THE HUMAN
DEVACHANIC BODY. RICK DISTASI
The human
devachanic body of the young man in the tomb that rose on Easter morning (Mark
16: 5-7) passed through a spiritual gestation period of nine months prior to
Easter. From higher spiritual principalities beyond the realm of earth, the 17
days immediately prior to the Raising of Lazarus, on through to the Event of
Golgotha (Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday) and the intervening
nine months between these points were, as a whole, one singular, protracted
gestation of a supremely, spiritually enhanced human devachanic body. Rudolf
Steiner refers to the human devachanic body as the human phantom body. For nine
months, a human phantom body was being prepared that ultimately appeared on
Easter morning. This human devachanic body of the young man in the tomb
simulated the devachanic body of the Risen Christ. Mention is often made of the
Resurrection Body of Christ that also consisted of the Manas, Buddhic, and Atma
features of Christ. However, in the current Earth manvantara through which we
are progressing, in addition to these higher bodies, it was the resurrected
devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist that became the pivot point, the
center point, of the Resurrection aspect of a human Being in tandem with the
Resurrected devachanic phantom body of Christ.
The
critical point of acknowledgment is the following: During the Earth manvantara,
a human devachanic phantom body had to be created that reflected and simulated
the devachanic phantom body of Christ on Easter morning.
The iconic
resurrected devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist was created from out of
the new etheric Linga Sarira body of Lazarus. This was the purpose of the
Raising of Lazarus.
This new
etheric Linga Sarira body of Lazarus was, in actuality, the first replica of
the etheric Linga Sarira body of Christ. (Linga-sharira is a Sanskrit word that
means "subtle body". It is a spiritual concept that refers to
the body that is not physical, but rather ethereal and vital.)
It was
gifted to Lazarus by Christ. At that time, the seed impetus for the eventual
procreation of the New Adam countenance of John the Baptist as the young man in
the tomb had been enacted.
What is the
phantom body? Often, in esoteric literature, one will read of the etheric body
and astral body. These are non-visible bodies that engulf the human physical
body. They are also termed to be the Linga Sarira and Prana bodies,
respectively. The phantom body is the devachanic body. It is a higher body than
the etheric and astral bodies. Yet, it is rooted in the physical/mineral body.
The eventual presence of the human Being will be a Being who has transcended
beyond the physical/mineral body and emanates the higher true physical presence
of the devachanic body, the phantom body. The true physical body is the
devachanic phantom body. At this point, the mineral element has been
transcended and discarded. Please see lectures five, six and seven of Rudolf
Steiner's lecture series: From Jesus to Christ. Rudolf Steiner.GA 131. From Jesus to Christ. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/FromJ2C1973/FJ2C73_index.html
What
transpired at the Raising of Lazarus was an enactment of the ancient Form of
Initiation: The Temple Sleep Initiation. This had always been a closely guarded
methodology of Initiation. Any Form of it being enacted in an open public
display was punishable by death. This is why we read in chapters eleven and
twelve, in the Gospel of John, of the decision by the Pharisees and the
Sanhedrin to have both Christ and Lazarus put to death. The complexities of the
Temple Sleep Initiation have always been kept well guarded and concealed
throughout antiquity prior to the time of Christ. The Temple Sleep Initiation
formulated the basis of the deed Christ had enacted through the Raising of
Lazarus. However, this event between Christ and Lazarus went beyond that of a
Temple Sleep Initiation. Lazarus did pass through a physical death; not a
simulation of death.
After the
Initiation and Raising of Lazarus within the public domain, those who were most
concerned regarding its secrets soon after began to plot the death of
Christ-Jesus. In retaliation for openly and publicly conducting this level of
Initiation, those among the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin decided that
Christ-Jesus and Lazarus had to be put to death.
During the
Initiation, Lazarus received an entirely new etheric body from Christ. His
previous etheric, Linga Sarira body had been dissolved. Thereby, this resulted
in his death. When any person dies, it often takes 3½ days for one's etheric,
Linga Sarira body to completely dissolve. This point of interest is addressed
in chapter eleven of the Gospel of John when Martha conveys to Christ that
Lazarus has been dead for four days. All the while, Christ had been connected
with Lazarus from a distance throughout this process for three and a half days.
Lazarus died on the evening of July 4th, 32 CE and was Resurrected by Christ on
the late morning of July 8th, 32 CE. It wasn't until the time had come for
consummating the Temple Sleep Initiation when Christ arrived at the tomb of
Lazarus.
As an
antithetical factor, there was a darker and more insidious plan of the
Pharisees and the Sanhedrin that they had decided upon. This plot had an
auxiliary nefarious element to it. Not only was a conspiracy put in place to
execute Christ-Jesus, they also decided it was imperative that Lazarus be
executed as well. Their machinations now went beyond retaliation for conducting
the Temple Sleep Initiation in public. This darker plot not only targeted
Christ-Jesus. It also targeted Lazarus, with the intention of terminating and
extinguishing the ongoing spiritual gestation of creating and perfecting a
human devachanic phantom body (John 12:10). This plot was, in actuality, a
device by Ahriman. The Pharisees and Sanhedrin were most likely not aware, nor
cognizant that these Ahrimanic machinations were also impending at that time.
They were being subconsciously maneuvered as minions by Ahriman. The
germinating apotheosic human devachanic body that was to become the devachanic
body of John the Baptist on Easter Sunday morning became intricately
inter-weaved with the newly born etheric Sarira Linga body of Lazarus.
The
execution of Lazarus would have meant the termination of the human phantom body
that ultimately emerged as the entelechial Form of John the
Baptist/Nathan-Jesus; the young man in the tomb on Easter morning. The newly
born etheric body of Lazarus, i.e., the first replica of the etheric body of
Christ, was the life source for this burgeoning devachanic phantom body.
Lazarus' new etheric body had to remain interconnected with this devachanic,
phantom body throughout the processes of its germination and subsequent
gestation. For nine months, Lazarus and John the Baptist were integrated as
One.
In an
earlier article that I had written, I commented with the following:
“As
duplicates of the Christ-imbued phantom body are accessible to humans who are
able to assume them in later subsequent incarnations, is it possible to suggest
that the same can be said for Sorathic duplicates of the Gesmas phantom body (o
mau ladrão na crucificação); a phantom body that eventually leads to a
sub-human race with Sorat (Sorath) as its group anti-Spirit? In his lecture
cycle, The Apocalypse of Saint John ((Lecture XII), Rudolf Steiner says the
following : 'If the Christ-principle had been strangled in its germ, if Christ
had been overcome by the adversary, it would have been possible for the whole
earth to succumb to the Sorath principle. This, however, did not take place,
and so this Being has to be content with the refuse of mankind who have not
inclined towards the Christ-principle, who have remained embedded in matter;
they in the future will form his cohorts.'”
Rudolf
Steiner. GA. 104. The Apocalypse of St. John
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA104/English/APC1958/ApoJon_index.html
In lecture
1 from, Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse, Rudolf Steiner delivers the
following regarding John the Apocalyptist: “ . . . he saw the 'Son of Man' as
the spiritualized, purified form of the physical body, not only the etheric
body, but the spiritual-physical form of 'Man,' the human Being, now purified
and sanctified.” Rudolf Steiner. GA.104a. Reading the Pictures of Apocalypse.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/ReApoc_index.html
Rudolf
Steiner: “Now imagine that, through what we may call a mystical Christological
process, man acquires a body quite other than the one he has gradually acquired
in his downward evolution. Then think of each of these new bodies as having an
intimate connection with the pure Phantom that rose from the grave, somewhat as
the human cells of the physical body are connected with the original cell. That
is, we must think of the Phantom as multiplying itself, as does the cell which
gives rise to the physical body. So, in the evolution that follows the Event of
Golgotha, every man can inwardly acquire something which is spiritually
descended from the Phantom that rose from the grave, just as - to echo Paul -
the ordinary body which falls into dissolution is descended from Adam."
[Lecture VII: From Jesus to Christ]
From Jesus
to Christ. Rudolf Steiner.GA 131. From
Jesus to Christ. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/FromJ2C1973/FJ2C73_index.html
In
continuance, prior to the full birth of John the Baptist's devachanic phantom
body on Easter morning, it had to pass through all of the celestial and
planetary cycles that a physical human embryo and fetus pass through over the
nine months of gestation. These developmental processes of his phantom body
mirrored the physical gestation and birth of the Lukan Jesus, the bifurcated
twin soul of John the Baptist, 33-plus years earlier. Nine months after the
Raising of Lazarus, the new etheric body of Lazarus began to release the
apotheosic phantom body of John the Baptist. He later appeared as the young man
in the tomb on Easter morning. He and his twin soul, the Nathan Jesus soul (the
Lukan Jesus), reunited for that brief moment in time after being parted from
one another since the beginning ages of the Fall. This departure of the phantom
body of John the Baptist from out of the soul of Lazarus began to transpire at
the time of the arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. From that moment
on, to the time of Easter morning, this extended scenario can be perceived as a
parallel to the process of a birthing parturition. It was equivalent to when
the amniotic sac surrounding an infant bursts. It was also the moment when the
Fleeing Youth aspect, the Pleroma of Christ that had taken on a human-like
Form, departed from Christ. The new devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist
was then in a temporary state of hiatus while it became One with the Fleeing
Youth aspect, i.e., the Pleroma aspect, of Christ.
