun, we see its rotation not as it appears from a distant star, but slower)
- We dream of what happened recently in our lives because it lasts a while for what we experience to imprint from the astral body, which assumes the experience faster, in the etheric one
- Starting with the Sun era, there’s been the tendency for two currents to flow simultaneously: there’s a solar astronomy and a lunar astronomy, a human becoming of a pagan nature- the natural science- and a Christian becoming
- Materialism believes that all matter is indestructible, Christianity believes that: the earth and the sky will pass, but my Words will not.
- As a soul-spirit being, man is an individuality, closed in himself, but what he occupies between birth and death- the physical and etheric body- aren’t realities in themselves, but part of the entire Earth and of another bigger whole
- The solid part of man is linked to the Earth, the liquid part, to the Moon and to the cosmos generally
- The solid part is influenced by the ego, the liquid part, by the astral body
- The Egyptians had the bigger year of 25920 years, split in 360 days; in 72 years, the Sun is late compared to the other stars by one degree out of 360
- Man emancipated himself; he can be born in any moment, but his earth life is oriented by this solar day. At the beginning, the Egyptians accepted the 360 day year, but when inaccuracies started happening, they added the 5 more
- It’s worse when lies manifest themselves unconsciously. Usually, lies leave once with awareness during sleep, in atemporal existence, but if it’s unconscious it stays with the physical and etheric body, pertaining to the Cosmos and working to its damage. (all the lies that we’re being fed, the truths that we have no idea of)
- We need to live certain things to understand them, because experience matures slower than understanding
- Lunar eclipses, once every 18 years
- The solar forces act opposed to the stellar ones, retracting us from the material laws of the cosmos
- Priests were also healers; they knew that there’s something wrong with the entire cultural process. There’s a constant tendency towards degradation in human becoming, not towards progress; progress is made possible by education acting against this tendency
- Stellar world: head, solar world: eyes, planetary world: nose, terrestrial world: mouth
- The oriental world view emphasizes space, while the occidental one emphasizes time
- The activity of thinking, the soul-spirit world is related to heat
- Like when a liquid is sublimated (caloric process), our head sublimates material reality into images, pure thought. At the beginning, thoughts are corporalized, not completely separated from matter, but the evolution of humanity made a complete detachment from the material possible. Matter is destroyed through thinking, turning into images.
- Before the resurrection of Christ, man lived in corporalized images; after that, images that are free of matter. The Universe somehow retracts.
- There was the danger of man living an existence entirely based on images,so a new substantiality had to be given to them. I think, so I don’t exist. The force that acted at Christ’s resurrection gave this new substantiality to man’s images.
- Parzival: medieval humanity trying to find their path to the inner Christ
- When all matter will be processed for thinking, the earth will stop existing? Then, it’ll be immersed in the cosmos and only images without reality will remain. But the event on Golgota gives them reality, for the next life; this offers a new beginning for the future existence of Earth
- the conflict between the natural world of necessity/ destiny and man’s freedom, or morality; the two should not exist separately
- one link between them- art?
- ‘know yourself’, meaning know man as an entity and as he is integrated in the cosmos
- starting with the second half of the XVth century- intellectualism, where knowing the world is only based on the abstract
- the three spatial dimensions, too abstract to have a real relevance. Instead, we should use planes to define space, defining objects depending on those plans
- man can be defined by three plans: one splitting the left part from the right (discriminatory thinking), one separating front from back (will) and one separating the upper and lower half (emotion); different from animals
- animals don’t perceive the three conventional spatial directions; they feel like they belong to a precise spatial direction and sense any deviation from it
- the activity of the left part of the body could be described as ‘touching the object’,while the right part is ‘touching the touch’, perceving what the left part does; the same with thinking. Resting one hand upon the other is an representation of the self.
- While the seed is the only part of a plant that sustracts itself from cosmic influence (being underground), the head is the only human part that sustracts itself from earthly influence, therefore being able to think in an abstract manner; while the rest of the body moves, he is only transported by the body; like you’re in a moving train and you have no idea, you don’t feel the movement unless you look outside, realize the synchronization between you and the world. Through his head, man becomes independent from the order of the world.
- At birth, the head is brought as a product metamorphosed from a past life; it’s the first formation that develops, then attached to it grows the body. It acts in a different world, like the one between death and a new birth.
