Laying the Foundation Stone of the Michaelic Movement in the Twenty-first Century

Laying the Foundation Stone of the Michaelic Movement in the Twenty-first Century

The Centennial of the Christmas Foundation Conference

From the first public lecture: The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming

24 December 2023

Temple Lodge 2026

As we shall see through all nine lectures, world history, in the past,

present, and future, can be understood in its true essence only if it is

understood in the light of the Apocalypse. Only apocalyptic history can

bring to the light of spiritual knowledge the whole evolution of human-

ity. This has been true since the Mystery of Golgotha, and this is the

reason why St John wrote his Revelation as his mature Christian testa-

ment for the future. Rudolf Steiner spoke about the apocalyptic nature

of the present age since 1910, when he began to speak about the com-

ing reappearance of the Christ in 1933—and shockingly revealed what

this means—in his most important testamentary words delivered in

September 1924, about which I spoke in The Twilight and Resurrection of

Humanity and The Time is at Hand! Rudolf Steiner left the Earth after

he had done all he could to prepare humanity for what would start in

the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. As you know, his aim was to develop anthropos-

ophy in such a way that it would grow uninterruptedly and organically;

to bring it to full development by those most decisive moments, begin-

ning in the 30s of last century. This didn’t happen, and humanity and

Earth were devastated by the apocalyptic eruption of evil in the Rag-

narök and Weltenbrand, and the grave of civilization became the global

reality in which we live. In the etheric world, the few human souls and

spiritual beings that survived the destruction of Asgard and remained

loyal to the School of Michael played a central role in paving the way to

Christ’s redeeming deeds, as described in my books. But only since the

end of last century could humanity connect, for the first time, with this

Michael-Christ stream and begin to actualize it on Earth.

Dear Friends, this is something that must be taken very seriously by

those who live on the Earth today, and who wish to contribute creative

and uplifting forces to the development of humanity. Because in this

Ragnar4k of humanity, in this grave of civilization, where do we !nd

the forces of resurrection? All the wisdom of the world, including the

anthroposophical wisdom, and three more books besides, only has sig-

nificance if it leads us to the practical use and actualization of these

resurrection forces of humanity and the Earth. And the Being of new

life and resurrection, the Being who brought this resurrection to the old

Earth and humanity when the abyss opened and the Hell !res of Welten-

brand were blazing forth, who embodies resurrection as His very Being,

is the only being on the Earth and in the human-related universe who

can give us the forces to be His co-workers in the resurrection of human-

ity and the Earth in the twenty first century.

In the darkest time of human evolution, when humanity fell the

deepest into the new forces of evil, where the name of Christ on Earth

was totally suppressed and forgotten; where no one on Earth even

knew who Christ was anymore, and those who spoke His name served

His most fierce doppelgänger and enemy, in this very time, in the ethe-

ric world closest to Earth, the Christ began the Second Coming and the

culmination of the second Mystery of Golgotha, and prepared the res-

urrection of humanity and Earth. In our time, since the end of the twen-

tieth century, it is His will, His concentrated intention, and His entire

Impulse to find souls who will bring about this resurrection of human-

ity and the Earth and involve wider and wider circles in this work, so

that more and more people will spiritually remember, become aware,

and see His present etheric appearance, words, and deeds, and make

them into the very essence of their daily life, so that human society and

culture, sunk deep in the grave of civilization, will rise, united with

Him, and let the Age of Michael begin in His second, middle century,

which is the most decisive time, in which the ultimate and final exis-

tential decisions concerning human evolution will have been taken, for

good or ill.