Eugene I. wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:08 pm
Clearly, it's a philosophy of spiritual dictatorship and anything but freedom. The necessity to submit to the higher order is justified by completely misconstruing freedom and representing it as nothing else than an expression of egoic desires. Steiner initially did suggest freedom in the exploration of reality in his PoF, but in his later works abandoned it in favor of the above view.
Sigh... Eugene, sometimes I wonder how you're willing to expend energy on all this, while at the same you can expend much less if you simply try to
understand what is being talked here.
And it all stems from the flat spiritual model and the view of the absolutized ego-atom. If the depth structure of Being and evolution were at least partially understood, no such objections would ever occur.
It's not about submitting to some arbitrary order but understanding what we're moving through nonetheless. This allows us to employ our activity in such a way that we can become more and more free, instead of becoming more and more entangled.
The freedom to deny something is not equal to the creative freedom to be responsible for that thing yourself. Dostoevsky's quote in Ashvin's latest essay speaks very clearly on this. Think about the human body. Most certainly we're forced to submit to its laws. If you don't want to submit, then try to be responsible for every chemical reaction in your body, every power stroke in the muscle fibers, the peristalsis and so on. You see, the spiritual world doesn't want to take our liberties. It simply does things which
we're unable to do ourselves. And this is the whole path of evolution - to raise through the levels of being, which are responsible for more and more fundamental strata of reality. As strange as it may sound, at certain point it will be our conscious responsibility to give form to our body and to give rhythm to our blood flow.
Just as our ego would never feel in the way it feels now if it was not for all the work that the whole Nature does to support our physical existence, so the same that ego would never feel in this way, if it wasn't embedded in the Macrocosmic Time-Consciousness landscape. Can you be responsible for the existence of the planets? Can you give the rotation of the Earth? Can you produce the light and warmth of the Sun? Can you support the rhythmic epochs of evolution through your own spiritual activity?
And I know how you'll reply to this: it doesn't matter to you. After death you hope you'll leave all this behind and you're going to Godel's Heaven. But while on Earth, at least try to understand the impulses of those who try to understand the laws of living reality and who see how this understanding holds the solutions to the sorry state of humanity.