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    OLD AND NEW MYSTERIES

    - 38 -Out of Pralaya between the old Moon and thenewly developing Earth, came first the warmth worldthe Polar time--asSteiner called it.

    This Polar time was a repetition of Saturn development. The Elohim, Spiritsof Formwolfing in this warmth, this fie, giving theego to the wold The ego o-organicman was a. pat of the Billfold, which.... &."""-o

    than separated the It own being and Gavin

    the wold so that mankind might develop1 individualego. Tile beginning of the ego organizer;Timormeant differentiations isotherm wallboard aphelia&.Althea this had been workaday out, the Hypertensiontimes: bean Hypertension times welder the secondpatios of development of the &attn which

    OT lees a -repE4ion of the old loon period Out sumand Welland not yet divided, but wets one. Inthe catboat atmospheric which was Radiating lifein this Hypertension time, the dateline began toRadiate li9ht .. In the Antonio the fiat1t.I .

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    fluid, as Steiner' describes it, a half fluidalbumen Man, in the foam he had mithe fist half of the Lemuria time, was notdivided by sex. Man had enormous willing pow-rs-.At the end of the fist half of Lemuria times,we see the beginning of the Saurian period, whenthe dynamites and o the' large animals-- began todevelop. Man leavened to control volcanic footracein this way he derived strength Theold folk stony giants ate Remembrances of men inthe L emu-rian pellucidIn the second half of Lemuria times, mankinddivided into two sexes. The masculine pat ofthe human Tao Received elev' mote PowersHe became of action and Reaction An action

    f Tom outside gave -rise to a Temptation ofwill forces p1iaychologiis descriptionof men in United States as oasis

    Teaching on an action' f Tom outside is true i sofat as man is a \'repetition of Aleutian man. Sincethat time man has developed an ego which also

    Wotan'. However', it is not completely untrue to avman is bans OT notion and Temptation: . . .t . '

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    - 40-The female pat of the human had thepossibility of turning, inward, of a beginning ofconsciousness, so that the consciousness force,and the fist images of Cong{onerousness, began todevelop inside the feminine half of mankind.

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    South -- one of the few pats of the woldwhee Remnants of the Lemuria wold still

    These few people who could pass f Tom the decayingLemuria cool true to the next stage of development tfoamed the culture of Atlantis. They wee led bythe primeval teaches of mankind. These primeval

    teaches withdrew to the and sent the Itleadership f Tom outside, f Tom the Moon sphere

    Du Ting ht' e Lemuria period, the forces offtheplanets worked on the earth, having at whichthey worked into the formation of the estheticfa-roes both of ea-rt and of JoanThese planetaryforces fanned a great spinalIn the beginning of the Lemuria period the-rewere the Rudiment:ts of thee continents I: or bigcontinent, the Gondwanaland, and the beginning or

    continents mi the Whether the North Americancontinent now -the footnotes OT Batu Tm wetterworking This was also the place whee theour tune of Lemuria mask:ind took clap..' I I

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    The second continent wan in the wheeone mi1Jh t say r..utopia now ii Human 'i>singe

    wee ins pi-red by the few-rces of Jupiter-r Theapproximate Tet,ion of the south ofthe a Tea of Mats Fotomat Sn forces wee ow-rkingin the a Tea which is now the Gobi desert .A fifth culture took place in the south, theVenus culture, which is now Malaya. The sixthcult-re, the expression of insecurity, worstedwhether now stands. Fo-rces of the fttoon wol'ked'

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    in the ATabic peninsula and in the Tegion ofPales tine.In this big spiTal of developing cul tuTell wesee a pattern. Men wel'e not yet divided into twooexes. In the pel'iod, as Venus weTe!leading men, and the LemuTian cultuTe went to thesouth pa-rt of LemuTia, now called Malaya, thept'imeval Malayan Tace was foTmed the fo-rces ofVenus. Lucifel' could take hie chance to getLemuTian development and b-ring about a gTeatchange in the woTld -- and hel'e the division otsexes began.With sexes, Lucife-r could get a betteT holdof man, and fTom that moment the development otLemuTia declines. Simultaneously mankind

    entiates into Taces. The eaTth was not then sohaTd; human bodies weTe much moTe flexible.

    could be by toToes coming fTom outside tothe ea-rth.Having such a piotuTe in ouT minds we can undeTstandbetteT the beginning of the A'tlfS.nteanpeTiod, when toTthe fiTst time we findas we apeak about them now. The old

    began in the A tlantean peTiod. In the ttansi tion

    LemuTia and.the peT'l od, oaiy a few people weTe able to sutviva. These few people

    aTe desoTibed in the Bible as Adam and Bve. It .YOU &.iSk me wheTe the .I

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    r- 42 -possibly in South possibly im Abyssinia,Mesopotamia; we do not know. The eaTthat time was what it isnow. At that time went the

    The UTal mountains thepTimeval continent. The GTeeks the

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    stTeam as the ocean -- not ouT ocean, but aof old LemuTianA few people fTom went toand the Teal development began. Till theend of LemuTia, the eaTth development was aof the old Sun, anddevelopments. This new development, howeveT, wa,s:still wholly guided by the Manto be cTeated in the of the futuTe, so thegTeat foTmed the pTototypes of the humanbody the pTinciples of thTeefoldfoTmation: head, TespiTatoTy system, and membeTB

    The gTeat images of the human foTm stand in theBible aa the image of the lion, middle man;image of the bull, the man; and the eagle,

    image of thinking, the bTain, and the senamoTgans.DuTing the A peTiod we find seven subcultuTes.

    The fiTst of Atlantis weTe calledRmo_abals, with the R calling out the foTces ofthe lion1 -- Tl''t', 1'1'1' .They lived in thei l' bl' ea thand the name, Rmoabals, comes this TollingthundeT of the b't'eath. The Tolling thundeT of the

    TOaTing lion is stlll im it . The second people lived in the south. of Atlantie;

    in the Tegiom called Booduana.land. It eludedthe west of SOuth AmeTica and spTead oveT theocean to South Afl'ioa and to Austl'aJ.ia in onlr.!big continent at that time. In the southel'n and

    of aonduanaland, the Rmoabals andthe second peoples, theTlSIV'artlia; lived . The

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    thi Td g-roup moved somewhat noTthwaTd'sinto the middle of the Atlantean TheyweTe called the Tolteca The took afteTthe foTces. In the Toltec cultuTe thefiTst beginnings of the developed,as Steine-r desc-ribed, and the Tol tees al'e kl'DOwn

    hiato-rically. The last Tememb-rances of $tee:cul tuTe have been found in Yucatan . Remaine- of

    a veTy old. . city weTe found about 1950.The Tolec:S weTe, asSteine-r desc-ribes them,.a peopie of pTiests and high moTality and theywe-re t-rying to develop plantsthem, bTinging new diffeTen tia tiona. Till;plants had been given theiT foTw by the "ieTarchies.

