Michaelmas por Kristina Kaine e Rudolf Steiner.
O propósito de Michaelmas, é nos acordar para a presença de
Cristo. Kristina Kaine
Michaelmas é a época do ano quando contemplamos
verdadeiramente o significado destes fatos e despertamos nossos sentidos para a
presença de “Cristo em nós” e nesta terra.
29 de setembro é o dia no qual reconhecemos a presença do
Arcanjo/Arqueu (SvH) Miguel em evolução. Este Arcanjo, presente (na humanidade)
ao longo dos anos, na história de São Jorge e do Dragão. Sempre que estas histórias
nos acompanham, temos certeza de que contêm uma mensagem importante que só nos
é revelada ao nos aplicarmos em desvendar ideias.
Simplesmente, o Arcanjo Miguel (Arqueu SvH) enviou o dragão
(Ahriman) à esfera física especificamente para nos dar a oportunidade de
resistir à sua atividade materialista hipnotizante. Entendemos o fortalecimento
que vem da superação das adversidades. Este dragão constantemente nos queima
levemente com sua respiração ardente, para que sejamos motivados a alcançar o
arcanjo Michael (Arqueu SvH), que permanece de pé na dimensão espiritual do
universo. Michael então nos mostra a vista/visão da criação e nosso lugar nela.
O único objetivo de Michael é nos revelar a presença e o
poder de Cristo em nós, nesta terra e em todo o universo. Michael permanece
como o guardião do Mistério de Gólgota. Ele foi o arcanjo influenciador
responsável por uma época, e voltou a governar esta época da humanidade (atual)
à medida que pessoalmente atravessamos em nossa interioridade, o Mistério do
Gólgota.
Como fazemos isto? Começamos reconhecendo que a terra é o
corpo de Cristo. Desde o momento que seu sangue fluiu do Jesus integralmente “Cristianizado”
na Cruz, esta terra, tudo nela, tornou-se Seu corpo. O que comemos e bebemos
faz parte do corpo de Cristo. Nosso relacionamento com Cristo nunca pode
acontecer através de um vago sentimento místico; só através da clareza de
pensamento Michaélico (que desenvolvemos em nós). Isto se inicia com a fé,
pistis, que significa conhecer que todo o nosso corpo, formado por nossa
ingestão de comida, é composto por Cristo. Toda célula, toda molécula, e
especialmente nosso sangue, é Cristo, quer gostemos ou não.
A forma correta de união com Cristo é ao mesmo tempo a
salvaguarda contra o Ahriman (Mefistófeles no Fausto de Goethe). O Mistério de
Cristo-Michael no Ser Humano. Capítulo 7 de Rudolf Steiner 27.9.1915, abaixo,
na íntegra.
The purpose
of Michaelmas is to Awaken us to the Presence of Christ by Kristina
Kaine
https://esotericconnection.com/
See below: Rudolf
Steiner. THE MICHAEL MYSTERY GA 26 VII. Michael-Christ in Man
Michaelmas is the time of year when we can truly contemplate the meaning of these facts and awaken our senses to the presence of Christ within us and in this earth.
September
29 is the day we acknowledge the presence of the Archangel Michael in
evolution. This Archangel has been present down the ages in the story of St
George and the Dragon. Whenever stories like this accompany us, we can be sure
they contain an important message only revealed to us when we apply ourselves
to unraveling the ideas.
Put simply,
the Archangel Michael sent the dragon (Ahriman) down into the physical sphere
specifically to give us the opportunity to resist his mesmerizing,
materialistic activity. We understand the strengthening that comes from
overcoming adversity. This dragon constantly singes us with his fiery breath so
that we will be motivated to reach up to Archangel Michael who stands in the
spiritual dimension of this Universe. Michael then shows us the vista of
creation and our place in it.
Michael’s
sole purpose is to reveal the presence and power of Christ in us, in this earth
and in the entire Universe. Michael stands as the Guardian of the Mystery of
Golgotha. He was the ruling Archangel then, and he has returned to rule this
age now as we personally go through the inner mystery of Golgotha.
