The Construction of the Third Spiritual-Physical Layer of the Bridge

The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming

Third Volume: The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Part II

The Construction of the Third Spiritual-Physical Layer of the Bridge

The Word becoming flesh is the first Michael revelation; the flesh becoming Spirit must be the second Michael revelation.

Rudolf Steiner, lecture of 22 November 1919 (GA 194).

Introduction

    In reporting about the given meeting with the etheric Christ, in chapter 4 of the first volume, we described how in the meeting the Christ planted three golden spirit seeds in man’s spirit, soul, and bodies. The task of the knowledge drama of the Second Coming is to use all the available resources of modern spiritual science, to nourish, cultivate, and foster these seeds, and to apply their potent forces to spiritualize the threefold human constitution.

    In the first part of the knowledge drama, described in the second volume, we demonstrated the creation of the first two layers of the bridge of spiritual memory and continuity of consciousness. The first two stages of the given meeting with the Christ, served as the spiritual archetype for this creation.

   The formation of the first etheric-cognitive layer was inspired by the example of Christ’s imaginative appearance in the first stage of the meeting, through which he showed how ordinary cognition is spiritualized into Imaginative cognition. The formation of the second astral-soul layer of the bridge was inspired by his healing of the fragmented forces of the soul, by the power of his living words. In the same way, the third stage of the meeting offers the inspiration for the formation of the third spiritual-physical layer of the bridge. In this stage the highest aspect of the Christ, descending through man’s spirit and soul, penetrated and transformed the formative spiritual forces of the physical body.

     Therefore, to complete the knowledge drama of the Second Coming, we must find, awaken, and activate the third golden spirit seed given by the etheric Christ, planted in the physical body. Then we use its forces to create the third spiritual-physical layer and add it to the previous two layers of the bridge. This will enable us to complete the three layers of the bridge of spiritual memory and continuity of consciousness, also in the depths of the physical body.

    Combined together, the forces of the threefold bridge create the strongest and most resilient spiritual pathway that allows modern spiritual self-consciousness, active in unbroken, continuous, earthly and spiritual cognition, to enter the spiritual worlds and return to the physical body in a conscious and healthy manner. The final, permanent consolidation of the bridge must become, as Goethe said, so stable and spacious, that 'Horses and carriage and travelers of all sorts would travel on it at the same time back and forth'. But for this purpose, the bridge must be grounded and anchored very deeply and strongly in the spiritual foundation of the physical body and world.

    When we return to the physical body from the spiritual, astral and etheric worlds, in which we constructed the second astral-soul layer of the bridge, we are confronted with severe tests, which become more difficult, the deeper we descend into the metabolic-limb and reproductive systems. In the course of this descent and confrontation, we realize, that the construction of the third spiritual-physical layer must face the fierceopposition of the forces of evil rooted in the physical body since the entry of the two apocalyptic Beasts into human evolution in 1933-1998. We must experience these forces of illness, death, and destruction that assail the physical body, and confront the new, third category of the beings of evil, the Asuras, who attack the human soul and Ego from their stronghold in the sexual forces of modern humanity. This confrontation enables us to develop the required forces to spiritualize the physical body, heal the illness and wound of Amfortas at its deepest source, resurrect it from the forces of death, and redeem it from the forces of evil. A new, immortal ‘Second Adam’ is born, embodied in a resurrection body, the Phantom, rising from the grave of modern civilization.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Modern Mystery of Evil: The Confrontation with the New Force of Evil in the Physical Body

Chapter 2

The Michaelic Kundalini Meditation

Chapter 3

The Healing of Amfortas’ Wound of Sexuality and Mortality

Chapter 4

The Construction of the Third Spiritual-Physical Layer of the Bridge

 Detailed Contents

Chapter 1

The Confrontation with the New Forces of Evil in the Physical Body

Conscious return to the physical body is fraught with great difficulties in the present age; Entry into human evolution of a radically new force of evil; Spiritualization of the blood necessary to confront it; ‘Follow the path of cyanide formation from above downward’; First confrontation with Asuras in the heart and the path into the metabolic-limb and reproductive systems; Searching for the meditative praxis to spiritualize the forces of will, early childhood, karma, and limbs. 

Chapter 2

The Michaelic Kundalini Meditation

In 1906 Rudolf Steiner gave a pupil a meditation aiming to develop the forces of the higher self and to spiritualize the physical body through the sacred fire of kundalini; It creates the forces required to penetrate into the metabolic-limb and reproductive systems; Nine steps of the meditation and their results; Spiritual role of cerebellum, pineal and pituitary; Activation of the four petalled lotus flower at the base of the spine in connection to the sixteen petalled lotus flower in the larynx; Renewed confrontation with the Asuras in their stronghold in the reproductive system; ABC and DEF of black magic; The fundamental problem of the wound of sexuality and mortality must be confronted in the present age of Michael. 

Chapter 3

The Healing of the Wound of Sexuality and Mortality

The modern riddles of the wound of Amfortas are discovered, the deeper man delves into the reproductive system; Asuric and Soratic usurpation of the divine forces behind sexuality; ‘Fragment after fragment will be torn out of the ‘I’; Magically closed wound and the temptation of Asuric immortality; Radically divided human constitution and decisive Michaelic battle with the Asuric forces; Birth of Anthroposophia in the larynx; The portal that leads to the mysteries of the Phantom.

Chapter 4

The Construction of the Third Spiritual-Physical Layer of the Bridge

Formation of lasting etheric foundations for the third layer of the bridge; Merging of Christ’s Sun forces of midday, midnight, and cosmic midnight hour; Cosmic cultus and spiritual communion of humanity in the earthly-human Sun temple; New metabolic knowledge attained in the spiritualization of breathing, eating and speaking, nose and mouth, smell, taste and touch; Digestive threshold and probation: Sweet as spiritual honey and bitter as karma; Spiritualization of metabolism through the six petalled lotus flower; Renewed confrontation with the Asuric forces; Highest hierarchy revealed in spiritualized metabolism and physical body; Chemical Christological process produces the philosopher’s stone from the spiritualized forces of earthly and cosmic nourishment, karma and love; Chemical wedding of heaven and earth in the human heart and birth of the spiritualized body; Umstülpung of the threefold human constitution; Loom of creation on which the Phantom is woven; Making the philosopher’s Stone through the spiritualization of breathing and carbon; Mysterious bone Luz; Shall the dead bones awaken?; Fountain of eternal life in the bone marrow; Imagination of the Phantom; Midsummer alchemical Christological process; The Foundation Stone of love.