עברית In The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Dr. Ben-Aharon describes the results of his spiritual scientific investigations of the Etheric appearance of the Christ rom first hand experience and knowledge.
The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Volumes 1- 4
At the beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Steiner predicted that in the 1930s and 40s a new appearance of the Christ in an etheric form would take place, perceived to begin with by a few people, and increasingly by more in the coming centuries. He pointed out that only through this new impulse will humanity be able to realize the true goals of its evolution. In The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Dr. Ben-Aharon describes the results of his spiritual scientific investigations of this event from first hand experience and knowledge.
The four volumes are an extensive expansion of The New Experience of the Supersensible (Temple Lodge, 1995)
Volume 1
Detailed Contents
Chapter 1
The Mystery of Spiritual Remembrance
How the disciples were transformed into apostles; Teaching of the resurrected Christ and the transformation of memory through the Mystery of Golgotha; Spiritualization of the etheric body and memory and the construction of the modern bridge to the etheric Christ.
Chapter 2
Saul-Paul at the Gates of Damascus
Paul’s meeting with the resurrected Christ is the archetype of the modern Christ experience and the knowledge drama of the Second Coming; Consolidation of the duality of human nature and the opening of the wound of Amfortas; Mystery of the giving of Christ’s ‘I’ and the individuation of Christ’s given keys of Death and Evil.
Chapter 3
The Conditions of the Modern Christ Experience —The Evolution of Freedom
The meeting with the etheric Christ is only possible in the age of the Consciousness Soul, when man has become free; Man’s severance from the spiritual worlds, caused by the dying out of the ancient clairvoyance, must precede and prepare this fully conscious meeting; Present release of the etheric body from the physical body causes a far-reaching transformation of the entire human constitution; Meeting with the Christ occurs at the climax of the crisis of individuation, in the moment of ‘the most significant disharmony in human feelings that ever existed in human evolution’.
Chapter 4
The Modern Christ Experience — The Meeting with the New Initiator
The three main stages in the meeting with the etheric Christ: Experience of the death and resurrection of cognition, experience of evil and the healing of the soul, and the experience of the future potential of the complete transformation of man; In the first stage, the etheric Christ demonstrates the spiritualization of ordinary cognition into Imaginative cognition; In the second stage, His living words heal the discord and degradation of the separated soul forces; In the third stage, He shows how the physical body can be spiritualized; In the human spirit, soul, and body, the Christ plants three golden spirit seeds, as potential for future development, which man can only develop further by means of his free spiritual activity; This development is the task of the knowledge drama of the Second Coming.
Volume 2
The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, part I
Detailed Contents
Chapter 1
The Spiritualization of Thinking
The spiritualization of thinking confronts and overcomes modern ahrimanic thinking; Resurrected from the grave of the brain, thinking returns to cosmic life; Separation of past and future time-streams and thinking, feeling, and will; Deepening of the meditative practice of Occult Science with the exercises to attain Inspiration and Intuition; Liberated being of will guides us into the mysteries of birth and death, past and future life; Resurrected etheric Christ appears from the ‘dark-gloomy world abyss’ when feeling is liberated as well.
Chapter 2
The Spiritualization of Sense-Perception
In the Michaelic Yoga, the spiritualization of thinking is followed by the spiritualization of sense-perception; Oblivion stream of Lethe is experienced at the threshold of perception; New Mysteries of Hades and Persephone revealed on the other side of this threshold; Further development of Imagination through the meditative exercises of Knowledge of the Higher Worlds; Experience of etheric Christ in the etheric world through spiritualized perception, reveals the etheric ring around the Sun-becoming earth; Man becomes a creative partner of the Christ in the creation of the earthly-human Sun.
Chapter 3
The Preparation for the Construction of the Bridge
Construction of the bridge prepared by weaving the forces of spiritualized thinking and perception, which augment each other; Spiritualization of the etherization of the blood and the etheric body; Formation of spiritual memory on which the bridge of spiritual memory and continuity of consciousness is founded; Specific esoteric practice prepares the etheric and physical brains to reflect conscious supersensible experiences.
Chapter 4
The Construction of the First, Etheric-Cognitive Layer of the Bridge
Builder of the bridge, the true ‘I’, is actualized by the activity of spiritualized thinking; Development of two petalled lotus flower between the eyes; Merging the forces flowing between the two petalled lotus flower and the higher self in the pineal; First formation of Spirit Self; Deeper confrontation with Ahriman in his workshop in the modern brain; Construction of the first etheric-cognitive layer of the bridge from the head, through the larynx, to the heart; Battle with luciferic-ahrimanic forces in the heart and the sacrifice of the Green Snake.
