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ARCHANGEL MICHAEL:THE FIERY THOUGHT KING OF THE UNIVERSE

HOW CAN WE KNOWHIM?Part III

SPIRITUALIZINGTHEKNOWLEDGEOFSPACE

By Bill Trusiewicz

#elcome $ %i&e'I go to encounter&or the millionth time the reality o& e(perience and to

&orge in the smithy o& my soul the uncreated conscience o& my race!)ames )oyce*Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

+o &ar in this series o& articles we ha"e addressed se"eral imperati"es that one learns to embrace

as one progresses in what has been called ,the school o& -rchangel .ichael*/ the iery Thoughting! t will be help&ul to brie&ly reiterate these important points be&ore we begin the present

study that taes up the matter o& Spiritualizing our Knowledge of Space. #e will be seeing to

penetrate 4udol& +teiner5s words in his last address wherein he encourages us to tae up the.ichael ower and the .ichael #ill to penetrate the whole o& li&e to meet the challenges o& our

time! This must be done byspiritualizing our knowledge of space* one o& the most important

imperati"es that we learn to carry out as students in the school o& .ichael!

7ow to reiterate* in art we began by e(amining the .ichaelic imperati"e o& questioning. This

imperati"e is illustrated in the "ery name8 .ichael* which translates as a :uestion8 ,#ho is lie;oduman ntelligence &rom =osmic ntelligence institutes what 4udol& +teiner called
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,re"erse ritual*/ based on the &act that we as human beings can return something to the sphere o&

the hierarchies* can return speech to the stars* so to spea!

n this third in a series o& articles that ha"e as their goal enabling us as spirit seeers to better

now -rchangel .ichael* we will e(plore the statement &rom 4udol& +teiner5s last address

:uoted earlier* concerning the ,great crisis/ that humanind would pass through a&ter the end o&the twentieth century! +teiner said that it would be necessary that ,the .ichael ower and the

.ichael #ill penetrate the whole o& li&e!/ >e said that these ,are none other than the =hrist

ower and the =hrist #ill!/ #e will e(plore how it is that through the .ichael ower* humanityin our time can and must trans&orm our predisposition to "iew all things in a materialistic way*

due to our peculiar nowledge o& space! #e will address the :uestion o& how .ichael can help us

to spiritualize our nowledge o& space and thus ,penetrate the whole o& li&e/ to meet the

challenges o& our time!

-s we approach the sub?ect o& spiritualizing space* let us recall the &amous line &rom the opera

Parsifalby 4ichard #agner* which opera 4udol& +teiner praised as signi&icant* adding to a

deeper understanding o& the =hrist @"ent!

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n the libretto o&Parsifalthe elder ;urnemanze(claims to the youth&ul arsi&al in re&erence to the en"irons o& the ;rail =astle* ,Aou see* my

son* here time becomes space!/ n other words* time is revealedspatially through the magic o&the ;rail! #ith this picture in mind let us see together to enter the ;rail =astle by way o&

participation in the drama o& trans&ormation that is taing place in our time under the rulership o&

-rchangel .ichael* the zeitgeist or Time +pirit o& our era! To do so we will &irst need to enli"enour thining by penetrating the abstractions represented in the words ,space/ and ,time!/

-s we begin* it is important to realize that it is only in the last &ew hundred years since the 1Cth

and 1thcenturiesE that the conception o& space as we understand it today came into e(istence asa widely held idea! t will be easy to see the transition &rom the earlier period o& human history in

which time predominated in human consciousness i& we realize how art since the 4enaissance

di&&ers &rom the art that preceded it! #e now that during the 4enaissance the use o&perspectivein painting and drawing came into "ogue! erspecti"e is the way an artist represents a scene on a

picture plane accurately according to what a "iewer sees with his or her eyes! t is the technical

way to represent how light enters the eye &rom a distant sub?ect* geometrically depicted* to gi"ethe illusion o& threedimensionality! .ost simply* this means that closer ob?ects appear larger and

&urther ob?ects appear smaller* con&orming to the natural con"ergence o& lines toward what are

called "anishing points!

n the modern world it is generally assumed that the geometric representation o& space on a

picture plane or pictorially in one5s consciousness is the ,correct/ representation! & one

considers only the way light enters the eye* it may indeed be called ,correct!/ But is this the only"alid means o& representing the human e(perience o& seeing< t is common in our time to "iew

oursel"es and the world we inhabit as mechanically constructed according to scienti&ic principles

that deri"e solely &rom our mechanistic "iew o& the world! The ,correctness/ o& such imagisticconstructions is not to be disputed* as such depictions correctly de&ine the material world* i!e!*

what appears to our outer senses!

