Question answered?

Elohim creates Adam... W Blake

So on Boxing Day i asked why is it that the physical is so magical, so important to us and that we miss is so much when it is not here? Specifically i asked this about people. Why do we miss people when they die, even if we do believe they have gone into an after life, and are actually more present than ever, or if people we love aren't around, if they are far away - like a boyfriend or girlfriend - why do we miss that physical so much?

So that question went to being answered a little bit during my holiday.

For a while now i have had this book of collected lectures by Steiner on Guardian Angels. It sat just below my desk where i keep all book with original lectures and writings by Steiner. Just before i packed up for the holiday, i thought, i'll take the book with me, give me something to read. Man did it give me something to read!!! In the middle of the book i went... this is answering my question. It was really cool.

Now people who have tried to read, and even better understand, Steiner will know that when it says Guardian Angels this will have nothing whatsoever to do with parking angels or Roma Downey. In fact the first lecture Steiner says, your Guardian Angel has better things to do than help you find a parking space. No. we does not say that. He says, when you have a premonition it MAY have something to do with angels, but it may not. When i am talking about angels, this is what i mean...

...and as far as i can understand, this is what he means...

First, there are nine heiarchies of angels and we are on the way to becoming the tenth. This is not an original Steiner concept. As you can see from Blake's painting, this concept of angelic hiearchies is not just old it is also universal. It is also extremely jumbled up these days because people have just lost the run of this part of our cultural consciousness and end up mixing up the various kinds of spiritual beings. So like nature spirits get confused with angels and angels get confused with gods - and gods are sometimes angels. I'm talking about worldwide - perhaps the Hindus still have a good sense of the various hiearchies. But really unless you are a folklorist/theologian/anthroposophist, you probably wont have a baldy.

In any case you will probably also think, it's all tripe anyway. It is not important. The really funny thing is that more than a hundred years ago, Steiner said, you all think this is hogwash anyway. You all think ATOMS he says - that's what the world is made of - but you'd be WRONG.

So the nice thing is that a hundred years since then - STEINER WAS RIGHT. The world is not made of atoms - it is made of... scientists still don't understand what it is made of. Steiner had an answer. It is maya - illusion. The world of form is mostly illusion (again, not an original concept) - which is what quantum physics tells us - like 99 per cent of matter is actually anti matter (nothingness) - the world of form is made by spirits - specifically the elohim. This is the fourth level in the angelic hiearchies - where one of the more well known amongst this is Jehovah - that's right - Jehovah, or Yaweh, or he whose name cannot be said, i.e. God is an Elohim. So when they say, God made the world - this is literally true. The world is created by the spirits of form, says Steiner, the Elohim or Excusiai - now THAT is an oiriginal concept.

Now, as with everything Steiner says, i usually go - say what? But i keep an open mind... he then goes on to say that the archai are the angels of thought, the archangeloi are the angels of speech and the angeloi are the angels of the imagination - which help us human beings, working with our immortal bit - the ego - to perceive everything around us.

So when i say JUST the physical - i really am being idiotic. It is not JUST the physical - the physical world around us precisely the point and we, - this wonderful physical body of ours is evidence that the spirit exists - so Steiner says - in the old days when they say, the body is a temple it literally is. We are sacred. Our existence is sacred - and that is why the physical is so wonderful.

It is a GREAT explaination i think about the physical. Steiner also talks a lot about the various organs in the body, especially the liver, lungs and heart and how they are almost all made of spiritual matter... we are manifestations of the spirit - we are litereally word made flesh - and that is why life is sacred - not like holy, but of the spirit.

It is pretty mind blowing stuff. I mean i knew all this already, but there is something about asking the question, being directed to an explaination and then to be given at this time, during the 12 days of Christmas to work on it, to chew it over...there is something uncanny about it.

And still you know i can still see the barrier. The barrier that goes - this is craaazy, completely craaazy. Yet when i think about it, i go - you know, that makes sense. But its craaazy.

Steiner says more in the lectures - there are six of them. In one of them he touches on Lucifer and Ahriman - it really puts much of modern life into perspective.

Right... time to think and imagine the rest of the day. Such a wonderful day it is too!!!