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Waldorf + Technology

an ey ave e or

Or Will Humans

Andrew Linnell

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Slide 1Invisible Technology


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Celebratin 150 Years

Rudolf Steiners Birth (2/27)

ex years, e u ure

RR and telegraphy

Anthro oso h

Medicine, Biodynamic Agriculture, Eurythmy,

Waldorf Education, Architecture, Art, Science p r ua c ence

Polarities

Light & Dark

Warmth & Cold

Life & Death

Upper & Lower

Feb. 1, 2011 Invisible Technology Slide 2

Macrocosm microcosm


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Environmental Challen es!

Recent Animal Deaths

s r s ou s ana, more

2 million fish Chesapeake Bay

40,000 crabs in Britain

150 tons red tilapia in Vietnam

Bees and bats disappearing

Population Explosion 5B 12B

Disease epidemics

Political Timber Box Pressure Rise & fall of countries/religions war



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Social Media Makes Us More Social?

Facebook, chat, email, skype, twitter,

telepresence, online dating, 2n

Life Coming more life in virtual reality

,

Solitude and Loneliness

All-One = Alone

How when does one feel understood? Wimps? Love?

Community: what purpose? New?


Tunisia, Egypt,


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Who Are We An wa ?

Whats our picture of the Human?

If our genome is involved in everyaspect of our behavior and bodilyprocesses - see ng, reat ng,

digesting, walking, talking, sleeping, ,bio-machines doomed for a cosmicrec clin center? http://nature.ca/genome/03/a/03a_11_e.cfm



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Definitions

Science: study of facts

Engineering: application of the knowledgelearned scientifically to develop products

Cybernetics: studies communication,

control, and feedback in living beings and inthe machines built by humans



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Ra Kurzweils Vision of the Future

Immortality isw ur

grasp

When Humanstranscend

biology


GNR


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When Silicon Bein s Sur ass Carbon$2000 computer, 2020 = human brain, 2045 = all human

Law of

The Singularity is reachedWhen AI surpasses HI with

AcceleratingReturns:

technological

e -rep ca ng n e gen mac nesexponential

as is thechange inthe rate of

change

Blue Brain ProjectMimic the Brainwww.eetimes.com,

Ma 28 2008



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From the Sin ularit Movie

GNR to make a better life and world

Humanity is fast approaching an era in which ourintelligence will become increasingly merged withcomputers and trillions of times more powerful.

This will be the dawning of a new civilization,enabling us to transcend our biologicallimitations.

,real and virtual. Human aging and illness arereversed, world hunger and poverty are solved,and we cure death.


Live long enough to live forever


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Life After the Sin ularit The bulk of our experiences will shiftfrom real reality

to virtual reality Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately

be nonbiological, which by the end of this century willbe trillions of trillions of times more powerful thanhuman intelligence

However, this does not imply the end of biologicalbeings, even if thrown from its perch of evolutionary

superiority [Kurzweil expects the rise of hybrid humans]forms will be derivative of our biological design In other words, our civilization will remain human,

indeed in many ways more exemplary of what weregard as human than it is today, although our

un erstan ng o t e term w move eyon tsstrictly biological origins. Ray Kurzweil



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Nanotechnolo and Virtual Realit

Wireless sensoryaugmen a on Implantation at or

even before birth It will become the

norm Visual & audio easy

how about touch?

second reality Mental context switch Need for a threshold?

