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Our knowledge of air as a life-sustaining element is derived from the simple observation that without air we die. Lack of air disrupts the human physical experience. We also know that air is different from the mineral formations we stand on and the bodies of water that refresh us because we can observe the distinctions. We can reason that the physical qualities of air are different than those of earth and of water. We cannot see air with our regular senses, and we may take air for granted; yet, we understand its importance.
We also know that the world as we experience it is material. Our world is filled with physical forms held within a landscape of gravitational pressures. How do we know this? A fish in water cannot see past the liquid veil of its surroundings. So how can we see beyond the material—how can we discern the material from that which it is not? To what do we draw the comparison to call out the material world for the dense reality it is? A consciousness stooped in physical expression alone should, in reality, know nothing other than the physical world.
As we know, we are not rooted in material form. The human consciousness knows of another world with higher frequencies of expression. In ages past, our great-ancestors more directly experienced this other world. Divine Persuasions penetrated the human being and filled our ancestors with impulses and anticipations stemming from the spiritual. We are en route to receive heightened spiritual persuasions in ways similar to our distant ancestors, yet through an awakened consciousness. Spirit is active in everything and always holds an underlying influence. Spirit is Truth, and since the mind is Spirit oriented and heart centered, Truth as connected to the spiritual, indeed, sets us free.
Divine Totality
An all-encompassing sum of experiences completes our universe. And it begins with Totality. All That Is And All That Ever Will Be is summed up in Divine Totality—the ultimate expression of Active and Receptive Divinity—Radiance and Essence in Complete and Divine Unity.
During the great cosmic pralaya, which we can understand as the night between
worlds, all of Creation is asleep within the receptive consciousness of The Divine. In that experience, Divine Totality is fully absorbed within the Divine Feminine. The Divine Feminine is Life Essence, also known as Divine Substance, Soul, Securer of Worlds, Receptive Divinity, Imagination, Intuition, Life-Preserving, Love, Beholding, Ennobling, Mother, Female.
We are alive in the active consciousness of the Divine Masculine. This we know and understand more fluently because we experience life consciously. The Divine Masculine is Life Energy, also understood as Divine Radiance, Spirit, Enlivener of Worlds, Creative Divinity, Will, Intellect, Life-Creating, Truth, Bestowing, Inspiring, Father, Male.
The Divine Masculine holds within Him aspects of the Divine Feminine. In life, the Active Divine draws upon the Receptive Divine and, in effect, awakens the Divine Mother from Her slumber and creates a perfect reflected image of Himself. The Active Divine and the Receptive Divine form Perfect Unity. From within this Unity, Christ is received—the Prince of Peace, the First Born, the Divine Son, the Beholder and Bestowing Master of Divine Equality In the Radiance of Conscious Light. Together, the Divine Masculine, the Divine Feminine and the Christ are united in the Highest Divine, the Absolute Holiest of Trinities, the Perfect Triad.
Life must first move forward before circling back. And the Divine Masculine needs a canvas to enliven with life expressions. The Divine Feminine takes it upon Herself to draw upon the Masculine within Her. She creates a perfect reflection as a gift for Her Divine Love, the Father of Creation, so that He can have a medium to work upon. She is of receptive consciousness, and so Her reflected image in the active world is a negative impression multiplied by a negative impression. This creates an eternal positive, what is referred to as the swirling void of chaos. This universal chaos is filled with unceasing possibilities that expand inwardly, internally. It is the abyss.
The Divine Feminine is Essence, or Soul, holding within Her aspects of the Divine Masculine, who is Radiance, or Spirit. She withdraws a part of Her essence to ensoul Her creation, the inward circulating abyss. The beheld chaos awaits perfection and, in that way, redemption. Her ensoulment of chaos creates undifferentiated form and what is referred to as quintessence, or sublime neutral warmth within the potentiality of Creation. The Divine Feminine isolates a part of Herself and through Her Love secures the worth of the creative world.
In response to this, Christ as the Divine First Begotten, holding a perfect balance of Life Energy and Life Substance—Divine Truth and Divine Love— produces the instrument from which the creative world is enlivened. Christ forms an image of Himself, which is then consecrated by the Father, and creates Divine Freedom in the form of the Holy Spirit. Together, the Father, the Christ and the Holy Spirit are united in the Divine Trinity, also referred to as the Universal Sacred Trinity or the Creative Triad.