Chapter 5
The Construction of Second, Astral-Soul Layer of the Bridge
Second layer of the bridge is founded on the etheric and astral heart organs; Meditative praxis of Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Occult Science enhanced by the general main exercise; Formative spiritual forces of the I AM, It thinks, She feels and He wills; Formation of sixteen, twelve, ten and six petalled lotus flowers in the larynx, heart, solar plexus and abdomen; Separated soul forces united with their cosmic archetypes create the sixfold soul-spiritual composition in the astral world; Ensuing fierce battle with the Doppelganger; Transformation of man into a human-cosmic riddle and existential question; Meeting Christ through the higher self in the spiritual world offers a cosmic-human answer.
Volume 3
The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, part II
Detailed Contents
Chapter 1
The Confrontation with the New Forces of Evil in the Physical Body
Conscious return to the physical body is fraught with great difficulties in the present age; Entry into human evolution of a radically new force of evil; Spiritualization of the blood necessary to confront it; ‘Follow the path of cyanide formation from above downward’; First confrontation with Asuras in the heart and the path into the metabolic-limb and reproductive systems; Searching for the meditative praxis to spiritualize the forces of will, early childhood, karma, and limbs.
Chapter 2
The Michaelic Kundalini Meditation
In 1906 Rudolf Steiner gave a pupil a meditation aiming to develop the forces of the higher self and to spiritualize the physical body through the sacred fire of kundalini; It creates the forces required to penetrate into the metabolic-limb and reproductive systems; Nine steps of the meditation and their results; Spiritual role of cerebellum, pineal and pituitary; Activation of the four petalled lotus flower at the base of the spine in connection to the sixteen petalled lotus flower in the larynx; Renewed confrontation with the Asuras in their stronghold in the reproductive system; ABC and DEF of black magic; The fundamental problem of the wound of sexuality and mortality must be confronted in the present age of Michael.
Chapter 3
The Healing of the Wound of Sexuality and Mortality
The modern riddles of the wound of Amfortas are discovered, the deeper man delves into the reproductive system; Asuric and Soratic usurpation of the divine forces behind sexuality; ‘Fragment after fragment will be torn out of the ‘I’; Magically closed wound and the temptation of Asuric immortality; Radically divided human constitution and decisive Michaelic battle with the Asuric forces; Birth of Anthroposophia in the larynx; The portal that leads to the mysteries of the Phantom.
Chapter 4
The Construction of the Third, Spiritual-Physical Layer of the Bridge
Formation of lasting etheric foundations for the third layer of the bridge; Merging of Christ’s Sun forces of midday, midnight, and cosmic midnight hour; Cosmic cultus and spiritual communion of humanity in the earthly-human Sun temple; New metabolic knowledge attained in the spiritualization of breathing, eating and speaking, nose and mouth, smell, taste and touch; Digestive threshold and probation: Sweet as spiritual honey and bitter as karma; Spiritualization of metabolism through the six petalled lotus flower; Renewed confrontation with the Asuric forces; Highest hierarchy revealed in spiritualized metabolism and physical body; Chemical Christological process produces the philosopher’s stone from the spiritualized forces of earthly and cosmic nourishment, karma and love; Chemical wedding of heaven and earth in the human heart and birth of the spiritualized body; Umstülpung of the threefold human constitution; Loom of creation on which the Phantom is woven; Making the philosopher’s Stone through the spiritualization of breathing and carbon; Mysterious bone Luz; Shall the dead bones awaken? Fountain of eternal life in the bone marrow; Imagination of the Phantom.
Volume 4
The Creation of the Earthly-Human Sun, the New Human Meeting and Michaelic Community
Detailed Contents
Chapter 1
The Creation of the New Earth and Heaven of the Earthly-human Sun: Heavenly Jerusalem
The old earth has sunk into the abyss during the apocalyptic twilight of humanity in 1933-45; In the etheric world, it has arisen anew as the new Earth and Heaven of the new earthly-human Sun; The resurrected earth must be formed consciously on Earth in the 21st century in the school of Michael; Imagination of the Old Sun reflected and embodied in the creation of the earthly-human Sun; New Earth created from spiritualized will, new Heaven through spiritualized thinking and perception, and their union takes place in the heart of the earthly-human Sun; Heavenly Jerusalem is formed through human meetings.
Chapter 2
Christ’s Appearance Between ‘I’ and ‘Thou’ – The New Michaelic Community
Social and karmic chaos brought about a darkening of the earthly-human Sun in the 20th century; Social-moral life of humans is a planetary creative force, which either destroys or creates the rhythmic system of the earthly-human Sun; Human meetings today perceived as ominous social and karmic sleep, total forgetfulness, and denial of karmic relationships and obligations; Awakening from social sleep through Christ’s appearance, words and deeds between ‘I’ and ‘Thou’; Mutual karmic healing and the creation of the new Michaelic community; the Etheric Christ as living healer and comforter in our midst.
Chapter 3
The Formation of the Earthly-Human Sun
The seed of the earthly-human Sun is embodied in man’s creative forces; Transubstantiation of man substantiates earth’s resurrection body; Imagination of the earthly-human Sun and its temple; Cosmic Dance of the earthly-human Sun-star, the microcosmic seed of the new macrocosm, and its new spiritual journey in the universe.