55th Lecture on the Apocalypse of John (Documentation)

By Dr Wolfgang Peter

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Date of the lecture: 4 May 2021

Summary

From fellow listener M. L.

Resolution of sympathy and antipathy.

The plant expresses itself in growth gestures. From a spiritual point of view, the plant is surrounded by spiritual entities (spiritual fiery beings).
The plants are animate living beings. Difference between lily and thistle.

In the imagination one can see these beings ! (spiritual experience). One should leave out the last remnants of the sensual and only feel the spiritual. Every colour awakens a soul experience. I must recognise whether I react with sympathy or antipathy. Simply perceive objectively and freely.

Regarding language and appearance: What speaks from the appearance of the other? Alertness/contemplation are important.
In sympathy my soul should not be diluted. I have to generate spirituality in me out of nothing. I have to be strengthened in order to create SPIRITUALITY.
(Manas or higher self of man).
Old karma must be dissolved into nothingness, and by means of the I-power we must create new (soulish) out of nothingness.

In the next cultural epoch we will be able to work strongly on the MIND.

Now we can perceive soul forces in nature (example earthworm).

In the 5th weekly verse of Dr. Rudolf Steiner's Soul Calendar " Der Götter Schaffen..." = spiritual entities.

I am an I and I am locked up in myself and am strong enough to come out into the soul world. We are on the threshold of making this possible.
possible. At the moment it is strongly possible, especially in America.
The physicality of people who live in North America for a longer time (20-30 years) is denser, i.e. their physical material body is denser and the spiritual loosens up very delicately. Etheric/astral forces in Califormia. New Age comes from the west coast of the USA.

The earth is decrepit and needs our help!
From the 6th,7th,8th millennium we will no longer need to incarnate (there will be stragglers). When the spiritual development is so high, we will no longer need a physical body.
we will no longer need a physical body.
Body = corpse
Body = life.
The first death in the apocalypse is the last death in a physical body. Very great initiates (perhaps) do not need any further embodiment even now.
Buddha: 4 noble truths - always suffering (8-limbed path).
We have to develop consciousness for the soul.

CHRIST as the 7-horned being.
Man can let his soul light, which awakens in him, shine. This dissolves dark, astral things. Since the year 1900 this has
become possible. Blavatsky expresses true things in "The Secret Doctrine" and "Esotericism", but very mixed up (like cabbage and turnips).  Dr. Steiner
on the other hand, observes things without speculation and describes them in a clear context.

All people develop permanently (some very slowly).

	The next small step is always important!

I have to experience the world differently. We have to expand our soul and perceive the soul surrounding us! This also changes
our soul body and our etheric body. All the members of the body are involved in our life.
Specifically: consciousness arises where we bump into our physical body and the outer world. We awaken at the outer in the sensual.
We have 12 physical senses. Some of them are: Sense of touch, sight, hearing, taste, smell, sense of self-motion, sense of strength (muscle-dependent), sense of pain (diffuse consciousness), sense of balance, sense of speech (must learn).
Seeing shapes and recognising distances through a learning process.

According to Dr. Steiner: "Sense" is all that we perceive without having to think.
If I have learned a language, for example, I grasp the sense = perception without having to think.
The sense of thought is about being able to perceive what another person means, I understand the other person's thought.

The lecturer explains the sense of thought with the help of a memory from his school trip: Sunrise on the Acropolis in Athens. Without knowing the Greek language, the locals and the group of Matura students understood each other vice versa.

I-sense: immediate perception: what kind of person is this? (overall picture). A longer period of observation leads to being able to recognise who the other person is. We sense the other person! Sympathy and antipathy become obsolete. "I am different. I get to know myself in the process".

Steiner calls them "social senses" (sense of speech, sense of thought and sense of I).