    Now men took ove-r and began to make fuTtheTdiffe-rentiations in the plant woTld. When you tTyto think of these Toltecs who went to the west,you must imagine them as the pTimevalof the AmeTican continent. They weTe la tel' eJQPoaedlto SatuTn foTces and took into themselves thegatuTn mysteTiea. They founded the myateTie&the Gt'e&t SpiTit. The TOltecs wel'e a populatiomof puTe, plant pTiestly woTkiagwith e t,tleTic fot'oeB" .

    In the fout'th sub-cultut'e these thTeeof peoples should been taken togetheT imtowe know as the gt'OllP' of the The p-eoples ofthe eagle, of lion, and of the bull om,theone aide, and on the otheT of the angel, OT ofman in his gloTy, wel'e to foT.m The gToup

    otthe angel waum to take the othel' thl'ee g't'oupain togethel'. The Tlll'anian peopie had task ot,.... an 4qUilibTiumthe otheT thTee foToea.. I '

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    The Ch-rist waa to come this time of theTuTanian people, but at that time the Ahl"imanicfo-rces fil"st got theiT gTip on mankind. Just asin LemuTian times LucifeT had hir:; chance, AhTiman,took this moment in Atlantean times tothe Tut'anian cul tul'e.

    Instead of becomthg the cultu-re of the Sumand of man in as.: seen in theimage of the angel, this became tho cultut'e ofthe scol'pion. The ego was degt'aded to a scot'pion.When you see in aTt all thos"e scnTpions,you know they aTe the l'emaindeTs not of the Toltec.s:,but of the la tel' 'l'ut'anian people. The Tu:ranians:degeneTa ted:, taking hold of se:ntal foToes, whichcould be handled as magic in the wot'ld ofthe -- which the Tol tees had so beautifull:y

    developed. TUTanians took hold of plantfot'cea. and used them fot' theiT own puTposes;which meant a1 downfall.The had to leave A,tlantiB Thefit'st of the flooding Tains came. wasdt'owned. The south of Atlantia was flooded,the middle of Atlantis still stoad - becouui.ngnothing than a g't'oup of islands betweenSpain and CentTal AmeTioa. A! gToup ofpeople went to the weat, a g't'eateT paTt tothe east. Thes-e latteT im the a't'ea wheTe'

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    they oould get- hold of foToes ofMal's.Theythe Tu't'anian people who wel'e fought,

    in the PeTsdan period, by the U't'aniana. Thiswas the beginning of the oa tBiS tTophes of A tlaatis

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    The Atlantean in the fifth, andneventh had to take place in a series ofwhich known as the Ice Thefive ice the outeT cloak of theA tlan tean ca ta.s These ancient, middle,and ice ages ofof Atlantis. Masses of ice came thecon.tinen t. Then the ice mel ted, but the landwas drowned floods and This wa:s the

    of the misusing certain foTces.In the fifth of A.tlantis, the timeof the pTimary semitic indo-germanic cultuTe,the of the ego had again to notoutside, but With the theego from outside. In the and fifththis same foToe had to be ingested anddeveloped fTom within. In the sixth the.e\l'cadic, people took what the Tlava,tli&, thepeople of the bull foTces, had

    it. The pTimeval took theof the lion and inteTnaliz-ed them.meant the fotnlation not only of the human sta.tuTe,but also of human soul. foTcea.At the end of the peTiod, diffeTent

    Taces had been fTom the planetaTywoTking on diffeTent paTts of the AfteTthat, Tace foTmation was fTozen.

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    became possiblp only within the Taoea. LateT oniy

    mingling and mixing of Taoes was possible. They we'r.'efTozen thTough heTedity. LuoifeT inauguTated,speak, heTedity. In that he fTo&e the outar.

    foTmat1on otTaoea.

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    r- 46Someone who hao lived in one place and movesto ano !3 till l'etains hio own typical l'ace!but he is influenced in his soul byliving, instance, Venus Ita deall if you have been bot'n as ain the Malaya as I was, and upthcTe until the eighteenth yeaT. That gav.e memany possibilities which I would not have had if E

    had lived only im Moving fl'om one pal'tto enTichment. You bTing withyou the foTces but, by going to otheTof the woTld and living there, you

    You get the -- only inthe soul, not in the body. This in of whatrpeople say, namely, that people who come to livein AmeTica:, fol'ins tance, and aTe still being fo-rmed!get a longeT jaw and otheTin the second and I have not

    obse-rved this People only say it iEt. so ..In the beginning of the A;tlantean times:, peoplebt'ought with them with one OTof the spheTes. People who had BUTViv.redbetween LemuTia and A,tlantis in, say, the sphe-reof OT of inoaTnated with a gTeatettinneT oonnectiom to these paTticulaTfoTces. Tb.us, in the peTiods, the-planeta-ry mysteTies weTe foullded. Pl!ople wanted!

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    to be in with theiT planet. So theplanetaTy mysteTiea weTe founded in which, imoccult they could meet the SfiTits of thaseplanets. This is the tTUe beginning the Tealmy a teTies-.

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    LateT on, atteT the submeTging of Atlantis,undeY rthe Atlantic ooean, those mysteTies could nolongeT be visited by the spiTits of the planets. The

    otthe planeta.Ty masteTiem bad to 11'1temOV&.

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    - 47 -the ffloon Jhere is a the totalcoomos), what was happening, and what came out ofthe forces of the otheT planets from thePerhaps the Sun mysteries were an Theother planetary mysteries could only be Tead inthe mi rroT of the l\>on:.. Thuo in the la.te A tlan teanperiod, and in the whole post-Atlantean periods,all eastern mys teTies (all mysteTiea which went

    through the post-htlantean cultu-res) we-re -realityMoon mysteries. That is to say, when the fo-rce:!t.of MeTcury we-re called on, the priests: stilll hadto find the mysteTiea of MeTcuTy in the light ofthe Moon1 ..In the fifth peTiod afte-r the Atlanteant-gphi'e, the foTcea of the ego had to be

    The gTea t initiates of the Sun myf teTies- (men' rimbued with high AieTaTchical Sun beings, which

    you may imagine as being Michael lis well SJB' othe-rs)

    b-rought the etheTic of the Sun tomen. It was the of Michael and otheTs to bTingthis wisdom, cosmic wisdom, to man.

