Table of contents hide 1 Introduction 2 Arabism 2.1 Determinism in the Mohammedan Philosophy 2.2 Time of Haraum al Raschid 2.3 Defeat Arabism 3 Reincarnated Arabism 3.1 History Has Other Doors 3.2 Arabism returned through the door of reincarnation 3.3 Francis Bacon o Haraum's return to Raschid 4 Materialistic Science 4.1 What does it mean that science is materialistic? 4.2 Materialistic Science as the foundation of spiritual development 4.3 Human beings continue to make history 5 Bibliography

Introduction

Rudold Steiner in his work Karmic Relations studies different topics on how reincarnation works, both personally and historically.

On this occasion, we will study Arabism and its influence in the modern era. Let's see how Arab civilization reincarnated in European history.

To do this study, Steiner begins with the previous incarnations and is approaching the present.

One of the aspects that stands out is that our way of seeing life changes when it is accepted that a person is not only what he becomes in a life. On the contrary, every person manifests what he has built in previous lives. This implies that to meet someone we should be able to recognize that he has lived many lives.

In the same way, to understand history one must understand that reincarnation is a way in which social transformations are woven.

Arabism

Mohammedanism or Islamism was implanted five centuries after the foundation of Christianity (Muhammad was born in 570 AD) Muslims point out, among other reasons, that their religion He is superior, for being after Christianity.

At the beginning of the seventh century, Muhammad proclaimed himself the new prophet with a monotheistic religion, just as the Hebrews and Christians already were. Mohammed was opposed to polytheistic religions, such as the oriental ones.

This strict monotheism expanded from Arabia to Asia and Africa. It also spread to Europe through Spain. In the fifteenth century they defeated the Byzantine Empire, in eastern Europe.

Determinism in the Mahometana Philosophy

It is important to understand that the Mohammedan philosophy denies freedom and focuses on a determinism that includes the concept of predestination.

It affirms that everything that happens good or bad is the will of God and the human being has to accommodate (submit) to this reality.

The Muslim word has its origin in the Arabic word muslim which means "he who submits."

The Arabist Pedro Martínez Montávez explains that in addition to submission, it also means being protected by God in welfare, health and peace.

Time of Haraum al Raschid

This Arabist philosophy allowed a cultural development that impressed the Emperor Charlemagne himself (who ruled between 768 and 814). This is the time that Rudolf Steiner will tell us.

The story gives greater importance to Charlemagne than to Haroun al Raschid, who ruled between 789 and 809.

Arabism had spread to Asia, northern Europe and Spain.

Christianity had been consolidated with the creation of the Holy Germanic Empire that Rome had taken and the Pope had recognized Charlemagne as emperor.

Christianity was surrounded by Arabism. Haroun al Raschid had created the Mohammedan Arab Empire.

This Arab empire had a high development in medicine, mathematics, architecture, and geography in addition to philosophy and the arts.

The arts and sciences promoted by Haroun al Raschid were based on the Aristotelian ideas coming from Greece. They were Aristotle's ideas elaborated with oriental imagination and Islamic determinism.

They had managed to dominate much of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Spain. His goal was to reach central Europe.

Defeat Arabism

The Christian forces led by Charlemagne and Carlos Martel slowed the expansion of Arabism in Europe and the Arabs had to limit themselves to Spain.

We cannot forget that one of the purposes of the crusades was to contain the Arab expansion.

The Arabs were not only defeated by the Catholic armies, they were also defeated by the Turks, who eliminated all cultural expressions that had developed the Raschid .

The Turks created the Mongol Empire, which was powerful. In 1258 they took Baghdad and in 1493 they took the Christian city of Byzantium. They also incorporated the Muslim religion into their Mongolian culture.

In the 19th century, Europeans considered that Arab culture was in decline. Steiner pointed out, at the beginning of the 20th century, that this was a mistake that manifested itself due to ignorance about the facts of reincarnation.

