Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, said Carl Sagan. Now Rudolf Steiner gave us precisely this, with his very first books that describe the faculties of spiritual perception that lie dormant in us all. Knowledge of Higher Worlds and Philosophy of Freedom describe how to awaken those faculties safely and ethically, and how the spiritual essence of Scientific Method is valid, even essential in this. Steiner’s method yields, in time, the ability to spot the extra-ordinary evidence needed to validate or query his subsequent extraordinary claims. My own claims are nothing more than the result of many tiny steps of awakening experienced over many years: that way they do not seem outrageous at all, they seem natural and, eventually, self-evident.
I hope to help people put themselves in Steiner’s shoes, and see the world a bit more as he experienced it. This happened to me, and has been really important, in going beyond Steiner; I found I could over time join up hitherto unconnected dots, and gain a wry sense of why he often simply said “Spiritual Science Says …” to preface extraordinary claims. This appears to be an essential part of the path to gradually take better hold of Spiritual Science as a discipline in its own right, free of any dependence on Rudolf Steiner.
All the best Anthroposophists have genuinely spoken out of their own spiritual-scientific research, producing amazing work, as I experienced again and again in my year at Emerson College studying Anthroposophy when I was 21. Now I believe we must go further. Anthroposophical ventures are under attack (it looks to me like karma); in the face of this I want to give back, after what I so wonderfully received 50 years ago. This has come through as unexpected insights and challenges that all have to do with helping Spiritual Science to come of age, a hundred years after the last extraordinary and glorious years of Steiner’s life, his Swan Song. The help has to come out of a mature sense of working for the good of all, to one’s best ability. Achievements and abilities matter, but they count for less than maturity of attitude. This is the “circumcision of the heart” that is needed.
Moses and Abraham
As in Steiner’s Spirit Glimpsed, I will work somewhat from conclusions backwards. Only recently have I recognized a single thread that links all the disparate factors I’ve discovered. It is a Hebrew Golden Thread, one can say. And more and more, we shall see how important and illuminating this is.
Steiner carries reincarnation energies from some major figures in Hebrew history. These could not have been spoken about during his lifetime for various reasons, chief of which is that to simply state the conclusions would, at that time, have dazzled and confused everyone, and not helped Anthroposophy at all. I think it is really important that it took me many years to discover them, inch by inch – and that I do not owe any of this to Steiner directly, yet I owe him one hundred percent the methods I’ve used, whereby the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle appeared, then became clearer and clearer.
Steiner’s Moses energy becomes most evident in his last years’ swan song; particularly the apparent ease, clarity, beauty, with which he brought forth the instructions for the Christian Community; and how well he worked with each priest in ways appropriate to the temperament of each. And not just the Christian Community, but also Agriculture, Education, Medicine …
Behind that, I sense Steiner’s own sensing of karmic links way back. That sensing comes first in the realm of feeling. All that is needed is to keep on paying attention, both inwardly and outwardly. The constant practice of paying attention gradually stills the ego-driven emotions and reactions and moves one towards self-awareness, and thus allows objectivity to grow in one’s perceptions. And with growing objectivity, Spirit can work through Grace in “aha!” moments of insight.
This practice of paying attention without judgement Moses learned particularly during his forty years in the Wilderness. It was all, in the end, preparation for what he had been born to do. At 40, Moses, trained in the Egyptian hieratic arts, was a general in the army. He thought his calling was to fight for Israel’s freedom, believing that only he, with his occult training and position, could do this. It came as a complete shock to realize that his fellow Israelites, who lacked his training, could also see the occult means he had used to kill the Egyptian overseer. He thought he’d got everything wrong … even forty years later, his great fear was that he would not be able to speak to his fellow countrymen … but by then God was ready to back him …
Now we track back to Abraham. Even at 80, Moses would not have been able to lead Israel, unless he had had a close earlier link with the Hebrew lineage. Abraham is an obvious candidate. Emil Bock recounts a Jewish legend that Abraham was raised for many years in a cave, to protect him from a Slaughter of Innocents far worse than that described in the Gospel of Matthew … the experience of this seems to be echoed in Moses’ years in the wilderness … and we will significantly encounter this image again in a future post …
Star Ages
Now we have enough information to show why Steiner got the Star Age dates wrong … The Age of Aries is not the Greco-Roman Age, it is the Hebrew-Greco-Roman Age. Elsewhere I will show the evidence that has to place the Hebrews as the centre line of Aries; and that the Greeks and the Romans are linked to the Hebrews. For completeness, Steiner had to incarnate in the lives he describes, that all lie outside the main Hebrew lineage: Aristotle and the rest.
You may have guessed where this is leading. The Star Age of Aries, centred in Hebrew history, starts with Abraham … and ends with the Time of Christ. Elsewhere I will show the strong, beautiful, exact markers, in Astronomy, Astrology, the Bible, and Jewish/world history, that precisely fit the Time of Christ to what Steiner called the “Turning Point of Time”: a period of 252 years that constitutes the Change of Star Ages from Aries to Pisces (posts to follow).
Moses / Exodus marks the one-third point of Aries. The Babylonian Exile marks the two-thirds point. King David marks the halfway point. Resonance is a feature of the Star Ages throughout. Steiner chose the two-thirds point for his start of Aries: thereby he effectively conceals both Abraham and Moses … It is as if Steiner has pointed very clearly – by omission. Even the dating system he uses is highly revealing.
Why Me?
Why, I wonder, am I the only one to have seen all this so far?? That is, if it is even true?? I have really felt not particularly gifted, beside others, spiritually speaking … my professional life and qualifications seem lacking … very little to show … I have often only touched Steiner then felt I had to move on …
… yet I have wrestled and wrestled with my perception of him … I have used my reasoning powers a lot … read widely in “New Age” stuff … waited a long time, even until my strength is starting to decline, it seems … been through a lot … and many times I have felt I did have something special …
This year, 2020, I’ve felt particularly close to Moses and Exodus. Ancient Egypt saw a major Plague that passed the Israelites by, so long as they were in their homes … protected not by social distancing and face masks and handwashing, but by the blood of the Passover Lambs smeared over their doorways … it was out and out miraculous. What matters here is my deep sense of closeness to Moses. I have wondered if I could have been Tsipporah.
Tsipporah did something very small but absolutely essential. Without her action, YHVH would have killed Moses before he even started his real work. Her action is strange but telling … if one lets it reveal its layers of meaning. She saw that YHVH was about to kill Moses, and quickly did what was needed … grabbed a sharp stone to circumcise their son, and to bless Moses therewith. That stopped YHVH – what a mystery! This feels like what I am being called to do for Anthroposophy, the child of Rudolf Steiner … circumcision of the heart … absolute essentials … no more shielding from Direct Experience, which is what uncircumcision does … no more essentially selfish “I just want Steiner Schools for my children” of “I will only work in a Steiner School” without one’s actions coming out of a concern to work for the good of all … as did Steiner … and most strongly, no hiding behind Steiner … even if it seems (and it can) how ordinary, boring, not very spiritually penetrating one’s own vision may seem … but in being one’s own, in owning up to truth, it has the One Thing Needed to grow, flourish, become fertile …
I’m just saying’. There again, I might be wrong … but it is hard now to imagine that I got it all wrong. Certainly it is extremely hard to dismiss my star research if one studies it … it fits too well, it is too beautiful, too tremendous …
Over to you. Keep reading, keep questioning, keep in touch …
