Advance of the Sexes
During Lemurian evolution, the liberating forces that were aroused when the moon separated from Earth permeated the developing astral body, and Lemurian offspring began taking on different emotional expressions than their parents. They were compelled through attractions and repulsions within the environment that stimulated emotional activities. The outwardly feminine soul developed a masculine vital body and was balanced within by a receptive impress of Spirit, while the outwardly masculine soul developed a feminine vital body and was balanced internally by an active impress of Spirit.
Receptive forces within the emerging female body secured the womb and governed the inner life of the female-oriented soul. The receptive nature of the female paved the way for imaginative interactions with the spiritual worlds that allowed Lemurian women to acknowledge the inner activities of the soul. Feminine receptive traits were largely centered on an instinctive use of the imagination. Certain women progressed to become great soothsayers, the first oracles of Earth humanity whose wise voices set the foundations for future societies.
men were shaped differently. Spirit impressed within the emerging male bodies Divine Masculine Harmonies. Active energies enlivened male reproductive organs and governed the inner soul life of men in ways that stimulated intellectual cooperation. Lemurian men did not yet have the conceptual capacity to think for themselves, but they were able to manipulate their bodies and the sensory world in response to external pressures. Through instinctual relationships with higher guidance, they were instructed on how to work the elements. They became great sorcerers of their time. Their willful advances allowed them to influence the world of form, which was still highly ethereal compared to present day Earth.
During the Lemurian epoch, humanity was still of a slumbering, dreamy mindset. Lemurians took to error rather impulsively, and advances did not come without major challenges and setbacks. The astral body was still developing, and Lemurians were vulnerable to Luciferic spirits who exploited emotional sensitivities through an astral integration with the human body that contradict higher persuasions. Steiner explains in The Spiritual Hierarchies, Lecture 10:
As the Moon development passed on into that of the Earth, the whole process was repeated, and those Beings who had plunged into the full tide of the Moon's development remained behind those who would have nothing to do with it, and others remained still further back, and were attracted by the retrograding development. The result of all this was that during the earth evolution Angel-men existed who were advanced, and others who were retrograde.
The advanced Angel-men approached the men of the earth during the time, when, in Lemuria, they were ripe to receive the germ of the human ‘I,’ and gave them the choice, as it were, to rise into the spiritual worlds then and not to have anything further to do with that, which since the time of the Moon, had mingled with the course of the world's development. The Beings who had stayed behind, whom we call the Luciferic beings, came into touch with the human astral body—they could not approach the ‘I’—and grafted into that astral body all the results of the fight in heaven. While to the Mights [Dynamis] was assigned the fight in heaven, for they were created Gods of Hindrance; the consequences of their deeds now slipped into the human astral body, and there signified something else; they signified the possibility of error and the possibility of evil. Man had now been given the possibility of error and of evil with the objective that he should also have the possibility of rising above evil and error, through his own strength.”
Düsseldorf, April 18, 1909
Lemurians were walking in the dark unaware, so to speak, and were vulnerable to the misguided influences of inverted spirits. At the end of the Lemurian stage, another drop in Earth density occurred so that gravitational pressures in the liberated Lemurian environment did not ease but instead increased. Circulating impressions of Lucifer’s participation in the Battle In Heaven took hold, and the rejection impulse strengthened, overruling healthier developments. Luciferic Angels were able to attach themselves to the emotional body through the astral forces they had developed on Ancient Moon and tempted the people of Lemuria in ways that disrupted their soul activities. Such inverted spirits were, and still are, the devils on the shoulders of Mankind. They inspired Lemurians to rise above the challenges of the world with a false sense of enlightenment that bypassed moral standing and Divine Laws. Such Lemurians seemed impressive and were inspirational at first, but soon became insular and inverted in their false moral standings and lost their connections with the rest of society. Their actions and advice led to the path of Ahrimanic forces that encouraged accumulation and selfish gains, and over the courses of time, that seemed good enough for much of the developing world.
As a result of tumultuous influences, the wise councils of Lemurian women dropped their focus, and unhinged expressions tainted their songs. Creative energies were geared toward emotional gratification rather than conceptual integrity, and animal-like passions brought catastrophe. Women lost their ennobling influences on men, and men neglected their duties. The impressionable landscape was devastated by fiery upheavals as a reckless humanity with unchecked liberated energies ignored devotional insights and instead threw their impulses around.
