Lucifer The Light Bearer
From: dottie zold
Date: Tue Dec 2, 2003 10:21 am
Subject: Lucifer The Light Bearer
Hi Everyone,
I guess I am wondering if there is any Steiner
writing speaking to whether or not Lucifer led Christ on the
last part of the journey, as he does with all humans, into incarnation?
Am I correct in the understanding that Lucifer leads us into
our physical incarnation?
Steiner:
Up to the period of sun-existance,
we stand under the leadership of Christ. From sun-existance onwards
we need a leader whose task it is to guide us to the further
realms of cosmic space. Lucifer now comes to our side. If we
have fallen prey to him on the physical plane, it is bad for
us; but if on earth we have rightly understood the Christ impulse,
then we are strong enough on the sun to follow even Lucifer without
danger. From then onwards he has charge of the inner progress
of the soul, just as on this side of the sun-sphere Christ has
charge of our ascent. If on the earth we have received the Christ
impulse, Christ is the keeper of our soul on the path to the
sun. Beyond the periphery of the sun-sphere, Lucifer leads us
into the cosmos; within the periphery of the sun, he is the tempter.
If during the sun-period we have been armed with the Christ impulse,
Christ and Lucifer guide us as brothers."
What I am looking at here is that Lucifer
guides us higher and Christ guides us deeper. And if we take
the best of what Lucifer has to offer we do ourselves and the
cosmos a great service in the ongoing evolution of man and universe.
Which leads me to the idea of how Lucifer is maligned to the
extent He is. I think if we hold our fellow man to go higher
yet deeper we would be fufilling our Michaelic duties. I believe
instead of calling out something as 'oh thats luciferic and so
forth we should show where we can deepen in what is luciferic
to begin with.
Steiner says ' we are the arena of luciferic
evolution'. I almost feel as if I let the luciferic stream down
by not matching their highest with my deepest understanding.
In this way we balance ourselves and ride the dragon together.
We must match the heroics of Lucifer bit by bit.
In regards to why the body could not hold
together at the end of Jesus' time on earth it seems to me it
is because the 'ego' of Jesus left the body as Christ descended.
I am thinking on the idea of the ego leaving the Zarathusthra
child in which he passed not long after. It was the power of
the Christ spirit that held this body together it seems according
to Steiner.
Dottie
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Lucifer The Light Bearer
At 19:21 02.12.2003, Dottie wrote:
Steiner says ' we are the arena of luciferic
evolution'. I almost feel as if I let the luciferic stream down
by not matching their highest with my deepest understanding.
In this way we balance ourselves and ride the dragon together.
We must match the heroics of Lucifer bit by bit.
Eduard Schure, a friend of Rudolf Steiner,
wrote a play entitled "Children of Lucifer." Below
is a magnificent cut from Scene II in Act Two:
(A beautiful figure slowly
rises and appears above the chasm. The Fallen Angel is seated
on a planet half riven and seamed with crevasses. One of his
hands is chained to the globe by an iron ring riveted to the
soil by a thunderbolt. In the other hand he proudly raises a
torch in the darkness.)
THEOKLES: Sublime and awful
Angel, I tremble and exult at the sight of thee. Every fibre
in my body quivers. My Life Force, multiplied a hundred-fold,
seethes as though it gushed exultantly from the well-springs
of Generation and of Eternal Desire. How sad and how splendid
thou art, O my Guardian Spirit, my God, my Lucifer!
LUCIFER: Thou hast summoned
me; what wouldst thou of me?
THEOKLES: To be like thee.
LUCIFER: Try then.
THEOKLES: How can it be done?
LUCIFER: Believe in thyself
and strive with the Eternal with all the force of thy being.
THEOKLES: Wilt thou support
me?
LUCIFER: Yes, for as long
as thy faith in thyself lasts.
THEOKLES: Since I have seen
Thee, I feel it to be invincible. But why, O mighty Angel, is
thy immortality shot through with pain and why does the shadow
of death darken thy brow?
LUCIFER: When God said: Let
there be light! I was born, radiant and proud, of the breath
of His mouth. A star gleamed on my forehead. Soaring through
space I cried: "I am Intelligence and Liberty, I am Light!
I will not obey Thee. It is through myself that I mean to be,
to know and to conquer." - "Seek, then, Lucifer, through
Pain and through Death!" said the Eternal. Then I came near
to the heart of the Almighty to steal His fire. Stricken by its
splendor, I fell, I the Star of the Archangels, dragging down
with me a shower of suns and of demons. I fell into the Abyss
upon an accursed planet and the Star on my brow has faded. since
that day I have ranged through space with this torch kindled
at the tabernacle of the Eternal, and slowly I am recapturing
His universe. Wouldsts thou rather enjoy without effort the uncreated
Light or attain it with me through Pain and Death?
THEOKLES: Rather a hundred
thousand deaths and everlasting pain than forego a single fragment
of my liberty!
LUCIFER: Art thou as strong
as thou believest?
THEOKLES: My whole being aspires
towards thee and ascends at sight of thee up to unimagined heights.
My heart kindles at thy torch of pride and light.
LUCIFER: It is well. Henceforth
thy name shall no longer be Theokles, but Phosphoros. For thou
wilt bear my light before men. Go on thy way.
(He sinks into the black chasm
amid red flashes and renewed underground thunder.)
Read more info and the complete scene excerpted
above at
http://www.uncletaz.com/childlucifer.html
Cheers,
Tarjei
http://uncletaz.com/
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From: dottie zold
Date: Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:21 pm
Subject: Re: Lucifer The Light Bearer
Tarjei wrote:
Eduard Schure, a friend of Rudolf Steiner, wrote a play entitled
"Children of Lucifer." Below is a magnificent cut from
Scene II in Act Two:
Hi Tarjei,
I remember reading this at your site. And
I remember being stunned and deeply touched by the ending. It
probably is what moved me to look within for an even deeper love
than I knew humanly possible; one that would include Lucifer
Himself.
Thanks,
Dottie
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