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Beginning in about the 1thcentury* the system o& perspecti"e was predicated on solely

materialistic grounds! n 1C3 %eon Battista -lberti* one o& the earliest proponents o& the theory

o& perspecti"e* says in his boo n Painting! ,7o one would deny that the painter has nothing todo with things that are not "isible! The painter is concerned solely with representing what can be

seen!/2This was a radical statement &or a time in which most art depicted angelic beings and

imaginati"e* mystical and spiritual e(periences which were clearly not "isible in the usual sense!The e&&ect o& adopting the theoretical basis described by -lberti and others was e"entually to all

but eliminate the representation o& the inner dimension o& seeing in art! This change led to

naturalism in painting and what it called ,representational art/ in which the outer world isrendered according to the laws o& geometry that hold in &aith&ully tracing the path o& the

re&lection o& light as it approaches the eye!

-s we e(plore the transition o& human consciousness that occurred during the 4enaissance* wecan begin to get a &eeling &or both the passing state o& consciousness and the newly de"eloping

state! The 4enaissance mars the end o& a period o& human de"elopmental history in which it

was customary to depict inner* spiritual e(perience and uni"ersal soul and spiritual memories o&

humanity in imaginati"e pictures! #hat these e(periences were is reasonably clear &romre"iewing painting and sculpture prior to the 4enaissance* i!e!* during the .iddle -ges and

earlier! =learly in the #estern #orld as a whole* religiousFmythicalFspiritual sub?ectspredominated with "ery rare instances o& naturalistic art!3

#hat is o& real interest here is not so much the sub?ect matter o& art as such* but the &orces thatare operating "ehindthe sub?ects o& art in the souls o& human beings during the period prior to

the 4enaissance! #hat may &irst strie us is the &act that most art o& the time harens bac to an

earlier historical periodGthe time o& =hrist! #e should tae note that while naturalistic painting*

depicting nature ,&aith&ully as the eye sees it*/ represents a moment in timeGthe moment whenthe artist is paintingH art prior to the 4enaissance almost in"ariably aside &rom standard portraits

o& notable personalities and the lieE depicts past e"ents recapitulated* reimagined! & we call

this earlier art ,timeless/ which it certainly wasE* we really mean that it depicted something thatis ,good &or all time*/ or that* by "irtue o& its uni"ersality* endures &or long spans o& time! #e

mean that in a sense it contained or consisted o& a breadth o& time! ndeed* i& we sur"ey the

record o& human history going bac into the distant past* we &ind little that gi"es much attentionto space in comparison with time in the sense we ha"e ?ust established! @"en the earliest

portraiture be&ore the 4enaissanceE was more symbolic than representati"e* in most cases caring

little &or lienesses! The symbolic character o& art that disregards e(ternal appearances highlights

time rather than spaceH it places little emphasis on what appears to the senses in space in themoment* &a"oring collecti"e :ualities o"er sensible indi"idual attributes* choosing the uni"ersal

and typical timeconcentrating :ualitiesE o"er the personal and distincti"e spaceconser"ing

:ualitiesE! The general tendencies re&erred to here in re&erence to art be&ore the 4enaissance canbe seen uni"ersally in the broad spectrum o& the cultures o& the world* in literature* and indeed in

all o& li&e! $ne can draw the same parallels when re"iewing the pre=hristian art o& @urope and

the 7ear and .iddle @ast with its rich mythologies and depictions o& its pantheon o& gods!;enerally speaing* little regard is gi"en to space! During these periods* "ery little attention is

gi"en to the material world that occupies space compared with the era &ollowing the

4enaissance!

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The ability to &ocus on the material world* maing the physical world o& space come into clear*

precise "iew with perspecti"e as the outer eye sees it* shi&ting the &ocus &rom the inner eye* was a

monumental accomplishment &or humanity! t may be seen as a step towards the &ul&illment o&the biblical dictum gi"en by ;od to -dam* to ,ha"e dominionIo"er the earth*/Ca dominion that

would bring human moral order and beauty to the natural world* ele"ating the laws o& nature!

#hat is meant here is di&&icult &or modern humanity to grasp* since the sort o& dominion we areused to seeing is "ery di&&erent &rom the noble dominion meant to be carried into the world by

;od5s children! -nd it is especially di&&icult to en"ision since many o& those who claim to be

;od5s children care little &or the earth and the natural world* considering it to be in&erior to andless important than ,hea"en*/ which simplistically de&ines &or them the whole spiritual world!

