Two Lectures presented at Forest Row, UK
By Adriana Koulias
on 2nd – 3rd of November
© Adriana Koulias 2007

This article is also availible for download as a pdf here.

Dedicated to the 700th Anniversary of the Sacrifice Made by the
Knights Templar
On behalf of humanity,
13th October 1307

‘May the Brotherhood Dwell in you’

Our journey will be undertaken in two parts.

Part 1

We will explore what is meant by Holy Grail and we will recap on what we know concerning the being of Anthroposophia and her relationship to Christ. We will explore the two mystery wisdom streams in human evolution that have been responsible for disseminating the Divine Cosmic wisdom and we will see how the two great initiates: Christian Rosenkreutz and Rudolf Steiner, came together in Spiritual Science in order to help to unite both streams in human beings and how this will lead to initiation.

Part 2

The second part we will learn a little about the Templars. We will explore what is meant by Initiation and how it relates to Magi and Shepherd and we will see how it is only through their unification that the human being can fashion the human soul and, as a result, a new soul organ, the Etheric Heart. We will understand how this is the Holy Grail that will unite the Etheric blood of Christ and the Etherised blood of the human being and enable a communion with the Christ Being to take place.

Once again I must remind us of the words of our great teacher Rudolf Steiner concerning the study of Anthroposophy. He asked that we approach Anthroposophia as a living being with whom we unite our minds and our hearts. She possesses truths that she offers us from two directions and we must unite these truths by taking them into our thoughts, as they are presented to us by Spiritual Science, and we must allow these living truths to kindle a fire of enthusiasm in our hearts and wills. For it is only when we have turned these thoughts into living pictures that warm us with pulsations of life that we bring about the conditions necessary for the birth of an understanding of what the being of Anthroposophia so freely gives us.

Before we start I would like to quote you from the Book of the Grail:

Brighter than the sun this lake,
Boiling as a cauldron deep,
And though nothing alive could stand
This fiery furnace, molten hot,
Perceval glimpsed creatures there,
Most dark and dreadful to behold.
Writhing beneath the seething surface,
Flames of crimson; amber; gold
Were things of wing and fang and talon,
As though from the abyss had crawled.
But on the shore there stood a knight,
Adorned in mantle, vestal white,
A red cross on his chest emblazoned,
A holy light around him shinning,
To Perceval this knight did turn,
He raised his arm towards the lake,
And in a stern, commanding tone
Bade Perceval cast the treasures in.

Perceval stood still as a stone,
His heart went cold, his fingers froze,
He felt he couldn’t bear to throw
The precious treasures from his hands
Then the knight did speak once more
His voice an arrow driving deep;
We are brothers, Perceval,
Your Brethren would not lead you wrong.
All that is lost will be restored.
All that is dead will live again.
And Perceval, his faith returned,
Did lean and cast the treasures in.
The cross of bright, unalloyed gold
Yellow as the morning sun
The candlestick of seven prongs
Of beaten silver, shimmering;
Last the crescent of hammered lead
Its rough-hewn surface shadow-dark.
All at once there rose a song
From many voices joined as one.
Borne on a breeze, sweet and pure,
They filled the sky like breading dawn.
Now the lake was fire no more
But tranquil blue of water clear,
And from it came a man of gold
With silver eyes and lead-black hair.
Perceval fell upon his knees
And wept and wept for utter joy
He raised his head and thrice aloud,
Hail to thee of Lord he cried.

By the end of these lectures we will be closer to understanding the meaning behind this wonderful poem and how it is connected to our present tasks as Anthroposophists.

So let us begin to unravel this thread with Anthroposophia, who is with us insofar as we try to understand what she gives us, in the right frame of mind, and the right mood of heart.

So we shall start as always with our first question:

What is the Holy Grail?

It was during Lemurian times that the human being began to make a descent towards the earth, that is, it is at this time that the Jehova Elohim breathed into the human astral body the breath of life, or the rudimentary germ of the ego. The astral body subsequently became ‘heavy’ and began its descent to earth, into the prepared Ether body and physical body of the human being. The Bible calls this epic event the ‘fall’ of man. This fall of the human ego within the astral body into the physical and etheric sheaths resulted in a gradual unification with a condensing and manifesting physical world and came at the expense of a severance, or separation, from the spiritual world. It was only through this severance however that human beings were able to acquire independence. The ego in the astral body now became aware of the world through the development of organs of Thought (self consciousness) and Perception (consciousness of the world).

But as the veil of forgetfulness descended over human beings and communion with the gods became more difficult, only those who had been
specially prepared through a path of spiritual training could experience a memory of the spiritual world. This memory was a ‘Revelation’ of the Sun Being of Christ as the highest expression of the spiritual world.1

They could do this because the Great Sun Being had sacrificially begun to descend to regions where in the ‘mysteries’ He could be ‘revealed’ to human beings. These sacrifices occurred in three stages in the spiritual worlds and they prevented human beings from totally losing their connection with the gods.

In Indian times this ‘revelation’ of Christ or the being of the Sun occurred by way of the Indian etheric body; in Persian times the etheric body could no longer perceive this revelation as it was descending further into the physical body and the revelation now had to be experienced by way of the astral body; in the Egypto Chaldean Epoch human beings could only experience this revelation in the more refined aspect of the astral body, that is, the sentient soul. This was a turning point for human beings. It was now possible for direct knowledge or ‘Gnosis’ of Christ to enter into prepared human beings via the sentient soul2 to enable a picture of the Sun Being ‘within’. This picture of the Sun Being evoked feelings; it was a Wisdom full of reverence that arose in the soul concerning God, which could be passed on to others. This Wisdom of God was called Theosophia.

By the time evolution had reached the age of the Intellect and Greco-Roman times human beings had descended fully into matter and this meant that they had acquired a clearer self-consciousness and a clearer consciousness of the physical world. Thinking and Perception sharpened and Wisdom could now only be acquired through the Intellect, or the intellectual aspect of the soul. A love for the world and all its splendours was the result of Perception and Thought, which led to Wisdom of the Intellect. This stage of ‘loving the world’ however denoted the lowest point of human descent into matter, human beings had forgotten their fathers in heaven and a final severance from spiritual worlds would have been the result had the Sun Being of Christ not descended directly into the physical organisation of a human being - into the astral, etheric and physical sheaths of Jesus of Nazareth.