Pleroma, refere à totalidade dos poderes divinos. A palavra
significa plenitude (do grego πληρόω, "Eu
preencho"), comparável a πλήρης que significa "cheio", usada em
contextos cristãos como em Paulo, Colosenses 2:9.
At that
moment, in the Garden of Gethsemane, these bodies were enshrouded by the Divine
Sophia. Hours later, at the conclusion of the Crucifixion, Christ and John the
Baptist descended into the core depths of the earth. The Fleeing Youth aura of
Christ and the devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist did not descend to
the core of the earth. They remained together as One within the Linga Sarira
etheric sphere of the earth. This remained so throughout the entirety of the
events that followed until Easter Sunday morning. The night before, in the
Garden of Gethsemane, they were sequestered within the aura of the Divine
Sophia. Earlier in the Ministry of Christ, the Divine Sophia had united with
Christ in the heights of devachan at the time of the Marriage at Cana. On
Easter Sunday morning, the Divine Sophia gave birth to the devachanic phantom
body of John the Baptist in conjunction with setting free from her the Fleeing
Youth aspect that John the Baptist came to harbor on Easter morning. Both
aspects, the Fleeing Youth aspect and the archetypal devachanic body, were
conjoined and became unified with the deeply embellished entelechy of John the
Baptist that was gifted to him by Christ. On that morning, John the Baptist was
temporarily endowed by Christ with the incorporeal components of Manas, Buddhi,
and Atma.
Regarding
the night of Maundy Thursday, (Maundy Thursday is the Day of Jesus
Christ's Last Supper with his disciples and Washing of the Feet.) This day reminds us of the importance of
humility, selflessness, and service to others.
Lazarus was present at the Last Supper. Rudolf
Steiner had asserted that Lazarus was the beloved disciple who laid his head
upon the chest of Christ Jesus at the Last Supper (GA 264). Rudolf Steiner
spoke of Lazarus displacing the position of John ben Zebedee who was the twin
brother of James ben Zebedee. This likely took place soon after the Raising of
Lazarus. Thereby, at that time, the twin brothers then became as one soul. By
doing so, the circle of Twelve was maintained.
Rudolf
Steiner. GA 264. With Introduction by Hella Wiesberger. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA264/
Rudolf
Steiner: “Among the twelve apostles, Lazarus-John himself is represented, as it
were, again by another. John, the brother of James and son of Zebedee, is not
an Apostle in the proper sense. James and John are in a certain sense one, they
represent among the more intimate disciples of the Christ Jesus the power of
the intellectual or mind soul, which has a double function in man, but is
nevertheless a unity. Hence they are called 'sons of thunder', for thunder is
macrocosmically the same as thought is in the human microcosm. But when Lazarus
becomes John, he takes the place of the one son of Zebedee, and as such he is
the one who lay at Jesus' breast at the Last Supper.” (GA 264)
One has to
read the above from Rudolf Steiner with astute discernment. John ben Zebedee
did not assume the soul of Lazarus. Rather, Lazarus acquired the name John in
accordance to the results of the Raising of Lazarus. Throughout the Bible, we
read of individuals who pass through intense Initiations of varying types. As a
result, the name of the individual is changed. Jacob's name was changed to
Israel. Abram became Abraham. Lazarus received the name of John as a
consequence of his confluence with the soul of John the Baptist. For
approximately the first two years of the ministry of Christ, John ben Zebedee
acted as an intermediary 12th Apostle until he was replaced by Lazarus/John.
This was likely actualized shortly after the Raising of Lazarus.
John and
James ben Zebedee, as twin brothers, were a bifurcated soul that manifested as
two individuals. They served as two Apostles prior to the Raising of Lazarus.
When Lazarus assumed his place as an Apostle, John and James remained as
separate individuals but, in truth, they were two halves of the same soul.
Some
adherents of Anthroposophy have asserted that the soul of Lazarus did not
return to the body of Lazarus at the conclusion of the Raising of Lazarus.
Rather, their contention is the soul of Lazarus was assumed by John ben
Zebedee. This is not correct. Lazarus did Rise from his grave. If Lazarus did
not Rise, then one would have to ask why was he specifically marked for death
by the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin. (John 12:10). It was exceptionally unlikely
that the adversaries of Lazarus would have mistaken John ben Zebedee for
Lazarus. Secondly, how would the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin have known that
John ben Zebedee had assumed the soul of Lazarus within his own soul? If the
soul of Lazarus had transitioned to John ben Zebedee, then the body of Lazarus
would have remained in the tomb. Lazarus would not have Risen from the tomb.
Had that been so, then there would have been no reason to decree that Lazarus
be put to death.
The
assertion that John ben Zebedee had assumed the soul of Lazarus is an
unequivocal fallacy.
This
specific issue was addressed to Christian Rosenkreutz on the evening of
February 14, 2015 at approximately 7 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.A.). The response
by Christian Rosenkreutz, i.e, a latter reincarnation of Lazarus, was quite
emphatic in regard to refuting and discrediting this erroneous assertion
addressed above. Lazarus did Rise from the tomb. He specifically was endowed by
Christ with the first replica of the etheric Linga Sarira body of Christ.
It should
also be noted that immediately after the Raising of Lazarus, we read the
following: “Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but
withdrew to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephrem. And there he
stayed with his disciples.” (John 11:54) In chapter twelve of the Gospel of
John, it then narrates the evening when Christ visited the home of Lazarus and
his two sisters, Martha and Mary Magdalene. This was the night before Palm
Sunday; nine months after the Raising of Lazarus. It was also the night when
Mary Magdalene anointed the feet of Christ with spikenard oil. With her hair,
she wiped his feet dry.
After the
Raising of Lazarus, the Ministry of Christ came to an immediate cessation.
Christ and his disciples retreated to the desert region. There they remained
for nine months. This gives us a point of reference as to why, anecdotally,
there was a significant gap in time regarding the Raising of Lazarus in the
Gospel of John that is immediately followed by Christ and his disciples
entering the House of Lazarus on the evening before Palm Sunday. Did Lazarus
also retreat to the desert with Christ and the Apostles? This was a likely
possibility when one takes into consideration that he and Christ were marked
for execution. Christ knew that the time had come for the Deed of Golgotha to
commence. This gives us further insight as to why, after nine months of seclusion
in the desert, they returned to the House of Lazarus in Bethany, on the night
before Palm Sunday. Holy Week was about to commence. It wasn't by mere chance
that they returned when they did. Cosmologically, the lunar phases were a
connective element as to when Passion Week was to commence. The entire Ministry
of Christ wasn't an earthly event alone. It was deeply connected with solar,
lunar, planetary and cosmological forces as well. Also, the final days of the
nine month gestation period of the devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist
was culminating.
When Christ
and the Apostles secluded themselves in the desert, this is not to intimate
that Christ had completely suspended his work of ministry during those nine
months. Christ was capable of physically manifesting and dissolving his
physical presence willfully at any moment and under any circumstance. In his
lectures regarding the Gospel of Mark, Rudolf Steiner addresses this point of
interest. From a previous article, I submitted the following:
“At times,
throughout his ministry, Christ was able to move about outside of his
physical/mineral body prior to the Resurrection. For instance, there was an
incident when a crowd wanted to plunge him over a cliff, but he slipped away
(Luke 4:29-30). Or a crowd was going to stone him to death and again he was
suddenly gone (John 10:31-39). These two moments, according to Rudolf Steiner,
indicate that Christ was able to appear physically throughout the region and
then dissipate instantaneously when necessary.”
That is to
say, prior to the Resurrection, Christ was already fully capable of manifesting
in a physical body anywhere and at any time. He was also capable of dissolving
his physical body instantaneously at any time.
From the
time of his beheading, John the Baptist drew increasingly deeper into the aura
of Christ. Thereby, John the Baptist became the aggregate Group-Soul hierophant
who guided the Twelve Apostles from higher spheres. During the Raising of
Lazarus, Christ, Lazarus and John the Baptist became a Triune through the means
of the Pleroma of Christ. On the night of Maundy Thursday, after nine months of
the Triune's duration, the Last Supper brought the Triune to its apex. However,
when Christ was later seized in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Triune began
dissolving.
The
connectivity among these three was splintered. From that moment forward, it was
Christ and John the Baptist as One. Later, on Golgotha, Christ and John the
Baptist began descending to the inner core of the earth. Ultimately, on Easter
Sunday morning, John the Baptist appeared as the young man in the tomb as we
read in the Gospel of Mark. This was the moment when the birthing of the new
phantom body of John the Baptist was fully consummated. On Easter Sunday
morning, what appeared to Mary Magdalene and the other women was the presence
of the luminous, diaphanous archetypal human phantom body of John the Baptist. The
eventual attainment of a comparable likeness of this prototypal devachanic
phantom body becomes possible for all human Beings throughout the remaining
course of the Earth manvantara.
Lazarus'
own devachanic phantom body continued on with Lazarus who lived to be 106 years
of age. He subsequently wrote the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation.