    The&e init4iates of the Sun mysteTy werethe godly Manu -- and when I speak about the godly

    Manu I do not apeak about one person oflly. TheTEf.we-re different kinds of godly Manus. In the central

    Sun my ate the godly ltanu was the p't'iest. H9:'

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    the pTiest a.t the moment orm of the highHieTaTchical beings entered into him and spoke"

    his voice and thTough his movements. TheyweTe 't'ecognised in the GTeek the halfgods.one thinks otGilgameah, who wa&called, aoco't'ding to the papeTs that have been found,one-thi't'd man and two-thi-rds god, that means that only

    one thiTd of bim, o.twhat he did, wae coming outothis own ego. Two thil'da ofwhat. he was able to

    do oame thTough him tTom the W.O. baing&\

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    - 48 -Of these godly Manus one neveT knew, "Isthis a Manu OT not?:"' This could only be known byclai-rvoyance, by seeinp, the light which

    aTound such a peTeon, and at one moment he mightbe a Manu, and at the next a human being. Butthese Manus the best of the people of the1'11\YB teTiea, in the fifth A tlantean peTiod,oveT to the east. They these people to theeas t in two st-reams. One s tTeam went fTom thenoTth Atlantic -region, wheTe duTing the fifthpeTiod the people lived, to the noTth of theMedite-r-ranean -region, noTthwaTds th-rough thesouth of Eu-rope, going to the Gobi deseTt wheT8"'

    Indians at that time weTe wo-rking with holypowe-rs in the etheTic spheTe. TheTe they couldbTing a small g-roup of people undeT theof the Sun foTces.I ha;ve said the Gobi deseTt. But when you,. -reacfothe old stoTies of the Chinese and of thepeople, they tell of the Gobi deseTt as at lake,aTegiom with is.lands and peninsulas, with & -rich

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    vegetation and a: most beautiful climate. ThTee'islandg. stood out. TO these withd-rew the old mysteTies. These M'ongolian a toTies aTe aa Tememb-ranceof that old time.On these islands we-re the highest mysteTies: ofmankind. There these people oould be

    and pTeseTved: They lived theTa foT aoag peTiods,to be pTepaTed to go as Sun people to establishthe cul tuTes. The seven Rishis .. camefTom theTa. a.ame out of these mysterie8.

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    cultUTes.in the f the noT theTn stTeam.

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    The was the main andthis was the di Teet Sun forces, as the godJ.yManu went with them. But you also had the helpersof the Manu, who stayed on the wayside hete andthetf and WOTked amone the population which aflteTcameto live and develop in these couMltTies.

    The peTiod and last pTe-Mongolianclosed the seventh peTiod ofwas second stTeam, a. southeTn stTeam ..One went the otheT south. The southerru

    stTeam was led by a helper of the Manu. In theBible he is called Noah. In anthroposophicalcircles theTe aTe people who say Nba.h is theManu. This is not unt-rue, because he was one ofthose highly developed men who could take imtohimself the forces of the Sun.But this southern stt'eam had anothel' taek.While the had to develop the Sun

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    foTces in thinking, the southeTn stTeama stream of foTces -- a stTeam in which the&un was Teflec ted in thePeople of the southeTn stTeam gave much impol'-tance to heredity. They had in theil'the of heTedity. When you Tead in the

    Bible about all those hereditaTy tables fTomz .Adam to Jesus of you fimi something whichis out of the tTaditiom of the southel'n atl'eam --the southernstTeam which tTiee to keep mankindpuT e. In -dte puTi ty of thei T bodies they couldl'eoeive the inspiTation of the Sun dheTe. But itwas Tefleoted thTough the Moon. So the mysteTieB.of the southeTn stTeam weTe SUn coming

    thTough the And the otthestTesm 'un mysteTiea. . i;... . . . .

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    r I..''- 50 -In the Dible a-re places people of bothntTeams meet. AbTaham was one of the initiatesof the stTeam. He had to meetMelchizedek was one of the gTeat ofthe sun Ma.nu, the s tt'eam. Melchizedek

    bTough t wine and bTead to A bTaha/.' This was aoign of unitting the noTtheTn and the southeTnstTeams. FTom that moment oOJ, the pJQple of

    AbTaham had both the foTces of the Moon and the&un woTking thTough Ab-raham and thepute heTeditaTy line, and, on' the otheT side, thediTect foTcee of the Sun woTking in; the celebTatioruof the wine and the bt'ead. In this way, wethe incaTinatioro of Jesus Ch-rist waq6TepaTed.

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    gToup of people pTeseTved so that both

    human statu-re and Tightful thinking coul'd ljO :

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    One peTson of the noTtheTn st-ream WaS' tfoT the fiTst time coming diTectly out of the Sun

    mysteTies -- a. human soul who had not beenbefoTe an.d whol}t im his la teT inoaTna tiom is Al'is;to ttlle .We know thisfut of the lec1;1u'eff" ofS'teinel'. Whem

    we look at suoh a peTson as Al'istotle, we see thathe is a. with onil.y a few inoQg,nation:s behindJ

    him, m peTson standing dil'eotly in the Suntel'ies:. ..

    The noTtheTn stl'eam of these centl'al mysteTieB,

    these iun mysteTies; bl'ings to eal'th and mankindfoToes oflight, of full otSun thinking.We may look at BPhesua and at the Gl'eek mysteTies

    otsamothTaoe, and we may look at the othel' mysteTieson the oontinea.t otG\'eeas. They weTe a1J.I. .. .'' ...

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    beaTing also the foTces of Diana wa$called the fttoon goddess exo teTidally. Eso te-ricail.J.yshe was called the goddess, the c,oddessof healing.StcineT the past as the woTld offthe godly Manu. In the fu tuTe, Steine-r sa\\s, theYe

    will! be human Manus. The godly weTe ente-r-ed'by Sun beings. Futu:re Manus will Tadiate su.n1foTces which people ha.ve developed themselves-..Out of thai T hear-ts they will Tadia te sum foTces;such human Ma,nus will lead mankind oro the Tight waq.The old mysteries, moTe oT thefew which weTe diTect Sun we-re loowmysteTies. This rt\oon quXi ty has something to dowith the old 11\oon, which was called theof wisdom. Thus all these to dowith the seaTch foT But at the end ofial'th evolution the &aTth will be called, ifthings go Tight, the planet of love. TheTe is:: a,tTansition f-rom the mysteTiee of wiadom, which coveTthe fi-rst paTt of the eaTihs development till about.one yeaTs: befoTe ChTist, to the newmysteTiea, which shall be mys teTies of love. Theof new mysteTies of love will be thehuman -anus:. Out of theiT own foTces, theyha:ve taken so mU.oh light ofOhTist in thei T hea:rtsilin.t they can lead mankind to the myateTieEr- of

    love.The old mysteTies lost theiT toToe and puTityhundTeda of yeaTs befoTe OhTiat.Theydecayed. They awaa. With the ot-.OhTist theTa was an absolute end oftheI

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    mysteries of wisdom. The new mystef,ies of. These new mysteries al'e the myeteYiea ofthe The new mystel'ies are the mysteries ofdo deeds of love out of witlbm. But you canonly do deeds of love when you have the wisdom

    fi l'S t.The old mysteries did not sto'l sudd'enly Theyawau. There was no new inspil'atiom im them.

