Study in Hatred 1
From: holderlin66
Date: Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:21 pm
Subject: Study in Hatred
holderlin
wrote:
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/19231111p01.html
Interesting topics;
Let us examine this section of the lecture
in detail;
R.S.
"The spiritual-moral
impulses — well, for modem civilization these have more
or less become mere abstract concepts. To an ever greater degree
the primal feeling for the moral-spiritual has receded in human
nature. Through the whole manner of his education modern civilization
leads man to ask: what is customary? what has convention ordained?
what is the code? what is the law? — and so on. Less account
is taken of what comes forth as impulses, rooted in that part
of man which is often relegated in a vague way to conscience.
This inner directing of oneself, this determining of one's own
goal, is something which has retreated to an ever greater degree
in modern civilization. Hence the spiritual-moral has finally
become a more or less conventional tradition. "
Bradford comments;
This runs currently into what we have termed
at times on this list as faulty version of "Poltically Correct
thinking".
R.S.
"Of course nothing whatever
is implied here against the traditional in morality — but
only think of the ten commandments, how old they are. They are
taught as commands recorded in ancient times. Is it to be expected
today that something might spring forth from the primary, elementary
sources of human nature which could be compared to what once
arose as the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments? "
Bradford comments;
So who remembers the recent flack over Alabama
and the marble Ten Commdandments that enflamed the Fundamentalists
and how all this plays right into the hands of John Ashcroft
in the U.S.?
R.S.
"When man speaks of the
spiritual today he refers at most to abstract thoughts; this
for him is the spiritual. If he finds these thoughts too tenuous,
all that remains to him is words, and then, as Fritz Mauthner
did, he writes a "Critique of Language". Through such
a "Critique of Language" he manages to dilute the spirit
— already tenuous enough — until it becomes utterly
devoid of substance."
Bradford comments;
Now just as an observation, not as an accusation,
the problem with both Diana and Peter has been that Spiritual
or for that matter Spiritual Science or Initation Science does
not mean much of anything to them and Steiner examines this from
the aspect of Materialistic Science vs Initiation Science. People
have found that indeed the glass is more than half empty and
Steiner was opening, cracking open the tap so that glass could
once more be filled. It is arrogance to say that you don't understand
that the glass is nearly empty. It is sheer blunt blindness not
to see it.
R.S.
"When one crosses the
threshold into the spiritual world, the first thing one becomes
aware of is something terrible, something which at first it is
by no means easy to sustain. Most people wish to be pleasantly
affected by what seems to them worthy of attainment. But the
fact remains that only by passing through the experience of horror
can one learn to know spiritual reality, that is to say true
reality. For in regard to the human form, as this is placed before
us by anatomy and physiology, one can only perceive that it is
built up out of two elements from the spiritual world: moral
coldness and hatred. "
Bradford comments;
On one hand we have examined, I do, still
do, how the skeleton is both the Zodiac in concrete bone letters,
erected vertically and having arisen from the tiny circle of
the embryo. But the greater mystery of this transformed skeleton
is how they did not break the bones of Jesus as they did with
everyone else when they hung on the cross. But the above statement
that Steiner makes gives Stephen King a new burst of life as
well as a rethink on "The Judas Poem" I had posted
a while back. Further, the Life Tableau or memory experience
of the etheric, cannot be debated with souls whose moral glass
is nearly empty. Even if these ARE facts, those who deny this
have lost the compass of what these facts mean but they are in
denial and waiting for a brick to fall on their heads.
R.S.
"Though I shall always
speak just of coldness, what I mean is moral coldness, though
this can certainly pass over into physical coldness, traversing
the warmth-ether on its way. There below, in the unconsciousness
within us, moral coldness and hatred are entrenched, and it is
easy for man to bring into his soul what is present in his body,
so that his soul can, as it were, be infected with the lack of
human understanding. This is, however, the result of moral coldness
and human hatred."
Bradford comments;
Cold dialectical materialism, may not be apparent
in the person we meet, but in P.S. there was a cold skeletal
interpretation, untouched by warmth that had a great deal to
do with Education having come to a pass that Steiner was describing.
