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It is time to gather our considerations together and erect some sort of provisional critique of how, as students of spiritual science, we can not only take on board an accelerating flood of paranormal events in our time and make sense of them -- not only this, we need also to absorb this into our personal karmic agenda.

These are our times, this is our world, and we are probably in a stronger position than most other contenders to erect such a critique. But one thing we do have to face is that, judging by the amount of raking over old ashes that seems to go on in the anthroposophical world, (and I have been out of touch with this for the best part of 25 years), there will need to be a lot of adjustments to classical anthroposophical attitudes if we are to do this in a coherent way. It would be major tragedy if we found ourselves guarding an empty Temple from which most people on a spiritual path had moved forward into a post-anthroposophical world.

In facing the issue in this way, and in developing a more comprehensive language in which to make the whole paranormal issue comprehensible, we are of course not simply addressing ourselves as anthroposophists. If we are to accept that ‘our’ spiritual science puts us in a strong position to make a genuine contribution to the process of restoring sanity to a world which in some sense has gone mad around us, then we have a more terrible and wonderful responsibility to ‘the madding crowd’ than the members had any idea of when Steiner laid the Foundation Stone of the Society. The majority of the folk we will be called upon to help will be floundering around on one of the three levels we have described above (see part one).

I put ‘our’ in quotes for the very good reason that we will need to distance ourselves to some extent from what I will refer to as ‘anthroposophism’, by which I mean something stylistic which has the effect of separating us from the increasing number of people on spiritual paths at this time who are approaching and experiencing what Steiner described as ‘mankind crossing the threshold at the end of the century’. Many, perhaps most, of these people are very much aware that something crucial is going on, but for many reasons have not come to recognise any thing in anthroposophy which can be a guide to it. Dozens of books, lectures, conferences, channellings, insights, fantasies, fictions, movements, therapies, and spiritual schools proliferate all round anthroposophy to which a convergent attitude could have made and can still make a priceless contribution. This is especially so at this time. Anthroposophy is no less significant in the world now than it was in 1923, on the contrary it is considerably more so. We are now fully onto the bridge into a new world. We need to recognise that we are in a totally different relationship to the realities of which Rudolf Steiner spoke, and this fact reduces much of the polemical matter which still engages the attention of members to relative triviality.

I had to include these remarks before taking the crop-circle issue into a new phase which makes sense to people who, to one degree or another have come under the influence of Steiner’s life and times. What I have to say would not make much sense to people who, consciously or not, are still looking out on a world of accelerating apocalyptic events from an anthroposophism which is becoming ever less appropriate to the real situation. The tragedy is that so much of what has developed in the movement over the years is vitally needed by whole new generations of young people who are vividly aware of the events and the issues, many of them from an increasingly clairvoyant consciousness. It would be particularly helpful if these remarks evoked comment, whether critical or supportive, from experienced members of the society, so that an ongoing dialogue could develop round the suggestions which follow. From this point on I shall be addressing myself also to a wider audience. Some of these have already entered into the freedom of their own spiritual responsibility and authority. Others will do so in a world in which, unlike that in which anthroposophy developed, the paranormal will play an increasingly demanding part.

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Let us recapitulate. Materialism, Psychology, Mythology. In perspective we can see there an ascent from a physical, via a soul-natured, nearly as far as a spiritual, level of approach to the crop-circle phenomenon. But at the third stage there has been a hiccup, a down-grading. As so often before in human history, when finally faced with a threshold situation, people hesitate at the bridge and turn back. They may have abandoned the rationalist position, paid off their analyst, approached the threshold and then rushed in a panic to join a church, or nestle under a guru like baby chicks under a hen., anything to avoid waking up to the BIG ONE! If this sounds contemptuous or uncharitable we have to admit that we all do this at some stage. Moreover we have all needed to do it. At the same time we have to see that our karma is a reality. However unprepared we think we are to face the responsibility of spiritual authority and independence, we have all actually got to this point. We chose to incarnate at this moment in history where these are the problems humankind is faced with. In spite of this most of us still feel the need, if not to hold daddy’s hand, at least to know he is there. Thresholds are crossed alone, but we are also together with others in their loneliness. We slowly realise that the Father/Mother Being we have projected to guard our sanity as we wake from a sleep so deep that even dream can seem brilliant, this divine being is actually our higher self and has been there all along. And the one who wakes is also our higher self. We can call it our CHRIST-self. We are it.

