Når jeg læser på internettet, er jeg nogen gange ved at få ‘åndenød’. Hvorfor har vi dog så travlt? Der skrives konstant om ny energi og den nye tids impulser og ingen kan forklare sig, så menigmand forstår. Det er de samme floskler der gang på gang fremføres: Indvielser, opstigning, kundalini og clairvoyance – og vi skal helst være i besiddelse af det hele på mindre end én inkarnation og er man særligt udviklet, springer man lidt hurtigere frem i ‘køen’, mindst 4 inkarnationer, kan så gennemleves?
Nu er jeg ikke helt ueffen, men må dog indrømme, at jeg nogen gange må konstatere, at min spirituelle kondition, nok ikke er så fremragende. Hvad er det dog, vi skal skynde os at nå og opnå, her i dette liv? Hvorfor skal tempoet være så højt, at der dårlig nok er tid til refleksion og udvikling. Ja, du læste rigtig, for udvikling opnås ikke ved at ‘springe over’, men opnås ved studier og refleksion.
At sidde og drømme ud i luften, med hænderne på lårene, opnås der bestemt ikke udvikling ej heller gennemførelsen af et maraton. Der må træning og øvelse til om og om igen, som når violinisten øver på etuder og skalaer. Det ville da være dejligt, om det hele kom dalende ned, som nyfalden sne fra de kosmiske skyer, så vi intet behøvede at foretage os?
Der skal være tid til hygge etc. vi er jo i den 12. måned og mørke tid, så hvorfor ikke studere lidt, når roen sænker sig over de små hjem og husk lige på, at jorden er nærmest solen i sin bane, på denne tid af året, så lyset er i virkeligheden stærkt!
Lad os kigge lidt på R. Steiner. Han forklarer os, at menneskeheden har degenereret åndeligt siden Atlantis, indtil den nåede det stadie, vi befinder os på nu – vor kultur er altså bunden. Steiner mener at vide, at der igen vil finde en opstigning sted, og at åndsvidenskaben er der til at forberede denne opstigning.
Godt, skulle vi så ikke lige prøve, at standse lidt op og tænke dybere. Det er ganske træls, at jeg konstant skal læse, at vi kun har brug for den nye viden og gammel viden er yt. Ok, hvad vil ‘profeterne’ så i denne tid sætte i stedet? Hvilke leveregler, moral og etik, kræver den nye energi? Hvilke intentioner har de med fremtidens samfund?
I bogen Cosmic Memory, kap. 8, redegør Steiner for, hvor vanskeligt det er at fortælle i almindeligt sprog om de forhold, der gjorde sig gældende, dengang menneskene endnu ikke havde fysiske kroppe og hvor solen og månen endnu ikke havde skilt sig ud fra jorden. Her siger han så, at disse forhold havde kunnet lade sig udtrykke langt mere præcist i det symbolske tegnsprog, som bruges i mysterieskolerne, men at formidlingen af dette sprog endnu ikke er tilladt
Her nævner Steiner jo netop de gamle mysterieskoler og han siger helt klart, at formidlingen af det symbolske tegnsprog, endnu ikke er tilladt! Se, her kan vi tale om esoterisme (den skjulte viden, hvis kendskab kun opnås gennem initiation)
Der er altså nok for debattørerne, at studere og opsøge af viden, i stedet for konstant, at tale om, at de er esoterikere og Bailey kendere, som straks kan forklare os andre, om den nye kommende tid? Igen, hvorfor har vi dog så travlt? Jeg mener det vigtigste er, at kunne fungere tilfredsstillende i dagligdagen, i den tid vi lige nu lever i, og det kan som til tider være svært nok, ikke sandt?!
Lad mig give et par uddragseksempler på, hvad jeg mener med mit indlæg.
Det er fra: Cosmic Memory, Prehistory of Earth and Man, by, Rudolf Steiner. Jeg har valgt nogle uddrag, som kan sætte tankerne i gang – og måske få os til, at tage den lidt med ro og skynde os langsomt.
‘For “death” occurs only because the consciousness has to depend on an external world with which it enters into communication through the physical sense organs. When these physical sense organs fail, every relation to the environment ceases. That is to say, the man “has died.” However, when his soul is so far advanced that it does not receive the influences of the outside world through physical instruments, but receives them through the images which the soul creates out of itself, then it will have reached the point where it can regulate its intercourse with the environment independently, that is, its life will not be interrupted against its will. It has become lord over birth and death. All this will come to be with the developed self-conscious image consciousness on “Jupiter.” This state of the soul is also called the “psychic consciousness.”
The next condition of consciousness to which man develops on a further planet, “Venus,” is distinguished from the previous one by the fact that the soul can now create not only images, but also objects and beings. This occurs in the self-conscious object consciousness or supra-psychic consciousness. Through the image consciousness man can perceive something of supersensible beings and objects, and he can influence them through the awakening of his image conceptions. But in order for that to take place which he desires of such a supersensible being, at his instigation, this being must use its own forces. Thus man is the ruler over images, and he can produce effects through these images. But he is not yet lord over the forces themselves. When his self-conscious object consciousness is developed, he will also be ruler over the creative forces of other worlds. He will not only perceive and influence beings, but he himself will create.’
‘The seven stages of consciousness are thus expressed in the course of the development of mankind in seven planetary developments. At each stage, the consciousness must now pass through seven subordinate conditions. These are realized in the smaller cycles already mentioned. (In theosophical writings these seven cycles are called “rounds.”) These subordinate states are called “conditions of life” by the mystery science of the Occident, in contrast with the super-ordinated “conditions of consciousness.” Or, one says that each condition of consciousness moves through seven “realms.” According to this calculation, one must distinguish seven times seven in the whole development of mankind, that is, forty-nine small cycles or “realms” (according to common theosophical usage, “rounds”). And again, each small cycle has to pass through seven yet smaller ones, which are called “conditions of form” (in theosophical language, “globes”). For the full cycle of humanity this amounts to seven times forty-nine or three hundred and forty-three different “conditions of form.”
After the “Spirits of Will” there follow beings with a creative (spiritual) consciousness, similar to that which man will attain on Vulcan. They are called “Spirits of Wisdom.” Christian mystery science calls them “Dominions” (Kyriotetes), while it calls the “,Spirits of Will.” “Thrones.”* During the second cycle of Saturn they advance their own development to some extent, and at the same time work on the human body in such a way that a “wise arrangement,” a rational structure is implanted in it. To be more exact, their work on man already begins shortly after the middle of the first cycle and is completed in about the middle of the second.’
‘The third kind of spirits with the self-conscious (supra-psychic) object consciousness is called “Spirits of Motion” or of “Activity.” In Christian mystery science they are called “Principalities” (Dynamis). (In theosophical literature, the expression Mahat is to be found for them.) From the middle of the second Saturn cycle onward they combine with the progress of their own development, the further elaboration of the human material body, in which they implant the capacity of movement and of forceful activity. This task comes to a conclusion around the middle of the third Saturn cycle.
After this point, the work of the fourth kind of beings, the so-called “Spirits of Form,” begins. They have a self-conscious image consciousness (psychic consciousness). Christian esoteric teaching names them “Powers” (Exusiai). Through their work, the human material body, which previously was a kind of mobile cloud, receives a bounded, plastic form. This activity of the “Spirits of Form” is completed around the middle of the fourth Saturn cycle.’
Kilde: Cosmic Memory og The Earth and Its Future
© 2008 Pauli Obel