Michael (archangel)
Michael (Hebrew: מיכאל; Arabic: ميكائيل/ميكا "Mika'il/Mikaal"; in English: "Who is like God?") is the fourth of the four leading Archangels and carries the flaming sword. He is the defeater of Satan and weighs the souls on the Day of Judgement. Fire is his element, his colour is red. According to the Catholic view, he stands in the East before the Throne of God. The solar sphere is Michael's spiritual home and to promote the Earth's development in the service of the Christ in such a way that the human I can unfold as richly as possible is his main task. In his capacity as dragon vanquisher, Saint George corresponds to him.
„The fourth, who contains within himself the powers of the others and adds his own power, radiates his light from the East in rose-coloured hue and golden radiance. It guides and directs the development of the earth and therefore works into the future. He is called by the name of Michael, a sublime, victorious figure who bears the qualities of the other three. Thus the four mighty archangels stand there and guide the processes of the world. Each of them is connected with one of the four limbs in man, for in each of the planetary states one of these limbs was developed in the disposition. The fourth directs the formation of the human ego. It is most intimately connected with humanity and is the direct servant of the mighty Sun Spirit.“ (Lit.:GA 265, p. 337)
Literature
- Johannes W. Schneider: Michael - und seine Verehrung im Abendland, Rudolf-Geering-Verlag, Goetheanum, Dornach 1981
- Aus Michaels Wirken. Eine Legendensammlung von Nora Stein von Baditz mit Betrachtungen von Ita Wegman und einem Beitrag von Herbert Hahn, J. Ch. Mellinger Vlg. Stuttgart, 1988 (1929), ISBN 3880690049
- Flensburger Hefte Nr. 26: Michael, Flensburger Hefte Vlg., Flensburg 1989, Inhaltsverzeichnis
- D. Johannes Tamayo Salazar: Gotische Hymne auf den Erzengel Michael, aus: Anamesis sive commemoratio Sanctorum hispanorum, Tome III, Lugduni 1655, Übersetzung von Joachim Schultz, Verlag Walter Keller, o.J.
- Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophische Leitsätze. Der Erkenntnisweg der Anthroposophie - Das Michael-Mysterium, GA 26, 1998 (1924/25), ISBN 3-7274-0260-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Vorstufen zum Mysterium von Golgatha , GA 152 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-1520-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Sendung Michaels. Die Offenbarung der eigentlichen Geheimnisse des Menschenwesens, Zwölf Vorträge, Dornach 21. November bis 15. Dezember 1919, GA 194, Dornach 1994, als Taschenbuch TB 737 ISBN 3727473703
- Rudolf Steiner: Weltsylvester und Neujahrsgedanken, GA 195, Dornach 1986
- Rudolf Steiner: Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier großen Festeszeiten, GA 223 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-2231-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Michael-Imagination. Geistige Meilenzeiger im Jahreslauf, Ein Vortrag, gehalten in Stuttgart am 15. Oktober 1923, Einzelausgabe aus GA 229, Dornach 1980
- Rudolf Steiner: Mysterienstätten des Mittelalters, GA 233a (1991), ISBN 3-7274-2335-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der erkenntniskultischen Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule von 1904 bis 1914, GA 265 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2650-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zu Goethes «Faust», Band I: Faust, der strebende Mensch , GA 272 (1981) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken, V, GA 346 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-3460-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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