Tabla de contenidos para January 2019 en PEARL

Arouse your spirit, and begin to think and speak in a far-seeing and comprehensive way! This naturally also demands that you not only work with the intellect, which belongs to coarsest matter, but also make it possible once more for your spirit to guide your intellect, which should serve the spirit as ordained by your Creator, Who from the very beginning has permitted you to come undistorted into existence here on earth. We are entering an era of the new, the new in terms of the reality that is emerging in the wake of the shadowy existence that has dominated human life on earth for millennia. The shadow cast for so long as a result of the domination of the intellect over the human condition, which…

The soul has been thought of since time immemorial as an animating, self-bestirring principle, as the vital core of what constitutes a human being. But much as it is still talked about in the modern age, there is no picture with a clear understanding, suggesting that it might in the overuse have become wearily outdated. It is now often substituted by the concept of the self, attributed to the capability of self-esteem and rational thinking, of having plans for the future, communicating with others, and so on. The self is a concept that rounds up description of the modern human being. Yet for some reason we are unwilling to do without the term ‘soul’. Why is this? While, for example, the concept of the soul together with what we usually…

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Work – a demand for constant development ‘Everything you do not use zealously in the right way must gradually become stunted and lost to you! Automatic adjustment is nothing but the consequence of the Law of Movement in Creation. This is only one of its many-sided effects. That which does not move in the right manner, and naturally also that which is not always kept in the necessary movement, must degenerate and be finally discarded altogether, also from every gross material form; for each form is shaped only in accordance with the kind of movement.’ In the Light of Truth – The Grail Message (Lecture: At the Boundary of Gross Matter) by Abd-rushin (Oskar Ernst Bernhardt 1875–1941) In an ideal situation, the rights and duties of the professions provide constant…

In an unchanging rhythm our everyday life rolls on. The only interruptions in this never-ending stream are Sundays, and these are largely still degraded to the everyday grind and not used for self-reflection and taking stock of one’s life. The words ‘everyday life’ or ‘workaday life’ or even worse, ‘the daily grind’, evoke in us feelings such as loathing or antipathy, dullness, and sometimes even disgust and despair. The colour grey best describes this drab existence and it permeates everything: the blank, expressionless faces, the robotic demeanour lacking any empathy or engagement and the grey uniformity of our urban surroundings. Even cars today tend to be shades of white or grey. Given these facts, we wonder why and for what purpose we actually live. Does such a life that consists…

Who is it?’ she called. Her voice was irritable, for she had been interrupted often since the music began. She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously. But when she listened into the receiver, her white face wrinkled into smiles, and she said: ‘Very well. Let us talk, I will isolate myself. I do not expect anything important will happen for the next five minutes – for I can give you fully five minutes, Kuno. Then I must deliver my lecture on “Music during the Australian Period”.’ She touched the isolation knob, so that no one else could speak to her. Then she touched the lighting apparatus, and the little room was plunged into darkness. What is it, dearest boy? Be quick. Why could you…