Der Wille als Weg (Teil 3) | Anthroposophie | Rudolf Steiner

hello and welcome here on the channel culture epochs to the third part of our series the will as a way yes i would like to of course link this third part to the content that was said before, however, I would like to make a small connection here to be able to make a comment in which it was asked whether the series of spirits of freedom is now in the process of the new series of the will as a way and I would like to say that the spirit of freedom will most likely continue because I want to follow the human development through the age of time and through the planetary incarnations , however, I find it legitimate if we have occasions such as the anniversaries or events of the current time, as we find it very drastic at the moment, it should serve us that we address topics that may be a little outside of the framework that we have put in the spirit of freedom, but of course also have to do directly with the content of this series and today we could get a very suitable connection in the series of spirits of freedom we are still in the view of the human being in the atlantic time and I would like to make a connection with the will as a way that we are looking at a little more closely at the moment, which has a lot to do with the atlantic time, because we have to see how we also looked at each other in the Michael videos and how the world plan teaches us the world development stages that we have received through Rudolf Steiner again and again that events from the past and also investments from the future sometimes have a lot to do with the present and especially in view of the anthroposophical path of education that we have last time , it is necessary from my point of view to take a look at the atlantic time because we will find some events and circumstances there that have a lot to do with our current situation our current situation and I would like to start with the fact that we can say that in the atlantic time the human form, as we have already mentioned several times, has developed in a very specific direction that has led to the fact that today's modern man can stand in front of us in his external appearance and during the atlantic time this modern man emerged we have the information from Rudolf Steiner that the atlantic time can be divided into seven epochs and that in these seven epochs, as well as we know it from the development of the seven, an important event broke ground in the fourth or towards the end of the fourth epoch and before we look at what exactly happened there, I would like to refer to a place from the revelation of johannes and maybe some of you will know this place it is a place from the thirteenth chapter there we learn that two animals will rise and these two animals are in a very close relationship to humanity to us humans and why is it necessary to try such a big arc here the things that we will look at in a moment are all in connection with the human will we remember that the beginning of our world development the impulse to which everything is based was a warm will impulse of the throne and that means that this willpower that has been released from the trinity and then ultimately emerged through the beings of the first hierarchy that we can find this willpower almost everywhere in our solar system and that this willpower as a pure basis also in our being, however, this willpower is of course not in its pure form, but this willpower has been through different stages over the course of time through different metamorphosis steps you could say brought into a different form or maybe characterized and if we now look at this will and we first go into the revelation of johannes and look at what kind of animal rises there, as I said, there are two, but first of all I want to concentrate on this first animal with you, the first animal, as we learn from the revelation of johannes, rises from the water and you remember that we have already found that we can take the water as a picture for the human soul and the human soul world at this point once again briefly defined as a personalized astral sphere our soul world as a slave within the world in astrality that is formed by our being we should say is being formed because we are not yet at the point that we can develop our own astrality and thus our own soul without the help of the cosmos but we are on the way there and this animal that rises from the water is described as a creature with seven heads and ten horns how can we understand that steiner tells us that the appearance of this creature this animal that rises there to turn against christ that the appearance of this animal is a close connection to the atlantic time and it was so that in the atlantic time we had it often mentioned that in the atlantic time the human being was formed by different images from the animal circle we had mentioned there were the eagle people there were the lion people and there were the bull people and the fourth image of the animal circle that was then in the later course of the atlantic time became a kind of basis for today's human form was the water man and now rudolf steiner says that the development has been like this through the seven atlantic eras that the human form has developed through these four archetypes first of all, that means we had it to do with people who were very strongly influenced by the eagle shape of the lion shape and the bull shape and that then in the fourth era in which the water man emerged that it now came to the fact that these four spiritual impulses began to mix with each other, that is, we have to do it in the shaping of people with a combination, one might say, of these four archetypes and where we can determine this series of developments from today's people that is our head organization or steiner says that the human head means a kind of melting pot these four archetypes that we have designated as eagle lion bull and water man and if we realize that behind these animal shapes there are always astral forces we had repeatedly called upon the soul that we are all spiritual beings everything around us is essential and has been condensed from the spiritual to the spiritual into the etheric and then ultimately also into the physical and that we have also said that we can also call it arupa as the unformed spiritual the rupa state the formed spiritual and that the third state is called astral by rudolf steiner and that in this astral state spiritual forces astral forces form into images that then form into physical etheric forms and if we now follow the people through the atlantic time then we can say that the form of the water man is dominant to us today's people, but that the spiritual images that are associated with the eagle with the lion and with the bull are still hidden behind the forms of our head, which means that we are all still unconsciously in contact with these forms of forces to these souls forces and we have to see that the fact that the human form has let the water people in that the animal forms have been overcome over the course of the atlantic time to the advantage of the shape of the water people that behind it there is of course an enormous willpower and this willpower came first of all in the first four atlantic eras not really from the people but the human being was in these first four atlantic eras in a kind of group-soul-likeness that means we were among the forces of will of higher beings and that then in the course of the fourth atlantic era it came to the realization that the first signs of human self-awareness came into being and that at the latest in the fifth atlantic age it was so that the willpower of the people was actively you remember the fifth form state is referred to as plastic that at the latest from this fifth atlantic era the people themselves have embodied their outer shape and that this was at the same time the starting point for the forces of resistance to approach us humans and with divine permission to influence us as long as they succeed and if we now look at the animal from the revelation of johannes the animal with the seven heads and ten horns how can we interpret this