7e"ertheless* humanity needs to ac:uire this new &ocus because the intention o& the gods is to

penetrate this whole planet to its dar core with the good* the true* and the beauti&ul to mae it

radiant with hea"enly light! This &ocus ob"iously will not be possible without the greatest lo"e&or the planet and all o& its inhabitants! #e are describing here the =hristian ideal o& the 7ew

)erusalem* the city o& peace* which is the goal o& humanity* a city transparent and permeated by

spirit light! The ;arden o& @den* ha"ing &allen into the hands o& an errant humanity* in the end is

resurrected by a redeemed humanity and becomes a beauti&ul city in which the darened*physical* aspect o& nature has become transparent Gspiritualized8 nature is ennobled through the

e"ol"ed nobility o& the human being! This is the meaning o& the &inal words o& the Bible!#e caneep this picture in mind as we see to &ul&ill 4udol& +teiner5s "ision that ,the .ichael ower

and the .ichael #ill penetrate the whole o& li&e!/

-t the present stage o& human de"elopment we ha"e only ?ust begun to approach the material

world to understand it! This is why it is so signi&icant that humanity has adopted the new

,perspecti"e/ o& the material world that artists since the 4enaissance ha"e en"isioned! This new

perspecti"e has allowed human understanding to penetrate material reality* yielding tremendousad"ances in technologyGa process that is only ?ust getting under way! But penetrating the

material world is a spiritual matter with spiritual conse:uences e:ui"alent to the traditional

esoteric ?ourney into the underworld! .odern humanity has not yet grasped this &act! #hat we&ace as a result o& this penetration o& the material world are the powers that li"e in the

underworldGdar powers that emerge as human beings encroach on their world! Behind these

dar guardians are the bene"olent maternal &orces that ha"e been preser"ed &rom the &all* whichwill also emerge as we penetrate the earth with wisdom and lo"e! But we will need to &ace the

guardians o& the underworld and master them be&ore we can unite with the .other &orces o&

+hambhala!

or the tremendous ad"ances in technology* &rom which we all deri"e bene&it in the modern

world* we ha"e much to be than&ul! But the untrans&ormed &orces o& the underworld ha"e taen

hold o& our thining! They ha"e allowed us to see new "istas o& reality* but as a side e&&ect theyha"e le&t the modern soul hanging o"er an abyss by remo"ing the pictorial language o& the inner

li&e that used to nourish the human soul and spirit! -s humanity crosses this abyss in our time

which began with the -ge o& -rchangel .ichael in 1JK9E* we see another monumental shi&t in&ocus* and artists ha"e &aith&ully mirrored this shi&t as they ha"e mirrored changes in

consciousness in all ages! Twentieth century art o&ten called simply modern art* distinct &rom

contemporary art* which usually is considered postmodernE has broen away &rom the

con"entions established during the 4enaissance* shattering the idea o& perspecti"e and o& the

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superiority o& naturalistic* representational or what might be called ,photographic/ artGart that

depicts nature as a representation o& how light bounces o&& ob?ects in space!

.odern art has o&&ered bac to humanity the ,language o& the inner li&e!/ t has come bac*"ut

not as a given!such as in earlier times when artists depicted important spiritual e"ents o& the past

or later simply by apprehending what is gi"en by outer nature* as in landscape painting and allrepresentati"e art! n eeping with the innerpictorial "iew to which modern artists ha"e adhered

and which re?ects the ideal o& realism* the wor o& these modern artists ha"e been called ,in

scapes/ rather than landscapes* indicating the innerpoint o& "iew! The &ragmentation o& thepicture plane and the depiction o& dreamlie and &antastic* abstract* imaginati"e constructions

such as ha"e become clichL in our time begun by the pioneers o& .odernismE was a human

in"entionGnot given* but created to e(press the reality o& the inner li&e! These pioneers included

icasso* )uan ;ris* .atisse* Toulouse %autrec* Bra:ue* =ezanne* "an ;ogh* #assily andinsy*and in -merica* .arzden >artley* -rthur Do"e* ;eorgia $5ee&e* )ohn .arin* and =harles

Demuth* to name a &ew! 4udol& +teiner5s "ery signi&icant contribution to art in the twentieth

century is o& another order and cannot be compared with that o& these other artists!E t is no

accident that this "iewpoint de"eloped coincident with the regency o& -rchangel .ichael!

