This selection of lectures offers insights into the complexity of evil as a phe-nomenon that arises when an event or process appears outside its true context. As a result, something that is "good" initially may become "evil" because it occurs in the wrong place.
Steiner tells us that this as an effect of Lucifer and Ahriman, spiritual beings who work as polar forces and hinder human evolution by opposing our appropriate development. Confronting these difficulties, however, ultimately furthers our spiritual development.
CONTENTS
Editor's Introduction
1. Origin and Nature of Evil
Evil Illuminated through the Science of the Spirit
Good and Evil: Creation and Death2. All Life Unfolds between the Polarities of Luciferic and Ahrimanic Forces
Christ, Ahriman and Lucifer in Relationship to the Human Being
The Relation of Ahrimanic and Luciferic Beings to Normally Evolved Hierarchies3. The "Fall" Consequences and Counterbalance
The Midgard Snake, the Fenris Wolf, and Hel
The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil4. The Intensification of Evil and the Task of Our Present Consciousness Soul Age
Supersensible Aspects of Historical Research
The Three Streams of Materialistic Civilization5. "666" and the Future of Humanithy--The Task of Manichaeism
How Do I Find the Christ?
The Future of Human Evolution
- ISBN10 1855840464
- ISBN13 9781855840461
- Publish Date 7 April 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Rudolf Steiner Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216
- Language English