    They only could pl'eseTve the old. By pTesenvingthe old they gTew Lucifel'ic. AlTeady in the timeof Jesus Chl'ist the old mysteries wel'e no longel'visited by the good gods, but by Luoifel'icbeings.Meanwhile, the new mysteries had to wait foTthe end of the Kali-Yuga. The old Indian tTaditiom

    tells us of thTee thousand befoTe Ohl'ist whenthe gttea t period of stat'ted which would'last five thousand yeaTs, till about thousandyeaTs a.fter Chl'ist. That means: 1899, about, wa.s:the end of Kali-Yuga. DuTing Kali&Yuga, themysteries weTe not Teally Tenewed. They oouldonly look back to old tingeSteineT put whole Michael wisdomin to the Pounda tion Stone. in 1923.The whole wisdbiDl

    of anth'l'oposophy, the Sun.1 wisdom of Michael as awhole, Steinet' put together into a small a.eed -

    which.may then flowet' in a plant. Such ...a Stone otLove, Steine'l'it. This means that when we take these seed wot'ds,

    have seed fot'oes in them, and med1tat&.on them, they oan g\'ow out to a living pl.ant again-.

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    The si tua tioru of modeTn mankind is- as follows.The in1his bodily oTgans aTe de-ying. In these bodily oTgans old kaTma v.oTksand AhTiman can enteT into us thToughthe detay of ouT oTgans. Only a paTt ofouT body can be diTected to the foTces of the SunouT will foTcese By out'

    will foTces we can take a small paTt of ouT bodyand fill it with these seed fo't'ces of Sun woTdswhich aTe spoken by Steiner, and bTing tnereto a future. This condensed will poweT the

    suTplus fo't'&fas. to build the t'u tu-re wol'ld.In the old mysteTies man had to bTing tosciousness the wisdom which the gods g-ranted1 to the'f

    II,. t,ea-rth. In the new mysteries man has to developspiTitual suTplus powers in his will to give tothe gods so that they can let th.em flow inrto the

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    development of woTlds.With the we aTe now Tesponsible fottthe development of the woTlds. Between Golgotha

    and la99fohe mysteTies silent. r1900 the new Sun wisdom of Michael could Teac.h

    the eaTth. In theMeditation, which SteineT called the0 ddecahedTBa Love Stone, foTces might Tadiate intothe heaTts otthe membeT& and give them spiTitualfoT new futuTe

    The old 11\YSteTieB' weTe bound to geog-rapliicailplaoeB wheTe beings? could speak toman thTough the constellation of natuTe 1 a .Tee-a.

    FoT instance, the Uoi ted Sta tee, sinoe the begimningof the LemuTian peTiod, was a place whe-re

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    The new te-riea not bound to geographicalconstellations, nor to time of theoT the day. The new mysteries aTe celebTatedby men wheTe they fill their with therevelations out of the of Gun wisdom givenby Michael. Men render theiT &un-filledto the gods as an altaT where those high

    may celebrate the new cosmic cult. These aitaTsin ouT heaTts may be built anywhere, at any time,even when we a:re sitting in the subway going a:1ttop spt!ed. It is no to say, "'I cannotdo it in this moment."In older men celebTated theiT holyon the altars of the gods. Now the gods migh1t.celebt'a te on the alta:rs of the enlightened' human

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    hearts. This''fhe meaning of the woTds at the end,of the Foundatiom Stone Meditation:0 Light Div.4.ne0 Sun1 of Christ,WaTm Thow ouT HeaTts,Enlighten Thou ouT Heads,

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    on: th.eiT -own inne-r Fl'olll' 1909 to 1916,in anothet' aeven-yeat' pe-riod, Steinet' introducedanthi-opoaopbi imto the t'enewal of the arts- iruto.the feeliagTbia t'enewal speech,

    daDo a,- d\'aina,---8culptuTe,. and teotui-e. In this:seven yea:r peTiod, between:: 1909 and 1916, the spi Titual.of the Je.ohae1 Sun myateTies enteTedlthe feel.ing life th-rousfl a.t't. NOt only was the

    poaophio impulae bTough11 1:o lut toTeligioma.l.ao, in the leotuTetr-upom the Oapel8\t-56.-With 1917 comes: anothe-r peTiod of s-even yeaTs,.and. the t'evela tion of man a thTeefold na tut"et - - . - - ...the ne-rvous system Telated to thinking, the. .

    Thythmio system to feeling, the metabolic systemto willing.. Stein.et' said it took thanthi-rty yea-rs to -ripen this whole image of th'reefoldman. Out of it came thefiTst socialac tiona.In that thit'd between 1917 and 1923)anthTopoeophy moved down into the ateineTp-resented the concept of a thTeefold societywith f-ree spi Ti tual life (in to which the WaldoT1t'

    '' movement was wi t:fl a political ltifebased upon equality, and with an economic life

    based om bTotheThood. . vThis peTiod ended.in the of1923, thenight of the fiTst of Janua-ry, 1923', whendestToyed the old Goetheanum. of thenew mysteTies ended with fi-re. AnthToposophy had

    been p-resented as as aTt, and as asocial foTm. Till 1923 Steine-r had stood

    the AnthToposophical Society. He was a teacheT andan adviso-r, but .not. Tysponsible f9T .what themembeTs of the society Only afteTfight SteineT, at the end of1923, in theChTiLt took a newtion. He ag-reed to be chaiTman of the new society.In tha.t -role he himself .would be the gual:'dian ofthe new mystel'ies;.

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    This meant a. greatTisk fo-r Steine-r. We in Hollaniknow about this inaeT fight. Only aiJt weeks befo\'eChTia-tmaa, the Dmtoh society founded in

    The Hague. Then, on an evening a"ttel' a leotuTe,. - witil_a. fa'! f-;-r' i..e. n-ds - Dl'. eyimane,

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    EveTyone who knew about this went to theChristmas founda,tion gathering, not knowing whatwould happen. Then SteineT, -radiant, gave theFoundation Stone meditatioru at the beginning,saying that the spiritual woTld would try to bringthnse new mysteries to earth and b-ring them with1..0'"" a good will to human beings in the twan1ie1hcentul'y. Still the risk was great. Only th-ree o-rfonT months Steine-r was often veTy bitte-rand sad.d, "So few of the members unde-rstand thatit is something quite new as against the oldSociety. They go om aw ifnothinghad happened. They go on in theiT old ways.d!hese new myste-ries aTe now he-re. They aTe the

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    Stone meditatiom can spTout new knowledge,feeling, new willing into the futuTe.With this cosmic and eaTthly act, SteineT was thehigh pTiest of the new mysteries These new1mysteTies mysteTies of acting, of willing, ofinitiative. The fi-rst Executive 6ouncil of the newsociety Steiner called "an lni tia tive Couftcil"', andhe meant a council which bTought in new things.