Easter morning was the full birth and completion of the new devachanic phantom
body of John the Baptist. The birthing of John the Baptist's devachanic phantom
body on Easter morning echoed the physical birth of the Lukan Jesus from the
Lukan Mary that transpired 33 years earlier at that time on the night of the
Midnight Sun: December 24/25th. These two events stood as opposite-end pillars
to one another that were separated by 33-plus years. John the Baptist and the
Lukan Jesus had now become One and appeared as the young man in the tomb on
Easter morning. Ages ago, they were One soul before the Fall.
Afterward,
they were later bisected at the time of the Fall. Yet, for a brief moment in
time they had become One again on Easter morning; though only temporarily. The
Fall had divided this soul, i.e., the Adam soul, into two soul entities over a
time span of countless ages. On Easter morning they temporarily merged as One
again. The birth, in Bethlehem, of the Lukan-Nathan Jesus aspect of this soul
was its first and only physical incarnation.
II The
Human Devachanic Body (Part 2 of 4)
The Events
of Golgotha and Easter were enacted by both a Logos Being and a human Being in
unison with one another. Christ and the Adam soul, i.e., John the Baptist,
integrated with one another to effectuate the actualization of these events.
What was extensively linked with Golgotha and Easter was the Raising of
Lazarus. The Raising of Lazarus was key to adding the human component to the
events of Golgotha and the Resurrection. This time span was inter-correlated
with celestial events as well. June 21st is the summer solstice. June 21st, 32
CE, was when Christ commenced the Initiation of Lazarus. This day was also the
Sabbath On Good Friday, April 3, 33 CE, there was a partial lunar eclipse that
night. In addition, Good Friday was the beginning of Passover as there was a
vernal full moon on that night. What began on the solstice of June 21, 32 CE
and continued throughout to the Raising of Lazarus on July 8, 32 CE plus all
that followed further on to Easter morning on April 5, 33 CE transpired over
289 days. This is the same number of days that a human gestation period and
birth commonly entails. The number of days varies in diverse studies. However,
for first-time mothers, the average length of time of pregnancy is 288 days
culminating with the birth of the child on the 289th day. In regard to the
Raising of Lazarus, this 289 day process was the spiritual gestation and birth
of an archetypal devachanic human phantom body; the human devachanic phantom
body of the young man in the tomb on Easter morning.
As
mentioned above, on average, the birth of a human child for a first time mother
takes place on the 288th day after the day of conception; a total of 289 days.
June 21st,
32 CE, the summer solstice, was day one of this process. What came to birth on
Easter morning, 288 days after June 21st, 32 CE in a total of 289 days, was the
prototypal human devachanic phantom body of the young man in the tomb. It was
on June 21st, 32 CE that the forthcoming devachanic phantom body of John the
Baptist was initially conceived from out of the burgeoning new etheric body of
Lazarus during the eighteen days of the Lazarus Event. This etheric body was
the first replica, the first duplicate, of the etheric body of Christ. Christ
had created this duplicate etheric body on the day of June 19st, 32 CE. Two
days later, this duplicate etheric body began to create the eventual devachanic
body of the young man in the tomb. This devachanic body was procreated from out
of this duplicate of the etheric Linga Sarira body of Christ; the burgeoning
new etheric body of Lazarus. However, Lazarus did not fully assume this etheric
Linga Sarira body as his own until July 8th, 32 CE.
Before a
pregnancy can be actualized, the ovum/egg cell enters a Fallopian tube for two
days. After two days, it is there that it becomes impregnated. The nascent,
embryonic replica of the etheric body of Christ, in this instance, was the
ovum. From out of this ovum, i.e., the new etheric Linga Sarira body of
Lazarus, the devachanic fraternal, dizygotic phantom body of John the Baptist
was eventually procreated. This event was similar to the procreation of twins,
but not identical twins. Extensively, it was the double propagation of the new
Linga Sarira etheric body of Lazarus and that of the eventual new devachanic
phantom body of John the Baptist. Together, they were as fraternal twins.
Yearly, the
forces of the summer solstice begin to commence approximately on the 19th of
June. This is two days before the fullness and apogee of the summer solstice.
This was the period of time when Christ created the first archetypal replica of
his etheric Linga Sarira body. After two days, it was on the solstice of June
21, 32 CE when the soul of Lazarus was impregnated by the Pleroma of Christ
from a higher spiritual sphere of engagement.
After being
impregnated, the human fertilized egg cell remains within a Fallopian tube for
approximately 3½ days. It then moves to the uterus and begins to expand and
grow. The time span from the morning sunrise hour of the summer solstice to the
sunset hour of St. John's Tide marks the time span of these 3½ days for this
human-cosmic conception. This is also the length of time of the Temple Sleep
Initiation of antiquity. This event of Christ seeding the soul of Lazarus with
the first replica of Christ's etheric body began on the morning of June 21st
near sunrise and was finalized near sunset on June 24th. At the sunset hour on
St. John's Tide in 32 C.E., Christ and the Adam soul of John the Baptist began
to coalesce with the Lazarus soul to which the nine month extension of this
event then ensued.
The new
etheric body of Lazarus became fully engulfed by Christ and John the Baptist on
the evening of St. John's tide; June 24, 32 CE. This same etheric body remained
outside of Lazarus until the day of the Raising of Lazarus. At that time, the
new etheric body of Lazarus and the entirety of his Being was then fully
enfolded within the encompassing etheric-astral sun Pleroma of Christ and John
the Baptist. During this Initiation, and throughout the next nine months, this
etheric-astral sun aura was the spiritual equivalent to the human uterus.
Later, on the evening of July 4, 32 CE near the time of sunset when the forces
of the sun had diminished, Lazarus passed into death as his entire original
etheric body was lifted and separated from out his mineral body.
Throughout
this whole process of the Raising of Lazarus, a separate and newly created
double of the phantom body of Lazarus, though in a higher Form, was being
fashioned and continued to develop until it reached its apogee on Easter
morning as the prime countenance of the young man in the tomb.
One then
has to ask: Why was it necessary that a new phantom body be created from out of
the soul of a human Being rather than a new phantom body being gifted by
Christ? It was imperative that a new archetypal devachanic phantom body be
created from out of a human soul through human effort and cognizance. This then
reflects the entire purpose of human evolution; a cognizant purpose from out of
the Will of a human Being.
On the
morning of July 8, 32 CE, Lazarus was reborn with a new etheric Linga Sarira
body and a revitalization of his devachanic phantom body. The other burgeoning
phantom body, i.e., the eventual purified double of Lazarus' phantom body,
however, resided among the spiritual realms within the enveloping
etheric-astral spiritual uterine sphere that Christ and John the Baptist
created.
Again, the
span of time from that of Lazarus' death to his Resurrection was 3 1/2 days
that corresponds to the length of time of the Temple Sleep Initiation.
The 288
days of gestation, as mentioned above, were a simulation of the full gestation
period of a human baby's physical-mineral body. Easter Sunday was the day of
its birth; the 289th day.
The
difference, in this event, was the birthing of the archetypal New Adam
devachanic phantom body. On Easter morning, Christ resurrected as the macro New
Adam. Whereas, John the Baptist appeared as the human New Adam. They both
reflected one another. That is, John the Baptist appeared as the young man in
the tomb as we read in chapter 16 from the Gospel of Mark.
In regard
to the death of Lazarus, what event brought about his deathly illness? This
illness was initialized by an event that took place not on the physical plane.
Rather, the illness of Lazarus came about due to what had transpired in the
astral Prana realm. The Gospels are replete with events that seemingly had
taken place on the physical plane. Yet, from another vantage point, these
events are actually occurrences in the higher spiritual spheres that had been
transversely narrated. Thereby, they give one the impression that these events
occurred on the physical plane. Rudolf Steiner had indicated that many of these
biblical events actually took place within the astral Prana realms. The Feeding
of the Five Thousand is one example when all Twelve Apostles were present as
witnesses. This was actually an Initiation of the Twelve Apostles in the
astral-Prana realms and is narrated as an ascension of a mountain. The
ascension of the mountain was indicative of their ascent to a higher realm. It
was near sunset. In the Gospel of John, there is mention of the young boy with
five barley loaves and two fish.
Rudolf
Steiner addresses these matters in the following:
“Food that
is destined for men of the fourth epoch, that is to say for the ‘four
thousand’, comes down from Heaven through the seven day-constellations, the
seven ‘heavenly loaves’; and men of the fifth epoch—the ‘five thousand’—are fed
through the five night-constellations, the five ‘heavenly loaves.’ The point of
division between the day-constellations and the night constellations is
indicated by specific mention of the constellation of Pisces, the Fishes.
“A secret
is touched upon here. Indication is given of something deeply significant,
namely the magical intercourse of Christ with His disciples. Christ makes it
clear to them that He is not speaking of the old leaven of the Pharisees but is
bringing down heavenly food to them from the Sun-forces of the Cosmos. On one
occasion, He has at His disposal only the seven loaves of the seven
day-constellations, and on another the five loaves of the five
night-constellations. And between the day-constellations and the
night-constellations stands the constellation of Pisces, the Fishes, indicating
the division. Indeed in one place, for the sake of even greater clarification,
mention, is made of two fishes.” (GA 123: Lecture X)
The boy
with the five loaves of bread and two fish is the humanized personification of
the Pleroma aura of Christ. He was then later seen as an older youth fleeing
from the Garden of Gethsemane. And ultimately, he was the young adult man in
the tomb on Easter morning. All three of these advancing phases were
intricately linked with John the Baptist. When we combine the narratives from
the Matthew Gospel and the Gospel of John, the boy appears immediately after
the execution of John the Baptist.
