Spirits of Form

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The Spirits of Form, also called Exusiai (Greek ἐξουσίαι), Elohim (Hebrew אלהים), Potestates (Lat.) or Powers, have already passed through their stage of humanity before the beginning of the old Saturnian evolution. The dominion of the Exusiai extends to the solar sphere. Their name derives from the fact that they are the creators and sustainers of the fixed physical forms. Rudolf Steiner also calls them Revelations (Lit.:GA 102, p. 149). They are those spiritual forces which shape the spatial out of the spaceless and guide the spiritual forces out of eternity into temporal development. (Lit.:GA 184, p. 207ff)

„The name of the sacred powers, which stand on the same level with the divine dominions and powers, signifies, as I believe, the well-ordered and unconfused harmony in the reception of the divine and the fixedness of the supramundane and spiritual position of power, which does not abuse the powers flowing from the power with tyrannical arbitrariness to inferior ends, but invincibly ascends to the divine in beautiful order and kindly guides the lower beings upwards, which resembles the violence-creating original source of violence as far as possible and radiates it most powerfully to the angels according to the well-ordered stages of the power flowing out of violence.“

– Dionysius Areopagita: Celestial Hierarchy, 8th chapter[1]

Due to their level of development, a planetary existence is no longer sufficient for their further development and they therefore chose the sun as their place of residence. Sun and earth have therefore been divorced from each other. They weave in the sunlight, which is why Rudolf Steiner also calls them light spirits ((Lit.: {{{1}}}) e.g. GA 98, p. 229, GA 102, p. 149, GA 103, p. 53, GA 104, p. 122), and bring the meeting forces of the thrones and the dynameis to rest in the solid forms of the earth's surface, thus decisively shaping the face of the earth.

As Elohim, they are identical with the Creator Gods spoken of in the Bible. They direct and guide earthly development from the sun. Yahweh, one of the seven Elohim, later took up residence on the moon in order to guide further human development from here. This led to the separation of earth and moon in the Lemurian period.

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  1. ↑ Dionysius Areopagita: Himmlische Hierarchie. Aus dem Griechischen übersetzt von Josef Stiglmayr. (Bibliothek der Kirchenväter, 1. Reihe, Band 2) München 1911, S. 47
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