A Split in the Realm of Angels

What does a split in the realm of angels mean? How can some become more terrestrial and others on the contrary more spiritual? To understand such a world altering fact, the gaze needs to be brought into world evolution and into the accompanying spiritual realm. Much happens in the spiritual realm, where "retarded" hierarchical beings exist alongside "regular" ones, the world being made up of such beings interacting in a great many ways.

What created a change in direction in the world of angels was for instance to be found in the incarnation of the Christ being on earth. Therefore he had to leave the spiritual realm, and no longer fulfill certain functions there, to connect with the earthly realm. This meant that beings in the spiritual realm experienced the departure of the Christ being, while some sensed the descent towards the earthly. This created an interest within some of these beings for the earthly realm. And indeed, the earthly realm gained hereby in interest. It was also a time where the interest for the earthly realm needed to increase, as humanity needed to plunge fully in the earthly experience, and herefore even lost a connection with the spiritual realms. The liking for the earthly realm thereby gradually increased. And the severance from the spiritual realm happened in stages. The 9th century was such a stage, where under various influences, amongst which the Academy of Gondishapur, the human being as a trinity consisting in body, soul and spirit was abolished, where now the spirit function was associated with the soul, making therefore the spirit disappear, in the soul. Now a new view came about of the human being consisting of body and soul, a view with which many could associate quite well.

Humanity consists of very many groups. The entanglement and identification with the earthly is all too common, and has been taken place over a stretch of time, ever increasing since then. This to the point where many can no longer pull out of the earthly, and build consistent representations and views relating to the spiritual.

This is then where humanity can get stuck in the earthly. An entrapment comes about, from which many actually no longer want to free themselves. Many individual guardian angels him themselves fully identified with the earthly.

But humanity would remain stuck, if there existed also not alongside angels and corresponding human beings with an opposite pull. These are people who are interested in the spiritual realm, and who seek to progress in knowledge and experience regarding the spiritual realm. In these cases the accompanying angel themselves wants too to grow deeper into the spiritual realm and develop in that direction. Which is absolutely crucial given the times to come.

Now these notions portraying these situations can help to develop a sensitivity and perception regarding these realms, which require a qualitative perception at first. While such representation become a kind of seeing, in fact, it is a seeing.

Now, it would also be good to look further, also into the past, at home some spiritual beings become "retarded" and how this in the end has its function and turns into good. But that would require building and entering representations belonging to times before the current earth phase. This means looking into Old Moon and Old Sun.*

*Old Moon and Old Sun are previous stages before the current earth stage, as they are described in anthroposophical anthropology by Rudolf Steiner.