Now, what had once been experienced in the mysteries as a ‘revelation’ of the Sun Being within the soul of prepared initiates could became a ‘revelation’ of Christ experienced through the physical senses of those human beings present in the physical world, that is, through thought and perception. Christ shed His blood on the cross, died an earthly death and was resurrected and through him a potential was created for every human being who had ‘died’ into matter to rise up again to spiritual worlds through his own efforts. In Christo Morimur’ means that in Christ death becomes life, that is, Christ’s death allows us to one day be born again into spiritual worlds. This rebirth of human beings could occur because Christ’s blood, the expression of His divine ego, had united at Golgotha not only with the etheric body of the earth but also little by little with the human etheric body. It was a cosmic sacrifice capable of redeeming the human ego, which, by way of thought and perception, had fallen too far into the world of matter.

Now the potential was created for every human being whose wisdom was capable of spiritualising his/her soul - of transforming the forces of death inherent in the processes of ordinary Thinking and Perception needed for independence - into forces of new life. The organs of ordinary Thinking and Perception can be transformed into spiritual organs of Imagination and Inspiration that allow human beings to unite in spirit with the being of Christ3 and through this unification to reconnect with spiritual worlds.

We can therefore say that the bridge between human beings and the being of Christ is Wisdom and that the bridge between human beings and the spiritual world, is Christ.

The night before His crucifixion Christ Jesus gave to his Apostles a formula for remembering this potential union.4 He wanted to prepare them for at time when He would no longer be with them. This cultic ritual would remind them of the eventual unification of the human soul and the soul of the earth with the substance of Christ’s ego.5 This He gave in the twofold imagination of the bread and the wine – the ritual of partaking of His Body and His Blood6 and it became what we know exoterically as the ritual of the High Mass. Esoterically this was kept alive in the tradition of the Grail cup or the Holy Grail.

The Holy Grail imagination tells of a cup used by Christ Jesus at the last supper, which was then used by Joseph of Arithmathea to catch His blood at the Cross. This cup was eventually taken up by the angels for safe keeping until Anforta’s grandfather Titurel could build a castle for the Grail.

What does this mean?

This ‘gnosis’ or ‘knowledge’ concerning the unification of the human soul with the expression of the Christ ego had to be hidden away from the human intellect, it could only be felt in the life of feelings until the human being represented by Titurel had transformed the intellect, that is, thoughts and perceptions, towards the development of spirit organs capable of building a new vessel out of physical matter.

It was therefore something of the future. It was sought for by the Arthurian Knights (particularly Parzifal), and said to have come under the guardianship of the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians who were their successors.7 The Cathars and Templars saw it as the end goal of a long Catharsis of the human soul or astral body, and this was also recognised by the Rosicrucians as the alchemical transformation of the soul achieved through a torturous path of perfection.

The above streams understood that this gradual descent of the human being into matter meant that a veil of forgetfulness was drawing over the Divine Cosmic Wisdom8 that was necessary for this perfection. Humanity would have become deaf and blind to the Divine Cosmic Wisdom of the Sophia had another being not descended into world evolution prior to the Mystery of Golgotha to avert this danger.

Rudolf Steiner called the being responsible for carrying the Divine Wisdom into human souls in preparation for a future communion with Christ, ‘Anthroposophia’, the Wisdom of Man, or better put, the Wisdom that allows the human being to become truly human, to know his or her true humanity.

Our next question must be, therefore:

Who is this Emissary of Cosmic Wisdom? Who is the Being of Anthroposophia and what is her nature?

Rudolf Steiner first spoke about the being of ‘Anthroposophia’ in his inaugural lecture at the First General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society in 1913.9 Anthroposophists had to learn to see Anthroposophia as a living being in the same way that the Greeks saw her as Sophia, and the poet Dante saw her as Lady Philosophy. In a different lecture10 he told us that Anthroposophia is a human being that has a destiny.

Today we will recap on what we know concerning the being of Anthroposophia in order to form a firm foundation for this study.

Various indications by Rudolf Steiner, Sergej O Prokofieff and Emil Bock can give us a good living and breathing picture of the nature of this being. However for the benefit of those not familiar with this mystery we will give a brief account of it:

We can come to an understanding of the being of Anthroposophia by taking what Rudolf Steiner tells us of the Nathan Soul as a starting point: Rudolf Steiner tells us that the Nathan Soul comprised of ether forces (Chemical Ether and Life Ether). Like the human being, the Nathan Soul had passed through the four planetary stages of Saturn, Sun, Moon and a part of our present stage, Earth. It was on Earth during Lemurian times that these forces were separated out from Adam:

Nathan Soul = Chemical Ether and Life Ether of Earthly Adam

These forces were kept back before the effects of the ‘Fall’ and the descent of Adam and Eve into matter, and protected in the Mother Lodge of Humanity – in the Sun lodge, or the sphere of the Sun.11 Similarly, another being was separated out from the Earthly Eve, and can be called the Heavenly Eve, or the heavenly twin of the Nathan Soul.12

Heavenly Eve (Anthroposophia) = Chemical Ether and Life Ether of Earthly Eve

We will now explore the nature of the Nathan Soul and the Heavenly Eve.

Rudolf Steiner connects the Nathan Soul with the Archangels.13 This is because the Nathan Soul’s pre-fall Ether body is of like-substance to the Life Spirit (spiritualised Ether body/Buddhi), which is only acquired in its comprehensive fullness by the Archangels.14 The Nathan Soul has, therefore, a kinship to the sphere of Archangels through the embodiment of Sun Laws. We are told by Rudolf Steiner that these forces came into the guardianship of the Sun Archangel Michael – the highest of all Archangels on the Sun. It was this spiritual relationship between the Nathan Soul and the Archangel Michael that enabled the Nathan Soul to become the bearer of the Christ being in the cosmos, to be His garment during his sacrificial descent towards earth, firstly into the sphere of the Sun as a star, from the sphere of the stars to the sphere of the sun as a planet and then to the sphere of the moon. In order to follow Christ in his sacrificial descent the Nathan Soul had to sacrifice firstly his Archangelic nature and then also his Angelic nature15 in order to finally incarnate into a physical body as a human being on earth - Jesus of the Luke Gospel. He then participated in the fourth sacrifice of Christ - the Mystery of Golgotha.

The Heavenly Eve, like her twin the Nathan Soul, had a similar nature - the nature of an Archangel, due to the embodiment of similar laws,16 and also a similar destiny.