- The Father is the source of Creative Life and holds the Third-Ray Harmonies of Creation.
- The Christ holds a perfect union of Truth and Love. Christ is the preserver of Creative Life and holds the Second-Ray Harmonies of Creation.
- The Holy Spirit transforms Creative Life and holds the First-Ray Harmonies of Creation as the Spirit of Beginnings and of Endings.
- The Mother ensouls chaos as the canvas for the creative world and lovingly embraces the beings of Creation.
The Divine Trinity resides in the Highest Heavens and permeates the ensouled world of chaos through numerous extensions of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, what can be understood as the Trimurti of the Vedas and represented as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Our Solar University
In a heavenly sense, life is perfection.
From an earthly point of view, life is far from perfect. We all progress at different
rates and in a variety of ways, each of us strengthening certain aspects of our personalities while ignoring and at times outright rejecting other developments. We often pull each other into our misaligned wanderings and act, quite frankly, as our own spiritual saboteurs, in ignorance of, as well as in denial of our relationships with the higher worlds.
Even so, for all of human history, since the beginning of time and up to the
present day, humanity has been guided by the brightest of spiritual beings to answer the charge of Divine Inspiration and to advance as life-conscious souls. Divine beings are far more advanced than us and have always been present during our evolutionary developments. They are our guiding inspirations for life growth and prosperity.
The organization of the hierarchies is designed as an advanced learning system, a solar university that holds twelve creative kingdoms, nine of which directly persuade us and, in turn, are receptive to the influences of planet Earth. Spirits of the heavenly realms participate in the creative processes of our world in a multitude of ways and with varying degrees of authority. Each celestial realm holds beings who went through a human stage of development, a spiritual coming of age much like what we are going through on Earth, where they gained active consciousness as appropriate for their tasks and accomplishments. We, the collective human race of Earth, reflect certain aspects of the social structures of higher kingdoms in the positions we hold within our families and our larger communities.
Our solar university is home to three active creative tiers, each consisting of three heavenly choirs of spirits. Beings of the first, second and third heavenly choirs, consisting of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, make up the First Creative Tier within our solar system. This first tier is known as the Sacred or Holy Trinity and reveals Divine Engineering at work, with Heavenly Seraphim engineering the creative process by building up the blueprints of Creation according to the Divine Plan. Cherubim are orchestrates of that plan, making sure that each phase of the creative cycle is organized and managed, while Thrones execute creative developments at the highest skill level. These most sublime of heavenly beings distribute the directives of God throughout the Heavenly Hierarchy in a masterful arrangement that promotes growth and development throughout each kingdom, including the Kingdom of Mankind, what is to be the Tenth Heavenly Realm within our solar system. As seen through a western lens, this culmination of Divine Persuasions is revealed in the Yuga System of World Evolution.
Solar Authorities and the Yuga Arc
In Hindu cosmology, the life cycles of the world are measured in ginormous swaths of time called Yugas. In the western system that I am familiar with, the Yuga System of World Evolution forms a cyclical hierarchy of seven world stages. I have been a bit lax in using consistent terms, so to clarify, I will refer to the main seven Yugas as worlds, the seven divisions within each world as rounds, the seven divisions within the rounds as epochs, and the seven divisions within the epochs as periods, which are further divided into eras and also ages. I play with the words stage-s and cycle-s in general ways.
The most sublime Yuga is Satya Yuga. Satya is considered a golden time of spiritual communion with The Divine. The nurturing aspect that influences life activities during Satya holds a perfect unity of Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine. Saturn Evolution was a Satya experience that, through the creative energies of Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, transcribed the Will of God into Creation. Another Satya cycle will occur when the seventh sphere of World Creation takes form. That world is too removed from our current experience to speak about with any clarity, except to say that it will be a sublime experience that Mankind is destined to participate in as far more elevated beings.
Heavenly Thrones are in creative authority during Satya. On Ancient Saturn, Thrones were responsible for infusing into Creation the ethereal landscape that would evolve into the phenomenal world and for creating the rudiments of the physical body. Working beneath Thrones were beings of the Second Creative Tier: Dominations, Dynamis and Exusia who, as extensions of The Divine, were the leading spirits, or “acting gods” during that most sublime time.
