Mysticism is a very subjective I think, but in the end as all paths lead to the same One

Date:   8/24/2005 11:16:21 AM ( 19 y ago)

The Path of Initiation
The Path to the true realization of Self

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These thoughts are creative thoughts in the life of the soul because human beings are destined in the future to become what they regard themselves to be. This is something that had to come about during the course of wisely guided world evolution so that the human being might really attain to a full and free consciousness of self. One aspect is that the gods had to give the human being the possibility of becoming his own creation. The other aspect is that in order for the human being to be able to give this self-created being a supersensible purpose, in order for him to be able to find in what he has made of himself something that can give him an eternal direction for the future – for this it was that Christ Jesus entered into the Mystery of Golgotha. If one understands Christ Jesus through spiritual science, if one understands him in one’s thoughts, then one can find the way to him: the way from the animal nature to the divine.
Rudolf Steiner - Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Human Double pg 110-111


In my recent lecture on mysticism I spoke of the particular form of mystic absorption that appeared in the Middle Ages between the time of Meister Eckhart and that of Angelus Silesius. This type of mysticism is distinguished by the fact that the mystic seeks to become free of all the experiences aroused in his soul by the external world. He seeks to acquire the feeling that proves to him that, even when everything of the everyday world is removed from his soul and it withdraws into itself, a world of its own still remains within it. This world always exists but is outshone by the experiences that work so powerfully on man from without. Thus, it generally appears as a light so faint that most men do not even notice it. The mystic usually calls it “the spark.” Yet, he feels sure that it can be fanned to a mighty flame that will illumine the source and foundation of existence leading man along the path of his soul to the knowledge of his origin. This may, indeed, be called “knowledge of God.”.... Rudolf Steiner



 

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