Our Lemurian ancestors were not yet at a place where they could insightfully choose right from wrong of their own accord. So to help set things right, higher spirits intervened on behalf of Mankind. The great errors in the ways of Earth humanity had been pushed upon Mankind as a result of the battle of higher spirits that had taken place on Ancient Moon. Exusia had prepared the environment for Kali Earth, permeating each Earth epoch with intelligent activities according to the directives of higher spirits who, as extensions of The Divine, had guided the intelligent activities of each world stage. Exusia arranged the conceptual forms of Earth, and now Archai stepped in to honor the human spirit and to help guide Earth humanity away from the tainted weave that was exasperating evolutionary developments.
are of the heavenly realm marked by the planetary orbit of esoteric Venus, what is understood in present day as planet Mercury. Archai work as Spirits of the Age to move humanity into prosperity within each Earthly period. They brought the conceptual accomplishments of Exusia further into the lives of Mankind by organizing the developments of the ages. During the Lemurian timeframe, esoteric Venus and the realm of the Archai was still relatively entwined with Earth. Archai beings moved higher spiritual concepts closer to humanity through the magnificent warmth of character that Archai are known to master. They stimulated within humanity an I-awakening and along with that, the developments of personality. This was a very early and innocent awareness for Lemurians.
The devotional activities of Archai inspired Archangels to move conceptual forces still closer to humanity through the vital body, which Archangels had mastered on Ancient Sun. Inspired Archangels compelled Lemurian men and women—those who were more attuned to spiritual guidance and who had developed their sexual bodies enough to be impressed by intelligent forces—to travel away from tumultuous landscapes and to safe havens.
The accounts as I have described them relate to the larger Lemurian epoch and its outstanding developments that circulated into the waning Moon stage that occurred as the third period of the Atlantean timeframe. Lemurian activities were still quite present during the first, second and third Atlantean periods. The small number of earthly men and women who had developed in ways that allowed them to take in enlightened concepts of the world were guided away from tragedy. Thanks to their gratitude and determination along with the aid they received from higher beings, life progressed. The Atlanteans were their survivors. And subsequently, so are we.
Inspired Leaders
In order to truly know world history and to own our human origin story, we need to insist on historical accuracy through our knowledge of spiritual activities. An eye for the spiritual draws out the truth within a narrative and helps to balance scholarly disciplines with spiritual considerations. Spiritual investigation into the history of humanity is a disciplined study that respects the persuasions of higher forces. Important developments can be explained through a familiarity of the duties and capabilities of higher beings as well as humanity’s relationships with them, including our relationships with destructive beings, those Spirits of Density under the influences of the inverted unity of Ahriman and Lucifer.
During the Kali stage that is Earth, as humanity moved deeper into density, dark influences began more rigorously competing against impulses from The Divine. The deeper into materialistic mindsets humanity traveled, the more difficult it became to ascertain Truth, and humanity became isolated from spiritual insights regarding life and the cosmos. Each human age is marked by imaginative stories that hold the religious trappings of an inverted unity. When Luciferic influences are at play, creative narratives about alien gods and human slaves become mainstream. Lucifer wields an arrogant and rigid intellectualism that leads people into false claims of godliness. When Ahrimanic regression is involved, the supernatural is edited out of human history to be replaced with dogmatic beliefs of a singular god working in isolation without a Heavenly Hierarchy to express his will. Ahriman’s great lie is that Spirit does not exist, and since he is a spiritual being, neither does he. Do not look behind the curtain; there is nothing to see! Through our denial of Spirit, we usher in false heroes and false gods, emboldening Ahriman’s presence until he is center stage.
Since the cosmic event known as the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ has asserted his claim over the evolutionary developments of Earth. Steiner reveals that the Christ Revelation was foretold and celebrated in the ancient world as shared through the Hindu creator god Vishva-Karman, the Spirit of Light known in Ancient Persia as Ahura Mazdao, the Osiris of Egypt and the I Am that Moses proclaimed as God of the World. Mankind was and continues to be elevated through the Conscious Light of Christ.
According to the esoteric worldview, current humanity as a whole makes up the fifth root race of the post-Atlantean stage. We are positioned near the center of the Kali round, but on the upward swing of the cosmic timeline. From this vantage point, and with the noteworthy yet still rather limited conceptual integrity we have gained, we are able to look upon the challenges of humanity’s past with a more critical and detached lens than our ancestors were able. Our minds have evolved to hold Truth just as we have evolved to be more conscious beings.