What then could have been the Destiny and Task of the Heavenly Eve?

The Heavenly Eve was also preserved for a lofty task. This being, composed of the pre-fall forces of the Earthly Eve, had a nature particularly suited to the task of bearing the forces of another sublime being of the cosmos – the unifying forces of the Divine Sophia.

In the same way that the Nathan soul was destined to become the bearer of the masculine individualising force of the universe - the great and mighty macrocosmic Christ being – the Heavenly Eve would have the
task of becoming the bearer of the feminine unifying wisdom of the universe, the Cosmic Sophia.

Nathan Soul – Masculine – Christ Bearer
Heavenly Eve – Feminine – Sophia Bearer

How did the Heavenly Eve accomplish this task?

The Heavenly Eve, like the Nathan Soul, would also have to make her descent to earth by performing sacrifices in order to incarnate briefly into a human physical body at the turning point in time alongside her heavenly twin the Nathan Soul. She too, would have had to make a descent from the lofty Sun sphere where she had her ‘home’, sacrificing her Archangelic nature to enter into the sphere of the Angels (where she became the lowest member of the sobornal being of the Divine Sophia). Finally she sacrificed her Angelic nature, like the Nathan soul, in order to become a human being.

Michael, as the mightiest son of the Sophia, would also participate in the sacrifices of the Heavenly Eve as she made her descent to Earth - in the same way that the Archangel Michael participated in the three macrocosmic sacrifices of the Nathan soul as bearer of the Sun Being of Christ. The difference being that the Heavenly Eve’s descent did not occur in the macrocosm, it was, instead, a descent into the microcosmic aspect of the human soul.

Nathan soul’s descent – Macrocosmic
Heavenly Eve’s descent – Microcosmic

Why was it necessary for Michael to follow this descent?

Rudolf Steiner tells us that the Archangel Michael was the guardian of the substance that the Heavenly Sophia had created in our cosmos from above, from the sphere of the Spirit of Wisdom, downwards.17

What is this substance?

This substance created by the Heavenly Sophia is the composite Wisdom, or the creative world thoughts, the communications between higher beings pertaining to the entire significance of the Being of Christ and His deeds for the whole of earthly evolution - past, present and future. This is what is referred to in Spiritual Science as the Cosmic Intelligence of Christ. It was Michael’s task to administer this Intelligence until the time came to sacrifice his dominion of it to humanity, which occurred onwards from the time of the Mystery of Golgotha.18

Two preparatory steps were needed however before this sacrifice of the Cosmic intelligence could be achieved in its fullness.

1. Casting out of Lucifer from Old Moon:

We must remember that it was Michael who, working with the Jehova-Elohim (whose task it was to implant the ego in the human being), cast Lucifer down to Earth from Old Moon. This began a process that ended in Lucifer tempting the human ego into the astral body – known as we have seen above, as ‘The Fall’. This casting out of Lucifer was important, since freedom could not have come about without it. Lucifer’s task was to tempt the human ego into the astral body and ether and physical bodies, to facilitate the process of differentiation into sexes and the creation of the human brain and spinal cord to occur. The mighty being of Michael knew that the human brain was needed if human beings were to develop that independent faculty of logical thinking necessary for understanding the ‘Cosmic Intelligence’. This intelligence could only become the possession of human beings when it was taken up in full consciousness and in complete freedom.

2. The Descent of Heavenly Eve:

The second step towards Michael’s sacrifice of the Cosmic Intelligence involved the descent of the Heavenly Eve to Earth. Her task was to carry the Heavenly Wisdom into human souls to enable a transformation of the astral body (thinking, feeling and will). Such a transformation could develop this faculty of logical thought necessary for receiving and also understanding the Cosmic Intelligence sacrificed to humanity by Michael. In other words, the Heavenly Eve had the task of carrying the necessary forces into the human being that could fashion the soul into an appropriate vessel, or Grail, into which the Archangel Michael could pour the Cosmic Intelligence or ‘Memory’ of Christ. We can say, therefore, that the Heavenly Eve provides the wisdom that enables the memory of Christ to light up in the human soul, creating a bridge that unites human beings with Christ Himself.

Having said this, the Being of Anthroposophia was responsible not only for creating this soul vessel, or Holy Grail, from the transformed astral body of human beings, but also for creating the first physical vessel into which the Christ ego could enter, through her incarnation as Mary, mother of the Luke or Nathan Jesus.

How does the Heavenly Eve Create the Soul vessel in human beings?

We can mark her preparation for the descent of Christ through her own descent into the human soul - into the various soul sheaths elaborated in the first four cultural Epochs of our Post Atlantean Age thus:

Persian Times

Before the Heavenly Eve made her descent to Earth she was responsible for reflecting the forces of Soph-‘Ea’ to humanity, so that the Persian initiate in the Zoroastrian mysteries could form an understanding of the Sun ‘Life’ forces capable of creating the human brain as an expression of the work of Ahura Mazdao, the great Sun being.19 This was a reflection of the first Sacrifice of Christ, when he entered the sphere of the fixed stars. The fixed stars are related, microcosmically, to the 12 senses of the physical body, and these in turn are related to the physical brain and spinal cord.

Egypto-Chaldean Times

It was at this time that the above-mentioned being began her descent from the sphere of the Sun, through the planets, moving towards the sphere of the Moon. Rudolf Steiner tells us that at this time the Initiation of Isis gave candidates the ability to gaze into the world of the Harmony of the Spheres20 with understanding, that is, to that sphere in which the echo of Christ, or the Cosmic ‘Word’ could be found due to His second sacrifice – in those regions where the spheres are resounding through space by way of the ‘Sound’ ether – the planetary spheres.

Once the Heavenly Eve had reached the threshold of the Moon sphere, the sphere of the angels, she then sacrificed her Archangelic nature and as an Angel began to enter directly into the human astral body, in
particular, the Sentient Soul 21 of human beings, carrying with her the forces of the Divine Sophia. This marked the beginning of Gnosis (as we discussed above). The unification of the human Sentient Soul with the forces of the Divine Sophia stimulated a knowledge of God. An understanding full of feeling/reverence. This fashioned an independent being whose physical, etheric and astral bodies contained all that the human being had accomplished through having experienced the Sophian Wisdom in their Sentient Souls. This Wisdom was reflected back and seen by the priests of ancient Egypt who called her ‘Theo-Sophia’.22 Through human beings the Heavenly Eve had now created a physical, ether and astral sheath for herself.