How do we
do this? We start by recognizing that the earth is Christ’s body. From the
moment his blood flowed from the fully Christ-ened Jesus on the cross, this
earth – everything in it and on it – became his body. Every single thing we eat
and drink is part of the body of Christ. Our relationship with Christ can never
be through a vague mystical feeling; it can only be through clearest Michaelic
thinking. This begins with faith, pistis, which means knowing that our whole
body, formed by our intake of food, is comprised of Christ. Every cell, every
molecule, and especially our blood is Christ whether we like it or not.
Michaelmas
is the time of year when we can truly contemplate the meaning of these facts
and awaken our senses to the presence of Christ within us and in this earth.
“The right
form of union with Christ, is at the same time the right form of safeguard
against Ahriman.” The Michael Mystery: Michael-Christ in Man Ch 7 by Rudolf
Steiner 27.9.1915
Rudolf Steiner. THE MICHAEL
MYSTERY GA 26 VII. Michael-Christ in Man
https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/APC1956/GA026_c07.html
For anyone
who has imbued his whole mind, in all sincerity of feeling, with the inner
conception of Michael's being, and Michael's acts, there will come also a right
understanding of how Man must treat a world, which is neither one of divine
Being, nor Revelation, nor Workings, but is the wrought Work of the Gods. To
look at this world with knowledge, is to have before one forms, formations,
which everywhere tell with a plain voice of the divine, but in which the divine
being in its own self-existence is not to be found, if one be led away by no
illusions. Nor must one look only at the knowledgeable aspect of the world.
True, this reveals most plainly the configuration of the world which surrounds
Man to-day. But of more essential importance for everyday life is the feeling,
willing and working in a world which may be felt in its formation to be divine,
but in which no divine life can actually be experienced. To bring real ethical
life into such a world as this, requires those ethical impulses, of which I
gave an indication in my ‘Philosophy of Freedom.’
Amidst this
world of past works, for the man of genuine feeling, Michael's being and
Michael's present world of action may shed a shining light. Michael does not
enter the physical world in a visible appearance. He remains with all his
doings in a supersensible region, but one which is just on the borders of the
physical world in the present evolutionary phase of the worlds. Thus no
possibility can ever occur, that any impressions made on men by Michael's
actual being, should lead their views of Nature into fantastic realms, or tempt
them to build their practical social and ethical life — within a God-wrought,
but not God-actuated world — on the pretense that any other impulses could be
at work there, save those of which Man himself must be the ethical and
spiritual agent. Whether thinking or willing, men will always have to go into
spiritual regions, in order to find Michael.
This will
mean living, spiritually, as follows: the ways of knowledge and of life must be
taken, as they are and must be taken since the fifteenth century. But men will
hold fast to Michael's revelation; they will let this revelation shine as a light
into the thoughts which they receive from Nature; they will carry it as warmth
in their hearts, when obliged to lead their lives in accordance with the
divinely wrought world of finished Works. They will not then have only in view
the observation and living realization of this present world, but another state
of the world too, which Michael gives them — one which is past, but which
Michael, by his being and his deeds, transfers into the present.
Were it
otherwise — were Michael to work so that he transferred his actions into that
physical world which Man, at the present day, must know and experience as such
— then Man would learn from the world at the present day, not what actually is
in the world, but what was. Wherever this happens, the human soul is led by
this illusory reading of the world out of its own reality, that is fitted to
it, into a reality of another sort — namely a Luciferic one.
The way
which Michael takes to bring the past as an active force into present human
life, is a way that follows the right spiritual lines of cosmic progress, and
has in it nothing Luciferic. It is important for the human soul to understand
this, and to keep before it a clear conception of the way in which, in
Michael's mission, everything Luciferic is avoided.
This
attitude towards the light now dawning on the history of mankind — towards the
light of Michael — means also finding the right road to the Christ.
Michael
will give the right orientation when it is a question of the world which lies
all about Man and calls on him to know and act in it. The way to Christ must be
found within.
It is quite
comprehensible, at a time when the knowledge of Nature has assumed the form
given it by the last five hundred years, that the knowledge of the
supersensible world should also have become such as mankind to-day make it in
their lives. It is necessary that Nature should be so learnt and so lived, that
everything is emptied of its Gods. And hence, in the form he has thus given to
his relations with Nature, Man fails any longer to find himself.
That
relation of himself to Nature, which is the fitting one for the age, gives Man,
inasmuch as he is a supersensible being, nothing whatever as to his own nature
and being. Nor does this attitude — if it is all that he looks to — enable him
to live, ethically, in a way befitting his manhood.
