“I”= Love+Wisdom+Will

Thank you All for particapating in the ‘Sophia Community Circle’ on 2 June it was a powerful experience working with my beloved daughter Ultra-Violet Archer in a dialogue between the Divine Sophia & Anthroposohia you can view the recording here One gets smart through experience, but wisdom is the force that streams into us from the spiritual world and then streams out again. Wisdom also comes from the mouth of babes. When what streams out comes more from the feeling, it is wisdom, but when it stimulates a person into action so that productivity predominates, it is love. But one has to know what love really is. Someone may feel sympathy for a person’s misfortune, but that isn’t real love. Sympathy only becomes love if one steps in and helps them. Wisdom and love make up the I. The I is love and wisdom that have become will. This is the higher triad.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Lessons, Hamburg. 31 May 1908 Our task is to make this spiritual wisdom which has imprinted into our feeling life from the spiritual world, conscious. We do this by noticing the after images & complementary colors that come with memory, taking the feelings out of the astral, using them to stimulate the etheric body instead. Then when we stream out with our feelings – we can consciously unite with the soul of all we see in the world. We become truly wise when our feelings can add to the wisdom in the soul of the world. When we do this we are using our imagination to become inspired. We look out at the beauty of nature, for instance, & we are filled with reverence & awe. When we bring our soul forces consciously in hand, we can enter the soul-life of another human being to unite with them – we feel ‘moved’ by their joys or misfortune & together we can share a common fellowship or love. This brings in intuition. ~hag Listen to the podcast at ‘I Think Speech’
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17 thoughts on ““I”= Love+Wisdom+Will

  1. You know, Hazel, you are really awesome when you write words like this:

    “We become truly wise when our feelings can add to the wisdom in the soul of the world. When we do this we are using our imagination to become inspired. We look out at the beauty of nature, for instance, & we are filled with reverence & awe. When we bring our soul forces consciously in hand, we can enter the soul-life of another human being to unite with them – we feel ‘moved’ by their joys or misfortune & together we can share a common fellowship or love. This brings in intuition.”

    This reminds me of the guy who moved from New York to Los Angeles in the early 1970’s, and heard about something called, “transactional analysis”. After undergoing therapy for some months, he came to realize a new dimension in life, and so, when he met his lover again after several months apart, he tells her: “No please, I don’t want to know what you think, I want to know how you feel.” By this time, she had become very intellectual and analytical. A kind of role reversal, but it was very interesting to have the man wanting the woman to feel instead of think. Ref. “Same Time Next Year”, with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn.

    So, Hazel, you really nail it here. The intellectual scope of spiritual science has to transcend into the feeling nature, or it does not work at all. When I write, I write from feelings much more than thoughts. If I were to write from mere thoughts, it would be a waste of time. Yet, a true science has its accord to being specific. This can’t be overlooked. It becomes a fine balance, wherein the thinker often fails to appeal to the feeler, but wants to all the more.

    1. Just to think how much more ‘intuition/imagination/inspiration’ are connected to feelings rather than reason/intellect.

      1. We always have the 3 soul forces of thinking, feeling & willing in each of these workings of imagination/inspiration/intuition. So it’s interesting to see how they must work together to bring us balance

  2. Ave Hazel!

    I had a question about something you wrote above:

    “Our task is to make this spiritual wisdom which has imprinted into our feeling life from the spiritual world, conscious. We do this by noticing the after images & complementary colors that come with memory, taking the feelings out of the astral, using them to stimulate the etheric body instead. Then when we stream out with our feelings – we can consciously unite with the soul of all we see in the world. We become truly wise when our feelings can add to the wisdom in the soul of the world.”

    By “after-image,” do you mean the complementary colour or the “feeling tone” that accompanies a mental picture and fades away with it?

    Anything you could add by way of elaboration, I would appreciate very much!

