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Electricity Is Dying Light
At the turn of the 20th century, as the world became increasingly enamored with electricity, Rudolf Steiner warned that electricity was not simply a technological marvel, but light in a state of decay, a force emerging from the subnatural world.
He cautioned against the unconscious use of such forces, emphasizing that if humanity was to descend into the subnatural realm through technology, it must rise equally high into spiritual life to maintain balance.
Steiner warned that a purely materialistic approach to technology, divorced from spiritual understanding, would create profound imbalances in both humanity and the natural world. It is precisely this imbalance that we are witnessing today.
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Rudolf Steiner on the threefold nature of life after death, and the consequences of our actions.
The number 3 holds particular significance in esoteric teachings. However, when examined in relation to the astral body, we see how these forces operate.
Sympathy and Antipathy represent two fundamental forces of astral consciousness: Attraction and Repulsion. Equanimity, meanwhile, represents the ability to observe these forces without being governed by them.
To put it simply, not identifying with one's likes or dislikes, but instead learning to observe them without attachment.
Even after death, this threefold principle continues. Dr. Steiner describes the etheric life review as lasting approximately three days, followed by Kamaloca, associated with the lunar-sphere and sometimes compared to Purgatory. Here, one's life is reviewed backwards, from the moment of death to birth in 3x speed.
This process is traditionally said to last one-third (1/3) of one's earthly lifespan. (Akin to the time in earthly life you spend asleep)
This is somewhat similar to the life-review commonly reported in near-death experiences, where individuals describe their entire lives flashing before their eyes.
During this review, one experiences the consequences of one's actions through the perspective of those one affected. This includes the positive and negative things you did, through other's pov.
You reap what you sow.
The Golden Rule - "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." (Matt. 7:12)
One eventually comes to experience what one has done unto others.
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Descartes, Bacon, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and the Revelation of Modern Rationalism
< French philosopher René Descartes, who had gone searching for the fratres RC, was himself accused in Catholic Paris of being a Rosicrucian, “how could this be?” responded the founder of the mechanistic philosophy “all the world knows they are invisible!” >
-Tobias Churton, The True History of the Rosicrucians (Documentary)
Dr. Steiner, in Riddles of Philosophy, places Descartes at the turning point of what he calls the age of self-consciousness.
The Greek still experienced thought as something perceived, as he perceived the world around him.
The philosophers at the turn of this age no longer do so. Descartes must bring forth thought from his own I, and justify it from within.
It is here that Dr. Steiner classifies the founders of modern thought:
“Contrary to Bacon of Verulam, who pointed toward the bricks of the building, Descartes (Cartesius) and Spinoza turned their attention toward its plan.”
That is, Bacon works with the bricks that he sees, while Descartes struggles to bring forth the plan from within.
In German: Bausteine and Bauplan, “Bausteine” meaning “Building Stones.”
The use of the word “Building Stones” in context with Francis Bacon is particularly interesting.
If you have researched Freemasonry, you should know that there are many Baconian legends surrounding the fraternity, such as the notion that Speculative Masonry was established by Bacon.
Dr. Steiner’s wording might have been intended to remind the reader of Freemasonry.
There is not enough space to go into the history of the fraternity here, but if you research carefully, you should find many curious relations between Masonry and the ushering in of the “Age of Enlightenment”.
And of Descartes in particular Dr. Steiner writes:
“The ego in him conquers the right to recognize its own being through the radical doubt directed against the entire world.”
The German is “erkämpft”, meaning “fought for” and won, through struggle.
In Germany, during the winter of 1619, while Descartes was still searching for the Fratres R.C., he had three dreams in one night, through which he believed the Spirit of Truth had descended upon him.
In his notebook he wrote that on this day, “full of enthusiasm”, he had found “the foundations of a wonderful science”.
The father of Modern Rationalism received the basis of his system not through doubt, but revelation.
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Humans don’t actually have free will in the way you have been taught.
This is the great terror: realizing that your thinking might be free, but your feelings are still dreaming and your will is completely asleep.
Things get much worse when you realize that most men don’t even think clearly. They are completely asleep.
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Does there have to be a reason for one to act?
No.
You choose to act simply because you will it. Not because of some external incentive, or impulse, but through will.
Gradually, you free yourself from being governed by impulses and habitual reactions.
What is true freedom if it is not the freedom to act without needing a reason or justification?
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What happens after “death” according to Rudolf Steiner & Anthroposophy
First the Ego enters the Etheric world, for approximately 3 days, during which the etheric body remains attached with the astral body and Ego permitting a panoramic memory tableau of the life just past.