Education that we have been discussing and that Steiner gets
to, has come to a horrifically dangerous pass again. The paradigm
for Steiner may have been 1914 but the rules of the paradigm
are currently bubbling up around us for anyone to see.
R.S.
"The ego and astral body
withdraw, taking with them as they go what remained unnoticed
during life because it was always entirely submerged in the physical
and etheric bodies. The ego and astral body take with them into
the spiritual world all the impulses connected with the human
body, all the impulses of human hatred and coldness towards other
men which had gained access to their souls. I mentioned that
it is only when one sees the human being pass through the gate
of death that one perceives how much failure to understand, how
much human hatred have been implanted into mankind just in our
civilization by various things about which I shall still have
to speak."
Bradford comments;
When we have discussed how deeply a soul arises
in the vision of the Angel and Archangel community after death,
and how much it has to do with how deeply the I Am penetrated
into itself rich moral exploration of reality and human nature,
we see how someone like George Bush was darkened by his Archangelic
Love of Language and thought. This becomes a dangerous aspect
of observing Brotherhoods that are fighting to keep this Retarded
Being as their mascot.
But Steiner was heading for an intimate understanding
of the residue of hatred and untransformed bigotry, full blown
Jeff Foxworthy racism etc.. We see that such a pathological dislocation
of intense focus places P.S. in such a derranged observation.
One asks oneself what he must have taken with him over the threshold
of death to make coldness and error, fix itself to a depleted
etheric thinking that he clings to? These are not theories, these
are current running facts which we can observe.
R.S.
"To discover this we
need only look at present-day life. People pass one another by;
they pay little heed to the individual characteristics of others.
Are not people today mostly so constituted that each one regards
himself as the standard of what is right and proper? And when
someone differs from this standard we do not take kindly to him,
but rather think: This man should be different. And this usually
implies: He should be like me. This is not always brought into
the consciousness, but it lies concealed in human social intercourse."
Bradford comments;
Here we see the cliche ridden George Bush
and Evil Doers that stir up the latent superficial misunderstandings
between the Muslims, Judaism and Fundamental Christianity. Bush
stirs up this latent hatred and gives a form and direction to
it with his Terrorism War illusions. Palastinians, Buddhists,
Muslims are truly people not to be lumped into terrorists if
they rightly or wrongly try to defnd themselves when Unjustified
Miltary Overwhelming Force assaults them from either the side
of Israel or the U.S. Where Judaism elbows Palastinians out of
the picture or Fundamental Christianity, in greed for Oil, elbows
Muslims out of the picture. George Bush serves this nightmare
and Americans become defunct moral mechanisms with conditoned
responses fueled by hatreds latent in the soul. That is why George
Bush was chosen by brotherhoods to flush to the surface these
hatreds in words that "Religion for Idiots" can understand.
George Bush is in Ahriman's Playbook for "Politics for Idiots".
R.S.
"Now, however, the human
being has arrived about midway in the region between death and
a new birth, to the abiding place of the first hierarchy, Seraphim,
Cherubim, Thrones, which I described in my Mystery Play as the
midnight hour of existence. Man would be quite unable to pass
through this region of the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones without
being inwardly annihilated, utterly destroyed, had not the beings
of the second and third hierarchies already taken from him in
their mercy human misunderstanding, that is to say moral coldness,
and human hatred. And so we see how man, in order that he may
find access to those impulses which can contribute to his further
development, must at first burden the beings of the higher hierarchies
with what he carries up into the spiritual world from his physical
and etheric bodies, where it really belongs."
Bradford comments;
The polarity out of which the Universe functions
from the top down to the bottom is LOVE. Michael School education
should allow us to grasp the crushing force of Love and here
we can say Resistance is futile. Not the Borg..Not Coldness but
the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones who verily made the zodiac
and offered matter are as The SUN, only stronger. LOVE, fully
concentrated LOVE as a FACT and we taste this mighty seed of
Love in the Christ Being's Actions.