Thrones are invested in the Satya experience. It is my understanding that after old Saturn is transformed into the Vulcan evolutionary stage and the second Satya cycle is completed marking the end of the current cosmic timeline pertaining to Earth and our solar system, the choir of Thrones will be in position to evolve into a more elevated exchange with The Divine. Within the deep regions of our solar system, the Third Heavenly Realm and Kingdom of Thrones has been designated a materialized sphere known as Saturn with an orbiting ring that marks the threshold of their realm as well as the threshold of the lower Heavens.
Next comes Treta Yuga, a silver stage of God-inspired thought and leadership
that radiates Harmony and Unity into Creation in the form of Divine Equality. The nurturing aspect that influences Treta life holds a divine balance of masculine and feminine energies as was expressed on Ancient Sun. Ancient Sun has evolved into the central star of our solar system. We are on course to return to Divine Equality on the sixth world of Creation, what is referred to by Steiner as the Venus World.
As I understand the cosmic timeline, Dominations of the Fourth Heavenly Realm are dedicated to the exalted Treta dynamic and will continue to hold wise counsel of the Sun until it is transformed through the second and final Treta cycle. On Ancient Sun, Dominations were responsible for infusing into Creation the solar ether, also known as the light ether or thought ether, and also for preparing the vital body for humanity. Working under the creative authority of Dominations were Dynamis of the Fifth Heavenly Realm, Exusia of the Sixth Heavenly Realm and Archai of the Seventh Heavenly Realm. Dominations have been designated the materialized planet known as Jupiter. Jupiter signifies Ancient Sun’s place within our solar system, and its planetary orbit allows us to glimpse the outmost regions of the heavenly kingdom of Dominations.
Dwapara Yuga is considered a bronze stage of waning guidance from Divine Spirits where a de-parenting takes place and where Divine Freedom is bestowed upon Creation as a merit-oriented spiritual achievement. The nurturing aspect during Dwapara is symbolized as the feminine holding the masculine, so that feminine developments ennoble masculine advances, which, in turn, support feminine achievements, as was experienced on Ancient Moon. The Ancient Moon evolutionary sphere was expressed as a descending Dwapara stage that will emerge again in more evolved form as an ascending stage brought forth in the fifth creative world.
The spirits in creative authority during the liberating Dwapara cycles are Heavenly Dynamis. On Ancient Moon, Dynamis were responsible for infusing into Creation the sounds of the magnetic, or emotional ether, and preparing the astral body for humanity. Working beneath the directive of Dynamis are the choirs of Exusia, Archai and Archangels.
Dynamis are dedicated to the Dwapara experience and will continue their
commitments until the end of the fifth world cycle. They have been designated the materialized sphere of Mars. As it orbits around the sun in relationship to Earth, Mars allows us to glimpse the outer ring of their kingdom. It is understood in esoteric studies that prior to the Sun’s extrusion during the Ancient Moon World, the lunar stage extended to the ring of the astral belt, which, in physical appearance, reveals remnants of the liberating battle that took place during that time. Ancient Moon is no more; however, the planet Mars signifies its place within our solar system.
The most challenging and therefore defining Yuga is Kali Yuga. Kali is a hardened time of life experiences that take place in a tainted landscape. Kali life isolates Mankind from elevated heavenly forces so that a complete de-parenting can take hold in a way that inspires human spiritual maturity and that consciously elevates the soul. By my account, Kali is a singular iron stage of development. The nurturing aspect for Kali holds feminine receptivity within masculine activity as was discussed in Episode Five: Equality Elevated. During Kali, the masculine holds the feminine and in that way secures creative life energies and the survival of humanity; the feminine, in turn, supports and affirms masculine developments.
The Sun’s evolution into the fixed star of our solar system and the source of Conscious Light was celebrated throughout the ancient world with emphasis on various sun gods. Exusia of the Sixth Heavenly Realm are the “acting gods” in high authority during the challenging Kali cycle, and their designated home is the sun. Exusia are the creative form builders within our solar system and are responsible for infusing into Creation the life ether and preparing the conceptual body for Mankind to master the ego and elevate the soul into active consciousness. Their life impressions stream from the sun and hold the signatures of Creation that keep our world and our bodies in alignment with precious elements as produced through the sun’s alchemical activities. Working under the authority of Exusia are angelic beings of the Third Creative Tier: Archai, Archangels and Angels.
