Mystery of the Heart
Opening quotes
If Christ be born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in you, you remain in eternal perdition. (Angelus Silesius)
Introduction
Steiner refers to how the apostle Lazarus-John describes how he raised from the bosom to the breast and heart region of Christ Jesus.
This symbolizes the higher etheric forces of the Christ Impulse raising from the Earth spirit and ennobling the heart.
In the heart we see three things coming together, a blood circuit with the brain and all sense impressions (and related thinking) that are being absorbed and worked in the human being, a blood circuit with the metabolic organs and physical matter (food stuffs) that are converted in the human being, and in the middle the breathing system with the lungs that balances both with the famous rhythm between breathing and blood pulse (seo heart rhythm) .. in a nutshell we see the essence of Man as a threefold human being not just symbolized but operating in the blood (and I-organization) and coming together in the heart .. not surprisingly then also seen as the center and karma recorder in lectures so and so
.. in the above we should not forget to see the human being not just as a physical being breathing air through the lungs, but a microcosmos connected and integrally part of the macrocosmos, breathing through its skin pores and higher bodily principles (etheric, astral bodies and I organization) and taking in also the higher ethers in the finer breathing process
one cannot understand the mystery of the heart without deep knowledge of the threefold human being - imagination of how Man stands between past and futurethat is because the heart connects the two blood circuits of the two extreme pulsating systems, and the middle rhythmic system balances thisnow into this heart with two blood circuits and sensory inputs from the nervous system above, and the metabolic process below .. is 'infused' the breathing system .. however this breathing is more than just air
fifth chamber?
now contemplate this picture and realize that when the apostle rises from the lap to the bosom, the lap is the lower part of the human being .. reflect back on lemurian times when this was the animal lower part of Man, as we also find it back in the Centaur
Process of cosmic breathing
here with breathing we mean all we take in not just breath but also through our senses .. it's the total system of the two blood circuits plus the breathing with the lungs for this we need to widen our view and regard the fact we have a continuous intake of the etheric streams File:Breathing.jpg
Related pages
References and further reading
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer 'The Heart Lectures'
- Peter Selg 'The Mystery of the Heart'
