Alvorada da Era de Michael

 Alvorada/Amanhecer da Era de Michael

 por Sonia von Homrich

Este artigo se relaciona com o artigo Coração Etérico e Graal 

https://soniavonhomrich.blogspot.com/2023/04/coracao-eterico-e-graalhaertlsvh.html

Rudolf Steiner: "Aquele que entende como observar essas coisas sabe que uma grande mudança ocorreu no último terço do século XIX em relação à vida do pensamento humano. Antes daquela época, o ser humano só podia sentir como os pensamentos se formavam em seu próprio ser; a partir do tempo indicado, o ser humano torna-se capaz de se elevar acima de seu próprio ser; o ser humano pode voltar (direcionar) a sua mente para o espiritual; ali ele encontra Michael (Arcanjo e Arqueu) que prova a sua conexão anciã com tudo que se relaciona ao pensar. Ele libera o pensar da esfera da cabeça; ele abre/limpa o caminho do pensar para o coração; ele permeia de entusiasmo os sentimentos, assim a mente humana poder ser preenchida com devoção por tudo que pode ser vivenciado na luz do pensar.

A alvorada da Era de Michael surgiu. Corações começam a ter pensamentos; o fervor espiritual agora não mais procede apenas da obscuridade mística, mas sim das almas esclarecidas/limpas pelo pensamento. Compreender isso significa receber Michael no coração. Os pensamentos que atualmente se esforçam para compreender o espiritual devem se originar nos corações que batem por Michael como o ardente Príncipe do Pensar no universo ".

 

Emergindo de poderes do Sol,

Poderes-Espirituais radiantes, abençoando todos os mundos!

Para a roupa de raios de Michael

Você é predestinado pelo Pensar Divino.

 

Ele, o Mensageiro de Cristo, revela em você -

Posiciona a humanidade no alto - a vontade sagrada dos mundos.

Você, seres radiantes dos mundos do éter,

Conduz a palavra de Cristo para seres humanos.

Assim o arauto de Cristo deve surgir

Para as almas sedentas que esperam

Para quem sua Palavra de Luz brilha

 

Na era cósmica do Ser Humano Espiritual.

Você, discípulos do conhecimento espiritual,

Tome a sabedoria de Michael que acena;

Pegue a Palavra de Amor da Vontade dos Mundos

Na aspiração da sua alma, fervorosamente!

Imaginação, Inspiração, Intuição

Fonte/ Source

https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c01.html

 

Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts. GA 26

1. At the Dawn of the Michael Age

Before and until the ninth century after the Mystery of Golgotha, the human being stood in a different relation to his thoughts from that which he has had in later times. He did not have the feeling that he himself brought forth the thoughts that lived in his soul. He regarded them as inspirations from a spiritual world. And when he had thoughts about what he perceived with his senses, even these thoughts were to him revelations of the Divine that spoke to him from the things of the senses.

Whoever has spiritual vision will understand this experience. For when something that is real in the spiritual sense communicates itself to the soul, one never has the feeling: ‘There is the spiritual perception, and I myself am developing the thought with which to understand it.’ But one sees the thought which the perception contains, and which is given with it, no less objectively than the perception itself.

(When dates are given in this connection, they are to be taken only as a rough indication of the period; the transition takes place quite gradually.) Speaking, in this sense, we may say that the ninth century saw the lighting-up, in the souls of men, of the individual personal intelligence.

Man began to have the feeling: ‘I myself form my thoughts.’ And this forming of thoughts came to be the thing of first importance in the soul's life, so that man saw in the intellectual experience the very essence and being of his soul. In earlier times men had had an imaginative conception of the soul. To them the essential thing about the soul was not that it formed thoughts, but that it partook of the spiritual content of the Universe. It was the supersensible, spiritual Beings whom they conceived to be thinking, and—extending their influence into the human being—thinking into him as well. That which lives in the human being of the supersensible, spiritual world—this they felt as the soul.

As soon as we penetrate with higher vision into the spiritual world, we meet with real and concrete spiritual Beings, spiritual Powers. In old teachings the Power from whom the thoughts in things proceed was designated by the name Michael. This name we may still apply, for it is true that human beings, once upon a time, received the thoughts of Michael. Michael held sway over the Cosmic Intelligence. But from the ninth century onwards men no longer felt that Michael was inspiring the thoughts into them. The thoughts had fallen away from his dominion—fallen out of the spiritual world into the individualised souls of men.

Henceforth it was within mankind that the life of thought was evolved. To begin with, men were uncertain as to what it was they had in their thoughts. This uncertainty found very real expression in the scholastic teachings. The Schoolmen were divided into Nominalists and Realists. The Realists, led by St. Thomas Aquinas and those who stood near to him, still felt the old closeness and kinship between thought and thing. Hence they saw in the thoughts a reality living in the things. They regarded the thoughts of man as reality which flows over from the things into the human soul.

The Nominalists felt very strongly the fact that the soul forms its thoughts. They felt that the thoughts were merely something that existed subjectively in the soul and had nothing to do with the objects. They were of the opinion that thoughts are only names man forms for things. (They did not speak of ‘thoughts’ but of ‘universals,’ but that does not come into consideration for the principle of the theory, as thoughts always contain something universal as compared with the individual objects.)

We may say that the Realists wished to remain faithful to Michael; even though the thoughts had fallen from his sphere into that of man, they wished, as thinkers, to serve Michael as the Ruler of the intelligence of the Cosmos. The Nominalists deserted Michael, with respect to the unconscious part of their soul. They did not consider Michael as the owner of the thoughts, but man.

