January 22, 2023 / Angus / 0 Comments / Edit

How might we understand the warmth of Saturn in Esoteric Science?

In this video Max helps us, without even mentioning Steiner, to understand how fire/heat/warmth is a true universal and far more than that as well. The beauty for me in this presentation is that I can find a way of understanding in an intuitive way how heat can be the source of everything that can then become air, liquid and mineral matter. Steiner’s axioms given to us as a result of spiritual science have become direct sense experiences and I am
able to view all sensory experience through this paradigm. This in turn brings me a bit closer to experiencing world history as my own history. This new description allows me at a still deeper level than before to experience how the Promethean story is also my story. This also coincides with another paradigm which I share, namely that mythology can be understood at multiple and ascending levels. These are literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical.

One of the questions that arises in my mind in watching this: Where does the inspiration
comes from that enables him to create such clarity in thinking? I mention this
because I felt the same on watching his video on the reality of thinking as
well as the science/religion series, which is a lucid description of the I vs anti-I,
centeredness vs dissolution. Whole vs nothing.

I have only scraped the surface of many beautiful descriptions of our common world re-imagined in the light of this paradigm that arise on watching this video. It reminds me of the re-enchantment (in the sense of being moved by divine sound again) of life talked about by Owen Barfield.

There are so many interesting aspects to this video. What stuck out for you?

This lecture is particularly interesting in the context of gaining a deeper insight into a spiritual scientific perspective on heat.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/19111031p01.html

“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world.”

I couldn’t participate in the group this week, but enjoyed listening in afterwards. Several topics were touched upon, but the one that resonated most strongly in me was the participants trying to imagine and experience how the ancient Greeks felt connected with the world in an experiential way. However, as we know from other Steiner writings this must be accomplished with full I consciousness. To do otherwise would be to become re-enslaved by nature, to act out of unknown impulses and lose any possibility of freedom. It would mean to cede power, possibly to some fallen angel. I must consciously choose the harmony of the spheres to strum on the chords of my inner being and join the choir of like minded musicians.

I am drawn to the word re-enchantment to describe this superior state of re-connection. To become enchanted can be likened to the falling under the spell of a song (these are the etymological roots). Consequently some people might prefer to avoid the use of this word as it can have negative connotations. However, if I am the chooser of the song, if I am the chooser of the paradigm through which I view the whole of creation. If this choice has been made in full consciousness then I am a knowing doer to paraphrase a key concept from the philosophy of freedom/spiritual activity. Other candidates for words to describe this process might be re-magification, re-connection, re-turn. I will stick to re-enchantment for the time being and continue to emphasize that it is I who chooses the song that will make my soul sing. And with that I’ll leave it to Sade

We are going to try in this video to join some dots to understand the biography of the Being Sophia-Philosophia-Anthroposophia”. This video shall only be understood as an overview of a few salient aspects. My main reference has been Sergei Prokofieff’s “The Heavenly Being Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia”

In case I don’t get to make the point in the video strongly enough I encourage people to do their own studies on Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy. The video lecture below was of especial value in relation to depicting the historical framework of the event, the soul of Boethius as the receiver of the Being Lady Philosophy and also contrasting her with Lady Fortune. The final bit of the video with an address by Manly P Hall are words around which I believe any lover of Anthroposophia would warmly congregate.

I referenced an interview about addictions with Dawn Langman:

On the artwork from the cupola of the Goetheanum I found this video from David Hafner also very illuminating.