Nanny or Guardian? Much easier entry

than to spiritual world

January 30, 2005 Invisible Technology


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You Ma Think Not in M Lifetime

VeriChip with RFID & GPS, also Digital Angel

ze = gra n o r ce

VIP clubbers No place for money

Credit card

National ID

Pets and livestock

Equipment

Immigrants, Alzheimers, diabetics, soldiers,sex offenders, children, employees


ea ers mon or oo , w erea ou s

$150


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Brain Au mentation Embed GPS & RFID

Embed computer(s) Replace the brain

Reverse engineer



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Linkin the Brain to Mechanical Arms


Link to video


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Robotic Arms for Humans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppILwXwsMng

December 2, 2009 European scientists say they successfully

connected a robotic hand to a man who had lostan arm allowing him to feel sensations in theartificial hand and control it with his mind

The experiment lasted a month mpu ee was a e o ma e comp ex movemen s

using his mindto control a biomechanic handconnected to his nervous system



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Turn Thou hts in Action: BrainGate

If the patient still has the ability

to think about movement,BrainGate has the potential tointerpret and re-connect thosesignals, thus allowing the patient

http://www.braingate.com/

thinking about it.



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Is This the Man-Machine M ster ?

Integration: Man-Machine

Artificial limbs, organs,nerves, muscles

Computer implantation

Brain-internet connection

Biologically compatiblevibratory systems

ec no ogy mp an ein forehead Required for business



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Nanobots! Deliver medicinal

area Repair internals non-

Surgically remove

tumors Manufacturing

Personalized

Self replicating

Issues: Removal from body



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Desi nin Your Bab Eu enics ?

Eliminating defects



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Double Ed ed Sword of GNR Promise and peril: Luddites or Technophiles

,

We are being propelled into a new century with no plan, nocontrol, no brakes! The only realistic alternative I see isrelinquishment: to limit the development of the technologies

,of knowledge.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

Joys deep concern about the future grew out of Ray Kurzweilse ge o piritua ac ines

Kurzweil: Technology has always been a mixed blessing,bringing us benefits such as longer and healthier life-

, ,

many novel creative possibilities on the one hand, whileintroducing new dangers. Technology empowers both ourcreative and destructive natures. http://wise-nano.org/w/Kurzweil_CTF_Essay



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Nanotech Dan ers?

No Privacy

No RegulationsPast Mistakes Asbestos

Lead in petrol

DDT - pesticides

Synthetic hormones

as oo



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A Few Scientific Studies of Dan ers 2004: environmental toxicologist Eva Oberdrster, SMU:

Fullerenes killed water fleas and extensivel dama ed fishbrains after exposure of only 48 hours at a relatively

moderate dose of 0.5 parts per million Gene markups in their livers were changed

: en er or o og ca an nv ronmen aNanotechnology) indicated that nanoparticles accumulatedin the bodies of lab animals and fullerenes could easilytravel throu h soil and be absorbed b earthworms therebentering the food chain This is a potential link up in the food chain to humans

2004: British scientist Vyan Howard published findings that

n ca e go nanopar c es rave roug a mo er splacenta to the fetus

2002: UCSD revealed cadmium selenide nanoparticles, also,



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Lookin Youn A ain Creams Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products use Fullerenes

These nanoparticles are extremely dangerous andproducts containing them should be banned,

. , . .and Occupational Medicine at the University ofIllinois at Chicago School of Public Health

" ,nanoparticles, have been introduced without anylabeling into a growing number of Dr. Perricone'santi-a in roducts articularl skin creams and

Ceramic Eye Smoother. These are touted asreducing wrinkles and firming up the skin surface.

http://www.world-wire.com/news/1001120001.html



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When Will Nano-Products Arrive?

a n-res s an a r cs

Time-release perfumedfabrics

a er mpur y es ers

Sprayable vitamins

Ski wax Odor-eating socks

Cosmetics & sunscreen

Golf and tennis balls

Long-lasting paper

Flat panel displays

Clubs and racquets

Paints

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Artificial silicon retinas

Drug delivery systems

Water purifiers

Capsules carrying

ar par s Diagnostic agents for

use in MRI scans



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Removable From Our Environment? No known effective method

No predator nothing can digest them Only fire (Old Saturn) sufficient to break chemical bonds

-- Symptoms: crawling, biting and stinging sensations;

granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or



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Where is Technolo Goin ? Invisible

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004

Invisible Technology Slide 27


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Carbon Nanostructures

Single-walled Carbon Nanotube

Stronger and stiffer than steel.