Greco Roman Times

In Greco Roman Times, the Heavenly Eve, the mediator of the being of the Cosmic Sophia, was born for the first time as an ego bearing human being, the Luke Mary. After this brief incarnation, she was able to pass through the human Intellectual Soul to create the potential in human beings for the development of logical thought and this development enabled the human being to understand the world or love the world. This Wisdom in the human Intellectual Soul was seen objectively as ‘Philo-Sophia’. By the time she had passed through the entire Greco Roman Epoch and the first part of the 5th Post-Atlantean Epoch, the Anglo Germanic Epoch, the Heavenly Eve could add to her physical sheaths her newly fashioned soul sheaths, the Sentient, Intellectual and Consciousness Souls.

Anglo Germanic Times

Since the year 1413 the Heavenly Eve has had the task of entering further into the developing Consciousness Soul, that is, the consciousness that lights up in the will impulses. Her task in the Consciousness Soul has been to inspire human beings to acquire a conscious wisdom or moral force, through a transformation of thoughts, feelings and will impulses, thereby bringing to fulfilment the perfection of the entire astral body.

This passing of the Cosmic Sophian Wisdom through the Consciousness Soul meant that the Heavenly Eve’s own evolution was now at the Angelic stage. As a result the ego of this being was now capable of incarnating during the Christmas Conference in 1924 into the physical and soul sheaths of the Anthroposophical Society. She is now seen objectively by
human beings through the work of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rudolf Steiner as the being of Anthroposophia, the Wisdom capable of showing to the human being what he/she has made of his/her entire soul: self-knowledge.

The Two Streams:

In the beginning the above Wisdom that enabled the spiritualization of the astral body was mediated by Anthroposophia into the ancient Atlantean Sun Oracle, guided by the great Manu, the leading Sun Initiate.23 When the time came for the wisdom of this Oracle to be disseminated, two groups were sent in opposite directions, one by way of France and north to Russia and another by way of Spain and south to the Middle East. The Northern stream is illustrated for us in the Bible as the stream of Cain. Cain came into being on the 6th day of creation from the inoculation of Eve with the male forces of the 6 Elohim on the Sun – a form of asexual reproduction.24 The Southern Stream is exemplified by Abel who was the offspring of the sexual union of Adam with Eve, made possible by a separation of sexes through the working of the seventh Jehova/Elohim on the Moon.

Cain = Sun – six Elohim
Abel = Moon – seventh Elohim, Jehova/Elohim

You might ask why two streams?

There is a cosmic law that dictates that for a higher stage in human development to occur it has to be achieved through the coming together and the overcoming of polarities.25 This law can be seen both in the development of the Cosmos i.e. Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth, where separations took place in order that in a future time a higher synthesis could be achieved, that is: Jupiter (a higher stage of Moon); Venus (a higher stage of Sun); and Vulcan (a higher stage of Saturn).

This law was perceived by Goethe who called it ‘Polarisation and Intensification’, and by Hegel who called it Synthesis - the coming together of Thesis and Antithesis.

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It stands to reason that the same law would apply in the development of the human soul through two streams, whose peculiarities were able to take up the wisdom of the Cosmic Sophia through her emissary Anthroposophia in two different ways, and from two completely different directions:

The Northern Stream – The Stream of the Heights:

The Northern stream is also, as we have seen above, known as the stream of Cain. The name Cain (or Kayn) in Hebrew means something produced – or a spear. We can see by this name the quality of this stream, which seeks to forge into the world like a spear into matter, to produce something that can be offered up as a sacrifice to the spiritual world. In other words, to emerge out of the physical body of matter, by overcoming the veil of the outer senses (Perception).

Rudolf Steiner tells us that these initiates sought to enter into the spiritual world in order to perceive there a ‘memory’ of what they had experienced before descending to earth, a form of pre-natal remembering.26 By reaching out and up into the heights of the cosmos, the starry heavens, this stream was able to connect not only with the stars and the beings there, but also with the knowledge that connected them to the world of mineral and plant substances.27 This knowledge was acquired through the faculty of perception made possible by the brain and nervous system28 and is the result of the entrance of the Male individualising force of the ego, the force of plurality,29 that is, Sun forces. We can see here the connection with the Greeks and Pagans. Plato reached up to the heights with his philosophy, or love of wisdom, in order to experience the archetypal forms of the universe. He was thus one representative of this stream.

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Rudolf Steiner tells us that the greatest human representative of this stream was Zarathustra.

In Persian times Zarathustra was able to look with lucid clarity through the veil of the senses to the vision of the Sun’s physical aura, which to him reflected a memory of the spiritual reality of the great Sun being Ahura Mazdao or Ormuz – the Cosmic Christ. This lucid clarity was also capable of seeing how the Divine Sun Wisdom was also reflected in physical nature, in mineral substance and in the plant world. Both of these abilities to ‘see’ by overcoming the obstacles of the senses, in cosmic terms, are related to the faculty of Imagination – the ‘beholding’ of spirit. This is Persian duality, the ability to ‘Imagine’ the above and the below, the good and the evil, the light and dark, in perfect equilibrium.30

This stream used the fire of enthusiasm to transform or shape matter into a substance compatible with Spirit. Hiram Abiff, related to Tubal Cain, was the builder of the Temple of Solomon and belongs to this stream.

It is also a peculiarity of this stream that its leaders and representatives are the bearers of higher spiritual individualities who do not incarnate in the flesh but work in that personality in order to achieve their aims. These leaders, we are told by Rudolf Steiner, were forced out of their own being, so to speak, by these higher individualities residing within them, and this caused them to unite with the fire of the macrocosm – or spiritual space.31

This stream continued on into Egypto-Chaldean times and transformed the ability to see spiritual reality behind the stars and planets into the seeds of Astronomical Science in preparation for the descent of Christ. This stream looked upwards to mark this descent.

At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, the Greco Roman Epoch, this stream became known as the stream of the Magi (Maeji).