- The earth, moving in a spiral through the Universe
- Before birth, man spends nine months as an embryo, but the three months after birth are a continuation of the development started (the development of organs, of the brain), so it could be seen as a one-year cycle
- In the second year, the first teeth appear- these are all according to the flow of time in the cosmos, but then, the second dentition appears in a time that is slowed up seven times; this is a process that sustracts itself from the way the universe works, because man imprints it his own rhythm; it’s a second kind of natural order that inserts itself in the first. Hebrew occulists sais that Jehovah slowed down the order that we inherit from the Moon seven times, because ‘Lucifer runs seven times faster than Jehovah’ the energy necessary for the human form, and that’s why man is not influenced by luciferic forces
- The alternation between awakeness and sleep is an alternation between our ego and astral body being united with the physical and etheric body (awakeness) and our ego and astral body are separated from the physical and etheric body (sleep)
- The sun is the equivalent of the human heart. The heart doesn’t act as an organ that pumps the blood through the body, but it itself a result of the blood circulation, blood being the alive element. In the same way, the Sun isn’t the one pulling the planets through the gravitational field, but the result of the planetary system
- The sun is empty space, void, and its light is the accumulated reflection that reaches us from the cosmic space
- We are constantly asleep regarding the way our inner body works, we can’t perceive the processes directly; there is something foreign to them, something not pertaining to the terrestrial
- Man belongs to three worlds: the world he’s aware of, the unconscious world (manifested through the movements of the Moon) and the world that mediates them, that of breath (reflected in the Sun’s movements?), which lies between the metabolism process (the internal organization of the body, which pertains to the extraterrestrial) and the sensory experience (which pertains to the terrestrial)
- The normal rhythm is 18 breaths every minute; one day- 25920, the same number we get if we calculate the days in a 72-year life
- The sun needs 25920 years to circle the Zodiac (in this time, the equinox point moves)- this is a platonic year
- The Earth’s nutation movement lasts 18 years and 7 months; it’s the time in which macrocosmos fulfilled its 18 breaths, like it’s a minute since a window to a different world opened. That’s why this is an important age in one’s life, when our world opens to another one; also 37 years or 55
- The Moon needs 18 years to appear at the exact point on the sky that it appeared before; Earth’s nutation could be seen as a reflection of this movement
- So our world breathes the astral world, and we can perceive this process through these two movements
- The physical constituent of the world is pressing (Earth), the etheric one is absorbing (Sun).We are a mix of these two; the astral plane is neither
- The Sun moves slower than the fixed stars through the universe; after 72 years, a one-day delay can be noticed. If the Sun’s circuit round the Zodiac lasts 25920 days, a lifetime (~72 years) can be perceived as one day (25920/72=360) of the macrocosmos
- The Moon’s movements aren’t causally linked to the rest of the stellar system; it represents another world inserted in ours
- The astral body is something that ceased being spatial, but that has a certain link to the spatial. During awakeness, it establishes the link between the physical and the etheric body
- We are receptive in different ways to the cosmic space, to the current zodiac sign, for example; some diseases can be cured easier if the sick man’s bed is oriented east-west?
- What we perceive are images; behind them is the real world, the forces that made us be. Once with the Earth era, these forces have moved and now act within us
- The Zodiac represents our external body form (unchanged), the Earth represents our metabolism (cyclical)
- Meteorological phenomena, in synchronization with the movement of the stars
- The Earth doesn’t revolve around the Sun, this is just the external appearance, but the Sun and the Earth move together in a certain relation
- The moment of falling asleep and the moment of waking up are equal, they’re differentiated just through their direction. Falling asleep is reaching the zero point of our being. When we look back at our life, it doesn’t appear as a succession of moments of sleep and awake, but as a continuous awakeness
- The Greek had the same word for yellow and green; they didn’t see blue as we see it and had four main colours: yellow, red, white, black. This shows that transformations took place in the human eye during the time
- Beyond the Zodiac there’s something that our Ego is related to, something that we depend on more than we depend on the movement of the stars and that gives us our human freedom. It’s a different world in which we can inscribe the moral world
- The body parts from the previous existence transform into our sensory organs in this life (not as substance, obviously, but as specific energy and force)
- Every organ is a center for memory; we hear sounds with our ear and we remember sounds with what corresponds to our ear in our current body
- Diseases that are seen as only linked to the soul are also linked to body imbalances, for example hypochondria has its origins in a stiffening of the lower body; also, spleen
- The liver is linked to music; but not the physical organ as much as the etheric organ. The physical organ is shaped by the etheric one
- We are helped by superior beings in the time between death and a new birth with regard to how our inner body transforms in the next life
- Vertebrae-> cranial bones (Goethe noticed this)
- What pertains to the spiritual needs a longer time to be fully processed (seven years)
- While during life on Earth we perceive the universe outside us and are blind to what happens inside our organism (what we are), after death we are the universe (without being able to perceive it) and perceive what was inside our organism (vastly richer than the external universe). This is because we lose the structural forces of the head after we die
- Between death and a new birth, we inhabit the Sun like we inhabit our human heart here
- The birth of a human-> external forces, the macrocosmos acting in the parents’ organism
- Even in the smallest molecule, there is the external sky acting through certain forces; the energies of the macrocosmos are sythetized here
- The mediation between the superior and the inferior man is realized through the astral, with the help of the ego entity
- The forces of the circulatory system become the forces of the nervous system in the next life