Something of this potent lofty Master of Love
has walked in our world. Projecting out from his path the first
Meeting, CONTACT, with the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones and
Christ is of that same overwhelming force of Love, but modifed
by human Incarnation. Instead of crushing us with the sin and
hatred we carry, Christ as a FACT, (let me get real religion
on your ass, AMAZING GRACE, is all of this substance. The Living
Christ introduces us now...to something of the slow process of
meeting Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones... it is CONTACT, grace
of the Father himself. Christ is our go between so that as a
FACT of Nature, we learn not to be crushed by love and learn
to dispose of hatred to EAT, absorb, penetrate with our own I
AM's into the very core of our Skeletons and learn with interest
to Love our fellow human beings. This is really NT and the John
Gospel message, Children Love one Another.
This penetration model has been carefully
laid out in the structure of the I Am in the physical sheath.
Physical-Etheric-Astral-Sentient Soul-Intellectual Soul-Conciousness
Soul-Spirit Self-Life Spirit and finally as Christ as emmisary
of the Father, master of Matter, of the Music of the Spheres,
of the chemisty of the Devachan and the Thrones body of the atomic
table. These same Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones return our I
AM back into Time with a new configuration. Enormous physics
and multi-level math to bring Karma and groups of karmically
disposed individuals into collisons, meetings and unions in what
appears to Chaos Theory on planet Earth.
Bradford concludes;
Now, anyone can take other sentences or same
sentences and bring some of their insights to bear and certainly
I would be interested in the different ways to understand Steiner's
indications. The whole piece can be brought right down to the
actual meaning of how the residue of hatred exists as a "Blow
Back" and this should be clearly described so that anyone,
anyone can understand how to think with the new moral glass half
full instead of nearly dried up.
This is my take on it and I haven't fully
gotten to how he shows Cancer forming aspects in the social body.
But at each step it becomes clearer and clearer. But we have
examined with how Etheric bodies collect prejudice and bigotry
and from this prejudice and bigotry clumps of hatred begin to
fester back into humanity. This was done with the Peter on Race/Bradford
on I AM first essay. This festering hatred is now amassing in
the Middle East under the Flag of fatal hypocrisy from Judaism,
Fundamental Christianity and Islam.
People are not just blanket target practice
for our own projected hatreds (lightthirster my friend), but
if it appears to be true that the build up of these hatreds burst
into society at 1914 and Steiner caught sight of the deep and
difficult issue. We see what is happening again and we must be
able to explain this for it is happening now. We must be able
to stand on the facts. Not just mumble empty nothings. How else
will we absorb Spiritual Science?
So, noone may be inclined to do what I just
did, or they may be inclined to express this differently, how
exciting. That is how I learn. I learn and am enriched because
not only did Steiner try to explain it, but friends over the
globe and on this list have explained it slowly and carefully
to me, so that I can get my thinking up and running.
I would, not that anyone has to, but I certainly
would be interested in how someone might do it differently or
say it differently. But as to getting your soul around it and
self observation, if Diana had the ability without 'soul mockery'
and even with 'soul mockery' it becomes very telling in an educational
sense. What do we understand about this issue Steiner has raised
and what don't we understand? For myself, it is presenting a
unique window into our current world.
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From: holderlin66
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2004 12:06 am
Subject: Study in Hatred
[From
"Clarification of the term 'Racist'"]
When I shake a persons hand and it is extremely
sweaty or small, fat and stubby, does that tell me about a person.
Can I gather information from a person through form, word, thought
and deed?
R.S.
"It already means a great
deal when we look at the way a person walks, not in a dull way,
but marking the beauty of his step, and what is characteristic
in it; or when we allow his hands to make an impression upon
us, so that we interpret these hands and find that in every movement
of the fingers there lie wonderful revelations of man's inner
nature."
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/19231111p01.html
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From: dottie zold
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:47 am
Subject: Re: Study in Hatred
Bradford:
Now just as an observation, not as an accusation,
the problem with both Diana and Peter has been that Spiritual
or for that matter Spiritual Science or Initation Science does
not mean much of anything to them and Steiner examines this from
the aspect of Materialistic Science vs Initiation Science.
