Der Wille als Weg | Anthroposophie | Rudolf Steiner

Hello and welcome here on the channel culture epochs to this new video and we are still in the Michael time in there I hope you were able to enter the Michael festival a little internally to connect with the Michael power and I have been thinking about it in the last few days how to now decide this Michael series with the seventh part for this year that I thought I still think it makes sense and also applied that we are still a little bit in the Michael time and the tasks associated with it that are assigned to us humans and the mission of Michael hand in hand with Christ with the powers of Christ to illuminate a little more precisely or what would be good and beneficial for humanity to devote a little more to this matter and I would like to start by saying that we have seen in the Michael videos that we humans now carry a material body with us, we have disguised ourselves with materiality, this materiality could be said to depend on our physical body externally and we have said that it is necessary for us humans to get into a process that is capable of the material ashes components that we had defined as something you could say roughly material what has hardened and more or less its connection to the future design of the world and that this process is also in connection with what has been available to us humans for a very long time and we had defined that as the forces of selfishness these forces of selfishness originate from our will and we had said that these forces of will at the same time also describe what we want to connect more and more with our true spiritual essence and our true spiritual essence our I basically consists of two areas, although I would also like to say at this point when we say our I consists of two areas so you have to say that I actually do not exist in the sense that we know it but because of the fact that our I originates from the highest caves of the spiritual world and we have learned through the grace of Christ's being that this spiritual core of being has been connected with the son's power with the divine creative power of the universe, you have to say that this I actually exists in every moment and does not exist this I has such a high spiritual frequency that you can use our possibilities that we have to look at objects that we can look at that we can analyze that our I is completely detached from this level the only possibility that we have with our means to make this I more understandable to us is that we say that I am and is not at the same time that is, it is in a state of permanent becoming arising and disappearing in an incredible frequency and we had said in the videos before that it is important in our time to understand that this circumstance is the fact that we are people of earth appear that we are that we should look at the higher hierarchies in great gratitude because the beings of the higher hierarchies were the ones who, through long, long periods of time, have ensured that our spiritual being does not perish that our core of being persists and through the incarnations through again and again, yes, how should you express it again and again in activity, that is, the willpower behind our I stand and make sure that it is always going to be and always going to be redesigned into the future , expanding more and more, we owe this circumstance to people, the further we look back in the past, the more the beings of the higher hierarchies and that means but at the same time that in such a state we humans are in a stage of development in which we are not yet fully put on ourselves, that is, both in the flesh and in the ex-carnated post-mortal pre-eternal states, many of our tasks have been taken over by the beings of the higher hierarchies for us, they have guided us by the hand if you want to use this picture and have just ensured that our spiritual core is accompanied by the incarnations and so it is also explanatory that the state of humanity when we go back to the past, that is, to the last and penultimate cultural epoch in the times of ancient egypt in the times of the greek-latin culture then the human being is still in a state in which he is through the connection to the higher beings has not yet been as individualized as we human souls are today that means the further we go back to the past, the more independent the human being becomes and we now have the state that we have now reached through the world development in a time that we as humans have to lead ourselves we have to pay attention to our spiritual core and we had it I think once briefly mentioned that we have the statement from rudolf steiner that with the beginning of the age of consciousness souls at the latest the immortality of the human soul is no longer natural and if we look at it under this aspect that we have said the leadership of the spiritual world the leadership of the spiritual beings becomes weaker in favor of our freedom and that this is necessary that we come into a free consciousness so that we are able to develop love then it becomes clear to us that it comes to us from the spiritual world an incredibly high responsibility but on the other hand also a loving well-being is given to us you are waiting for the whole spiritual world is waiting for us through the mystery of golgotha through michael and other influences out of freedom to recognize us as spiritual beings and to develop us more and more as spiritual beings and when we speak of this spiritual development then that means in the first place that we make ourselves familiar with our will we had it once briefly indicated that when we leave the body that it is first of all that we leave the physical body that the ether body is dissolved and that our astral body is also redirected back into the world in astrality the individualization of our bodies is resumed with the exception of small extracts that remain with us and in the world and that means if we want to work on our spiritual core of being then we have to go into a sphere that is also called the sphere of will from rudolf steiner and for us today because of the materialistic understanding of contemporary people it is very, very difficult to stand in front of this question how can I work on my will in a designer way and this question is not easy to answer but we have got hints through the anthroposophy through the work of rudolf steiner how we can shape and work on our will organism and at this point I would like to briefly highlight the sub-exercises in particular because the sub-exercises contain all the prerequisites that are important to us people today to be able to do a gradual spiritual work when we start with the first sub-exercise I don't want to treat all the sub-exercises again today but it is important to me to focus on the first sub-exercise then we actually have a direct relationship of will in the first sub-exercise because the first sub-exercise that is designed so that rudolf steiner says that you can do the exercise at least once a day, you can also do the exercise several times a day that we immerse ourselves in a simple object as simple as possible once a day and it is important that it is a cultural object, so it is not necessary to take away a stone or something from nature, but it should be something that has come into the world through human culture and that you have a logical thought picture that follows each other for at least five minutes on this object and if you set yourself this as the goal then we are immediately in the sphere that it takes to make adequate spiritual progress and to work on our will because you have to see that we do not need external circumstances for such a purpose, our current life is primarily made up of circumstances that come to us externally and it is also due to our needs as a material human being, that is, the real free will is fulfilled with this first sub-exercise, the commitment can only come out of ourselves the overcoming of the obstacles that you undoubtedly develop if you decide to do such an exercise