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Dear friends, until now I have kept rather quiet about Judith Von Halle and her work because I have been doing my own independent research trying to understand her condition and her destiny and, though I feel a deep compassion for her, I have come to these conclusions, which I would like to share with you at this time because of recent attacks on Sergei Prokofieff by supporters of Judith Von Halle here on Facebook and also outside in the wider world.In my independent estimation, Sergei Prokofieff is correct in his conclusions about Judith von Halle's work. Her work is not Anthroposophical in its very essence and in many ways it is counter Anthroposophical and I will now give some indications why, here, which I will hopefully be in a position to elaborate in the future. This is therefore a work in progress.This is my overarching view:Anthroposophy as it was given to the world by Rudolf Steiner, can be grasped by a healthy, sound intellect and reasoning as he says, and there is a reason for this. It is because its roots lie in clear thinking which has become transformed into spirit vision. It is, for this reason, not subjective but it is in its very essence, objective.What is subjectivity and objectivity in esoteric terms?Firstly, a subjective spiritual experience occurs when there is an entering into the physical organs to experience the spiritual world - physical lungs, kidneys, stomach etc -in effect the will. In the past, this inner sentience that used a physical organ as a window into the spirit was a legitimate way for accessing the spiritual world because the intellect was not yet formed. Initiations were conducted by a priest dulling the consciousness of an acolyte allowing the acolyte to descend into the underworld, into his organs. Mediumistic experiences, hypnotism, mesmerism are a relic of this past initiation method and they all rely on old soul forces which are in decline since the advent of the clear thought and particularly since the advent of the consciousness of modern times, which would have our will light up in us as a conscious experience.The dangers of using such methods which lower the consciousness are based on the fact that any dulling of consciousness is immediately seized by adversarial powers. We must not mistake a dulled consciousness for unconsciousness - one may be experiencing a dullness while thinking one is completely awake - television and movies computer games etc all create conditions for a dulled consciousness - in this case the visions are created for us. The adversarial powers basically tear away these unconscious visions we create or others create for us - and with them parts of our soul are taken away to expand their 'eighth sphere'.That is the danger.One can always tell these visions from true visions because of their very strong connection to the physical world. They are bright visions which are usually like a mirror image of the world - they resemble the physical world. This is so because the one having the visions has them by using a physical organ. In JVH's case organs of digestion used as organs for visionary clairvoyance, may become unable to do their normal work - hence one is unable to digest food. This is far more complicated but I don't have time to go into it all here.According to Rudolf Steiner visionary experiences along these lines come from an abnormal and diseased connection of the physical body to the etheric body - a binding of the etheric body with the physical body in which the Astral body participates as far as the Sentient soul, but not the conscious ego in the intellect.Hence the stigmata. The binding of etheric and physical.An objective clairvoyant experience on the other hand occurs when there is a loosening of the etheric body, the light body, away from the physical body and a binding of the soul (astral body) in the sense of a controlling it by the conscious ego. The ego is always in the physical body awake, during true visions, while the astral organs enable the etheric body to push out of the self into the world to experience the spirit. That is why this is called objective.These visions of the spiritual world are, for this reason, less spectacular, and they are usually 'complements' of the physical world not mirrors. That is how one can tell a true spiritual experience from a visionary experience. A person who sees the spiritual world in this way is always FULLY awake in their thinking and connected to all their physical sense impressions but added to these are higher ones. And since the true experience is not connected with a person's diseased physical organs but a spiritual organ created from the spiritualisation of thinking they are capable of verification by using clear thinking.The differences are then:Visionary clairvoyance relies on an entering of a dulled ego consciousness into a diseased physical organ. This happens because the organ has formed an abnormal alliance with the soul. This is subjective because the dulled consciousness cannot discern what belongs to the soul (desires etc) and what belongs to the spiritual world. This atavistic visionary capability requires no moral training. It cannot be penetrated by clear thinking because no thinking is required in order to have it, rather the will is seized by a dull consciousness. For this reason its descriptions can, if we try to pierce them with clear thought, make us uncomfortable.True modern clairvoyance occurs when the consciousness is lifted out of the physical organs while still maintaining an ego consciousness in the physical body. This is objective because one can discern what belongs to the self and what belongs to the spiritual world by the time one has achieved