Another
event is the time of Christ and Peter walking on water. This was an event that
also transpired within the astral-Prana realms. Peter was subjected to the
forces of the Prana realms and was unable to sustain his inner equanimity
within these realms. This event was also an Initiation of all Twelve Apostles.
They were overwhelmed by the forces of the Prana realms. Whereas, Christ was
able to sustain his Self within these realms. This is allegorically narrated as
Christ walking on water within the storm and calming the forces of the storm.
Taking the
above into consideration, the event that engendered the fatal illness of
Lazarus also transpired within the astral realm and all Twelve Apostles were
also present.
In chapter
eleven of the Gospel of John, Christ elucidated that the illness of Lazarus was
intended to serve as an example of the symbiotic potency of one's Kyrios with
that of Christ. Transformative capacities of the physical body, as well as
transformations of one's Linga Sarira and Prana bodies, may also ensue due to
this symbiotic exchange. The human Kyrios, i.e., the human Ego, in unison with
Christ is able to transform the human body. In the following verse regarding
Lazarus, his Kyrios is referenced as the Son of God. The verse reads, “This
sickness is not unto death, but for the Glory of God, that through it the Son
of God may be glorified. (John 11:4)” Here we read of the Glory of God, i.e.,
the Pleroma of Christ, that streams into and through the Son of God, i.e., the
human Kyrios, of all who consciously and willfully interconnect with the
Pleroma of Christ.
In the
three Synoptic Gospels, we take note of the narrative parable of the rich,
young man. Lazarus is the rich young man. In Luke 18:18, Lazarus is
specifically identified as a certain ruler. This identifies the young man as a
high Initiate. This high Initiate, a certain rich young ruler, was Lazarus.
Edward R. Smith(1) had compiled material that fully supports this assertion.
Also, the Gospel of Matthew makes it clear that this event stood apart from
other events that transpired before and afterward throughout the narration of
the Gospel. Immediately afterward, Christ used this event as an opportunity to
teach the Apostles: “Amen I say to you that you who have followed me, in the
regeneration when the Son of Man (the human I AM) shall sit on the throne of
his glory, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.” (Matthew 19:28)
This verse
reaches into the distant future of humanity's evolution of the human Kyrios. It
references the eventual achievement of the human Kyrios ascending to a
condition of Spirit when it is fully and permanently conscious of being among
the Twelve Beings that encompass the Twelve zodiacal constellations. We ascend
to these Beings after death and we are aware of them in our post-lives.
However, currently in our successive incarnations, we lose awareness of these
Beings. The word Israel means: One who prevails with God. That is, the human
Kyrios will live spiritually among the higher Beings of the Zodiac. Each zodiac
constellation is the outward physical manifestation of what persistently and
endlessly passes through each zodiacal Being that then manifests into the
physical domains as astro-physical constellations. Allegorically, these are the
Twelve Gates that are referenced in the Book of Revelation.
When one
reads the parable of the rich young ruler from all three Synoptic Gospels, it
is significantly reduced and exceedingly simplified in comparison to its true
and fuller grandeur. Curiously, this parable is not narrated in the Gospel of
John. Of course, an exclusive passion for worldly wealth and prestige can
hinder one's spiritual quest. However, what also streams through this simple
parable, from an esoteric Christian perspective, is a more incisive narrative
to the beginning procedures of the Initiation of Lazarus. Christ impassions the
rich young man to sell all he has and give everything he has gained through
life over to the poor. The young man becomes despondent and without responding
to Christ, he leaves the area. However, the greater extent of this narrative is
not fully and explicitly expressed in the Synoptic Gospels. So often,
throughout the Gospels, unembellished narratives are presented that actually
serve as greater windows, or stepping stones, into more profound edifications.
The Synoptic narratives of the rich, young man are a standard example.
As
indicated above, the forces of the summer solstice begin to formulate on the
19th of June. This is two days before the apogee of the summer solstice.
Similarly, the human ovum enters a Fallopian tube approximately two days before
it is impregnated. These processes parallel that of Lazarus standing before
Christ and the Twelve Apostles in the astral-Prana sphere as the certain young
ruler. Rudolf Steiner had spoken of the connectivity of the acts of Christ and
his travels with that of the position of the sun among the planets, stars and
constellations. This event was of the same order. On the 19th of June, 32 CE,
at around the time of sunset, the soul of Lazarus was beginning to be drawn
upward to the astral spheres. As a parallel, the human ovum begins to enter the
Fallopian tube. The soul of Lazarus lingered in the astral realm for what would
be approximately the same amount of time that transpired from the time of
Christ's death on the Cross to the following Easter morning. It was on the
morning of June 21st, 32 CE that Christ began to Initiate Lazarus. This would
be the approximate time needed for a human ovum to be impregnated.
In the
early morning of June 21st, 32 CE, shortly after sunrise, Christ spoke into the
Kyrios, i.e. the I AM, of Lazarus. One should then take notice that Lazarus
says he has followed the Commandments of God. However, these verses need to be
understood with a more discernible perspective. When studying the Gospels,
simple verses and unadorned biblical narrations are often keys to much greater
precepts. The narration of the rich, young ruler is a supreme example. Lazarus
understood himself to be an Initiate with deep ties to the Mysteries of the Old
Covenant. He was rich in terms of what an Initiate of the past had once
possessed; of what he ruled over within his soul. The Wisdom of the Initiates
of the Old Covenant drew their wisdom from perceiving the past. This was the
methodology of Moses when he narrated the opening chapters of the Book of
Genesis to his disciples. Christ required Lazarus to sacrifice and dispel the
entirety of these antiquated soul forces that he had carried over from his
past. A new Initiate was to be born. A new Initiate who would be capable of
envisioning the future is to be created within him. As a consequence, the Book
of Revelation is written decades later. It is the consummate Book of the Bible
that addresses the future evolutionary epochs of humanity and the earth.
The Old
Initiate had to die away and a new Initiate had to be born. His current etheric
body that was comprised of the Old Testament forces needed to pass away and a
new etheric Linga Sarira body acclimated to the future needed to be born. The
Ten Commandments direct our attention to our I AM and to what needs to be
awakened within us, according to Rudolf Steiner(2). This is why Lazarus, the
certain young ruler, brings the Ten Commandments to Christ's attention. It is
the I AM of Lazarus, i.e., the Kyrios of Lazarus, into which Christ speaks. The
Word, the World I AM, streams into the I AM of Lazarus. In the astral Prana
realm, it was Christ's I AM interpenetrating the Kyrios, i.e., the I AM, soul
and body of Lazarus.
In the
astral realms, Christ not only spoke at Lazarus, he spoke into him. This began
to shatter the old soul forces of Lazarus. All of the abundant soul qualities
Lazarus held within his Self that had served as the foundations of his past
lives were now being dissolved by the Shiva-essence of the voice of Christ.
This resulted in igniting the processes of disintegrating Lazarus' etheric
body; the diaphanous body that sustains the life of the physical/mineral body.
The passage reads: “When he heard these things, he was much grieved, for he was
very rich.” (Luke 18:23) The etheric body, i.e., the life body, of Lazarus was
now coming to a rapid depletion and was dying away. This began at the midway
point of the Sabbath at sunrise on June 21, 32 CE; i.e., Saturday morning.
From that
point on, increasingly Lazarus became visibly and deathly ill. The old soul
forces of Lazarus began to dissipate; most specifically, his etheric body. The
dying etheric Linga Sarira body of Lazarus ultimately rendered him comatose.
Subsequently, he died on July 4, 32 CE. In her visions, Anne Catherine Emmerich
saw Lazarus in what appeared to be a death condition for eight days. In
actuality, he was comatose for four days that was then followed by his
condition of physical death over the following four days. As a result of the
Raising of Lazarus, a renewed Christ-imbued etheric Linga Sarira body now
enveloped Lazarus that sustained his physical body for the remainder of his
life. Again, this etheric body was the first replicate of Christ's etheric
body. Legend has it that Lazarus-John lived to be 106 years of age and died on
Patmos Island.
This brings
the discussion to examine the shortest verse in the Bible. It reads as follows:
“And Jesus wept.” (John 11:35)
Immediately
prior to this verse, Mary Magdalene and others had been weeping over the death
of Lazarus. More specifically, earlier Mary Magdalene had been purposely
summoned by Christ to be present at the tomb of her brother, Lazarus. Christ
waited for her arrival. As John the Baptist was a key figure in the Raising of
Lazarus, Mary Magdalene was also a key individual as well in this Initiation.