Dear Bradford,
I wish you would get off your high horse and
stop acting as if you are speaking about robots. These are your
brothers and sisters and to take their inventory the way you
do above is rude and unwarranted.
There is no problem with Diana and Peter.
Each one of them has a different life path and how are you to
know what is right and wrong according to their own personal
biographies? And if you were so enlightened to their particular
biographies I highly doubt you would be indulging yourself to
this level of interference and rudeness. You are not teaching
us anything nor sharing anything with us other than your own
arrogance.
How would you feel if your personal biography
was splattered and missunderstood by one claiming to know such
a thing? Imagine God or his angels decided to let all your secrets
be known and spoke of you in the manner you are speaking on Diana
and Peter. " The problem with Bradford is"
Mostly I am affronted that you include Diana
in this picture. She was a parent that has valid concerns about
not being told the whole picture or even half the picture while
enrolling her child into Waldorf. Peter on the other hand has
based his work on his ego and will pay the piper as we all do
when we do not course correct due to our own idulgences.
Dottie
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From: dottie zold
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:09 am
Subject: Re: Study in Hatred
Bradford:
What do we understand about this issue
Steiner has raised and what don't we understand? For myself,
it is presenting a unique window into our current world.
Bradford,
What you do miss, I do believe, is that Love
must be the result of all our actions. All our deeds must turn
into Love, must be transformed into Love. Dr. Steiner speaks
of this in Isis Mary Sophia.
page 114:
"Just as wisdom, which
formed earlier, discloses itself in the forces of the sense-perceptible
earthly world, in present day forces of nature, love itself will
appear as a new natural force in all phenomina in the future.
This is the mystery of all future evolution: that our knowledge
and everything we do out of a true understanding of evolution
sow seeds that must ripen into love. The greater the power of
the love that comes into being, the more we will be able to accomplish
creatively on behalf of the future."
So, all seeds MUST ripen into love. It is
not enough to talk about it and anylize it rather we must become
it in our very deeds, thoughts and feelings. If we do not now
we are not able to be of service to Michael. All the talking
of it in the world means absolutely nothing if we are unable
to become love in this lifetime with all the great wisdom knowledge
that sits at our very hearttips. Better to be course correcting
ourselves now than be like one of our listmates hanging onto
the tree limb afraid to fall into the abyss.
"Know they self and thy will know love"
me
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From: winters_diana
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2004 12:10 pm
Subject: Re: Study in Hatred
Dottie wrote in my defense. Thanks Dottie.
I'm used to Bradford speaking of me as if I were not in the room,
so to speak (which doesn't really bother me since he speaks of
himself as if he were not in the room). Bradford's a preacher
and this is how preachers talk, it's just the job description.
But I will say that it has become disturbing
to find my name floating in the middle of Bradford's End Times
Scenarios about the Middle East or listen to the latest hellish
news from Iraq and log on here to find my name in the
middle of some delirious rant about Bush and Armageddon, to which
I am apparently linked by my views on the deficiences of first
grade reading instruction in Waldorf schools.
I realize it is not personal and it would
not matter what I posted – I could write about ballroom
dancing or send pictures of my geraniums and to Bradford it would
be further evidence that I am part of the Forces of Evil. Also,
I keep wondering why you guys think Bradford is left wing. Anyone
wanna enlighten me?
Diana
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Apr 21, 2004 3:54 pm
Subject: Study in Hatred/XII
Bradford comments;
Anthroposophy for the Anthropsophically Impaired
is not as complicated as the complications of our our shattered
learning organs and critics make them out to be.
Now my intention is to bring a Bradfordian
cliff note spin to the 12th Lecture on "Man as Symphony"
because it takes us on a wild ride through hatred, prejudice,
moral stupidity and right up the ass of the exhaust pipe of human
hatred into the world of ultimate Sophia and back into the embyro
and the unfolding of human karma. All cowards, get off the ride
NOW!
I ask anyone to take apart this lecture and
at the end of my little spin I offer simple stunning sentences
from the lecture that deserve to be taken apart, called WORK
and thinking, to see the amazing flight path that you need to
understand Sophia and the AnthroSophic construction of the daughter
Soul formed from Michael Intelligence working with Sophia, I
AM wisdom 303.