Through each stage of human development, dedicated leaders from the higher realms have presented themselves as guides to aid the human experience and to remind us of the light consciousness that we are aspiring toward, albeit reluctantly and not without childish tantrums. These devoted leaders are not only integral to our past but to our future as well. They helped to prepare the world for the earthly coming of Christ. And from their heightened managerial positions, they are preparing Mankind for an ethereal Christ presence that will affirm our commitments as spiritual beings. It is my understanding that Christ in ethereal form is already working upon us and inviting us to gradually move closer to the higher realms so that we can experience
Earth in its evolved state.
In Apocalyptic Writings, Lecture 111, Steiner describes the dedicated spiritual leaders of
Mankind as Manus. He states,
The evolution of mankind stands under the direction of mighty Leaders who guide its onward progress. In the language of esotericism these Leaders are called Manus. A Manu, therefore, is the Being who at the beginning of a race gives the great impulse, the direction in which the race is to evolve. We are living now in the Fifth Root Race. When, after the destruction of the Fourth Root Race (the Atlantean) this Fifth Root Race began its development, the great impulse was given by the Manu of the Fifth Root Race. The Manu is not in the same sense a man among men as other outstanding human individualities. Even before mankind on the earth was filled with spirit, the Manu had already reached a lofty stage of development. It was in the Third Root Race, when in the middle of the Lemurian epoch the human spirit flashed up for the first time in the human body, that such leaders came to the human race.
Steiner goes on to say,
If we go back to the middle of the Lemurian epoch and survey man's
whole evolution, we find three grades of individualities who have something to do with humanity. There is a group of very lofty individualities who long, long ago, in the far past, had already passed through the stages of evolution which man will attain only in the distant future. They are the “Holy Spirits.” A second group are the “Sons of God.” They stand nearer to man but are nevertheless far more exalted than he. And the third group are those who, as human beings were still children, but were nevertheless the most advanced among those early men. They are the “Fathers” or “Pitris.”
We have therefore three grades of beings and these three grades of beings are the guides and leaders of mankind.
24 October, 1904: Berlin
Manus are enlightened leaders within the celestial realms who work more directly with humanity by bringing heavenly impulses into our lives. The advanced beings who gave the great impulse that inspired earthly developments were from the realm of Exusia. Their conceptual activities designated the energetic forms and inspired the developments of each earthly round, of which they are engaged from their more lofty positions as the great developers of Earth Evolution.
My grasp of rightful spiritual leaders is that enlightened Manus within the realm of Archai understand the impressions of Exusia and their promotional forces. These Manus carry the impulses of Exusian Masters into the earthly epochs and inspire the developments of the periods and the ages of Mankind in an authoritative capacity. They are referred to as Holy Spirits. At certain times, when the human body is developed in a way that the soul can align with the Archai forces, a “Holy Spirit” can step into the human kingdom on Earth and more directly guide evolution. Archai enlightenment is generally associated with the Saturn phase, or the first and the Seventh period and age.
Spiritual leaders from within the choir of Archangels are attuned to the developmental incentives of higher persuasions and work upon communities of Mankind within each earthly period. These advanced personalities are called Sons of God. Archangels are of the Venusian realm, or what is referred to within theosophical studies as Esoteric Mercury. Archangels gained their active consciousness on Ancient Sun and their enlightenment is generally associated with the sun phase, or the second and the sixth age within each developmental period. Rightful Guiding Archangels support and enliven the wellbeing of nations.
Inspired superhuman leaders who guide earthly developments in more intimate ways are from the choir of Angels and are called Elders, or Pitris. Angels are of the Moon realm, the Ninth Celestial Kingdom. When we elevate our spirits and rightfully acknowledge the higher realms, Angels once again become perceptible to us. Guiding Angels are known to stream their persuasions into the bodies of the advanced souls of Mankind, those people we know as Adepts, and are able to assist humanity in a broader way than lesser-advanced Angels. Angels went through their spiritual coming of age on Ancient Moon and their enlightened activities are generally associated with the moon phase, or the third and the fifth developmental age. The spiritual guide who directed Atlantean developments during the fifth Atlantean age and who helped to secure humanity’s survival in the post-Atlantean world was an Elder, or Lunar Pitris of the Angelic realm and the Moon sphere. It is said that this superhuman being guided the seven Holy Rishis of Ancient India.