    1. Greetings Max – Yes, the complementary color & “feeling tone” that escorts a mental picture, is the natural 1st impression – a gift given to us from the sense-world – a marker or clue that we can explore further. We can take hold of this reversal, not letting it fade away, but imbuing it with our attention & intention – Baruch Urieli calls it empathy – then we are able to stand within the essence of the image in the etheric realm. Working with this helps us to anchor our “I”.

      Steiner talks in ‘Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy’, Lecture 8, Christiania, 10th June, 1912 about the stages we will encounter: 1st the image of death – this is the fading that you spoke of, but if we allow our consciousness to follow this it leads to a kind of unraveling that then reveals Lucifer. We face a temptation here to not want to let it die, but if we allow the image to transform, which is the essence of death, we find at 1st the shadow of the archetype behind it – in the case of the after-image of a human being, we meet a lion, bull, eagle, dragon…When we use our “I” we bring the Christ impulse into the picture.

      I first experienced this while working with what the Western Mystery tradition calls the ‘Middle Pillar exercise’. Here we step into the 5-pointed star. Or in Rosicrucianism when we work with the ‘Tree of Life’ glyph which again when we step into it, right becomes left & vice versa…
      As a Reiki Master you may have experienced, when you imprint the etheric realm with the signs it unlocks that the formative forces in the human being for healing. You call on the ‘masters’ to work with you in this.

      Living into the 12 senses helps this perception as well…(or the zodiac, or the Calendar of the soul…etc…) Just like when working with complimentary colors it unlocks that etheric realm where the essence resides & when we look across the wheel of the 12 for instance to find it’s opposite thru our “I”, we bring in a transcendent 3rd which carries the possibility for change & co-creation…
      There are so many things to say about this, but I should stop here to see if anything is landing…?

      1. Thank you! I have followed the after-images into silence but I don’t understand how I would meet the lion, eagle, bull, and dragon from here. I will keep practicing.

        1. Yes, The only time that has come thru for me is when I am confronting the double.
          The normal peek is mostly mostly color or tone.
          but really it’s just about an intention to pay attention…

          1. What double, Hazel? I am glad to be a part of this discussion with Max, but what does it gain in terms of realizing that we are the humans that must protect the planet in the earth sphere? As such, the colors might now be dimmed, but the science of the spirit exists to brighten them again. Yet, what is required? We must take knowledge of the spirit into the next domain. Does Max understand this? You should by now, and it is no temporal effect experienced in dreams. Colors are indeed a sign, but they come through the gnosis that the brain expresses. And the brain contains the impress of the human being, who either studies spiritual science or doesn’t.

            1. If you read the lecture sited, Steiner speaks of how in the process of doing this work we meet Lucifer which brings us a picture of the double, a temptation to get caught up in the phenomenon, which is what I believe you are trying to get to in your description of brain bound thinking. Half the battle is in recognizing this double so that we can cross the threshold consciously & do the sense free thinking.

        2. Max, here is the key. Leave the after-images, and go into sense-free thinking. Then, the concepts will become real as you enter the pure thought-world. I know this is but a little wrinkle but we can take it further. The human brain holds many symbols with actual effects when the human being impresses the concepts of things like, lion, bull, eagle, and man into the compress of spiritual-scientific thinking. It becomes a cider press, just to give it an analogy. So, yes, these concepts become the material of further exploration, and yes, you have to gain the knowledge of them in order to go inward for the further explanation. Mere silence won’t cut it without the intensity of thought of the active participant. Steiner’s Kassel lectures on the Gospel of John contain many references to the Lion, Bull, Eagle, and Man/Dragon archetypes. GA 112. You become the investigative instrument for going inward with sufficient preparation. The silence is needed, but with a substance, which is you.

          Hazel said something about you being a Reiki Master, and I think this kind of meditation also holds good for the Buddhist monks who “rule by koan”. The discipline can be auspicious, I am sure. But, what if it is actually a much easier and pleasant task to achieve Sat-Chit-Ananda in our time?