Bradfordian version: (Please try out your
own even if you think it is silly... laughter is good)
Salt and the mineral Earth is digested by
the body and the Warmth Ethers. Steiner places the understanding
of the bones, the skeleton of man and how the human being is
assimilated, not by the Borg, but by the Gods themselves and
is pulverized and reconstituted out of the immense Loving Gods
and sent back through the system. Steiner wants us to understand
that the warmth ethers can digest even the Stone.. and WE are
the Salt of the Earth. In other words the Gods themselvs digest
us, like we digest mineral substance on Earth.
But because we are totally unconscious lying,
immoral crud, we fail to see under the surface of our being how
much bullshit is carried with us over the threshold of death.
This foul exhaust is specifically and exactly sucked out of us
as we rise in altitude to the very height of the Seraphim, Cherubim
and Thrones. Here is LOVE so strong that any form of residue
of Unconscious, untransformed dark pollution of the soul, would
literally be incinerated by LOVE. That would mean that the I
AM would be no more and that is not what the system is about.
Every I Am has some good and we know that karma such as Nero
and Hitler are not out of the system, they are in the system.
Remember The Gods digest bones and here the
amazing image from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" must be
employed. Don't open the box, don't look at the gods, don't even
think you are worthy to look in the box with the cherubim, of
the bull, the lion, eagle and angel on its sides. Turn your head
in shame, Harrison Ford reminds us. But we watch and see the
very skeletal framework of Nazis dissolve from within. Perhaps
this gives you some idea of how stunning Steiner is, that he
was there way, way before Speilberg. Here was the first stunning
picture, connected to a logical reality, showing the Seraphim
digest and dissolve the karma, bone and entire math and destiny
of man. Don't, just Don't come up to me and say that God talks
to you. Don't. Angel, higher being... God, no!
Now, as we are formed by our fellow karmic
beings, who look upon us and we look upon them, we must pick
up our baggage, our hatred, our untransformed errors on the way
down to a whole new Spiritual Human Equation of destiny, formed
right down into the busy framework of matter and Earth life.
We will meet each other on Earth and recognize each other because
we helped form each other. The first person who really set me
off in this direction was Eugene Schwartz. I see where he grew
this thought from. We help form each other.
Karl Konig does the Embryo trimesters and
relation to etheric hitch, astral hitch and ego hitch to the
embryo and Steiner is dead on and so could medical science if
it looked upon the things I ask you to look upon, as so many
in Anthro medicine have done and do so wonderfully today.
But we pick up our baggage. But Steiner didn't
say, our STUFF, like George Carlan would say, we got too much
STUFF, our stuff, is now highly polluted and we pick it up again
at baggage claim in the planets. This Stuff is now entering nature,
ecosystems, immune systems and the full moral pollution that
we have burdened creation with, now demands that we take up just
how the hatred, dysfunctional behavior and pollution got woven
into the elemental, plant and animal worlds as well as disease
factors in the human immune and psychological systems.
We pick up our dirty laundry and we are formed
by it. We could also learn to study Spiritual Science and really
begin to understand Ecology, strengthening a Child to build a
strong ether body, full of warmth for learning. We could participate
with the revamping of Education. We could participate with the
revamping of medical knowledge. We could participate in the revamping
of agriculture. We could participate in the revamping of fingers
and limbs in Handwork and Eurythmy. We could participate in color
and painting. We could participate in the Atomic theory so that
the particles of matter that we worship in matter, are looked
upon as what they are CRUMBS. Which means we could participate
in understanding the Risen Christ as Steiner, the disciples and
Bradford have strongly indicated.
Condi Rice says there is no magic bullet.
Well folks thinking into the infection of our muscles, our bones,
our immune system, the tics and psychological wrecks we have
become, leads us to a process of understanding how each one of
us carries the dysfunction, idiocy and hatreds of humanity and
this won't go away by being a Fundamentalist from Islam, Christianity
or Judaism. It is only, ONly, and ONLY looking through the whole
process as Steiner did in this landmark 1923 grasp of how the
Moral in humanity is dealt with by the Gods and what is the source
of soul, as well as physical illness that we will bring PEACE.