Conduct heat better than diamondsC60(Buckminster-

Invisible Technology

fullerene) r


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The Dodecahedron and The Fullerene



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The Voice of Technolo The body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine

that acts according to a set of specifiable rules... Weare mac nes, as are our spouses, our c ren, an

our dogs... I believe myself and my children all to bemere machines. [Rod Brooks, Director of CS-AIL, MIT.] The neural code is the software whereby the brain

rans orms raw sensory a a n o percep ons,memories, decisions, and meanings. [John HorganScience Writer and Author of Rational Mysticism]

The more we learn about our brains, the more ways wew n o mprove em. ur er a vances, nopart of the brain will be out of bounds forattaching new accessories. In the end, we will findways to replace every part of the body and brain

make our lives so brief. Needless to say, in doingso, we'll be making ourselves into machines.[Marvin Minsky, Director of MIT Media Lab]


Will Robots Inherit the Earth?(Scientific American, October 1994)


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Minsk : on Soul and S irit Many thinkers firmly maintain that machines will never

have thoughts like ours, because no matter how we buildem, ey a ways ac some v a ngre en .

They call this essence by various names--like sentience,consciousness, spirit, or soul. Philosophers write entirebooks to prove that, because of this deficiency, machinescan never ee or un erstan t e sorts o t ngs t atpeople do.

However, every proof in each of those books is flawed byassuming, in one way or another, the thing that itpurports to prove--t e ex stence o some mag caspark that has no detectable properties.

I have no patience with such arguments. We should not be searchin for an sin le missin art.

The Emotion Machine, Simon and Schuster, 2006



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Is the S irit Just Ma a illusion ?Trans-Spiritis a natural science branch

scientific understanding of spiritual phenomenaand, based on that understanding, to develop

experiences at will

Trans-Spirit aims to focus almost exclusively

human beings to believe and behave according to

religious and spiritual norms.Trans-Spirit: Religion,S iritualit and Transhumanism, Journal of Evolution

and Technology, 2005 Vol. 14 pgs 39-53, MichaelLaTorra, New Mexico State University



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Where is Our Memor ? Dr. Paul Pearsall contends that the

heart thinks, feels, remembers, andcommunicates with other hearts

An 8-yr. girl received the heart of a10-yr. girl who had been murdered.

the murderer was.

Police notified who were able to track

him down by following the girls

evidence she had provided

Clues about: the time, the weapon, theplace, the clothes he wore, etc.

Everything the girl said was true Does the transplanted heart take with

it its etheric heart and its memories?



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Reincarnation? http://www.fox8.com/wjw-reincarnation-txt,0,1190900.story

htt : www.reverses ins.com roofofreincarnation.html

11 year old James Leininger James Huston The most documented case of reincarnation

Reca s over 50 memories rom past i e

World War II Pilot's family believes it is their

reincarnated brother based on child's memories See book "Soul Survivor"



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Becomin Masons of Technolo

Temple Legend: Hiram and Solomon

One (Solomon) can envision (heavenly)

One (Hiram) can build (earthly)

Masonic orders

Mystery knowledge, character

rom masons o s one o masons otechnology (sub-nature)

Grasping the role of art



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Develo in the New Masonic M steriesAs we delve into sub-Nature, so mustwe, in balance, rise into Super-Nature

Life Chem-Tone Super-Nature

What is Software?

Software emulates aprocess. We think

Warmth/Fire

Air

e, t er c process, then wefreeze it kill it.

We separate it from

Water Earth/Dark

e wor o ocusonly on the process.Hence software is: Dead

Magnetism 3rd Force

Sub-NatureVirtual Reality

Separate Dark ColdCom are to the 4


Ethers.