          1. Thank you, Steven. I appreciate your advice to practice sense-free thinking. Without discounting the importance of your suggestion, is that not a separate practice from attending the after-images? In PoF terms, one seems to undertaking the refinement of perception from the concept (Begriff) side and the other from the percept (Wahrnehmung) side. Is this right?

            1. Goethe’s concluding lines of Faust: “the Eternal Feminine leads us ever onward.”
              “When we practise self-reflection in a wide and comprehensive way, we see how this soul-life can be raised to a level higher. We begin by letting the external world work upon us — we do this from childhood — and then we form thoughts upon that which the outer world has brought to us. We are really human beings in that we allow the impressions of the outer world to live on further in our thoughts, realising them inwardly in our thoughts, creating a world of mental pictures, which in a certain way reflect the impressions made on us from outside…
              If you read The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity in the right way you must become acquainted with this feeling of living in thoughts..
              The union of man in his innermost thinking experience with the cosmic secrets is the root-nerve of The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. Therefore in this book you find the sentence, “In thinking, man lifts an edge of the veil of the cosmic secret.” This is perhaps simply expressed, but it is meant to imply that when a man really experiences thinking, he no longer feels himself to be outside the cosmic secret, but within it, no longer outside the divine Essence but within It.
              For if a man really understands it, if he has really taken the trouble to acquire this experience of thinking, he rests no longer within the world in which he was previously, but he is living in the etheric world. He is living in a world of which he knows: it is not conditioned from any part of physical earthly space, but by the whole cosmic sphere.

              He can no longer doubt the order and reality of the cosmic etheric sphere if he has grasped thinking as it is portrayed in the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. Thus he reaches what may be called etheric experience. When a man enters into this experience he really makes a noteworthy step forward in his whole life.
              In the experience of memory, if a man follows it up seriously and immerses himself entirely in his memory, he will finally acquire the feeling of becoming free from himself, of getting away from himself. It is really only a question of making an experiment yourself in these matters. If you do make the experiment and you really enchant into the present what has been experienced in past years so that you can live in it and entirely forget the present you will then see that you draw very near to your astral body…
              What may really occur is, for example, that after a time, through such experiences, you may gradually see the dawn in a new way; you may have a new feeling on seeing a sunrise. Gradually, along this path you will come to experience the warmth of the dawn as something of a prophetic nature, as if it were announcing something, as if the dawn had a natural prophetic force in itself. You will begin to feel the dawn as spiritually forceful, and you will be able to connect an inner meaning with this prophetic force, so that you get a feeling, which you might at first regard as an illusion, that the dawn is related with your own being. Through such experiences as I have described you may gradually bring yourself into a condition in which you feel when you see the dawn: “The dawn does not leave me alone. It is not merely yonder while I am here; I am inwardly united with this dawn; it is a quality of my own inner feeling. I myself at this moment am the dawn.” When you feel thus united with the dawn so that you yourself experience as it were the colour, radiation, and shining, the appearing of the sun out from the colours and the light, so that in your own heart a sun arises, as it were, out of the morning glow as a living feeling, — then you will also feel as if you yourself are traveling with the sun over the vault of heaven; you will feel that the sun does not leave you alone, the sun is not there while you are here but you feel that your existence extends in a certain sense to the sun existence and that you travel with the light throughout the day.
              If you develop this feeling which, as we have said, does not come from thinking — for in that way one can only reach man himself — but which we can develop out of memory in the way indicated, when you develop this experience out of your memory, or rather out of the forces of memory, then the things which you perceived formerly with your physical senses begin to wear a different aspect; they begin to be spiritually and psychically transparent. When a man has once attained this feeling of traveling with the sun, of gaining strength at dawn to go with the sun, he sees all the flowers of the meadow in a different aspect. The blossoms do not remain passive, showing the yellow or red colours which they have on the surface but they begin to speak. They speak to our hearts in a spiritual way. The blossoms become transparent. The spiritual part of the plant stirs inwardly, and the blossoming becomes a kind of speaking.
              In this way man really unites his soul with the external life of nature, and he thus gains the impression that there is something behind the existence of nature, that the light with which he has united himself is borne by spiritual Beings, and in these spiritual Beings he gradually comes to recognize the features of that which has been pictured by Anthroposophy”. ~Rudolf Steiner, Mystery Centres, LECTURE I. Dornach, November 23, 1923.

