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19th week's verse. In the 17th verse of the week we had the world word and that the power of the world word should connect with us and move into our inner being. In the 18th verse of the week, how one can connect oneself with this world word. We continue with this in the 19th verse of the week: \"Mysteriously enclosing the newly received with memory is the further purpose of my striving, it should awaken my own powers in my inner being and give me myself by becoming.<\/em> So what we receive with the memory, carry in us, make alive in us, the memory forces are at the same time also life forces (ether forces), which we should take up strengthening and awakening in our inner being.\n\nWe should follow the course of the year with our soul, with our emotional experience, with our feelings, not so much with our intellectual thinking, but with our emotional life, and observe how our state of mind changes in nuances, Now that we are outside with our senses in the sun-drenched world, less inside ourselves, this has its climax at the time of St. John's Day, when the sun is at its highest, but it still has a strong effect in July and August, and then in September, towards St. Michael's Day, it goes more inward. The consciousness withdraws more and more from the outside world and enters the inner world, our consciousness is more awake, while being outside is also a little dreamy. In autumn we become more awake to ourselves again. At the winter solstice is the low point, that's when we are most inside, but it's about having an awareness of everything we have taken with us, that should light up inside during the Christmas season, at Christmas time we enter the earth most strongly, there we are completely on the earth, inside ourselves, but it should light up spiritually what we have taken with us in the summer time. How does this relate to our theme?\n\nWe are in the apocalypse at the outpouring of the bowls of wrath. The outpouring sounds dramatic when you read the descriptions, in dramatic sensual images, but it must be said clearly that it will not happen as it is described in the images, because it is the transition of the earth from the physical-etheric to the purely spiritual state. That means that we as humanity have long since ceased to exist in a physical body, but are only present in an etheric form. The physical body has long since been stripped away. We have spoken of the fact that from the 6th-7th millennium A.D., human beings no longer needed a physical body for their further development. We have talked about the fact that from the 6th-7th millennium AD people no longer need to embody themselves for their further development. Some people will only embody themselves in the form of an etheric body at the end of the cultural epochs, which is the time of the 7 epistles at the beginning of the Apocalypse. There can still be something physical, but it will live in the liquid, the gaseous and in the warmth element, thus living in the air, in the clouds without a coherent physical form. But we will still have contact with the physical element, which is also the case in life between death and new birth. There, too, we work in the forces of nature and cooperate to further shape the earth, to offer ourselves and all our fellow creatures who are on earth the suitable conditions for the next incarnation. This also applies to the animal and plant world, which is changing. There are positive strengthening forces in there, which are very important, because today, when we are embodied on earth, we put a great strain on nature. Above all through technology, through the sprawling economic gears, we are changing the world according to impulses of usefulness that serve the outer existence. That is very problematic. We will have to come up with something, because otherwise we will find very difficult conditions in the near future. If we don't find a different kind of economy, a different kind of technology, a different way of dealing with nature, then it will become problematic. And this will still be the case in the present cultural epoch, the Fifth (1413 - 3573 AD), i.e. the next decades to centuries. We need many spiritual forces to find a sensible way of dealing with this. But this does not mean that we should go back to a state of nature as it once was; the path of the earth is never a path back to a nature as we had it. There is nothing left for us and for the earth but to move forward, to a state of culture in which the whole of nature is included. That is the task we have, for which we are still very little equipped. Because the cultural world that should then come into being, which includes the animal kingdom, includes the plant kingdom, includes the mineral kingdom, we do not yet have the abilities, the world that must come into being if the earth's development is to go well, then we must still develop much spiritual power. But they must be such that we can use these forces to transform the environment and social life in a spiritually appropriate form. In a form that is not dictated by the adversaries, and not dictated by egoism alone, that is the central task for the very near future. Covid and many other things today are symptoms that something unhealthy is going on in humanity as a whole. Such things do not happen by chance. Even biology knows by now that the change of living beings, bacteria, viruses, that this does not happen by chance. The overall life of the earth has an influence on which pathogens can develop and which cannot. Only a tiny fraction of these bacteria and viruses become malignant. Basically, they are very important for natural events. They provide for an exchange, for what life develops in terms of intelligent creative forces. This is exchanged through nature. Microorganisms are essential carriers for this. So that what develops in a living being manifests itself into its physical structure, that this can benefit the whole earth. The point is that it is creative forces that come in. Even though we said last time, nature is far from perfect. Although it is much more perfect than our most complicated technical articles that we produce. Every cell is wiser in its construction than the most complicated technology. Even if I put all the technology of the earth together. There is more wisdom embodied in each unicellular organism than in any technical article. Contributing to the unfolding of this physical wisdom are these micro-organisms. Viruses are almost crystalline, they are on the border of the living, they are not capable of life on their own, they are not capable of reproduction, they have a structured crystalline form built of protein, the creative life forces work down to this level, what we as humanity urgently have to learn is to be able to think with these life forces.