The stream of the Magi (those initiated into the Mysteries of Persia, the mysteries of the Great Sun Hero) was depicted in the Matthew Gospel. The highest initiates of this stream were now so spiritually constituted that they were possessed of a light-filled knowledge, making them
capable of Imaginative Cognition, a higher vision of the ‘Gold Star’ in their souls. This vision was the reflection in their soul, of the light 32 of their spiritual master, Zarathustra, as he descended toward incarnation in Bethlehem. They knew Zarathustra had a great task to fulfil – as Jesus of the Matthew Gospel he would one day prepare the Physical and Soul sheaths of the Luke Jesus for the incarnation of the Cosmic Christ into earthly evolution.

We can place before our souls the tender picture of the highest initiates of this stream, the three Magi, as they stood reverently before the glorious ‘light’ of their newly incarnated master Zarathustra. Their gifts can now be seen with higher knowledge, as a reflection of all the wisdom these three men had gathered in the past and that lived in their souls as a ‘memory.’ Myrrh corresponded to the mysteries of the will; Frankincense to the mysteries of feeling; and Gold to the mysteries of thinking.

As time passed this knowledge of the Magi - which could encompass the world of stars - drew inward, contracted, and became ‘the dry, geometrical-mathematical world’ of thought that the modern man draws out of his soul.

The Southern Stream The Stream of the Depths:

The Southern Stream was also known as the Abel stream. The name Abel (Ay-bel) is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "breath vapour", illustrating the connection of this stream with ‘Inspiration’ and with Jehova who breathed into man the spirit, or the forces of the ego. This stream was concerned more with the mystical immersion of the ego into the human soul, in other words the penetration through the veil of inner experiences of the soul (Thought), the microcosm, to an understanding of spiritual worlds.

The initiates of this stream were able to descend into the soul and come to an experience of the inner will forces and by way of these, the forces of the Earth’s depths. The initiate of this stream reached the spiritual world from the other side, that is, from above downwards.33 Such journeys are depicted often in literature e.g. Dante’s journey to hell, Faust’s journey to the mothers, Orpheus’ journey to find Eurydice – are but a few examples. The initiates of this stream penetrated through the soul’s fabric to experience the same spiritual world as the Northern stream, albeit from the opposite side.

The faculties necessary for this ability to enter into the soul’s depths were developed in the time after death, that is, between death and rebirth.34 Rudolf Steiner tells us these faculties are youthful faculties that are potentially germinal, and are akin to the forces of growth in a child. Rudolf Steiner calls them the faculties that are capable of foretelling the future. We could also call this the stream of unity. This stream has that feminine aspect of consciousness that can be called the calm waters of wisdom. Such a consciousness is able to use what it gains from the spiritual world through immersion into the depths of the soul to transform spirit into a substance compatible with the world of Matter. This stream is related to the will and the heart and is also known as the stream of Aristotle.35 Aristotle was the archetypal man of the future. He could, through an exact scientific outlook, enter into the details, into the depths of the will forces behind the workings of the human soul and animal life.36

Rudolf Steiner tells us that the most prominent human initiate of this stream was Gautama Buddha. Gautama Buddha’s initiatory path relied primarily on his individual development. He was a Bodhisattva made mortal, that is, he was not a human being permeated by a higher being (as is the case for the Magi), he was the incarnation of a higher being:

A Bodhisattva took on that radiant human form of the Being of Gautama Buddha — it does not for the moment concern us in what other fashion he was also manifest. And it signified an advance of this Bodhisattva when it was no longer necessary for him to remain in the upper spiritual realms, when his development in the spiritual worlds was such that he could master his physical corporeality to the extent of becoming man as Buddha. A Bodhisattva advancing in human existence is Buddha. 37

Buddha’s initiation entailed sitting beneath a Bodhi-tree, which is the astral inner image of the nervous system, 38 the brain and the cerebellum.39 In a meditation lasting several days he saw what exists below his purified astral body, below his Thoughts. He penetrated to the inner life - to his bodily inner life (his organs), his Ether body. When human consciousness enters the Ether body it has the peculiarity of turning inside out. There was a projection outwards of what lived in the Ether body of Buddha. This was lifted out and became united with his ego and astral body and in this way he was able to see his former incarnations. This is seen as a descent into the will forces and there is a connection between Buddha’s teachings of compassion and love (six centuries before Christ) and what would one day become moral will, or conscience (consciousness of will impulses, The Consciousness Soul). Buddha’s initiation under the Bodhi tree occurred through a Catharsis of the astral body, and it is this astral body, his ‘mother’, or Nirmanakaya, that he was able to donate to the Luke Jesus. We can see by way of this how the southern stream of Buddha has its links with the Shepherd stream depicted in the Luke Gospel. The conscience, or inner morality experienced by the Shepherds in the field, exemplifies the Hebrew people’s connection to this stream. Through such inner initiations, the Hebrew people were able, by reaching back into former incarnations, to strengthen themselves in such a way as to be able to see into the future making prophecy possible.40

The Hebrew stream, through Abraham, also had the task of working to prepare the human physical sheath for the future bearer of the Cosmic Christ. The physical element, we know, is directly related to the mysteries of life after death and to the life of will, which is reflected in the soul as consciousness of morality or conscience, the moral law spoken of above, understood in cosmic terms as Inspiration – or the breathing in of spirit.

Now we can see a picture of the Shepherds sleeping with their heads close to the earth, feeling how in the depths of the world soul a ‘feeling’ was arising in response to the descent of the Christ Being towards the earth. They became one with the rhythms of the spiritual world from which the resounding choir of Angels sang their majestic tones announcing the birth of the Nathan child, the Jesus of the Luke Gospel. These rhythms and tones were inspired into their souls and having penetrated them reached down into the depths, addressing the forces of their moral will directly, bidding them to obey unquestioningly.

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Therefore it can be said that:

Nothern Stream = Sophia working through Anthroposophia working through Zarathustra

Southern Stream = Sophia working through Anthroposophia working through Gautama Buddha
The Unification of the Two Streams

Rudolf Steiner tells us that these two streams came together in the one being when the Jesus of the Mathew Gospel, The Zarathustra ego and the Jesus of the Luke Gospel, the Nathan soul, united in Jesus of Nazareth. The Zarathustra ego (Northern Stream - head) and the Nathan Soul and Nathan Physical Body (Southern Stream – feeling + will) united to provide the vessel, the grail, for the incarnation of the Cosmic ego of Christ at the baptism in the Jordan. This was an archetype for the future task of humanity. The individual human being would one day unite both streams in the one human being.

How human beings achieve this?

Rudolf Steiner tells us,41 that since the mystery of Golgotha and the synthesis of the two streams in Jesus of Nazareth, there has been an interchange in both streams.

