Michael Imagination

The Michael Imagination given by Rudolf Steiner describes how the image of Michael, who casts down the Ahrimanic dragon, forms before the imaginative gaze from the cosmos.

At the time of St. John, the sulphur process in man is particularly strong. Man becomes inwardly luminous, especially the nervous organisation. While the sulphur phantom thus shines, the ahrimanic powers, closely related to the sulphurising substances, approach.

The iron forces in the blood, which show themselves macrocosmically in the meteorite swarms that rain down at the end of August, act as a remedy against the fear-spreading ahrimanic powers. The iron phantom of the blood causes a de-scaring. The imagination of Michael lights up, who with the power flowing from his heart melts the meteorite swarms into an iron sword and thus defeats the ahrimanic sulphur dragon:

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Das Miterleben des Jahreslaufes in vier kosmischen Imaginationen, GA 229 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-2290-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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