Human Community
Humanities communities It's about time. Man a creation of God. "The world is I-wanted spirit-word", (B123, 17.hour). It is the age of the consciousness soul, it is time for man to consciously want his own human and human development. Humanity as a spiritual community of people who want to be me. That is what it is, the highest and most beautiful thing that mankind wants to produce around the globe today, a "Gesamtkunstwerk Menschengemeinschaft". A I-wanting humanity. It is time. Every human being has the task to work on his own self-confident development, to strive, as every human being has more and more, the responsibility for the well-being and the humane development possibilities of his fellow men. People have the responsibility in their communities to strive to develop these communities into humane organisms. Social organisms, like man and the macrocosm, are tripartite, and in their members the physical, the spiritual and the mental reach their respective justified, prosperous lives. "Union" means the possibility that a higher being expresses itself through the united members. This is a general principle in all life", (B101, 23.11.1905). Spiritual beings can unite with human communities. Depending on the attitude and ideal that lives in people, they can be good spirits or adversary beings. The work of these communities on the world then takes shape accordingly. The highest human community spirit is the Christ of the Son of Man. He embraces all humanity. People who unite in the name of the Christ-being, who strive and want to be active in the sense of the development of humanity, will be able to develop their best and good qualities in accordance with the spirit of the present time. The people who direct their will in this sense will be able to show what wonders it means to be a human being. If they go their way in upright striving in the sense of "How do I attain knowledge of higher worlds", (B023) then they will be able to be heralds of true humanity. They will be able to live out full humanity. That is the question: Why do some cultures and peoples or continents flourish and why are some cultures, regions or countries in stagnation or decline. It depends on the will of fate whether something wants to embody itself in this culture in order to bring forth something new. Which individualities embody themselves there in order to work together on the destiny of mankind. Whether there on earth an economy is formed that allows brotherhood to flourish in itself, where equal rights apply to all, where spiritual life is protected and can develop freely. Social life is not a question of technology and capital ownership or application, these are only expressions of an inner life. The social interaction of people is determined by the people themselves. Through their thinking, feeling and will, through spirit, morality and virtue. Where everyone desires, wants everything for himself and does not want to give anything away, brotherhood will have a miserable existence. Where the law of the powerful, the strongest or the most ruthless counts, there the life of justice will be an injustice. And where prohibitions of thought, prohibitions of speech, prohibitions of truth, manipulation and suppression of the spiritual life prevail, there no great seminal impulses from the spiritual world will be able to embody themselves. "If you encompass everything with a spiritual gaze what is called the social world, it is entirely the result of the will, desire and feeling of the people living together. And that which we experience as human beings, which people desire from each other and from nature and which is acted out of wanting, that is actually the outside world. By desiring, we belong to the social order much more than we think. We are made into covetous beings by our position in the social world, and our wanting intervenes everywhere in the social world in such a way that what happens in the social world happens out of our wanting. Therefore, in what we call social life order, an independent life lives what people feel, desire and want. The Social Democratic Party today says: That which lives outside is the result of an economy, the economic forces as they develop. - no, what lives out there is the objectification of feelings, desires and wills of the people living together in the partnership", (B006, 14.2.1920). Man is part of the world, his thinking is part of the world and it changes, shapes the world. Every human being can come to the decision point of development, where we stand, to decide to contribute, through his thinking, through his freedom, for man and worlds, love, to develop the world in one or the other direction. There is the prayer given by Jesus Christ himself, the "Our Father", it is mentioned here once again. It helps the person in his humanity, in his standing within the social organism and in his relationship to God and the spiritual world: Our Father in heaven Invocation of the Highest Hallowed be thy name Art and religious actions to experience God thy kingdom come Recognition of the Spirit thy will be done Orientation to the entitled development path as it is in heaven and on earth Represents the Christian way give us this day our daily bread But in life, without fear and greed for bread and forgive us our trespasses the act of redemption of Christ should be present as we forgive those who trespass against