Only this Being can in the last resort make sense of the paranormal events when we have thrown off the three consensus symptoms we have described in so much detail hitherto. Not Hoaxes. Not Plasma Vortices. Not Psycho-burping. Not even Sci-Fi Spacemen. Who then?

It seems to me that at this point if we are to take a further meaningful step we need a school of study. I spoke earlier of a ‘provisional critique’, a survey of where we have got to, not only with crop-circles but with the whole paranormal arena. I want to suggest a provisional curriculum for this school. The suggestions are more or less improvised out of worrying away at the question for several years, but as you will see at a certain moment I seem to have been judged ready to be given some help from a high source. This source is the being known in his Egyptian form as THOTH, but he is also familiar in an Old Testament version as ENOCH, and also in Greek times as HERMES. This will give anthroposophists a chance to judge the suggestions he has made out of their knowledge of these beings through Rudolf Steiner. However, this is for later. Meanwhile here is a provisional curriculum.

(1) Geometry

I had written this word as the heading for the first of these steps, not knowing which was to be the most important. Steiner was intensely grateful for the destiny of having had a wonderful geometry teacher as a boy. I found myself sharing his intense pain at having to translate his occult perceptions into modern terms in face of a huge barrage of scepticism and outright hostility, but equally in face of the supporters who would so often misunderstand. Suddenly I saw why Geometry was actually the most immediate strength we have in erecting our crop-circle critique. Crop-circles are almost incredibly, almost frighteningly geometrically exact. In a training school for paranormal studies geometry should be the first item in the curriculum. John Martineau has written an essential primer upon which to base it, and the course should certainly include his astronomical work as well. Why? Because crop-circles are beautiful, accurate, earth phenomena in a beautiful, accurate planetary system. The effect of having this as a prime item on the agenda would be to fortify and focus our minds in a quintessential way, (like champagne after a hangover!)

(2) Beings

Communication, two-way, between ourselves and entities in other dimensions is also a very different phenomenon from what it was in Steiner’s day. Vague mediumism, with opportunities for subversion by greedy low-grade entities, and sometimes more sinister consciousnesses with an eye on control, still exists. But the re-appearance of the CHRIST in the etheric aura of the Earth has also opened the door to guiding entities directly accessible to our seeking and recognisable by their attention to our spiritual freedom. At the same time communication with them can be mutually heart-based and as specific as our true needs require. Often they are to be found at the edge of our awareness nudging for attention, but never in an obtrusive way, and always at an appropriate point of immediate need. They are deeply concerned at our plight in a deteriorating world situation and are qualified to guide our steps constructively towards understanding and effective action. I have never found the help and companionship of these entities in any way in conflict with what I have learned through anthroposophy. There is a lot of very much needed help about, and if we are rightly seeking it, we are taken by it in an unthreatening way to a point where we can make a free conscious link with the planetary archetype and our own higher selves as its human counterpart. It is this which I have identified as the cosmic CHRIST entity, of which we are each hologrammatic versions. People who have rightly rejected the religious blackmail of sin and mediated atonement all their lives are increasingly able to throw off the fear-control of Jesu-ism and walk upright into the cosmic presence of their own true Being. There is a vast difference between these realities and the lies of political christianism, but the failure to recognise this difference cuts off large numbers of new-agers and others from insights which will be essential as the paranormal accelerates and gains ground. Without going through a process of purgation from religion-induced prejudice against these things we are in danger of cutting ourselves off from our own true being. This threatens to leave us in a very isolated position as we try to relate to the paranormal avalanche, crop-circles and all that is due to follow them, in ignorance of the immediate presence of those with whom we can share this process on both sides of the threshold.

