Rudolf Steiner

**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2254 Location: Indiana

An interesting piece on Steiner, an overlooked spiritual mystic.
(For Isis who mentions him from time to time.)

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/profiles/109/rudolf_steiner.html#
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Isis · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 268 Location: Berlin, Germany

Dr.Wu,

Thank you for the article. For those, who don’t like to read the whole article, I have excerpted the most important passages here:

“Instead of the orthodox scientist's cold, dispassionate eye regarding the world as mere matter, passive to his intrusions, Goethe called instead for "objective imagination", an active participation in the reality under scrutiny. The subjectivity of the scientist – his state of consciousness – was vastly more important than the increasingly hair-splitting exactitude provided by his instruments. This "objective imagination" became for Steiner the basis for his own later "super-sensible cognition".

A spiritual crisis has convinced him that the Christ event was the single most important incident in human history.

As opposed to theosophy, which spoke of the wisdom of the gods, anthroposophy – an uncommon though not unknown term in Western philosophy – was concerned with the wisdom of the human being.

Steiner's last years were spent in sowing as many seeds as possible for future work; they were also darkened by his belief in a coming world conflagration, when the archangel Michael, overseer of the current stage of human consciousness, would face off against the power of Ahriman, a spiritual being who seeks to prevent humanity's development. Steiner spoke ominously of the incarnation of Ahriman, an Antichrist-like figure, whose display of miraculous powers would precede a catastrophic "war of all against all". Steiner believed this unavoidable destiny would take some time to unfold – Ahriman is scheduled to arrive sometime in the 3000s – yet many of his followers suspect that in recent years the process has been speeded up. Steiner himself had grave doubts about the growing pace of technological development, warning his followers that materialist science gains its great power through unwittingly releasing Ahrimanic entities. In his last communications, Steiner called on his followers to develop their consciousness in order to rise above nature to the same extent that technology sank below it. He also gave a series of lectures about karma and its work in human history.”

The mental development of consciousness enables the scholar to be more aware and to recognize the Ahrimanic powers surrounding us. One doesn’t have to be an Anthroposophist to rise one’s consciousness, but Steiner’s lectures include some good advices that unguided devellopments don't provide. Meeting the “gatekeepers” for example could get out of control easily, when the scholar doesn’t know what’s going on. It is qziet a limit experience.
I remeber we came over Steiner, when discussing the Ahrimanic aspect of UFO and alien visitations. The Archontic Spell (or Ahrimanic Spell) relies on duping us with substitutes we dumbly take for real. Plastic for pearl. Artificial intelligence for genuine living.
IMO the super-sensible cognition can make it easier to move through the framework, snakelike, whenever the moment has come. So far.

[Why Daniel continuously ended up with cognitive dissonnances concerning Steiner’s ideas is a riddle for me.]
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