Asuras

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selection principle. The headings are this index's own. The entry is the evil Asuras, named as a third power after Lucifer and Ahriman. Texts that give the name to the whole rank of the spirits of personality, or to the Asuras of Indian and Persian religion, are listed under headings of their own.

usage. This entry lists where Rudolf Steiner's collected works (the Gesamtausgabe, GA) treat the subject. It contains no quotations: the headings, scope lines and notes are this index's wording, not Steiner's. Under each heading Steiner's own books (GA 1 to 28) come first, then articles and notes (GA 29 to 46), then lectures in date order. A text is listed when it treats the subject or the point its heading names, not when the word merely occurs. A paragraph number marks the one passage that is the point; otherwise the reference is the whole chapter or lecture. A book's defining paragraph is also listed in German where the German edition numbers it differently. A lecture with more than one English translation is listed once. Texts with no English translation are listed in German, and so are the esoteric lessons (GA 266), whose German is the original record; each reference's witnesses name every language the site serves it in. A reference marked as listeners' notes was written down by others (a listener, a newspaper, the minutes), one marked report by others is another person's account of a meeting or event, one marked mixed sources comes from a volume that holds both listeners' records and texts in Steiner's own hand, and one marked may be abridged is a translation shorter than the German. Read a passage before saying what it contains.

Who the Asuras are

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Where Steiner says who the evil Asuras are: beings that remained behind, of the spirits of personality of Old Saturn or, in GA 93a, of the Old Moon.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Astral Beings, Human Thoughts, and Asuric Forces17 October 1905p011en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906p002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-01-2929 January 1907p005de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes1 January 1909p029en:English
  5. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909p020en:English
  6. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Questions And Answers I21 April 1909p020en:English

The name for the spirits of personality on Saturn

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Where the name Asuras is given to the whole rank of the spirits of personality, who passed their human stage on Old Saturn and gave egoism and independence.

Books

  1. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xiv. The Life of Saturnp012en:RSPI1959
  2. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xv. The Life of the Sunen:RSPI1959
  3. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xvi. Life on the Moonen:RSPI1959

Lectures

  1. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 14. Evolution and the Hierarchies11 August 1905en:English
  2. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 15. Forms of Consciousness12 August 1905en:English
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: The Four-Fold Human Being and Evolutionary Development7 October 1905p004en:Englishlisteners notes
  4. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: XX. Knowledge of the Higher Worlds I11 December 1905p033en:English
  5. GA 99 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian: IX. Planetary Evolution I2 June 1907p026en:English
  6. GA 100 Human Development and Christ-Knowledge: IX. The Earth's Passage Through Its Former Planetary Conditions24 June 1907p011en:English
  7. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1908-03-1414 March 1908p003de:originallisteners notes
  8. GA 102 The Influence of Spiritual Beings upon Man: Elemental Beings and Human Evolution's Moral Consequences16 May 1908p006en:English
  9. GA 104 The Apocalypse of St. John: Planetary Evolution: Saturn to Earth and Human Becoming22 June 1908p018en:English
  10. GA 105 Universe, Earth and Man: Spiritual Hierarchies and the Evolution of Planetary Bodies7 August 1908p004en:English
  11. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Saturn's Fire Breath and the Birth of Self-Consciousness13 April 1909p008en:English
  12. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XI20 May 1909p005en:Englishlisteners notes

The third power after Lucifer and Ahriman

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Where the Asuras are related to Lucifer and Ahriman: the third power after them, their will to evil, the hosts of Ahriman so named, an aspect of Lucifer.

Lectures

  1. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution I17 October 1904p009en:English
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906p002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes1 January 1909p029en:English
  4. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909en:English
  5. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Questions And Answers I21 April 1909p020en:English
  6. GA 246 Supplements to Member Lectures: 31. Life after Death9 October 1910p012en:English
  7. GA 194 Michael's Mission: IV. The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth15 December 1919p038en:English

The Asuras, the consciousness soul and the I

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Where the Asuras are described as entering the consciousness soul and the I, and what they tear away is set apart from what karma makes good.

Lectures

  1. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909p020en:English

Sensuality, the great cities and cultural death

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Where the work of the Asuras is shown in sensuality, in the orgies of the great cities and in the cultural death and illness of a civilization.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Astral Beings, Human Thoughts, and Asuric Forces17 October 1905p014en:Englishlisteners notes
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906p002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909p022en:English
  4. GA 194 Michael's Mission: IV. The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth15 December 1919p038en:English

Asuric beings in human thought forms

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Where asuric beings are described as embodying themselves in the thought forms and passions human beings create, in meditation without clear thought.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Astral Beings, Human Thoughts, and Asuric Forces17 October 1905en:Englishlisteners notes

The Asuras, matter and the eighth sphere

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Where the Asuras are described as striving to condense matter so that it cannot be spiritualized, and as tending toward the eighth sphere.

Lectures

  1. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-01-2929 January 1907p005de:originallisteners notes

The evil higher Devachan

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Where the evil higher Devachan is called the province of the Asuras, beside the provinces of Lucifer and Ahriman, and forces such as magnetism are traced there.

Lectures

  1. GA 130 Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: The Etherisation of the Blood1 October 1911p053en:English

Devas and Asuras in India and Persia

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Where the Asuras of India and the Ahuras, the Persian form of the name, are treated, and the names of good and evil spirits reversed between the two.

Lectures

  1. GA 93 The Temple Legend and the Golden Legend: 1. Whitsuntide—Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit23 May 1904en:English
  2. GA 51 Philosophy, History and Literature: II. Persians, Franks, and Goths25 October 1904p007en:English
  3. GA 109 The Principle of Spiritual Economy in Relation to Reincarnation: 10. The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega25 May 1909p023en:English
  4. GA 121 The Mission of Individual Souls in Connection with Germanic-Nordic Mythology: Lucifer and Ahriman in Germanic-Nordic Mythology15 June 1910p013en:English
  5. GA 69b Knowledge and Immortality: VIII. Zarathustra, His Teaching and His Mission11 December 1910p042en:English
  6. GA 60 Answers of Spiritual Science to the Great Questions of Existence: I. Zarathustra19 January 1911en:English
  7. GA 69e Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity: XXII. Zarathustra, His Teaching and His Mission31 January 1911en:English
  8. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Krishna and Christ: Transforming Human Evolution's Spiritual Foundation31 December 1912p026en:English

distinguish from. the spirits of personality or Archai, the rank of the hierarchies that passed its human stage on Old Saturn, from whose evolution the evil Asuras fell away (GA 107 of 1 January 1909); Ahriman: GA 107 of 1 January 1909 says that certain teachings call the hosts of Ahriman Asuras, and GA 110 of 21 April 1909 places the evil Asuras one degree above the ahrimanic beings in their will to evil; Lucifer, whose beings enter the sentient soul as the ahrimanic enter the intellectual soul, where the Asuras enter the consciousness soul (GA 107 of 22 March 1909); Sorat, the demon of the sun of the lectures on the Apocalypse, the adversary of the Lamb (GA 104 of 29 June 1908).

see also. evil; spiritual hierarchies.

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