The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours : Selected Lectures and Writings"The Michael age has dawned. Hearts begin to have thoughts. Enthusiasm no longer flows from mystical obscurity, but from the inner clarity that thought conveys. To grasp this is to receive Michael into one's soul. Thoughts that today seek to grasp the spirit must spring from hearts that beat for Michael as the fiery cosmic prince of thought." --Rudolf Steiner For centuries, the tradition of the "mystical chronology" of the world's seven archangelic regents has been part of Western esoteric teaching. According to this tradition, 1879 marked the return of the solar spirit Michael--the archangel of the Sun--to oversee earthly evolution. Steiner always placed his life and work in the service of Michael's evolutionary task. And he recognized that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, humanity emerged from the Kali Yuga--the Dark Age--and entered the Age of Light. Against this background, Steiner described the ascent of Michael as cosmic ruler, his battle with the "dragon" of the spirits of darkness, and his roles as the countenance of Christ and the guardian of cosmic intelligence. He also gave many profound indications of how Michael's evolutionary task depends on the free and independent collaboration of human coworkers. Speaking on behalf of Michael, Steiner laid out the essentials for a new Michaelic path to full humanity. Among the elements of this path are the development of selfless individuality; cosmopolitanism; the practice of the presence of Christ; fearlessness; the transformation of thinking and perception in a new synthesis of science, art, and religion; the spiritualization of space; and the separation of thought from language. The Archangel Michael gathers most of Steiner's statements on this subject, making it an important source for coming to terms with today's political, social, psychological, and spiritual crises. |
Contents
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MICHAEL THE MESSENGER OF CHRIST | 43 |
THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL THE TIME SPIRIT | 53 |
MICHAEL AND THE BUDDHA | 60 |
BEHIND THE SCENES OF EXTERNAL HAPPENINGS THE FALL OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS | 64 |
The ancient yoga culture and the new yoga willThe achievement of a new knowledge of preexistence as Michael culture in the futurethe evolution of... | 175 |
PART 3 | 191 |
MICHAELS MISSION THE SPIRITUALIZAT1ON OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF SPACE Domach December 17 1922 | 193 |
MICHAEL THE DRAGON AND THE HUMAN SOUL OR GEMUT Vienna September 27 1923 | 201 |
THE MICHAEL IMAGINATION Dornach October 5 1923 | 214 |
THE TASKS OF THE MICHAEL AGE Dornach January 13 1924 | 225 |
FROM THE GABRIEL TO THE MICHAEL AGE ArnhemJuly19 1924 | 239 |
THE MICHAEL IMPULSE TO READ IN THE BOOK OF NATURE Dornach August 1 1924 | 258 |
SIGNS OF THE TIMES MICHAELS WAR IN HEAVEN AND ITS REFLECTION ON THE EARTH | 77 |
The Mission of the Archangel Michael | 97 |
INTRODUCTION The contrast between the evolution of the head and the rest of the organismTriad and duality in the world and human understandi... | 99 |
The head as retrogressive the rest of the organism as progressive PreChristian Revelations Day Revelations through the head Lucifer Night Revelation... | 112 |
Luciferic and Ahrimanic influencesMichaelic thinking The true concept of evolutionProgressive and regressive evolutionBeauty in art and the battle ... | 127 |
The Mystery of Golgotha the central point in earthly evolution prepared for in Greek thinking the last remnant of ancient Mystery cultureScholasticis... | 143 |
The evolution of the human soulThe problem of necessity and human freedomthe evolution of the God concept from the fourth to the sixteenth cent... | 160 |
MICHAEL SOPHIA AND MARDUK Torquay August 11 1924 | 267 |
MICHAEL ARTHUR AND THE GRAIL Torquay August 21 1924 | 269 |
FROM RUDOLF STEINERS LAST ADDRESS Dornach September 28 Michaelmas Eve 1924 | 282 |
FROM THE MICHAEL LETTERS August 17 and 31 1924 | 284 |
JOHANNES TRITHEMIUS A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN SECONDARY CAUSES A LITTLE BOOK OR MYSTICAL CHRONOLOGY CONTAIN... | 299 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 317 |
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Page 21 - And there was war in heaven, Michael and his " angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon " fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither " was their place found any more in heaven.
Page 20 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Page 21 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 20 - Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Page 20 - But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Page 14 - Lord, truly thy decree is first among gods, Say but to wreck or create; it shall be. Open thy mouth: the cloth will vanish! Speak again, and the cloth shall be whole!
Page 19 - And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated And it ascended into the heavens: And I saw the holy sons of God. They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white [and their raiment], And their faces shone like snow.
Page 14 - The lord spread out his net to enfold her. The Evil Wind, which followed behind, he let loose in her face. When Tiamat opened her mouth to consume him, he drove in the Evil Wind that she close not her lips. As the fierce winds charged her belly, her body was distended and her mouth was wide open. He released the arrow. It tore her belly. It cut through her insides, splitting the heart. Having thus subdued her, he extinguished her life. He cast down her carcass to stand upon it.
Page 13 - Thou, Marduk, art the most honored of the great gods, Thy decree is unrivaled, thy word is Anu. From this day unchangeable shall be thy pronouncement. To raise or bring low— these shall be (in) thy hand.
Page 127 - And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.