#e could easily point to parallel de"elopments in e"ery sphere o& human culture* including thesciences* in which the traditional* the classical and nearly all the longstanding con"entions o&

representing ,reality/ were o"erturned! n e"ery case there has been a mo"ement away &rom the

merely "isible world and the timebound* spacebound ways o& understanding oursel"es and ourworld! - door has been opened to e(ploring the unnown8 the unconscious* subconscious and

superconsciousGin a word* the in"isible! .odern artists* as an a"antgarde o& culture in the

#estern world* ha"e re?ected the old idea o& reality! Their "ision has not yet permeated the whole

o& society* but the mores which were de&ined by the church or the state ha"e lost their power o"erus! The moral imperati"e o& our time and o& the &uture lies in our power to rede&ine reality* to

li"e true to what we now as soul and spiritual beings* as nowers oursel"es* no longer beholden

to the nowledge e(perts o& the past! $& course* the denizens o& the past are all around us ser"ingas a counterbalance to the a"antgarde that would &ly o&& into the &uture too :uicly! n

con&ronting the in"isible world that we as students o& spiritual science now can be represented

through imagination* inspiration and intuitionE* humanity has been plunged into a "oid! #e arele&t with a world whose &oundations we can no longer claim to understand or readily de&ine* as

pre"iously! +e"eral modern schools o& thought ha"e arisen to underscore this &act* such as8

systems theory* comple(ity science* integral studies* &utures studies* post structuralism* post

&ormalism* open systems biology to name a &ew!6But more importantly* a moral "oid has openedup! To say that a moral "oid has opened up is notto say we are con&ronted with an immoral "oid!

- moral "oid creates an opportunity* an imperati"e! t has become imperati"e to create

something* to en"ision something! .odern artists would ne"er go bac to merelyrepresentational painting o& the outer worldGthat has become meaningless and e"en immoral in

a certain sense* or at least bacward* when so much more potential &or creation e(ists within

humanity! 7or would they allow anything that is not authentic and uni:ue to the indi"idual artist!-rtists and art a&icionados absolutely re?ect all such wor as ,deri"ati"e/ and there&ore ,not

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The "isible world* the world o& space* has lost its power o"er us! The in"isible is now our guide

into the &uture* and the act o& spiritualizing space is intimately connected with our ability to re

de&ine the old notions o& reality and the old understanding o& morality through the power o& ourinner li&e* by our own soul and spiritual &aculties!

& we e(amine what has been presented abo"e we will realize that the world does not merelystand be&ore the threshold o& the spiritual world* but rather it is being pushed o"er the threshold!

t is no longer enough to de&ine oursel"es by outer perceptionsH humanity is now being re:uired

to cross the threshold! -ll o& the di&&iculties o& modern times are the result o& what is con&rontedon the &ront lines* in the throes o& the moral "oid that is encountered at the threshold! t is not a

metaphor to say that when "iewing modern art one is looing into the abyss o& human

consciousness where one might witness chthonic* underworldly powers* or perhaps catch a

glimpse o& a dawning +hambhala!

This situation is all the wor o& spiritual e"olution* the result o& the retreat o& -rchangel .ichael*

o& his becoming taciturn! -s the &ocus o& human attention on super&icial* outer reality is breaing

down and yielding to une(plored inner depths* so too .ichael no longer wors &rom the outside*but sees to wor withinhumanity! >ow is it now that -rchangel .ichael will wor within usto

,penetrate the whole o& li&e to meet the challenges o& our timeere we enter the en"irons o& the grail castle where the mystery o& the union o&

the di"ine &eminine and masculine is celebrated in the sword and the chalice! >ere* as spiritualbeings* we &eel the earth beneath our &eet again a&ter millennia o& incarnations* but as ne"er

be&ore! #e enter again into our ancient wisdom* but it all has become new! Time is laid out

be&ore us in space8 ,Aou see* my son* here time becomes space!/ The realm o& time* the ethericworld* is set be&ore our inner "ision in a panorama!E -nd we can dimly hear the words o& the

ancient dictum* remembering how it sounded to the student o& the mysteries stri"ing &or

initiation* who &inally beheld the "ision o& the Di"ine +ophia saying8 , am the -ll* am the

ast* the resent and the utureH no mortal has yet li&ted my "eil!/ But the dictum has changed!7ow +ophia says8 , am the >uman Being* am the ast* the resent* and the uture! @"ery

mortal should li&t my "eil!/

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erhaps we can &eel the grandeur o& these words* but what does it all mean< >ow might these

words be &leshed out in real li&e< >ow might we e(perience the depths again a&ter more than amillennium o& being schooled in super&iciality< -s we stand at the gate o& this realm* let us return

once more to the :uestion o& space and time that we began withH but now we will attempt to

cross the desert o& conceptual abstractions and enter the land o& the pure* li"ing* water andpulsing blood!