The fact that the Orcs were once Elves is
not something to take as lightly as most morons who think they
are Antrhos or advanced thinkers dismiss. If Anthros dismiss
things like this, or Raiders of the Lost Ark, they show they
are actually too stupid to be even active members of the Michael
School. Orcs and elemental beings that we are now turning into
parasites and monsters are growing into an infestation which
humanity will try to avoid handling. Kyoto and Bush are corporate
beasts, ten headed beasts.
Now here is the method of the dishonest handling
of our Stuff. Military wants perfect specimens, so did the Nazis.
Over 46 genetic scientists have recently been killed, mysteriously,
taken out of the picture. We might have to thank the gods for
this. But what this tells the Anthro Impaired, or should, is
that humanity will try to side step the issue of moral etheric
warmth and moral development represented in all schools of esoteric
learning. Placing the epidemic diseases in Military and biological
warfare hands is asking for humanities death sentence. If you
followed the lecture that Steiner has given here you would see
where this is going.
It is going into creating a "Neurobioloy
and the Homoculous Thesis" the same idiocy that runs out
of P.S.'s brain. This Homoculous theory is creating in the lab,
a by pass into Ahriman's own idea of immunity and immune strength,
to resist the Moral spheres of the Gods. As we jack up the hatred
meter in Mesopotamia, as Ahriman grabbed the Oil and brought
Ahriman into the region where Marduk or Michael once ruled =
Ahriman = AMERICA the GREAT Satan for the Islams, Fundies drool
over this current exhaust fume bonanza of hatred filling the
world. Out of this hatred spewed, again and again, the anti-SuperMan
will be constructed in Ahrimanic labs to defy the Moral Sphere
of the Gods. Try to get some grounded thinking under your belts.
Now that defying the Ecology of the Gods is
Ahriman's true aim with EcoFacism. An Anti-man built of elemental
and chemical manipulations and this, without any doubt will be
the direction of those now duped into thinking along the lines
of the Fundie Bush Cartel. Let alone the pity on the poor sylphs,
Depleted Uranium of the gnome world as it enters into the roots
of trees, the figs, dates, water and oils, as the air is laden
with sylphic death and fire spirits run like hatred in the blood
as well as changing from good warmth ether fire spirits to those
that fry for 900 years like Cherynobyl into every infected tree
and plant. Is the Michael School partly awake yet? Ding, Ding...that
ain't dinner.
I suggest, Anthros, that you take stock of
what are the potent issues in the Michael Letters and the Michael
School. Steiner is expecting us to meet him at the station with
some guts, courage and insight, not mumbling drivel about antisemitism
and racism.
Clipped sentences for the Anthro Impaired.
http://wn.elib.com/Steiner/Lectures/19231111p01.html
"... the mineral must
be brought to the warmth-etheric condition, we will also find
that all that lives in man, in the human organization, flows
out into the spiritual.
"...volatile etheric
substance can enter into connection with the impulses of the
moral world-order
"There exists only one
true source of the moral-spiritual in mankind, and this is what
we may call human understanding, mutual human understanding,
and, based upon this human under-standing, human love. Wheresoever
we may look for the arising of moral-spiritual impulses in mankind,
in so far as these play a role in social life, it will invariably
prove to be the case that, whenever such impulses spring forth
with elemental power, they arise from human understanding based
upon human love. These are the actual driving force of the social
moral-spiritual impulses in mankind.
"If human understanding
and human love are the real impulses upon which communal life
depends, how does it come about that the very reverse of human
understanding and human love appears in our social order?
"But if one looks at
conventional science today, one is forced to ask: As the god-created
soul is naturally predisposed to human understanding and human
love, why are these qualities not active as a matter of course
in the social order?
"The skeleton, as you
have seen, is formed by mineral substance which has been driven
upwards to the state of warmth-ether, so that in the warmth-ether
the forces of the higher hierarchies are laid hold of, and then
the bone formations are built up.