\n\nWe are not yet able to do that. We have a social life, an economic life, a technical-scientific life that cannot work with life forces. Therefore, what we have today is not economic life, not spiritual life, not social life - but something relatively dead. There are still remnants of the old life forces that came from the past, the natural life has had an effect on the social life of the people, therefore in many places there was a better social order than we have today. But a break-in already occurred in the Urpersian culture. That's where it starts. That's when the life forces of nature were dramatically changed in the direction of destruction. It begins much earlier, at the moment when man set foot on the earth, the mass extinction on earth begins. This can be traced back to the first Stone Age people. We are talking about people who appeared in our form. Humans have been around for much longer, but at first they were more in the vicinity of the earth. Here we have the counterpart, when we say that in the 6th-8th millennium we will no longer have human beings embodied on the earth, but they will live in the water, in the air, in the warmth that surrounds the earth, but no longer in the solid element. That will be the exit from this phase of human development. When the first Stone Age people embodied themselves in the form of our form, that was the beginning. Then the people began to descend from the periphery to the solid earth. This descent began much earlier in the Lemurian period, when there were still dinosaurs. At that time, however, man did not yet have the form he has today. At that time there were airy, flowing formations with which the spirit of man connected. It will be like that again in the future. But on a much higher level. Because at that time in the past the spark of the human I-power was already ignited, but it was nothing more, the I is developing stronger and stronger through the deeds that we concretely put on earth. These deeds are now becoming stronger and stronger. We are now in a time in our cultural epoch, namely in our millennium, in which we are reshaping the outer earth enormously, to an extent that has never been the case before in the evolution of humanity. We are working the earth with quantities of energy, with forces that exceed by tens of thousands what we could achieve in the form of mechanical muscle power. At the end of the 18th century, machines came along that multiplied man's power. More power to remake the earth compared to muscle power. Makes 8 billion people to 8,000 billion. Because of the greater power, every mistake we make in the process is very serious, a single person with his machine can already cause great damage, but a change will not come with the thinking we have now, this thinking is appropriate to the world of the dead, it is an intellectual thinking that comes from the Greek-Latin time, that was the epoch, The transition is clearly visible in the philosophy of Plato to Aristotle, Aristotle still knows the old thinking, but he can no longer use it in such a way that he arrives at an imaginative view and vision of ideas, as Plato did before him, whose pupil he was, nevertheless it was an important step to arrive with consciousness completely on the earth, on the solid earth, precisely this dead thinking is appropriate, the only appropriate way to understand the dead. With this, humanity began to acquire a concrete knowledge of the dead, a knowledge that the hierarchies do not have, it was the first progress where we have come further than all the hierarchies above us, including the Christ, when he was not yet embodied on earth, this miracle happened in the Greco-Latin period, that is when the great leap in the development of humanity happened. But now we must no longer continue with that alone, we must take the fruits of that which are there, that we have developed the real possibility to be free human beings, to decide freely out of the I between good and evil. In order for us to do that, logical death thinking had to be developed. Logic is linear, cause - effect on the outside. To a certain extent, this is still the world view of physics today, although there are many things that are in disarray. Because this explanation is not entirely correct. It is only correct where we are dealing with the dead, where it is like this, an object that has been set in motion, but a human being that has been set in motion, that is a will impulse behind it, that is not completely understood. Physics and biology think they understand it, but actually they don't, they think a control impulse in the brain excites the muscle and this sets the arm in motion. But that's nonsense. That is mechanistic thinking - it fails. Natural science cannot explain the free will of man, which is essential for man. How can it? It doesn't fit into a formula. You can only calculate a two-body problem mechanically. If a third body is added, it becomes difficult. Then there are only approximate solutions. In nature, however, thousands of things are involved. The closest and the furthest always work together. You cannot see them in isolation and separately. Therefore, they cannot be calculated. Calculations of the climate, of the weather are to be taken with great caution. We are practising how far we can get with our dead thinking. We will not be able to solve the problems we have created with our dead thinking.