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There is what we may call a primeval world-wisdom; — all that man can fathom, all that he can know and realise, all that he has gained in ideas and conceptions, all that he has attained through clairvoyant imagination, inspiration, and intuition, — all has been lived before, and known before, by those Beings who are higher than he.
He only follows so to say, in their track.
To make use of a trivial example: the watchmaker has first the idea, then he makes the watch according to the idea. A watch is made after the maker’s ideas which preceded the watch; afterwards everyone can study and observe for himself from what ideas the watch was made, he can follow up the thoughts of the watchmaker.
At the present point of evolution it is indeed only this kind of connection that man can have with primeval world-wisdom and with the spiritual beings that stand above him. Spiritual beings had first those imaginations, inspirations, intuitions, those ideas and thoughts according to which the world, as we see it, was formed. Man finds these thoughts and ideas in the world again; when he rises to clairvoyant vision, he finds the imaginations, inspirations, and intuitions, by the help of which he can penetrate into the world of those spiritual beings.
We can, therefore, say that before our world came into being there already existed the wisdom of which we are going to speak: it is the PLAN OF THE WORLD.
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The problem of humanity first becomes important for us, when we know that in all we do, even in our moods, we influence a whole Cosmos, and that this small world of ours is of infinitely far-reaching importance for all that comes to pass in the macrocosm. An increase in our feeling of responsibility is the finest and most important of all the things we gain from spiritual science. It teaches us to grasp the true meaning of life and to realise its importance, so that this life which we cast on the stream of evolution may not enter that stream void of meaning.
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If we speak very figuratively we can express it thus: An old solar system disappeared and died away. Within that ancient solar system the ranks of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones had evolved to the highest perfection. They then sought out, according to the inspiration received by them from the highest Threefold Unity, a Sphere within Universal space and said: ‘We will begin here.’ When the Seraphim took up the aims of the new world-system, the Cherubim worked out these aims, and the Thrones poured out of their own Being the primeval fire into that space. Thus we grasp the beginnings of our world-system.
Trinity-Godhead : Father/Brahma; Word/Shiva; Holy Ghost/Vishnu : « The Threefold Unity has needs of beings to execute its plans.
Seraphims – Spirits of Love – « Receive from the Trinity the highest ideas and aims for a system of worlds »
Cherubims – Spirits of Highest Wisdom – Task of building up in wisdom the aims and ideas which they received from the higher gods. Thus the Cherubim are spirits of highest wisdom, who understood how to transpose into workable plans, the inspirations given to them by the Seraphim.
The Thrones – Spirits of Will : they « sacrificed themselves in order to build, like silkworms, what gives bodily substance to warmth, on ancient Saturn »
And the Thrones, the third grade of the Hierarchies, counting from above, had the task — naturally very figuratively expressed. — of putting things into action, so that what had been thought out in Wisdom — these lofty cosmic thoughts which the Seraphim had received from the Gods, and which the Cherubim had pondered over, should be transformed into active reality.
We actually see, if we do but try to see with the soul, how the first realisation of the divine plan occurs with the down-flow of the fire-substance of the Thrones. Thus the Thrones appear to us as those Beings who have the power to transform into a primary reality that which has been first thought out by the Cherubim. This takes place because the Thrones allowed their own substance to flow from them, the substance of the primeval original world-fire, into the space, which had been chosen for the new world-system.
They stopped on lower Stages, they had come over in a condition when they still had to pass through a certain development, before they could be creatively active, before they could offer sacrifice
The Dominions – Spirits of Wisdom – Kyriotetes
The Mights – Spirits of Motion – Dynamis, Virtues
The Powers, Spirits of Form – Exusiai, Potentates
Ancient Saturn – Archaïs – Spirits of Personnality (inner-outer warmth, laid « eggs » behind allowing for them to become individualized consciousness, gave Ego-consciousness to warmth, their activity is Thought and their thoughts have produced warmth
Ancient Sun – Archangels, as Light emanating from an ancient Sun that has days and nights. A.A. extends they day time with help of the Cherubims, who, from 4 corners (with two side brothers, making it 12 and the Zodiac) helped the Archangels out.
Ancient Moon – Angels (I guess)
Present Earth – Man – Animals – Plants – Minerals
Future Jupiter
Future Venus
Future Vulcan : « Become more than a Sun » « Reaching the maturity of Sacrifice » – a dying Sun is a conscious sacrificing entity giving Birth to new Life.
-The Sun becomes a Zodiacal Circle in its evolution
The Thrones, Cherubims and Seraphims have evolved from an earlier Solar System, and our Own Solar System will produce these kinds of hierarchies.
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