The advanced beings of the three realms of the Third Creative Tier help to bring heavenly impressions into our lives the best way they can from their heightened positions within the Heavenly Hierarchy. Archai, Archangels and Angels are at different personality developments. They have evolved to hold elevated persuasions as appropriate and in light of the varying degrees and complexities of their individual choirs. Devoted leaders who guide evolutionary developments are not gods, and obviously, they are not meant to be worshipped. In the present post-Atlantean period, it has been observed that the spiritual leaders best suited to guide and assist Mankind will be enlightened personalities from the realm of Mankind. Such earthly Manus are referred to as Blessed Souls. Biblical Moses was a living example of a Blessed Soul. His guidance helped to pave the way for the life, death and resurrection of Christ as incarnate through Jesus of Nazareth. Siddhattha Gautama, as well, was a blessed soul who opened the doorway to the higher realms and Light Consciousness for humanity to remember as we slipped into the Kali age of the Post-Atlantean experience.
Cain and Seth
During Lemurian evolution, inner awareness was encouraged, but I consciousness had not yet been developed in Earth humanity. The ego was of a larger soul orientation and was not independently shaped. Lemurians were connected to the spiritual worlds through the impressions they absorbed within the environment, which was slowly materializing. They progressed through the shared teachings of more evolved beings and in that way were still able to mingle with the Heavens. They had wills but not yet the willpower to affect the world. They had imaginations but not yet the inner focus to hold their imaginations freely and independently.
In the book The Genius of the Few, Christian and Barbara Joy O’Brien share a compelling study of the Book of Enoch, which depicts an autobiographical account of Enoch’s activities with higher spirits in a land known as Eden. Enoch’s adventures reveal the more open relationships our great-ancestors had with heavenly beings. Rather than approaching the Book of Enoch as a text offering apocryphal writings about a future time, the O’Briens suggest that the storyline is set entirely in the past and, along with the Sumerian Epics of Creation, which the O’Briens refer to as the Epics of Kharsag, the Book of Enoch reveals an ancestral account of humanity.
The authoritative beings in the Sumerian texts are known as Elohim, translated to mean Radiant Beings—plural. By many accounts, the Biblical Genesis also reveals plural Shining Beings rather than a singular Radiant God. This in no way demeans Biblical accountability but offers a deeper connection to the truths of our origins. Some powers are too great for us to imagine let alone stand before, and The Divine standing before us would dissolve us completely. He has and always will work through the Heavenly Hierarchy. Elevated beings within the hierarchy of spirits are uniquely empowered to carry out the Will of God.
To clear up any misconceptions about Elohim, we can note that Exusia moved into full authority of Earth Evolution around the middle of the third Earth round. On Ancient Moon, they held rank beneath the creative authority of Dynamis just as Archai Spirits hold a position beneath the creative authority of Exusia today; however, as I understand the hierarchies, Exusia had already gained I-Conscious Being and had affirmed their active consciousness in a far more distant timeframe, and on Ancient Moon, they were participating in Creation in a way that Archai will not be able to achieve in this world cycle. Exusian spirits had progressed to experience a fuller understanding of what can be described as a united soul consciousness. In other words, certain Exusia joined life streams and held Divine Council—they united on the world stage in the form of Elohim and were prepared to take creative authority of Earth Evolution. Another way to describe the Elohim is to say that they were and still are an exalted council of advanced creator spirits of the Exusian Order. All lower spirits who have not fully incorporated I consciousness come into existence on the world stage through the powers of enlightened creator spirits carrying out the will of god. The bodies of lower spirits, those of the Third Creative Tier as well as Earth humanity and all the lesser creatures, are transformed and in that way recreated onto each world stage through the life forces of higher spirits.