\n\nWe have to develop a different kind of thinking, a living thinking. Developing this living thinking has something to do with the process of detaching ourselves a little from the physical tool, at least in our thinking. That is to say, the path described in the Apocalypse, from the epistles of the 7 churches, through the opening of the 7 seals, the age of the 7 trumpets, the pouring out of the bowls of wrath, is a path to detach oneself more and more from the solid physical. Then to detach oneself from the liquid, the airy and the warmth-like, then to be purely ethereal, and then in the age of the bowls of wrath to pass over into a purely spiritual state. Humanity as a whole and the earth as a whole. In order for this to work properly and well, we must work at it now if we want it to occur in the right way. If we want to have certain good results, then we have to take certain steps. There are no limits to the creative imagination in the way. Nothing is predetermined. But we have to use our active will. Otherwise nothing beneficial will happen. It must be a will that is no longer guided by the dead forces of the intellect, but draws from the forces of life itself. That is living thinking. It works with the forces that act as life forces in our organism, in the same way in nature. The life forces that we have within us are a compendium of the life forces that work in nature. We have all the life forces that work in nature also in us. To an extent that no other living being on earth has. Neither the plants nor the animals. Not all life forces are implemented in such a way that they make themselves felt in physical life. We also have in our life forces the ability that plants use to be able to feed on sunlight. Outwardly, this is called photosynthesis. You need chlorophyll for this. We don't have that in us in that form. Therefore, we cannot do that. But R. Steiner says that we will be able to do that in the future. A future in which we are still physically on earth. So we will transition to a form where we can feed directly from the sunlight. That will come even before the time of the cultural epochs comes to an end, that is where that will begin. We will then be able to live on light, air and love, if things go well. Develop the will for that to happen. That is a capacity that we have to develop. It is not given to us. It can only be generated by the will of man. That is the important message for the future, whatever happens to the earth depends on what we want or don't want. So we are in the age where we have taken responsibility over the earth. We can do nothing but kill the earth. We are death to nature, as we are acting today on the whole externally. There are other aspects, because when we go through death, from the other side we have the possibility to balance. Many more people are between death and a new birth than are embodied here on earth. For a certain time during their stay on the other side, they are working very hard to shape the earth. This balances out some things. This is expressed in the fact that nature as such develops forces to cope with the problems that we are now creating. However, it does so in a much larger time frame. We can ruin things today in 10 years that nature needs 1000 years to regenerate. That is the big problem. In other words, we have to rethink our actions. It is no longer acceptable that we destroy something in our lifetime that nature can only regenerate over centuries or millennia. The development processes in nature take a long time. Billions of years had to pass before it was possible for human beings to enter the earth in an upright position, huge periods of time were necessary in comparison to a single incarnation, so that nature has shaped itself in such a way that we can appear as little human beings. Physically visible, before that we were in the background. The whole of nature is a product of the development of humanity when man was not yet physically present. He always left behind individual experiments on his way, the first single-celled organisms, the first bacteria, plants, the first experiments that man left behind, but which did not yet have the potential to develop the human form. This is how the entire animal world came into being, but this is also how entire animal and plant kingdoms had to perish. That, too, was part of healthy development. In the course of the earth's development, life on earth perished several times at 80-90 %. In the form of enormous catastrophes. Most plant and animal species have fallen victim to these catastrophes, only to make way for an explosive development of new, more advanced forms of life. Goethe says that death is there so that nature can have much life. Without death, no life. No development. The single-celled organisms basically have physical immortality. They never die, they continue to divide unless something comes violently from outside. Even at that, they are very resistant, some can withstand over 100\u00b0C. But that should not be a licence for humans to ruin everything. That was the case in the past, the higher hierarchies worked wisely with and through us so that nature could develop in such a way and so that masses of life perished. Nature is wasteful in this respect. But in the future it must happen differently. Development will take on a faster pace. The pace has increased. From the first single-celled organisms to the dinosaurs, 2 billion years pass. That takes an endless amount of time. From there to the first Stone Age man, another 65 million years. We won't have these long time spans now. There is an acceleration taking place, and man is behind it as a factor. Future development will only be possible if it is made by and with man. Only human beings can bring in this speed. We bring in this speed because we can do something that nature cannot. We can develop this living thinking, but it is not at the same time an external physical process of nature. Nature thinks as nature. Nature, as it has developed over the last billion years, is the outer expression of the thinking that takes place in nature. Behind it are higher spiritual hierarchies that implement this thinking. They can only unfold it as a slow process. For further development, this leisurely pace is not possible, but a much higher pace will strike, has already struck. More destructive at the moment. If we work along between death and a new birth, it is measured in centuries. We can only bring a pace of development measured in years into the world as long as we are embodied on earth. Therefore, this phase in which humanity now stands within, embodied in a form that stands on earth, and especially now in the age of the consciousness soul, is the phase in which the development we can make as outwardly embodied human beings on earth is at its highest. After the end of the cultural epochs, this will be over again, this possibility, what we do not contribute now in the outer form, will simply not be there later, will be spiritually missing for further development.