Spiritual Life
IV.1.3 Spiritual life, religion, art, science It is the purpose of free spiritual life to enable people who are part of this tripartite social organism to take a self-confident free spiritual development. In which man can receive and receive the spiritual, cultural, professional, artistic achievements of society and build his own higher development on them. "O man know thyself! Thus sounds the word of the world", (B120, 9.hour). This is the task of the free spiritual life, which in the future should become the fertile ground for the spiritual and moral striving of man. In the consciousness of being human as a spiritual being, the human being who is the ideal of the gods. "The world is I-wanting spirit-word", (B123 , 18th hour). Is the ideal of the good gods they want man to develop his ego in the sequence of times desired by the White Lodge, so that man and mankind will one day become the tenth hierarchy of angels, the hierarchy of freedom and love. The holy words of "O man know thyself" resound not only to the individual human beings, but also to the whole of humanity: O mankind know thyself, the divine spirit word resounds to us from everywhere in the worlds. So today it is the task of knowledge to recognize man as a tripartite being, the social organism as a tripartite being and the macrocosm as a tripartite being. "This is really what we are striving for in the tripartite structure of the social organism. ... We must not only have the spirit somehow in the form of concepts that sit in our heads, but we must bring the spirit down to earth, it must be in the institutions, it must rule between people. But we can only do this if we have an independent spiritual life, where we do not only work from concepts about the spirit, but from the spirit itself. (B171, 12.6.1921). Through the free spiritual life and its cultic, religious acts, higher spiritual beings can then penetrate the social organism. The task of humanity today is to recognize humanity anew in accordance with the age of the soul of consciousness. To understand man as a spiritual being and to shape earthly life according to this recognition. "...that everyday life becomes spiritual." (B179, "III Capitalism and social ideas"). So that the ideal of humanity lives in the social organism, the ideal of the I-wanting humanity. Whatever new ideas, organizational, social, governmental, technical economic solutions are introduced into the social organism comes from the spiritual member of mankind. People are then active in the field of spiritual life. All true innovation, real development can see the field of spiritual life as its source. For the fruitful prosperity of the social organism, it is therefore necessary to find the right ways to ensure that these people are rewarded accordingly. "...that those who produce them also live off the proceeds of their efforts." (B179, P. 86). That all people, no matter in which social areas they may have the main focus of their activity, develop and recognize understanding for the tasks, rights of existence and the essentiality of intellectual work. Thus to understand the totality of the tripartite social organism. What is a living social organism is subject to constant change, people die, new ones are born whose individual and destiny impulses are different from those of their predecessors, new technical and cultural developments take place and the cultural periods of human development advance. The social organism lives with these changes if it is aware of its connection with the spiritual world and gets the ideas from it to connect with the new in each case in a justified way. Here is also the freedom of the individual who can live out of his intuition from his world of ideas freedom in which he also does not limit the freedom of others. "In the spiritual realm, a reality prevails which goes beyond the material outer life and carries its content within itself. ... The freedom of the one cannot flourish without the freedom of the other." (B179, "II. The Realistic Attempts at Solutions to Social Questions and Necessities Required by Life"). Every organization, every social organism, every community or state needs a common being, like the city gods were in former times, the archangels are the spirits of languages, so also today every human community must prove itself worthy so that the good angels and gods can become a community with it. An inner idea, a higher self, then lives in the social organism, which stands for the community feeling and the common striving for the future. As the highest community spirit of the future I-wanting social tripartite humanity, the living Christ in it. The Christ as the ideal of humanity and human community. In past times people were connected with the gods, with the angelic beings, the archangel beings and archai, as group spirits, folk spirits and spirits of the cultural periods. As city gods, folk spirits or language spirits, the angelic beings guided human destinies on earth. The old theocracies, up to the time of ancient Egypt and Troy bore witness to priest-kings who regulated the earthly conditions in a connection with the spiritual world. The human development towards freedom dissolved such forms of government. Today's development of the consciousness soul brings anew, but now in the I-consciousness, the challenge to people to develop new democratic forms of government, which also contain in themselves the spirit-guiding connection with the good-divine spirits of the spiritual world. This is the task of a free spiritual life. The work of initiated people who, in connection with the Christ and the white lodge, carry moral impulses for the benefit of the community in the sense of the justified development of humanity. The task of a free spiritual life is then also to transform the sciences of today into a living spiritual science. To transform the natural sciences, which deliberately limit their scope of observation and knowledge and want to prove their fantasized theories, into a Goetheanistic science that emerges from the free and open knowledge of reality. The primordial plant that seeks and can recognize the primordial thought. A new spiritual science inspired by the spiritual world will then emerge. An observational science can only deal with the existing. It has difficulties with the future. Only those who understand the ideas and impulses behind sensual existence can also develop an understanding of future thinking. Human thinking develops, liberates, strengthens and exercises that it develops the abilities and powers to unravel the secrets of the world. "4. modern thinking has lost the ability to submerge into reality. It is a matter of releasing the "inner forces" in the life of the soul, to which the full reality then arises. 