picture the seven heads stand for the seven atlantic eras in each of these atlantic eras the main organization of the human being had a very specific shape and all these figures were connected with the forces of the animals of the animal images of eagles, lions and bulls and that means if this animal rises from the water from the human soul then it means that we are once confronted with time as the animal forces as the astral forces that emerged from the animal images have affected us and which were then taken back to the benefit of the development of the water human being that these forces come to us again, but with the difference that this time the will the willpower that made us overcome these animal forms this power is no longer sent to us by the higher beings, but this willpower must come from us and as we did at the time of the old atlantis have retained this willpower to become human it will be in this renewed confrontation about going to stay human but that will only succeed if we win our will for us, that is, if we work consciously on our willpower and it is, as I said, an animal with seven heads that we have just made a little more understandable but this animal now has ten horns what does it have with these ten horns on itself here, too, is the connection in the atlantic time to search and we have from rudolf steiner the indication that first of all the word horn in the occult terminology can be understood that the word horn is something that has come into a physically etheric form, so that means while the main thing is to be interpreted as an astral form, one could say as an astral picture, the horn is a physically etheric picture and so rudolf steiner says that now the first four horns are made up of one of the four first atlantic epochs, that is, four heads and four horns were formed at that time and that happened at a time when the human being, as I said, was located in a strong group of souls, strong among the willpower of the higher beings, and that is now with the fifth atlantic cultural epoch the plastic age this happened that the human being, through the increasing activation of his willpower, now also came from the one-sex into the two-sex, that is, from the fifth atlantic cultural epoch, we can indeed speak of two genders, namely the male and the female gender and that means the heads 5 6 and 7 do not have like the epochs before over a horn but over two a male horn and a female horn and if we now have the epochs 5 6 and 7 with two horns each, i.e. three times two, then we have six horns plus the four horns of the first four epochs and thus we come to the number 10 and why is it so important to keep an eye on that we are coming closer to a time today in which, as already said in the second part, it is of utmost importance to keep an eye on our position within the world and after the determination of our position to recognize the tasks associated with it and these tasks that we have already illuminated a little last time, these tasks all aim in the direction that we have to start as close to time as possible in our will organism I send forces in, so to speak, the staff when you want to use this picture of the beings of the higher hierarchies to take from us and continue to take care of our own development and the light that should illuminate the way for us should only be the light of Christ because, as we will take a closer look, there are different types of light, just as there are different contacts in the spiritual world today, we also have to keep in mind that there are different types of light there is the light of Christ that we should carry and strengthen in us, but there is also a luciferian light and this luciferian light does not lead us in the direction of the light of Christ but it leads us on a detour and a detour that we are today the things in the world are just formally coming to us in this direction the detour today is largely in the fact that we strive to use willful impulses that have emerged from ancient times of humanity, that is, humanity still has a strong luciferian dream in large parts, which consists of the fact that we still have to look for a strong leadership on the outside that a strong personality should appear as it used to be a king a emperor a prince a warrior a pope a prophet and that this personality may guide us as rightly as possible, but this state leads in the course of the second Michaelic revelation, that is, after the mystery of Golgotha, to a detour today in any kind of group-souledness will have a harmful effect and we recognize today in the current events we are everywhere in the world competing group-soulednesses counteract all over the place is trying to separate people from each other and to let go of each other in groups and the motto can only be we grasp our will and work with our hearts together with the power of Christ in our hearts to overcome these group-soulednesses that we remain human because time is bringing us more and more in a direction in which we have to get ready the astral forces from the animal kingdom we had it in the basic videos on anthroposophy once mentioned that our current animal kingdom what we as animals perceive around us that this animal kingdom is from a higher level, apart from stored astral forces that have been put out of us for the benefit of the self-worth of us earthlings, but that this setting out of these strong animal forces can only be of temporary duration because these forces are part of creation and they were partially appropriated by us, that is, even with the animal kingdom we already have common karma common fate and this fate can only be cleansed by each of us , that is, everything that we currently see exposed on the outside as an animal kingdom must be integrated back into our being and this is exactly what will not be tomorrow, not next week, but it is being brought back more and more we will be confronted with the forces from the animal kingdom more and more strongly and the aspiration of the resistance is, among other things, that we do not remain human, but that we are more and more brought there to identify with these forces from the animal kingdom, that is, if we observe the animal kingdom and we can say from an anthroposophical point of view that the animals give in to their instinctuality what instinctively rises in them drives them right in the world this observation is clearly not for the human being because the group soul of the animals is guided by so-called group spirits and these group spirits are able to let the animals act properly in their framework and they communicate with each individual animal about the instincts and drives with us humans we have to keep our eyes open again and again our mind has become meat that means our mind our consciousness is with us above all our consciousness that stems from the soul of understanding and if we as humans do not hear this signal or do not want to hear that the time of group spirituality has to be overcome then we will, if we strive for it consciously or unconsciously, we will again come under group spirituality, but just as we have already said in the contacts with the spiritual world, the big question arises of which beings this willpower is sent out and you can, because Christ has become human, the word has become meat and has lived among us, we can assume that with the mystery of Golgotha group spirituality willpower impulses that are automatically driven by instinct and also with a certain power in our consciousness have only one source today, namely the resistance, and that's why we take our will into breeding, we bring our willpower into the structure of the body towards Christ to the power of Christ in us then the animal that comes out of the water will have no power over us but only then if we want it and that this want is more than a confession and with that I would like to close this third part for today and would like to continue with you next time at this point I say thank you very much for listening for being there for thinking and I wish you all the best until next time I hope you switch on again comes well through these moving times and see you soon thank you very much