Nominalism spread abroad and increased in influence up to the last third of the nineteenth century. Then at this period those persons who were able to perceive the spiritual events in the Universe felt that Michael had followed the stream of intellectual life. He is seeking a new metamorphosis of his cosmic task. Formerly he allowed the thoughts to stream from the spiritual outer world into the souls of men; since the last third of the nineteenth century he wishes to live in the human souls in which the thoughts are formed. In earlier times the human beings related to Michael saw him develop his activity in the spiritual sphere; they now know that they ought to let Michael dwell in their hearts; they now dedicate to him their spiritual life which is based upon thought; they now, in their free and individual life of thought, allow themselves to be instructed by Michael as to which are the right paths of the soul.

When those who in their former Earth-life received their thoughts by inspiration, i.e., who were servants of Michael, had returned to earthly life at the close of the nineteenth century, they felt urged towards a voluntary Michael community of this description. They now looked upon the one who had formerly inspired them with thoughts as their guide in forming higher thoughts.

One who understands how to observe such things knows what a great change took place in the last third of the nineteenth century with respect to the life of human thought. Before that time man could only feel how thoughts formed themselves in his own being; from the time indicated he is able to raise himself above his own being; he can turn his mind to the Spiritual; he there meets Michael, who proves his ancient kinship with everything connected with thought. He liberates thought from the sphere of the head; he clears the way for it to the heart; he enkindles enthusiasm in the feelings, so that the human mind can be filled with devotion for all that can be experienced in the light of thought.

The Age of Michael has dawned. Hearts are beginning to have thoughts; spiritual fervour is now proceeding, not merely from mystical obscurity, but from souls clarified by thought. To understand this means to receive Michael into the heart. Thoughts which at the present time strive to grasp the Spiritual must originate in hearts which beat for Michael as the fiery Prince of Thought in the Universe.

Further Leading Thoughts issued from the Goetheanum for the Anthroposophical Society

79. Spiritually, we can approach the Third Hierarchy (Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi) by learning to know Thinking, Feeling and Willing, so as to perceive in them the Spiritual that works in the soul. Thinking, to begin with, places not an effective reality, but only pictures into the world. Feeling lives and moves in this realm of pictures; bears witness to the presence of a reality in man, but cannot live it or express it outwardly. Willing unfolds a reality which presupposes the existence of the body but does not consciously assist in its formation. The spiritual reality that lives in our Thinking, to make the body the foundation of this Thinking; the spiritual reality that lives in our Feeling, to make the body share in the experience of a reality; the spiritual reality that lives in our Willing, consciously to assist in fashioning the body—all this is alive in the Third Hierarchy.

80. Spiritually, we can approach the Second Hierarchy (Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes) by awakening to see the facts of Nature as the manifestations of spiritual being that indwells them. The Second Hierarchy then has Nature for its dwelling-place, there to work upon the souls.

81. Spiritually, we can approach the First Hierarchy (Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones) by awakening to see the facts that confront us in the kingdom of Nature and of Man as the deeds (creations) of spiritual being that is working in them. The First Hierarchy then has the kingdom of Nature and of Man as the outcome of its work, wherein it unfolds its Being.

Further Leading Thoughts issued from the Goetheanum for the Anthroposophical Society

82. Man looks upward to the worlds of stars; what is there presented to his senses is but the outer manifestation of those Spirit-beings—and their deeds—of whom we have spoken as the Beings of the spiritual kingdoms or Hierarchies.

83. The Earth is the scene of action of the three Nature kingdoms and of the human kingdom, inasmuch as these make manifest the outward and sensible glory of the activity of spiritual Beings.

84. The forces, working from spiritual Beings into the earthly kingdoms of Nature and into the kingdom of Man, are revealed to the human Spirit in the true—that is, the spiritual—knowledge of the starry worlds.

 

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Rudolf Steiner:  "One who understands how to observe such things knows what a great change took place in the last third of the nineteenth century with respect to the life of human thought. Before that time man could only feel how thoughts formed themselves in his own being; from the time indicated he is able to raise himself above his own being; he can turn his mind to the spiritual; he there meets Michael, who proves his ancient kinship with everything connected with thought. He liberates thought from the sphere of the head; he clears the way for it to the heart; he enkindles enthusiasm in the feelings, so that the human mind can be filled with devotion for all that can be experienced in the light of thought.

The Age of Michael has dawned. Hearts are beginning to have thoughts; spiritual fervor is now proceeding not merely from mystical obscurity but from souls clarified by thought. To understand this means to receive Michael into the heart. Thoughts which at the present time strive to grasp the spiritual must originate in hearts which beat for Michael as the fiery Prince of Thought in the universe."

Springing from powers of the Sun,

Radiant spirit-powers, blessing all worlds!

For Michael's garment of rays

You are predestined by Divine Thought.

He, the Christ messenger, reveals in you —

Bearing humankind aloft — the sacred will of worlds.

You, the radiant beings of ether worlds,

Bear the Christ-Word to human beings.

Thus shall the herald of Christ appear

To the thirstily waiting souls

To whom your Word of Light shines forth

In the cosmic age of the Spirit Human Being.

You, the disciples of spirit knowledge,

Take Michael's beckoning wisdom;

Take the Word of Love of the Will of Worlds

Into your soul's aspiring, fervently!