Through the Yuga system, we are reminded that The Divine has set the stages of world evolution. It is worth noting that if we can engineer things on Earth, than we should hold no doubts that The Divine has engineered the cosmos to support life achievements. If we can perform major productions, orchestrate grand symphonies and build up governing systems on Earth, then most certainly The Divine has already done so in the Heavens. If we can organize our communities into careers and services whereas people hold dedicated tasks, then obviously The Divine has inspired our cooperation and is therefore dedicated beyond measure to healing our isolation and loneliness so that we can enter into more meaningful relationships with the higher realms.
At the conclusion of Kali Yuga, solar developments within the human experience lead us upward so that life develops from chaos to order—from condensed expressions to enlightened achievements. Within the Yuga System of World Development, each consecutive world slowly brings Creation into full maturity and unity.
Life imitates life, and the expressions of Mankind stem back to the beginnings of Creation. We are here, at this moment along the cosmic timeline, because we have worked our way into the evolutionary process. We are survivors on the Earth stage because Divine Beings assisted us and because our ancestors helped to carry us into the present so that, right here and right now, we can share this Moment In Truth.
Ensouled Potential
At the dawn of world evolution, the Divine Father acted upon ensouled chaos by enlivening it with harmonies of life expression. Harmonies of the Father united with the Essence of the Mother and created Perfect Unity in the womb of Creation. This state of world development is referred to as the Saturn condition and was a womb-like experience that acted as a portal, or doorway to the phenomenal sensory world. Ancient Saturn held within it all the creative possibilities of our solar system. It was the most sublime physical expression. At the heart of Saturn was the ensouled potential of Earth Humanity, surrounded by Angels, Archangels and Archai who were slowly awakening in consciousness. Exusia, Dynamis and Dominations encircled the lower spiritual beings and worked their persuasions into Creation. In the higher regions, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim held the creative world with the highest of impressions.
Near the beginning of Saturn Creation, Heavenly Thrones of the Third Celestial
Realm streamed Divine Will and built up warmth within the undifferentiated ensouled chaos. Archai achieved awakened consciousness in the fiery warmth. They took in the element and began mastering their egos—the fire dragons of ancient lore—in the warmth of Saturn. They became Spirits of Selfhood—of Personality, the first fire-breathers of the cosmos who brought the ego into relationship with the evolving creative world.
It can be said that Archai experienced an initial awakening development on a solar system predating ours, and so their sublime spiritual coming of age was a confirmation and further refining of their evolutionary advances in a way that charged, or primed the creative world with self-expression. The selfhood obtained by Archai had been hard earned by them on a previous timeline and carried potentialities that would further the creative experience.
On Ancient Saturn, Archai advanced as Spirits of Personality. They played within the sensory landscape and built up a world of sublime experiences. The more advanced among the Archai were exalted in self-expression and became great magicians of their time. Their creative impressions were like living thought reels. They shared sensory-oriented activities that entertained the cosmos and were celebrated by higher beings. The productions also impacted the dreams of Archangels, Angels and, yes, even the souls of future Earth humanity still slumbering in consciousness.
The Archai awakening marked the primeval beginnings of the human experience within the cosmic timeline. Their activities presented a sublime enchantment to the evolutionary world. The soul consciousness of Mankind pierced through the enchantments from a position within the Heavens. We created what Rudolf Steiner calls a germinal predisposition, or a thought embryo. So at one side we have consciousness as aligned with the Heavens, and on the other side we have complete and utter forgetfulness as attached to the phenomenal world, with a simple spark—a desire for life—uniting the two.
Through the activities of Archai, the first stage of the phenomenal world was enchanted into Creation, and within that experience, the souls of Mankind were already working to establish the Tenth Heavenly Realm. Thrones of the highest order bestowed the thought embryos of Mankind with willful energies of transformation as connected to the highest of soul life attainment, what can be understood as the will aspect of the soul that takes the form of Atma. This was a true gift from a heavenly godparent. This aspect of Creation is expressed within the womb of a mother every time she conceives. Within the womb, incoming souls reach down from the Heavens, and The Divine aids humanity through the blessings of higher spirits who inspire the soul with life activities.
The developments of the spiritual coming of age of the Archai were imprinted within the creative world, and Archai were eventually elevated as Spirits of Triumph—the first of creative beings to claim their full personalities within the cosmic timeline pertaining to our evolutionary world. They hold the threshold from the phenomenal world back to the world of Spirit.
The actions and enchantments of the Archai were recorded in the highest ether, so that as life on Saturn was brought to a close, the imaginations of Archai were preserved in form just as the essence of all Creation was and still is preserved by Christ. Through the memories of the Spirits of Triumph, the harmonies of Saturn were carried to the world of Sun along with impressions of the physical body and the sensory organs in rudimentary form, including the main sensory organ of Earth humanity—the heart.