        3. Initiation, lecture 5 – ENLIGHTENMENT
          Enlightenment is the result of very simple processes. Here, too, it is a matter of developing certain feelings and thoughts which are dormant within all men, but must be awakened. Only he who carries out these simple processes with complete patience, continuously and strenuously, can be led by them to the reception of inner illumination. The primary step is taken by observing different natural objects in a particular way; and these are as follows: a transparent stone of beautiful form (a crystal), a plant, and an animal…
          Occult science describes what emanates from the stone and is seen by clairvoyant eyes, as “blue” or “bluish-red:” that which is observed as coming from the animal is described as “red” or “reddish-yellow.” In reality they are colours of a spiritual kind which are discerned. The colour proceeding from the plant is “green.” Plants are just those natural phenomena whose qualities in the higher worlds are similar to their qualities in the physical world. But it is not so with stones and animals. It must now be clearly understood that the above-mentioned colours do but suggest the prevailing shades of the stone, the plant, or the animal. In reality, all possible overtones exist. Every animal, every stone, every plant has its own peculiar shade of colour. In addition to these there are also the creatures of the higher worlds, who never incorporate themselves with their on colours, often marvellous, often horrible. In fact, the variety of colours in the higher worlds is immeasurably greater than in the physical world.

          If a man has once acquired the faculty of seeing with spiritual eyes, he then, sooner or later, meets with the beings here mentioned, some of them higher, some lower than man himself, beings who never entered into physical existence.

          Steiner goes on to describe observing the animal, a dying plant, then a human being caught in desire & then having achieved their desire…
          This of course is a recapitulation of what Steiner gives us in ‘How to Know Higher Worlds’ but 21 years later…!

      2. This is a ‘new’ topic/theme for me, personally, but I recently came across this notion of the eagle, lion and bull in the lecture series “Man as Symphony to the Creative World” GA230. Interesting to see it brought up in discussion here as well.

    2. Greetings Max – Yes, the complementary color & “feeling tone” that escorts a mental picture, is the natural 1st impression – a gift given to us from the sense-world – a marker or clue that we can explore further. We can take hold of this reversal, not letting it fade away, but imbuing it with our attention & intention – Baruch Urieli calls it empathy – then we are able to stand within the essence of the image in the etheric realm. Working with this helps us to anchor our “I”.

      Steiner talks in ‘Man in the Light of Occultism, Theosophy and Philosophy’, Lecture 8, Christiania, 10th June, 1912 about the stages we will encounter: 1st the image of death – this is the fading that you spoke of, but if we allow our consciousness to follow this it leads to a kind of unraveling that then reveals Lucifer. We face a temptation here to not want to let it die, but if we allow the image to transform, which is the essence of death, we find at 1st the shadow of the archetype behind it – in the case of the after-image of a human being, we meet a lion, bull, eagle, dragon…When we use our “I” we bring the Christ impulse into the picture.

      I first experienced this while working with what the Western Mystery tradition calls the ‘Middle Pillar exercise’. Here we step into the 5-pointed star. Or in Rosicrucianism when we work with the ‘Tree of Life’ glyph which again when we step into it, right becomes left & vice versa…

      As a Reiki Master you may have experienced, when you imprint the etheric realm with the signs it unlocks that the formative forces in the human being for healing. You call on the ‘masters’ to work with you in this.

      Living into the 12 senses helps this perception as well…(or the zodiac, or the Calendar of the soul…etc…) Just like when working with complimentary colors it unlocks that etheric realm where the essence resides & when we look across the wheel of the 12 for instance to find it’s opposite thru our “I”, we bring in a transcendent 3rd which carries the possibility for change & co-creation…
      There are so many things to say about this, but I should stop here to see if anything is landing…?

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