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FREEMASONRY AND THE ROMAN SPIRIT

Retarded spiritual stream:
First Roman Empire (Rome) --- Papacy --- Second Roman Empire (USA: New World Order)

Perverted spiritual stream:
Gnosticism --- Manichaeism --- Catharism --- Templars --- Freemasonry --- New World Order

Legitimate spiritual stream:
Gnostics --- Manichaeans --- Cathars --- Protestant/Mystical groups --- Rosicrucians --- Anthroposophers

Look into the manifestations of Evil and there you shall perceive the Good - in torment - striving for liberation

Christ came to earth so that each one of us could find the meaning of our own being - our relationship to the spiritual world - for ourselves in true spiritual freedom. With the Incarnation of Christ the age of spiritual elitism or spiritual aristocracy - the age of priests - came to an end; the seeds were planted for a spiritual democracy. Few lessons stand out more clearly from the way in which Christ dealt with the spiritual authorities in the Holy Land at that time. He referred to those would-be spiritual authorities, the Sadducees and Pharisees, in no uncertain terms. He may have told Peter to feed His sheep, but this was no injunction to perpetuate priestly elitism in the form of a Roman Papacy, although the Bishops of Rome and the later authorities in the Vatican were to take it as such. His disciples, still uncomprehending, may have called Him "master" (Rabboni) but he called them brothers and said that human beings were to become as gods. The spiritual childhood of the mass of mankind was drawing to a close. However, it was to be a very long time - until the Reformation of the 16th century - before this was realised in Europe.

The Irony
A great historical irony has taken place since the Incarnation, the kind of irony with which history is replete, though this has been one of the greatest of all such ironies. Many of the Gnostics and Manichaeans knew the secret that ultimately, evil is a former good turned bad, and that evil can also be turned once again to the good. Despite the Incarnation and Christ's union with mankind and the Earth, those who could not free themselves from the thinking of the spiritual aristocracy of priests and priest kings - sought to maintain dominance of that aristocracy in the Churches of Rome and Byzantium. Those who had justifiably been the shepherds of mankind prior to the Incarnation wished to remain the shepherds for all time; this is still the intention of the Vatican today. Consequently, they sought to repress those who, either out of a pre-Christian or out of a Christened Gnostic consciousness, wished to find their own path to the divine. This led to the persecutions of 'the heretics' and a centuries-long attempt to snuff out a Christian Gnosis based on the individual's self-enlightenment. From Rudolf Steiner's insights into the deeper structure of history and the evolution of consciousness, it is clear that this effort by the authoritarian forces of the past, doomed though it was in the long term, nevertheless played a vital role in the development of mankind, because without it, the European culture of the West would not have been able to develop a materialistic and scientific society. It would, like the non-European cultures, have remained focused on the spiritual and divine planes of existence Natural science would not therefore have developed and the modern world would not have have developed its rich knowledge of the physical and material aspects of earthly life. This knowledge is essential to earthly man; it is part of the the total process of self-knowledge, but only insofar as we are physical beings. Since we are not merely physical beings but also spiritual beings, physical knowledge must be complemented by spiritual knowledge. One of the most important keys for understanding the history of the modern age since 1500 is the thought that the age of natural scientific knowledge is being permeated with and complemented by spiritual scientific knowledge and indeed, if this process is somehow frustrated and blocked by those convinced materialists who believe that only natural science has validity, then human culture will increasingly be afflicted by sickness and death.

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