It is Beings in this sense who speak through crop-circles and UFOs and we need daily help in discriminating between the usually helpful, but sometimes greedy and dangerous energies at work in these regions. We shall study who these Beings are.

(3) Time

It must have been apparent in all we have shared up to this point that paranormal events are a kind of overspill from a mounting necessity we feel to extend the whole of our experience of the world into new dimensions. The awesome presence and impact of a crop-circle in a cornfield has implications also for how we see the whole world we perceive as its context. What have we been looking at all our lives? Surrealism asked the same question, often in a much less healthy way. The preoccupation of children and film-makers with monsters touches the same nerve, but exploitatively, the dark side of the wonder.

More and more we begin to feel that something is calling to us out of another dimension than the spatial one. Not just ’the times are out of joint’, but the very nature of time is presenting another face to us. Past present and future no longer have the same clarity. They seem to merge. But a new clarity replaces them, the clarity of a more impactful, perhaps eternal, present.

There is a great deal in Steiner’s teaching to help us in this, and some may wish to look at this in some form. Although it is all summed up in his Foundation Stone Meditation, this is such a concentrated essence that it can take years for it to take hold, in a kind of sculptural way, of the inner geometry of your being. But some of the material upon which it is based, particularly in parts of his ‘Occult Science’ and even more in his 1909 lectures in Dusseldorf and Oslo (Christiania) on the Spiritual Hierarchies, lay out in a very deep and clear way the mighty ninefold structuring of the universe in time and space,originally perceived by the school of the ‘Areopagitica’ and shared with St Paul through Dionysius.

What we are concerned with here is that at the end of the last century something happened high up in these realms which quite visibly accounts for much of what is now going on in our immediate and direct experience of space and time. Although all this stuff has quite a new intimacy and accessibility to us here and now ninety years later, the way in which it entered Steiner’s consciousness at that time has an immediate impact still, a vast panorama of beings and events which can make many things comprehensible. Our immediate concern is what happened to the Being we call the Archangel MICHAEL, and what he then did . Here I have to oversimplify for the sake of the theme and sheer space! Oversimplification is not the same as trivialisation, but it can lead to that if we don’t keep focused, so I ask for your indulgence and concentration!

The Celestial Hierarchies, ( and please don’t confuse the use of the word hierarchy here with Alice Bailey’s use of the term. She was referring to ascending human masters. Dionysius the Areopagite was talking about descending cosmic creators). To repeat, the Celestial Hierarchies subsist in three ranks of three. This is inevitable since they spring directly from the ultimate divine Trinity. In each rank the three relate to each other in the same way, ’horizontally’ as it were. But they also relate in the same way ‘vertically’ to their corresponding Being in the rank below or above. Michael, as leader of the Archangels, has until recently occupied the middle position of the lowest rank, (lowest only in the sense of being most creatively deployed downwards into cosmic manifestation . Higher hierarchies by the same token are only higher in the sense that it is not their task to actualise their potential directly into creation. The middle hierarchy holds a kind of blueprint of the universe, while the highest, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, were, as it were, the venue in which the concept of a created universe originally arose. (It is difficult here to be simple without being trivial, but bear with me!)

To return to Michael, it is he who stands behind what manifested in the last hundred years as anthroposophy or spiritual science. Starting in the fifteenth century he gathered and focused the other hierarchical and human beings in the spiritual world who would be able to manifest a spiritual science four centuries later. Archangels have this special function of gathering, focusing, assembly. As a result of this deed he developed powers which led to his own evolution beyond the archangel function. He was, so to say, promoted. He moved along one on the lowest hierarchical rank. No longer limited to the archangel function he became an Arche, (plural Archai). Archai relate differently from Archangels to time and space. Archai are not time-spirits, monitors of time-periods as Archangels are, and as Michael has hitherto been. Archai actually ‘invented’ time! So in becoming an Arche Michael came into a position whereby, ‘millions of years’, ‘after’, the original ’invention’ of time he could start to alter its nature in conformity with the ongoing evolution of reality.

