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9781855841024

Genesis : Secrets of Creation

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    9781855841024

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-09-01
  • Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr
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Summary

How was the World Created? From a direct spiritual perception of the facts, Rudolf Steiner presents a new perspective that transcends the bipolar arguments of both the creationists and the scientific reductionist. He affirms that clairvoyant research accords with the biblical descriptions, but he emphasizes that the text of Genesis has to be interpreted in a special way.

In this extraordinary document, Steiner speaks of the six days of creation as a reawakening of the previous phases of the Earth's development. He describes the work of spiritual hierarchies in the creation of Earth and clarifies the relationship of the Elohim and the biblical Jehovah. In addition, Steiner discusses themes of light and darkness, the meaning of Adam and Eve, the "day of rest" on the seventh day, the stages of human development on Earth, and the special character of the Hebrew language. Also featured in this new edition is a previously unpublished introductory lecture on the meaning of mystery drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Baruch Luke Urieli
17 August 1910 The Mystery of the Primordial Word
1(13)
The opening words of the Bible: B'rechit bara elohim et hashamayim v'et ha'aretz
The creative power of the Hebrew language and the meaning of its characters
A revelation of the origin of humankind in the opening words of Genesis
The interpretation of the primordial words: In the weaving of the elements there comes forth from the creative thinking of the elohim a complex of pictures that manifest outwardly and a complex of pictures that are active inwardly
18 August 1910 Ha'aretz and Hashamayim
14(16)
The conceptual character of `hashamayim' and the desire or will character of `ha'aretz'
The condition of tohu wa'bohu
The elohim
The separation of Sun from the earth
The departure of the hashamayim, spiritual light, sound and word creation from ha'aretz, the elements of warmth, air, water and earth
The organizing of ha'aretz by the rays of force of hashamayim
The creation of the human form from the sounds of speech
19 August 1910 The Seven Days of Creation
30(10)
The work of the six `days' as a re-awakening of the previous planetary conditions of the earth, the entering in of the light
The dividing of the intermingling elements of water, gas and warmth into air and water
The precipitation of solid matter from out of the element of water, and the arising of the group soul nature of the plants
The addition of outer cosmic forces to earthly existence
The development of the animal world in air and water
The dignity of man
20 August 1910 The Forming and Creating of Beings by the Elohim. The Aeons or Time Spirits
45(14)
The first three `days' of creation as the developing out of the central condition of warmth of the activity of the rarefied conditions of light, sound ether and life ether, and of the condensed conditions of air, water and earth
These conditions as the manifestations of soul/spiritual beings
The hierarchical order of the elohim is that of spirits of form (exusiai, mights)
The archai or spirits of personality as servants of the elohim
The spirits of personality = `yom' or `day' in Genesis
The `first day'
The beginning of the activity of the first of the time spirits
21 August 1910 Light and Darkness, Yom and Laila
59(15)
Light and darkness as polar opposites
The progressive archai (yom) manifest as helpers of the elohim in the light, and the retarded archai (laila) manifest as darkness
The alternating conditions of waking and sleeping as processes of destruction and upbuilding and their connection with the Sun being (yom) and the Saturn being (laila)
The activity of the hierarchies and their portrayal in the story of creation
22 August 1910 Elemental Existence and the Spiritual Beings Behind It. Jehovah-Elohim
74(17)
The manifestation of hierarchical activity within the earth: the spirits of will or thrones in the earth element; spirits of wisdom or kyriotetes in water; spirits of movement or dynamis in the air, and spirits of form or exusiai (elohim) in warmth
In the earth environment: the cherubim in cloud formation, seraphim in lightning and thunder
Jehovah-Elohim = the seven elohim who have become a unity
23 August 1910 The Structure of the First and Second `Days' of Creation. The Work of Elemental Beings on Human Organs
91(15)
Images of ancient Moon
Objective consciousness as the actual earth consciousness
The consciousness of the hierarchies on ancient Moon and on the earth
The activity and consciousness of the elohim on the first `day' of creation according to Genesis
24 August 1910 Stages of Human Development up to the Sixth `Day' of Creation
106(17)
The human being as the firstborn of creation
The laying down of the foundations of his soul/spirit during the first five `days' of creation
The sentient soul on the first `day', its progression to intellectual or perceptive soul on the second `day', and to consciousness soul on the third `day'; its clothing in an astral body on the fourth `day' and in an etheric body on the fifth `day'
The development of physical man (as a being of warmth) on the sixth `day'
Jehovah-Elohim did not make him into a being of air until after the sixth `day' of creation
The sinking down of the human being out of the earth's periphery through the luciferic influence
The further condensation to water and solid matter and the descent of the human being of flesh
25 August 1910 The Moon Element in Man
123(15)
The separation of sun and earth
The withdrawal of human soul/spirits to the planets with the exception of a representative couple, Adam and Eve
The separation of moon and earth
The return of human soul/spirits
The coinciding of Genesis with the facts of An Outline of Esoteric Science
The moon element in earth and man
Cosmic moon substances and human independence
The future pulverization of earth matter by moon forces
The imprinting by Jehovah-Elohim of moonlike earth dust into the bodily nature of man
26 August 1910 The Way the Bible Accords with Clairvoyant Research
138(17)
The creation of a male/female human being on the sixth `day'
This sixth `day' of creation chronologically identical with the Lemurian age of spiritual science
The imprinting of the ego by Jehovah-Elohim
The differentiation into a more condensed physical body outside and a more rarefied etheric body inside
The meaning of the `day of rest' on the seventh day
The ascent of the elohim to Jehovah-Elohim
The transition from the etheric elohim human being of the Lemurian age to the physical Jehovah human being of Atlantis
Man as the last of all the creatures to descend from the spiritual realm into the physical
The need for human beings to take into themselves the spiritual being of Christ
16 August 1910 The Portal of Initiation
155(18)
Schure's The Children of Lucifer and The Great Initiates
Rudolf Steiner expresses his thanks to all those taking part in and giving assistance to the performance of the Rosicrucian mystery drama The Portal of Initiation which took place prior to the lectures
A look at the drama as an attempt to portray in an artistic picture the path into spirit heights
Notes 173(4)
Note Regarding Rudolf Steiner's Lectures 177

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