Spiritual Science vs Science and the Soul's Spiritual Development in the Modern Age
Spiritual Science vs Science and the Soul's Spiritual Development in the Modern Age
What is spiritual science or the science of the spirit? Mankind developed from spiritual beings of an ancient earth. The substances of Man's soul came from even higher spiritual beings that descended into the intelligent substances that human beings breathed and infused it with life giving spiritual powers that allowed him to develop alongside the ancient Gods in a free state of being. This nature he carried with him and thus became his being nature, where-as external nature was developed by the Gods of the external nature. The external nature was subject to the will, and whims and wishes of those spiritual beings. Thus, men had within their own forming nature an independence from the external workings of the Divine Beings. Man's senses, when delicately formed spiritual substances were provided for the growth and well being of his own independent nature. Thus is was that men formed a soul-spiritual nature and fed upon a pure spiritual substance which today, the remnant of it is Thought. Whenever a man of today engages in contemplative thought, he can immediately recognize the path of the pure spiritual substances that are still given to his nature by higher spiritual intelligences that make it their task and responsibility to 'think' alongside of men that also desire to think and follow the path of thought as a valid path of spiritual understanding and truth. This path of thought includes the development of perception in the human soul of spiritual substances of nature which are by and large, invisible to those who have not developed their thinking power sufficiently enough to perceive the thoughts behind the processes of nature.
A development of the soul which would include training in concentrating the powers of thought in the soul will also develop organs for the capacity of perceiving in the higher substances, their paths of creation, and life forces. This path and knowledge of it, is called the path of Spiritual Science. Our school provides students with the tools and techniques needed to acquire first hand experiences and a reliable basis of understanding and testing of one's spiritual experiences in the same way a scientist uses methods of testing and training to determine the value of external phenomena. With external nature the scientific methods which are applied have quite clear results, but are only valid in so far as they apply to dead substances of external nature. When the soul is in question, the mood of the scientist is all that is needed, and then anyone that proceeds in this way, will attain a thought process which can lead to a deeper understanding of the life around one, and even so far as to the deeper secrets of living substances in the human being. Without scientific methods and spiritual science working together, the soul only wonders from thoughts that become increasingly filled with emotional content such as 'fear' 'anxiety' 'oppression' and 'depression'. These will undermine the nature of the human soul and a de-naturing of the invisible life-force will result, and the human being will be constantly battling with the decay and crumbling of his inner soul being.
By reading and listening to our spiritual scientific publications, the nature, and conceptions of spiritual nature it provides, restores the vitality and vigor of the inner nature and all his inner vehicles and spiritual bodies: i.e. astral, aetheric, ego, and super spiritual substances. There-fore it is essential in our modern age to take up the study of spiritual science as soon as possible in order to recover and restore the substances of the spiritual vehicles which are everyday being threatened the of damage from materialism pervading the thoughts of modern men who spread materialistic science and without a clear understanding of the necessity of the spiritual science of the anthroposophical schools such as the Rosenkreutz Institute.
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An Lecture/Article of Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925
The Splitting of the Human Personality during Spiritual Training
The situation with most people today is as follows. If you see how the good resolves and firm intentions which they have disappear in the next moment, hour, day or month, then in accordance with the prevailing, materialistic world view, one considers this to be something which simply occurs.
But one will gradually begin to feel differently about this. One will begin to feel that a good intention which one was too weak to carry out weakens one's life and reduces one's moral value, and one will see that one becomes morally lighter and less significant in the universe thereby.
Likewise, there will be certain intellectual qualities which people will increasingly feel are weakening them, as if a fire in their soul were consuming them. For it is a significant change if one feels that one's whole manhood is strengthened or weakened by what one is in one's soul.
It's quite a change if one feels that destiny is not only a matter of circumstances which work upon one and which are present around one outside, but that it is something which makes one morally lighter or heavier. And one feels that he becomes lighter or heavier as a whole human being.
For it's a question of dealing with what is rising in men's consciousness in such a way that a man is comforted and strengthened. These things are not fully conscious yet, and they are coming up together with all kinds of unrest, nervousness and disharmonious emotional contents.
We are living in the fifth post Atlantean period, a sixth one will follow and a seventh one will follow. The catastrophe which then separates us from the next large period which will come the fifth from the sixth period will not just be an external event in nature like the ice age or flood was.
This separation of the fifth from the sixth period will become manifest in a more moral way.
In our age the mind has become the slave of matter. An enormous amount of mental energy has been used in our age to penetrate the natural forces in the outer world for the purpose of making this outer world as comfortable a place as possible for man.
The earth-being has never before descended so deeply. A stronger impulse, in fact, the strongest, had to come to the earth.
This was the appearance of Christ Jesus, who gave the impulse to new spiritual life. We owe to the mighty impulse which came through Christ Jesus such upward impelling forces as existed in the spiritual life during the descent.
In the immediate present and in the age where the consciousness soul and the accompaniment by death are beginning for us, it is important that this coincides with a kind of an attainment of perfection; or decadence and perfection at the same time.
Above all things, no disharmony must ensue between the higher experiences and the events and demands of every-day life.
Man’s task must be entirely sought for on this earth, and anyone desiring to shirk his earthly task and to escape into another world may be certain he will never reach his goal.
Yet what the senses perceive is only part of the world, and it is in the spirit world that the beings dwell who express themselves in the facts of the physical world. Man must become a partaker of the spirit in order to carry its revelations into the physical world.
The man as we know him is an outer expression of the seven human principles . These are the principle of the physical body, of which the external physical body is the expression, the principle of the life body whose expression is the etheric body, the principle of the astral body.
This last when transformed yields Spirit Self,- manas; the transformed etheric body- buddhi, Life Spirit ; and the transformed physical body, Spirit Man - atma; in the centre is the “I”-principle.
These are the seven spiritual constituents in which the divine nature of man is displayed as in the members of a leader.
According to the technical expression used in occultism these seven principles are called the seven Spirits of God in man.
And the seven stars are those from which we understand what man is to-day and what he is to become in the future ; these powers of seven Elohim were restored to Earth by Christ, to make the evolution of man comprehensible.
No disharmony must ensue between the higher experiences and the events and demands of every-day life.
Man’s task must be entirely sought for on this earth, and anyone desiring to shirk his earthly task and to escape into another world may be certain he will never reach his goal.
Yet what the senses perceive is only part of the world, and it is in the spirit world that the beings dwell who express themselves in the facts of the physical world.
Man must become a partaker of the spirit in order to carry its revelations into the physical world.
He transforms the earth by implanting in it what he has ascertained in the spiritual world. That is his task.
It is only because the physical world is dependent upon the spiritual, and because man can work upon earth, in a true sense, only if he is a participator in those worlds in which the creative forces lie concealed—only for these reasons should he have the desire to ascend to the higher worlds.
No one resolved not to deviate for a moment from these prescribed directions, need fear the slightest danger.
No one should allow the prospect of these dangers to deter him from esoteric training; it should rather act as a strong challenge to one and all to acquire those faculties which every true esoteric student must possess.
It is not so much a question of casting off this unrest and haste in an external sense, but much ore of taking care that thoughts, feelings, intentions, and bodily health are not thereby exposed to continual fluctuation.
The Esoteric student should never be found wanting in presence of mind or in calm penetration of all situations of life.
In the main, a genuine esoteric training gives rise of itself to all these qualities, and as it progresses the student only becomes acquainted with the dangers while simultaneously and at the right moment acquiring the full power to rout them from the field.
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