Mois: octobre 2017
La loi sociale fondamentale – quotes
« Le bien-être d’une communauté d’êtres humains travaillant ensemble
sera d’autant plus grand
que l’individu prétendra moins au produit de son propre travail
pour lui-même ;
c’est-à-dire au plus il transférera le produit de son travail aux autres,
et au plus ses propres besoins seront satisfaits, non par son propre travail,
mais par le travail des autres. »
Une vie sociale saine est atteinte
Quand, dans le miroir de chaque âme humaine
La communauté entière est donnée forme,
Et quand dans la communauté
Vit la force de chaque âme humaine.
Steiner : « put them to the test »
I should make a list of all the instances where steiner talks about this and present it to Wouter
We must therefore take our stand on the principle of following attentively what is brought forward, but not allowing it to be said that it is accepted among us out of belief in authority.
Never should the phrase be heard that truths are accepted simply because I have voiced them!
We should sin against the truth were we to say any such thing.
One thing or another may be grounded on confidence; but that can never be made into a principle. Someone else may perhaps be better able to tread the path; but the rule to which every individual should adhere is this: not to accept things on authority, but to put them to the test.
It is by testing that confirmation will be found. Whenever the word “confidence” has been used among us it has been a danger signal; it has been a sign that we have entered a period when dangers threaten us. The attitude hitherto prevailing among us must cease, for Spiritual Science is grounded, not upon authority, but upon knowledge. The time for being easy-going about presenting Spiritual Science is over. Enemies will be on the look-out everywhere and we shall have much to combat; we shall have to make ourselves equal to the battle, and whenever confused minds feel compelled to throw themselves into the combat this will make it especially possible for the forces working against our spiritual-scientific Movement to develop.
These things must be regarded as resulting from the nature of the subject itself. We shall have to resolve to take account of all of them. For Movements with a particular bias find acceptance and adherents simply because there are always groups of human beings here and there whose interests are suited by one-sidedness. Humanity consists, does it not, of groups of human beings. If, now, an occultist attaches himself to a group, he finds it a means of support, he has a foothold from which he can start, because this group helps him. Therefore everyone who starts from a one-sided, biassed outlook may expect some measure of agreement and good-will. But he who starts from truth itself has, to begin with, all humanity against him. Truth has to conquer its domain with complete disinterestedness. That is why, at bottom, nothing is more hated than the truth, the unvarnished truth. And so there may be many adherents here and there who actually cherish hatred deep down within them. No wonder that this hatred sometimes cuts through the force that builds a wall against it — cuts through this force because the hatred has been accumulating for so long. Such hatred is far more widespread than is imagined and it is a factor that must be reckoned with. Wherever truth is trying to assert itself endeavours are made to transform and re-cast it in such a way that it can somehow serve the opposing Powers. And various endeavours cropping up among us at the present time must be regarded as an effort to distort truth as presented here and apply it in a different sense. The craftiest way of doing this is to declare: the teaching itself is good, the teacher—worthless. The teaching is stolen from the teacher and efforts are made to apply it to some other aims. — What Lucifer and Ahriman would love to do is to be able to take the wisdom of the Gods lock, stock and barrel and transfer it to the Eighth Sphere.
Endeavours such as those I have mentioned are directed to changing a Society in which freedom can prevail into a Society of slaves. That is the method which can serve Ahriman, for he sets out to make such activities useful to himself. — That is the more esoteric side of the matter, which we must now also consider with the necessary earnestness from the exoteric aspect—in the other dialect.
I would beg you not to lose sight of the fact that we are standing at a crucial point in the development of our Spiritual Science.
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA254/English/RSP1973/19151018p01.html
DANGER OF NEW AGE – 8 SPHERE – DEFEAT THE DEVIL
When clairvoyance in all kinds of different forms develops in naive, credulous, superstitious people, it is often the case that their free will has been sacrificed. Then Lucifer instantly seizes hold of it, and whereas these people imagine they have had an experience of immortality, the truth is that in their visions they see a part, or a product, of their souls being wrested away and prepared for the Eighth Sphere.
You can imagine from this how deep was the concern of those who, having compromised by agreeing that by way of mediumship all kinds of truths relating to the spiritual world should be given to the public, then found the mediums believing that the dead were speaking to them. But the occultists then knew that what takes place between mediums and living men is that the stream of free will is passing into the Eighth Sphere. Instead of a link being formed with the Eternal, the mediums were testifying precisely to what was continually disappearing into the Eighth Sphere.