The higher spiritual choirs have unique levels of life experiences that are reflected in the lower choirs of the Third Creative Tier and also imitated in the way that we structure our earthly communities. However, we are more tormented by dense pressures and selfish desires. With that said, Steiner reveals that Jehovah is an initiation rank within the Exusian Order of Elohim. Steiner speaks to this in The Foundations of Esotericism, Lecture VII. He states,
The Old Moon was surrounded by Warmth Ether and other forms of ether. In these ethers lived intelligence and reason, as they now live in the human brain. Underlying this however there was development. At the beginning of the Moon evolution wisdom still impressed itself into beautiful forms. The beings who only possessed the lower human members, physical body, etheric body and astral body, were directed by these streams of wisdom. In the course of further development the three lower bodies descended more deeply. When the Old Moon evolution came to an end the beings who were wise, but did not possess wisdom in a brain, had progressed so far that they could completely relinquish these lower bodies. These beings who had now become Pitris and who no longer needed to enter into such physical, etheric and astral bodies, were the hosts of the Elohim in different stages. The lowest rank of these Elohim is the Jehovah stage. Jehovah therefore is an actual Moon divinity, who on the Old Moon passed through physical development. Nevertheless on the Moon he was never able to work on the physical surroundings, using a brain as the vehicle of thought. Only his physical, etheric and astral bodies had worked on the physical environment. This however he did through pictures. Thinking hovered above. The name Jehovah does not designate a single being, but a rank in the order of the hierarchies. Many beings can take on the Jehovah rank, or assume it for a purpose.
Berlin, 2nd October 1905
Exusian Spirits have reunited the Manas, Buddhi and Atma presence within them and have evolved beyond our earthly associations of the physical, etheric and astral experience. Yet, they are of the lowest choir within the Second Creative Tier and as such are Pitris, or Elders of the Solar Realms just as Angels are Pitris of the Lunar Realms, which consist of those beings of the Third Creative Tier. United Exusia take the form of Elohim, and the lowest position within the Elohim Order is that of Jehovah. Therefore, Jehovah’s rank places him closest to the lower choirs so that he is more relatable to less advanced spiritual beings and can actively work with them. Remember, unlike the inverted hierarchy that we often deal with on this tainted world stage, advanced spirits give the most of themselves in order to assist the developments of lower choirs. With this understanding, the Jehovah of the Bible was of a united Exusia, an Elohim council of what appear to be seven active spirits who took charge of Earth Evolution. Jehovah is considered the less advanced of the seven because he falls into a central and deeper roll within the Kali Earth experience. His powers usurped the others, so to speak, during the fourth Earth round. He is the creator spirit of the Kali round of Kali Earth. Therefore, he is closer to and better able to relate to tainted earthly conditions than more elevated spirits because he dropped further into density. This lower position also reveals a sacrifice. Jehovah sacrificed his elevation within the council and gave a part of his spirit to humanity. He gave up certain heavenly powers in order to mingle within the deepest part of Kali and assist Mankind with his persuasions. In so doing, he put himself in the direct line of fire of Lucifer and Ahriman.
We can note that those higher spirits who work closest to us are not usually of the more advanced ranks. As we know based on our earthly interactions with each other, those of the highest intellect and spiritual persuasions more often have a hard time relating to the rest of us and rely on less educated and less spiritually transformed personalities as translators. With this said, during Earth Evolution, certain Archai Spirits become the embodiment of Jehovah, a council of Archangels become the countenance of Jehovah, beings within the Angelic realm sing praises of Jehovah, and Christ as presented through Jesus of Nazareth is the earthly successor of Jehovah. Christ’s succession of Jehovah fulfilled the Promise proclaimed within the Old Testament and elevated humanity to receive earthly Equality so that we can move closer to the higher creative realms and better understand the blessings and workings of the Sacred Creative Trinity.
The Vedas teach that the Divine Father worked His persuasions through the Sixth Heavenly Choir, which is the choir of Exusia. Christ streamed His presence onto Earth through the sun, the home of Exusia. His powers override the Elohim counsel, of which Jehovah is an acting member, and redeem Earth of its tainted influences. Christianity is designed to elevate humanity through the redeeming Light of Christ so that we can rise to fresh levels of understanding that bring Divine Harmony into the world. The persistence of certain Christians to force dogmatic messages while also waging war in God’s name is a strategy put in place during the Kali age through the inverted unity of Ahriman and Lucifer that they must overcome if they want to truly witness and respond to Christ’s persuasions. Likewise, the persistence of Jews to reject Christ’s earthly incarnation so that their mindsets are tuned to a false future earthly incarnation of Christ is a Luciferic strategy worked upon humanity during the Kali age that they must overcome, or they will not see that Christ has already redeemed humanity and is working with us from the spiritual realms. Furthermore, the persistence of Muslims to place Mohammed over Christ as incarnate through Jesus of Nazareth is an Ahrimanic strategy worked upon humanity during that Kali age that they must overcome in order see that the Light of Christ is already working on and through all of us, albeit, to different degrees depending on our alignments. We are together on this Earth, and we will eventually be together in the Heavens as a united choir of beings regardless of our earthly disagreements.