On Easter Sunday, it was John the Baptist and Lazarus who, within the soul of
Mary Magdalene, gave her, “the eyes to see,” the Resurrected Christ in the
etheric Linga Sarira spheres. In regard to Mary Magdalene and the Raising of
Lazarus, the Gospel of John reads as follows: “She is going to the tomb to weep
there.” (John 11:31). When one is tearful, it is the result of the overwhelming
emotions of the astral Prana body compressing deeper into the etheric Linga
Sarira body. The Linga Sarira etheric body then intermixes more heavily into
the physical body. Thereby, tears are then generated. This is a significant point
to apprehend.
During the
process of the Temple Sleep Initiation of Lazarus, there was a similar pattern
of progression. Lazarus assimilated, from the spiritual domains, higher
suprasensible intensities into his astral Prana body. These forces streamed
from Christ and from the entelechy of John the Baptist. Lazarus' astral Prana
forces were then compressed into his new etheric Linga Sarira body that
ultimately impacted the life forces of the physical body of Lazarus. Before
Christ proceeds with the Raising of Lazarus, he imparts the following
proclamation: “I AM the Resurrection and the Life.” (John 11:25). Death
is converted to life through Christ.
III The
Human Devachanic Body (Part 3 of 4)
John 11:33
details Mary Magdalene's weeping as well as the weeping of those who came with
her. Their weeping deeply troubled Christ that caused him to groan within
himself. It was soon after this when Christ wept. Thereby, the verse, And Jesus
wept, immediately precedes the act of Christ Raising Lazarus from the dead.
From a more
esoteric perspective, the weeping of Christ is indicative of the moment when
Christ had fully integrated and compressed his etheric body into the new
etheric body of Lazarus, i.e., the suprasensible entity that gives life to the
physical body. The weeping is indicative of the heightened intensification of
the inter-coalescence of Christ's etheric Linga Sarira body with the new
etheric Linga Sarira body of Lazarus. This new etheric body of Lazarus was the
first duplicate of Christ's own etheric body. Christ then summons the Father
Being. Here, at this moment, Christ unites with the Father Being in a
heightened expression of life forces. In the same manner, months later on
Easter day, Christ was working toward enacting the equivalent purpose of uniting
with the Father at the time he spoke to Mary Magdalene, when he said, “Touch me
not, for I have not yet ascended to the Father . . .” (John 20:17). Through the
Father, Christ became the Hierophant to the Initiation and the Raising from the
dead of Lazarus. It should also be understood, that in the physical realm, the
etheric Linga Sarira forces are most closely aligned with the water elements of
the earth.
Rudolf
Steiner had a alternate assessment of the Raising of Lazarus. He explains the
Raising of Lazarus as a death-like sleep. Please see his lecture cycle, The
Gospel of John, GA 103, Lecture IV. Yet, the Gospel of John reads as follows in
regard to Christ addressing the Apostles and the death of Lazarus:
“These
things he spoke, and after this he said to them, 'Lazarus our friend sleeps,
But I go that I may wake him from sleep.' His disciples therefore said, “Lord,
if he sleeps, he will be safe.' Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they
thought he was speaking of the repose of sleep.” (John 11:11-13)
Yet, Rudolf
Steiner gave a variant account of the Raising of Lazarus in his book,
Christianity as Mystical Fact: “On a higher level, a similar process is
accomplished in man through the magic, significant process of Initiation. What
he attains spiritually he lives through pictorially. The word 'pictorially' is
used here in the sense that while an outer event is really accomplished
materially, at the same time it is nevertheless a picture. We are not dealing
with an unreal, but with a real picture. The earthly body has actually been
dead for three days. From death comes forth the new life. This life has
outlasted death..”
What Rudolf
Steiner wanted to emphasize in his Gospel of John lecture cycle was to focus on
the Initiation processes and the results of the Initiation. That is, according
to Rudolf Steiner, the death of Lazarus was not as significant in comparison to
the Initiation of Lazarus. The temporary death of Lazarus was simply part of
the entire Initiation process.
The primary
point of emphasis is that the original etheric body of Lazarus did die and
dissolve. 3½ days later, it was replaced with the first replica of Christ's
etheric Linga Sarira body.
Throughout
Christian literature, much is said of Christ deposing 7 demons from Mary
Magdalene. In the Gospel of Mark 16: 9, it reads: “Now when he had Risen from
the dead early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary
Magdalene out of whom he had cast seven demons.” In Luke 8:2, we read: “Mary,
who is called the Magdalene, from whom seven devils had gone out . . .”. There
is another perspective regarding this matter. One can argue that Mary Magdalene
was afflicted by seven doppelgangers. Every human Being has an ahrimanic,
luciferic, and an asuric doppelganger impressing themselves onto one's etheric
Linga Sarira body, astral Prana body, and one's Kyrios – I AM, respectively. A
multiplicity of luciferic Beings were likely assailing Mary Magdalene's astral
Prana body. This was not uncommon at that time for many people. The Gospels
narrate several incidences of Christ casting out multiplicities of adversarial
Beings from various human Beings.
Rudolf
Steiner notes the three women at the foot of the Cross as narrated in the
Gospel of John. Each is representative of one separate aspect of the human
soul. Rudolf Steiner likens Mary Magdalene as the astral body; i.e., the
Sentient Soul. Within the astral body/Sentient soul there are seven chakras. It
was imperative that these seven chakras of Mary Magdalene were to become free
of any impediment. In regard to Mary Magdalene, there were likely seven
luciferic doppelgangers impacting and hindering the seven chakras of Mary
Magdalene's astral Prana body. These blockages are adversarial to the human
soul's capacity to perceive the spiritual realms. Or, in some instances, they
can render one's vision of the spiritual realms in a distorted and false. illusory
capacity. Christ had rid Mary Magdalene of these seven luciferic doppelgangers
prior to the time of the Raising of Lazarus. At the Raising of Lazarus, her
astral Prana chakras were then beginning to be poised for her eventual vision
of the Risen Etheric Christ. This enhanced her eventual capacity to receive the
ingression of Lazarus and John the Baptist within her soul on Easter Sunday
and, thereby, witness the Risen Etheric Christ. - (See: Rudolf Steiner GA 100;
Lecture V)
However,
there is more to this that needs to be addressed. On Easter Sunday, others had
visually experienced the Risen Christ afterward and later that night as well
when Christ appeared to the Apostles. What was it that was different for Mary
Magdalene? The difference was, that on Easter Sunday, Christ seeded the soul of
Mary Magdalene with the Wisdom of the Risen devachanic phantom body; though,
subconsciously for her at that time. This is in tandem with the understanding
that Mary Magdalene was the reincarnation of Hermes/Thoth. It was Hermes/Thoth
who initiated the Egyptian culture, circa 3000 BCE. The Egyptian culture had an
essential understanding of the human body and soul and their inter-coalescence
with the spiritual realms. At the time when Mary Magdalene witnessed the Risen
Christ. he seeded her soul on that Easter Sunday with the eventual capacity of
comprehending and divulging the Mystery that Christ united his Risen phantom
body, with his Atma body of the sun. In addition, she was to come to understand
and reveal that the young man in the tomb was the Resurrected John the Baptist.
The above-mentioned seed-force remained within the soul of Mary Magdalene for
two thousand years. This is in reference to the Father-Atma Principle of his
Being (John 20: 17). In addition, on Easter Sunday, Christ was uniting an
etheric cord of life forces connecting the earth and the sun as it once was
epochs ago. It was a similar cord to the one that once existed in antiquity.
After two thousand years, this mystery has now come to be illumined.
Furthermore, it is now understood, two thousand years after the Event of
Golgotha, that the young man in the tomb appeared in a resurrected devachanic
phantom body as did Christ. It is not unintended that the Gospel of Mark notes
this regarding the events of Easter morning when Mary Magdalene witnessed the
Risen young man in the tomb; i.e., John the Baptist. (Mark 16:9)
Mary
Magdalene has been enriched with a replica of the etheric Linga Sarira body of
Christ and a replica of the etheric Linga Sarira body of Christian Rosenkreutz.
It becomes
apparent that there is a connective element in regard to the Raising of Lazarus
and the appearance of the Resurrected Christ seen by Mary Magdalene on Easter
Sunday. It was imperative that Mary Magdalene be present at the time of the
Raising of Lazarus so as to coalesce with the souls of Lazarus and John the
Baptist at that event. The exchange of the shedding of tears between Mary
Magdalene and Christ together had a profound impact upon the etheric body of
Mary Magdalene. This, in turn, conjoined her etheric Linga Sarira body to the
etheric Linga Sarira bodies of both Lazarus and John the Baptist. This greater
enhancement of the etheric Linga Sarira connectivity among Mary Magdalene,
Lazarus, and John the Baptist made it possible for Lazarus and John the Baptist
to deeply coalesce with the soul of Mary Magdalene. In turn, on Easter day at
approximately 3:30 p.m, this endowed her with the “eyes to see” the Resurrected
Christ.
As noted
earlier, others were also able to see the Risen Christ on Easter Sunday.
Christian Rosenkreutz's words, “gave her the eyes to see,” has a more extensive
connotation. They indicate that two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene was
seeded with a capacity to eventually broach the extensive narrative of what was
transpiring at the time when Christ said, “Touch me Not.” That is, the
completion of his Resurrection and all that was transpiring among his Self, his
Atma body within the sun, and the earth had not been fully consummated at that
moment. Physically embracing Christ at that moment of the day, would have been
disruptive to the process of Christ connecting his devachanic phantom body here
on earth with his Atma body of the sun; i.e., his Father Self.