%et us begin by characterizing this new territory that is not built on the &ormer &oundations o&thining in which outer "ision rules and in which it is assumed that e"erything is contained

within the sin o& a thing! %et us lea"e the strait?acet ideation o& mechanistic* materialistic

thought! n this new land we would mo"e &rom ordinary space ,as the eye sees it/ into time* in

the act o& spiritualizing our nowledge o& space* with the help o& the Time +pirit!

#hat does it mean to mo"e beyond the e(perience o& space* the threedimensional world* into

the world o& time* the &ourth dimension< #e ha"e already gi"en a &ew clues to what the

e(perience o& time might be! #e ha"e mentioned the ,timeless/ or symbolic nature o& seeing thatwas represented by artists be&ore the ad"ent o& perspecti"e! t was easy and natural in earlier

times to e(perience the permanence o& the timeless or to ha"e what we might call a time#condensed e(perience! >umanity was embedded in a myth and symbolrich world* a culture that

was thic with ritual and &esti"al to eep the ancient memory ali"e and coursing through the

blood! The outer world has become such a distraction &or us today precisely because our &ocus ison space* and our concern is with ob?ects in space* "iz!* the material world! The abyss we ha"e

&allen into or ha"e been pushed into is a "oid o& time! #e are dimly aware o& this "oidH re&erences

to it slip out in our language! #e are perpetually trying to ,sa"e time/ because we ,don5t ha"e

enough time!/ +o the modern technology pro"ides us with ,time sa"ing/ de"ices that will gi"e usmore time* :uality timeGwith those who are important to us* &or instance! $r we can ,buy time/

to mae more money because we now that ,time is money!/ -s a culture* we actually now that

we are running out o& timeH we e"en acnowledge the ,end o& time/ with e(pectations based onall sorts o& prophesies regarding the ,end times!/ #e &eel the "oid o& time* sometimes acutely*

but we don5t really now what it means! #e may say that time is precious but most o& us don5t

comprehend the depth o& truth in that statement! $r we simply don5t now how to escape theimprisonment o& the time "oid* which is simply the shadow or underside o& unspiritualized

space! & we truly understood our predicament we would stop and listen! #e would enter into the

silence until we could hear the "oice o& silence* calling us bac to oursel"es! #e would hear8

,@"ery mortal should li&t my "eilI am the human beingI am the ast* the resent and theuture!/ #e would stop the incessant internal dialogH we would stop our obsession with doingH

we would stop our ,wise and prudent/ &ascination with the past and the &uture* and we would

simply B@ 4@+@7T! #e would realize once and &or all that the &uture and past ha"e noe(istence outside o& the present momentH they e(ist only in the present moment! -ll else is

imaginaryH all else is &antasy! $ne o& the parado(es o& this path is that we can only recei"e the

gi&ts o& the past and the &uture in the present! Time is 7ow! The eternal li"es in the presentmoment! #e only own oursel"es truly in the 7ow! #e can only act 7ow! #hen we draw all o&

our &orces o& thining and &eeling into the present* we can awaen and we can act! #e mistae

outer mo"ement &or action! 4eal action* spiritaction* is &rom withinH it is not outer mo"ement!

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#hat does it mean that the &uture and the past only lie in the present moment< The answer to this

:uestion is intimated in ;urnemanz5 words to arsi&al8 ,>ere time becomes space!/ $ne o& the

&irst steps on the path o& initiation is seeing the panorama* the tableau( o& our li&e spread outbe&ore us! #e must cross this threshold! This happens with e"ery neardeath e(perience! t

happens at death! t happens when the etheric body separates &rom the physical body! t happens

with initiation! #e see this tableauGour li&e spread out be&ore us* the past the present and the&uture lying be&ore our eyes as i& in space! >ere time becomes space! #e enter the etheric world!

%et us &urther clari&y this enigmatic saying!$ere time "ecomes spacemeans that space is our

way o& translating thingsH it is our way o& comprehending time! -t this point in our e"olution werelate most clearly to the spatial! +o when we say ,time becomes space/ we mean that we are

able to comprehend time* we are able to ,see/ timeGin spatial terms! #hen we see the tableau(

weseetime* whereas be&ore it eluded us!

