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FMC00.694 is a meta study schema that brings together various perspectives (1) to (6) related to the changes in human consciousness and humanity's path from old to new wisdom (or Sophia) before and after the Mystery of Golgotha. The Schema covers a lot of ground, and is an example of how this can be used to structure and guide one's study approach by exploring the perspectives offered through study of the specific schemas and quotes. To approach this, first

below: (1) are two text lecture extracts with as central key the 'mother', as in the phrase 'behold your mother' from John's gospel 19:26-27. These excerpts are deliberately taken from other contexts (left: description of Wagner's Parsifal opera, and right: on Manicheism) to show how consistent the key teachings from spiritual science come back and are covered from various contexts and perspectives.

With 'mother' is meant the divine wisdom called Sophia, when in ancient times human beings had an atavistic clairvoyance inspired by the Third Hierarchy; as depicted by the infographic lower left. Later, through the development of the human 'I' and the 'descent of the cosmic intelligence' into Man (shown in the middle), the spiritual hierarchies withdrew and the human soul was widowed.

The Mystery of Golgotha brought about a 'reversal', from descent to ascent and spiritualization, from blood-based to spiritual love. John has to take to himself (and explain, as the scribe of Christ-Jesus) the 'mother', the new divine wisdom through the MoG, to be regained in a new way. This links to the Gospel of John as an initiation document, and the rosecrucian teachings from the impulse of Christian Rosenkreutz. The old divine wisdom dies when the human being gains the personal I, Man has lost the 'mother' (wisdom in the soul), an emptiness also described on Schema FMC00.183 ... but has not yet received the new divine wisdom and must first attain it. (1914-12-06-GA246).

left: (2) the polarity between the Southern and Northern mysteries describe, on the one hand the southern stream with outer knowledge of the macrocosmos and spiritual beings - the last known version of which was gnosis and gnostic teachings; and on the other hand the northern stream with inner knowledge of Man and the Earth. These perspectives relate to Christ as a spiritual being and Jesus as the human being, but also to different spiritual influences on Man, a polarity described (see below) through magi and shepherds (see Schema FMC00.695)

middle - grey horizontal bar: transformation of faculty of cognition. As context: over the millenia of the dark age or kali yuga the the ancient atavistic clairvoyance was lost, also as Man’s constitution and nervous system changed (o.a. ancient greek did not see blue, cosmic storm in 15^th century, Man’s new organ, ..).

Rudolf Steiner discusses (3) the changes in faculties of cognition before and after the MoG in the lectures of 1920-12-GA202 (23th to 26th). In these lectures the ‘state of soul’ and cognitive faculties are described with the polarity of magi and shepherds (which links to (2) above) and the 'reversal' that came with the Mystery of Golgotha. From the current situation of waking consciousness, future development is described towards a 'new clairvoyance' and wisdom, through conscious cognition of the astral and spirit worlds, see stages of clairvoyance (imagination and inspiration). See also Schema FMC00.617A.

In context of remembrance (between the third and fifth cultural ages) Rudolf Steiner (4) then describes this development as the search of a 'new Isis' or Sophia wisdom. That is: the recreation of the ancient Egyptian legend of Isis (the killed Osiris was sought by Isis) from the third cultural age, but for the context the current fifth cultural age (where Isis-Sophia has been killed by Lucifer (Ahriman)).

On the side, note that the 'new Isis' idea already appeared in 1918-01-17-GA180 in the context of describing the Representative of humanity statue.

Above: the picture (5) is based on Schema FMC00.054, a blackboard drawing (BBD) by Rudolf Steiner; of which variant Schema FMC00.054A provides the key explanatory text annotations from the lecture, which also describes the above in a nutshell. See also the related Schema FMC00.612 (not shown). Importantly, the new wisdom will have a moral component which is missing from the current contemporary consciousness and mineral science, with huge implications for human civilization.

Last, and essential for each human being, note that (6) whereas in ancient ages the cognitive development process was 'outside-in', the new and future process is 'inside-out'. In the language of the grail, the ancient pagan mysteries relate to the Arthur stream (outside-in, nature and spiritual world to Man, also external initiators) whereas Parsifal is the symbol of the new inside-out approach (Man's inside connects to spiritual world, self-initiation) - as depicted with the pictograms from Schema FMC00.380. See also the words in italic in the text box lower right (quoted by RS from 1904-GA010 Ch 2).

In summary (grey boxes under the BBD): the old wisdom Sophia was lost, humanity is now going through a interim phase, but future moral wisdom will be developed by Man through his inner path and connection with the spiritual, a path and work consciously chosen by Man out of freedom and the consciousness soul. This is the path of the spirit-self towards the 'Christ in me' life-spirit. Hence the quote: "initiation is the only possibility for the further progress of humanity" (1920-01-17-GA196).