In the material plane, even Exusia are not entirely exempt from interacting with the tainted weave. The depravation of Ahriman as a fallen Exusia was a slow, heavy decline that affected many beings and that pulled even advanced spirits into a devolutionary path. We can relate to this through our earthly bonds with each other. When a member of a family rises or falls in health or influence, the rest of the family is affected in different ways.
The rejection impulse that had overwhelmed life experiences on Ancient Moon seeped into the lives of certain spirits and caused them to ignore their evolutionary tasks. Contributing to this, Ahriman’s embodiment of the rejection impulse weighed heavily on those spirits influenced by his life stream, this included a united council of Exusia, an inverted Elohim force that would take charge of certain aspects of Earth Evolution in order to promote materialist gains. This group of Exusia was able to participate as a united creative spirit, but in a somewhat stunted way. The impact of this can be understood through the story of Cain and Abel.
According to the mystery teaching as supported by the Law of Circular Form, the life experiences of Cain and Abel are intimately linked to humanity stemming back to the Lemurian timeframe. Steiner relates this in The Temple Legend, an account of a Rosicrucian teaching of the story of Cain and Abel. While the Biblical account of Cain and Abel emphasizes ancestral lineage dating back to antiquity, the Temple Legend as described by Steiner reminds us of an earlier account of humanity and the emergence of a dual-sexed existence. Steiner says,
Let us agree that everything which happens on the physical plane has to recapitulate earlier stages in a particular way. On earth there is always a recapitulation of the events of earlier times. [In his life] before birth man has to go through the stages which he once experienced with his dull animal consciousness [in earlier times]. So, for instance, the Renaissance period of the Middle Ages was a recapitulation of ancient Greek times. We also find such recapitulation in planetary events. Before the present earth became what it is today, it had to recapitulate earlier conditions before it could become an independent planet, our earth in fact, in the Fourth Round [or recapitulation]. Thus, whenever anything new has to appear on earth, the earlier stages must always be recapitulated in a new form. So the human spirit in the fifth Root Race [our present Race] has worked through a recapitulation of the [happenings of] the Lemurian Root Race [the third Race], when humanity was still of one sex only, and then became two- sexed. That had a great influence on its spiritual development.
Freemasonry and Human Evolution II (women only)23 October 1905, Berlin
The Lemurian stage was of a descending timeline and emphasized feminine qualities in support of active masculine activities. We know that in active life, which relates to all of Creation, the feminine and the masculine compliment one another with harmonious interplay. Through the strengths of the receptive-feminine life is preserved and secured; while through the strengths of the active-masculine life is transformed and enlivened.
The complimentary values of the masculine and the feminine weaken, as it is, or disperse the deeper into density humanity travels and within the limitations of each evolutionary experience. During times of extreme pressure, feminine and masculine energies can become so oppressed that they loose meaning and destabilize the other.
Through a study of the cosmic timeline, we can see that humanity is advancing into an age that, through the Law of Circular Form, bears the markings of Lemuria during a time when Earth humanity was still androgynous. And we can also see that a time will come in the distant future when feminine and masculine energies are truly and consciously balanced within the earthly body; however, we are nowhere near that potential as of yet. Our Memories In Truth are being exploited to chaotic ends, and many people have been fast-tracked into thinking that they are transforming into asexual beings. When instead, Earth humanity at this time is tasked with engaging in the full separation of the feminine and the masculine in ways that support and enliven our creational developments. Earthbound masculine forces are designed to strengthen intellect—the receptive component of willpower that connects us to knowledge as shared through the conscious realms—while complimenting the intuitive discoveries of feminine forces. Intuitive discoveries are related to the imagination and validate masculine gains. Earth humanity carries both the feminine and the masculine aspects of The Divine; however, Woman and Man receive different spiritual impresses through the Holy Spirit and are therefore uniquely tasked within the Earth timeframe.
During the first two epochs of the fourth and central round of Kali Earth when the physical form did not have a definite sexual appearance, the human soul had yet to wholly incarnate within the prepared human body. At the beginning of the third Earth epoch and the Lemurian timeframe, the physical body was still animated through the activities of higher spirits and neither completely male nor female. However, outward appearances revealed features associated with the female form. This brings us to Eve and the legend of Cain and Abel. I pause here to note that my studies are not associated with the Rosicrucian teachings and in no way are meant to speak for them. I come from what can be considered an uninitiated point of view.
