עברית Anthroposophia in the 21st Century
Jeremy Quick
The Final Part of his M.A Dissertation:
Anthroposophia in the 21st Century: An answer to “the question about the nature and being of man himself, Anthropos, the question about Anthropos-Sophia” [1]
- The Evolution of Consciousness from Ancient Greek until the Age of Michael
Sources: The Riddles of Philosophy (Steiner), The Age of Consciousness Soul (Steiner, Ben-Aharon, Foucault’s epistemes from The Order of Things
Since the ancient Greece, human consciousness evolves through four distinct stages described by Steiner in the first chapter of The Riddles of Philosophy. Foucault describes the shifts in human consciousness in his book The Order of Things as symbolic/spiritual (resemblance), classical (representation), and modern (rupture). Steiner and Foucault both track this evolution — Steiner through the soul’s inner structure, Foucault through the structure of knowledge. In this phase, the Consciousness Soul begins to emerge, burning inherited thought-forms and demanding free, individual thinking.
- The Postmodern Challenge: Abyss and Fragmentation
Sources: Nietzsche, Steiner, Ben-Aharon, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Kegan
Humanity enters the abyss: the loss of unified meaning, truth, and self. Nietzsche’s death of God and will to power announce the breakdown. The self-fragments. The I is no longer given but must be forged. This is the existential and spiritual crossing of the threshold that began in the middle of the 19th century, which can lead to despair—or freedom. Elaboration of the question of postmodernism in the 21st century.
- Steiner’s Michaelic Response: Anthroposophy
Sources: Truth and Knowledge, Philosophy of Freedom, The Foundation Stone, Steiner’s and Ben-Aharon’s work as a whole
Steiner builds the transformative bridge between thinking and being, world and self, by developing spiritual science and a new path of knowing at the beginning of the Age of Michael, when our consciousness soul is matured enough so that freedom becomes a real possibility for the first time in human evolution. The Foundation Stone becomes the spiritual heart-organ for crossing the abyss through free activity, through spiritualization of human self-consciousness and individualization of Real Self. All of this is to prepare a conscious perception, reception of and human transformation through the Second Coming of Christ, beginning in the 21st Century.
- The Spiritual Event of the 20th Century
Sources: Ben-Aharon, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century: An Imagination, The Occult Significance of the 12 Years from 1933 to 1945 in the Light of Spiritual Science
Humanity misses the opportunity to unite with Christ in the etheric. The bridge is not built. Humanity splits into lower and higher being on the two shores of the abyss. Anthroposophia takes up the question of humanity herself and offers her being to unite the two halves of humanity. She becomes the Chalice of Christ, the bearer of resurrection forces, holding open the possibility of healing and a renewed possibility of crossing the abyss.
- Ben-Aharon’s Work: The Renewed Foundation Stone
Sources: Ben-Aharon work as a whole
Ben-Aharon re-unites Anthroposophy with the Second Coming, renewing the Foundation Stone in full consciousness. Michaelic–Christic deed of cognition, where the soul lives at the abyss, and anthroposophical spiritual science and Christ unites to become a resurrective organ. This is the bridge between individual cognition and cosmic Christ events.
- Individuating the Bridge: Truth as a Free Deed
Sources: Steiner’s Truth and Knowledge, The Renewed Foundation Stone, The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Cognitive Yoga
True freedom of knowledge is born not from inherited truths but from self-created insight. Postmodernism’s abyss becomes the spiritual laboratory for building the bridge within. This inaugurates the true beginning of the Age of Michael: the time when humanity can carry the Christ-being through free, conscious thinking into the world. The Idea of Knowledge from Truth and Knowledge as an answer to the question of postmodernism in the 21st century
- The Future Challenge: Technology, Community, and Resurrection
Sources: Ben-Aharon's and Steiner's work as whole, the work of the School of Spiritual Science and the College of the Global School of Spiritual Science
The next danger: humanity’s etheric being is drawn into technological enslavement (Ahriman). The resurrection of Anthroposophia as the universal soul of humanity must happen in community, through conscious individuals co-creating the Michaelic culture. This is the new Mystery Temple — not a building, but a living soul-organism.
[1] Ben-Aharon, Yeshayahu (Jesaiah). The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century: An Imagination, The Occult Significance of the 12 Years from 1933 to 1945 in the Light of Spiritual Science (pp. 44-45). Third Edition, 2024 (Kindle Edition).