clairvoyance through this method since it requires a level of conscious moral training. These experiences can be penetrated by using clear thinking because they come by way of a spiritualisation of thinking.As Anthroposophy is a way to achieving a consciousness of the spirit by way of the second approach - the objective approach, one can see that the former, subjective approach is counter to what Anthroposophy teaches.I have come to these conclusions quite independently and I rely on no outer authority, but my own spiritual work and investigations and I offer them insofar as they might stimulate your thinking to find its own conclusions.I also feel a great compassion for JVH. The most terrible thing in all of this is that some Anthroposophists have, unfortunately, taken a diseased past state and confused it with a healthy future state and compounded her illness. This sad situation has led to a grave danger not only for JVH but for Anthroposophy should it be associated with her visions, because such an association might lead to the seizure of the soul of the inspiring being of Anthroposophy by the adversarial powers which can then be taken to the 8th Sphere.Sergei O Prokofieff is quite right in equating the inspiration for such visionary clairvoyance with black magic, because it works below the level of consciousness in those who become bedazzled by it.JVH and her supporters certainly have a right to express themselves in the world, but in my estimation not as Anthroposophists.If you read the lectures below you will see how there this danger is clearly outlined by Rudolf Steiner himself.http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA254/English/RSP1973/19151010p01.html
Dear Friends,Following from our discussions on sense free thinking, I thought I would propose a study of the dangers of Visionary Clairvoyance as are expressed very clearly by Rudolf Steiner in this lecture. It is a lecture, I believe, that should be read and understood in our times. We do speak about materialism quite a lot but we often don't realise that materialism can come by way of Clairvoyance and that is is even more dangerous than materialism that we can see and judge as material! I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter after reading this lecture.http://wn.rsarchive.org/.../English/RSP1973/19151018p01.html'Indications of a path into the spiritual world must not be given blindly, above all not as the result of rapturous fanaticism. That is why the exhortation has again and again had to be made among you, my dear friends, that it is urgently necessary not to allow yourselves to be duped by what leads to the Eighth Sphere. And if again and again it has been said that more caution should be exercised in the domain of visionary clairvoyance, that validity should be ascribed only to that clairvoyance which, in leading into the higher worlds, excludes Lucifer and Ahriman — then it will be seen that everything capable of bringing the soul into connection with the Eighth Sphere must be rejected. If the tendency to shackle the free will and remain in the domain of visionary clairvoyance comes into evidence time and again, this is a sign that opposition is being put in the way of the clear-cut endeavour of our Movement, owing to the propensity to fetter the free will in visionary clairvoyance.How happy some people would have been if only they could have shackled the free will! This was a symptom of how many of the traits prevailing in the other Movements spoken of here were being imported into our own Movement. It was not from Blavatsky, nor was it from outside, but by our Members themselves that breaches were constantly being made in what it is our aim to achieve. Such breaches were and are being made because announcements of visionary clairvoyants are greeted with rapturous wonder! This was an expression of perverse love for the Eighth Sphere. When one or another person has insisted: Dr. Steiner has said that such and such ought to be done, then this means that such and such a person wants to deliver up the free will to foreign influence, to let this will be determined, not by himself, but by someone else; he wants to make someone else responsible for instilling into the physical world a willingness to allow the free will to be fettered. Whenever people give way to fatalism instead of making decisions through their own power of judgment, they show their inclination to the Eighth Sphere. And everything that passes in this way into the Eighth Sphere disappears from Earth evolution, does not go forward in the right way with Earth evolution.We have come to a point where it behoves us to pay heed to these things — that is why they have been brought forward. We have come to a point where we must pay attention to the needle in the scales which oscillates all the time between the exoteric and the esoteric. The principle in esotericism observed among us is that, fundamentally speaking, the occult life in its reality cannot be expressed by means of words. Things are said sometimes in an esoteric, sometimes in an exoteric form, and these are, as it were, two different dialects of one inexpressible language. And if in his arrogance a man wants to substitute the exoteric for the esoteric, he forgets that they are two dialects of an inexpressible language and that everything depends upon how he is able to hold the balance between the two. But what still remains between the two must be regarded as an inexpressible language—there is always something that cannot be directly expressed.'http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA254/English/RSP1973/19151018p01.htmlhttp://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA254/English/RSP1973/19151018p01.html