\n\nSo our great task is to create a science, an art, a knowing art, an artistic knowledge, a scientific art, that will be necessary in order to transform the world in such a way that it takes in completely new life forces, Christian life forces, channeled life forces, because if we really stimulate our living thinking, then the life force of the Christ works in it. The life-giving powers of the Christ. To develop living thinking means to specifically stimulate the power of Christ in us, which flows into our deeds, into what we do, these are life-giving powers. We must remove everything that could interfere with these forces, because we have in our astral body, in our soul forces from the past, through the karma that we have burdened ourselves with, through the errors, transgressions, crimes, atrocities, all of which existed in humanity and still exist today, the errors have left traces in our soul, We carry this around with us as karma, it all has to be dissolved, everything that works in there without us having a transforming effect on it, not only purifying, eliminating, cleansing me, but leaving behind a mental rubbish heap, but leading really negative soul forces into nothingness, and creating new better forces out of nothingness. Out of nothingness, that is what the I can do. To the extent that we do this, we develop the spirit self. Out of nothingness we create new soul, at the same time we lead corrupted soul into nothingness. To make it disappear, to eliminate it completely from the world. These are the two abilities that are needed from now on, basically since the Mystery of Golgotha, but then it only began slowly, only now are we called upon to develop the spiritual self, on the one hand, to be able to lead bad soul into nothingness, and to create new, better, stronger soul out of nothingness. We have to do this ourselves. No one can help us. That is the deed that we have to do with our I. We have to do it ourselves. It is the task of our I to completely transform our soul. We will not succeed completely during our earth evolution, we don't have to, but we must succeed to a certain extent if we want to have a future. If we did not succeed in this by our own efforts, we would pass over into the eighth sphere. We would not have a new cosmic embodiment of our earth. There would be no New Jerusalem. The basic prerequisite for this is that we begin to rework our soul forces. The New Jerusalem is the first world that is not made for us by the gods, but whose possibility of existence depends on the human being, if we do not make our contribution to it, then it will not exist. The development that has begun via Old Saturn, Old Moon, Old Sun and now Earth, then this development would be over. That is not a realistic scenario now, but one must see that it is within the realm of possibility. But we have an I and the I wants to be active in this form. The I can only develop by creating something else, not just itself. We cannot work from the spiritual into the physical, for that we need our hands and our devices, but in the spiritual we can. In the I is the irrepressible urge to develop. We can therefore forget the horror scenario that development stops, because we have already developed quite a bit. A not so small number of people have already developed spirit selves. The process should only become more conscious and more intensive.\n\nThe other thing is living thinking. This is the thinking that connects with the power of Christ, both together, that is, to renew the soul out of the I, to make it more and more into something entirely our own, each person individually for himself, but also for humanity as a whole, each person his own spiritual self, but all together a great spiritual atmosphere, a spiritual entity, our earth. Which is essentially determined by what we as humanity, where each individual contributes something, have developed as a whole as a spiritual self. Because everything that is still old soul, that we have received from the gods, that has been corrupted by the effect of the adversaries and by our allowing it, that cannot go on, only what we as humanity have developed as a spirit self can go on, because we as humanity together with all our spirit selves form the great spirit self of the earth. This encompasses our whole planetary system, ultimately the whole cosmos, which belongs to our earth. When the earth passes into the spiritual state, it means that the whole cosmos passes into the spiritual state. And we make the essential contribution to this.\n\nThe second point that the New Jerusalem can come into being is living thinking, made possible by the power of the Christ, from both together the real power of love arises. Love is life force. Of course, there is also something spiritual in it. Real love consists in it being as pure a soul as possible, i.e. in truth spirit-self, and uniting with a life-force that carries the Christ-forces within it. When these two things can unite, then this power of love arises, which also did not yet exist in this form. This love force, which we can create in the course of the earth's evolution, with the support of the Christ, to the extent that we succeed in doing so, this will be a reality on the New Jerusalem, the next cosmic embodiment of the earth, which will be perceived as a natural force, just as we have electrical forces, gravitational forces in nature today, so the central natural force of the New Jerusalem will be love. We cannot yet imagine what nature will look like then, because it will be a free creation. What it will be like will depend on the steps we take today for the future. The quality of this world will depend on that. We have to work on that.