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    SteineT saida "Let us heTe and now laq in theground of ouT heaTts the dodecahedral foundatiomstone of love. OuT own heaTts aTe the pTopeT soilin which to lay this _foundation stone -- ouTin good will, imbued with love, woTking togetheTto caTTY the will and

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    r- 58 -He desc-ribes the Teali ty of tha,t dodecahedTaJ.love stone. He says, "'The foundation stone willlip,ht up befot'e the eye of ou-r soul .. Even that1t.founda tiom stone which Teceives f'Tom umi.v:eTsaJ:

    and human lJove its substance, fl'om uni v:eTsaJJand human Imagination) its living pictuTe qurulityand fo-rm, and fl'om uni vet' sal and human thoughtsits l'adi'l. ting light."'Love is its substance; lmaginatiom is itsfonn; thoughts aTe its Tadia:ting liglit. It is not an ea.-rthly It is antion living in the heaTts: of a society. SU.ctt'

    woTds a.Te spoken by the hiel'ophant, the high'p-riest of mys tel'ies. - in this case the high1

    pt'iest of newmysteriesin which human hea-rtsa-re the the Tadiating love stones omwhich the hieTat'chies may celebl'a te thecult of the futu-re-..

    Now we can ask, how do .!!!. live with" sucn,The SteineT gave us. a way tolive with these things which he hadthe day befo-re, because when we tTy to

    the whole lmagina tion, at once in OUT mimi i 1t.is too big. He says we can live with these

    things when we differentiate them im ouT s.ouls-,so much so that they can DD longe-r leSNe us-..They g-row to living expet'ieno-e wi thim us Thartt.

    means take one. sentenas and live with it in, su.c:h

    a waa thait this sentence DD longe-r aan leawe us .AlfteT the Ch'l'istma&- foundation, in the h&lf-yoattt

    atteT, SteineT oould still WOTk with us. Heldtte-rs: to the membe-rs Latel', fl'om his ad.ok bed,

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    he wrote the lette'l'a of Michael . The nineteenth ..speaks about ea-rth' a 'l'ealL ty itr. the cosmos ..Bteine'l' 88& ouT wol'ld is the image of the deadJ

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    and the woTld below ouT feet, aill'was onco livinR and developing -- in the deads: ofthe KieTaTchies. They died . In this way they

    gave the secuTity which is in law$.But, in the same measut'e in whichman, the micTococmos, comes to existence as anindependent the cosmos dies.- which mea,nsthat what was once a living development becomesentombed iro natuTe 1 s laws. It thua comes;the Tealm of LucifeT. Dying and becoming; the laws:of natul'e enteT LucileT'sOut of this dead woTld of natu-ral laws, man.daTives his thinking foTces. When he thinks; it

    is out of the foTces of the dead, not of theliving, cosmos.But the eal'th has imit some new NewfoTces aTe lying like in this deadl .

    They aTe the new living foTces ChTist gawe tothe eaTth, to the etheTic foTces: of thewhen his divine blood dTopped into

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    the eaTth. In this moment, im the dying and ralTeady dead eaTth, new geTms of living intothe fu tuTe weTe put. They weTe taken imto thee'll;eTic body of the eatl'th ..In the epTing, natul'e comes out of the eaTth .P!l.ants and s.eed.ER a-re spTouting. They live and1spTou t th-rough the foToes- of Cht'iS:t. Without thea&.fot'ces, plant.a and seed woul.d ente-r into,deathtoo. These Tadi&ting'life a-re the seed foTcasotthe new cosmos, ofJupiteT to come. ThesespTou ting plant$ have moTe etheTio foTces thalllthey can use toTbuilding the leaves and tAe

    plants. With OUT eye& we see the plant spToutingEnd g'l'owing. But into the -&ihe\' WO'l'ld theTesteams a suTplus of etheTio out into

    the cosmos. These Tadiating etheTio foTcea= the "'t, 1ita fqToas whichwill be the aeedeatl'th knowm and dteT

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    r- 60-Man is in theseHe is pa-rtiGipating in them, howeve-r, onlyin his willing life. In his thinking life, he iscondemned to live with the foTces of thewo-rld. In his willing life, he has the possibilityof You can have a feeling that youwant to do something. You know what you want to do.

    You do it. Afte-rwaTdayou look at it. You

    uoh, it is only a PB.JTt of that which I wanted to'do. I wanted to do it so beautifully and sowell. See what has come of i t1 11'

    Onl.y BJ pattt of what we will ente't'ft' into Teal.i ty.llut the pa-rt of willing which does not entett'reality is not lost. That is the of wdll

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    foTces which -radiate into the cosmos;-- alongwith the seed fo-rces of the plants, animals, andstones, which weTe given new life when C11Tist diedon Golgotha;. But man can abuse this ofwilling fot'ces foT hispowet's of the will.' a..Te fanned whemlmaginationB condensed into inspit'ed wot'ds

    You aJ.JJ lanow about St. John the TheTe

    is a beautiful legend that tells howC at.John was about 109 yeua old., he ved im Ephesus,with g-roups of the fi -rat Ch-ristians. In the littlechuToh the-re was an open grave foT himpt'epaTed. One day he asked the people to b-ringhim imto the ohuToh. Sitting in his chai

    his open g-rave, he gave a 18J8t wo-rd to the communi'-ty: he said, 110hlldt'an, love each othe\' . 11'Thew hestepped into his and died.

    These wo-rds a'l'e 'repeated ve'l'y often. In t'eaity,

    they oontaim the whole myste'l'y otthe developmentofthe eat'th - f-rom a cosmos of wisdom inrto a

    oosmoa: of love. Think otao.v ministe'l' Ol' a.oysohoolmaste'l'a.J.l pl'oblema

    Why do theseiame WO'l'dtr.saying, Just aaoh othel' andwillbe solved .. " !his soua.dl!r. hol.JJ.o111.wot'ds not wo-rkThey aTe te'

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    condense this wisdom into seed Byf11f!m

    densing the tAey thisThink who John the Evangelist was=the who was initiatedb.'! the ChTis t hirtl self. He had beem fosteTed! aS'

    the youngeT disciple who loved the wholived and wTote the gospel, and who wTote the::Apocalypse. He had the Tight, at the end ofhis life, to condense this whole wisdom and toput the foTces of hie deeds into a

    These woTds have seed foTcee. But when anyunqualified peTS> n speaks them, they a.Te at bl.a:sphemy.