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Are These Thresholds?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004


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Consciousness at the uantum Level



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Recent News on Bio hotons Brain and nerves

Conduct electrons and biophotons

Discovered: all cells emit biophotons

Mitochondria contain chromophores

Are these receptors?

What is Light?

Or to electricity?



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S iritual Sciences Pers ective Light as consciousness

Electricity as light in sub-nature

As we penetrate into sub-nature, somust we in proportion rise intosuper-nature

We must cultivate a science of thelevels above and below the mere



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And No Stone Shall Be Left Unturned We are living now in the epoch of evolution that may

permeate this mineral world through and through with

the spirit within us.

What ou have done to the mineral world asses intothe very atoms and does not vanish without a trace.Every such atom bears a trace of your spirit and will

carry this trace with it. Whether an atom has at some time been in a

machine, or has not been in a machine, is not a matterof indifference. The atom itself has undergone change

,

change that you have wrought in the atom will neveragain be lost to it. The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93

Nanotechnologys Relationship to Quantum Physics



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What is the Atom? The atom is nothing but coagulated electricity

Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture,science will have reached the stage where manwill be able to enetrate into the atom itself

When the similarity of substance between the thoughtand the atom is once comprehended, the way to get

hold of the forces contained in the atom will soon bediscovered and then nothing will be inaccessible tocertain methods of working

It is impossible to conceive what might happen in suchcircumstances i man in as not, y t en, reac eselflessness

The attainment of selflessness alone will enable



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Evolvin Human Consciousness Moreover, through your having changed the atom,

with the mineral world, a permanent stamp has been

made upon the general consciousness of mankind.

Ever thin that is erformed without re ard to selfthat is connected with the interests of another, helps tointensify and to strengthen our consciousness in

the future struggles for existence. You build a church for others, not for yourself.

Whatever is achieved in the way of development ofconsciousness in the world does something to further

being, even if such a being has not actually worked atthe development of his own consciousness. The Atom as Coa ulated Electricit GA93



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Futurolo Conclusion The world will be dramatically different soon

nv s e tec no og es ecome preva ent

Approaching atomic where matter disappears Penetration of atom

Appeals to greed, vanity, and egoism

Also provides opportunity for selfless work

pp es mos y o su -na ureSuper-nature: Etheric Astral Spirit

Sub-nature: Fallen etheric forces

Electricity (light)

Magnetism (chemical)

3rd force nuclear (life)


,into sub-nature, so must he rise into super-nature


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Conclusion: A Social FutureOh Man, Know Thou Thyself

Community life within social media

Like purpose, freedom to associate

3-fold: Equality, Brotherhood, Freedom

Art within social media

Soul Nourishing

Who will be the Mason, the doctor,

r u ur



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Call to Action Nanotechnology is a dangerous frontier

e mus no ose w a s o e a uman

We must develop Masonry of Sub-Nature Temple Mystery of Hiram and Solomon, Trismegistus

Must balance sub-Nature with super-Nature

Spiritual Science

Role of Art

Role of Religion

Waldorf students to the rescue! New Image of the Human



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We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror

must acquire serenity in all feelings and

sensations about the future.We must look forward with absolute e uanimit to

everything that may come. And we must thinkonly that whatever comes is given to us by a

world-directive full of wisdom.It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely,

to live out of pure trust, without any security inexistence - trust in the ever-present help of the

.

Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to failus. Rudolf Steiner


,


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What Will Be Our Future World? What is now around you will become your inner life.

You will take into yourselves what is now the mineralkingdom and it will become part of your inner being;

similarly the plant kingdom. What surrounds you innature will become your inner being.

a we ourse ves prepare an ma e rea y nthe world that is what will constitute our futureexistence.

is the measure of the consciousness that the world willgive back to you.