Intelligent Luminosity
The Sun World was a vibrant stage filled with fiery perceptions and air-like inspirations. Just as we utilize the physical body as our densest form, Dominations hold the lives of Archai as their densest concentrations, and so the memories of the choir of Archai were shaped into the vital ether of Sun through the understanding of Dominations of the Fourth Celestial Realm who rose to creative authority on the Sun Evolutionary World.
On Sun, the Conscious Light of Christ streamed forth through the Perfect Union of Essence and Radiance that had been established in the womb of Saturn. The doorway to the Heavens was open, and Heavenly Light poured onto the Sun, filling it from within and illuminating the ethereal landscape. Centered within the Sun was the ensouled potential of the animal kingdom held within the dream activities of Earth Humanity, along with Angels and Archangels who were slowly awakening in consciousness. Their restful activities were supported by the nurturing expressions of Archai, who had awakened on Ancient Saturn and were furthering their active participations within the creative world. Surrounding the flora-like heartbeat of Ancient Sun, Heavenly Dominations streamed Divine Wisdom in the form of intelligent luminosity and built up the vital ether, what can be understood as the thought ether of the Sun World. Dynamis and Exusia actively worked to animate and shape the luminous Sun expressions.
Dominations bathed the creative world of Sun with conscious wisdom and in that way prepared the stage for Archangels to awaken from slumber and achieve active consciousness. It is my understanding that Archangels, too, had begun their spiritual coming of age on an earlier ascending timeline of a world evolutionary system, and they were one stage behind the advancing soul activities of Archai spirits. Archangels refined their spiritual developments by incarnating into the mineral bodies that were being prepared on Ancient Sun. The solar expressions had been impressed with intelligent activities and had evolved into plant-like forms with rudimentary glandular systems.
Archangels matured in consciousness in those evolving plant-like bodies and were inspired by higher spirits to rise to the most perfect expressions of the Sun World. They took in Conscious Light and then expressed it outward. They became Spirits of Fire—of Illumination, the second fire-breathers of the cosmos whose inward warmth brought the ego into a fresh relationship with the transformed creative world. They began mastering their egos—the air dragons of ancient lore—in the light of the Sun World while strengthening the enchantments of Archai Spirits. The most exalted of the Archangels became great illuminators of their time. Their life-affirming activities were etched into the highest ether of our world system.
The inert consciousnesses of Earth Humanity absorbed all that was available to them on Ancient Sun. We furthered our journeys into awareness as inspired by the actions of the Archangels and managed to form a second thought embryo. Heavenly Cherubim showered the awakening thoughts of Mankind with the powers of Divine Revelation, what is understood as the harmony aspect, or Buddhi of soul potential. This was a second gift from a spiritual godparent.
At the close of Sun Evolution, spiritual forces associated with the constellation Scorpio brought an end to the developments of that world. The dissolution did not signify a permanent death, but a time of reflection in acceptance of all that had been accomplished. The doors to the Sun Evolutionary World closed, and the dawn of a fresh evolutionary stage was on the horizon.
The Moon Evolutionary World
Ancient Saturn was a sublime world of quintessential warmth that served as a doorway into the phenomenal experience in the expression of a planetary womb.
Ancient Sun was an exalted world of Perfect Equality as expressed through Conscious Light and the illuminating activities of higher beings. Ancient Sun served as an early childhood-like stage of planetary evolution.
Ancient Moon was a passionate world of liberated expressions that took the form of a pre-adolescence stage. Divine Freedom was ushered into Creation, and developing life activities were charged with the duality of attraction and repulsion, of elevation and devolution—of good and of bad. On Ancient Moon, the third ether of the Living Impulse was brought into world development, and the astral-emotional body was affirmed.
Higher beings work in amazing ways to enchant the world so that humanity has a proper place to develop and mature. As we can imagine, the first and second rounds of Moon were dedicated to bringing into further evolution the essential-ethereal body that originated on Ancient Saturn and the vital- ethereal body that originated on Ancient Sun, so that together on the Moon evolutionary sphere, they would be a suitable instrument for the creation of a third ether body—the astral-emotional body.
