Philosophical Speculations

So in that sense, I don't think 'the plan', from the perspective of VT and Christian Hermeticism at least, is anything super complicated. It's simply trying to sow the seeds of higher spiritual life within the existing institutions of culture, taking opportunities to spiritualize the latter ...

Statements like "spiritual science never existed" and the like are simply not meant to be read as statements of fact. Every such statement points directly back to the center of all Tomberg's activities: the Lazarus-John mystery. The above statement is to be read: "When Lazarus was raised as the ...

A sincere and full confession can and should open one's eyes to the deeply problematic and incongruous situation of one's life in the "mechanistic and habituated modern environment." This very awakening, even if fleeting, is a doorway toward higher levels of spiritual development. You might then ...

Cleric wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 6:41 pm ...

Thank you Cleric for sharing this. It's of tremendous help to gain orientation to the mystery in question, and in general.
Much to contemplate, as far as one's capacities allow.

It probably isn't a coincidence because it seems that a major factor (not the only factor) in Tomberg's distancing from the Anthroposophical Society and joining the Catholic Church was the perceived failure of the former to serve as a practical means of upholding moral integrity in those horrendous ...

Regarding the bolded: that an organ or member - as a general endowment of mankind - once unfolded cannot be compromised is not the case, especially in the newer soul members. You correctly identify that the Intellectual Soul has its substantiality in the higher beings who imparted it to human ...

Apologies for jumping in the middle of all the subtlety with a few pointy questions. But I think they are important. 1/ Who are the beings intuited by Tomberg in Spirit world? I am asking because I don’t understand the deliberate gesture of stepping back from the Spirit World, once one has lived in i ...

Then what is Tombergs own Catholic project? What is the appropriate role of the RCC according to Tomberg, according to you? That still remains mostly a mystery to me. Rodriel has presented some interesting ideas about that, which I am still contemplating. The more I contemplate it, the more it ...

If you could elaborate a bit on how you think my comment overlooked Cleric's point about intellectual thinking vs the intellectual soul, I could more easily comment on it. Yes. Your contention was: One must remember that Steiner's earthly work was done a century ago, when conditions were quite ...

The Catholic project, as that has been described here, imagines it is optimal to shelter souls from freely developed higher knowledge and instead lead them to the Divine through externally imposed dogmas and philosophical-theological concepts which they can move through with mechanical intellectual ...