As time and space beings ourselves our whole nature has been, for nearly a century now, under the influence of these changes. Linear time has started to condense, to have less of a feeling of extension analogous to the extension of space. To be more ‘present’ to us. Both our past and our future have become more accessible to us. Neither history nor prophecy have any longer the same fixed character. Accessibility brings a measure of control, which dark beings exploit,(Montauk, HAARP), and light beings expand into cosmic creativity. Innocence in humankind takes another vast step in the direction of intuitive knowledge.

Star Realms

I once gave a lecture at Santa Barbara in California on a subject which referred in passing to the literature current at that time which indicated that a new generation of children was being born on the planet which was being referred to as Star-children. I had read some of the books concerned and found them very moving, full of hope that we were being joined through ordinary birth channels by beings from other planetary systems who were deeply concerned for the plight of Earth and wished to participate in our problems in a helpful manner from within.

After the lecture two members of the audience came up with the hostess and told me that to the best of their belief their little boy was such a star-child, and would I be interested to meet him. Exceptional children are often the object of fantasies to their parents, but they are also lovely to meet, so for everyone’s sake I said "yes". So the following morning round they came, and little Miguel aged five was brought into the living room while the adults went out into the garden He moved quietly round the room picking up crystals, but he was clearly aware of me sitting there, so I overcame my shyness and quietly said, "Hullo, Miguel, are you into hugs?" He leapt across the room, and I was enclosed in a five-year old embrace which dissolved all my tension. Whether he was a Star-child or not he had a natural talent for relating which left me without responsibility for what happened next.

I had to leave to catch a plane, and Miguel/s parents offered me a lift to the airport. Miguel sat on the back seat busy with crayons and paper. I felt it was now or never, so I leaned over my seat and said :- "Miguel, I have to go in an aeroplane now so I shan’t see you again. Do you remember what it was like when you came from the stars?" He put down his crayons and moved across to me with eyes shining and said in what I remember as a wholly adult intonation:- "I didn’t come through space. I came through time. It was wonderful". I still don’t know for certain to this day whether this actually happened physically or not, and in any case I was crying the rest of the way to the airport. The event remains in my memory as vividly as it did eleven years ago, and much of my life of imagination since that day relates to it. Miguel was still crayonning as the car pulled away.

I tell this story because with all the space-literature and movements of all kinds, not to speak of Star-wars, ‘Beam-me-up-Scotty’ and all the rest of it, one is pretty much at a loss without some sort of yardstick for where inner experience ends and outer paranormal experience begins. Sooner or later in these accelerating times one meets all sorts of extraordinary events and people, and I’m quite sure that an open heart in harmonious alliance with a clear head is the only sound guide when it comes to assessing whether the experiences one has and relates to others are opening doors to truth or perpetuating illusions. To me Miguel was utterly real. So were three occasions when I saw powerful manifestations of lights in the sky, two of which were shared with others.

It is because of these yardstick experiences that when I relate the conceptual pictures I have shared of Geometry, Beings, Time, and now Star-realms to one another and to crop-circles, I have an expectancy that portals of a multi-dimensional nature are about to open through the crop-circle phenomenon. Also that all these signs and wonders are forms of training and preparation, so that when it really comes to the crunch we have open hearts and clear heads and will be every day more sure-footed in distinguishing reality from illusion. This we will most certainly need when we come to judging how to follow the suggestions of Thoth, since some of the concepts he introduces of the nature of UFOs and their connection with crop-circles are at least as difficult as Steiner’s concepts when they were first introduced There is also a distinct feeling that anthroposophists will be able to link Thoth’s concepts very accurately with Steiner’s, of whom Thoth has a clear vision and for whom he has a profound respect. So it is time now to start to introduce some of Thoth’s concepts and suggestions for how to proceed in our next steps for relating in a sound way to the paranormal.

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