Mellett on Steiner's reincarnations
Dan Dugan presents a post
by Tom Mellett to the Anthropos-Views list.
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From: Dan Dugan
Subject: Mellett on Steiner's reincarnations
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:30:32 -0700
I just have to share this exchange from the
mailing list "anthropos-views." Tom Mellett's ever
the jester of Anthroposophy, but his tale is actually backed
up by Anthropop literature. BTW "fructify" is a favorite
phrase of Steiner's, as commonly translated. Complete post reproduced
by permission of the author.
-Dan Dugan
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Catherine Alexander wrote:
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I am a student of life. And not just on the observatory level.
;-) BTW, the Wookie in the old Star Wars epic reminded me of
Enkidu. The hairy companion to Gilgamesh. From the Epic of Gilgamesh.
To my friends he reminds them of Big Foot.:-)
CA
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TOM MELLETT
Dear Catherine,
I don't know if you realize
it, but Enkidu is alleged by many anthroposophists to be the
very first incarnation of Rudolf Steiner. And furthermore, Gilgamesh
is said to be Steiner's real soul-mate, the medical doctor, Ita
Wegman. And for reasons that I will give shortly after quoting
from the epic itself, I will explain why it is crucially important
for anthroposophists today in 1999, to study the Gilgamesh story.
I would like to quote this
passage from the Penguin Books edition of _The Epic of Gilgamesh_,
translated by N. K. Sandars. It is from very near the beginning
of Chapter One which is entitled: "The Coming of Enkidu."
A little background to
set up this passage: In the city of Uruk, Gilgamesh rules with
no equal. But he is arrogant and his subjects cry out to the
gods for help, so the gods create this hairy wild man Enkidu
out of clay to be an equal to Gilgamesh and also, a literal soul-mate.
Enkidu lives with the animals and eats grass with them. He is
kind of like Tarzan, with no human contact yet. But one day,
a trapper sees him and is afraid. I quote the epic at this point:
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"So the trapper set
out on his journey to Uruk and addressed himself to Gilgamesh
saying, 'A man unlike any other is roaming now in the pastures;
he is as strong as a star from heaven and I am afraid to approach
him. He helps the wild game to escape; he fills in my pits and
pulls up my traps. Gilgamesh said: 'Trapper, go back, take with
you a harlot, a child of pleasure. At the drinking-hole, she
will strip, and when he sees her beckoning, he will embrace her
and the game of the wilderness will surely reject him.'
Now the trapper returned,
taking the harlot with him. After three days' journey, they came
to the drinking-hole, and there they sat down; the harlot and
the trapper sat facing one another and waited for the game to
come. For the first day and for the second day the two sat waiting,
but on the third day the herds came; they came down to drink
and Enkidu was with them. The small wild creatures of the plains
were glad of the water, and Enkidu with them, who ate grass with
the gazelle and was born in the hills; and she saw him, the savage
man, come from far-off in the hills. The trapper spoke to her:
'There he is. Now, woman, make your breasts bare, have no shame,
do not delay, but welcome his love. Let him see you naked; let
him possess your body. When he comes near, uncover yourself and
lie with him; teach him, the savage man, your woman's art, for
when he murmurs love to you, the wild beasts that shared his
life in the hills will reject him.'
She was not ashamed to
take him, she made herself naked and welcomed his eagerness;
as he lay on her murmuring love she taught him the woman's art.
FOR SIX DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS THEY LAY TOGETHER, for Enkidu had
forgotten his home in the hills; but when he was satisfied he
went back to the wild beasts. Then, when the gazelles saw him,
they bolted away; when the wild creatures saw him they fled.
Enkidu would have followed, but his body was bound as though
with a cord, his knees gave way when he started to run, his swiftness
was gone. And now the wild creatures had all fled away; Enkidu
was grown weak, for wisdom was in him, and the thoughts of a
man were in his heart. So he returned and sat down at the woman's
feet, and listened intently to what she said. 'You are wise,
Enkidu, and now you have become like a god. Why do you want to
run wild with the beasts in the hills? Come with me. I will take
you to strong-walled Uruk, to the blessed temple of Ishtar and
of Anu, of love and of heaven: there Gilgamesh lives, who is
very strong, and like a wild bull he lords it over men.'
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Jesus Penus, Catherine!
I mean, whenever my "eagerness is welcomed," I consider
myself lucky if it doesn't fall off after seven MINUTES of vigorous
fructificatory activity! But here is the future Rudolf Steiner,
as the wild man Enkidu, getting his chimes rung for six DAYS
and seven NIGHTS!!! A full matrifructifying WEEK!!! Is this in
the Guinness Book of World Records or what? For anthroposophists
anyway, this has to be the most stupendous "Fuck-a-thon"
in all of human history! I mean, in the opening of Genesis, we
have the Seven Days of Creation; but in the Gilgamesh epic, we
have the Seven Nights of Fructification. Wow!
What a way for Rudy boy
to get literally sucked down into earthly incarnation! For it
was this event that brought Enkidu out of the spiritual Cosmos
and down to earth, so he could begin the handful of incarnations
that would lead to the man we know and love as Rudolf Steiner.
