THE TWILIGHT ANDRESURRECTION OF HUMANITY

THE TWILIGHT ANDRESURRECTION OF HUMANITY

THE HISTORY OF THE MICHAELIC MOVEMENT SINCE THE DEATH OF RUDOLF STEINER

AN ESOTERIC STUDY

Contents

The Amfortas-Parsifal Duality and its Healing

Personal-Impersonal Observations of Biography

First Lecture, 12.02.2019

The Ur-Phenomena of my spiritual biography; birth of the spiritual ‘I’ at

21 and its consequences; three stages in the development of the wound of

Amfortas from the 20s to 40s; the fundamental Amfortas-Parsifal duality;

the three Moon Nodes and a perfect karmic storm; a phoenix rises from the

ashes; the new spiritual conversation between generations; from the life of

Goethe and Alanus; the mysteries of the new etheric body and Life Spirit.

The Twilight of Humanity and its Resurrection  

Second Lecture, 13.02.2019

The Germanic Wound of Amfortas, karma of Middle Europe and the heal-

ing role of Vidar; my spiritual struggle at the end of the twentieth century

and a symptomatic anthroposophical episode from the present; humanity

in the abyss of the twenty-first century: ahrimanic and luciferic singular-

ity and immortality and the ultimate ahrimanic-luciferic merger; resurrec-

tion of Anthroposophy in the twenty-first century: Anthroposophy must

be re-established on totally new foundations; The untold history of the

Michaelic movement after the death of Rudolf Steiner; resurrection of the

esoteric youth impulse; incarnation of the etheric Earthly-Human Sun and

the future school of love; Ita Wegman and the first ray of light from the

sunrise of the Earthly-Human Sun.

The Universal Language of Michael and the Being of Rudolf Steiner

Third Lecture, 14.02.2019

The universal language of Michael; the universal reversal of Anthropos-

ophy and the positive mission of egoism; the being of Rudolf Steiner; the

mystery of the etheric body of Rudolf Steiner and its post-mortem devel-

opment from 1925 until today; the beginning of a new life of Rudolf Steiner

in the Christmas Foundation Conference of 1924; the world’s turning point

of time then and today.viii The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity

The Anthroposophical Movement in the Present

Fourth Lecture, 15.02.2019

Growing young in the School of Spiritual Science and the present stage of

our anthroposophical work; the apocalypse of the twentieth century and

the gathering storm of the twenty-first century; archetype and reality of

the School and movement of Spiritual Science and the centenary of the

Christmas Foundation Conference; struggle with Ahriman and Lucifer

over the ‘golden karmic script’; prevailing anthroposophical confusions

about the ‘Michaelic Prophecy’ as significant symptom; Initiates, mortals

and the new etheric Christ initiation as bridge between them.

The Etheric Form is Alive

Fifth Lecture, 17.02.2019

Two letters of invitation to the global school meeting in Sweden; the three-

fold etheric heartbeat of Michael flowing between East, West, North and

South; Ganganda greida and the circulating communion of the new ethe-

ric body; the forces of Vidar and the Nordic-Germanic Gods; the reversed

cultus; united force of the two Mysteries of Golgotha in the previous and

present incarnations; my path to Vidar and the youthful becoming of

humanity; three Grail events in the ninth, twentieth and twenty-first cen-

turies; ‘Let it, ye Spirits, be fired from the East, what is formed in the West’:

Ex oriente lux.

Afterword

The Resurrection of the Etheric Christ in the Twenty-first Century

Notes

Preface

The lectures published in this book were given in the annual global meet-

ing of the School of Spiritual Science in Sweden, in February 2019. I have

rewritten some parts and added others that belong to them.

The style of the spoken word is very different from the written one.

Each lecture, as well as an entire lecture cycle, is a living organism that

develops in space and time as a real event, according to the spiritual and

physical circumstances of a particular occasion. It starts from a concen-

trated thought seed, and develops organically, via roots, stem, expands

and contracts, rhythmically, adding new variables, leaves and branches,

until it contracts again, in a higher concentration, in the flower bud, from

which it can bloom and expand still further, revealing its essential being.

Now this process, as any living process, demands repetitions and varia-

tions that spiritualize the central subject matter, by circulating in and out,

on higher and more expanded circles of the spiralling shoot. This rhythm

is an ideal archetype, needless to say, and cannot be realized in each sin-

gle lecture, but only in the cycle as a whole, and also the cycle must be

seen as but one organ in the continuously living work that unfolds over

decades as a whole.

Therefore, in preparing these lectures for print, I had to respect this

rhythmic and flexible, flowing form of life, and have adapted my changes

to its style. Because the five lectures compose a living whole in itself, if

we read each one alone, we will not grasp the meaning of the whole.

For this, we must first weave all five lectures together. Therefore, some

things may be said earlier, that will not find their immediate linear con-

tinuation and development. More rhythmic expansions and contractions,

and further spiralling will be necessary, adding new stuff from fields that

seem wide apart. And only later will we find out that the thread has

been taken up again, but now, after the rest of the organism has devel-

oped sufficiently, it can be continued and brought to a certain conclusion.

Some things that were mentioned earlier would then find their relative

completion. The readers should bear this fact in mind and heart when

they contemplate this book and try to recapitulate and enliven in their

thoughts and feelings its living rhythm and development.

Moreover, these lectures could only be given because a living com-

munity event was taking place, in the middle of which they occurred;

and this event could receive and nurture them in the right mood of com-

munal soul and heart. This community experience transforms each indi-

vidual presentation into a dialogue, indeed, a multilogue, because thex The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity

speaker and the listeners share the same source of inspiration. In a very

real sense, I experience a lecture as a conversation with my listeners, on

one hand, and with the beings that shine light over us and inspire our

gathering, on the other. And this intimate spiritual conversation is taking

place as a real event, shaping each word, phrase and turn of the lecture.

I therefore want to express my deep feeling of gratitude to the ded-

icated band of souls that gathered together in Sweden, to deepen and

strengthen the School of Spiritual Science. May their enthusiasm grow

in strength and may their courage and devotion continue to open and

illuminate this path!

Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon,

Christmas 2019