    That's the diffeTencSbateT taking twenty-one tobt'ing the Sun wisdom imto the human

    had the Tight to condense theof anthToposophy into the seed wot'dw. ofthe foundati'on stone.. The modeTn wot'ld knowsaboutthe fot'ces of condensed Theyused imadveTtising. When you think ofveTtising a8ency, and of how people sit togetheTto find one condensed foTmUl.a which might awakEPthe willing poweTs of otheT people, to get

    to buy, then you see how we model'n peol'l].e know.to abuse suib'lus will foToeE!l and we krmWJ

    what is the aeol'et of oondeihaiag something'into 8.1slogan in the woTld - imto an adveTtisemen1t.

    o-r we tTy to dil'eot ou,. thinking foToes onto

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    on the joy and satisfactiomknowinB al1 things -- even of knowingposophical wisdom in theWhen you take these foT building SJsteals yout' sut'pluswill foTces foT his egotistic new man-madecosmos. OT steals anthToposophicalwisdom to it into a system, into a: dead!system, which you can be of. aTepeople in the Antht'opooophical Society who have

    gt'eat joy immaking systems out ofsteals that wisdom and it does notthe will poweTs. SteineT said wethe su will foT building Michaelic:lmagina tions. He says these lmagina tiona come and:go so long as we keep bTinging ouT willing foTcesinto them. We can't them The momentwe out' will they go awau. Wehave to be satisfied with that. We cannot takethem home and hawe them These lmaginatiorosrand also the inspiTations in meditations,will mingle with the ChTist foTce and steeam outinto the cosmos. That is the meaning of the dodecahedTal1ove stone in ouT heaTts This loveatone is only a Teality in the w&.

    able to bTing ouT will foTces i' ntothe woTds of this meditation.SQinet' gave about. '6,000 lectu\'es in his life.

    He also WTOte a couple of donn books on cosmo- ,

    genJka ChTistology and man' a Efk1'i t\lal beiq. InpTesenting in twenty-onewisdom had to havingdif1rel'entiated it into 6,000 and abou1t24 books, he condensed it, integTating it im the

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    to a, few in the temples built foT the gods Butthe fOundation is spoken to the ofall men they live. In the ChTis-tmaaf'ounda tioru ceTemony, Steine-r united "the Micha1school of cosmic wisdom with the schoolof ChTis t wisdom and Ch-rist love, which hadlike a Ted thTough histoTyeaTth. So the heavenly and the trueChTistianity wel'e mixed and fTom thatmoment om SteineT and ChTiatiaa; RoaenkTeuw. mrewol'king toee thel' in the new mys teTie

    The stTeam is the oldest stTeamof wisdom on eaTth. Caim was the btllldeT ofcities, that is to say, ofa man-built woTld.He came to in orm_of his asHil'am, the buildel' of Solomon's temple. HiTam

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    knew how to bt'ing coamio l'eality thl'ough humanonto ea-rth in foTms.mo\'eovel', was the l'eincaToation of HiTn, tilebuildel' of the He was the same individualwho ltived in _Oad.n and Hi'l'am- aa.dwho became thefil'st initiate of OhTist himself. Afta'l' his life

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    I I sa..:i.d that he knew, th-rough Steine-r, of about teroinca.-r'ina tions of St. Jbhru the Bvangeliat. They

    ...-"" -weTe Ch-ristian;mar-rty-rs. He spokeci -role about this, saying: "'St. John the Evangelistis the g-reatest suffeTeT foT Ch-ris tin.ni ty. He is theonewho was able to suffcT fo-r it. 11'

    In 1250 this g-reat human individual! ty oru eaTthwent .ihTough a. special initiation as desc-ribed irothe lectuTes aibout Oh-ristian UosenkTeUZ'e A1fte-r thislast initiation-, in11250, he was known1 in histoTy /'-: .. -0as Ch-ristian UoscnkTeuz. It was: he who unTaiVJelledl---

    the -red th-read of eaoteTic Ch-ristianity om ea:rth il'J)

    the time of Kali-Yuga, and between the mysteTyI

    ..of Golgotha and the yea l' 1899. But the-re was no "-real -renewal of the myste-ries. The spi-ritualwo-rlds didn't speak thTough the mysteTies. Theonly thing which was possible was that p.eopi.et-ried to pt'ese-rve what was theTa out of oldett

    times. But th-rough this woTld which g-rew mo-re andmo-re materialistic, theTa was this sec'ret' th-read of small gToups of people who bea-re-rsof the Teal stTeam of esoteTio ChTistiantity.They weTe b-rought togetheT by Ch-ristiankTeuz. There was one whom you all knowc

    It was ChTistian who, appeaTinga paTticulaT human fo-rm fo-r Remb-randt,Remb-randt the -&eol.'ets ab.out light and dal.'kness..

    Rembl.'andt twioe gave a pTotl.'ait of the man who;

    b-rought him the kaowledge of light and daTkness-..One is the waa'l''l'iol', which is hanging illl Glasgow..,and the othel' is the so-called Polish BideT, whichis in New Yo-rk.

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    a -red stole. He ga!Ve that as a true pictu-re of-reality, of the i -ritual -reality, out of whicft,

    to build an having the foundatiomstone in one'sThe wo-rds of the foundation stone a-re condensedseed wo-rds. They to inneT needs. One can

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    take out m sentence. Fo-r take out thesentence, "The Christ 'liill encil'cling l'oumi,holds swav in. the -rhy thma of the wot'lde, blessingthe soul: . "' It is the beginning of the aecol'lldpa-rt, of the middle of the meditations.Think about the Cht"ist Will living "in the

    enc!Toling l'ound," and "in the -rhythms of the. 11' Imagine standing in the wol'ld and li vinr,with the of the of midday,and evening. Have.in mdnd that in theseThythms ofthe woTld the ChTist is living,blessing the soul ofmen. All mem aTein theiT in im theseIn the midst ofwoTk, standing on the platfoTmstatiomwaiting foT atTain, OT going tHTougha noisy maobinea: aTe tuTning,

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    you t' souJ. and which always is saying, '"In therhythms of the the ia

    living, b.lessng the souls ofmeno."' Look aTound'at people toiling in a machine at

    people pu-rsuing egotistic needs. Nevel"-theless, thet'e is still a blessing of the

    so long as people know about the Ch-rist.Will living in the 'l'hythms of the voTld.. .,But those who know have aThey haYe to be They have to take initiativ.ein to thei 1.' will ...They have to initiate thei will im these:new mystet'ieso

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    In late Lemu-ria, whM'e mankind was: divided!into the sexes-, the HieT84'chiee g&'V'e the fi Ts1t:.myste-ries- to mankind. These myste-ries dif1fenntiatedon planeta'l'y lines in Atlanteatl. times-, l.ed by the

    Sun mysteTiea. In the fifthleade-rs- ofthese Aln mys-te-ries- aa"Wed" thei-r

    beat pupils tTom the do our of A;tlan and took

    them towattds- the EaJrt . . .

    The not'th.e'l'n Bt'l'eam, lee! by the Maau hi\tselt,.

    b\'ought the San 11o th& t. &;;;t poilt'lt .tQ... . ... . ..;. , ":, ; : , :: ?. .. ':r:!!

