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197 Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind

Rudolf Steiner Press / Anthroposophic Press (1987) 2(3/7/1920, Stuttgart) p. 24 4014 197-01 The commandment of the western, actually pre-Christian occultism to be silent about supersensible experiences is connected with the fact that such an initiate only has something of his initiation if he has one pupil at least who reiterates his ideas. The initiate would become dependent of another person for the rest of his life if he betrays to him the fact that he is an initiate. There is only one way out of this dependence on ones followers and that is to be in communion with Christ. References to lectures of CW 197 in 185-10, 202-02.

198 Healing Factors for the Social Organism

Gesamtausgabe, first edition 2(3/21/1920, Dornach) (23ff.) 4038 198-01 In a similar way as the fall of the spirits of darkness happened in 1879 other revolutions took place in the spiritual world in 300 B.C. and 2 500 B.C. The transition from the art, which imitates the spiritual, to active (artistic) imagination occurred with the Greeks in 300 B.C. The transition must similarly be found today from watching thinking, which is connected with processes of dying off, to active thinking. Memories, connected with these processes of dying off, will change, from which demon-like soul experiences rise increasingly: When people do not learn to be attentive to such a thing, they will go out of their mind for that reason.

198-02 3(3/28/1920, Dornach) 1/40ff. 4052 Moral and physical laws flow together gradually; they will be at one at the earths end with the transition to the Jupiter stage. 198-03 10(7/3/1920, Dornach) 1/161 4158 At the end of the 18th century and in the 19th century, certain Freemasonic orders (Odd Fellows and others) were infiltrated by Jesuits who took part especially in the extension of the system of higher degrees. That explains the strange phenomenon that the attainment of higher degrees ruins the progress completely which one gains in the lower degrees.
13(7/10/1920, Dornach) (217ff.) 4162 198-04 What streams through the senses is originally etheric and is killed through the world of ideas rising from within so that it appears as physical world. This abstract world of ideas for its part is a shadow of the prebirth existence. References to lectures of CW 198 in 181-07, 190-09, 194-11, 202-23, 211-08.

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