In John
11:45-46, we read that a large group of people had followed Mary Magdalene to
the tomb of Lazarus. Immediately after the Raising of Lazarus, many of them,
thereby, became followers of Christ. However, others went to inform the
Pharisees of what had transpired. This was the beginning of the plot to not
only execute Christ but to also plot the execution of Lazarus (John 12:10).
Continuing
with the opening theme of this article, Easter was also the time when Christ
had birthed his Self into the earth's devachanic phantom body. On Easter Sunday
at approximately 3:30 p.m,, Christ spoke the words, “Touch Me Not”, to Mary
Magdalene. Christ's process of connectivity with the devachanic phantom body of
the earth was still processing at that moment. Christ then says to Mary
Magdalene, “. . . for I have not yet ascended to the Father.” The Father is
also in reference to Christ becoming one with the devachanic phantom body of
the earth and uniting this with its higher mirrored aspect, his Atma body,
within the spiritual sphere of the sun. This is the Father Principle of Christ.
Before descending to earth, Christ left his Atma body, his Father Principle,
within the auric sphere of the sun. On Easter day, he had now united the
earth's burgeoning Atma principle with his Atma body within the sphere of the
sun.
Throughout
this nine-month gestation period, Christ and John the Baptist, both active in
the higher spheres from within the astral-etheric bodies of the Lukan Jesus,
endowed this archetypal human phantom body of John the Baptist with the
sun-earth Pleroma forces. The earliest stage of this perfected human devachanic
phantom body began to germinate on June 21, 32 CE. On day eighteen of this
process, July 8, 32 CE, the burgeoning nascent devachanic phantom body forces
of John the Baptist then elevated to its stages of beginning to eventually
taking its full and completed Form from out of the newly created etheric Linga
Sarira body of Lazarus. That is, the phantom body of John the Baptist had now
reached the comparable stage of becoming an equivalent to a human blastocyst;
though not an embryo yet. This stage is often reached at around the 18th day of
a human pregnancy. This further progression of the spiritual gestation of John
the Baptist's devachanic phantom body coincided with the day of the Raising of
Lazarus. Afterward, Lazarus continued with his former devachanic phantom body.
However, it was John the Baptist in the higher spheres who carried over the
newly burgeoning Christ-imbued human devachanic phantom body. Easter morning
was the completion and full birthing of this supernal human devachanic phantom
body. On Easter morning, John the Baptist and the Lukan Jesus appeared as One.
In the Gospel of Mark, this is recorded as the young man sitting in the tomb.
At that time on Easter morning, John the Baptist and the Nathan-Jesus, together
as One, also had temporarily borne upon themselves the Manas, Buddhi and Atma
bodies that were temporarily gifted to them by Christ. As previously cited,
these higher bodies enveloping the young man in the tomb were enigmatically
denoted as a white robe. (Mark 16:5)
How was
Christ able to endow the young man in the tomb with an Atma body if Christ's
Atma body was left within the spiritual aura of the sun, as noted above? Every
human Being has a germinal seed force for each of these three aspects within
one's soul. Christ was able to draw from those seeds forces and temporarily
enhance those forces for a moment. Thereby, Christ momentarily enshrouded the
young man in the tomb with these forces. They are referenced as the white robe
that enwrapped the young man in the tomb. Rudolf Steiner likened them to the
three inner components of one's own inner soul Ark of the Covenant.
In a prior
article, I had conveyed that Anne Catherine Emmerich was the reincarnation of
Mary Magdalene. The book, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, is the
book for which Anne Catherine Emmerich is most noted. This book contains her
visions of the Passion of Christ as recorded by Clemons Brentano. It is well
documented that Anne Catherine Emmerich bore the wounds of stigmata. Also, she
could not read nor write. This necessitated Clemons Brentano to be present at
all times while she was experiencing her visions.
Rudolf
Steiner had spoken of the works of Anne Catherine Emmerich. He indicated, “. .
. they contain exceptionally accurate material.” One assumes Rudolf Steiner was
addressing the details of moment-by-moment narrations of each scene of the
Passion and the life of Christ; though even this at times can come into
question. This is so because there are questions whether some of her narrations
may have been transposed and adjusted in order to align more with Church
doctrines and teachings. Also, she herself had professed, at times, that in
some visions she was not able to ascertain if someone present at a particular
scene was there physically or spiritually at the time of the Passion.
What is
also of interest in this article is the date of July 8 and how this date alone,
regardless of the year, was of profound significance on impacting the work of
Anne Catherine Emmerich. According to Robert Powell's, Chronicle of the Living
Christ, Anne Catherine Emmerich proceeded in conveying daily accounts of the
life of Christ in accordance to the year 31 CE. When she gave her account of
the events for July 8 of that year she was not able to continue forward from
that date. Though July 8, 31 CE would have been exactly a year prior to the
Raising of Lazarus the date alone, July 8, nonetheless became a point of
hindrance for Anne Catherine Emmerich.
She
suddenly became gravely ill to which she was not able to continue the
chronological time sequence again until months later. The chronological missing
period covered July 9, 31 CE to May 16, 32 CE. When she proceeded to resume her
work with Clemons Brentano, she suspended her visions again with June 25, 32 CE
as the last date of study; June 25th being the day after St. John's Tide. What
is of major significance is she did not resume her work again in terms of the
chronological dates for the time period of June 26, 32 CE through July 8, 32
CE. She then resumed her work, beginning with reviewing the date July 9, 32 CE;
the day after the date noted as the Raising of Lazarus, July 8, 32 CE.
These
stoppages had to do with the impact that the Raising of Lazarus had upon Anne
Catherine Emmerich. She was personally reliving the Raising of Lazarus. Within
the depths of her own soul, she was reliving the death forces of Lazarus which
significantly impacted her own personal well-being. As mentioned above, Anne
Catherine Emmerich was a reincarnation of Mary Magdalene. On the day of the
Raising of Lazarus, Christ urged Martha to return home and summon Mary
Magdalene to witness the Raising of Lazarus, her brother. It was vitally
essential that Mary Magdalene not only witness the Raising of Lazarus but to
also personally and spiritually engage in it as well. Christ waited until Mary
Magdalene had arrived and only then did he proceed with the Raising of Lazarus.
Why would Christ insist on having Mary Magdalene present? The reason and
purpose Christ necessitated she be present goes beyond the point that Mary
Magdalene was the sister of Lazarus. It was vital that she be in attendance
because she too was to become part of the Initiation.
At the time
of the Raising of Lazarus, this inaugurated the confluence of the souls of
Lazarus, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene. All three of these individuals
were later with Christ on Golgotha in one form or another.
The impact
of this moment on Mary Magdalene extended to Easter Sunday when she stood
before the Risen Etheric Christ. At that time, she was subliminally Initiated
in the enigmatic principles of the human devachanic phantom body. This event
had remained as a seed within her soul for two thousand years. On Easter
Sunday, Lazarus and John the Baptist became One within the soul of Mary
Magdalene and endowed her with “the eyes to see,” the Living Resurrected Christ
manifested in an ethereal Linga Sarira human Form.
On February
14, 2015, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Eastern Standard Time/USA, Christian
Rosenkreutz had spoken the following words in regard to the level of cognizance
that Mary Magdalene acquired regarding her capacity to see the Risen Etheric
Christ. On that evening in February 2015, Christian Rosenkreutz, a latter
incarnation of Lazarus, made it unequivocally clear, in regard to Mary
Magdalene, that John the Baptist and Lazarus, “gave her the eyes to see.” This
phrase, that was delivered by Christian Rosenkreutz on the date and time cited
above, prominently indicated that the soul of Mary Magdalene was elevated to
experience the presence of the Risen Christ in a deeply profound manner. The
unison among the three of them, at that historical moment, profoundly impacted
her soul. This coalescence of Lazarus and John the Baptist within the soul of
Mary Magdalene further enhanced the full ingression of the seed force that
would be needed for harboring the future acknowledgment of the risen phantom
body of Christ and its connectivity with the phantom body of the young man in
the tomb on Easter morning; i.e., the risen devachanic phantom body of John the
Baptist. This comprehension had become possible due to its relative
interrelationship to the event of the Raising of Lazarus and the Mysteries of
the human devachanic phantom body. John the Baptist and Lazarus became One with
Mary Magdalene and the three together witnessed the Risen Etheric Christ. As
cited above, Christian Rosenkreutz was a reincarnation of Lazarus.
Again,
given the “eyes to see” is assuredly in regard to perceiving the Risen Christ
on Easter Sunday. However, as noted earlier, others were able to see the Risen
Christ as well. Christian Rosenkreutz's disclosure, when understood from a more
percipient perspective, that Mary Magdalene was given the “eyes to see”
emphasizes the impact that Christ had within the soul of Mary Magdalene at that
moment in time, In addition, Christ streamed through John the Baptist and
Lazarus. Due to the impactful aftermath of the Raising of Lazarus, this imbued
the soul of Mary Magdalene to ultimately discern, two thousand years later, the
deeper content of the Resurrection of Christ and its immense impact on the
future evolution of human devachanic phantom bodies.