According to my understanding of the material, the mystery legend of Cain and Abel speaks of an Elohim who moved his persuasions into the world through Eve, the ensouled feminine being and sacred archetypical woman, and through Eve created Cain. This Elohim was an Exusian Creator Spirit of the Sun Realm, but was of a backward Ahrimanic spiritual stream, while Eve was an embodiment of the evolved female form and of an Earth stream that was held within the life activities of Archai Spirits, those Spirits of Personality, of Triumph, who gained active consciousness on Ancient Saturn and guided Eve’s creation, what we can also call her transformation, on Earth during the first earthly epochs.
Abel was also a child of Eve, yet Abel’s father was Adam, the sacred child of Jehovah, or Yahweh who created man not from Eve but as a direct likeness of Himself. Adam was born in the likeness of God as produced through Yahweh Elohim, the United Exusian Creator Spirit who took responsibility of humanity and devoted Himself to Earth when it was still attached to the moon. Adam was of the exalted Exusian persuasion and held a spiritual nature in the likeness of Elohim Yahweh. During the first part of Lemurian evolution, the human form was either an Adam and in that way an Elohim child as formed through the Exusian Creator Spirit Yahweh, or an Eve and in that way a child of evolutionary Earth as supported by the life streams of Archai spirits.
The stunted Elohim creator spirit who through Eve produced Cain could not replicate himself into the world like a proper Elohim but managed in Cain to create a portal of human experience of Angelic stature, meaning that Cain was intellectually spiritualized to the level of Angels. Through Cain, Angels who were still working to evolve within their choir because they had misstepped on Ancient Moon, found a portal back into the human experience. The lower disruptive moon energies that had been spun into the life activities of the Angelic Choir worked on Cain. He held an active spiritual nature as tied to the solar activities of Exusian spirits, but he was attracted to Earth causes and hardened away from spiritual inspirations. As a whole, he represented a humanity of a masculine Angelic stature as bound to Kali Earth.
As the legend goes, due to their elevated lineages, Adam and Eve could have perpetuated their life streams into their offspring until the end of the Earth timeline and have saved Mankind from some of the harassing depths of the Kali experience. But then, of course, humanity would not have progressed. Alas, Cain was not a product of Elohim Yahweh, and because higher spirits than Yahweh were working under Divine Persuasion to support the proper developments of Mankind, Elohim Yahweh allowed for a creation that balanced Cain. Adam and Eve were united in what appears to be the first coordinated planned marriage, and their offspring took the form of Abel. Adam and Eve were human beings designed by higher spirits. Abel was a human being created by Adam and Eve. The reprioritization of energies within Abel’s body meant that he was not as spiritualized as Adam or Eve, although, he was still exalted and more advanced than Cain. Abel, as produced through Adam and Eve, was of the spiritual heights of Archangels, and he pleased Elohim Yahweh.
Abel was a portal of human activity for Archangelic Beings and was more suited for the Heavens. While Cain’s will was tied to the distortions of Moon evolution that bound him to Earth. Cain overpowered Abel within the materializing Earth sphere, and he eliminated Abel in defiance of Elohim Yahweh. Cain brought the circulating energies of the tumultuous Moon experience into the timeline of Mankind while also propping up intellectual and scientific advances already familiar within the Angelic realm.
Adam and Eve united again and produced Seth, who took Abel’s place as the progenitor of Earth humanity. Seth was less spiritualized than Abel yet still inspired. Through Seth, a foundation for Earth humanity took root and a dual-sexed existence began. And so we have the Divine Masculine as expressed through Adam uniting with Eve, an earthly embodiment of the Divine Feminine, and producing the spiritually receptive and God-inspired sensitivities of Abel. We have the backward Elohim influence working through Eve to produce the intellectually heightened yet spirit-stunted bloodline of Cain. And we also have the Divine Masculine in Adam uniting again with the Divine Feminine in Eve to form Seth, a reasonable Man. Through Seth, the course set by Yahweh for Mankind was made clear. A less evolved race was established that would unite the feminine and the masculine and take over rulership of Earth. Earth humanity, the meek, was destined to earn independence and, in that way, elevate ourselves as spiritualized beings while putting in check the fallen energies within the cosmos.
