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

GA 265a — 5 February 1910, Kassel

The Solomonic, Mosaic, Abrahamic Ages

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F.M. hours: hours of celebration. Only correct preparation and deep inner, devotional feeling.

Meditate on the Lord's Prayer. One Master I know meditates on the Lord's Prayer only once every four weeks, and in the remaining time prepares himself worthily to do so in deep devotion. Correctly, listening carefully to the mood, feeling, and tone. Every word, every sound has deep significance.

Only a fraction of the occult lodge is in the theosophical lodges, but nevertheless, it is the great responsibility for everything that penetrates into humanity. Time conditions: In the past, everyone was only happy for themselves. This egoism must be transformed into the ability to forget oneself.

The three periods, the Solomonic, Mosaic and Abrahamic Ages, which existed three times for three thousand years before Christ and must now be lived through again. The Solomon and Mosaic periods have almost been passed through. The Abrahamic period begins with the year 2000 AD. From 1932 to 1940 many occult abilities will already have awakened, such as clairvoyance and so on.

Solomon Age - wisdom
Mosaic Age - legislation
Abrahamic Age – Inheritance

The fact that people who have influenced humanity – such as Luther and Calvin – continue to exert their influence on souls in devachan means that people born after Luther are endowed with a similar spirit, for example with regard to the representation of personal and individual “opinions” on religious matters and so on.

The Abrahamic period, which at the time brought about the hereditary physical conditions, is said to make people more and more independent of birth in the future (coming Abrahamic age), thus leading them out of the bonds of blood and hereditary burdens.

The Lutheran period relates to the Mosaic Age in much the same way as the earlier Mosaic period, in which the law gave people a common and external guideline, while the Reformation period helped people to find their way out of this and to rely entirely on themselves in their relationship to the spiritual and divine.

Later, people are to find the one truth again out of their own free will.

Before Christ

1. Abrahamic Age: The God of the self reveals himself as Jehovah.
2. Mosaic Age: He reveals himself in the burning bush. 1909
   3rd Solomonic Age: He reveals Himself through the symbol of the temple.

After Christ

1st Solomonic Age: The spirit of Solomon works through the best of that time. Solomon's wisdom was applied to the secrets of Christ Jesus.
2nd Mosaic Age: Moses repeats in a sense the Sinai revelation. The God of unity, but now not appearing from the outside. He now reveals Himself within, in the mysticism of Eckhart, Tauler. They were filled with the spirit of Moses.
3rd Abrahamic Age: At that time, the deity descended into the sensual world, approached it; now the time is coming when the spirit of wisdom will lead it out again into the spiritual world, when it will ascend from the sensual world back into the spiritual world.

(In Berlin, Dr. Steiner had used the example of blood-love and the leading of love out of the bonds of blood to illustrate this going in and out and rising up.

Dr. Steiner also mentioned the spiritual reappearance of Christ in the coming decades and said that this event would have an effect even in the realm of the dead. Those who, through theosophy, have gained an understanding of this event here on earth will also feel Christ's presence near them there. For the others, it will pass without a trace there as well.