עברית I could only grasp what the teacher has spoken in the spiritual world, to the extent that his teaching on the earth has borne true fruit in my soul, and that this fruit now becomes an organ of spiritual comprehension.
Cognitive Yoga: How A Book Is Born
From Chapter 5: A Co-Creative Journey
... Now the headmaster of the illustrious company, who kept rather quiet until then (in the limited compass of my spiritual awareness, I could before only sense his presence and activities in the background, where he was coordinating our efforts with hardly visible higher and wider circles and beings), stepped forward, and began to speak. I could recognize him now for the first time and connect this imaginative appearance with the being of the spiritual teacher, whom I know on the earth through his intimate soul- spiritual companionship. What made this identification possible, was not his imaginative form of appearance (which was totally different from his physical form in his last earthly lives), but the special tone of his speech, which has that unmistakable quality, that resounds the same in all worlds. I felt immediately that he directs his words to the centre of my heart. And while he was speaking, I was wholly taken over by the power, beauty and infinite grace of the love forces that poured forth through his words. I felt that his speech had such a magical moral power to it, that it is capable not only to move existing mountains and create new ones, but also to create whole new universes. And yet it was infinitely gentle and human, soft spoken and liberating, at the same time. I was utterly awe stricken by this event, about which I can say the very least, though it seemed to continue for an immensely long and blessed, blissful, eternity.
And this is a fundamental spiritual condition, that all honest and serious students of spiritual science must be aware of: I could only grasp what the teacher has spoken, to the extent that his teaching on the earth, has borne true fruit in my soul, and that this fruit now becomes an organ of spiritual comprehension. In truth, I can only see and comprehend anything in the spiritual world, in its true being, to the extent that I have first assimilated and spiritualized it thoroughly on the earth, through the study of what the teacher himself communicated from his experiences. And therefore, I can only translate his cosmic-heart words into earthly human words, concepts and images, to the extent that I have learned to embody and spiritualize his teachings and experience his spiritual being through this work in my physical life. This is also the only way I can spiritually activate them, renew them again, and remember them now in earthly cognition, and become mindful of them, and eventually see them again here and now: by repeatedly and intensively spiritualizing his spiritual scientific teachings in my individual cognition and life on the earth. This earthly activity is what becomes a living organ of spiritual seeing in the supersensible worlds, and it alone can reawaken the living echo of this seeing in ordinary earthly consciousness. The cognitive, creative, and free spiritual activity- which he called, in his most beloved book, The Philosophy of Freedom, ‘love in its spiritual form', that he actualized himself and taught on the earth, is ultimately- for us humans in this cosmic age- the only true universal language and translator, between all worlds and all beings, between all stages and states of consciousness, from the lowest to the very highest.
Now his Word stream flowed as he spoke through my whole being into my heart, and downward through me, as it were, and as it did so, it made the earth appear, which wasn't visible in the limited compass of my conscious spiritual awareness before. His love-filled words, dedicated for the salvation of earth and humanity, really made the earth appear below us as a heavenly chalice, shimmering and glowing with the most sublime auric colours. He said (we must imagine that this speech is an Imaginative flow of world-creating Imaginations, and every Imagination is in itself like a whole universe of creative cosmic becoming, while each word and sentence is bringing forth, gathering, shaping and moulding the spiritual forms, substances and realities about which he speaks): “When I was last incarnated on the earth in a physical human body, before the great catastrophe that divided human evolution into two wholly distinct parts, I tried to find human hearts, to plant this seed in them, as a Foundation Stone made of the quintessence of freedom and love, in which I concentrated all the harvest of my previous earthly life and labor. This spiritualized essence had many names through history. It was called the Holy Grail, or heavenly Jerusalem, which is another name also for the next future Jupiter embodiment of the earth. But this Foundation Stone, is really the true, divine being of the human being. And for the first time in the course of human evolution, this archetypal human being was born on earth in the Christmas Foundation Conference of 1923-4. As I said back then on the earth, before my death, the Foundation Stone is the new cosmic, spiritually free and creative human being, the ‘individual human being active and creative inside the human-cosmic being’, working in full consciousness with his fellow humans, nature, cosmos and hierarchies. This cosmic threefold, spiritual-soul and bodily human being is the firstborn, purely human, creation and embodiment of the being of Anthroposophia, born from the free individuation of the union of Christ's ‘I’ impulse and the eternal cosmic Sophia. This is my mission through the coming cosmic age, to help each human being to give birth, nourish, foster and grow his and her true self as the creation of free humanity in the age of the consciousness soul. This new born cosmic human being experienced its fire baptism and initiation in the mysteries of evil during the 12 years, 1933-1945. There it participated actively in the great deeds of sacrifice that took place in the etheric world and continue also today. (In the book, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century: The Occult Significance of the 12 years, 1933-1945, in the Light of Spiritual Science; an Imagination, I tried to put in words some aspects of this postmortem biography of Rudolf Steiner and the being of Anthroposophia).
Since then it is the Foundation Stone of the mysteries of the Michaelic age: the mysteries of the new humanity and the sun-becoming of the earth through humanity. It is fashioned by means of the purely human forces of freedom and loving sacrifice, and we must now, in the twenty-first century, find people that will be able to individualize it and incarnate it in its new form on the earth”.
After he completed his cosmic yet entirely human speech, I could, for the first time, begin to surmise, still vaguely, the deeper meaning of my research problem and its solution. I could see how my clumsy and imperfect work on the earth is contributing to the human and cosmic great work of creating the burgeoning archetype of new earthly-cosmic human being, which is the project all the masters of humanity pre- pared since immemorial times, and that through Rudolf Steiner found its first fully human incarnation. The new fully individualized and self-conscious cosmic human being is also the nucleus of the new, humanly created, resurrection body of humanity and the earth.
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