\n\nWhat does this have to do with the outpouring of the 7 bowls of wrath? Divine anger is an outward manifestation of divine love. It only appears as wrath when you look at it from the wrong side. It appears as a threat only to the extent that we fail to exhaust our spiritual possibilities. When we are too hesitant to transform our soul. In other words, when we neglect to develop our spiritual self to a sufficient degree. Then this development, which must come, will happen with great pain. With great burdens for humanity. We have only two possibilities. Either we say we are lazy, let the gods sort it out, we are too small, we only have our mind, then it will be difficult for humanity, sorrowful, a sorrow caused by ourselves, it has nothing to do with divine punishment, we are not punished by anyone except by our own failings, with the image of wrath was partly used in the past by the church or by rulers, it already starts in the Old Testament, with this image they tried to dominate humanity and keep it small. That is still being tried today. Only not so obviously. It dresses itself up in different images. \"If you don't get vaccinated, then the infection will come upon you! Then the evil virus will come!\" It is cast in a materialistic image today, but it is a distortion. The only punishment is that we have to bear the consequences of our misdeeds. Otherwise, development will not continue. If we do not want to repair the damage, then we enter the realm of the adversaries, the eighth sphere, the realm of the entity Sorat, or we ourselves become the entity Sorat. The number of the beast, which is the number of a human being. Whom we neglect to develop the free I. If we integrate ourselves into this realm, then it would not be the I-power itself that would be lost, but the free I, this special kind of I that we have as the human I. This is different from the I of a human being. Which is different from the I of the hierarchies above us. That has this direct connection with the Christ. That would be lost. We would then have an I that has no connection with the Christ, an I that has no freedom, but could very well be very powerful. Classified as a cog in its place, there are then powerful and less powerful cogs, that would be the Sorat realm, that would be our realm. The process of giving up the I that is promised to us, that beckons to us as an opportunity, is painful.\n\nOne can also spare oneself some of this suffering, the adversaries are very clever, humanity cannot spare itself, there will be immense suffering if humanity as a whole misses this task, it would be an infinite suffering (but it is not realistic, because there are already people today who have developed spirit selves), if we want to go the other lightful way, with a strong I, human I, then there is only one possibility, that we take it upon ourselves to transform the negative soul forces into good ones out of free will. By carrying them through the zero point, throwing the negative into nothingness, and creating a better, more perfect soul out of nothingness. This process is of course exhausting, we have to be aware of it, we can only do it ourselves, we will always fail, we have often failed in the past and we will fail faster and faster, through acceleration, humanity will make so many mistakes as never before in its history, it will nevertheless make progress, if it takes the right path, then the positive things that come out will outweigh all the mistakes, and it will still be a wholesome development. But it will have its difficulties. We have only two possibilities, a) we do nothing, then we cannot commit the mistakes, but then we go into the realm of the adversaries, they promise us a faultless path, a perfect path, a perfect world, like a perfect machine, there is no freedom in it, an intrinsically dead world, a soulless world, that is the dramatic thing, the soul would perish in this world, that's also a release from suffering, because then you wouldn't feel any suffering, it all becomes abstract in essence, we shouldn't want that, but then we have to go the other way, b) take on the burden of developing ourselves further in the soul, to work on ourselves and to help others, to give impulses to others. We only work on our spiritual self in the right sense if it contains impulses that are also important for others, the I gains by bringing forth something new in the soul, through this the I rises higher and higher, the more it succeeds in bringing forth something that thereby arises soulfully, the human being can then give it away. Because he can get it again at any time. It only exists if it is created anew again and again, that is also the case with the soul, that it does not lie there like a boulder, but it is in constant transformation and is constantly renewed out of the I. A soul that we see as the \"I\" is not only the \"I\", but also the \"I\". A soul that we may call the spiritual self is such a soul that is created anew at every moment, just as our I, which is the spiritual self in us, differs from the old soul in that this new soul, that is, this spiritual self, only exists in that it is created anew at every moment by our I. Otherwise it is not there. Otherwise it is not there. Then we have spirit-self. The greater part of the soul, which we still have now, and a greater part of the whole astral body, in which the soul is a smaller part, has a different character, it is not created anew by us at every moment, and sinks back into nothingness at every moment, we can only do that at the moment with the I, in the I lies this ability innately, but it is now transferred to that part of the soul, which we ourselves create out of nothing. And then we carry it by recreating it again and again out of nothing. In ever new nuances. It changes. In the old soulish it is so that it is carried up to the Godhead by the creative powers of the hierarchies, only one thing falls out of the whole, namely the corrupt parts that we have created because we have followed the adversaries, these are the things that are almost like a materialised soulish, a paradox, that is. That is to say, it is not supported by the constant creative