,

plant world, with the animal world, and with men,that we shall surely become. If you found a charitable institution or have contributed something


to its foundation, what you have contributed will become anintegral part of you. The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93


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Rudolf Steiner Biblio ra h An Outline of Occult Science,

1909

The Challenge of the Times,11/29 12/8, 1918

,9/2-14, 1908

The Balance in the World andMan, 11/20-22, 1914 The Realm of Language, The

Ahriman, 11/1-15, 1919

The Mission of the ArchangelMichael, 11/21-30, 1919 The Reappearance of Christ in

os n son e ween pea ngand Thinking, 7/17-18, 1915

Inner Impulses of Evolution,Mexican Mysteries and Knights

Templar, 9/16 10/1, 1916

e er c The Boundaries of Natural

Science, 9/27 10/3, 1920 Life between Death and a New

Birth as Image of the Future e arma o ocat on, -

27, 1916 The Karma of Materialism,

7/31-9/25, 1917 The Work of the Angels in

up ter, , Michealmas and the Soul-

Forces of Man, 9/27 10/1,1923

The Michael Mystery, 3/1925Mans Astral Body, 10/9/1918

Rosicrucian Esotericism, 1909 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,

1907

Also, Battle for the Etheric, Nick

Thomas, 1995



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ac up s es

Slide 50


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Art with Darkenin Paintin

RYB

Raphael

Madonna dell Granduca

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Art with Li htenin Luminosit

RGB

Stained

glass

Rose

window c 1235

c oes

technology use?



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Mixin Humans with 95% of theirDNA sequence,and 99% of

H u m a n z e e m a y a l r e a d y h a v e b e e n d o n e !

sequences are incommon

Neanderthals:

nso ve s ory roa cas scovery anne arc ,

, Use Neanderthal genome to bring one to life Implant embryo in chimpWhy? -

diseases such as HIV or smallpox Lead to new gene therapy or drug treatmentsUnethical not to clone them! We could learn from them


Sound like Exploitation?


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Edible Nanostructures?

Crystals consisting of cubes made from six gamma--

potassium ions

Sugar ring

preservative

Edible?



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Steiner on Facin Human-Mechanical

The will is there to harness human energy tomechanical energy

These things should not be treated by fighting

against them that is a completely false view These will not fail to appear; they will come

a we are concerne w s w e er, n ecourse of world history, they are entrusted topeople who are familiar in a selfless way with the

great aims of earthly evolution and who structurewhether they are enacted by groups of humanbeings who exploit these things in an egotistical orin a group-egotistical sense

to come; it is a question of the how, how onetackles these situations



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The Battle For The Etheric Realm

1st step towards Spiritual Consciousness

e a on

Reincarnation: memory of past lives

Man and Nature as machines

Downplaying of morals, free-will, love, thinking

Sub-Nature and Super-Nature

Attachment of a 2nd Being : For Jupiter? Did Humans to Angels on Old Moon?

Logos appearing within the Etheric Reflection of love in the etheric body



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Sub-Natures Ima e of the Livin

Sub-Nature is developing using Super-ur r r y

From Life came the Lifeless As Excretion

Physical transformed from warmth of Old Saturn

Will pass away at the end of Earths Ages

osop er s one as v ng ar on

Trans-substantiation versus GMO & nanoparticles

Scientists Workbench as Altar

Reverence for the Wisdom embedded in Nature



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Attachment of a Second Bein

During the course of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, somany problems have lost all inner, vital warmth. Thecoun ess ques ons w c con ron us w en we s u ySpiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist

for the modern man with his materialistic outlook. Adifferent form of experience will come to the man of

.well; he observes the material world, uses his intellectto establish the interconnections between itsphenomena and believes that all its riddles are solved

,a phantasmagoria. But this way of working coarsensand dries up his ether-body, with the ultimate resultthat the [Ahrimanic] powers, l i k e a se co n d n a t u r e ,w i l l a t t a ch t h e m se l v e s t o h im . The Balance in the Worldand Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Rudolf Steiner

Note Similarity to Angel as a Second Being



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Confrontin Ahriman

-materialism, Ahriman will be able to dwell.