us Christian forgiveness and help and lead us not into temptation through our powers Our fate is guided by high good gods and angel hierarchies but deliver us from evil. Evil, the fall is a matter for the gods, it is God's wise decision to take the evil of evil from us The technical and economic capabilities of mankind have increased considerably over the last centuries. Today, an automated system can replace the labor of hundreds or thousands of people. For many, there has been an increase in material prosperity. But the number of poor underserved people is increasing, and the wealth is decreasing. The cohesion of the people in the cultures and states will be damaged by completely culture-alien immigration and progressive materialism, which wants to destroy the humanity with family hostility, genderism alien to humans and child-hostile early sexualization, or by hostility to life (the killing of unborn life). The prosperity of the social organism cannot therefore be due to technical and economic abilities, but only to the moral impulses of people, their Christian behaviour and the nature of the social organism. How it distributes income and wealth, how people stand by their rights and duties. How each individual treats his fellow human beings, nature, and the spiritual world. It applies "To this the king will answer them: Amen, I tell you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me", (Matthew 25:40). The welfare of a social organism will more and more be determined by how each individual treats his fellow men. We are all part of the organism of humanity. If we damage one of us, we damage the whole and this also damages us. We do it to ourselves. Humanity is also a community being, Christ is the divine spirit with whom we will continue to connect ourselves. It is the future task of humanity to be there for each other, to suffer the suffering of our fellow human beings, to recognize and then to help. Every person who is missing at the end of all days of mankind in his development of the community of people will be a lack for all. This is true for a social organism. "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them," (Matthew 18:20). In the age of consciousness it is not an imaginary "goodness" that is right, but the conscious shaping of man and the world in the sense of the development of humanity. This is the knowledge of good and evil. A conscious advocacy for the Spirit, the truth, the Christ-impulse and the divine as well as human goal of the Spirit's "I-wanting" word and a "I-wanting" humanity. In this way we can mutually support and hold the other person in his weak spot with our strengths and lift each other up. People will more and more acquire the ability to share in the suffering of their fellow human beings. Human civilization today is profoundly ill. Occult powers are used for selfish purposes. Untrue religions, secret societies of adversary powers use occult forces for themselves and against the justified development of humanity. Destroy peoples, countries and cultures. People who suffer from these crimes will only be helped by putting an end to this activity. People will only be helped properly if they are helped according to their physical, mental, spiritual being and in view of their cultural origin. Self-confident with all justified rights and duties. Every human being can take care that his fellow human being can incarnate (self-actualize) as well as possible. This is also important when one looks at today's earthly world, in which the opposing forces, above all the Ahrimanic forces, in all areas of life, want to prevent a self-confident human embodiment and work that is as individualistic as possible. For today's humanity it is again necessary to know about its origin in the spiritual world, about the science of the spirit, in order to be able to contribute to the healing of human society. This is a christianization of the social organism, a living spiritual science, the personal striving for connection with the Christ impulse. The healing comes through the knowledge of the truths about macrocosm and microcosm, the spiritual truth about the world and man. And the inner striving of each person for his own individual moral ennoblement. It begins through the public knowledge of the truth and it must find and develop its seed in the soul and ego of every human being. Every thought that brings about bad or negative things about a fellow human being brings about unpleasant consequences for the fellow human being about whom I think this thought, as well as in my fate, since I have to bear the consequences of my actions in some form or another. This has special consequences in occult societies, in which the members should know that their thoughts are facts and their thoughts also produce facts, so that one can say in occult societies in which the members of each other are not objective and loving, but possibly also bad thinking, this also has corresponding consequences. A society in which the leaders practice selfish occultism, who perform perishable ritual practices, is degenerating. A current of selfishness then runs through the spiritual, legal and economic limb of the social organism. Only a free spiritual link that is free, selfless, in the sense of the wise leaders of the justified development of humanity, who are active in connection with the Christ-being Spiritual and occult, will be able