Ancient Moon had a complex magnetic environment filled with emotional stimulus. The glandular system that had been prepared in rudimentary form on Ancient Sun was exposed to new activities on Ancient Moon. Freedom was expressed as a stimulator of life growth and development, and life was sustained through two reproductive activities. The first activity prioritized the creation of physical offspring, and the second activity emphasized the creative buildup of the lunar environment. Both of these activities were wholly guided through the directives of higher spirits working within the liberating Moon world.
Spirits of Dynamic took charge as creative authorities of Moon Evolution. They streamed their motions into the landscape and prompted the creative world with notes that resonated the music of the spheres of which all forms become available and prepared the magnetic ether, also known as the chemical or sound ether. The magnetic ether guides the course of animal evolution, and because of its fluctuating rhythms stimulates emotional charges geared around attraction and repulsion. The astral body is magnetic in nature, and we observe the astral body within us as emotional impulses. This is why spiritual teaching prioritizes emotional maturity. We must reign in the forces connected to the astral body so that we elevate our experiences.
Dynamis hold the lives of Archangels as their densest expressions, and they impressed into the magnetic ether memories of the activities of Archangels on Ancient Sun that held, as well, earlier memories of Archai spirits that had been first expressed on Ancient Saturn. As astral life was established on the Moon evolutionary stage, beings required different environments so that Divine Freedom could be expressed. As a result, the Sun and the Moon had to separate in order to bring both spheres into fuller developments. An evolutionary event that Steiner refers to as the Extrusion of the Sun occurred, and freedom expression was ushered into the course of Creation.
During the Extrusion of the Sun event, the Sun slowly discharged the Moon, and the elevated persuasions of consciously active beings withdrew in varying degrees from Moon Evolution along with the Sun. As the Sun pulled further away, the newly liberated world of Moon was exposed to fresh ideas in the forms of animal expressions. Animal-like beings along with plant formations that had first sprung into development on Ancient Sun had to turn upward because their source of Conscious Light was slowly moving away. Impulses from the Sun streamed downward, and those creatures that lifted their heads gained broader physical access to their surroundings. Their forms were still flexible and buoyant; at times they absorbed each other, while other times they repelled one another.
It came to pass that not all beings in authority of Ancient Moon were compelled to evolve with the Sun as it separated. Emphasis can be placed on certain Dynamis who acted upon impulses of rejection and became Spirits of Hindrance. In The Spiritual Hierarchies; Lecture 10, given in Dusseldorf on April 18, 1909, Steiner states,
“For the good of humanity, certain Mights or Spirits of Motion [Dynamis] had to receive adverse commands. These were not evil at first, one need not consider them as evil Powers; one might even say they sacrificed themselves by putting obstacles into the way of development. Therefore, these Mights may be called the gods of hindrance, of impediment, in the widest sense of the word. ... These ‘adversely- commanded’ Mights were not yet evil in themselves; on the contrary, they were the great promoters of development, promoting it through the storms they produced, but they were the breeders of evil; for, out of the storms they produced, evil gradually arose.
Düsseldorf, April 18, 1909
Near the central Moon stage, Angels moved into active consciousness and were able to incarnate into the lunar forms that were being prepared. The influences of the Spirits of Hindrance had already taken hold, and Angels who were ready to have a go at I consciousness did so in a passionate Moon environment that hosted unique and liberated experiences. The diverse Moon bodies were unencumbered by intellectual organs and gravitational challenges. They were animal-like in presentation, and angels learned to master the physical form while navigating instinctual impressions. They were swayed by the influences of attraction and repulsion that encouraged concepts of right and of wrong. Rightful impulses allowed life streams from higher spirits to fill the inner being and guide their adventures. Wrongful impulses sickened an Angel with selfish influences that stunted spiritual developments.
Some Angels did not fulfill their evolutionary duties because they had become ill with selfish impulses of rejection. At the end of the Moon evolutionary timeline, diseased Angels were not prepared to evolve upward, nor could they naturally incarnate into the physical Earth body that was designed for Mankind. They held heightened spiritual expressions compared to the world of Mankind, but their astral forms were retarded. Some of these rebel Angels found their ways into ancient texts and storylines through advanced healing powers and manipulative interactions. They became men of renown, the Nephilim of ancient times. Others found themselves written into folklore as unrelenting gods. Most were simply referred to as fallen spirits.