5. for this, the "spiritual life" must be set on full freedom also in life. This freedom can never be achieved if there is supervision or administration on the part of the political member of the social organism", (B225, "Notes on the Zurich Lectures on <The Social Question>"). Man is born with a will of destiny, a destiny to live, experience and develop in this destiny. The justified course of destiny of mankind is guided by the good divine spiritual beings. Every person's fate has a share in it. If a person has a task of destiny that is essential for humanity. If he cannot fulfil this task through opposition or individual failures, then other people must fulfil this task or these necessary events occur only inadequately or not at all. This then leads to rejections for all people involved. A free spiritual life has from this the responsibility to offer people individual development possibilities which correspond to their destiny and to heal rejections of the same in common mutual assistance (B119, The Keeper of the Threshold, Second Image, Thomaisus). In the deeds and above all in the impulses that emanate from people, their inner being is also reflected. Everything good that they want to bring into the lives of people, they have to do consciously, in order to perhaps bring it to bear and make it effective. Everything that is still effective in the acting human being, such as inadequacies and mistakes, immorality and resistance, will be able to manifest itself through their actions in their work. The responsibility of the creators then also extends to their work, that they themselves consciously create their work and then also deal with the unwanted, reluctant side effects of their work. The free spiritual life He who knows the true nature of man and the world also recognizes the right and necessity of the existence of free spiritual life in a social organism. The free spiritual life is then also the area of the economic system in which man is a pure consumer. An economic system that does not want to have pure consumers, that creates constraints so that everyone has to be in the process of creating value, such a society tries to remove the free spiritual life from its midst. However, it takes with it the thought-free ones, which have special future development abilities. Where in a society people can be pure consumers, they can also develop their intellectual life in freedom. There the ego of the social organism comes to life. That is like a church service. There the spiritual world can send its ideas and future impulses in human society. "For if they really think of this free spiritual life as free in the social organism, so that in fact their abilities can always develop fully, then just this free spiritual life will be able to exert an extraordinarily fertilizing influence on the semi- free spiritual life, on that spiritual life that goes into material creation", (B024, 29.7.1922). A man who is completely free, in the development of his spiritual abilities, will be able to take up and develop completely new ideas that have never been thought of, ideas that cannot develop so well in the constraints of the economic processes, in people. So the completely freely thinking people, who are in real processes, will be able to fertilize these with new ideas and thus contribute to organizational, technical and creative developments. "For these free spiritual people have the characteristic that they detach the spirituality (the mental mobility) from the others, that they make their thinking more mobile, and that through this the others can better intervene in the material processes", (B024, 29.7.1922). But this must happen at present, those people who do spiritual work and those who do material work must be together at the same time in a smaller or larger place, past spiritual achievements are of little use there. The spiritual work is an occult work and this always has an effect on the whole world. If something occult happens in one place, it can have an effect in another place. It must not be important to the mental worker necessarily the success, often it is just the carrying of the failure, what his work is. Openness for what is revealed, rigid goals and the desire for success are obstructive and lead to error. For an occult worker, taking care of the "banal" is of great effectiveness in overcoming the Luciferian temptation. Always do what is done despite obstruction and distraction. The fear of failure, the fear of losing, in dealing with people is always great when the necessary seriousness prevails. In the following of Christ are the goals of the spiritual worker. Just as Christ harmonized the members of the human being in the preliminary stages of the event of Golgotha, so too the task of the spiritual worker is to harmonize the forces of the social organism which are pulling apart and working against each other. To be responsible for the training, guidance and leadership of the spiritual disciples, as far as this is justified today. To create and maintain the professional, spiritual and moral environment so that new impulses from the spiritual world can flow into the social organism. To live in union with the Christ and the Holy Spirit, a community of the new wealth of ideas that is carried and fertilized from the spiritual world. The joy in the new arising, the goodwill for the new. Taking in the aesthetic judgement and accordingly living in the world. A generation of people who consecrate their lives to the fulfilment of a duty that wants to and can go beyond individual karma. The development of mankind is consciously guided by the highest spiritual beings. The history of mankind is thus also without rupture, without holes or the like. Everything that happens, became, will now or will become in the future, through the work of good or resisting beings. As man in earlier ages lived in spiritual connection with divine beings, as this had to sink into the unconscious, unknown for a time during the Kali Yuga, now is again the time for man to receive knowledge of his divine spiritual origin. What today is spiritual science, what is the wisdom of the Grail, what is anthroposophy, must become the general knowledge and insight of mankind. It is the task of a free spiritual life to ensure that this knowledge is made known, that a truthful view of the world is conveyed among people. As people today grow up, are educated and are one-sidedly informed by the state mass media, where a materialistic scientific world view is almost forced upon them, it now comes to the point that people who develop a feeling for truth within themselves can no longer accept the errors and untruths of this world view and begin to search for more truthful world views. The higher the possibilities of perception and cognition of a person develop, the more comprehensive his impressions of the world become. The spiritual life must be recognized as free. Everyone should be free to have his own ideas about God and the world. Just as it must be allowed to represent one's own imagination. A representation of the spiritual science or other world views must be a free confrontation of thoughts and it must be prevented that one kind of world views tries to suppress the others by legal, economic, manipulative means. It is a free confrontation of the spirit, which comes to life in a free spiritual life. The presentation of the science of the spirit as the knowledge of the human being and the divine world can be seen as something that is sought by a large part of humanity today from deep hearts. It is only necessary to show that such a spiritual science exists, so that everyone can see, hear and experience it. To then decide for themselves whether it is what they are looking for. Sample from the book "Mensch"
