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A reading from Rudolph Steiner's "The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours", from part 2 of section 3 entitled "Archangel Michael, The Dragon, and The Human Soul.
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Prologue: Intimations of the Archangel Michael in Different Traditions
PART ONE
1. Rudolf Steiner’s Early Accounts of the Michael Event of 1879
2. The Integration of Humanity into The Ranks of the Hierarchies
3. Michael, The Messenger of Christ
4. The Archangel Michael: The Time Spirit
5. Michael and the Buddha
6. Behind the Scenes of External Happenings: The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness
7. Signs of the Times: Michael’s War in Heaven and Its Reflection on the Earth
PART TWO: THE MISSION OF THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
LECTURE 1: The contrast between the evolution of the head and the rest of the organism—Triad and duality in the world and human understanding—The abolition of the tripartite human being at the Eighth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople of 869 —The Christ-Impulse as the balance between Lucifer and Ahriman
LECTURE 2: The head as retrogressive, the rest of the organism as progressive—Pre-Christian Revelations: Day Revelations through the head (Lucifer), Night Revelations through the rest of the organism (Jahve)—Michael, the Countenance of Jahve—The transformation of Michael from Night Spirit to Day Spirit—Michael’s Task in the past and the future: The Word becomes flesh and the flesh becomes Spirit
LECTURE 3: Luciferic and Ahrimanic influences—Michaelic thinking—The true concept of evolution—Progressive and regressive evolution—Beauty in art and the battle between beauty and ugliness
LECTURE 4: The Mystery of Golgotha, the central point in earthly evolution, prepared for in Greek thinking, the last remnant of ancient Mystery culture—Scholasticism, the continuation of Greek thinking—Since the fifteenth century: the preparation of a new Mystery culture—The need to penetrate the heart organization with the Christ-Impulse (to balance Lucifer penetrating the head and Ahriman working in the limbs)
LECTURE 5: The evolution of the human soul —The problem of necessity and human freedom—The evolution of the God concept from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries—Michael’s deed influence as the counterpole to Ahriman—The necessity of the Christ-Impulse
LECTURE 6: The ancient yoga culture and the new yoga will—The achievement of a new knowledge of pre-existence as Michael culture in the future
PART THREE
1. Michael’s Mission: The Spiritualization of the Knowledge of Space
2. Michael, The Dragon, and the Human Soul, or Gemüt
3. The Michael Imagination
4. The Tasks of the Michael Age
5. From the Gabriel to the Michael Age
6. The Michael Impulse: To Read in the Book of Nature
7. Michael, Sophia, and Marduk
8. Michael, Arthur, and the Grail
9. From Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address
10. From: The Michael Letters
At the Dawn of the Age of Michael
The Human Soul State Prior to the Dawning of the Michael Age
The Michael-Christ Experience
Michael’s Mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom
APPENDIX: Johannes Trithemius: “A Treatise on the Seven Secondary Causes”
A reading from Rudolph Steiner's "The Archangel Michael: His Mission and Ours", from part 2 of section 3 entitled "Archangel Michael, The Dragon, and The Human Soul.
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Prologue: Intimations of the Archangel Michael in Different Traditions
PART ONE
1. Rudolf Steiner’s Early Accounts of the Michael Event of 1879
2. The Integration of Humanity into The Ranks of the Hierarchies
3. Michael, The Messenger of Christ
4. The Archangel Michael: The Time Spirit
5. Michael and the Buddha
6. Behind the Scenes of External Happenings: The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness
7. Signs of the Times: Michael’s War in Heaven and Its Reflection on the Earth
PART TWO: THE MISSION OF THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL
LECTURE 1: The contrast between the evolution of the head and the rest of the organism—Triad and duality in the world and human understanding—The abolition of the tripartite human being at the Eighth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople of 869 —The Christ-Impulse as the balance between Lucifer and Ahriman
LECTURE 2: The head as retrogressive, the rest of the organism as progressive—Pre-Christian Revelations: Day Revelations through the head (Lucifer), Night Revelations through the rest of the organism (Jahve)—Michael, the Countenance of Jahve—The transformation of Michael from Night Spirit to Day Spirit—Michael’s Task in the past and the future: The Word becomes flesh and the flesh becomes Spirit
LECTURE 3: Luciferic and Ahrimanic influences—Michaelic thinking—The true concept of evolution—Progressive and regressive evolution—Beauty in art and the battle between beauty and ugliness
LECTURE 4: The Mystery of Golgotha, the central point in earthly evolution, prepared for in Greek thinking, the last remnant of ancient Mystery culture—Scholasticism, the continuation of Greek thinking—Since the fifteenth century: the preparation of a new Mystery culture—The need to penetrate the heart organization with the Christ-Impulse (to balance Lucifer penetrating the head and Ahriman working in the limbs)
LECTURE 5: The evolution of the human soul —The problem of necessity and human freedom—The evolution of the God concept from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries—Michael’s deed influence as the counterpole to Ahriman—The necessity of the Christ-Impulse
LECTURE 6: The ancient yoga culture and the new yoga will—The achievement of a new knowledge of pre-existence as Michael culture in the future
PART THREE
1. Michael’s Mission: The Spiritualization of the Knowledge of Space
2. Michael, The Dragon, and the Human Soul, or Gemüt
3. The Michael Imagination
4. The Tasks of the Michael Age
5. From the Gabriel to the Michael Age
6. The Michael Impulse: To Read in the Book of Nature
7. Michael, Sophia, and Marduk
8. Michael, Arthur, and the Grail
9. From Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address
10. From: The Michael Letters
At the Dawn of the Age of Michael
The Human Soul State Prior to the Dawning of the Michael Age
The Michael-Christ Experience
Michael’s Mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom
APPENDIX: Johannes Trithemius: “A Treatise on the Seven Secondary Causes”