It is our duty to educate children in the future in such away that they will be competent to understand thespiritual world.

The ether-body must be quickened in order that thehuman being may be able to take his rightful stand, fully

side. If he does not understand the nature of this secondbeing, he will be spellbound by him, fettered to him.

We in our a e must et the better of Ahriman b

enriching the Ego with the wisdom that can be bornonly from knowledge and investigation of the spiritualworld, i.e. from Spiritual Science.



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Historical Picture

GoldMeetingwithnexthumans

Silver

and withsuperhumans

repetition

BronzeAbraham

LuciferAhriman

new formsOld forms

Dark

Moses


15th Century

7 St f E th C diti


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7 Sta es of Earth Condition

Gods

Etheric

Hierarchy = 12

Saturn -

PhysicalFire

Vulcan Atman

Warmth

Sun Etheric Creates

ManAir

Venus Buddhi

Light

Moon Astral

Water

Manas,Super-Nature

Tone

Venus

Jupiter Sub-Nature

ar

Ego

Earth

LifeLaws of Polarities

July 20, 2009 On the Road to Jupiter Slide 61

u can 3rd depth

2nd depth

O l i E l ti


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Overla in Evolutions

On Old Moon the Angeloi were at the human state

Quite different conditions existed

We developed to an advanced pre-state of the Earthevolution

We became a troublesome concern for the Angeloi

In the descending Earth evolution the Jupiter

Humans arise On Jupiter, they will have advanced to a new and

different form of man

These Jupiter men exist already now just as we

They exist not externally visible but assupersensible beings


, ,Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919

O l i E l ti t


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Overla in Evolutions cont.

These sub-human beings character consists of animpulse which strongly coincides with the humanpower of will

They now appear from below as beings produced inAhrimans realm

Ahrimanic influences act through those with obscuredconsciousnesses

as long as one does not take into considerationese orces as orces o ec ve y ex s ng n eworldjust as one takes into consideration whattoday is called magnetism, electricity, and so forth,one will not gain an insight into human nature Today's natural science does not contain man, merely

the physical body

The Mission of the Archan el Michael V, The Michael Deed and the Michael


Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919

M ki d C ti d B i


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Mankinds Continued Becomin

In the beginning, form was given to all by the Gods 5th Epoch: Man given power to give form for minerals

Just as in the past the Gods created the mineral worldfrom a chaotic mass, so our cathedrals, inventions andeven our institutions are the germs for a future world

So We Must Transform the Earth Into a temple of truth, beauty, and goodness

6th Epoch: Man transforms the plants Man will be able to create and give shape to plant-life

7th E och: Man transforms the animal kin dom Man will give form and have power over animal life

And at a still higher stage, he will be able to reproducehis like by an act ofconscious will (love)

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But for health, we must be balanced with super-natureRudolf Steiner,An Esoteric CosmologyXV


Love and Ju iter


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Love and Ju iter

"Just as wisdom was evolved upon the Moon, in order that it mightnow be found in all things, so in like manner is love evolving

Love came into existence first in its lowest, its most sensuous form, duringthe Lemurian period

Love will become ever more and more spiritualized, until at last, when theEarth has reached the end of its evolution, the whole of existence will have

The Beings who will wander about upon Jupiter, just as humanBeings move about upon the Earth, will find love exhaling from allcreatures, the love which they themselves, as Human Beings, will

have laced there durin their life u on the Earth They will find love in everything just as we today find wisdom everywhere

Then human beings will develop love out of their own inner selves in thesame way that they are now little by little evolving wisdom

The great cosmic love that here upon the Earth is beginning its existencewi t en permeate a t ings. Rudolf Steiner, Gospel of St. John, Hamburg

Wisdom to Cosmic Love to The Father. Manas to Buddhi to Atman Question: As Earth is permeated by Wisdom from the Kyriotetes, what

beings will we assist to build a Jupiter permeated by Love?


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