When Eve took in the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, she was naively acting out a ritual as carried forth by higher spirits who, through the fruits of knowledge, project their life forces into the ensouled world potential so that lesser evolved beings have a knowledgeable environment that works upon them and that they can also work upon. However, Eve cut herself off from the spiritual source of Wisdom and destined her descendants to find that source within the sensory world. Through the actions of Eve, the creative powers of Woman became infertile and therefore needed to be fed by the external sources offered through Man—through Adam. Adam’s move alongside Eve assured that Mankind’s decent into density and ultimate independence would be assisted by intellectual developments that supported higher learning and that would eventually reacquaint Mankind, through the imaginative strengths of Woman, with supersensory discoveries aligned with the higher worlds. The male receptive inner soul was balanced by an active impress of Spirit that compelled his creative engagements within the sensory world. Woman ultimately became dependant on Man who, as a result of his devotion and protection, would mark a return to spiritual heights through the wisdom of Woman. Balance and collaboration between feminine and masculine energies, between Woman and Man, was and still is a key to the rightful progress of Earth humanity.
The active aspect of the soul that moved inward as Woman developed an outer feminine expression rooted within the solar plexus and permeated the vital body with Divine Wisdom. Through the impress of Spirit, Wisdom was united with Beauty and transformed into Purpose. Purpose can be considered as a feminine aspect of The Divine that is held within the lower conceptual body of both women and men; however, women carry purpose more securely. Purpose is an ennobling force for humanity.
The receptive aspect of the soul that moved inward as Man developed an outer masculine expression rooted within the solar plexus and permeated the vital body of men with Divine Beauty. Through the impress of Spirit, Beauty was united with Wisdom and transformed into Desire. Desire can be considered as a masculine aspect of the Divine that is held within the lower conceptual body of both men and women; however, men carry desire more strongly. Desire is an inspiring force for humanity.
The Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine as held within the Unity of Two are the original sources of all diversity that is expressed throughout the creative world. Diversity stems from our associations with the feminine and the masculine aspects of the soul that through Spirit are impressed with heavenly forces. Needless to say, men can have effeminate expressions and women can have robust expressions. Sexual diversity unites us with spiritual energies that allow us to build upon our unique strengths within the Kali Earth timeframe.
This relationship between the forces of the masculine and the feminine was reiterated in the lives of Cain and Seth. The descendants of Cain were inspired by masculine and therefore active life expressions but were destined to obtain higher spiritual knowledge by toiling on Earth. Through the materialized landscape, they would gain scientific and mathematic advances that imitated the ways of Heaven and that would elevate life activities on Earth. But they would eventually need to overcome the material by acknowledging the spiritual in order to rightfully evolve and transcend the tainted weave.
Seth’s receptive response to Spirit elevated earthly progress. Without the spiritual insights of Seth and his descendants, who appeared as a lesser, more vulnerable humanity to Cain and his flock, all intellectual advances on Earth would fall short, and mankind would be lost in an illusion of false material relevance. Likewise, Seth alone cannot transcend a tainted world impulse. The education of Cain is what triggers the memories of a more spiritualized humanity.
The angelic, or Cain line on Earth was halted but did not end with the great deluge. As a united community of people, we hold both the Cain and the Seth influences within us. We are not Angels, nor are we godly, but we sure can carry Divine Persuasions alongside the best of beings. This dynamic plays out in our lives in regard to the two spiritual paths discussed in earlier episodes. A doctrine-oriented approach to spirituality is founded on faith and prioritizes sacred principles, while a liberal- oriented approach to spirituality is felt as inspiration and prioritizes intuitive discovery. Both approaches require discipline and are designed to balance and support the other, as well as humanity’s progress.
We can also note that we recently stepped out of the Kali age of the modern timeline. The last several thousand years reveal a slow awakening of Cain-like advances for humanity that now need to be elevated through Seth-like spiritual acknowledgements or they will lead us to ruin. In other words, it is time for us to be reacquainted with the higher worlds. We are here! We have made it! The welcome matt to the world of Spirit has been laid out for us, the veil is thinning, and the door is opening. Our futures, and especially those of our children as long as we guide them rightfully, hold exciting, sometimes terrifying, more often beautiful opportunities that are worth embracing so that we can step forward as genuine beings in gratitude of our past and the diverse lives we live that have brought us to this place in time.
Take care, Everyone <3
SelmaZ