The Development of Anthroposophy since Rudolf Steiner's Death: An Outline
By T.H. Meyer,Paul V. O'Leary
World War II dramatically speeded up technological and cultural developments.
The mechanization of death on an industrial scale and the wholesale slaughter of civilians by aerial bombing especially the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- released asuric forces into the world prematurely, forces which have now become part of our everyday life. Our ethical standards continue to remain far behind our technological achievements.
Steiner forewarned his audiences about World War I and the high likelihood of a second, larger conflagration.
He also warned that every new spiritual impulse which enters evolution faces the danger of being turned into its opposite.
The ultimate purpose of National Socialism, the polaric counter-inspiration to Anthroposophy, was the annihilation of the Abrahamic peoples, to wipe out the roots of Western Christian culture, of which Anthroposophy represented an esoteric part, and to thwart the revelation of the return of Christ in the etheric.
Although the revelation and conceptual framework underlying the Second Coming was initially to be revealed through the Germanic peoples, it then ought to have spread throughout humanity.
The two world wars can be better viewed as a single conflict waged against the Second Coming by the Sun Demon Sorat and the spiritual beings through whom he worked and continues to work: Lucifer, Ahriman, the Asuras, and their cadres. Thus, the twelve-year Reich was only part of a far broader phenomenon of evil attacking humanity throughout the twentieth century and continuing to the present day. Karmic connections, already in disorder at the beginning of the century, were further confused, delayed, distorted, and prevented by the millions upon millions of dead and injured in these apocalyptic catastrophes.
Has there been a wide-spread experience of the Etheric Christ? Did the end of the twentieth century produce a powerful wave of spirituality brought upon by the return of former Platonists uniting with reincarnating Aristotelians?
From the perspective of Rudolf Steiner's time, the powers opposing the conscious experience of the Second Coming seem to have made great progress in their mission.
Steiner warned us: "Evil will approach the people of the fifth post -Atlantean Age in all possible forms, doing it in such a way that people will have to resolve the nature, the essence, of evil in a scientific way.
On the other hand, it is just through such experiences of loss, betrayal, imprisonment, powerlessness, and death that one's "I" will develop the spiritual capacities needed to courageously oppose and overcome these powers in the future
The mechanization of death on an industrial scale and the wholesale slaughter of civilians by aerial bombing especially the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- released asuric forces into the world prematurely, forces which have now become part of our everyday life. Our ethical standards continue to remain far behind our technological achievements.
Steiner forewarned his audiences about World War I and the high likelihood of a second, larger conflagration.
He also warned that every new spiritual impulse which enters evolution faces the danger of being turned into its opposite.
The ultimate purpose of National Socialism, the polaric counter-inspiration to Anthroposophy, was the annihilation of the Abrahamic peoples, to wipe out the roots of Western Christian culture, of which Anthroposophy represented an esoteric part, and to thwart the revelation of the return of Christ in the etheric.
Although the revelation and conceptual framework underlying the Second Coming was initially to be revealed through the Germanic peoples, it then ought to have spread throughout humanity.
The two world wars can be better viewed as a single conflict waged against the Second Coming by the Sun Demon Sorat and the spiritual beings through whom he worked and continues to work: Lucifer, Ahriman, the Asuras, and their cadres. Thus, the twelve-year Reich was only part of a far broader phenomenon of evil attacking humanity throughout the twentieth century and continuing to the present day. Karmic connections, already in disorder at the beginning of the century, were further confused, delayed, distorted, and prevented by the millions upon millions of dead and injured in these apocalyptic catastrophes.
Has there been a wide-spread experience of the Etheric Christ? Did the end of the twentieth century produce a powerful wave of spirituality brought upon by the return of former Platonists uniting with reincarnating Aristotelians?
From the perspective of Rudolf Steiner's time, the powers opposing the conscious experience of the Second Coming seem to have made great progress in their mission.
Steiner warned us: "Evil will approach the people of the fifth post -Atlantean Age in all possible forms, doing it in such a way that people will have to resolve the nature, the essence, of evil in a scientific way.
On the other hand, it is just through such experiences of loss, betrayal, imprisonment, powerlessness, and death that one's "I" will develop the spiritual capacities needed to courageously oppose and overcome these powers in the future