7ow that we ha"e begun to enter into the mood o& time* let us proceed a step &urther away &rom

the abstract towards the real! #hat do we see in the moment when we ha"e stilled our thoughts

and drawn together our soul &orces< #e ha"e said that we see time spread out be&ore usGour

human li&e and its tra?ectory* we might say! -s with all spiritual matters we can tal about thesethings* but it is a "ery di&&erent thing to e(perience them! #e ha"e either e(perienced the

tableau( or we ha"e not! erhaps we ha"e e(perienced the tableau( but don5t remember it! Thisis so o&ten the case! #e get distracted! #e don5t now what is important* what to &ocus on* so we

let "aluable e(periences go* and we lose them! The spiritual li&e has a lot to do with what Don

)uan* the 7agual* the teacher and the man o& nowledge in =arlos =asteneda5s stories called,recollecting!/ t also has much to do with what he called ,staling!/ +taling is what we do to

&ind the spirit! #e watch intently* :uietly! #e bring all o& our &orces o& attention to the tasGthat

is ,staling!/ #e ha"e e(perienced the tableau( but we need to recollect it! To recollect is ?ust to

re#collectan e(perience* to reli"e it* to resurrect it! +taling and recollecting wor together*helping us to bring the past bac into the present tosee it! -s we do this we will be building our

spiritual hut* and we will understand the spirit o& the >ebrew ,&east o& tabernacles*/ the bounty

o& ha"ing a spiritual house o& our own!

+eeing oursel"es in our past* present and &uture states is not an abstract e(erciseH it is a moral

tour de &orce! t in"ol"es us in the death process that usually li"es in us without our nowledge!#e see the tableau( as the death in us* our mortal nature* maes itsel& nown to us in a

monumental way! t is a colossal achie"ement to see this! >a"e we seen this< -re we willing to

see this< The tableau( we see reaches &rom the past into the &uture with a center point* the 7$#

point* at which we can choose death or li&e in a moment o& spiritdecision! #e can choose deathor li&e* but either way we die! & we choose spirit* our old sel& separates &rom us diesE and we are

resurrectedH i& we choose death we remain dead! -s ;oethe says* ,we die and become!/ -ctually

he says* ,MaNnd as long as thou art without this dying and becoming thou art but an uneasy gueston the dar earth!/KThrough dying and becoming we enter the ;rail =astle and partae o& the

&east! This is where the sword and the chalice come togetherH where we celebrate a solemn and

bounteous &esti"al o& meaningH where our blood is spilt but is captured in the grail cup to beetherized! This dying and becoming becomes an organ in us to see dying and becoming around

usGto see the mortal and the immortal! t becomes our ,ticet/ into the etheric world! >a"ing

seen this in oursel"es* ha"ing taen proper account o& it* we can now see it in others! #e can see

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the tableau( o& a person5s li&e! #e can see the human being* the past* the present and the &uture!

#e can see T.@! ,>ere time becomes space!/

These are ?ust clues! #e must do our own staling and recollecting! To become .ichael5s

companions* to become companions o& the Time +pirit* we must be courageous and do the wor

or we will not be able to spiritualize space* we will not be able to engage ,Othe .ichael owerand the .ichael #ill MtoN penetrate the whole o& li&e*/ as 4udol& +teiner entreats us!

#e ha"e e(amined this &acet o& spiritual e(perience that is one ey to seeing into the ethericworld! Through this e(perience we begin to now how our new organ o& seeing Time can allow

us to see the tableau(* the panorama o& a person5s li&e* allowing us to engage with our &ellow

humans on a deeper le"el than might otherwise be possible! %et us elaborate this scenario a bit

more be&ore we attempt to globalize the idea o& seeing Time* or ha"ing etheric "ision!