The question is: what is
the karmic lesson for us and why is it so important for us today?
Well, the key is in the number 7. You see, Enkidu was a child
of the Cosmos; he did not really go through the "fall of
man." His number WAS 12, which is the number of Space, the
vast Universe, the Cosmos, the number of the World of Being.
But Enkidu's destiny was to start the stream that would bring
the essence of Time into human evolution, and the number of Time
is 7, the number of the World of Becoming, the world of evolution
which unfolds itself according to the pattern of the number 7
(as so clearly pointed out by Arthur M. Young in his "Reflexive
Universe" book, for example).
Now, to me, each day/night
of the Enkidu Fuck-a-thon represents one incarnation of the being
we know as Rudolf Steiner. According to anthroposophical lore,
the incarnation of Rudolf Steiner is the 6th of the 7 incarnations
that this human being experiences. And Rudolf Steiner predicted
that he would be back again for his 7th incarnation at the beginning
of the 21st Century. (Arguments rage over whether he meant born
as a baby in 2000 or else come of age in 2000, say as a 30 year
old man (or woman), but that is a side issue).
Now, let me enumerate the
7 incarnations (6 known) of the being we know as Rudolf Steiner
and then later I will place them in a certain pattern which will
then tell us of the importance of revisiting the lesson of the
Epic of Gilgamesh.
Here they are listed in
chronological order:
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1. Eabani (Enkidu) (3000 BC-beginning of Kali Yuga) --- the "wild
man" of the Gilgamesh saga
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2. Cratylus (Kratylos)
(6th or 7th C. BC) --- priest of Temple of Ephesus; subject of
dialogue of Plato where eurythmy is described. (I translated
this whole dialogue in 1980 as part of my Ancient Greek studies
at UT-Austin.)
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3. Aristotle (4th C. BC)
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4. Schionatulander (9th-10th
century) --- Steiner's 1st post-Christian incarnation which puts
him in the Grail stream. I believe he was killed because he was
mistaken for Parsifal. (He dies in Sigune's arms. She is said
to be Ita Wegman. Some a-pops reverse the two of them.)
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5. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1270)
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6. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
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7. Incarnation at end of
20th century, possibly as a woman, very likely in the United
States.
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Now let's put the 7 in
the proper pattern of becoming. This was first suggested to me
by Yale Bulldog Robert S. Horner, my longtime friend and anthroposophist,
now living in Birmingham, Alabama. It is the archetypal pattern
of 7 stages of development on 4 levels of reality. We find this
pattern of becoming in Blavatsky's theosophy, in Steiner and
it is best articulated for modern consciousness by Arthur M.
Young in his "Theory of Process." Here is the archetypal
pattern:
LEVELS STAGES
I. 1-------------------------7
II. 2-------------------6
III. 3---------5
IV. 4
There is a descent from
the initial stage & level down to level 4, whereupon there
is a turn and the 3 levels are regained. The important point
is to see that Stage 5 recapitulates 3; 6 recaps 2; and 7 recaps
1, while 4 stands alone to experience the Turning Point of Time.
Now let us put the 7 incarnations
of Steiner into this pattern.
1. Enkidu--------------------------
7th incarnation (NOW!!!)
2. Kratylos----------------6.
Rudolf Steiner
3. Aristotle--------5.
St. Thomas Aquinas
4. Schionatulander/Sigune?
It is fairly easy to see
how Aquinas at (5) recaps Aristotle at (3). And Rudolf Steiner
at (6) recaps Kratylos at (2). Remember that Kratylos is a priest
of the Temple of Ephesus, where eurythmy was born, This stream
represents the mysteries of speech and reproduction through the
forces of speech. Then look at the present but unknown incarnation
of Rudolf Steiner at (7) which recapitulates Enkidu at (1).
Here is the mystery of
sexuality which brought Steiner down to earth as Enkidu. The
week long fuck-a-thon represents the deep mystery of the twin
forces of speech and sexuality that Rudolf Steiner as (6) himself
could not speak about. And with good reason. Consider the biography
of Steiner. I believe that he was completely celibate in his
life. Even though he was married twice, nonetheless, I believe
that he never played "hide the pickle"-- i.e., poked
his pecker into any sheath of any woman. (Linguistic note: the
Latin word for "'sheath" is "vagina.") His
first marriage was annulled because of non-consummation and to
echo Catherine MacCoun, Rudy married Marie in order to keep the
esoterically giddy anthropop groupies from flinging their exoteric
pussies at him. But there was an even more important reason why
he married Marie -- she was Russian and about to be deported
in 1914 when WW I started. It was purely a marriage of convenience
and I doubt that erotic love played any part whatsoever in their
partnership.
The real love of Rudy's
life was Ita Wegman, who is said to be Gilgamesh. I doubt they
had any erotic encounters. (Recall that the Enkidu fuck-a-thon
is with the harlot of the temple of Ishtar, not with Gilgamesh
-- although some scholars impute a homoerotic relationship between
them because many times the epic states that G loves E or E loves
G "like a woman.")
