46th Lecture on the Apocalypse of John (Documentation)

By Dr Wolfgang Peter

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Date of the lecture: 2 March 2021

Summary

From fellow listener M. L.

Introduction: 48th weekly motto of the Soul Calendar by Dr. Rudolf Steiner. "In the light that wants to flow powerfully from world heights of the soul...."
Through my conscious will I must bring world-thinking into my thinking. In love I must want to connect.

In Plato's time, thought perception came to us from outside. Today we have to open the gate ourselves and actively take hold of world thinking.

Important in our time: The only right way to recognise the spiritual world is intuition from one's own self.
Light of wisdom is LOVE. When we connect with nature/plants/animals and people, the power of love comes out of our I.

The human being is the microcosm equal to the power that created the entire cosmos. Everyone is a small cosmos for himself, everyone is an "earth" for himself.
We have to rekindle the spiritual fire again and again in order to develop the spiritual self.

What is true for the spiritual later becomes the life body with the Christ power in us. The etheric body becomes the life spirit through the passage through nothingness. It is not a matter of changing form, but of dissolution in order to arrive at the transformed other form.
The word NOTHING contains the word "I". We have to become spiritually active.
Forces in colours, in scents, in taste are astral forces.
Glucose and fructose are produced from sunlight.
Our breath is "poison". When oxygen was created on earth, over 90% of all unicellular organisms died (carbon monoxide = poison).
Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) said, mutatis mutandis: "God could not create a little worm without man." "The swiftest steed that will carry you to perfection is suffering, and nothing so honeyed as suffering." "God is always in us, only we are so seldom at home."
If we can recognise a little flower - completely as it is in its nature - we would have recognised the whole world with it.

What could be sweeter than to have a friend with whom you can discuss everything that lives in your heart as if with yourself.

The more the soul is elevated above earthly things, the more power it has.