Contrary to the destructive attitudes of diseased spirits, healthy Angels elevated their life activities while working through the liberated Moon experience. They became Spirits of Twilight, the third fire-breathers of the cosmos whose liberating activities brought the ego into a newly defined relationship with the creative world. They set the stage for the dawn of Earth humanity and mastered their egos—the water dragons of ancient lore—in the diffused twilight of Ancient Moon.
In the stimulating, sensory Moon landscape, Angels built up a world of passionate interactions. The more advanced of Angels were exalted in self- expression and became devotional leaders of their time. Their compelling compositions impacted the souls of Earth humanity still resting in a dreamy existence. The active consciousnesses of Mankind pierced through the mystical world. We furthered our journeys into awareness by creating a third germinal predisposition.
From elevated heights, Seraphim bestowed the thought embryos with Divine Being, imprinting within them the powers of conception and Divine Memories of the Manas Presence, the sensory aspect of the soul. The Atma Presence that had been received on Ancient Saturn and the Buddhi Presence that had been received on Ancient Sun united with the Manas Presence that was gifted on Ancient Moon. A trinity of heavenly impressions was established that awaited the spiritual coming of age of Earth humanity, this due in gratitude to the unconditional life-affirming encouragements of God as extended through the Celestial Order and presented on a cosmic arc that culminated in the definitive creation of the Kingdom of Mankind whose evolutionary stage is Earth.
Law of Circular Form
At the central cusp of world creation where and when all creational forces culminate into a decisive Kali stage, a strategy of balance must prevail. Divine Balance is revealed in Perfect Equality. The Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine are complimentary forces that unite in the form of Divine Balance and secure unity within the solar system through the united forces of Truth and Love, of Joy and Gratitude, of Understanding and Compassion, of Beauty and Wisdom, of Desire and Purpose, of Clarity and Focus. Through Divine Unity, the Divine Son came into Creation as the conscious Light of Christ, our Breath of Life.
The Unity of Two as designed in the Heavens supports balance within our solar system, as do three Divine Laws that are discussed in these lectures. We know one of these Laws as the Law, Like Begets Like. Another Divine Law is the Law of Cause and Effect. A third Law as I recognize it is the Law of Circular Form.
In the Heavens, the Law of Circular Form holds the spiraling energies of the creative process that encourage the new while dissolving the old as life moves forward and eventually circles back to The Divine. Each larger event stimulates smaller experiences that inspire larger expressions in a unified cycle of Creation. On Earth and in our daily lives, the Law of Circular Form is expressed in the adage, What comes around, goes around. This Law will come in handy while we study the past moving forward!
Based on the Law of Circular Form, history affects our present as well as our future, and the greatest part of human history is spiritual. When spiritual insights are elevated, we can see that life progresses with a sense of charm and harmony. When spiritual insights are ignored, life lacks a true sense of appeal and substance. This is especially true in regard to world evolution and the human timeline. We are at the dawn of an intuitive age, and intelligent observations alone can only scan the surface of the phenomenal world, revealing to us partial truths that do not support human integrity.
Spiritual ineptitudes draw out the worst in us. When we refuse spiritual insights, we create voids in our conceptions of the world that are eagerly filled by opportunists who act like gatekeepers against Truth in order to elevate their relevance and influence in a material field. Historical facts are always limited when approached from one angle. For that matter, they are limited as well when approached only through the impressions of one Angel. Many viewpoints are necessary for us to piece together a fuller picture. And in order to that—in order to get to the substance of human history, we need to use new senses—the antennae of the psyche—to grasp the spiritual nature of our world. This is where the planetary records, also known as the Akashic record, come into play.
Planetary Records and the Astral Light
History is in the past, or so it seems, and when it comes to the developmental activities of history, it is hard for many of us to dive into yesterday let alone an evolutionary stage set eons apart from where we stand today. We have two interesting tools that can help us rediscover our Memories In Truth as they apply to human history: the Law of Circular Form and the planetary records.
Viola Petitt Neal describes the planetary records as the recordings of everything that has ever happened—of the physical, astral and the mental events within our solar system. These recordings are brought together in the highest planetary ether and are much like moving pictures that through proper discipline we can access by seeing and interpreting them. All evolutionary impressions concerning us and our planet are imprinted on the highest ether of our world. Accessing the planetary records correctly is tricky business and takes proper alignment, patience and discipline. Of course, alignment is always key! Without disciplined training and the rightful companionship of higher guidance, skilled clairvoyants will misread the planetary records and reach faulty and confusing conclusions.
