Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 26 Michael Mystery: Letter 3: The Pre-Michaelite Way, and the Way of Michael by Rudolf Steiner
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Ideas Shifted From Received To Self-Made
- Modern ideas are experienced as internally produced while perceptions come from outside.
- Steiner argues earlier humans felt ideas as suggestions from a supersensible realm, not self-made.
Four Stages Of Thought Realization
- Different historical stages placed thoughts in different human members: I, astral, etheric, physical.
- Each stage changed how directly humans experienced spiritual beings and their relation to nature.
Alchemy As Traces Of Soul-Infused Nature
- In the astral-stage consciousness, spirit beings withdraw and their reflected life appears as ensouled phenomena in nature.
- Historical remnants like alchemy show efforts to find spiritual deeds within natural processes.