Module 4:What key unlocks meaning in every aspect of life?
Unlocking the Open Secret - The Basics ...
...through human evolution and the development of consciousness that gives voice to human freedom.
by John-Peter Gernaat
The development of the human being as described in this module of the Africa Seminary drew on information shared in the two talks in preparation for the year-long study-in-groups of the selected writings by Hans Werner Schroeder published as “The Second Coming of Christ” about the great Deed of Christ in the evolution of humanity, and on the information shared about the creation in Genesis chapter 1 in previous Africa Seminary modules and in the study of the Old Testament. It extended this picture with information about the Four Sacrifices of the Christ and the developing picture of the human being found in Anthroposophy and The Book of Revelation.
Drawing on Anthroposophy, there were four epochs of time before the fifth or Post Atlantean Epoch in which we find ourselves. During the third or Lemurian Epoch the human being could be imagined as a fiery being. This was the time of creation as described in Chapter 2 of Genesis. It was at this time that the human being prematurely “ate” of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. As a result of this act the form that humanity was given as a result of the imaginative picture conceived by the Spirits of Form, the Elohim, in Chapter 1 of Genesis, lost its intended flexibility in form and began to harden. The fourth or Atlantean Epoch saw the human being as a cartilaginous being in a watery environment as the form hardened. In the fifth or Post Atlantean Epoch the human being presents as a being with a skeleton, muscles and a nervous system as the creation of the Second Hierarchy takes on material form. It is only in the Post Atlantean Epoch that there is a fossil record that can be examined.
As described in the talks on “The Second Coming of Christ” (see the ‘News 2021’page on the community website for the month of September) the Divine worked into the evolution of the human being to restore the creation but to a higher level. These are the deeds of Christ, of which the first, in the Lemurian Epoch, created the conditions for the human being to walk upright and this is reflected in the Post Atlantean Epoch where we see the development of the arches of the foot that bring to the bony frame an uprightness. The second, in the Atlantean Epoch, created the conditions for the human being to speak. The third created the conditions for the human being to have objective speech. The fourth (The Mystery of Golgotha) created the conditions for the I-organisation to be drawn into the physical constitution so as to transform the human being.
This module of the Africa Seminary used the Goethean approach of looking, seeing, beholding and finally becoming part of, to experience the reality of this evolutionary process of the human being in Post Atlantean times so that we can correctly interpret the fossil record and the cultural development that accompanied this evolutionary process.
More details of the experience through Eurythmy, and the evolutionary development of the human being will appear here in a full report on this module.
The development of the human being as described in this module of the Africa Seminary drew on information shared in the two talks in preparation for the year-long study-in-groups of the selected writings by Hans Werner Schroeder published as “The Second Coming of Christ” about the great Deed of Christ in the evolution of humanity, and on the information shared about the creation in Genesis chapter 1 in previous Africa Seminary modules and in the study of the Old Testament. It extended this picture with information about the Four Sacrifices of the Christ and the developing picture of the human being found in Anthroposophy and The Book of Revelation.
Drawing on Anthroposophy, there were four epochs of time before the fifth or Post Atlantean Epoch in which we find ourselves. During the third or Lemurian Epoch the human being could be imagined as a fiery being. This was the time of creation as described in Chapter 2 of Genesis. It was at this time that the human being prematurely “ate” of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. As a result of this act the form that humanity was given as a result of the imaginative picture conceived by the Spirits of Form, the Elohim, in Chapter 1 of Genesis, lost its intended flexibility in form and began to harden. The fourth or Atlantean Epoch saw the human being as a cartilaginous being in a watery environment as the form hardened. In the fifth or Post Atlantean Epoch the human being presents as a being with a skeleton, muscles and a nervous system as the creation of the Second Hierarchy takes on material form. It is only in the Post Atlantean Epoch that there is a fossil record that can be examined.
As described in the talks on “The Second Coming of Christ” (see the ‘News 2021’page on the community website for the month of September) the Divine worked into the evolution of the human being to restore the creation but to a higher level. These are the deeds of Christ, of which the first, in the Lemurian Epoch, created the conditions for the human being to walk upright and this is reflected in the Post Atlantean Epoch where we see the development of the arches of the foot that bring to the bony frame an uprightness. The second, in the Atlantean Epoch, created the conditions for the human being to speak. The third created the conditions for the human being to have objective speech. The fourth (The Mystery of Golgotha) created the conditions for the I-organisation to be drawn into the physical constitution so as to transform the human being.
This module of the Africa Seminary used the Goethean approach of looking, seeing, beholding and finally becoming part of, to experience the reality of this evolutionary process of the human being in Post Atlantean times so that we can correctly interpret the fossil record and the cultural development that accompanied this evolutionary process.
More details of the experience through Eurythmy, and the evolutionary development of the human being will appear here in a full report on this module.
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