Engineering 3D Metaphysics

Steiner's Path on Communicating with the Angel This question is one about the very nature of consciousness. Today we've come to see our consciousness as separate and enclosed onto itself. This apparent separation is the hallmark of our times. Yet it is an illusion. We are in no way separate from the angelic realms. We are led to believe we are, and this is the ahrimanic power. This apparent separation is however what guarantees a degree of freedom from the powerful higher realms. Yet the illusion of separation is what needs to be overcome. We have come to think of the world as a duality: here is the world, and yonder somewhere are the celestial realms. But in fact, we are constantly IN the celestial realms. Our consciousness, the very substance of it, IS of the essence of the celestial realms. Coming to see how this is, and perceiving this, is then the Michaelic path of initiation. It is a path of self-knowledge, in as far as coming to perceive how we actually constantly live in the celestial realms. To see this, exploring consciousness as a field is a required path of understanding, perception, and experience. Exploring the sphere of consciousness then today should happen in accordance with the demands of the times. Where humanity today stands, is quite different from past epochs. Individual thinking is on the rise since a few centuries, then well a thinking that gradually disconnects from the heart. Just before our time, the heart was much more present, determining even much of life as it was. This disconnecting with feeling is what characterizes abstract, intellectual thinking. It is a thinking which happens as if within the brain. Nonetheless, this thinking is of immense usefulness. It makes the entire civilization of today possible, namely, it offers a material, physical basis, upon which humanity can further develop. There where previously many working hours took much of the day, today the available leisure time stretches. This consciousness of today—where seemingly the spiritual has withdrawn from—is precisely the condition for a renewal in consciousness. What characterizes consciousness of today, is that thinking is predominately active. It is then thinking—namely the capacity to identify and name, etc—which forms today the starting point for spiritual development, and communication with the angel. 1) The angel sphere is predominantly related to our thinking. This is where waking consciousness exists. 2) The archangelic sphere is predominantly related to our feeling life. This is where dream consciousness exists. 3) The archaï sphere is predominantly related to our will. Here we are most asleep in as far as the actual process related to processes of will. In initiation we must first master the thinking or angelic sphere, through learning to think reality, yet by giving wings to thoughts. It is also the sphere of Imaginations, of the building of living pictures. To think properly, bringing the cognizing I-consciousness into the feeling and will sphere. Now there is a difference between cognizing and re-cognizing. Recognizing merely recognizes. Cognizing is conceiving namely a giving birth within thinking. It is an activity within thinking which produces the spiritual counterpart of something perceived on the physical plane. Here thinking should be conceived of as an altar, a place where in fact an elevated spiritual activity takes place. Because thinking is often used in a pragmatic sense, it is no longer seen as a divine function. Re-discovering the divine nature of thinking as an activity, calls in the Michaelic being. It is re-conducting thinking from its fallen state to its origine as Cosmic Intelligence. Whether we think of thinking as worthless and dead, or whether we conceive of it as a high moral capacity, will either give Ahriman access to thinking, or the angel. The angel can only approach and fully collaborate in thinking, when thinking is "spiritualized", it is to say, first and foremost conceived as a highly spiritual operation. To conceive of it in such a way is a different moral stance, coloring the soul accordingly. To think that angels don't exist has an impact on the angelic world. It erases the angelic world out of sight. Angels remain silent, invisible, while our view commands this in this case. To want proof, or wanting to "see" angles, is a disregard of their nature. It is expecting them in physical form, rather than raising up to their nature. Why many people don't perceive them, comes from transposing physical habits and realities into the spiritual. Projecting vibrations, frequencies, and energies onto the spiritual comes from a lack of moral development. Moral development exists in its modern form in Christianity. Moral content are soul and spirit realities. Not cultivating moral content and refusing to see its importance does something to the soul. Moral content in the soul in feeling-form strengthens the vitality of the soul. A lack of it hollows out the soul; beings related to selfishness then take old of the soul. That's why modern anthroposophical spiritual development contains an important moral aspect. That's where it develops a soul or feeling-life. The soul tendencies need to be given a different orientation. Certain soul-habits need to be replaced by others. Techno-rock is not suitable for developing a relation with true angels. It induces the presence of other, fallen angels.