Michaelic guardian angel

Blackboard drawing for GA 237, p. 144 (plate 7)

Michaelic guardian angels can be described as guardian angels who accompany a person to the next incarnations, who is deeply seized in his spirit and soul by a spiritual striving in the sense of anthroposophical spiritual science. His guiding angel must thereby learn something himself through which he can rise higher. Angels who are connected with people without such spiritual striving, on the other hand, sink down. Thus, through the spiritual activity or inactivity of man, occurs a separation of spirits in the world of the angeloi.

„Let us take the case that karma lies in such a way that some personality is now seized by the anthroposophical impulses in the very most eminent sense, is seized with heart and mind, I would like to say, with spirit and soul. Then, yes, then something is necessary which sounds decidedly strange, paradoxical; but it is necessary: then his angel must learn something. And that, you see, is something tremendously significant. The fate of the anthroposophists, which takes place between anthroposophists and non-anthroposophists, throws its waves into the world of the Angeloi. This leads to a separation of spirits in the world of the Angeloi. The Angel who accompanies the Anthroposophist to the next incarnations learns to find his way deeper into the spiritual realms than he was able to do before. And the Angel who belongs to the other, who cannot enter at all, sinks down. And it is first shown in the fate of the Angeloi how the great divorce happens. It is now the case - and this is something, my dear friends, to which I would like to draw your hearts' attention - that out of a relatively unified kingdom of the Angeloi there arises a kingdom of the Angeloi divided into two, a kingdom of the Angeloi with an ascending course to higher worlds and with a descending course to lower worlds. While here on earth the formation of the Michael-community is taking place, we can look above what is taking place here as Michael-community, ascending Angeloi (see drawing, yellow), descending Angeloi (green).“ (Lit.:GA 237, p. 143f)

See also

• Angel
• Guardian angel

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Esoterische Betrachtungen karmischer Zusammenhänge. Dritter Band, GA 237 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-2370-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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