The great founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, was a visionary and prophet who saw very clearly the unfolding events that we are living through today. He spoke of the rise of the Ahrimanic force, which is intertwined with artificial intelligence and the machine. He spoke of the great downfall of modern materialistic man, and ultimately the creation of a vaccine that would drive the soul out of humanity. He also spoke of the war of all against all, a slow culmination representing the battle being fought in the spiritual world, which is our world.
As Steiner prophesied all of these events, which he pinpointed beginning directly in our times, a hundred years ago, he also put forth the set of solutions. Through Waldorf education, he addressed the spiritual root of our nature, the need to education of the whole child, and the movement out of a system which refuses to acknowledge the beauty of innocence and our ground of spiritual being.
Through biodynamic farming, he addressed the necessity for truly reciprocal and interwoven relationships with food and nature, and the return to the land as our spiritual home.
Through Anthroposophy, or spiritual science, he gave us templates for understanding the reality of our etheric makeup, and how it is that we emanate from her root.
But no vision is more arresting than the Great War. Rudolf Steiner’s “war of all against all” is a descent into madness, where the participants of life refuse to allow themselves to be spiritualized. Through such refusal, violence and war are proliferated.
This marks the end of an era.
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo also speak about the importance of becoming spiritualized in this time, that this simple movement into the heart of humanity changes everything.
We are living through the slow end of our epoch, and the eventual and innnevitable rebirth, in time, of a new period. This period will be marked by our understanding that we as human beings are spiritual by nature, that is to say - the physical body is part of a much larger network - a mother matrix - which plugs each of us back into the ethers born from spirit. Without this essential knowledge, without this primary root, we are set adrift as a people, rootless and lost. We fall to our lower natures and the undigested shadow waiting within each of us. We fall to the war of all against all.
This is not to say to say that we should attach ourselves to some dogmatic and narrowly viewed religion, but rather to broaden our vision into its fuller setting, seeking the mystical through our sovereign lens, where spiritual science and the deeper realities are revealed through our personal experience and gnosis.
Then the shadow gets digested and perpetual violence and war is rejected, because we have seen the darkness both within, and without, and it is the same.
Then, truth is more easily felt in the instrument of the sacred body, and we as beings can move towards harmonizing the forces within, and ripple out into a thousand healing and luminous waves which naturally integrate everything.
Then, we come to know ourselves in our deeper beauty, having chosen light over shadow, our exquisite nature, the pulse of life itself.
In the dawn of the war of all against all, this spiritualized experience is our greatest shield and protection.
❤️ how to integrate, digest the shadow, well spoken thank you
This is stunningly written. Thank you. I found myself resting deeper in the Sanctuary Steiner built for these times.