But the lesson for us today
is that no matter who Steiner is in his or her contemporary 7th
incarnation, we must, on the one hand, overcome our priggish,
Victorian, Puritanical attitudes about sexuality and yet, on
the other hand, simultaneously recognize the rampant unchecked
wallowing in erotic forces posing as spiritual mystical impulses
that supposedly constitute our spiritual striving.
Three years ago, I posted
the famous "Steiner Sex Files" wherein RS clearly and
unambiguously states that sex and love have absolutely nothing
to do with each other, and that 99% of what passes for spiritual
exercises and achievement is nothing but eroticism not recognized
as such.
You see, as we repress
sexuality in our society, it emerges at two extremes: one at
the lower (Ahrimanic/Asuric: contracting) extreme is, for example,
in violence of men against women, or of high school boys using
real guns instead of their own penises for pleasure.
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There is a wonderful article by Camille Paglia called "Guns
and Penises." You can read it at Salon Magazine online:
http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/1999/05/12/penises/index.html
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But at the higher extreme,
which we recognize as the Luciferic (expansive), the sexuality
emerges as self-absorbed Narcissistic spiritual striving that
Steiner characterizes as spiritual materialism. If I may put
it more bluntly, most of what passes for meditative practices,
spiritual disciplines or exercises, whether in anthroposophy
or not, as described on this newslist and in other places are
nothing but gross forms of soul-spiritual masturbation, which
only serve to enhance the egotism and spiritual materialism of
the self-deceived spiritual strivers. To Steiner, the solution
was not to stop the activity; but to recognize that it is erotic
in nature and that such forces function to pull the spiritual
down to the material or the earthly just as Enkidu got pulled
down and could no longer commune with the animals and the spiritual
world.
You see, Catherine, all
who have a karma with Steiner and anthroposophy have been plunged
into materialism by that Sumerian Fuck-a-thon back in 3000 BC
at the beginning of Kali Yuga. The end of Kali Yuga was 1900
AD, when Rudolf Steiner really started his public career as an
occult teacher. Two intervening events that have great importance
are the Christ returning in the etheric realm of the earth in
1933 and Christ taking over his duties as Lord of karma no later
than the end of the 20th century, which means right now! Our
present spiritual situation is aptly expressed by the late Richard
Farina, in the title of his autobiography: "Been down so
long, looks like up to me." Steiner expressed it as follows
in a lecture called "Secrets of the Threshold," Munich,
August 25 1913: "Lucifer wants to make physical (sexual)
love similar to spiritual love. He can then root it out of the
physical or sense world and lead it into a special kingdom of
his own." In Texas, the cry was: "Remember the Alamo!"
I suggest for anthroposophy in the here and now: "Remember
the Enkidu Fuck-a-thon!"
Tom.
P.S. Catherine, I just
noted that your last name is Alexander. Ita Wegman was also said
to be Alexander the Great. More on that connection another time.
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From: redon
Subject: Mellett on Steiner's reincarnations
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:59:20 -0500
Tom.
P.S. Catherine, I just noted that your last name is Alexander.
Ita Wegman was also said to be Alexander the Great. More on that
connection another time.
Some guys will say anything to get laid. Tom
has been after Catherine for years, this is more of the same
old same old.
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From: Sune Nordwall
Subject: Re: Mellett on Steiner's reincarnations
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 01:58:38 +0200
Dan Dugan wrote:
I just have to share this exchange from the mailing list "anthropos-views."
Tom Mellett's ever the jester of Anthroposophy, but his tale
is actually backed up by Anthropop literature. BTW "fructify"
is a favorite phrase of Steiner's, as commonly translated. Complete
post reproduced by permission of the author.
You have already earlier mirrored and fed
on the behaviour of this person, who is having obvious problems
with himself, as I have commented earlier, on this list.
The "backing up" by "Anthropop
literature" you mention, is by one person, who took great
care - in contradistinction to you and Tom - to avoid all the
sensationalizing Tom and you engage in.
Steiner never commented publicly on the past
lives of himself, or on the past lives of other living persons,
it being a real soul rape.
Doing it publicly the way you and Tom do -
now on a dead person - is not far from the rape of publicly discussing
the possible former lives of living persons.
Sune Nordwall
Stockholm, Sweden
http://hem.passagen.se/thebee/indexeng.htm
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From: Tarjei Straume
Subject: Re: Mellett on Steiner's reincarnations
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 03:14:00 +0200
Sune Nordwall wrote:
Steiner never commented publicly on the
past lives of himself, or on the past lives of other living persons,
it being a real soul rape.
Woodrow Wilson was living at the time, so
he may be a notable exception here. But Steiner adamantly refused
to say anything about his own past lives, and if people asked
him about their past lives, he would avoid their company for
weeks. To the best of my knowledge, the past lives of Rudolf
Steiner are conjectured from private correspondence with Ita
Wegman discovered after his death
Tarjei Straume
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