    . --::; : .. aouth ot:tfte ':S'OUV le&t... ,. : ....... .... ,' .. ...... ........ .}. : -

    . :: ... tfoab, aeaaQd ll'B&t lQittate .at.tha na.r.. .. ' .._ : . . +: . - . ... . ... , .

    : .. : _ .-; : .; .!Ala. ot .. the_ aoq.tA at1e\' 'Ule st&tu.l'

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    ''., :;"1 ##.., rf:.. .:, '- :_' ' ' -' ,' ., ' ';' - - ' ,--:_

    .. :!;4 c; .otlilA tAa-. " '001114 :&Ate\' be the

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    mo-re ol' less a of foTces, st-res-sed'the fo-rces of he-redity.r.rhe Manu who b-rought t.he Sun myste-ries to theGobi dese-rt wo-rked behind mo.n.'f impulses which'lateT entel'ed into the post-AtlanteanIn this wo-rk of the gTeat post-Atlantean mysteTies,the mys'te-ries of bleTCUl'Y and Venus- took aspecial place. This is impo't'tant faT the g-reat:challenges which a-re coming at the end ofcentu-ry .

    When, in the beginning of Lemu-rian times-, theSun went out of the ea Tth, the Elohilll' - Spi Titsof Fo-rm which had until then woTked in us --depa-rted and withd-rew f-rom the eal'th. They wentwi-th the Sun and wo't'ked f-rom outside the ial'th uponman's development. But a.r gToup of El.ohim did notgo to the Sun, Ta th&T s-taying in the neighboThoodof laTth. They woTked fuTtheT oro la't'th, in mankind,so that in the LemuTian and ea Tly A-tlan teanpeTiods, the in the astTal body of menmight be tamed. It needed to be tamed in such away that it would not oveTwhelm the seed ofthe

    ego impulse when it was pu t_into man.Dul'ing the development of Atlantis, the impulseof this human ego was to enteT into the developmentof mankind. If the astTal body had still beenby the uncontTo11ed foToes of LemuTian timeg,theta would have oveTwhelmed this new ego tOTce.PoT this task a gToup of Blohim made theof the Sun to stay in neighboThood ofiaTth.

    They a1'e called aif'teT theil' apheTes of -sphel'es whioh weTe fol'med lateT:: Klohillrl of the

    ltoon., otllteToul'y, and otVenus. Ba.oh took aI; . ..... 1;Bi8k,

    ... . ... '.. .-: ;: .

    .

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    - 145 -The Rlohim of the wisdom tothe ast-ral bod.v; the Elohim of Wle-rcut'y b-roughthealing fo-rces; the Elohim of Venus b-rought the

    impulse of beauty -- of love beauty to theast-ral body. These impulses we-re compensations tothe wildness of the as-t-ral bod,y late-r Lemu-rianand at the sta-rt of the Atlantean ue-riod.In the middle of the A.tlan tean pel'iod, out of thewol'ld of the Elohim of the Sun, the impulse ofthe personal ego entered man -- man, p-rirepal'ed bythe Hie-cal'chies-, in his physical, ethe-ric, andastl'al body. The ego was like a dl'op falling fl'owThe pictures fl'om t?c the old

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    : Goetheanum show this. Evolv.ng man, so to speak,was as a, human being.

    A:t t!la t moment Ahl'iman fo't' the dt'op ofheaven and bTought it deepet' into ea't'th than w-a9intended, Ol' than was then good fo't' man. He didthis by tT . .'ing to get hold of the: etheTio bodyof man, and hat'dening it. Hie was toca?tu't'e the ego in a ha-rdened etheTiC:: body. Ahrimannot want the ego seed to be fTee, but to come

    undeT his own fot'ce and will.The wot'ld of the Elohim Teaohed a; gTeat deoiJion. Long befo't'e, the Blohim of the wPom hadwithdrawn. This happened at the end of LemuTiantimes, when the aepaTated fromlaTth. But the

    Moon still sent. wisdom to &aTth-- wisdom

    that was bTought to the astTal body as: that theawakening ego would find theTa a gTound ofand good piotuTea and thinkins. the Blahim oflleTOUTY made a new . !hey eaoTifioec!

    in the heavenly spheTes, they wol'kedwithout upon the la.Tt41 to enteT the hayUening laTthwith an impulse of healing;

    - -

    Being with man, these Me-rcu-ry fo-rces diTectedthe impulses of healing so that the ethe-ric bodymight not be haTdened so much that the ego fol'cnswould become imp.Titned in body.

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    The Elohim of Venus also moved. Theyto Venus to woTk mo't"e effectively f't"om outside&a -r th. The:rb-rought al't to mankind .. A:Tt was thethat, f-rom outside astTal body,p.ictuTes and imaginations about soi-ritual:!ould l'each man. B'J.t while this went on, the Venus

    3lohim came into the sphcTe of LucifeT. Thi&is difficult to gTasp. But the LncifeTic foTceshad,in times befo-re Golgotha, a positive task.

    The Lucife-ric fo-rces woTked thl'ough the Elohim ofVenus b-ringing Lucifel'ic light and whichas pictuTes ofart and beauty to mankind. Thisthen a positive fol'ce without man would havegTown too Tough and too wild. Tf1Dugh al't, he wa;er.put befoTe a looking glass of the spiTitual woTld.

    Thus two kinds of spiTitual activities wot'ked

    into the myste-ries of post-Atlantean cultuTes. Themyetel"ies weTe mysteTies of wisdom, based inAsia The myste-ries of on the othel'hand, wel'e pTetty much hidden. They wel'e often eosecTet that even at theiT only a few peopleknewabout them. They wel'e hidden so that'theylooked on the outside iike

    One of the fo-remost otllleTOU\'Y oenteTs at-.Ephesus-. Art; Bphesua- students meet secttetS", and dee!)and mysteTy stTeame, whiohwo-rked togethett with the IUn AttheTe lived knowledge otplaAt gTowth, knowledge ofmetals, and-knowledge ofhealing, It is not bychanoe bt at Ephesus the agingJohn the Bv'angeliat.wottked, and diede'0

    ..- 147 -The Venus forces outside. TheyaTt into the soul of man. This aTt, inpTe-Golgotha times, gave a counterneight to theAhl'imanic inflnencP. in the't!thet'ic body. AhTiman il1lthe ethetic body, :.nd, as a count0.l'Weit1ht, Lucife't"in the a3tTal body. How din Lucife-r pToceed? BybTineing aTt a bt'idge between eaTth and spiTit.But the Venus influence also wo-rked in an egotisticway. Leade-rs of this impulse demanded that anyone