These forces of outer vision or ‘memory of past experiences’ (Magi) and inner soul ‘understanding of karma’ (Shepherd) are to be transformed into the forces of Imagination and Inspiration in the soul through this interchange. In our times, with the beginning of Michael’s reign in our epoch, he allies himself with this task of unification and he has inspired
two human initiates, representatives of both streams to work on behalf of this unification.

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These two high initiates can be called the servants of the Sophia who work with her impulses as they enter into human evolution through the beings of Michael and Anthroposophia. Towards the above end they came together to unite both paths of Wisdom into one path of spiritual development - Spiritual Science. These two initiates are Christian Rosenkreutz and Rudolf Steiner.

The Servants of the Divine Sophia

Rudolf Steiner once characterized his relationship to Christian Rosenkreutz thus:

Think of a supersensible altar in the spiritual world. Beside it on the left stands Christian Rosenkreutz wearing a blue stole, on the right stands Rudolf Steiner wearing a red stole. (See diagram below)

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Blue and red can also be seen on the fourth apocalyptic seal which is a representation of the two columns in the Temple of Solomon – Jachin (Red) and Boaz (Blue), however on this seal red is on the left and blue on the right. Rudolf Steiner tells us that there is a reversal on earth of what exists in spiritual worlds. The apocalyptic seal expresses an earthly temple, as it existed in Solomon’s time. Hence the reversals in the above diagram.42 Rudolf Steiner also tells us that when we are surrounded by blue we experience red inwardly and when we are surrounded by red we experience blue inwardly.43 We can also see here a connection with the human heart where:

• The right chamber is related to blue blood, or deoxygenated blood
• The left is related to red blood, or oxygenated blood

We can say that the Temple of Solomon is a physical outward representation of the inward Heart Temple.

This also relates to the modern Magi and Shepherd Streams – Blue blood Boaz and Red blood Jachin.

Bearing the above in mind let us now look at how Spiritual Science seeks to make available a path of development that can enable Magi and Shepherd, Knight and Monk, Warrior and Priest to come together in the one human being through Imaginative and Inspirative Cognition.

Lets begin by looking at what we mean by Imaginative Cognition and Inspirative Cognition:

What is Imaginative Cognition?

Imaginative cognition = to imagine i.e. a mental picture or image or likeness…ative i.e. having the quality of - Imagination…cognition i.e. from the Latin ‘cognoscere’, meaning to become acquainted, or to perceive or to know (in this case) the created mental picture or likeness. Cognition that has the quality of Imagination.

In Spiritual Terms, this means to ‘perceive’ or to ‘see’ or know Spirit through the faculty of Imagination - the faculty capable of creating mental images, higher thoughts. This is the shadow image of divinity.44

What is Inspirative Cognition?

Inspirative cognition = inspire i.e. the act of ‘drawing in’ or of ‘breathing in’ the communication of sacred or higher things…ative ie having the quality of - inspiration…cognition i.e. to become acquainted, or to perceive or to know (in this case) through the ‘drawing in’ or ‘breathing in’ of sacred things. Cognition that has the quality of Inspiration.

In Spiritual Terms, this means to ‘perceive’ and to ‘understand’ Spirit through the faculty of ‘inspiration’ i.e. the faculty capable of ‘drawing in’ or ‘breathing in’ spiritual communications, higher feelings. This is divine guidance – Soul reality of Divinity.

Imaginative Cognition = shadow image of divinity

Whereas:

Inspirative Cognition = soul reality of divinity

The two Streams and the development of Imaginative Cognition and Inspirative Cognition.

In the past, the two streams worked differently. They came from different directions and through different experiences: one rising up to the heights through a stimulation of the memory of the cosmos acquired during the time before birth to achieve ‘Perception’; and the other by descending with Thought into the depths of the soul to karmic experiences that form a gateway to ‘Understanding’, or hearing. Both streams met in the Sun Sphere.

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The two streams came together in Jesus of Nazareth and since the Mystery of Golgotha, as we have stated above, there has been an interchange in the two streams. Wisdom can now only be acquired through an interchange of tasks because what was an outward experience before the Mystery of Golgotha is now an inward experience and what was an inward experience is now an outward one:


• The Wisdom ‘Perceived’ in the outer world by the Magi has now turned inward and has become inward perception made possible through the faculty of Thought – Mathematics.

• The Wisdom ‘Experienced’ or taken down inwardly into the soul of the Shepherd, has turned outward to become an understanding through the senses, a Perception of the material world of nature – Natural Science.45

Mathematics – Inner Thought as Transformed Outer Imagination of the old Magi

Natural Science – Outer Perception as Transformed Inner Karmic Thought or understanding of the old Shepherds

In order to ennoble Mathematics and Natural Science, the two streams now have to work from opposite sides:

The old Magi must become new Shepherds to ennoble Mathematics.

The old Shepherds must become new Magi to ennoble Natural Science.

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The Alchemists and Astrologers had an understanding for this duality of the two streams – they saw it in the symbol for Pisces (Human Being), where two fish connected together swim in opposite directions one swims up from below and one swims down from above:

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And the Alchemical truth known to Basil Valentinus also points to this:

Body, soul and spirit are in two contained – Magi and Shepherd.
The total art may well from them be gained – Initiation.

It comes from one, and is only one thing – Both exist in the one human being.
The volatile and fixt together bring – together they bring conscious awareness of the spirit (Volatile) in the physical body (Fixt).
It is two and three and yet only one – Magi and Shepherd: Body, Soul and Spirit in one human being.

The Gospel of Thomas also speaks of this unification:

Jesus said to them,

‘When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]…46’

This work of uniting the two into one, which will lead to the ennobling of Natural Science and Mathematics, could only have come about through the work of the two great servants of the Divine Sophia and her emissary the Being of Anthroposophia. They were able to help humanity on this path because they had achieved a synthesis of both streams within themselves.

