Re: Meditation exercise on "separate me"
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:20 pm
I already answered to Federica that what you are doing here an extremely twisted misinterpretation of the Christ message and impulse. The Christ's message and impulse is the appeal to Oneness that we are supposed to reach to and internalize as our inner experience and experiential sate of consciousness in this very human life, and not to turn it into any kind of over-spiritualization towards the One. And Christ did not say anything about a necessity of doing SS, studying extremely intellectualized esoteric teachings, and studying lawful structures and higher-order hierarchies. He preached Oneness to fishermen, prostitutes and criminals, which means that the doors to Oneness are always open to anyone anytime with no prerequisites. It is only your choice to enter them or turn away from them.AshvinP wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:45 am That wasn’t the point. There is no chance understanding the Luciferic and Ahrmicanic impulses, balanced by the Christ impulse, if we continually seek to externalize them as good or evil powers, or 'controlled opposition', to analyze from a safe distance. These impulses live within our soul lives, each and every One. Our soul life unfolds within their overarching context, including our nondual meditations on Oneness. It's when we abstract and externalize these forces, by losing sight of the Christ impulse towards self-consciousness of the living details through which the One Spirit manifests, losing sight of the humble and meek Spirit of confession and repentance (metanoia), that we inevitably create an oppositional duality and oscillate between the poles. Then we start to imbue the Ahrimanic force of erroneous outer perception with Luciferic qualities, as you just did in the last post. Ahriman becomes Lucifer and the real Lucifer remains in the blind spot. Then we start to worship this hidden Lucifer as the Divine Oneness, the Holy Trinity, etc. Finally, to complete the circle of unconscious externalization, we project what we ourselves are doing, in the worship of the oppositional powers, onto others and the world at large. These are the far reaching consequences Steiner spoke of. So many aspects of modern existence can be understood if we become conscious of this dynamic through living understanding of the Christ impulse which works within our own thinking soul and mediates between the poles of Lucifer (over-spiritualization towards the One) and Ahriman (over-materialization towards the Many).
"I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." (John 17)