Moses

Moses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tomb (1505-1545) for Julius II, San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome)

Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁ֔ה Mosheh, Greek: Μωϋσῆς, Μωσῆς Mō(y)sēs, Arabic مُوسَى Mūsā, Yiddish: Moische) is the prophet of Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, appearing in the 5 Books of Moses, and the leader of the people of Israel on their migration from slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land (Exodus from Egypt, circa 13th century BC). The Jews celebrate this liberation from captivity every year with the festival of Pesach. In Islam, Moses (Musa) is considered an important prophet; especially the story of his confrontation with the Pharaoh and his court magicians appears frequently in the Koran.

According to Rudolf Steiner, Moses had been a disciple of Zarathustra in an earlier incarnation, together with Hermes. He was initiated into the mysteries of time and had been given the etheric body of Zarathustra for the fulfilment of his mission for his new earthly life as Moses. This enabled him to look back with spiritual senses on the history of creation to the time when the earth had separated from the sun.

The depiction of Moses with two horns in some older Christian works of art (as here in Michelangelo's depiction) goes back to a spelling mistake in the Latin Bible (cornuta, horned, instead of coronata, crowned). The corona, the halo, points to Moses' clairvoyant abilities. But the depiction with the two horns is also quite justified from a spiritual-scientific point of view, because they are a reference to the two-petalled lotus flower, which was strongly developed as Moses' clairvoyant organ.