Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘Y... read more...
I quote Rudolf Steiner about the teaching of Zarathustra: 'The teaching was not abstract but very concrete. Even when people of our time have a certain feeling for the Spiritual behind the physical world it is very difficult to make them realise that there must necessarily be more than one central spiritual power. But just a... read more...
In Anthroposophy we learn that Zarathustra was the great teacher in the Persian culture period. We must realise that Zarathustra didn't live a few centuries before Christ, but far earlier, eight thousand years ago. I quote here from a lecture of Rudolf Steiner from 1911. He gives a clear impression of this doctrine of Zarath... read more...
Bhagavad Gita, chapter 16 Krishna describes a status quo, the division between the divine and the demoniacal as a fact. This fact is the starting point for a development toward the divine, or being bound in the demoniacal. 6. There are two types of beings in this world—the divine and the demoniacal; the divine has bee... read more...
'We live in the best of all possible worlds that are presently possible...' But this best of all possible worlds must also be a result of its ingredients. What we experience as 'world' has very much to do with what human beings actually do in this world. If we have the view that human beings are unfree and totally guided by... read more...