#hat does it mean to see another person5s humanity* his or her past present and &uture< irst* it

means to understand that death wors in us all* that we all are chained to the roc lie

rometheusGthe roc o& our material nature! -t that turning point in our li"es when we saw ourown tableau(* we met &aceto&ace the being o& our earthly nature* the being o& death that wors

in us! & we were &ully conscious we recognized this being as oursel"es* our double! #e ha"eseen our weanesses* our &ailings &aceto&ace! & we ha"e made our meeting &ruit&ul* we will

ha"e waled away as a di&&erent person* as a person resol"ed to tae the path o& spirit with

whate"er little power we ha"e to do so* to tae the riss and to press through all o& the obstaclesthat would present themsel"es! The &uture opens to our inner "ision the moment we tae the

challenge! & we &ail to tae the challenge we see only dimly* we see a dar &uture li"ed without

the spar o& %i&e* without the &lame o& the etheric burning in it! The new determination* the new

resol"e that we mae at this point is not the same as our earthly resol"e* our earthlydetermination* which does not a&&ord us the clarity and depth o& "ision to see what the real

obstacle is! t is only in seeing the real hindrance that we can de"elop .ichaelic courageH

e"erything that comes otherwise is a &ilmy shadow* a wea e(cuse &or the spiritual iron that isimparted to us in this encounter with Time* at this meeting with the Time +pirit!

This is how spiritual intimacy with -rchangel .ichael is born in us! >e is the one who holds upthe being o& death &or our "ision! >e stands behind this being that we call the ;uardian o& the

Threshold until we can con&ront it as we should! >e stands preeminently* o& all the archangelic

beings* as one who has &aith in the human being! The radiant sun spirit shines lie the sun upon

our &uture* opens up our spiritual &uture once we ha"e taen in and ha"e digested the moon o&our armic debt* o& our armic bondsGin the double! This is what we become aware o&8 that

without our determined participation in the &ace o& the double we ha"e no powerH there will be no

sun o& the &utureH we are condemned to the darness* to nothing more than the light o& the moon!#ithout this e(perience* all o& what we usually call courage is mingled with moti"es o& our

lower nature and cannot be called courage in the highest sense* which must be related to truth!

But once we tae the step &orward while &acing our double* the presence o& the light o& -rchangel.ichael is there to guide us to truth* and real courage is then born in us!

The signi&icance o& this meeting arranged by the Time +pirit* in which we behold his radiance* is

that we are hence&orth &illed with unspeaable appreciation &or this presence o& light* this etheric

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"ision that we ha"e ac:uired &rom him* and with gratitude to the spiritual world! #e recognize

that without the nowledge o& his presence as the light that &ills our world* we were condemned

to darness* to a "ision o& the world that does not glow with the good* the true* and the beauti&ul*but with only a pale and distorted re&lection o& these! -nd without the &aith that -rchangel

.ichael has in the human being* the &aith to lead us to the ;reater ;uardian o& the Threshold*

=hrist* we would be condemned to li"ing on the sur&ace o& things* to seeing only the outer shello& the world* the hard sin o& things that is re&lected by the physical light that meets our eye!

Through this e(perience we ac:uire the proper appreciation &or .ichaelF=hrist and the humility

that does not condemn others but that understands the human predicament! This humility allowsa sort o& spiritbeholding o& the etheric world o& time in humanity* and enables us to carry out

the .ichaelic mission o& &aith in our &ellow manFwoman* against all odds* shining the light o& the

&uture to irradiate the past* the present* and the &uture in the 7ow o& being human!

n these &ew pages we ha"e concentrated our attention on the seed point o& Time* the gestati"e

moment that opens the doors o& perception to etheric "ision* and we ha"e begun to elaborate that

sort o& "ision as it applies to the human being and to our seeing o& one another! $& course we

need to globalize this "ision to ,penetrate the whole o& li&e*/ as we ha"e set out to e(plain in thisarticle! This wor will be le&t mostly to my readers* but we should at least indicate in the

broadest stroes a picture that may be e(tended without limits by the de"oted student o& theschool o& .ichael!

The most &ertile image can thin o& is that o& the new human being who is born in this ,dyingand becoming/ we ha"e been discussing8 a human being who is a child again! -nd we must place

this new human being who is a child s:uarely be&ore the challenge o& ele"ating human culture

abo"e the di"isions o& science* art and religionG,to penetrate the whole o& li&e!/

#e ha"e all become oldH e"en the young ha"e become old! #e are old in our thining! The only

way to rebirth culture is to see how our old ways o& thining ha"e created this di"ision o& culture!

#e now that the old way is rooted in the material aspect o& our human nature as it stands at thepresent point in world e"olutionH it is the old roc o& rometheus that must be penetrated by

etheric "ision! The roc stands as a symbol o& the inertia* the immo"ability* the impenetrability

o& thining! t represents the tendency to thin o& the material world as the starting point &ore"erything* the "anishing point &rom which our "ision is organized* so to spea! >uman thining

has* by and large* &ollowed this ,roc nature!/ =hildren and the spirit o& childhood are not

sub?ect to this power&ul in&luenceH they are protected &rom it! =hildren ha"e so&t bodies* they

ha"e so&t heads* and their thining is mobile* not strongly in&luenced by the torpor o& the old andsclerotic! =hildren are strangers to anything resembling &i(ed ideas as e"idenced so clearly in

their art which is so &ull o& Time* o& etheric presence* as we ha"e been describing it* and so

de"oid o& the character o& strait?acet* materialistic thining!

