The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls E-Book

Peter Selg

• Herausgeber: Temple Lodge Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable – but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman. The situation we find ourselves in today shows Ahriman's unmistakable signature: the rapid destruction of nature, zoonotic diseases and pandemics, huge social inequalities, and the overall dominance of high finance. In this short book Peter Selg presents a timely overview of the challenges we face, beginning with a pithy and concise survey of Steiner's commentary on Ahriman's incarnation and the conditions that would characterize it. This is followed by a study of Ahriman's depiction in the mystery drama The Souls' Awakening. Steiner's remarkable personification of Ahriman on stage – portraying his strategies and activities – provides vital instruction for humanity. Selg concludes with an evaluation of 'the Battle for Human Intelligence' taking place in contemporary culture through materialistic ideas such as transhumanism. In their recent book Covid-19: The Great Reset, for example, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret propose wholesale economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological revisions to society – ideas that need to be understood and confronted in human thought and consciousness. The Future of Ahriman is a crucial aid to comprehending our times.

Leseprobe

THE FUTURE OF AHRIMAN

AND THE AWAKENING OF SOULS

The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas

Peter Selg

Translated by Paul King

Temple Lodge Publishing Ltd.

Hillside House, The Square

Forest Row, RH18 5ES

www.templelodge.com

Published by Temple Lodge 2022

Originally published in German under the title Die Zukunft Ahrimans und das ‘Erwachen der Seelen’, Zur Geistesgegenwart der Mysteriendramen by Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzer-land, 2021

© Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2021

This translation © Temple Lodge Publishing 2022

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Inquiries should be addressed to the Publishers

The right of Peter Selg to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 912230 87 7

eISBN 978 1 912230 92 1

Cover by Morgan Creative featuring image of Ahriman from a model by Rudolf Steiner (photograph by John Wilkes)

Typeset by Symbiosys Technologies, Visakhapatnam, India

Printed and bound by 4Edge Ltd., Essex

Holy is his name.

And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away.

(Luke 1:49-53)

CONTENTS

Foreword

1.‘The Incarnation of Ahriman’ Rudolf Steiner’s lectures from October to December 1919

2.‘The Awakening of Souls’ Ahriman in the Mystery Dramas, 1910-1913

3.The Battle for Human Intelligence The Leading Thoughts of 1924/25, and the present

Notes