After two
thousand years, what is now to be understood is the human element of the Event
of Golgotha. John the Baptist was crucified with Christ and died on the Cross
with Christ. John the Baptist descended to the core of the earth with Christ.
John the Baptist was resurrected and found in the tomb on Easter morning
appearing as the young man in the tomb. This was witnessed by Mary Magdalene
and the other women. A human had to experience all of these events alongside
Christ. A resurrected human phantom body had to reflect the Risen phantom body
of Christ on Easter Sunday. The resurrected devachanic phantom body of John the
Baptist was created from out of the resurrected etheric body of Lazarus. The
new etheric Linga Sarira body of the resurrected Lazarus was the first
duplicate of the etheric Linga Sarira body of Christ.
Though
Robert Powell sets the date of the Raising of Lazarus as July 26, 32 CE, the
actual date was on July 8, 32 CE. The daily accounts that Robert Powell has
marked begin on July 9, 32 CE and end on July 26, 32 CE is 18 days. These
events actually transpired throughout the time period starting from and
including June 21, 32 CE (the summer solstice) to and including July 8, 32 CE. This
is a period of 18 days.
IV. The
Human Devachanic Body (Part 4 of 4)
The time
period of 17 days that then culminates on the 18th day is a subject matter I
have addressed in other writings. The examination of this theme is directed
upon the earliest gestation processes that transpire within the first eighteen
days of a human pregnancy. Nine months later, the birthing process ensues.
According to Rudolf Steiner, Christ's death on the Cross of Golgotha was
essentially the birthing of Christ within the sphere of the earth. More
specifically, the primary consequential aftermath of the Event of Golgotha was
the birth of Christ within the earth's own devachanic phantom body. As Christ
was descending toward earth from higher regions throughout the past epochs of
time, he separated his Self from his Atma body and ultimately left his Atma
body within the auric sphere of the sun. Further on, as he was entering the
regions of earth, he coalesced his Buddhic body within the earth's enveloping
biosphere regions. In addition, Christ's Buddhic body coalesced with the
earth's etheric Linga Sarira body. As a result of this occurrence, John the
Baptist then became aware of the imminent presence of Christ within the
enveloping spheres of the earth (John 1: 26). Soon afterward, at the time of
the Baptism in the Jordan River, Christ descended upon Jesus of Nazareth.
Christ enveloped Jesus of Nazareth with his Kyrios and his Manas body. These
two aspects of Christ are allegorically recorded in the Gospel of John as the
Lamb and Dove, respectively (John 1: 29-32). Toward the end of his ministry, while
in the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ relinquished his Manas body. The Manas body
of Christ then ultimately permeated the astral Prana sphere of the earth at the
time when the blood of Christ was shed upon the ground at Golgotha. In the
final moments on Golgotha, all that remained was the I AM of Christ, i.e., the
Kyrios of Christ, that was now prepared to integrate fully with the devachanic
phantom body of the earth.
Yet, there
was another factor that had to be addressed. That factor was the human element
in this cosmic event. The earth and the human Being are inextricably united
with one another. As humanity evolves, the earth evolves in like manner. The
death forces of the mineral body had to be overcome. The old forces of the Adam
soul were now to be reversed. This was intimated at the time of the Baptism in
the Jordan River when John the Baptist, i.e., the reincarnation of the Adam
soul, said that he must decrease so that Christ can increase. The processes for
the beginning of this reversal were inaugurated on June 21, 32 CE. Comparably,
this was tantamount to the conception moment of the new prototypal, archetypal
human devachanic phantom body. This process reached its culmination on Easter
morning. A human Being was present in the auric spheres of the earth whose
original devachanic phantom body had dissolved to which those same devachanic
forces were then ultimately transposed into a pure, untainted devachanic phantom
body.
A
fundamentally new prototypal, archetypal phantom body had to be formulated that
would manifest as the spiritual paradigm for all future human devachanic
phantom bodies. From that point onward, future human devachanic phantom bodies
will eventually evolve and will become incrementally intertwined with the
archetypal paradigm devachanic phantom bodies of both Christ and John the
Baptist; the macro New Adam and the micro New Adam, respectively. Repeating
what was examined above, through the nine months from higher spheres of
engagement, Christ and John the Baptist endowed this phantom body with the
sun-earth Pleroma forces. The embryonic stages of this archetypal phantom body
began on June 21, 32 CE. This was the day when Christ began to pierce the
etheric Linga Sarira body of Lazarus. Thereby, this ultimately induced the
death of Lazarus' etheric Linga Sarira body on July 4, 32 CE. On July 8, 32 CE
Lazarus received a new etheric Linga Sarira body and, thereby, was raised from
the dead.
Lazarus
received the first replica of Christ's etheric body.
The
resurrected, fully formed devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist was
ultimately consummated on Easter Sunday morning, April 5, 33 CE.: a gestation
period and birthing process of 289 days. It was John the Baptist who received
this archetypal Christ-imbued human devachanic phantom body. Easter morning was
the full birthing of this completed devachanic phantom body. In addition, John
the Baptist and the Lukan Jesus, the two halves of the original Adam soul,
appeared as One on Easter morning. Together as One, they emerged as the young
man sitting within the tomb of whom we read in the Gospel of Mark. At that time
on Easter morning, the young man in the tomb also had temporarily borne the
Manas, Buddhi and Atma bodies temporarily gifted to him by Christ.
The time of
conception for both the resurrected phantom body of John the Baptist and the
eventual birthing of the Christ Being within the earth's own phantom body
proceeded on June 21, 32 CE. These two births were intricately linked to one
another. Again, the primary component of the birthing of the devachanic phantom
body of John the Baptist, i.e., the young man in the tomb, was his newly
engendered, resurrected phantom body. This devachanic phantom body emerged as
an archetypal prototype that served as the Resurrection body of John the
Baptist. It was enshrouded by Atma, Buddhi and Manas aspects. These three
higher bodies were temporarily gifted by Christ to the entelechy of John the
Baptist on Easter Sunday morning. Allegorically, these three higher bodies
served as the white robe that enshrouded John the Baptist on that morning (Mark
16:5).
Though
Lazarus was the primary benefactor at the time of the Raising of Lazarus, it
was John the Baptist and the complimentary Lukan Jesus half of the soul of John
the Baptist, who, together as one, appeared in the redeemed idyllic phantom
body of the young man in the tomb on Easter morning. Moreover, it was Mary
Magdalene who was present at the Raising of Lazarus. She later encountered the
young man in the tomb on Easter morning. Later that afternoon, she witnessed
the Resurrected Christ. It was Lazarus, John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene
who were Initiated in the mysteries of the devachanic phantom body at the time
of the Raising of Lazarus. Additionally, Lazarus and John the Baptist were
temporarily embodied within the soul of Mary Magdalene at approximately 3:30
p.m. on Easter Sunday. They gave Mary Magdalene the “eyes to see” the
Resurrected Etheric Christ.
Rudolf
Steiner provides us an indication of the creation of a phantom body in the
realm of devachan and through the processes of gestation and physical birth, it
produces a physical-mineral body. The focus in this article, however, is the
devachanic phantom body and the temporary coalescence of John the Baptist and
the Nathan Jesus soul who appeared on Easter morning.
Rudolf Steiner,
GA 218. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA218/
Rudolf Steiner.
GA 218/ Nov.5, 1922
“Just as we
work with nature's forces here on earth, just as we use external objects of
nature as tools, so in the same way does work take place between us and the
Beings of the higher spiritual Hierarchies.
“And what
manner of work is this? This work consists in the fact that the spirit-soul
human Being, conjointly with an enormous number of sublime spiritual Beings of
the cosmos is weaving the cosmic spirit-germ of his physical human body in the
spiritual realm. However, peculiar as this may seem to you – to weave the
physical human body as a spiritual germ out of the whole cosmos - the greatest,
the most significant piece of work is conceivable in the cosmos.
“And not
only does the human soul in the state described work at this, but the human
soul works at it conjointly with whole hosts of divine-spiritual Beings. For,
if you visualize the most complicated thing that can be formed here on earth,
you find it primitive and simple in contrast with that mighty fabric of cosmic
vastness and grandeur which is woven there and which, compressed and condensed
through conception and through birth, becomes permeated with physical earth
matter and then becomes the human physical body.”
The
following readdresses points from an earlier article I had written titled, 17
Days:
. . . . . .
.
The number
17 is often a significant number throughout the Bible. A Bible concordance
search will bear this out. What is eminently intriguing is the correlation of
the number of days of the yearly cosmic procreation event at the start of the
winter solstice each year to that of the Lazarus event that began on the summer
solstice of 32 C.E. The amount of days beginning on the summer solstice of June
21 and continuing through July 7 is 17 days. The Initiation and Raising of
Lazarus was then enacted by the Sun Being Christ on July 8th 32 CE. In light of
this, it was inevitable this event began its course on the day of the summer
solstice. This was the day in 32 C.E. when Lazarus began to fall deathly ill.
Initially, Christ mostly worked from a distance throughout this event. Only on
the day of the Raising of Lazarus, was he present at the tomb of Lazarus.
