The Electronic Doppelgänger: The Mystery of the Double in the Age of the Internet by Rudolf Steiner

Author:Rudolf Steiner [Steiner, Rudolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Education
ISBN: 9781855844773
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Published: 2016-07-21T22:00:00+00:00

Fig. 3

We will see tomorrow how this doppelgänger is acted upon at different points on the Earth, and what the consequences of that are. As I pointed out earlier, you will need to tie together what I am telling you today quite closely with what I will say tomorrow, as the one can hardly be understood without the other. We must try now to acquire the kind of concepts that pertain in a more significant way to the whole of reality, the reality in which the human soul lives with the entirety of its being. This reality undergoes various metamorphoses, but how it transforms itself depends greatly on human beings. One significant metamorphosis takes place simply through people becoming aware that, depending on whether they acquire materialistic or spiritual concepts between birth and death, human souls banish themselves to the Earth or arrive in the right spheres. For these things, the use of ever more precise concepts must prevail among us. In so doing, we will find the right relationship to the world as a whole, which we must do more and more. For that lies not merely within the purpose of an abstract spiritual movement, but, for us, it must lie within the purpose of an entirely concrete spiritual movement, which, in spiritual life, takes into account numerous individualities.

[43] First, I would like you to recall what I said last time I was here in reference to what we are considering now. I connected what we spoke about to the appearance of a new striving for knowledge through inadequate means, which led us on to broad historical perspectives. In relation to these things, and to what I said last time (for the same reason and out of the same impulse), I would first like you to note that what I am talking about are actual events, not just some theory, not just a conceptual system, but facts that I am communicating to you. This is precisely the point that we must take into account because, otherwise, it might be difficult for us to understand these things. What matters is not that I present historical laws or historical ideas to you, but actual facts concerning the aims and intentions of certain personalities who have banded together in brotherhoods. These matters of fact also relate to other beings, who have influence over the brotherhoods and whose influence is sought by the brotherhoods, but who, by the nature of their being, do not belong among human beings incarnated in the flesh, but are beings embodied in the spiritual world. It is most necessary that this is taken into account, especially in relation to matters such as I communicated to you yesterday.

In the case of these brotherhoods (you may have realized this from our discussions last year44), we are dealing, in a way, with various factions. I pointed out to you at the time that, within these brotherhoods, we are dealing with one faction that is of the view that certain higher truths should be kept absolutely secret.

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