Divine Transformation: Asuras, Sexuality, and the Grail Mystery

GA 266I — 1 November 1906, Munich

Esoteric Lesson

Asuras remain on Saturn. Fire spirits remain on the sun. Christ is the ruler of the fire spirits. The satanic hosts are the fallen fire spirits. On the moon, they are the Luciferic spirits. Lucifer intervened in human development during the Lemurian race, was confined to Earth's development, and acted as a liberator by giving humans independence and enthusiasm for wisdom. The satanic beings began their “work” in the Atlantean race (black magic). They are the gods of obstacles. The Asuras are only now intervening in the fifth race. They are by far the most destructive and mainly influence sexual life, i.e., the physical body. The many sexual aberrations of the present day can be traced back to this strong influx. All the forces of obstacles work to hold on to what currently exists, what is not yet perfect, and to carry out and reinforce its imperfect side. The Luciferic beings still acted as liberators, for they gave independence, egoity with egoism. We had to go through egoism, which was, in a sense, the first expression of egoity — just as error is the first expression of wisdom in a world in the making, and animal love is the first expression of the highest spiritual love. Our work is the respective transformation. In the third root race, the separation of the sexes came into being; in the sixth root race, it will be overcome; in the sixth sub-race it must be prepared. The productive forces of man are transforming themselves. The productive force itself is the most sacred thing we have, because it is directly divine. The more divine that which we drag into the mud, the greater the sin. The productive organs in us will be the heart and the larynx. Just as the Word became flesh in Christ, so must flesh become Word in the time of the completion of Christianity.

This is the mystery of the Holy Grail, the holy spear of love, the fertilizing sunlight that will reunite with Eve. The occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians is the nursery in which human material must be formed for the coming age. In times of particular darkness, a particularly bright light must always arise. Christ was born in the age of Oriphiel; when Oriphiel returns to power (in a few centuries), the spiritual light brought by Christian Rosenkreutz and now spreading must also have produced a group of clairvoyant people who are purposefully working pioneers. This will cause a separation into two main currents, a race of the good and a race of the evil. The fifth root race will perish through evil. Good and evil are still relatively undifferentiated. Even our eyes still penetrate very little of the uniform uniformity of the flesh. At present, it is still a relatively small step from evil to good, from good to evil. When the forces of the masters and the people who join them with all their strength and will, and the forces of the gods of obstacles, also called Mammon (the Satans and Asuras), with their entourage from humanity, intervene more and more powerfully in human life and in the development of the earth, then the good will develop into a divine good, and the evil into a terrible Antichrist. Then each and every one of us will need world helpers (the word is spoken with the deepest humility) and all the strength that can only come from suffering and overcoming suffering, from evil and overcoming evil. To call people to this struggle through such insights and to give them peace in the struggle is the purpose of theosophy, of Rosicrucianism.