Mercury

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Mercury in natural colours, at the approach of the Messenger space probe.
Size comparison between Mercury (left) and Earth.

Mercury (Hebrew: כוכב Kawkab; ancient Egyptian Sebeg; astronomical sign: ☿) - similar to Venus - only detached itself from the Earth and Sun after the separation of the latter. Similar to Venus, certain retarded Luciferic Spirits of Form created a dwelling place for themselves here that was appropriate to their level of development, which contained finer substances than the Earth, but less fine ones than the Sun. It should be noted that with the transition to the Copernican system, Venus and Mercury were interchanged in the order of the planets (see → Occult order of planets).

„Mercury is at certain times equally drying and receptive of moisture, because it is never far from the heat of the Sun, and at other times moistening again, because it is nearest above the sphere of the Moon, which is nearest to the Earth. It changes rapidly from one to the other, inspired, as it were, by the rapidity of its motion in the neighbourhood of the sun itself.“

– Claudius Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos, Book I, The Power of the Planets

The second half of the Earth's evolution, in which we have stood since the middle of the Atlantean period, is closely connected with Mercury's forces. Many initiates are therefore Mercury initiates in order to promote this development.

Mercury beings

Plate 9 (Lit.:GA 243, p. 157)
Planetary seal of Mercury

Mercury beings are the stimulators of the intellectual or mind soul (Lit.: GA 98, p. 198, GA 102, p. 59f). The Mercury sphere delimits the dominion of the Archangels. The leading Archangel is Raphael. However, only supersensually perceptible human-like beings live also on Mercury. In the afterlife, man comes into their realm after he has passed through the Kamaloka (purgatory) - and thus the lunar sphere.

„On Mercury dwell beings similar to human beings, but they do not know death. The life of Mercury beings proceeds in such a way that such a transition is only like a transformation, just as we change our body between birth and death. Thus the souls of Mercury beings live when they put on their spiritual bodies and lose them again, but they do not know death.“ (Lit.:GA 98, p. 186)

„If we call this our world (see drawing, light), then by developing other states of consciousness we come respectively into other worlds. Let us suppose, then, that we develop that state of consciousness which we must have in order to enter the world into which we can follow the dead immediately in the years after their death. I will characterise this world by drawing it (yellow) abutting our world here. We would then, if we were to develop the next state of consciousness, the state of consciousness through which we enter further into that life which the dead person then enters after he has completed the path backwards, and which I have called the state of empty but waking consciousness in relation to the physical world. There we would enter into another world (red), into this world where, for example, man comes together very particularly with the Mercury beings, with those happenings, with those facts which lie in the sphere of Raphael in the sense characterised yesterday. In this sphere one learns above all to know the healing powers of human nature.“ (Lit.:GA 243, p. 157f)

„Then one also knew that one can only learn about the nature of diseases, which corresponds to the truth, when the truth comes from the Mercury beings; therefore all healing, all medical knowledge, was the secret of certain Mysteries, the Mercury Mysteries. There it was really so in such mysteries that not a human being stood there, as in the universities of today, but that actually higher beings from the star regions worked through the cultus that was customary at these mysteries. The gods themselves were the teachers of men, and medicine was that knowledge of wisdom in ancient human times which was brought directly to men by the Mercury beings in the Mysteries; therefore this ancient medicine was also regarded by men as a gift of the Divine. Basically, all that is fruitful in medicine today is either derived from ancient times, an after-effect of that which was experienced from the gods of Mercury, or else it must be found again through those methods which instruct man to have contact with the gods, to be able to learn from the gods.“ (Lit.:GA 239, p. 94)

See also

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

References


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