The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Part 2: The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Volume 3 Paperback – December 7, 2024

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)Chapter 1The Confrontation with the New Forces of Evil in the Physical BodyConscious 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 2The Michaelic Kundalini MeditationIn 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 3The Healing of the Wound of Sexuality and MortalityThe 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 4The Construction of the Third, Spiritual-Physical Layer of the BridgeFormation 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. Read more