$ne o& the hallmars o& intimacy with .ichael is a childlie nature as seen &or instance in the

;erman poet* philosopher and scientist 7o"alis! 7o"alis was a truly childlie &igure to whomthe di"isions o& culture were completely transparent! or him science* art and religion were child

comrades on a human ?ourney o& disco"ery* and so must it become &or us! -nything that is not

born out o& this youth&ul spirit is doomed to &ailure ?ust as the sclerotic* impotent culture we ha"e

created is doomed to &ailure! The childlie &igure we are seeing to en"ision here is actually our

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newborn sel"es* the sel"es we become in our ,dying and becoming!/ -nd it is none other than

the child whose nati"ity we celebrate e"ery year at =hristmas who is born in us! 4udol& +teiner

was clear that ,the .ichael power and the .ichael will are none other than the =hrist power andthe =hrist will!/

-n elaboration o& and a meditation on the childlie nature with its characteristic lo"e* awe* spirito& disco"ery* purity o& perception* and inde&atigable predisposition to wonder would go well

here* but we must lea"e that e(ploration &or another time! +u&&ice it to say that we must engage

oursel"es in ,recollecting/ and in ,staling/ the spirit to lay hold o& the e(perience o& the.ichael power and the .ichael will* which is born in us as a child and* incidentally* is tended

and guarded by another archangelic being by the name o& 4amael!Jntimacy with .ichael as we

ha"e elaborated it will e"entually lead us to the nowledge o& this other sublime being who will

play a greater and greater role in the coming times as the sin o& the old paradigm is cast o&& andthe new community o& the grail en"isioned by 4udol& +teiner as leading humanity becomes a

reality!

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opened this paper with a :uote &rom )ames )oyce5sPortrait of the Artist as a Young Manbecause it captures &rom this most characteristic artist o& the early 20thcentury* the thought ha"e

sought to elaborate in these pages! ,#elcome $ %i&e'I go to encounter&or the millionth time the

reality o& e(perience and to &orge in the smithy o& my soul the uncreated conscience o& my race!/This is the speech o& a newborn spirit* a spirit radiant with hope &or the &uture* an artist with

"ision &or the moral &uture o& humanity! t is the speech o& one who has ,eradicated &rom his soul

all &ear and terror o& what comes out o& the &uture*/ to paraphrase 4udol& +teiner5s meditation

,or this .ichael -ge!/ t is the speech o& a spirit that has con&ronted its shadow* what it &earsthe most* and is willing to &ace it again and again ,in the smithy o& his soul/ &or the sae o& the

&uture o& humanity! t is the "oice o& a soul liberated &rom the nets o& language* o& nationality and

o& religion!9t is the "oice o& a child8 ,#elcome $ %i&e'/ .ay this same "oice resonate withinus< .ay it resound as a clarion call to all who would become .ichael5s companions in the tas

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1+ee8Parsifal* 7otes &rom a lecture gi"en by Dr! 4udol& +teiner at %andin on 29 th)uly* 19062 -lberti* %eon Battista! n Painting.=irca 1C336E Translated with ntroduction and 7otes by )ohn 4! +pencer! 7ew>a"en8 Aale Uni"ersity ress! 19K0 Mirst printed 196N!

3 Taing up the art o& the ar @ast would be "ery interesting to contrast with the #estern perspecti"e but is a completelydi&&erent matter that will not be addressed here!

C$ol% &i"le* ;enesis 1826

+ee8$ol% &i"le* 4e"elations* =hapter 216 credit )enni&er ;idley &or help with this list o& modern schools o& thought* read*'volution of (onsciousness and

Paradigm (hange* a"ailable on -cademia!eduKTaen &rom8 )he M%steries *+ie ,eheimnisse-- =hristmas and @aster oem by ;oethe

J+ee8 -driana oulias8)he )rinit% of athan Soul! /idar! and Michael0 In the Past! Present and 1uture Sacrifices of

(hrist*Part II* &or an e(planation o& this being and his name!

9These words language* nationality* religionE are taen &rom )ames )oyce*Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*=hapter * p! 203* enguin Boos* 19K6

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