yourself, those of you who have perhaps already worked with the sub-exercises will know that such a decision I will now do this first sub-exercise for a month every day that already a serious decision in this direction brings a lot of things in motion and that a lot comes out of us that wants to prevent us from going this way and that is due to the fact that we have to make ourselves clear again and again that lucifer and ariman the resistance beings are not something that works far away in the outside world but that these beings live in our being they are already in us and if we look back on the Michaelic time and identify Michael as the being of courage then we need exactly this Michaelic courage and the forces that rise from within us and want to prevent us from really getting into the spiritual work that we have the courage and the strength to face them and it is so that this way can only lead to that means to start working on the will that this way is completely free of external obligations it may not be necessary for us from the outside in any way to do this and so I can really recommend the sub-exercises at this point only once, because based on the sub-exercises you can feel very quickly that you are by and large not a master in your own house but that forces come into us that come from our soul that express themselves to the etheric and that we all have a lot to do but that should not discourage us but on the contrary I think this door that was opened by rudolf steiner with the sub-exercises this door leads into a prosperous future if we move forward in freedom and go this way and I would like to incorporate the whole thing into a slightly further look that we can take today we have just discussed that it is incredibly necessary to overcome a certain status of humanity and that this is related to our will and that with this will something free must be connected today and we notice today in a very strong form that there are forces that are also in relation to the michael event on the two michaelic revelations that we have illuminated in the videos before that there are very strong forces that do not want humanity to rise from the first to the second michaelic revelation the first michaelic revelation was the meat of the word you could also say the descent of the human being into meatiness and that now this change has to take place to the second michaelic revelation that means now the meat has to be spirited away again and if we now take up the explanations from the beginning of today the human being as a guided being into the flesh into the incarnation with the help of the spiritual hierarchies so it becomes clear to us that it is time for humanity to really individualize that it is time for external connections that are fed from sources that come from ancient times, that is, religious affiliation, blood relationships, traditional communities that more or less automatically arise between the people and which, first of all, want to bring people into a certain group through power relationships , to certain behaviors, if you want to participate in our community then you have to submit to the following rules these circumstances have to be broken through today's human communities arise from the living spiritual realization that means from our innermost being interest in the other people arises a need to take the other person as he is and to see him as a divine being just like me we are all divine beings and that we always when we feel we should submit to a rule and I am speaking here, above all, to the old religious confession and maybe one or the other is a little sensitive at this point you can feel very clearly today that the human being is being tried from all sides not to let people come into individuality but that the first Michaelic revelation is being tried that has also carried with it that the human being has been bound in peoples in religious groups in family relationships that this is being tried at all corners and ends today and Rudolf Steiner speaks of the fact that today the first Michaelic revelation is being built up in a luciferian way, I would say in my own words to enter the people into certain groups, however, who have their origin before the mystery of golgotha or who have already masked themselves recently, for example, certain political ideologies that carry the same principle in themselves as the old religious confessions that everything is done to signal to the people that the way to the future only leads through belonging to such group-like communities, we should have a very close look and make ourselves sensitive to when such spiritual forces come to us because we are all due to our materialistic shape and due to our relationship love relationship to the contradictions we are in a hang in our consciousness the world is always only polar to see you could also say the world is diabolical to see and diabolical in the form that we have the impression that there are two sides there are two poles there are two parties two fronts two positions and we have to join one of these positions and that is a powerful weapon of resistance and at the same time it is a dangerous trap and we have to face the moment when we say I unconditionally join the party number one to the group number one then in this world view the group of people who have committed themselves to the other point of view of the other side more or less to our enemies and if we let the Christian thought flow into us love your enemies then that does not mean from my point of view that we should join one of two points of view and then love the others from this perspective, but that we are looking for the Christian center that we are actually not ascribed to any of the two points of view but that we try to find truth in both positions that we ask ourselves is it even possible that one side of both has 100 percent right and the other side has 100 percent wrong and we will find that this is the case in the rarest of cases but the truth is distributed on both sides and to get out of this out of this spiral to have the courage to put us between both camps and to say none of you is my enemy and to try to combine the two points of view that go against each other through a living spiritual work and ultimately also by not judging that we are not to approach the people to show understanding and thus to dampen the toxic impulses that come from the soul from all of our souls are created by the resistance and to get to know these influences more and more so that we can turn them into something good and I think each of us can feel that we need this Michaelic quality and this Michaelic quality as a starting point for the true Christian way that we urgently need today than ever before and that we are affected from all sides with the tool of untruth with the tool of malice of insecurity and that we can only free ourselves from it by looking for the connection to our higher self that we can grasp the will so that it no longer makes our ego bigger, but on the contrary that Christ can grow in us and in this I see a great task for us today's people and the fight against the contradictions that should not lead to the fact that we destroy the contradictions but that we release them I would like to stay a little bit on this topic in the following , but that means with a look at the clock in the next video please forgive that I have exaggerated something again today but I would like to thank you very, very much at the end for the new subscriptions and for the many comments I apologize for the fact that I am not active in the comment area at the moment that I cannot answer you but I can assure you that I read all the comments and that I am happy from the bottom of my heart that you that the videos can be useful to you and that I answer in the spirit I thank you at this point I also do that again and that I hope that you will continue to stay true to the channel and switch on again next time and until then I wish you all the best a still brave michael time and say thank you and see you next time