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I ventured onto FB today for a bit and found the recent post by Gigi. Thought it might be interesting to some of you that study Steiner/Anthroposophy, etc.
“Building The Temple & The Resurrection Body
The famous reference to the building of the temple in the Bible refers to the human body, not a physical building. Not only that, the ‘building of the temple’ is not referring to a physical thing, as many think, but rather a spiritual process of personal transformation. When it’s all said and done, the building of the temple is the building of the resurrection body.
The resurrection body can also be seen as the glorified etheric-astral form in which our soul will one day dwell when the material plane is integrated and overcome. It is something we can develop, or not, over many lives through our thoughts, feelings and deeds. Certain ways of living, as well as distinct practices, help to transmute our material body into a permanent Spiritual one in which our soul can one day dwell. This is also associated with a process called etherization in anthroposophy.
Thus, the resurrection body is the spiritual body in which future humanity can potentially dwell. The building of the temple is the building of this body. The higher body that marks the overcoming or the material life.
While this is a central principal in Christianity, the doctrine of resurrection has also existed, though with a lesser degree of emphasis, in the East as the development of the diamond body. Those that developed this divine body were also called immortals, or masters.
These masters, also called buddhas, were no longer subject to death and could live within a purely spiritual body. Interestingly, a spiritual master who has developed this higher body could materialize if he desired. This reveals that when the immortal body is established it marks not only the transcendence of matter, but also the control of the material element for that individual.
Eastern traditions had elaborate images, and teachings, on how a human being could transmute their physical form into a spiritual one. In Tantra, the resurrection body is called the vajra body (dorje-lus), or the radiant, indestructible body. While in the Persian tradition, it is referred to as wujud al-aqdas.
The Egyptian Mysteries also observed the doctrine of resurrection as an occult reality, while the medieval alchemists disguised this discussion through the idea of the philosophers stone. The concept that lead could be transformed to gold is a metaphor for the material body alchemically transforming into an etheric-astral form. Gold is the symbol of the sun, and resurrection is a key tenet in what Western Initiates would call the Solar Mysteries. The ‘solar initiate’ being an individual who has achieved the development of the radiant, immortal diamond body. A solar initiate being yet another name for a master, or buddha.
While the Doctrine of Resurrection is central to Christianity it has, in fact, existed in all traditions. Each time this principle is taught it takes on the character of the age and culture. As it is perhaps the greatest feat imaginable, the teaching is received into humanity only to the degree that we are able to receive it at the time.
For context, humanity descends into matter (the biblical fall), then once humanity gains the spark of God/individuality through that fall, must use that spark to transform back into a spiritual being. Humanity must cultivate and develop their ‘spark of God’ so that it leads to their eventual transcendence. All honest spiritual teachings are to prepare humanity to be able to one day achieve this. In this way matter, or the earth, is the tomb from which we are all challenged to rise. This rising from the earthly tomb is key imagery in the Esoteric Christian Tradition which Jesus of Nazareth bearing the Christ within him as he performed this act on behalf of humanity.
The glorified etheric body, or the resurrection body, is also called the Temple of New Jerusalem, or in anthroposophy the body of Jupiter. Jerusalem being the mystery word for Jupiter; ultimately signifying what is called the Jupiter Development of humanity. When we understand this esoteric imagery, we see that there are many allegories and metaphors for the cultivation of the body immortal.
For those who have not heard of the planetary reference it should be noted that in Mystery Science, human development is tracked over long periods of time through the planetary spheres. Each sphere represents a different stage in human development. Prior to Earth there was a moon development, a sun development and a saturn development. The future developments of the earth are Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan. The qualities of each planetary body hint at the nature of humanity during that period.
When we observe the planetary imagery of evolution we can see that the earth itself is spiritualizing, or etherizing. This new embodiment of the earth is called New Jupiter or, New Jerusalem.
For the materialist, this idea in unapproachable, as their mind does not operate outside of the material plane. Instead, they construct profane and literalist versions of spiritual metaphors creating unnatural inversions of esoteric concepts. Unfortunately for the materialist, the more they attempt to interact with spiritual ideas, the more they destroy them. The idea of resurrection, or the point where humanity is no longer within the material plane, is particularly offensive for the materialist.
Here we can observe that the materialist is locked in a delusional state: he cannot properly observe human development because he does not have his higher senses developed. Yet, his higher senses are not developed because he cannot perceive the spiritual world. Thus the materialist remains in a bitter cycle of descent unable to perceive his own nature. He stands in complete rejection of higher realities because they do not fall at his feet when he asks, how he demands. He bows to no system but his own, there is nothing greater than he. He makes the material world his only source of energy and thus slowly degenerates unless he can awaken.
At this time, it is everyones unique task to make the effort to understand the reality of their own spiritual development. The keys have been left at our feet by individuals who have already accomplished this task. We are the inheritors of incredible truths and methods.
What will we do about the task of transformation that lays before us? What will we do with what we have been given? Will we walk upon the celestial path of the masters who have come before us? Will we join them? Or, will we descend greater into the deathly abyss of matter that surrounds us. Will we rise from our bodily tomb, transformed?”
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I agree! I was pretty excited to come across it. Unfortunately I don’t recall exactly where…but maybe here https://rsarchive.org/
rsarchive.org
The largest digital library of the works of Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, translated into English
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