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The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of Christ
'A wonderfully beautiful legend tells us that when Lucifer fell from
heaven to earth a precious stone fell from his crown… This precious
stone is in a certain respect nothing else than the full power of the
"I".'Seven years after staging Edward Schuré's drama The Children of
Lucifer, Rudolf Steiner felt able to talk openly about the complex
relationship between the beings of Lucifer and Christ. In an
extraordinary series of lectures, Steiner addresses the difficult and
often misunderstood subject of Lucifer's role in human development.
Speaking within the broader context of ancient and modern – Eastern
and Western – spiritual teachings, Steiner clarifies that Lucifer is
not the simple caricature of evil that many imagine, but rather plays
a pivotal role in human development.Whilst Rudolf Steiner held a deep
respect for Eastern philosophy, he worked consistently from his
personal knowledge of the Western – Christian – esoteric tradition. At
a time when many of his colleagues revered ancient Eastern texts,
Steiner viewed these same documents as representations of an earlier
stage of human consciousness; as evidence of the heights that Eastern
wisdom had reached, thousands of years before the development of
Western science and culture. But Steiner maintains that the ancient
truths need to be understood in the context of contemporary knowledge:
that the old wisdom of the East has to be seen in the light of the
West.Chapters include: Eternity and Time – Comparison of the Wisdom of
East and West – The Nature of the Physical and the Astral Worlds –
Evolutionary Stages – The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of
Christ – Lucifer and Christ – The Nature of the Luciferic Influence in
History – The Bodhisattvas and the Christ.
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