Christian Rosenkreutz

The Left side of the altar - Blue Stole - Magi - Space - Thought

Christian Rosenkreutz is an initiate of the stream of Cain. This was the stream of practical knowledge, which sought to penetrate with the ego through the veil of the outer world, to spiritual perception. In his incarnation as Hiram Abiff he was the builder of the Temple of Solomon and could already marry the ‘fire with the water’, that is, ‘enthusiasm (warmth of heart) with Wisdom (enlightenment)’, which in Spiritual Scientific terms, is the unification of ‘higher thought and higher will’. Later, in his incarnation as John the beloved, he was able through this unification to stand at the foot of the cross and take into his soul the forces that were compatible with those which had made Christ’s own astral body capable of being a vessel for the Holy Spirit. These were the forces of the purified astral body known in the mysteries as the Virgin Mother. John took this astral body which had been donated by the ‘Mother of God’ into his ‘house’, into his physical body, ahead of humanity.47

In subsequent incarnations Christian Rosenkreutz suffered martyrdom, which further purified his astral body to the extent that it could, in two incarnations, become united with the ego substance of Christ.

The first time this occurred was in the middle of the thirteenth century (1254) when he became the first human being to receive an imprint of the ego of Christ in his purified astral body, that is, into his spiritualised consciousness (Consciousness Soul) or the Virginal Sophian substance of his soul, through the activity of the Holy Spirit that had become individualized inside him as Spirit Self.48 This was achieved through his having ascended in full consciousness to meet with Christ in the region of Eagle/Scorpion that is the region that comprises the sphere of the Sun as a planet and the lowest member of the Cosmic Sophia’s first triad.

In a second incarnation, Christian Rosenkreutz experienced the Divine Marriage, that is, his illumined consciousness was able to meet with Christ in the sphere of Virgo (the highest aspect of Sophia’s first triad). This is the sphere of the Sun as a Star. And it was in this sphere that he experienced the ‘Chymical Wedding’, that is, where the forces of the Son are ‘wedded’ to the highest aspect of the Cosmic Sophia. 49 This signified the down-pouring forces of the Son (Buddhi), which became individualized within Christian Rosenkreutz as Life Spirit.

This made it possible for Christian Rosenkreutz to transform the Sophian Cosmic wisdom, which had ‘married’ the Christ within, into an Esoteric Christianity. This became the substance of Christian initiation, gained as we have seen, through a rising up to the cosmos. This Christian initiation was comprised of meditative practice and outer exercises that would guide human beings on the path of a gradual, in gradalis, unification of the Magi and the Shepherd streams within. This unification was taught in rudimentary form in the Rosicrucian Mystery schools, where the pupil was taken to the heights of the mountain (Magi Revelation) and to the depths of the cave (Shepherd, Nature).50

This unification through Rosicrucianism could only be experienced, in a restricted sense, by those who were chosen to attend the esoteric
mystery schools; it was an esoteric pathway of Christian initiation and it worked to transform the soul alchemically so that it could experience Imaginations and Inspirations. Christian Rosenkreutz represents, therefore, Esoteric Christianity –
Blue Blood.51

Christian Rosenkreutz, the Magi, had to rise up into the Cosmos in order to bring down into his soul, like a Shepherd, a Cosmic Image that he would later give to selected students as the content of Esoteric Christianity – the Inner pathway to Christian Initiation.

Rudolf Steiner

Right side of the Altar - Red Stole - Shepherd - Time - Will

Rudolf Steiner is the representative of the Shepherd stream. If we look at his incarnation as Abraham52 we can see a wonderful connection to this stream and the stream of the old Hebrew prophets, as previously discussed. Abraham prepared the way for the work of the being of Anthroposophia by planting the seed in the Hebrew people for a form of thinking that was imbued with moral awareness, that is, a thinking that takes the consciousness down to the will. He was the first human being to see the spiritual world through a physical organ, namely the physical organ of the brain,53 and was able to direct his thought in an inward way. He was the forebear of this physical peculiarity in the brain so that it could be inherited through three times fourteen generations in the Hebrew people. But this did not only apply to the physical brain and its faculty of thinking but also its effect on the physical sheaths, that is, physical, ether and astral bodies of the descendants of Jesus of Nazareth. This was a preparation for the incarnation of the Christ Being. Later, in his reincarnations, firstly as Aristotle54 who through an exact scientific outlook was able to enter into the details, into the depths of the will forces behind animal life and the human soul, 55 and then as Thomas Aquinas by diving down with logical thought into the realm of the heart in preparation for a future incarnation as the individuality of Rudolf Steiner.

Rudolf Steiner’s task was to take the inner Esoteric Christianity of Christian Rosenkreutz and apply to it the instrument of logical thought (modern scientific outlook) in order to make it understandable to the modern intellect. He took what existed in his soul as the content of esoteric Christianity understood through his intellect, outwards in a macrocosmic way, as an exoteric pathway to initiation. This was now not only the concern of those specially selected students, but could become the concern of humanity.

The unification of the Spirit fructified by Science is Spiritual Science – Initiation Science, that is, the coming together of Imagination and Inspiration.

We can therefore say:

Christian Rosenkreutz (Magi) – became a Shepherd.
Outer (Cosmic Image) descends into the Soul and becomes Esoteric Christianity

Rudolf Steiner (Shepherd) – became Magi.
Inner (Esoteric Christianity) ascends out of the Soul and becomes Spiritual Science

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What is Spiritual Science?

Spiritual Science stimulates knowledge of the human being and knowledge of the world. It is inspired by the being of Anthroposophia, working on behalf of:

• Michael (Cosmic Intelligence)
• And the Divine Sophia (Cosmic Wisdom)

For our exploration we will discuss the two books that encapsulate all of Spiritual Science and this path of development: Occult Science and Knowledge of Higher Worlds.

Occult Science:
Primarily a Study of the evolution of the Cosmos (Cosmic Image), which leads to a knowledge of the world: This knowledge connects with the inner being of man (Karma) through which spiritual thinking and Imagination is awakened.56

Knowledge of Higher Worlds:
Primarily the study of a pathway of development, of spiritual exercises which leads to self-knowledge (Individual Karma) through which spiritual perception (Cosmic Image) and Inspiration is awakened.

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Rudolf Steiner tells us:

In this way the without should kindle self-knowledge; the within should teach knowledge of the world. In these two statements, or rather in their realization in the world lies true spiritual insight into the existence and the impulse to real human love, to a love filled with insight.58

And

And now let us try to understand the content of a book such as my Occult Science from this standpoint. — The Magi had a real penetration into the starry heavens; they saw what was spiritual there because they had insight into human pre-natal experience. This has become abstract in our mathematics. But the very same forces out of which we develop mathematics can be brought back to life, and intensified as imaginative vision. Then there is born from out of our inner being a world which, although we create it within us, we see as the outer world, as though: containing Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan. We see the heavens in inner vision just as the Eastern wise men externally perceived the secrets of the Mystery of Golgotha. The external has become an inner thing, has become mathematical abstraction; and in like manner the inner must be widened out until it becomes a universe around us, until inner vision leads us to a new astronomy experienced within.59

This is the unification of outer and inner, of Magi and Shepherd leads to Imagination and Inspiration. The result is Initiation.