renewal of the Godhead and the hierarchies, and it is not supported by the fact that we constantly renew it mentally out of our I, but it has become passive dross. That is a great distinction. One must not imagine the dross as a solid object, but it is so similar, it is a dead soul. Everything negative that we carry in our soul, or in the subconscious depths of our soul, is something like a dead enclosure in our soul. The divine-spiritual world above us cannot do anything with it, nor can it dissolve it, because we can only dissolve our karma ourselves, no one else can do that, not even the Christ, but he can support us with his life forces, but we have to dissolve it ourselves. When it says that Christ took the sins of the world upon himself, it doesn't mean that he can take our karma away from us, he can only make sure that our karma can be dissolved in the right form, that's also important, because we've already said that the adversaries have spat into it, that disorder has come into the karma, It can happen that the karmic balance doesn't work the way it should work, in the past we had help with that, nobody could dissolve our karma, but they could support us to go the way and to be pushed karmically into the situations where this task presents itself to us. The adversaries work to ensure that this does not happen. I.e. the promise of the adversaries to humanity is, you don't have to resolve your karma, what you have done doesn't need to burden you further. Of course, because the adversaries build their world out of that, they are happy to have the karma, so they will do everything to ensure that humanity's karma is not fulfilled, that would be the worst thing that could happen to us. Superficially, that might seem desirable to us, all the blows of fate would then no longer exist. If the adversaries managed to bring the whole of humanity into their line, then there would no longer be any karmic compensation. We would be able to commit misdeeds that would have no consequences. At least not for ourselves, which would not rebound on us. These misdeeds change the world, but they have consequences for the people we harm. Not for ourselves. That can look pleasant. When one is no longer thrust into fateful situations because we have something to work through that are unpleasant. Then we could say, oh the good Lord means well with us, he spares us from a difficult fate, but: those who want to spare us are the adversaries! They want to prevent us from taking up this task. But if we look to take up this task in time, then the suffering involved, which consists of reworking ourselves and living through this difficulty, will be relatively mild, but the more we take our time, the more difficult it will become. If karma is working properly, there is always a particular time, an opportunity, when this problem that we have can be dealt with in the very best way. If we do it a year later, destiny knocks a little harder, if we postpone it another ten years, it knocks even harder, i.e. if we want to avoid great suffering, we can only do that by being alert to our destiny tasks. That is one of the important things that is also connected with the development of the spiritual self, to be alert to which task of destiny is now at hand. How are we to know? They come to us in life. We don't need to brood. The task comes directly to us. The trick is not to sleep through it. When I meet another person, I realise that I owe him something karmically. I have done something to him. I must now develop a soul force that is equally beneficial for him and for me. In order to develop it, I have to make a certain effort.\n \nWe have to develop a sure intuition here, there is a destiny situation and it is up to me to do something. It can be with a person I have known for a long time, with whom I have to resolve something karmically, but it has not been my turn until now, then everything went smoothly until then, then a situation arises where the destiny task knocks quietly. Then be alert! If I suddenly notice that something is not right in our relationship, that there is a certain tone in it, then it is often because it is now the turn of the task that connects the two people. When you realise that, then the intuition comes, the right impulse, what I should do. That will be more and more conscious in the future. You feel now is a right moment and you just do the right thing. That is an instinctive intuition, which is quite good for the beginning. For the future, we are in the age of the consciousness soul, it will also be a matter of becoming more and more conscious that now the situation has come, what has to be done, why it has to be done. To experience the karmic connections much more concretely. This is quite decisive in the future and is also part of Christianity, it is one of the important tasks today, how Christianity, reincarnation and karma are connected. Until now, this has been ignored, especially by the Church. Although there are enough passages in the Old and New Testaments that point to this. Every scripture has become something dead and I have to get to the living word first. There was also a certain necessity for humanity to concentrate for a certain time, entirely on one incarnation, in which everything would be decided. So there was a certain justification for the idea of the incarnation to take a back seat. But a present-day Christianity without awareness of reincarnation and karma is not Christianity. Is unchristian. It is clear that the major denominations cannot keep up with this at the pace that would be necessary today. When a church lays down a decision as dogma, then it can basically no longer be changed. If they think they have read something out of the Holy Scriptures, because very few can see spiritually that this is the truth, then it is laid down as dogma, which takes centuries in the church. For example, the bodily ascension of Marian, which was elevated to church dogma around 1950, had already existed as a tradition since the 6th century. The interpretation is borderline. It has produced a number of blossoms in theology. We as humanity no longer have time for such long processes. We need a much greater alertness to recognise what is the