עברית 1933-1998: The Rising and Uniting of the Two Apocalyptic Beasts and Our Michael-Christ Response-Ability
1933-1998: The Rising and Unitiing of the Two Apocalyptic Beasts and Our Michael-Christ Response-Ability
Spiritual Scientific Interpretation of St John’s Revelation, chapters 13-14
In the Light of the Apocalypse of the Age of Michael
THE TIME IS AT HAND!
Ahrimanic and Michaelic Immortality and the Apocalypse of the Age of Michael
The goal of the movement of Michael in the twenty-first
century, the second, middle century of his present age, will
only be understood, if we realize that its living centre is the
new appearance of the etheric Christ, discovered and expe-
rienced through the new Michaelic impulse. And this points
clearly to our immediate task in the coming 2020s and 30s: to
build this community on ‘Mount Zion’, around ‘the Lamb’,
as John says in chapter 14 of Revelation, on such strong foundations
that it will continue to grow and become stronger, widening
the bridge to the etheric world each day, and letting the temple of
the earthly-human Sun become visible among humans, despite all hindrances, in the
first half of the century.
Now that we are better acquainted with what those priests knew, who listened to
Rudolf Steiner in September 1924, we can also better experi-
ence their second major surprise, when Rudolf Steiner told
them that the second Beast would also appear at the end of
the twentieth century, in 1998:
We are now facing the age of the third 666—1998. At the end of
this century we will come to the time when Sorat will again raise
its head most strongly from the tides of evolution, where it will be
the adversary of that sight of the Christ, which those people who
are prepared for it will already have in the first half of the twen-
tieth century when the etheric Christ becomes visible. It will take
only 2/3 of this century until Sorat will raise its head in a mighty
way... There are already today developments that rage against the
spiritual. But these are only the first seeds.
Just imagine this: until this moment, we could continue our
sleep rather comfortably, knowing that the first Beast will
only appear far in the future, at the end of the evolution of
the earth and the second Beast after it. And now—lo and
behold!—we are told that the first Beast will appear in 1933,
in only nine years, and that it must be recognized before the
etheric Christ can be rightly grasped; and we would then
remember that a week earlier, Rudolf Steiner already told
us that the second Beast will raise its head in 1998, fighting
against the new revelation of the etheric Christ. Suddenly, if
you were listening to these lectures, you would have found
yourself confronted by the most unsettling prediction, that
in 1933 to 1998 the two Beasts will intervene together in the
immediate present evolution of humanity, not only at its end.
And please mark the tight timetable of these events: the last
lecture on Revelation to the priests was given on 22 Septem-
ber, and on 28 September, on Michaelmas eve, 1924, Rudolf
Steiner delivered his last address and on 30 March, 1925, he
took leave of the physical world!
This is the reason we felt obliged to at least indicate in some
words in The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity how the
two Beasts have been working together since 1998, and how at
the end of the twentieth century, the prediction of Chapter 13
was fulfilled, and the two Beasts took over our entire civili-
zation, because the culmination of the Michaelic movement
didn’t take place at the end of the century. Rather, the ‘culmi-
nation’ of Ahriman’s century did occur and he could offer his
power ceremonially to the two Beasts, who took it over from
him. Since then we truly are living in ‘the grave of civiliza-
tion’, predicted by Rudolf Steiner if the Michaelic plan for the
twentieth century failed.
You can well imagine that I have been particularly inter-
ested in these questions, because once you experience how
the two Beasts united their forces at the end of the century,
you are faced with great difficulties. You must find the inner
cognitive and moral strength to face this reality, to recognize
it and cope with it, if you want to find the right way to experi-
ence the death and resurrection of the etheric Christ inside the
grave of civilization, and help Him lift the heaviest stone: the
dominance of the two Beasts, who naturally fight vehemently
against any effort to do so.
This is where we stand now. This is truly what is happen-
ing. And true spiritual science has the task to investigate
reality and communicate this knowledge to the people who
want to receive it. The good news that we described from var-
ious points in The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity, is that
in the twenty-first century, after Chapter 13 of Revelation is
completed in our time and the two Beasts are beginning to
dominate human evolution, we also receive the first glimpse
of what is described in Chapter 14. This contains the first
Imagination of the spiritual movement of our time, of those
who remained loyal to Michael through the apocalypse of
the twentieth century, even if to begin with, it is a rather invis-
ible underground etheric movement. It is called Zion in this
chapter, and the inspired Wachowski brothers also applied
it to name the surviving human enclave in the centre of the
earth in The Matrix trilogy. This is the reversed ahrimanic
Imagination of the New Jerusalem, the seed of future Jupiter,
which lives however not in the middle of the old earth, but in
the middle of the new etheric earthly-human Sun.
It is important to understand the true meaning of what
John says in Chapter 14, but this will only be possible if we
understand the history of the twentieth century in the light
of Chapters 12 and 13. In Chapter 14 he says, ‘Then I looked,
and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion,
and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s
name written on their foreheads.’ This means that these peo-
ple could marshal the forces of the Christ, actualize them to
develop the forces of spiritual cognition, which means, to
imprint Christ’s name, the power of His I AM, on their fore-
heads. In other words, the forces of love and compassion,
of true healing, could become so active and creative in their
hearts, that they could recognize the Christ and not mis-
take Him and reverse Him into the opposite to worship the
Beasts instead. They could consciously overcome the power
of the Beasts and allow the living stream of Christ-Michael
to incarnate and develop on earth, inside the grave of civili-
zation. The Apocalypse of St John emphasizes it again in this
passage, by saying that ‘They follow the Lamb wherever he
goes’. And this is precisely the goal of the School of Spiritual
Science in the twenty-first century, to ‘follow the Lamb wher-
ever he goes’. And John also describes the global nature of
this School, which is essential for our work in this century,
namely, that Michael’s true pupils are ‘purchased from among
mankind and offered as the first fruits to God and the Lamb’.
From all the nations of the world the future brotherhood of
Philadelphia, of the sixth cultural epoch, will be assembled,
the potent human seed of which must be prepared in the pres-
ent age of Michael.
The goal of the movement of Michael in the twenty-first
century, the second, middle century of his present age, will
only be understood, if we realize that its living centre is the
new appearance of the etheric Christ, discovered and expe-
rienced through the new Michaelic impulse. And this points
clearly to our immediate task in the coming 2020s and 30s: to
build this community on ‘Mount Zion’, around ‘the Lamb’,
on such strong foundations that it will continue to grow and
become stronger, widening the bridge to the etheric world
each day, and letting the temple of the earthly-human Sun
become visible among humans, despite all hindrances, in the
first half of the century.