From this you will realise that Lucifer and Ahriman have an avid desire to bring as much as possible into the Eighth Sphere. Although Goethe mixed Lucifer and Ahriman together, he has nevertheless correctly described how a soul is wrested away from the clutches of Mephistopheles-Ahriman! It would be the richest prize for Lucifer and Ahriman if they could ever succeed in capturing a whole soul for themselves; for thereby such a soul would disappear into the Eighth Sphere and be lost from Earth-evolution. The greatest victory for Lucifer and Ahriman would be if one day they could claim that countless numbers of the dead had passed into their sphere. That would be their greatest victory. Moreover there is a way of achieving it. Lucifer and Ahriman may say: human beings long to know something about the life between death and a new birth. If, therefore, we tell them that they are learning something from the dead, they will be satisfied and will direct their feelings towards the realm from which announcements are made to them as coming from the dead. If therefore we desire that the hearts and minds of men shall be guided towards the Eighth Sphere, let us say to them: we are telling you something that comes from the dead. We shall capture men by alleging that the dead are in our domain.
This devilish plan — for here we have indeed to do with the devil — was put into effect by Lucifer and Ahriman when it had occurred to occultists to endeavour to accomplish something through mediumship. Lucifer and Ahriman inspired the mediums through whom they arranged the whole business, in order that people might be guided to the realm whence the dead were alleged to be speaking. Lucifer and Ahriman could then lay hold of their souls. The occultists were alarmed when they saw what course things were taking and they took counsel among themselves as to how to steer away from it. Even those who belonged to the left wing realised what was happening, and they said: we will do something different! An opportunity then presented itself through the appearance of a remarkable personality, namely H. P. Blavatsky. Now, after the plan had been seen through and the occultists on the Earth no longer lent their hands to it, Lucifer and Ahriman were obliged to pursue their aim in a different way.
Materialism had come upon the scene in the natural course of the Earth’s evolution. Therefore in order to reckon with the mineralised process of evolution, it was necessary that men’s attention should be focussed entirely on material things. That is materialism pure and simple! The occultists who had special aims of their own, said: Well and good, we will rely upon materialism. If, however, we take materialism in its purely earthly form, man will inevitably discover one day through his thinking that atoms do not exist — so that will not be very fertile soil. But human thinking can certainly be perverted if materialism is made occult. The best way of doing this is to present the Sphere that had to be created as a counterweight to the Eighth Sphere as the Eighth Sphere itself! (Matter = Imagination = 8th Sphere = losing your SOUL) If people can be led to believe that the materiality created as a counterweight to the Eighth Sphere is the Eighth Sphere itself, that will outstrip every conceivable earthly materialism! And earthly materialism was indeed outstripped in the assertion made by Sinnett. Materialism is there imported into the realm of occultism; occultism there becomes materialism. But sooner or later men would have been bound to discover this. ……….
Whenever people give way to fatalism instead of making decisions through their own power of judgment, they show their inclination to the Eighth Sphere.
rudolf steiner
Hermes to Tat
Tat is quite surprised about this information: he never realized
that he had ‘tormentors’ inside himself . . .Well, that very ignorance,
Hermes explains, is the fi rst tormentor; the others are grief, incontinence,
lust, injustice, greed, deceit, envy, treachery, anger, recklessness, and malice.
“Under” these twelve are many more, and ‘they use the prison of the
body to torture the inward person with the suff erings of sense’.
Hermes now instructs Tat to keep silent and say nothing, because this is
necessary in order not to obstruct the healing power63 that will come from
God. He then begins to systematically purify Tat from his “tormentors”, by
summoning ten divine powers in succession, which drive out the twelve.64
We are certainly justifi ed in thinking of the “tormentors” as demonic entities
that had been possessing Tat’s body without him being aware of it: in
fact, at the end of the healing process, Hermes observes that ‘vanquished,
they have fl own away in a fl apping of wings’.65
In CH XIII 12, Hermes gives some explanation about the relation between the twelve
“tormentors”, linked to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the decad, which “engenders
soul”. Th e fi rst seven powers of the decad (knowledge, joy, continence, perseverance, justice,
liberality, truth) are the direct opposites of the fi rst seven tormentors; the last fi ve
tormentors do not have opposites of their own, but are collectively opposed by the triad of
good, life and light.
In CH XIII 12, Hermes gives some explanation about the relation between the twelve
“tormentors”, linked to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the decad, which “engenders
soul”. Th e fi rst seven powers of the decad (knowledge, joy, continence, perseverance, justice,
liberality, truth) are the direct opposites of the fi rst seven tormentors; the last fi ve
tormentors do not have opposites of their own, but are collectively opposed by the triad of
good, life and light.
Make yourself grow to immeasurable immensity, outleap all body, outstrip all
time, become eternity and you will understand God. Having conceived that
nothing is impossible to you, consider yourself immortal and able to understand
everything, all art, all learning, the temper of every living thing. Go
higher than every height and lower than every depth. Collect in yourself all
the sensations of what has been made, of fi re and water, dry and wet; be everywhere
at once, on land, in the sea, in heaven; be not yet born, be in the womb,
be young, old, dead, beyond death. And when you have understood all these
at once—times, places, things, qualities, quantities—then you can understand
God.66
haanegraaf altered states of knowledge
Qilin Egostasie 