Sixth Main Age
The sixth main age, also called the sixth root race according to outdated theosophical usage in Rudolf Steiner's early writings and lectures, will follow our post-Atlantean age, which will end around 7893 AD. The separation of the spirits into a good and an evil "race", as described by John in the Apocalypse, will then be complete. The term "race" or "root race" is to be used here, however, only in an inauthentic sense[1]. In the war of all against all, our post-Atlantean epoch will perish and the time of the 7 seals will begin. When the 6th seal will be opened, John reports, the Earth will reunite with the Moon and humanity will pass into the ethereal state:
„12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.“
On ancient Lemuria, when the Moon left the Earth, man entered the physical Earth; in the sixth main age, when the Moon will rejoin the Earth body, he may leave it again. Then will arise the sealed hundred and forty-four thousand who bear the seal of the formative life-forces on their foreheads, and the great multitude in the white robes, the etheric humanity, will appear:
„9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”“
Then, as far as the regularly advanced part of humanity is concerned, the unique humanity beyond all races, peoples and individual egoisms will be realised, an ethereal humanity of angel-like purity.
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen, GA 53 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-0532-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Tempellegende und die Goldene Legende , GA 93 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-0930-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Theosophie des Rosenkreuzers, GA 99 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-0990-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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References
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner has repeatedly pointed out that the term "race" is actually no longer justified in the post-Atlantean time, since now it is no longer the physical but the soul-spiritual development that comes to the fore. The division of humanity into races will gradually be completely overcome. For the so-called 6th and 7th "root race" the designation is quite misleading, since humanity will then already have completely discarded the physical body. The terms "root race" and "subrace" still originate from the terminology used by the Theosophical Society at that time and were later hardly ever used by Rudolf Steiner (Lit.:GA 99, p. 144).
