Atlantean mysteries

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The Atlantean mysteries, of which there is no external tradition, had their centres in the seven great Atlantean oracle sites, which were located in spiritually and geographically excellent places under the influence of the seven planetary forces. They were at the same time initiation and oracle sites. The greatest and most sublime mystery site, which guided all others, was the ancient sun oracle. The spiritual teachers of these great Atlantean initiation sites were not yet human beings, but higher spiritual beings. At that time, most people still had a dim clairvoyance through which they could receive the gifts of these teachers, but they had a still barely developed capacity for judgement of their own. The people in whom this faculty of judgement had already awakened most strongly were selected at the sinking of Atlantis under the guidance of Manu, who led the solar oracle, and led first to the vicinity of present-day Ireland and then on to Asia in the region of the Tarim Basin, in order to establish the post-Atlantean culture from here.

„Just as today the outer knowledge and the fields of acquisition and occupation of outer life are differentiated into individual branches of knowledge and departments, so it was in ancient Atlantis in the spiritual life of the Atlantean oracles and their places of wisdom. There were different branches of oracle research, of occult knowledge in ancient Atlantis. Unlike today, it was then also dependent on other conditions. The ancient oracle wisdom was different in the individual oracle sites, depending on the ability of the people of that time. It was based on what surrounded the person externally. There were connections between certain human abilities and certain planets; and so certain mystical-occult abilities were linked to certain planets. We have therefore to distinguish in ancient Atlantis a Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn oracle.“ (Lit.:GA 109, p. 142f)

„The teachers of the old Atlantean school of adepts were not yet human beings, but beings higher than human beings. They had completed their evolution on earlier planets. And they, who were there from old planetary evolutions, taught the mysteries of the spirit to a select little crowd. In the Mysteries of the Son, the Christ Himself appeared in person as a teacher on special occasions: thus also a teacher who was not human, but God. Only those who become teachers in the Mysteries of the Father will be human beings. Such people, who have developed faster than the rest of humanity, will then be the true masters of wisdom and harmony. They are called the Fathers. In the Father Mysteries, the leadership of humanity passes from beings who have descended from other worlds into the hands of human beings themselves. That is the significant thing.“ (Lit.:GA 97, p. 131)

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.
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Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
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Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
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steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
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