right decision here and now. We can no longer rely on anything that has come out of such long processes of development. Decisions have to be made here and now. We can do that today. For many people, this is just below the surface of consciousness. With many it only needs a) to recognise the necessity to come from dead thinking into living thinking, it is the dead thinking that paralyses us to perceive what is already there as a process in the soul, namely the transformation out of the I from soul into real spirit self, the process has been going on for a long time, going on with many more people than one thinks, only most of them know nothing about it. That's why we don't know anything about it, because we have this dead thinking. Dead thinking cannot recognise this. With dead thinking I can't get at all close to the soul. Because this kind of thinking is not suitable for it. It is only the dead that this thinking can get at. In order to experience the process that is already taking place, that is, the transformation of the soul, the astral into the spirit self through the I, I need this living thinking, in which the whole Christ power is also present. With this thinking I can grasp it. If I have this thinking, then I can also become aware of this karmic situation, that is not possible with brain thinking, for this I must have this etheric thinking, we think less with the brain box, but with our whole etheric body, namely with the etheric forces that are in the hands. The etheric powers of the hands are the thinking organs for destiny. I have to get away from brain box thinking. Ponder over karma and living thinking, explain logically, then it is gone. Because dead thinking drives the etheric forces out of the brain and it also does not lead to living etheric arms. When we develop living thinking - Wolfgang makes waving movements with his arms - then we wag, then we flutter, then we rise with our etheric wings, then they are not just arms, then they are real wings, our etheric arms become that, then we rise above our karma, like sparrows at first, then blackbirds, then eagles at some point, hovering above the karma that we have accumulated from all our incarnations, and can overlook it, think from it and make our decisions from it, set our actions. We need this not only to achieve a healthy social life in the future, but also to live together with nature in the right way. Karma does not only concern what we have done to human beings, but also what we have done to the animals, the plants, the minerals of the world. We have a great task here, even into the solid physical. We also have this task in the near future, at least in the time of the cultural epochs. A few thousand years. Until then, we can develop this if we want to.\n\nBut for that we must recognise our karma, the negative sides that we carry around with us in the astral and constantly unload, namely deposit, when we detach ourselves from the earth after death, then we deposit a lot of negative things in the earth's environment. The outer mountains of rubbish are a trifle compared to this, they are only a consequence of the spiritual mountains of rubbish that cover the whole earth. The dissolution of the outer mountains of rubbish, in order to make the earth a planet full of life again, then we must become aware of these dark spots. We must feel compassion for the whole world outside, because that is where we deposit the mental rubbish. We need to feel less sorry for ourselves and more sorry for the world that we keep burdening with this. In the end, when we die and pass away, we impose it on the world. Then it all remains at the bottom. It cannot be dealt with by us while we are over there, we have to come down again. Since time is now very pressing, we are coming down more and more often and more quickly. The people who suspect and rise spiritually to a knowledge, they come down again very quickly. That is the reason why today the incarnations are happening in ever quicker succession, why there are more and more people on earth, everything is pushing down to earth to accomplish this task and that is a good sign. When it is said that in the future we will actively seek out the possibilities of suffering, what is meant by that is that we develop a compassion, with the human beings, with the animals, with the plants, with the minerals, with the whole earth, this real compassion that makes us aware of what our task can be in the improvement of the world, because what is our task? When we come down into the world, every human being brings a task with them. Some are aware of it, some not so much. What is our task? Why do we do certain jobs? Are we active in certain contexts? Because there we can dissolve all the soul rubbish we left behind in the past and transform it into something better. So dissolve and create something higher out of nothing. This explains the life task of every human being. That is what we are looking for. As a cleaner, as a general manager. That is to say, it is a matter of working on this spiritual in all our incarnations. Today it is about consciously doing this and consciously developing this compassion. Compassion not in the sense of crying about it, that alone will not save the world, it is a feeling into all living beings who suffer from our rubbish and feeling into what I can do in order to dissolve this effect. Of course I have to get rid of my bad habits, like drinking too much, and make sure I don't make any new ones, I have to feel what the world outside needs because I left something negative in the past that is now sand in the gears of the world. We are involved in this. We can no longer say today, as it is described in pre-Christian times in the 5th Gospel, that we are in the world. The purification of the soul today, the catharsis, is something completely different, it is not about becoming a good person now, It is not a question of keeping my bad habits in check, purifying in the sense of depositing them outside, that is no longer enough today, but I have to look for them somewhere else, I have to look for them in the situations of fate, in the encounter with other people, with nature, with animals, with plants, with minerals. With the elemental beings. Develop a consciousness for this. That means consciously taking suffering upon oneself. Compassion with the world outside. That is the real Christian thing. Actively working through the suffering we have caused with the sun in our minds. To transform that, that is the core task we have. Not to take on the suffering that happens to me, but to actively seek it out. If this succeeds, it will always also be a source of indescribable joy. Because the spiritual world rejoices when a dark spot is dissolved. The joy of seeing how the world becomes lighter and better, and to experience that concretely, because if you approach it consciously, you experience it, you experience the light that becomes free through it.