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The materialist ideology, whose beginning is in the fifteenth century and fully manifested in the nineteenth century, tries to demonstrate that the only reality that exists is that of physical matter and its corresponding laws, something as irrational and difficult to demonstrate as the dogmas of faith from
the Catholic Church. Since then, attempts have been made to propagate materialism as a conscious weapon to nullify the indispensable impulse for the spiritual development of the individual consciousness of the human being towards the encounter with the Christ, an ideology that integrated in the cultural field has progressively increased in the last 50 years.
We already know that man is a being essentially of faith, he needs to believe in something, no matter if true or false; He has gone from believing in church dogmas to believing in what scientists say, even if they only rely on incomplete assumptions or truths.
In the materialist ideology it is believed that little matter what is done, said or thought, that nothing transcends, that everything is relative, and for this science is used as a truthful and demonstrable justification that only material physical reality exists . However, we know that there is nothing in our world that is not transcendent: whatever we do, feel or think is spread to the rest of creation, for better or worse, just like when we breathe we share the air continuously with all beings alive around us. That is why we must always ask ourselves: Can it cause what I do, feel or think of any imbalance or disorder to humanity or the environment? We are nothing if we do not feel linked to everything that exists, if we just reinforce our individuality.
There is a growing unease and unease of mind that tries to compensate desperately through the acquisition and enjoyment of material goods, which is immediately unsatisfactory and frustrating, and in many cases conducive to depression and other mood diseases, increasingly endogenous and in progressive increase. Materialism as an ideology, as a belief that there is nothing but the material, can parasitize and make the human being sick.
In ancient times people needed religious teachings and church worship in order to order their life in the world. Today the spiritual search path must be traveled individually, in the full light of the spiritual consciousness. This requires a high level of self-demand and discernment to know how to trace the path itself, always motivated by the greatest good of humanity. The first thing we should do, in this sense, is to purify our emotions so that the yo can act fluently on everyday consciousness. In this process the qualities or virtues of justice, temperance, courage and wisdom must be developed ; in this way our personality will be impregnated with the sense of the transcendent.
At present, purely materialist conceptions are already being ruled out as valid theories for modern science, based on quantum physics, of subathemic particles and in Einstein's relativity, with which knowledge is beginning to enter into the supersensitive reality. However, at the cultural level of the vast majority of people, and as the system of power established for the maintenance of their interests is of interest, the belief in the reality of materialism as the Only existing, which manifests itself in an unbalanced consumerism and unthinkable technological advances a few years ago.
The current cultural conditions have restricted to a maximum the perceptual capacity of the human being, consequence of the increase of the bombardeo of visual and auditory stimuli media, advertising and a culture of leisure, in a generalized stress and limit situations, greatly favored by the forces that use cultural factors interested in maintaining the established capitalist system, which privileges minorities of power. But predictably, together with the development of the autonomic nervous system, people will increasingly perceive reflections of supraphic levels of reality and acquire new powers of extrasensory perceptions in the form of imaginations, intuitions and precognitions. .
Spiritual Knowledge
All true investigators of the knowledge of the transcendent agree that the most important thing in our age is the transmission of the truths obtained from the supersensitive, letting people freely decide their possible acceptance, as well as everything that comes from the spiritual world. . It is we who have to decide if we join this knowledge, for which we are sufficiently prepared at the beginning of the 21st century. The purpose of anyone who wants, based on their experience, to transmit their spiritual knowledge to others, can only be to provide information elements, so that each person can develop their own criteria in something as intimate and non-transferable as it is The spiritual adventure itself. Everyone must know at all times what they should or should not do and what they may or may not believe.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, man has been willing to rationally understand reality, his thinking is increasingly powerful and his consciousness is constantly expanding. You can no longer believe in what is not understood, what is least needed are faith dogmas, rituals and sectarian impositions.
Any normal person can aspire to see and understand reality in a deeper and more complete way than our cultural environment teaches us, a reality that, in order to be complete, must aspire to include knowledge of the supersensitive, of what is hidden. Behind the material physical world. This must be done in a process of extracting the best that we have in our mood interiority and that we can share with the rest of the human beings who want it, always guiding us by what interests humanity as a whole, never based on our interests personal
As Rudolf Steiner teaches us, any hidden knowledge is inspired by spiritual entities of different levels, beneficial or evil for the human being. We must always pass it through the sieve of common sense, with realism and non-feigned humility, increasing our degree of maturity, and therefore of responsibility towards others in terms of our capacity for understanding, tolerance and empathy. In the realm of the occult we must know that things are not at all simple: in him the reality is living and dynamic, so that any esoteric work that is done must be contrasted with the daily reality of our waking consciousness.
