47th Lecture on the Apocalypse of John (Documentation)

By Dr Wolfgang Peter

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Date of the lecture: 9 March 2021

Summary

From fellow listener M. L.

Chapter 14 of the Apocalypse: We will free ourselves from the physical and live in a soul world. Now we are preparing tests for this.
Now we have to connect with solar forces (this is an image for the highest realm of the soul world) and evolve.
We have to connect with the forces of the spirits of form, movement and wisdom.
We also have to get to know the harshness of physical existence; sorrowful but fruitful.
Consciousness awakens on the physical. Today we are going through a flowering of materialism. That is the prerequisite for overcoming this state.
The two-horned animal is also ourselves. Our true I is outside our cosmos. We are confronting Sorat (666). He has other goals, he does not want freedom, he wants to make us comfortable, a perfect, harmonious world. This being Sorat wants to change our members of being in such a way that we forget our true
I. Man has the privilege of making mistakes. Out of freedom and out of love, he can give himself to other people, animals, plants and minerals, even "give himself away" to a work of art (i.e. put his whole being into it).

How can we work on ourselves? We can transform every element of the human being, the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the "I". We "play" on our limbs. By our deeds the world of tomorrow is shaped, in the direction of NEW JERUSALEM. We may become free from the bondage of the earthly. As long as man lives on earth, he has the connection of the physical and the etheric body, and by day also of the astral body. At night the astral body (= carrier of consciousness) loosens itself from the physical body.
Approximately three and a half days after death, the etheric body dissolves and life slowly fades away.

According to Rudolf Steiner, the human being does not have 6 senses, but 12 sense functions. For example, the sense of speech. We recognise sounds that reach our ears as language.

The so-called "pedagogical toys" (where a toddler learns to put variously shaped blocks such as cylinders, blocks, triangles etc. into matching holes) prevent the child from developing as a spiritual being. This must be recognised!!!
From a spiritual point of view, such a toy is quite bad, because spiritual forces are steered in a different direction (black magic!!).
To become apocalyptic means: to recognise such things. These terrible things do not hurt and also look harmless, but they do harm.

We are to train our sense perception. Our I should take hold and become awake in the senses, i.e. find the spiritual through the sensual!
From sense perception to thinking. We think with etheric forces, which becomes a source of healing.
We must become conscious in the form of thoughts. Etheric forces are pushed into the psychic. Through this, a thought is formed in the soul.
The etheric body in turn forms the image. We can develop a thinking that separates from the physical and lives entirely in the etheric. Images of the formative forces that are in the etheric = natural science.
Life forces that have shaped the earth. Life forces that we must grasp in nature.

Since man is creatively active, he has brought forth technology (painting, sculpture...). We are now to recognise and shape the living in nature, to think with pure etheric forces. Etheric action! It will be decisive whether nature is a dying nature by itself. It is important now to revive nature. Now - in the age of the consciousness soul - we are still in the first third since 1413. Since Golgotha we can develop forces within us to come to the "SPIRIT SOUL". It is also about the salvation of the earth. How much of the etheric forces can we take with us into the soul?
Eurythmy! Healing forces from person to person! The subsidiary exercises strengthen us and flow into our social contacts. In living together we exchange life forces. Today there is a need for healing in partnership. It is healing to cultivate good common habits.