\n\nThat is the idea of Christianity. Richard Wagner: Parzival, the pure fool, knowing out of compassion. We read something from his theoretical writings. He developed many philosophical thoughts on his works, namely with Parzival, in which he dealt with the Christian thought. He was convinced of the idea of rebirth and even wanted to write an opera about it, but he never got around to it. He thought about the suffering of the Saviour. The blood that was shed. Title: Heroism and Christianity. It is about spiritual heroism, a heroism that basically consists of seizing the spiritual task that we also have. To take a step beyond the possible in order to make the impossible possible. I love the one who desires the impossible. \"The blood of the Saviour flowing from his head from his wounds on the cross, who would sacrilegiously ask whether it belonged to the white race or any other race<\/em> (so it concerns the whole of humanity, which is remarkable because Wagner had already thought very highly of the white race, and was interpreted accordingly during the Nazi era), If we call it divine, then its source should be close, forebodingly, only in what we have called the unity of the human species.<\/em> (seeing humanity as the unity of all different ethnic groups), this faculty we must regard as the last stage which nature reached in the ascending series of its formations; from here on she no longer brings forth any new higher formations, for in this species, capable of conscious suffering, she herself attains her only freedom through the abolition of the restlessly self-contradictory will.\"<\/em> Who is stronger, ME or I? \"The inscrutable origin of this will, which is impossible to demonstrate in time and space, becomes known to us only in that abolition where it appears divine as the will of redemption. If we found the capacity for conscious suffering to be peculiarly inherent in the blood of the so-called white race\/ethnicity, we must now recognise in the blood of the Saviour the epitome of consciously willing suffering itself, which as divine co-suffering pours through the whole human species as its original source.<\/em> \n\nThe outpouring of the bowls of wrath describes exactly the process we go through when we expand more and more with our I and with our soul, connect with the whole world, and what we experience in the process and the tasks we have to cope with. In principle, it is the reversal of the state that is described in Genesis with Creation, where it was a matter of the world being formed as a world of the soul (Chapter 1), there is nothing external yet, everything that is mentioned there about the sun, moon and stars does not yet exist in the physical, not yet in the etheric, exists only in the soul at first. The 2nd chapter of Genesis enters into the etheric world, into the physical as far as the aerial realm. The Garden of Eden. It was never an earthly garden. It was the great earth that still had the moon in it. Paradise state. The transition described in the Apocalypse is exactly the opposite path, of course now on a much higher level, because we have experienced much in the meantime and have developed further. We will understand these things well if we see them as a reflection of what was described in the beginning of the creation story. Next time we will look at how it goes from the aerial into the ethereal and then into the spiritual. It is immensely wise what begins in Scripture with the creation story and ends with a transformed creation story. This is what the Apocalypse portrays. If you read it only as a doomsday scenario, you are reading it completely wrong. It is read in an unchristian way. It has been read that way many times. Even by people of the church. Whole peoples were exterminated because they were supposedly not pleasing to God. Overseas, in the so-called colonies. Church institutions were very much involved in that. Today they also do a lot of good, that has to be seen. Today's racism, which is still haunting us, also has its roots in this. It is a principle that goes back to early humanity, to the Stone Age, to the Atlantic period, when there were human races in the classical sense. The Christ event concerns all human beings. The term \"races\" originally goes back to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, things that went along with the development of humanity, that were human beings but died out as a race because no human being was willing to embody himself in this physicality any more. Humans then simply embodied themselves in the lineage that became Homo sapiens. Just as with animals, species die out because they no longer have a future inside. But this does not justify human damage to nature. But there is a natural extinction that is necessary. The Atlantic period also served so that a united humanity could emerge.\n\nThen in the Apocalypse comes the great crisis story with the Whore of Babylon and the last great battle at Armageddon. Then the spiritualisation in the form of the New Jerusalem. A new embodiment not only of the earth but of the whole cosmos. \n<\/pre>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dr. Wolfgang Peter Here you will find useful summaries, transcripts, keywords, etc. If you would like to help to make this documentation even richer, please contact info@anthro.world. Many thanks to all hard-working helpers! Date of the lecture: Summary<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"\n
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