Content updates - what's new on the site

2022-06-15

This describes the organic process of some recent updates, as a number of elements area added, related to a certain thematic. This thematic however crosses pages and subject contents. The description below tries to describe the cohesion through a given process logic.

Trigger and Topic A

Whilst browsing in Isis Unveiled and also looking into Secret Doctrine for specific complementary snippets, the builders of the pyramids caught my attention, and a sentence that the answer had to be sought not with the Egyptians but the ancient persian builders. The exact sentence may also have been in Rudolf Steiner or another book, as often multiple sources are checked in process.

Now the ancient persian cultural age page was a wiki-stub, under-developed, so it was extended with some contents from the Reference materials (always partial).

• Persian cultural age has this mention of the great war between Persia and Turan, and this lead to a bit of search into Turan, and the creation of the page
• Turanian stream. This presents the link between the height of the ancient wisdom of the adepts of the White Lodge in the middle of the Atlantean epoch, and how that was migrated in the fourth sub-race to be secured in Asia. The notes to Schema FMC00.205 on that page explain. That page makes the link with great works such as the pyramids and the Nile, or by extension the seed of wisdom that is to be found in all the ancient cultures of the first cultural ages. The page was not finished with all research materials yet but at least it exists. Interestingly it links up the source of magical power and ancient wisdom from the height of the Atlantean epoch, to the foundation of the ancient cultures, upto explaining why Hungary has such a particular language and culture.

This put attention to the period of -6000 to -3000 BC, and it is interesting, or one can find it a 'gap', that the cultural ages are described but little or nothing is said on what is going on in the rest of the world. This thought is triggered by the above, as described on the above pages. In those early ages, how about cultures of the Maya, China .. and why was Europe so uninteresting, underdeveloped, or let's say little light shed upon it. So one opens a book and starts reading something else:

Trigger and Topic B

were the two 1905-GA090B lectures on Germanic mythology. They are not the most clear, but that's exactly what makes them intringuing. It has been my experience that studying such 'open' scaffolds without detail is then filled in with insights in a way through (let's call it here:) 'process' which is much richer than anything one can read somewhere in one place.

The theme is covered in GA101 lectures, but these two are a better starting place to initialize the study as there are many cryptic clues to be explored and deepened. The GA092 lectures can be used to do so, as they provide better coverage.

The 'process' above didn't even require reading any of these other lectures, as many links became clear by themselves.

• Germanic mythology was updated to provide a better positioning as to the importance of the Holy Grail, Parsifal and meeting of two streams. Schema FMC00.432 was added to depict the two streams

Rudolf Steiner often speaks of the Christ impulse going from east to west, but this was not explained on the site yet. So,

• on Christ Impulse - meeting of two streams has been updated. See now the Context section added on top of the page. As well as addition of the key lecture Christ Impulse - meeting of two streams#1920-02-08-GA196. This was a missing key piece of the puzzle now added online.

A number of related updates followed:

• Holy Supper symbolism - apostles#Illustrations contained the recent Schema FMC00.430. Sig is an instance of that, with very concrete descriptions that previously didn't make sense in the same way before this schema, this example brings the schema to life.
• the Germanic mythology-related pages were updated. The Northern stream and it's story as told in Nordic-Germanic mythology is really the underlying common denominator between page content on:
  • Ragnarok
  • Nibelungen
  • a page was created for Richard Wagner as eg the GA092 lectures also cover the Ring's storyline from a spiritual scientific perspective.
  • this also sheds light on the meaning of eg invasions by Attila the Hun (and Ghengis Khan afterwards), related to the ancient Atlantean culture.

In summary. The Germanic mythology can be seen as a source of ancient wisdom, a stream of spiritual science millenia ago. Intriguing, as it talks of periods not even covered in the Southern stream leading cultures, there was no writing yet, no records. And indeed Rudolf Steiner describes and positions it as such. This contrasts with the fact this part or subsection of anthrosophical body of knowledge is very little known or well understood.

What is impressive is how this shows the wisdom of the powers that guide evolution, coordinating this developmental pathway over millenia in the Northern stream, to accomodate and enable the key fifth cultural age of the consciousness soul to take up the Christ Impulse. Like the spark to the fuse. Enabling this to happen, so as to get the seeds in the next sixth cultural age.

Furthermore both Triggers and topics also put into perspective the conflict between the East and the West, and the future great wars still to come. They find their origin in the old and the new, see Nostradamus#2.1 - War between the West and Asia and World catastrophy. Just meditate on the spiral on Schema FMC00.169 on Overlapping evolutionary periods together with Schema FMC00.205 on Atlantean epoch, after having studied all the above. Rudolf Steiner lays out the complex theme but it's very broad and can only be grasped after much study. There are spiritual subcurrents and realities explained, that give rise to outer events, past and future. See also Schema FMC00.059 on History.

Notes

• with 'Reference materials' are meant the digital infobase created during systematic study 2014-2020. They provide a foundation from which this site was created. They contain however so much information it is not possible to convert them in full onto this wiki, this would take many years or even decades.
• with 'Process' is meant the process of study and meditation and building imaginations