Viola states that the planetary records will help us to “understand history as it truly happens.” In her recall of night class, December 10, 1961, she explains,
“These recordings would also help us to see the principles behind them; what the events of history meant, why they happened, how the human race made the actual historical events that affect the planet insofar as history and society and culture go.”
December 10, 1961,
As we advance into an intuitive age, a reckoning of Truth occurs for humanity. We are developing a truth-oriented consciousness, and those as-of-yet rare people, like Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Casey who were able to tap into planetary records, are able to lead the way. We will slowly learn to access and organize general readings that support our health and wellbeing, while more disciplined personalities will have access to higher swaths of information that allow them to tap into recent events as well as our deeper evolutionary past. Different viewpoints will allow us to broaden the scope of health, human history and the various events that helped to shape our world. However, caution must be taken in our studies. It is up to each and every one of us to strengthen our inner resonances with Truth so that we can relate to higher fields of learning and call out misinformation specialists for their confusions and wrongdoings. As we strengthen our resonances with Truth, we will build conscious alliances based on spiritual integrity.
Higher guidance is not linked through intelligence, although intelligent people hold higher knowledge in smart ways. Intellectual acuity must be spirit oriented in order to support the intuitive discoveries of our time. Needless to say, many people who perceive themselves as intellectuals are quite dull and toxic spiritually because they have placed their faith in material incentives rather than aspiring toward higher truths.
As a united humanity, we hold the potential of empowered learning. Yet, materialistic associations of the spiritual are isolating us from God-inspired Truth and Love, which relay into the physical experience as Divine Beauty and Divine Wisdom. Our associations with material relevance have warped our creative energies and have many of us acting quite bizarre. We have allowed ideological practices that lack humility and integrity to muddle simple concepts of Love and Truth. This is clean through a mere glimpse of our present evolutionary state. Good-hearted people who would otherwise support humanitarian efforts and sustainable environmental practices have instead joined neocon forces and have aligned with greedy corporate interests and deep state initiatives in support of the military industrial complex and the war machine, as though it is perfectly righteous to claim tyranny abroad while abandoning decency and justice within our communities and along our boarders. The inner life of American Democracy has become weighted with lies and abuses. Signs of corruption and our ignorance to do anything about them speak to how forgetful and easily manipulated we have been.
But, I digress.
Viola explains that even without directly viewing the planetary records, we can
observe a general picture of the state of humanity through our environment. She states that the “energy patterns of the consciousness of a people” are expressed in architecture and in art, while the “energy patterns of the life of a people” can be observed in our religious and political convictions. The ways in which we build up or destroy our world speak to who we are as a people.
In light of all this, we have the advantage of living on the elevated side of the cosmic timeline. We are positioned to pull ourselves and our communities out of the briar patches of modern day chaos through our willingness to genuinely connect to higher persuasions that can better shape our world. Our acknowledgements of the planetary records along with the fact the we all contribute to the spiritual foundation of the modern world is a small step forward that holds outstanding results.
Steiner describes the planetary records as the Akashic record, or writings of the astral light. Like Viola, he expresses that humanity is evolving to read and utilize the planetary records, and this is a natural development. In his lecture, Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation, The Tasks of the Michael Age, Lecture Six, he states:
You see, my dear friends: just as our inner memory of the common things that we experience in earthly life preserves them for us, so too the astral light preserves for us what we have written in it. The astral light is spread around us—a fully written tablet with respect to the secrets, which we ourselves have inscribed. There we must read, if we would find the secrets once more. It is a kind of evolution-memory, which must arise in mankind. A consciousness must gradually arise that there is such an evolution-memory, and that in relation to former epochs of culture the humanity of today must read in the astral light, just as we, at a later age, read in our own youth through ordinary memory. This must come into the consciousness of men.
13 January 1924, Dornach
If the Law of Circular Form and the planetary records sound too bizarre, then I invite you to acknowledge that we have built grand computer systems on Earth with excessive memories that allow us to access data stored on a piece of hardware, and through artificial streams of intelligence, we can immediately connect to information that assists our memories and that informs our ideas about life. Our technological advances merely imitate what The Divine has already accomplished in the Heavens and what is becoming available to us spiritually as we strengthen our alignments and open our channels of communication with higher guidance. As we address the challenges of this modern stage, where we place our attentions and how we align our loyalties is pivotal to our long-term prosperity as a people and a nation.
Take care, Everyone <3