Earlier, at the beginning, on June 21, 32 C.E., Christ had encountered Lazarus
in the astral spheres. This entire event also passed through the time of the
year that today we mostly associate with John the Baptist. June 24 is
sanctioned as St. John's Tide in recognition of the birth of John the Baptist.
Three days after the summer solstice, on June 24 in 32 C.E,, John the Baptist
began to spiritually integrate himself within the consciousness soul of
Lazarus. Lazarus continued to become increasingly ill to which he ultimately
passed into a comatose condition. On July 4, 32 C.E., Lazarus expired in death.
This sequence follows exactly as it is given in the Gospel of John as Christ
said Lazarus' condition was an illness, followed by a sleep and then death. On
July 8, Christ arrived at the tomb of Lazarus. He asked for the stone of the
tomb to be rolled away. Martha said to him that Lazarus had been dead for 4
days and there would be a stench from the body as Martha assumed that the body
was already in the process of decaying.
. . . . . .
.
An
exceptional point of interest to consider, when reviewing the Raising of
Lazarus, is the span of time beginning on June 21 of 32 C.E. and moving forward
to and including Holy Saturday, April 4 of 33 C.E. The soul of Lazarus was
similar to a singular human egg cell; a human ovum. Emerging from the new
etheric body of Lazarus, i.e., the first replica of the etheric body of Christ,
was born the phantom body of John the Baptist; the devachanic body of the young
man in the tomb. The number of days from the onset of the Lazarus event to and
including Holy Saturday was 288 days or 41 weeks and 1 day. This period of time
mirrored an archetypal human gestation period. The average length of time for a
first-time pregnancy gestation with a non-induced delivery is 288 days. Easter,
the day of delivery, was the 289th day. The summer solstice of June 21, 32
C.E., the day when Lazarus began to fall deathly ill, can also be likened to
the day of conception for Christ's eventual earthly birth. In addition, this
was the day when the forces needed for the eventual descent of both Christ and
a human soul together into the core of the earth began building and
formulating. During the actual moment of the Raising of Lazarus, John the
Baptist was present as an Angel over-lighting Lazarus. John the Baptist was the
spiritual prism through whom Lazarus was Initiated. In essence, he and Lazarus
became One. John the Baptist, as the Adam soul, drew from both Christ and
Lazarus. Spiritually, he stood between Lazarus and Christ after the Raising of
Lazarus. The Raising of Lazarus also served as John the Baptist's preparatory
Initiation for his eventual descent to the core of the earth with Christ.
When human
Beings pass through death, they begin their sojourn into the higher spheres of
the spiritual realms. For Christ, it was a reversal. His death on the cross
moved Christ into the final stages of his eventual consummated birth within the
body of the earth. This was only actualized to its fullest degree on Easter
Sunday near the time of sunset. On June 21st, 32 CE, Christ began the processes
of his eventual birth into the devachanic body of the earth. That is, this date
was the day of inception for the eventual birthing of Christ into the earth's
devachanic phantom body. Nine-plus months later, Christ's crowning of thorns,
scourging, suffering and death on the Cross served as the visceral labor pains
stage of the birthing processes of the Christ Being within the earth. These
sufferings led to Christ's physical death. At the moment of his death, the
final stage of the birthing process of Christ within the body of the earth had
begun on Good Friday.
What
followed was Christ then descended downward through the various levels of the
earth as though moving downward through a birthing canal. It was not until Holy
Saturday when Christ was beginning to take possession of the earth as his own
body. This was the moment he had reached the inner core of the earth. This is
equivalent to when a new born child is beginning to emerge from the vagina. The
full and complete birth of Christ within the earth's devachanic phantom body
only transpired after he had spoken to Mary Magdalene when he said, Touch Me
Not. This transpired at approximately 3;30 p.m. on Easter Sunday. It was only
later during the waning hours of the day while approaching sunset that the full
birth of Christ, within the physical body of the earth, within the devachanic
body of the earth, and within other various intangible spheres of the earth,
was fully completed. This would be comparable to when a newly born infant takes
its first breath.
It should
be noted that Christ requested of Mary Magdalene not to embrace him at that
moment of the day. However, we read in the Matthew Gospel that the other women
did embrace him. From her visions, Anne Catherine Emmerich made it clear that
the other women had separated themselves from Mary Magdalene. They encountered
Christ after Mary Magdalene had done so. The spiritual forces of the sun are at
their peak shortly after sunrise and shortly before sunset. Throughout the day
on Easter Sunday. Christ was uniting his Self here on earth with his Atma body
that was positioned within the auric sphere of the sun. Christ had not fully
completed this process at the time when Mary Magdalene encountered him.
Physically embracing Christ would have been disruptive to the entire process.
It wasn't until later, when the sun was beginning to enter its sunset hour,
that Christ had then completed his union with both his Atma body of the sun and
with the devachanic phantom body of the earth itself. At that moment in the day,
the other women were then able to embrace Christ. (Matthew 28:9)
Contradictions
in the Gospels serve as windows for unveiling greater mysteries. Rudolf Steiner
once remarked that if one finds contradictions among the Gospels, he advised,
“look deeper.”
The
birthing of the new archetypal devachanic phantom body of John the Baptist
transpired shortly after sunrise on Easter Sunday. Secondly, the completion of
the birthing of Christ within the earth's devachanic phantom body was finalized
shortly prior to sunset on Easter Sunday. As addressed above, the spiritual
forces of the sun are at their peak shortly after sunrise and shortly before
sunset.
According
to Rudolf Steiner, it is on the 18th day of a pregnancy that the individualized
personal soul elements of the incarnating human truly begin to assume the
maturing embryo that was prepared for these soul elements of the individual.
Day 18 is also when the human heart begins forming. A more universal and
archetypal spiritual germ force for the building of the physical-mineral body
had already begun to assume the embryo at the moment of conception. At the end
of the 17th day of the pregnancy and beginning around the 18th day, this same
process is enacted yearly within the earth. Every year, beginning on December
21 and carrying through January 6, a period of 17 days, the inner core and
heart of the earth is again enlivened with each passing year by the I AM of
Christ; the Kyrios of Christ. The gestation of the New Jerusalem advances
forward each year to its eventual future birth as we read in the Book of
Revelation.
The 18th
day is January 7th. This day is collectively celebrated as the Day of Epiphany.
This is associated with the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan River according to
Eastern Christian traditions. Of course, the exact date of the Baptism is
debatable. Robert Powell has the Baptism in the Jordan River in late September,
29 CE. However, there is another perspective that needs to be considered. Every
year this process advances the earth's eventual transition to the next
manvantara of human evolution. This is often referenced as the Jupiter
manvantara. In the Book of Revelation, it is referenced as the New Jerusalem.
The Feast of Epiphany, i.e., the Feast of Manifestation, has a more profound
aspect to it.
In a
previous article I had written, I addressed this subject in my article, The
Yearly Procreation of the New Jerusalem. It addresses the Woman clothed with
the sun in the Book of Revelation:
“If we can
understand the earth as a cosmic ovum, a cosmic egg cell, we begin to see a
correlation between the process of human procreation and the Christmas and
Epiphany Feasts. Each and every year the earth is impregnated and fertilized to
its deepest core by the I AM aspect of the Christ. The I AM of Christ, i.e.,
the Kyrios of Christ, acts as a spiritual cosmic seed force within the core of
the earth in order to create life within and upon the earth. What is to be
given birth in the distant future is the next manvantara; the New Jerusalem. The
woman holding the child and clothed with the elements of the sun is the New
Jerusalem. She is crowned with the 12 stars; the 12 zodiacal constellations.
The crescent moon lies beneath her feet. That is, the hardening forces of the
past earth conditions have been overcome and supplanted by the birth of the
Christ Ego within the new earth. The new earth becomes a more ethereal/astral
composition.”
And from
another article I had submitted, The Tomb of Christ:
“The
mission of the earth and that of the Deed of Golgotha was to create a cosmic
homeopathic micro-droplet of Christ's All-Encompassing Love within the
universe. Our earth is that homeopathic micro-droplet within the universe.”
Rudolf
Steiner: “Let us think of the body of
Christ that rose out of the grave. Just as from the body of Adam the bodies of
earth-men are descended, in so far as these men have the body that crumbles
away, even so are the spiritual bodies, the Phantoms for all men, descended
from that which rose out of the grave. And it is possible to establish a
relationship with Christ through which an earthly Human Being can bring into
his otherwise decaying physical body this Phantom that rose out of the grave of
Golgotha. It is possible for man to receive into his organism those forces that
rose from the grave, just as through his physical organism at the beginning of
the earth evolution, as a consequence of the Luciferic forces, he received the
organism of Adam.” (From Jesus to Christ; GA 131)
Our current
physical bodies are descendants of the physical body of Adam. Throughout the
remaining ages of the Earth manvantara, however, we will incrementally evolve
to attain the likeness of the human Form of the young man in the tomb. In
contrast to the human Form that fell to the influences of Luciferic forces, the
new human Form would be a simulation of the Risen devachanic phantom body of
John the Baptist and the Risen body of Christ; i.e., the archetypal devachanic
phantom bodies of John the Baptist and Christ that rose on Easter Sunday. John
the Baptist and Christ serve as the micro-New Adam and the macro-New Adam,
respectively.
The Author: Rick
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