27th Lecture on the Apocalypse of John (Documentation)

By Dr Wolfgang Peter

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Date of the lecture: 20 October 2020

Summary

Author: M.L.

The 7 communities of Asia Minor correspond to the 7 cultural epochs.

The 7 seals show a glimpse into the future.

The last of the 7 main ages is the age of the trumpets.  
From the 6th millennium onwards we will no longer need to incarnate. The physical appearance disappears, everything becomes purely spiritual.
This is followed by the pouring out of the 7 bowls of wrath, everything becomes purely spiritual: the New Jerusalem.
This is imaginatively indicated in Parsifal: "Time becomes space here".

Rudolf Steiner gave lectures on the Apocalypse in the years 1907 to 1909. Later - in 1924 - lectures to the priests of the Christian Community.

The 7 trumpets are images. We may imagine images and ask ourselves the question: "What am I experiencing?"

Soul-shaking is imagination and leads to inspiration, through this we realise connections. For example:
Why do the locusts have human antlips? Rudolf Steiner explained: They come from the well of the abyss (subterranean forces). This is connected to the I-less people.

For 200 years it has been possible for people to incarnate without an I. The main reason for this is dense incarnations. The main reason for this are dense incarnations, about 100 year intervals.
I-less people have a soulless look, they have a very sharp (amoral) intellect, with the aim of anchoring an ahrimanic idea in the world. Their emotional level is ice-cold. The ahrimanic intelligence is combinatorial.
We currently have the task of solving the riddle of evil. Ahriman says: "everything will be galactically good".

I-humans have the will to be creative!

Michael wants an internationalisation. It is important to find an access to the whole world, to develop an awareness of the world.

Not "back to nature", but transforming nature into culture.

The sexes are becoming more similar to each other.