Steiner prevents us from the need to separate, if possible, any spiritual study that we do, from our own personality, so that we can understand it better and avoid the danger of falling into an exacerbated spiritual egoism, which often happens unnoticed, even for the student himself. Normally it only matters what affects one's own personal life, not the rest: however, the correct way to approach a study of the spiritual is to see how reality influences global humanity and the rest of created beings, without interests selfish personal, especially on the Christian path, which always has to be universal; otherwise we will always be exclusive and sectarian.
The search for the supersensible reality, of the transcendent, should never separate us from the daily reality of the sensitive perception, clouding our thoughts or numbing our conscience, but rather clarifying and increasing it. . The suprasensible perception that the aspirant for Christian initiation can obtain (the only possible and authentic one for man, in the Steinerian anthroposophical conception), should never interfere in his usual conscience, but complementing and enriching it, it must be accompanied by social concern, the reality of what happens to humanity, especially the concern for more disadvantaged and oppressed, becoming fully aware of the existing suffering and injustice, cultivating as far as possible, effectively, fraternity and cooperation with all human beings. Nor can it make us feel superior to any other human being.
Full maturity in the physical physical world is required to be able to aspire to transit with the correct use of the higher faculties through the spiritual worlds, of more than three dimensions, as the great researchers of the spirit inform us.
In past times the spiritual initiation was based on asceticism and the external training of the physical body. The authentic modern Christian initiation must do so in the spontaneous evolution of the soul, so that it develops its own internal forces, as it teaches
It is interesting to highlight that Steiner, in one of his lectures, considered atheism as a kind of disease, since he believed that in a healthy organism, the harmonious functioning of its different components provides that which feels, by itself, its divine origin. He also considered that it was a weakness or psychic deficiency, in the constitution of the human soul, to be unable to perceive spirituality in oneself, and its connection to the spirituality of the world. Not finding the Son God, the Christ or Cosmic Word considered him as a real misfortune or misfortune for the human being, although he said that all men, at some point in their lives, would have the opportunity of that encounter.
The consciousness of a part, very minority but growing human beings, begins to reject the materialist ideology, entering into the supersensitive through the orientation of thoughts and feelings towards a transcendent morality, based on the archetypes of Good,
Truth and Beauty, as opposed to those of Evil, Lies and Ugliness.The Christ Impulse
In our days it is not about humanity requesting and appealing to the help of Christ in the face of the serious problems that exist, but we must know that he can only act individually, through the free requirement of each one of us: we are his instruments when we understand and act according to their teachings; If not, it does not act.
The aspiration to know
The Truth must be based on the development of the Conscious Soul, which is the work that the human being has to perform in our time, as Steiner advocated, and which is a kind of super-awake consciousness, unlike the placid own dreamlike unconsciousness of current normal consciousness. In this way, the benefactor and stimulating influences of an awakened consciousness can be irradiated to the environment, thus placing itself at the service of the Christ, through its Hierarchies, from a new individual, not group, understanding of a new Christianity based on brotherly love, which comes from wisdom when the Christ impulse penetrates each human being who voluntarily welcomes it.
The spiritual strength of Christ is the most powerful that can affect us. For this we must have faith in the authenticity of this knowledge and thus be able to use these Christic forces for our evolution, first in our incarnation on earth and then in the spiritual world. Powerful forces opposing the Christ try to prevent the transmission of this knowledge, fundamentally, as we have seen, through the propagation of the materialist ideology, so that the consciousness of the human being is trapped in the increasingly technified material physical world, annulling his spiritual development in this way, making him believe that, although there are spiritual forces, they are nothing more than forces of nature, as Rudolf Steiner previously warned.
The Christic impulse will always act on human individuality, never in mass manifestations or group actions, and it will act in function, as we have seen, that our conscience is prepared to serve as an instrument for its action. All men carry in our hearts the Christ seed that we can voluntarily bear fruit through the development of fraternal love in our conscience.
Under the etheric influence of Christ we can feel that nothing that happens to other men ceases to affect us vitally, and that, as we have already seen, there is nothing that does not transcend: everything we do, feel or think influences Powerfully in all other beings. In this sense, we cannot be influenced by the demoralizing stimuli that try to convince us of our inability to modify the present state of chaotic and destructive things. Not only are our actions important, but also our intentions and positive thoughts, knowing that we have the help of the strength and courage that Christ gives us to act in the world. Even if only with our sincere and ardent yearning for Good,
the truth and
Beauty, we will contribute to humanity having a future.
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