Hence the
tendency arises, not to let this form of knowledge and of life enter into
anything which has to do with Man's supersensible being, or indeed with the
supersensible world at all. The latter is made into a field of knowledge, set
apart from that which is attainable by human powers of cognition. As against
the field of what is knowable, another — extra-scientific, or super-scientific
— field is marked off for revelation by Faith.
But in
active contrast to all this, is the pure spiritual efficacy of the Christ. Ever
since the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ can be reached by the human soul. And the
soul's relation to Him has no need to remain a dim and vague mysticism of
feeling; it can be a perfectly concrete relation, one to be realized with all
the depth and clearness of the entire man.
When this
is so, then there flows into the human soul, from her life together with the
Christ, the knowledge which the soul needs about his own supersensible being.
The revelation of faith must then be so embraced, that through it there runs
unceasingly the stream of actual, living Christ-experience. The whole of life
will thereby receive its christening, when in the Christ is recognized He who
gives to the human soul the understanding vision of her own supersensible being.
Thus may
stand side by side, as realization of the inner life, Michael-Realization and
Christ Realization. Through Michael, Man will find his right way to the
Supersensible in respect to external Nature. The naturalistic conception will
then, without suffering any falsification, be able to take its place alongside
a spiritually-minded conception of the World and of Man — in so far as Man is a
creature of the World.
Through a
right position towards the Christ, that which otherwise could only be received
by Man as a traditional revelation by faith, will be learnt by actual
experience in the soul's living intercourse with Christ. The inner world of the
soul, the life of inner feeling and experience will then be realized as one
illumined by the light of the Spirit; the outer world of Nature as a world
sustained and carried by the Spirit.
Were Man to
seek to obtain the clue to his own supersensible being, except in the life of
communion with Christ, it would lead him away from his own realm of reality and
into Ahriman's. Christ bears within Himself the impulses of the human future in
the manner that is cosmically justifiable. To unite herself with Him, is for
the human soul to receive into her the seeds of her own future as cosmically
justified. Other beings, that already present forms which cosmically will only
be justifiable for Man in the future are beings that belong to the Ahrimanic
sphere. The right form of union with Christ, is at the same time the right form
of safeguard against Ahriman.
Those
people who strictly insist on the revelations of Faith being safeguarded
against the intrusion of any influences from human powers of Knowledge, are
actuated by the unconscious fear that if Man once enters upon this path he will
fall under Ahrimanic influences. This must be understood. But it should also be
understood, that it is, in reality, to the honour of Christ and to His true
recognition, when to Christ and to realization of life with Him is ascribed the
gracious inflow of the Spirit into the soul of Man.
Thus
Michael-Realization and Christ-Realization may stand in the future side by
side. So will Man find his right way — the way of freedom — between Lucifer,
who leads him astray into illusions of thought and life, and Ahriman, who
entices him into forms of the future which gratify his pride, but can
nevertheless not be his, as yet, in the present.
To fall a
victim to Lucifer's illusions, means, not to be willing to advance to the stage
of freedom, but to stop short, as God-Man, at a too early stage in evolution.
To fall a victim to Ahriman's enticements, means, not to be willing to wait
until the right cosmic moment has come at a definite stage of humanity, but to
want to take this stage before its time.
Michael-Christ
will stand in the future as the sign at the head of the way along which Man
must travel in order to keep the right cosmic direction between the two Powers,
of Lucifer and Ahriman, and so arrive at his World-destination.
Leading
Thoughts
Man
journeys on his way through the Cosmos in such a manner that his
gazing-backward into the bygone world may be falsified by the impulses of
Lucifer, and his thinking-forward into the future may be cheated by the
enticements of Ahriman.
The right
position towards Lucifer and his falsities will be found when Man imbues his
whole mind, in respect both to knowledge and to life, with a sense of the Being
and the Mission of Michael.
Thereby Man
safeguards himself also against Ahriman and his lures. For that spiritual path,
by which Michael directs Man's mind into external Nature, leads him to a right
position towards Ahriman, because he finds the right realization of life in
communion with Christ.
The Angel Standing in the Sun 1846 by J.M.W. Turner
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-angel-standing-in-the-sun-n00550