to bring forth healing, healthy, beautiful, loving and good things and allow these to flow into the other parts of the social organism. A community of people who love, think and want to become human beings will be striven for. Where everyone strives for the fruits of his deeds, which then benefit their respective fellow human beings; as their fruits, of their deeds, then benefit them again. Enterprises will be alive there where men do not want to rigidly bind to themselves what has been entrusted to them for possession, but where men sacrifice themselves and give everything they can to their fellow men. Enterprises will then be able to heal nature when they recognize that the responsibility of man lies in the transformation of the earth. Everything that is work transforms nature into consumption for humans. Consumers change this back into nature. Only those who grasp and realize the entire process of education and training in its responsibility towards man and the world (nature) will heal the world. Founding and further developing general human schools, which educate and train according to the individuality of each child. Education of the highest professional skills, the higher spiritual virtues, voluntary fulfilment of duties, ambition and diligence. The realization that there are twelve different justified world views and ways of thinking, different soul moods. The recognition that a complete community includes all these different types of people. We have to endure the otherness of our fellow human beings, their different way of seeing and thinking about the world, because only together we are the whole. This is the work of art of community building, giving the individual freedom for education without restricting the fellow human beings in their legitimate freedom. The understanding and recognition of a social necessity and the granting of its right, as well as the recognition of one's own duties towards the community. No person can do everything that others can do and replace the actions of all others. Where a person cannot do one or the other well, there is almost always someone else who can do better what one cannot do so well. A community where the individual abilities of each person can be promoted and brought to bloom, so that each person can make his own abilities available to the community, but not his weaknesses. Rather to recognize the weaknesses in oneself and in one's fellow human beings and then to tolerate the weaknesses of the other person and to support and help him. Like a flower bed with different kinds of flowers in which together everything is brought to blossom. In a surplus society, the renunciation of possible consumption, a redistribution in favour of the fellow men, for their consumption possibilities or for investments in future consumption possibilities, is always in confidence this saved money, later when the renouncing people need to be able to claim this consumption for themselves. Saving is self-restraint, as far as this results from one's own strengths and abilities, without having to chasten oneself. Acting not out of necessity, not out of compulsion. Whoever can overcome himself in one way or another acts freely. Whoever acts freely can act out of knowledge and love. People who overcome themselves, who are no longer attached to material prosperity and security. It is not meant that one should despise or fight against material prosperity, but rather that one should work for it through honest diligence, or that one should preserve and increase what has come. But one should not hold on to it anxiously, but should also give it up and leave it out at any time if fate really demands it. Without fear for material existence. This is a tremendously invigorating feeling when one is not attached to anything and wants to freely give everything, making an agreement with a fellow human being who is guided by the same soul moods and spiritual results. There something new is created, an action of freedom and love. Such a spiritual-scientific human community lives with a common ideal, that of a humanity that wants to be itself. In it lives the ideal of the development of humanity, the ideal of freedom and love, thus the high goal of humanity. In this way, even the highest beings can lower themselves and connect with the essence of the community. Out of this striving for world truth and human truth, something new and unprecedented can arise in all the work of the community. The word can express itself there in everything. Artistic forms that make spiritual truths visible. These are not symbolism or allegories, they are pure real true art. Buildings made of love and sacrifice. Ideas are the vessels made out of love, into which the human being is brought from spiritual worlds in a spiritual way. But men who strive for such a social organism, such a spiritual community of men with the higher spirits, but also must not make any illusion about the opposition. The adversaries become the spirits, the fallen angels, the adversaries of the justified development of mankind, they are the evil. And are capable of all imaginable, devious, almost unrecognizable, but also unimaginable evil deeds. Those who want to work for good in the sense of such a human community must also combine all the forces of their minds and hearts. Also always have an awareness of such a social organism, its structure, the need for a spiritual protected