Second the Astral world, for approximately 1/3 the length of the person's life (equal to the time spent sleeping), during which the Ego remains attached with the astral body. This is the period of purification, or burning fire, known in the Roman Church as purgatory, also sometimes in anthroposophy as "the soul world," and in Eastern religions as "kamaloca." The attachment of the Ego and astral body permits a review, in reverse, of the life just past, actually of what is experienced during sleeping periods (nightly reviews beyond waking conscious-ness) by the Ego and astral bodies during that life; characteristic of this review is placement in the position of those with whom one dealt, in the sense of Matthew VII:12 (the Golden Rule).
Third the Spirit land (or "devachan" in Eastern terminology), which can be entered only after all desires and passions have been eliminated in the astral world. The only component that can enter here is the Ego itself, along with the part of its 3 "bodies" (astral, etheric and physical) that the Ego has been able to convert to the respective higher 3 spiritual components of the future, i.e., manas(Spirit Self), buddhi (Life Spirit) and atma (Spirit Man). The Ego's consciousness during its sojourn in Spiritland is dependent upon the extent to which it has perfected its "Three Bodies," but only manas (the purified astral body) can meaningfully be developed during Earth evolution; consider here the parable in Matthew XIII:33, "The kingdom of heaven (is) like leaven which a woman hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."
Fourth the "Cosmic midnight" when the Ego has ended its spiritual ascent and begins its descent to another incarnation for the purpose of, and resolved toward, further perfection (Matthew V:48).
Finally the descent, which retraces the stages of the ascent, during which the elements of one's "Three Bodies" are formed, including finally the choice of time, place and parentage, from what is then available on Earth.
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When you are scared to take the first step or start something new, remember what Carl Jung said:
“Where your fear is, there your task is.”
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'The Work' by G.I Gurdjieff
The Way of the Yogi (Intellectual Centre)
The Way of the Monk (Emotional Centre)
The Way of the Fakir (Movement Centre)
Gurdjieff took these three paths and developed the Fourth Way: the integration of all three centres, developing the intellectual, emotional and physical centres simultaneously, rather than developing one and ending up unbalanced.
This might remind you of the Sufi system of Head, Heart and Hands, or the Buddhists who develop this trinity in the form of Thought, Speech, and Action which is further developed through the Eight-fold Path.
The overall key teaching is the harmony of the three centres.
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Rudolf Steiner on remembering dreams, and becoming more conscious with your will in your day-to-day life.
Rudolf Steiner's Review Exercises are an interesting method of strengthening cognition through deliberate self-observation and reflection.
Before bed, or in the afternoon when enough events have transpired. You can mentally start retracing the events of the day in reverse order, from the final moments to the very first, one trains their attention to step outside ordinary perception and observe their experiences more objectively. Almost in a way from a higher self POV, rather than your normal personality. This is linked to your soul.
By becoming indepedent of ordinary sense-perception, you can view the world in a different light. You can use this technique on stories/plays reversing the acts/plot points to gain a better view through higher cognition.
Interestingly, this also has a connection to dreaming. Steiner suggests that the Review Exercise can sometimes lead one towards accidentally falling asleep, creating a bridge between waking thought and dream consciousness. This is because you are entering a state of mind, that is akin to dreams. I will expand more in a bit.
Through consistent practice, one may find themselves remembering dreams more vividly, developing greater awareness within dreams and potentially achieving a degree of continuity between waking and sleeping consciousness. (Aka, you will be able to start percieving your dreams, and figure out the meanings much more clearly through training this dream-cognition)
A fun fact, dreams are often in reverse and are flipped, an example is when you see in your dream an order of numbers like "1...2...3" they are actually "3...2...1" outside of the dream. When you learn that everything is flipped, and reversed it begins to make more sense, and through that - dream-cognition begins.
When ordinary consciousness falls away and you go autoilot, all that is left is darkness, without continuity you will be left confused. This applies to sleep, and waking life, if you don't start observing you will be left to things just happening to you, instead of doing anything.
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Gurdjieff's idea of man being a "machine" is something worth considering especially in the modern age. More prevelant now, than it was in his time.
We live in a world where attention is scattered, emotions are constantly stimulated, and desires are wants given to you by the external world, not from your own inner being.
People believe they are expressing their individuality, yet much of their behaviour is simply a reaction to their environment.
"Man does not do anything, things just happen to him."