"In our souls we actually
possess the predisposition to human love, and to that warmth
which understands the other man.
"Thus we bear in ourselves
the impulse of hatred. This it is which, from the spiritual world,
brings about the circulation of the blood. And whereas we may
perhaps go through the world with a very loving soul, with a
soul which thirsts for human understanding, we must nevertheless
be aware that below in the unconsciousness, there where the soul
streams down, sends its impulses down into the bodily nature,
for the very purpose that we may be clothed in a body —
coldness has its seat.
"Because this is so,
man must gradually cultivate in himself moral warmth, that is
to say human understanding and love, for these must vanquish
what comes from the bodily nature.
"...in our age, which
began with the fifteenth century and has developed in an intellectualistic
way on the one hand and in a materialistic way on the other,
much human misunderstanding and human hatred has become imbedded
in men's souls.
"At every step in his
further evolution between death and a new birth he would stumble
if he were obliged to carry further this failure to understand
the other man, this human hatred.
"People bellow out their
ideas about what man should be like, but this usually means:
Everyone should be like me. If someone different comes along,
then, even if this is not consciously realized, he is immediately
regarded as an enemy, an object for antipathy. This is lack of
human moral understanding, lack of love.
"It is sheer nonsense
to regard man's form as physical; we must represent it to ourselves
as spiritual. The physical in it is everywhere present as minute
particles. The form, which is only a force-body, holds together
what would otherwise fall apart into a heap of atoms.
"The physical in him
may almost be likened to a heap of crumbs.
"Thus, when one follows
man between death and a new birth, one at first still sees him
hovering, as it were, while he gradually loses his form from
above downwards. But while the last vestige of him is vanishing
away below, something else has taken shape, a wonderful spirit-form,
which is in itself an image of the whole world-sphere and at
the same time a model of the future head which man will bear
on his shoulders.
"This spirit-form first
connects itself with physical life when it meets the given embryo.
"This spiritual form
finds its way into the embryonic life, and bears within it what
will now become physical forces and etheric forces. These are,
however, only the physical image of what we bear in us from our
previous life as lack of human understanding and human hatred,
from which our limb-organization is spiritually formed.
"In the course of long
centuries something very strange has come to pass for earthly
humanity. No longer is it possible for all the forces of human
misunderstanding and human hatred to be used up in new human
forms, in the structure of new human bodies. Something has become
left over. During the course of the last centuries this residue
has streamed down on to the earth, so that in the spiritual atmosphere
of the earth, in what I may call the earth's astral light, there
is to be found an infiltration of the impulses of human hatred
and human misunderstanding which exist exterior to man. These
impulses have not been incorporated into human forms; they stream
around the earth in the astral light. They work into man, but
not into what makes up the single person but into the relationships
which people form with one another on the earth.
"Only consider how this
shows itself in the most ordinary phenomena of daily life. How
many people have to learn without bringing enthusiasm to the
learning; they simply have to get down to it and learn in order
to pass an examination, so as to qualify for some particular
post, or the like — well, for them there is no vital connection
between what they have to take in and what lives in their soul
as an inborn craving for the spiritual.
"I have described to
you in what may be called a spiritual-physiological way how,
out of the nature of the gnomes and undines who work from below
upwards, the possibility arises of parasitic impulses in man.
"...a parasitic culture
below, which does not proceed from elemental laws and which therefore
contains parasites within itself, and a spirituality which sinks
down from above and which — in that it enters into this
civilization — is taken up by man in such a way that it
becomes poison. When you bear this in mind you have the key to
the most important symptoms of our present-day civilization.
"Immediately the art
of education lies close to the human heart, to the human soul,
the spiritual approaches man without becoming poison. First you
have the diagnosis, which finds that our age is infested with
carcinomas, and then you have the therapy — yes, it is Waldorf
School education.
"We should not reject
such thoughts as these, but rather make them the impulse within
ourselves to work together wherever we still can in the therapy
of our civilization.
"People are asleep. It
devolves upon us to bring about the awakening. And Anthroposophy
bears within it all the impulses for a right awakening of civilization,
for a right awakening of human culture."
Study in Hatred 2
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