Alvorada/Amanhecer da Era de Michael
por Sonia von Homrich
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Rudolf Steiner: "Aquele que entende como observar essas
coisas sabe que uma grande mudança ocorreu no último terço do século XIX em
relação à vida do pensamento humano. Antes daquela época, o ser humano só podia sentir como os
pensamentos se formavam em seu próprio ser; a partir do tempo indicado, o ser
humano torna-se capaz de se elevar acima de seu próprio ser; o ser humano pode
voltar (direcionar) a sua mente para o espiritual; ali ele encontra Michael
(Arcanjo e Arqueu) que prova a sua conexão anciã com tudo que se relaciona ao
pensar. Ele libera o pensar da esfera da cabeça; ele abre/limpa o caminho do
pensar para o coração; ele permeia de entusiasmo os sentimentos, assim a mente
humana poder ser preenchida com devoção por tudo que pode ser vivenciado na luz
do pensar.
A alvorada da Era de Michael surgiu. Corações começam a ter
pensamentos; o fervor espiritual agora não mais procede apenas da
obscuridade mística, mas sim das almas esclarecidas/limpas pelo pensamento.
Compreender isso significa receber Michael no coração. Os pensamentos que
atualmente se esforçam para compreender o espiritual devem se originar nos
corações que batem por Michael como o ardente Príncipe do Pensar no universo
".
Emergindo de poderes do Sol,
Poderes-Espirituais radiantes, abençoando todos os mundos!
Para a roupa de raios de Michael
Você é predestinado pelo Pensar Divino.
Ele, o Mensageiro de Cristo, revela em você -
Posiciona a humanidade no alto - a vontade sagrada dos
mundos.
Você, seres radiantes dos mundos do éter,
Conduz a palavra de Cristo para seres humanos.
Assim o arauto de Cristo deve surgir
Para as almas sedentas que esperam
Para quem sua Palavra de Luz brilha
Na era cósmica do Ser Humano Espiritual.
Você, discípulos do conhecimento espiritual,
Tome a sabedoria de Michael que acena;
Pegue a Palavra de Amor da Vontade dos Mundos
Na aspiração da sua alma, fervorosamente!
Imaginação, Inspiração, Intuição
Fonte/ Source
https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c01.html
Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophical
Leading Thoughts. GA 26
1. At
the Dawn of the Michael Age
Before and
until the ninth century after the Mystery of Golgotha, the human being stood in
a different relation to his thoughts from that which he has had in later times.
He did not have the feeling that he himself brought forth the thoughts that
lived in his soul. He regarded them as inspirations from a spiritual world. And
when he had thoughts about what he perceived with his senses, even these
thoughts were to him revelations of the Divine that spoke to him from the
things of the senses.
Whoever has
spiritual vision will understand this experience. For when something that is
real in the spiritual sense communicates itself to the soul, one never has the
feeling: ‘There is the spiritual perception, and I myself am developing the
thought with which to understand it.’ But one sees the thought
which the perception contains, and which is given with it, no less objectively
than the perception itself.
(When dates
are given in this connection, they are to be taken only as a rough indication
of the period; the transition takes place quite gradually.) Speaking, in this
sense, we may say that the ninth century saw the lighting-up, in the souls of
men, of the individual personal intelligence.
Man began
to have the feeling: ‘I myself form my thoughts.’ And this
forming of thoughts came to be the thing of first importance in the soul's
life, so that man saw in the intellectual experience the very essence and being
of his soul. In earlier times men had had an imaginative conception of the
soul. To them the essential thing about the soul was not that it formed
thoughts, but that it partook of the spiritual content of the Universe. It was
the supersensible, spiritual Beings whom they conceived to be thinking,
and—extending their influence into the human being—thinking into him as well.
That which lives in the human being of the supersensible, spiritual world—this
they felt as the soul.
As soon as
we penetrate with higher vision into the spiritual world, we meet with real and
concrete spiritual Beings, spiritual Powers. In old teachings the Power from
whom the thoughts in things proceed was designated by the name Michael.
This name we may still apply, for it is true that human beings, once upon a
time, received the thoughts of Michael. Michael held sway over the Cosmic
Intelligence. But from the ninth century onwards men no longer felt that
Michael was inspiring the thoughts into them. The thoughts had fallen away from
his dominion—fallen out of the spiritual world into the individualised souls of
men.
Henceforth
it was within mankind that the life of thought was evolved. To begin with, men
were uncertain as to what it was they had in their thoughts. This uncertainty
found very real expression in the scholastic teachings. The Schoolmen were
divided into Nominalists and Realists. The Realists, led by St. Thomas Aquinas
and those who stood near to him, still felt the old closeness and kinship
between thought and thing. Hence they saw in the thoughts a reality living in
the things. They regarded the thoughts of man as reality which flows over from
the things into the human soul.
The
Nominalists felt very strongly the fact that the soul forms its thoughts. They
felt that the thoughts were merely something that existed subjectively in the
soul and had nothing to do with the objects. They were of the opinion that
thoughts are only names man forms for things. (They did not speak of ‘thoughts’
but of ‘universals,’ but that does not come into consideration for the
principle of the theory, as thoughts always contain something universal as
compared with the individual objects.)
We may say
that the Realists wished to remain faithful to Michael; even though the
thoughts had fallen from his sphere into that of man, they wished, as thinkers,
to serve Michael as the Ruler of the intelligence of the Cosmos. The
Nominalists deserted Michael, with respect to the unconscious part of their
soul. They did not consider Michael as the owner of the thoughts, but man.