This mystery of the two becoming one and leading to initiation was known and guarded by the knights Templar.


Notes:

1 Rudolf Steiner Karmic Relationships vol VIII 21 August 1924
2 Rudolf Steiner The Holy Grail, Sophia Books.
3 Rudolf Steiner Occult Science and Outline VI the present and future of Cosmic and Human Evolution.
4 Rudolf Steiner Occult Signs and Symbols – “the upward growth of these higher powers makes it possible for man to become the recipient or chalice of purely spiritual cosmic being, expressed in the dove.”
5 Rudolf Steiner, The Festivals and their meaning II Easter lecture 8, 11 April 1909
6 Rudolf Steiner, Greece in the Period of its Decline – The Mystery of the Grail Lecture 16 April 1921
7 Rudolf Steiner, The Grail Mystery in Richard Wagner’s Work lecture 29th July 1906
8 This is illustrated by the fact that sacrifices were made by the Cathars, the Templars and the Rosicrucians. All three streams sacrificed their old ‘Star Wisdom’, that is, their connection to the Divine Sophia in preparation for the future when this connection would come again by way of the newly acquired Consciousness Soul. The Cathars were the first, the Templars came next and the Rosicrucians were the last to do so.
9 Rudolf Steiner The Being of Anthroposophia Berlin, February 3 1913
10 Rudolf Steiner The Anthroposophic Movement Lecture Seven Dornach 16 June 1923
11 Rudolf Steiner Lecture 30 December 1913 in relation to the Paradisal soul of Eve or the heavenly Eve see Sergei O Prokofieff Heavenly Sophia and the Being of Anthroposophia page 246
12 See present author’s lecture Earthly Eve and Heavenly Eve and their connection to the Mystery of Isis, Mary, Sophia
13 Rudolf Steiner – The Four Sacrifices of Christ
14 Sergei O Prokofieff – The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation page 46
15 Rudolf Steiner Lecture December 30th 1913
16 ‘Then we consider how this has evolved from philosopher to philosopher we say to ourselves: there are active within not earthly laws, but Sun laws! The laws which at that time held sway between the Spirits of Wisdom and the Archangels come to light again on earth in the philosophical search for wisdom.’ Rudolf Steiner, Perception of the Nature of Thought, Sun Activity in Earthly Evolution GA 161.
17 Sergei O Prokofieff - Heavenly Sophia and the Being of Anthroposophia page 77
18 Rudolf Steiner – The Archangel Michael
19 Rudolf Steiner, The Gift of Isis Berlin February 5 1913
20 ibid
21 Sergei O Prokofieff, Heavenly Sophia and the Being of Anthropsophia page 94.
22 Rudolf Steiner, Perception of the Nature of Thought 10th January 1915
23 Sergei O Prokofieff May Human Beings Hear it the Mystery of the Christmas Conference, page 315
24 See Author’s lecture, Heavenly Eve and Earthly Eve and their connection to the Mystery of Mary, Isis, Sophia
25 Sergei O Prokofieff, Encounters with Evil, page 112-111
26 Sergei O Prokofieff, Encounters with Evil, page 110, Rudolf Steiner, The Search for the new Isis the Divine Sophia, lecture III
27 Rudolf Steiner Dornach December 25, 1920
28 Rudolf Steiner, lecture, June 13, 1916 see also Rudolf Steiner The Search for a New Isis the Divine Sophia, lecture III
29 Rudolf Steiner, Mission of the Folk Souls, page 83
30 Rudolf Steiner, The Search for the new Isis the Divine Sophia, Lecture III
31 Sergei O Prokofieff – May Human Beings Hear it – The esoteric Archetype of the Original Council.
32 Rudolf Steiner Dornach December 25, 1920
33 ibid
34 Rudolf Steiner, Lecture Dornach December 25 1920
35 Sergei O Prokofieff, The Heavenly Sophia and the Being of Anthroposophia page 168-169
36 Rudolf Steiner ibid
37 Rudolf Steiner, East in Light of the West, Christ and the Bodhisattvas
38 Rudolf Steiner The Gospel of St John Third Lecture
39 Rudolf Steiner Foundations of Esotericism XII
40 Rudolf Steiner Lecture Dornach 25 December 1920
41 Rudolf Steiner Christmas Lectures, 1920, Dornach
42 H. Collison, Commentary on Rudolf Steiner’s Four Mystery Plays Page 78 (London 1949)
43 Rudolf Steiner Lecture Munich 21 May 907
44 Rudolf Steiner, The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, Lecture IX – The Etherization of Blood.
45 Rudolf Steiner The Search for the New Isis
46 Gospel of Thomas verse 22
47 Rudolf Steiner The Nature of the Holy Sophia and the Holy Spirit Hamburg, May 1908, this can also be found in a compilation of lectures under the name, Isis, Mary, Sophia her Mission and Ours.
48 Rudolf Steiner lecture Hamburg May 1908 The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and the Holy Spirit.
49 Sergei O Prokofieff, Twelve Holy Nights and The Spiritual Hierarchies page 87
50 Rudolf Steiner Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiaton Dornarch 5th January 1924
51 Inward Blue is depicted outwardly in Red. It is for this reason that Rosicrucian esoteric initiation temples were painted in Red colours, Rudolf Steiner lecture Munich 21 May 1907
52 See Edward Reaugh Smith, The Burning Bush - Chapter Entitled Pillars on the Journey and Sergei O Prokofieff Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries Chapter 4
53 See Prokofieff Eternal individuality Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis
54 Sergei O Prokofieff, The Heavenly Sophia and the Being of Anthroposophia page 168-169
55 Rudolf Steiner ibid
56 Lecture Dornach September 18, 1916
57 Rudolf Steiner Lecture, The Two Christmas Annunciations 1st January, 1921
58 Rudolf Steiner, Dornarch September 18th 1916
59 Rudolf Steiner The Two Christmas Annunciations 1st January, 1921