Letters to the Editor
Re: the Tomberg article in SCR 57
Steiner explained several times that the spiritual world, or spiritual half-side of reality, is far more complex as our already very complex material world, which continues to be incessantly investigated by modern materialistic science (above all by nuclear physics and biogenetics) instigated by ahrimanic and azuric forces, which try to dismantle the change-over to the Jupiter incarnation of the Earth and Mankind, and to anihilate Christ's work in alliance with the Archangel Michael.
Within such a vast complexity of the spiritual realm, even initiates can incur in partial mishaps, especially in the times before the begin of the Michael's reign. So slipped Madame Blavatsky to her beloved hinduism and to a kind of "atomistic spirituality", while Annie Besant and Leadbeater presented to the world the phantom of Christ's reincarnation in the young Krishnamurti, or Max Heindel (by the way, a false name for the real Carl Louis Fredrik Grasshoff) plagiarized the essence of Anthroposophy to found his mystical-oriented Rosicrucian Fellowship in California.
There is no need to enter in pro-esoterical discussions about the "right" or "wrong" of such personalities vis-a-vis Anthroposophy (for example, whether Steiner borrowed from Blavatsky's "The Voice of the Silence" or from Mabel Collins' "Light on the Path" . We should remember above all the respect for the first rule of spiritual activity, namely: freedom.
Concerning Tomberg, the fact is that during his lifetime he simply had no access to many of (in the meantime published) Steiner's conferences, where Steiner's absolutely original (Bodhisatwa-oriented) philosophical and practical-esoterical stages of the birth of Anthroposophy are exhaustively explained, partially among previous Rosicrucian and Theosophical traditions.
An internet debate about the forgotten Tomberg and his ultra-personal and karmic question concerning Anthroposophy may give certain discussionholic people the impression that "Anthroposophy is living from past history". I consider such a discussion a useless loss of time and a danger of fruitless blogger-like polemic among anthroposophists.
With warmest regards
Raul
Re: On God, An interview with Norman Mailer
It is always interesting to read the opinions of brilliant men such as Mr. Mailer. His views on God and reincarnation are well thought out and it is obvious that he has put a lot of study into the matters.
He is, however, a little disingenuous to the dinosaurs who God must have admired, in that He gave them dominion over the Earth for 65 million years. Human Beings have only been in charge for about 30 thousand years, and at the rate we are destroying the planet, I doubt Humans will be around for another thousand.
I am reminded of a Vonnegut anecdote. I paraphrase. It seems that KV was working as a carpenter for a wealthy woman who said she knew exactly what God had designed and knew exactly what God wanted from Human Beings. But when KV showed the woman the blueprints for the doghouse he was going to build she said, �Oh don�t bother me with those things, I could never read them.�
M.E. Ingles
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