Nominalism
spread abroad and increased in influence up to the last third of the nineteenth
century. Then at this period those persons who were able to perceive the
spiritual events in the Universe felt that Michael had followed the stream of
intellectual life. He is seeking a new metamorphosis of his cosmic task.
Formerly he allowed the thoughts to stream from the spiritual outer world into
the souls of men; since the last third of the nineteenth century he wishes to
live in the human souls in which the thoughts are formed. In earlier times the
human beings related to Michael saw him develop his activity in the spiritual
sphere; they now know that they ought to let Michael dwell in their hearts;
they now dedicate to him their spiritual life which is based upon thought; they
now, in their free and individual life of thought, allow themselves to be
instructed by Michael as to which are the right paths of the soul.
When those
who in their former Earth-life received their thoughts by inspiration, i.e.,
who were servants of Michael, had returned to earthly life at the close of the
nineteenth century, they felt urged towards a voluntary Michael community of
this description. They now looked upon the one who had formerly inspired them
with thoughts as their guide in forming higher thoughts.
One who
understands how to observe such things knows what a great change took place in
the last third of the nineteenth century with respect to the life of human
thought. Before that time man could only feel how thoughts formed themselves in
his own being; from the time indicated he is able to raise himself above his
own being; he can turn his mind to the Spiritual; he there meets Michael, who
proves his ancient kinship with everything connected with thought. He liberates
thought from the sphere of the head; he clears the way for it to the heart; he
enkindles enthusiasm in the feelings, so that the human mind can be filled with
devotion for all that can be experienced in the light of thought.
The Age of
Michael has dawned. Hearts are beginning to have thoughts; spiritual fervour is
now proceeding, not merely from mystical obscurity, but from souls clarified by
thought. To understand this means to receive Michael into the heart. Thoughts
which at the present time strive to grasp the Spiritual must originate in
hearts which beat for Michael as the fiery Prince of Thought in the Universe.
Further
Leading Thoughts issued from the Goetheanum for the Anthroposophical Society
79.
Spiritually, we can approach the Third Hierarchy (Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi)
by learning to know Thinking, Feeling and Willing, so as to perceive in them
the Spiritual that works in the soul. Thinking, to begin with, places not an
effective reality, but only pictures into the world. Feeling
lives and moves in this realm of pictures; bears witness to the presence of a
reality in man, but cannot live it or express it outwardly. Willing unfolds a
reality which presupposes the existence of the body but does not consciously
assist in its formation. The spiritual reality that lives in our Thinking, to
make the body the foundation of this Thinking; the spiritual reality that lives
in our Feeling, to make the body share in the experience of a reality; the
spiritual reality that lives in our Willing, consciously to assist in
fashioning the body—all this is alive in the Third Hierarchy.
80.
Spiritually, we can approach the Second Hierarchy (Exusiai, Dynamis,
Kyriotetes) by awakening to see the facts of Nature as the manifestations of
spiritual being that indwells them. The Second Hierarchy then has Nature for
its dwelling-place, there to work upon the souls.
81.
Spiritually, we can approach the First Hierarchy (Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones)
by awakening to see the facts that confront us in the kingdom of Nature and of
Man as the deeds (creations) of spiritual being that is working in them. The
First Hierarchy then has the kingdom of Nature and of Man as the outcome of its
work, wherein it unfolds its Being.
Further
Leading Thoughts issued from the Goetheanum for the Anthroposophical Society
82. Man
looks upward to the worlds of stars; what is there presented to his senses is
but the outer manifestation of those Spirit-beings—and their deeds—of whom we
have spoken as the Beings of the spiritual kingdoms or Hierarchies.
83. The
Earth is the scene of action of the three Nature kingdoms and of the human
kingdom, inasmuch as these make manifest the outward and sensible glory of the
activity of spiritual Beings.
84. The
forces, working from spiritual Beings into the earthly kingdoms of Nature and
into the kingdom of Man, are revealed to the human Spirit in the true—that is,
the spiritual—knowledge of the starry worlds.
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Rudolf
Steiner:
"One who understands how to observe such things knows what a great change
took place in the last third of the nineteenth century with respect to the life
of human thought. Before that time man could only feel how thoughts formed
themselves in his own being; from the time indicated he is able to raise
himself above his own being; he can turn his mind to the spiritual; he there
meets Michael, who proves his ancient kinship with everything connected with
thought. He liberates thought from the sphere of the head; he clears the way
for it to the heart; he enkindles enthusiasm in the feelings, so that the human
mind can be filled with devotion for all that can be experienced in the light
of thought.
The Age of
Michael has dawned. Hearts are beginning to have thoughts; spiritual fervor is
now proceeding not merely from mystical obscurity but from souls clarified by
thought. To understand this means to receive Michael into the heart. Thoughts
which at the present time strive to grasp the spiritual must originate in
hearts which beat for Michael as the fiery Prince of Thought in the
universe."
Springing
from powers of the Sun,
Radiant spirit-powers, blessing all worlds!
For Michael's garment of rays
You are predestined by Divine Thought.
He, the Christ messenger, reveals in you —
Bearing humankind aloft — the sacred will of worlds.
You, the radiant beings of ether worlds,
Bear the Christ-Word to human beings.
Thus shall the herald of Christ appear
To the thirstily waiting souls
To whom your Word of Light shines forth
In the cosmic age of the Spirit Human Being.
You, the disciples of spirit knowledge,
Take Michael's beckoning wisdom;
Take the Word of Love of the Will of Worlds
Into your soul's aspiring, fervently!
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