centre. "Surely a flourishing country is a more royal work of art than a park. A tasteful park is an English invention. A country that satisfies the heart and the mind is likely to be a German invention; and the inventor would surely be the king of all inventors", (Novalis, fragments). Recognition of a hierarchy of wisdom and morals The higher always bears more responsibility than the lower. The higher is jointly responsible for the actions of the lower. The higher one rises, the more selfless one must become. The lowest bears the burdens of the world; even the highest cannot be without the lowest. The higher a being the higher, the more loads of the others (and lower beings) it must want to carry. The thinking, feeling and wanting increases with the height of the being. Accordingly, it must also recognize, suffer and bear more. If it scatters before the will of fate corresponding to it, then it forgets its mission and sins before the lower beings. The lower being must have reason to look up to higher things than a teacher on his ways. With every step we climb, we humans have the sacred duty to purify ourselves more and more in our drives, urges, desires and weaknesses. Less and less may it be the material comforts and desires that guide us. People who are responsible in the earthly physical being must exercise power over more material and powerful things, but they must do this in an all the more selfless way, which only aims at promoting the common good. Those who do not think of themselves but of the administration of the transferred power for the good of others. The gift is seen only as a entrusted gift that is carried forward in the best possible way for the benefit of others. Every being, except the dear God, has a being above and a being below, a higher and a lower. In this way, every person must also recognize his place in the hierarchy, must be tolerant, humble and dutiful, one above and also subordinate. Only a world in which each person is happy to take the position he is entitled to will be a world living in harmony. Dissatisfaction in the desire for a wish leads to not finding oneself satisfied in the right place, to wish for another place or to get lost, then it is a system out of control. In which the upper one would have lower moral attitudes than the lower one, but which then has higher moral abilities. So it is up to the beings to strive for and take up their legitimate places for the common good. The superior must also be willing to accept the possible responsibility for the fate of the inferior. "The truth, however, is not something about which one can have opinions. A truth is known or not known... Therefore, the democratic principle is impossible in matters of knowledge, ...", (B103, 16.12.1904). To improve, ennoble and enrich one's abilities even in the eternal upward striving is, of course, the most noble goal. Life in communion with the dead As human beings we are subject to a change of life, between life on earth in a physical body and etheric body and life in the realms beyond the threshold of death. Two kinds of conceptions, concepts, ideas and sensations can be alive in our soul. A purely materialistic view of the world, which unfortunately corresponds to our modern times, or our soul is glowing and illuminated by spiritual, spiritual-scientific ideas. If a soul crosses the threshold of death, it will recognize that its former soul content in the soul and spirit world, because insignificant disappears. Only the truths we have worked out about the spiritual world on earth will be able to help us in life after death. Only when we have connected ourselves in life on earth with higher beings, like for example the Christ, can this connection now also carry us further in the spiritual world. In this way the longing for spiritual contents arises in the human souls that are not embodied in earthly bodies. This longing for knowledge about the spiritual world, which a human soul could not attain on earth, can be satisfied by us, today embodied human beings. By consciously contacting these people longing for spiritual knowledge and reading to them from spiritual-scientific works, by thinking to them, so to speak, about these contents, then this is an enormously service-ful act that we carry out. "When then the souls ... introduce themselves to the dead and go through any spiritual trains of thought, not at all aloud, or open spiritual-scientific books and read them in their thoughts, read aloud to the dead whom they spiritually imagine, then the dead person hears this", (B009, 20.2.1913). These dead can also have another longing, the longing to come into contact, into a perception with the living connected to them. If these living have only material ideas in their soul, they remain invisible to these longing people. Only when we living people develop thoughts and ideas that can have existed in the spiritual world, then we also become visible for these people who can only grasp spiritual contents in the spiritual world. In this way humanity will be able to develop into a completely new form of community. In which we penetrate more and more with spiritual-scientific knowledge a free communication "... between the souls that are here and the souls that are over there in the other world" can develop. "The dead become life with us", (both see B009, 20.2.1913).
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