Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924

GA 265a — 22 December 1907, Cologne

Radiant Beings

Notes by Amalie Künstler

There are entities that permeate our physical body, our etheric body and our astral body. Entities of a gnome-like nature permeate the physical body of a person, those of a ghost-like nature permeate the etheric body and those of a demon-like nature permeate the astral body of a person.

They saturate themselves, they suck themselves full of what the person gives them, they live off of it. Behind these entities, which permeate the physical body of the person and which play a very special role in our time, are particularly prominent and are gaining more and more influence, stand the Asuras. We are living in a particularly important time because these entities are threatening to gain a predominant influence, just as such entities, which permeate the etheric body, gained a predominant influence around the middle of the Atlantean period.

As soon as a person strives for spiritual development, his thoughts and feelings have a completely different effect on his various bodies. And what used to feed these entities no longer nourishes them, because what the soul's spiritual direction brings about in the various bodies of a person deprives them of their nourishment. This puts the person in a dangerous position. Because if he merely kills these entities by depriving them of their nourishment, he is taking the first step towards black magic. He thereby turns these entities into machines that he can use for his own purposes. This is not right. Man must transform them. We must not kill them, transform them into machine-like creatures.

The materialist is completely surrounded by such beings, who have been frozen by the outpourings of materialism. They are not dead, only frozen. Our task should be to dissolve the rigidity of these beings through our spiritual powers and transform them. That was the task of the Manicheans in particular.

The Molten Sea, if it had come about, would have made the earth a transparent, clear planet. Now the three journeymen have destroyed the casting. Doubt, superstition and belief in the personal self have clouded the casting. In the human etheric body, there are three points - heart, spleen and back - that are particularly significant. The one on the back means the brazen sea in the microcosm. In a person who still has doubts, superstition and a belief in the personal self, this point is clouded, with clouds passing through it like a smoky topaz. Our task is to transform it into a radiant, clear one.

Cain, at the center of the earth, who still possesses the pure divine Elohim power. Hiram Abiff descends to him and receives the original creator word written on the golden triangle.