THE TWO SOPHIA STREAMS
MAGI AND SHEPHERDS AND THEIR UNIFICATION IN ANTHROPOSOPHY
2nd Edition Two lectures given by Adriana Koulias Sussex St Sydney
26th November and 3rd December 2006©

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Foreword

Please note that in the first edition of this lecture I have made reference to the experience of the Higher Guardian as a morning or waking experience and the experience of the Lower Guardian as an evening experience. At first this may seem at odds with a recorded statement by Rudolf Steiner in GA 124, 19 of December 1910 that the Lower Guardian is experienced in the morning and the Higher is experienced in the evening, however it is true that both guardians can be experienced morning and evening by the awakened consciousness: The Lower Guardian in the evening as the Astral body and Ego begin to loosen from the Physical and Etheric bodies and then shortly after (Knowledge of Higher Worlds) there can be an experience of the Higher Guardian as the Astral body and Ego live into the Macrocosm. Conversely in the morning the Higher Guardian is once again experienced when we start to ‘shrink away’ from the Macrocosm and prepare for our descent with our Astral bodies and Egos into the physical and Etheric bodies the microcosm. Once there is an immersion into the time body, the Etheric body and an entering into the Microcosm begins to take place, it is the Lower Guardian that the initiate experiences. It can be said that these meetings with Lower and Higher Guardian are interwoven and it is only the need for emphasis that leads us to say that the morning experience is more related to the Lower Guardian and the evening more related to the Higher Guardian.

It has not been possible for me to explore this in more detail in the current lecture, but I will do so in the future. In this edition I have briefly alluded to this where it would be instructive and have amended a diagram to include it.

It is however essential that each reader and student of spiritual science should seek to come to his or her, own conclusions through his or her common sense, spiritual experiences and research.