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    who dedicated hirnPi!l f to a-rt must woTship a-rt fullymoTe fully, behind all alse. When

    the a:rtis t did t hi s -- o nl.Y wo r ked f o T at' t -- hewas given the inspit'ations out of the of

    the Venus Elohim. Yt\Mtl this was, in thetimesup to Golgotha, a gTJat and positive mission

    of LuoifeT. AhTimanic foTces in the bodyweTe counteracted; by living with art, thebody t'ema.ined flexible, became "beautified," anddid not ha-rden a-s much as Aht'iman warted.Sun myste-ries dil'ectly helped the ego's development.The development of the ego gTew diTectly outof the Sun myste-ry spheTe of the he it whosent out the seven Rishis, HeTmes, andDionysos - all to the West so that -they couldtheTa found new cultuTes. The -erout'y Elohim deciden

    to help the lun foToes fTom theiT side, ft'om below,healing. Healing is the mysteTy of theElohim .woTking thTongh the black Ah'TimanicfoTces of the iaTth,AhTiman, in the middle ofthe Atlantean peTiod,

    moved to the whole woTld so that it mightmateTial than waa intended by the good. : Into these foToas ofthe laTththe Blobim went down.into the4eepest How did they healf By bTinging

    eaTth mateTial into the li8ht the fun, byplants to gwow. PlaQt oul tu1'e is one ofthe deed& set befoTe man by theae mysteTies,the Blohim .ot-eTOUTY plants, etheYic.. ,. .. :

    . : .:. .- 148 -aa-rth substance is d-rawn back into the lieht ofthe Sun. This ma.v not seem wo-rthwhile thinking:J.bou t. But it is the essence of healin1: to expose,

    to the Sun.The mysteries ofEphesus, which w-re the pu-restmysteries,we-re the mysteries of healing.In To-rquay, l!;nRland, Stcinel' held two lectu-reson the of E!lhesus. He npoke with emphas.is and love how in these mys tel"ies of Ephesusteacher Qnd pupil woTked together to know howforces of darkness and light weTe wol"king in the

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    plant world. The goal was to hTing into themedicinal spheTe. This -reseal'ch was done by the

    teacher asking questions and the pupil answerir.g.NoTmally we say the pllpil has to ask questions and.

    the teache-r has D give the answe-rs. HeTe it wasjust the otheT way aTound. The teachel' asked the

    questions. The pup-il went to sleep with theques tiona of the teachel'. The next mol'ning theymet again. The pupil gave the answel' which came outof the depth o.f his soul. Out of these answel's, theteacheT got inside the woTld in a way he could not

    get on his own. It .is always the wol'king oftwotogetheT, in the mysteries, the same as thetogether ofdoctoT and patient.The can study medicine. But he can onlyheal togetheT.with the

    the pateint his symptoms.The tells thesymptoms. Out of the.symptoms the dootoT Teachee:an imagination ofwhat is wTong withthe patient. It is the same with teaohel' and pupilin ouT schools wheTe the pupil can tell the teacheT,and educate the in the undeTstanding otman's development

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    - 149 -;.'/hen 1h r.i t. came to earth and died on: Golgotha,thn Mercu-ry Blohim went with Christ. Steineriold us the ft\e1rou-ry Elohim was already Cht'istianized'

    The ftlercu-ry llohim was Raphael. Raphael is the

    l!let'cu-ry Elohim -- the leading Elohim of lfercu-ry,and now a Christian At'changel.

    The of art was over. The old stylehad finished. But the Venus fo-rces that onceficed themnelves to work with Lucife-r had still to

    be -redeemed. Theref""s was a -reaJ. sac-rifice, in the . .sense that the.'{ went wc.th the Luciferic fo-rceS" in

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    o-rder to help marucind -- bringing a-rt in such away as was necessa-ry in p-re-Christian times Nbwthey should wo-rk in anothe't' way. But they have notbeen f-ree to make a decision. When once a JtieraTchical'being makes the decision to e,o the Lucife't'ic way,

    even to help mankind, he cannot wit"dt'aw f-rom thissphe-re. He needs to be Tedeemed by man.Only man can help him come back to a Ch-ristiampath.In the times afteT Ch-rist, aTt still bt'oughtrbeauty to mankind. Only heTe and aTose thefil'st beginnings of -real ChTist1an impulses imat't. This does not mean painting OhTist theCToss, Ot' scenes fTom the life of Cht'ist.Look at the art of aTchiteotut'e up to the

    nineteenth cenuTy, with all the old styies. Many"

    styles The Romania fiTat, them theqpthio. weTe to new impulwes

    into BiTt. In the w oentut'y, the gt'eat luminitiate SteineT staTted tbe otaTt in a.OhTisilan way. By tbis I me&n that SteineT's aTt . im.pul.ses Beak to -redeem the LuC!ite\'ic-'lenus,. aonstellation of foToese aTt does not seek

    .. >.-.to WO\'k in a LuoifeTiO way on the ae1;Tal body, but

    .... : - ;;: to wo\'k in a way that may help the ego

    :-.. c!evalopment, Po\' this Tenewal., aTt the has

    . to take the plaoe of the old aTt whioh woTked thcou8h'

    ......

    - J.50 -Venus and Lucifer. This old at't sought a worldof a -real wo't'ld of beQllty. Real Cht'istiarr

    at' t i:J something which has to be bt'Oilgh t tomankind. St;einet' could this in the 20thcentut'y when Kali-Yuga, five thousand yeat's ofdat'kness, wet'e ovet'. The light of spi t'i t could wot'kin mankind. Stcinet', in the beginning of. . .... -for!_ t. f th t!.__tnt;! Is ::tao CJh c en,.ut'y, l.nl. l.a te ... e .un mystc-

    r'L es, b-rought the new at't, and the new healing.The t'enewal of the mysteries of healing, in a

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    Christian way, meant unveiling the mystet'ies ofdevelopment. Steinet', in the yea-rs 1902-06, bt'oughtusthe concept of development- the concept of man'sdevelopmemt, and the concept of a whole cosmos developingf't'om Satu-rn to \lw.can. This wolll.d of developmenuthe Tenewal of the of healing.

    Healing is always a p't'ocess of bTinging into develo,lment what has stagnated and haTdened. To b't'inginto development is to heal.

    The t'enewal of a't't was the second impulse whichSteinet'.b't'ought. In paidting,and dl'ama, we see only a fiTst beginning. In theoute-r wo-rld they can do it all much bette-r. The

    modet'n ballet is muoh mot'e olevel' than eut'ytbmy .It p&lftesses a pl'oud pet'feotiorr. A! mode-rnis neaTly absolute. AnthToposcphical

    musicians, they t'l'y to bTing newout of music, what do they do?. They buildWhen you heal' with the old ea-r you will say, 58'vte in Holland say, that they aTe just dabblingat'ound. Give me a oTohastTa with thefull eftaot.Impeorfeotions al'e the sae&nl of the tuture

    They will be peTteot, in thTee oryeat'a. Old art took a muoh longe-r time

    to Why art do it in a shoTt timetBaal developrnen t is alWILJ'B Blow. !haTe is no


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