Was the cultural wealth of the Arab empire lost or transformed?

Reincarnated Arabism

History Has Other Doors

What does reincarnation have to do with history?

Rudolf Steiner said that from a point of reincarnation, the story is explained differently to the interpretation of historians.

Those who have lived and died with a motive, that is, giving a direction to the energy we all possess, maintain that direction of the will. Upon reincarnation, they will continue with the action they brought, even if they were born in another country, with another language, other customs and developed in another profession.

All the Arabists who developed the culture in the court of al Raschid, reincarnated in Europe and continued their mission.

So Arabism did not die, but instead incorporated itself into Western civilization.

The Dead you killed are very alive.

Arabism returned through the door of reincarnation

The important thing in this discussion is that, when Europeans believed Arabism was surpassed, it emerged in an unexpected way.

Rudolf Steiner states that Arabism returned through the door of reincarnation.

It is normally believed that reincarnation means that whoever had a function in a previous life returns with the same function.

For example, it is believed that whoever was a musician will be a musician. But it is not so, even who fulfilled an important function, being in another culture and in other circumstances loses much of what he had. However, the vital impulse is maintained and in the new circumstances it will continue in the same trend.

Even if it fulfills a different function, its mission will be the same.

Scientific development with its materialistic and deterministic approach is the summit of Western thought, it is also an expression of this Arabist current that was defeated by Charlemagne.

Arabism now manifests itself in the West without the need for war invasions.

Francis Bacon or Haraum's return to Raschid

Bacon de Veralun (Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626) was the reincarnation of Haroun al Raschid.

It should be noted that the works of Francis Bacon are not Christians. The mission that developed the Raschid in its eastern court, Francis Bacon will now develop in England as a reformer of the Western philosophical and scientific world.

What is transmitted culturally in history, is also transmitted individually by reincarnation . Although Arabism had disappeared, its influence persisted for the individuals who reincarnated.

Francis Bacon was the one who created the basis of scientific thinking and materialism.

The use of the inductive method became a scientific dogma for some specialists who considered that it was not necessary to start from hypotheses and less from theories that had not emerged from observation.

Rudolf Steiner states that other leaders of the Arab Empire have reincarnated in the West and shaped our world, including Charles Darwin.

Materialist Science

What does it mean that science is materialistic?

Rudolf Steiner points out that there are people who wonder if there is something wrong with science being materialistic.

His answer is that materialistic science is necessary.

If we want to study the physical world we have to have a materialistic point of view.

Scientific discoveries are totally valid to understand the field of perceptions. We cannot understand the reality of the physical world if we deny scientific research methods.

If we look closely, we discover that Arabist religious determinism has been transformed into scientific determinism.

Materialistic Science as the foundation of spiritual development

What happens is that in addition to the material world there is the spiritual world and that is why the next step is the creation of a spiritual science.

Materialism, by itself, has no capacity to understand the spiritual world.

But someone who does not want to recognize the material world will also not have the capacity to understand the spiritual world.

In other words, humanity had to go through this materialist stage to have a much higher spiritual development than that of the previous periods.

We humans continue to make history

Idealist philosophers say that ideas are embodied in historical beings.

However, the concept of reincarnation gives us another perspective: Those historical beings do not arise by chance, they come with those ideas from previous incarnations. They continue a work that has already been traced in previous lives.

Each culture, although we believe it disappeared, is still alive and has a mission.

Friend reader If you had all eternity to realize your ideals, what goals would you have in your life?

Bibliography

Rudolf Steiner (2003) Karmic Relations Editorial Rudolf Steiner.

Pedro Martínez Montávez: «Islam and the West. Judgments and prejudices », in Western Pretensions, Arab Deficiencies, Madrid: CantArabia / Vision Libros, 2008, p. 97.

Author: José Contreras. Researcher on the subject of reincarnation and karma. editor in the great family of hermandablanca.org

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