- Religions insist on the persistence of life after death, which is a concession made to feed the human ego. But it’s as important to insist on the continuity of life before birth, to understand our structure better
- The ‘rhythmic man’ which mediates between our various structures is constantly in a state of dreaming; the sentimental world pertains to him
- The ego entity is the one that exercises will over/through us, for example body movements; the neural pathway only signals the existence of certain parts of our body, but the ego entity transmits the command
- The movement of our legs, mostly unconscious; the hands pertain to the rhythmic man, in semi-consciousness, elevating us above the terrestrial nature
- Catholicism believes that man: body and soul, when he’s actually body, soul and spirit
- Our head is organized for a life of representation. If it only developed on the basis of non-terrestrial forces, he would exclusively be an organ of representation we’d lose the link to the world, we’d go through life with the impression that we only have representations, images of life on Earth while we’re strangers to it
- The rest of the organism sends the volitive forces to the representation ones in our head
- Up to seven years- life of representation; after that- will
- Man’s metabolism processes are interrupted earlier than those of animals, to provide the forces that send will to the head
- In ancient times there was a primordial wisdom, something that people knew through an atavic dream-like state, their connection to the stars and the movement of the skies were perceived directly, even though it had the aspect of a dream
- Pedagogy has to take into account that only after sleep, after the physical body was separated from the astral one, the child puts in practice what he’s been learned; so, even if the falling asleep and the waking point are equal, there is always a progression
- We don’t die every night just because the astral body and the ego are able to return before the physical body can continue its vegetal existence
- Venus and Mercury are linked to the spiritual world, they have opposite forces than the rest of the planetary system; they’re linked to immortality after death and are the most important night planets, while Jupiter and Saturn are day planets and are linked to immortality before birth. Jupiter and Saturn occupy a space where the Earth is; Venus and Mercury-> Antiearth
- Saturn leads our planetary system through the cosmos
- Johannes Schlaf proving the impossibility of the solar system? Because if the Earth would spin around the Sun, we shouldn’t see solar spots as we see them
- Primordial wisdom started to fade 6-7 centuries BC, replaced by philosophy starting with the XVth century
- Cultural eras: protoindian, protoiranian, caldeanic-babilonian-egyptian, grco-roman and ours (starting with the XVth century)
- Christ’s resurrection is an intervention in the normal evolution of the eras, coming from foreign worlds; what gives meaning to Earth erupts as a force intervention of another world
- The foundation of Rome-> 747
- The stellar day of the Moon: 27 days, the solar day: 29 days (from the sun, we see its rotation not as it appears from a distant star, but slower)
- We dream of what happened recently in our lives because it lasts a while for what we experience to imprint from the astral body, which assumes the experience faster, in the etheric one
- Starting with the Sun era, there’s been the tendency for two currents to flow simultaneously: there’s a solar astronomy and a lunar astronomy, a human becoming of a pagan nature- the natural science- and a Christian becoming
- Materialism believes that all matter is indestructible, Christianity believes that: the earth and the sky will pass, but my Words will not.
- As a soul-spirit being, man is an individuality, closed in himself, but what he occupies between birth and death- the physical and etheric body- aren’t realities in themselves, but part of the entire Earth and of another bigger whole
- The solid part of man is linked to the Earth, the liquid part, to the Moon and to the cosmos generally
- The solid part is influenced by the ego, the liquid part, by the astral body
- The Egyptians had the bigger year of 25920 years, split in 360 days; in 72 years, the Sun is late compared to the other stars by one degree out of 360
- Man emancipated himself; he can be born in any moment, but his earth life is oriented by this solar day. At the beginning, the Egyptians accepted the 360 day year, but when inaccuracies started happening, they added the 5 more
- It’s worse when lies manifest themselves unconsciously. Usually, lies leave once with awareness during sleep, in atemporal existence, but if it’s unconscious it stays with the physical and etheric body, pertaining to the Cosmos and working to its damage. (all the lies that we’re being fed, the truths that we have no idea of)
- We need to live certain things to understand them, because experience matures slower than understanding
- Lunar eclipses, once every 18 years
- The solar forces act opposed to the stellar ones, retracting us from the material laws of the cosmos
- Priests were also healers; they knew that there’s something wrong with the entire cultural process. There’s a constant tendency towards degradation in human becoming, not towards progress; progress is made possible by education acting against this tendency
- Stellar world: head, solar world: eyes, planetary world: nose, terrestrial world: mouth
- The oriental world view emphasizes space, while the occidental one emphasizes time
- The activity of thinking, the soul-spirit world is related to heat
- Like when a liquid is sublimated (caloric process), our head sublimates material reality into images, pure thought. At the beginning, thoughts are corporalized, not completely separated from matter, but the evolution of humanity made a complete detachment from the material possible. Matter is destroyed through thinking, turning into images.
- Before the resurrection of Christ, man lived in corporalized images; after that, images that are free of matter. The Universe somehow retracts.
- There was the danger of man living an existence entirely based on images,so a new substantiality had to be given to them. I think, so I don’t exist. The force that acted at Christ’s resurrection gave this new substantiality to man’s images.
- Parzival: medieval humanity trying to find their path to the inner Christ
- When all matter will be processed for thinking, the earth will stop existing? Then, it’ll be immersed in the cosmos and only images without reality will remain. But the event on Golgota gives them reality, for the next life; this offers a new beginning for the future existence of Earth
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