עברית Etherization of the Earth's spiritual gold and the creation of
the etheric body of the future Earth
In my travels from Israel to various countries and back home, I am conscious of the need of the Earth to connect itself with the spiritual radiations, streams and currents, flowing through the pulsating etheric spiritual gold of Jerusalem. I am also conscious of the need of the heart of the Earth, the spiritual Golden Star of heavenly Jerusalem, to connect through human consciousness with all His widely strewn living seeds and children all over the Earth.
In my travels, I always have this distinct experience: to what extent the Earth everywhere thirsts for the fresh spiritual nourishment, that only the golden star of Jerusalem can offer it, because the spirit crystal-seeds of resurrection in all countries and lands need it to grow and flourish. They all wish to become as living and radiant “golden stars” as their firstborn archetypal brother in Jerusalem. And they would wish that you help them achieve their universal human and earthly goal: to weave all the Christ seeds all over the earth together in His new planetary etheric body, and unite each one of them, in each country and location, with their firstborn archetypal golden star, to help the living earth become a living, conscious whole.
If you contemplate in the right manner the living, dynamic, growing, being of the Golden Star, pulsating actively above Jerusalem in the blue-purple Aura of the earth, you will realize that it strives to unite- through human hearts, minds and deeds- with all its children around the earth, the "crystal seeds" of His new global, planetary, etheric body.
In each country I visit (whatever the actual topic of my lectures and workshops) I am inwardly active in doing this work. First of all, I am consciously weaving a thread made of the spiritual gold I brought in my heart from Jerusalem and let it merge with and fertilize the local spirit seeds; second, I let both grow together, uniting center and periphery of the earth through etheric networks and streams; and third, at the end of each travel, I carry the essence of the fructified seed-crystals with me back home and contemplate them first, to enhance their fructification process and nourish them further, being now in Israel itself. Then, fourth, I take this potentized essence made from all the various budding seeds, fertilized and vivified to new life through the potent touch of Jerusalem's gold, and plant it in the spiritual soil of His holy heartland; and finally, I work inwardly to breath it in and out, etherically speaking, breathing the growing etheric network between Israel and each country I visited. I bring this process to a certain fulfilment when I listen attentively and reverently to what the growing planetary etheric body is saying. I listen to what the rhythmic circulation of etherization and spiritualization is saying, how it speaks and sings, rejoicingly, about the growing mutual fructification and synergy developing between heavenly Jerusalem and all His seeds strewn in all lands and countries. In my deepest meditations I can experience this, in infinite gratitude: How His flow of new life, the heartbeat and etheric lifeblood of the whole resurrected Earth, begins to flow and circulate through His living resurrection body, and how He confirms that it is actually growing and flourishing, behind all earthly catastrophes, through all our human deeds of true love, conscience and wonder.
That is the Jerusalem as seen from the spirit!
Rudolf Steiner, Lecture from 1st April 1918, Berlin, GA 181
When a dead person in our present era observe certain places, then from the place which here on Earth is known as Palestine, as Jerusalem, something with a golden form, a golden crystal form, is to be seen in the middle of the bluish-mauve color and this becomes animated. That is the Jerusalem as seen from the spirit! This it is which also in the Apocalypse (speaking of imaginative conceptions) figures as the heavenly Jerusalem. These are not ‘thought-out’ things, they are things which can be observed, seen spiritually. The Mystery of Golgotha appeared like what physical observation precedes when the astronomer directs his telescope to space and beholds something which fills him with wonder like, for example the flashing-up of new stars. Seen spiritually, from the Universe, the Event of Golgotha was the flashing-up of a star of gold in the blue aura of the Eastern half of the Earth. Here you have the Imagination for what I developed at the close of my lecture the day before yesterday. It is really a question of acquiring, by means of such Imaginations, ideas of the Universe which bring the human soul into union with the Spirit of the Universe.
Try to think with someone who has passed over, of the crystal form of the heavenly Jerusalem building itself up into golden splendor in the bluish-violet aura of the Earth. Uncover that, and that will bring you near to him; for that is something which belongs to the realm of the Imaginations into which she entered at death: “Out of God we are born, and in Christ we die.”