Sophia-Anthropos

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

— Matthew 5:6-7

Rudolf Steiner:

Passing on to the sentient soul, we can say: As man gradually evolves to a consciousness of the Christ, he must arrive at experiencing a feeling of longing in his sentient soul similar to what he previously experienced unwittingly as the physical longing we call hunger and thirst. He must thirst for the things of the soul, as the body hungers and thirsts for food and drink. What can be attained through the indwelling Christ-force is that which is described comprehensively in the old-fashioned phrase as thirsting after righteousness; and when a man has filled his sentient soul with the Christ-force he can reach a point where it is possible for him to satisfy this thirst through the power that is in him.

The fifth Beatitude is especially noteworthy, as might be expected, for it refers to the rational, or intellectual, soul. Those who have studied my books Occult Science or Theosophy, or have listened to the lectures on spiritual science given during many years, are familiar with the idea of the ego holding together the three principles of the human soul — the sentient soul; the rational, intellectual, or mind-soul; and the consciousness-soul or spiritual soul. The ego, though present in the sentient-soul, is as yet in a dulled condition; it comes to life in the intellectual-soul, and through this, man first becomes a complete human being. While man's lower principles and even the sentient-soul are dominated by divine spiritual beings, he becomes an individual in the rational-soul: in it the ego dawns. Therefore we must speak of the reception of the Christ-force into the intellectual or rational-soul in a different way from that used when treating of the lower principles. In the lower principles — the physical, etheric, and astral sheaths, and also in the sentient-soul — divine beings are at work, and to them anything in the way of virtues man has acquired are again taken up. But the qualities evolved in the rational-soul, when this has developed what it receives from the Christ, must above all be human attributes. When a man begins to discover this soul within himself he grows less and less dependent on the divine forces around him. We have here something that belongs to man himself. When he absorbs the power of Christ into this soul he can develop virtues which go from like to like, which are not besought from Heaven as a loan, but go forth from man and return to a being similar to himself. We must try to feel that something streams forth from the virtues of the rational soul in such a way that something similar streams to us again. Wonderful to relate, the fifth Beatitude actually shows us this distinctive quality. Even a faulty translation cannot conceal the fact; it is different from all the others in that it says: ‘Blessed are the merciful for they will receive mercy.’ What goes forth returns again — as it must if we accept it in the sense of occult science.

Source: The Nine Beatitudes and the Ninefold Human Being

https://martyrion.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-happiness-of-individual-can-never.html

My dharma is penance

Kosmos and Karma

The more I learn about nazis the less I like them.

Here comes your trumpteenth nervous breakdown

Grandpa died last week
And now he’s buried in the rocks
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked
But me, I expected it to happen
I knew he’d lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes

Trumpty-Dumpty's Last Stand

He shits in his hat and calls it curls

Trump, the loving Father God of all Proud Boys and Gadarene Girls

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." — Matthew 3:17

"Go home. We love you. You're very special...I know how you feel."

— Trump to rioters who seized the U.S. Capitol

Rudolf Steiner: "When, from out of this consciousness of the universal whole, we say to ourselves that the old civilization is bursting through its partitions, it is doomed — then to try to save it in its present form would be to work against one's age, not with it. We need a new civilization upon the ruins of the old."

Donnie Doo-Doo: Always exceeding our lowest expectations

"A severe indictment of our modern civilization, but it can't say it didn't ask for it.” ― P. G. Wodehouse

Donnie Doo-Doo is bound and determined never to give up his earthly power. He's always swirling around in the toilet bowl, going down deeper and deeper. He's just like Icarus only the exact opposite.

“I don’t mind admitting that, whenever I looked at [Trump’s] face, I always had a feeling that he couldn’t have got that way without its being mostly his own fault.” ― P. G. Wodehouse

“It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment.” ― P. G. Wodehouse

Rudolf Steiner: "Let us ascend to what acts in the astral body as the sentient soul. Therein we have an I working in a muted way which has not yet properly emerged and which therefore still develops the worst kind of passionate egoism. For as long as the I is still thoroughly stuck in the sentient soul, it develops the most selfish egoism. It is then devoid of any wish to allow others what it has itself. Egoism dulls the sense of justice because the I wants to have everything for itself."

It's all over now, Donnie Doo-Doo

Shiny!

Trumpty-Dumpty

Such a colossal asshole! It isn't that he simply can't do anything right: it's that he does everything worse than you would have thought possible. They say you can't polish a turd, but compared to the turd that is Trump, George W. Bush now seems polished. Trump is what would happen if shit could shit. If you gave Trump an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.

“The members of the Manichean Order are already learning how to transform quite radically those who by nature are wholly evil. And then the transformed evil will become a quite special good. The power to effect this change will bring about a condition of moral holiness on Earth. But this can be achieved only if the evil has first come into existence; then the power needed to overcome the evil will yield a power that can reach the heights of holiness. A field has to be treated with manure and the manure has to ferment in the soil; similarly, humanity needs the manure of evil in order to attain to the highest holiness. And herein lies the mission of evil. A man’s muscles get strong by use; and equally, if good is to rise to the heights of holiness, it must first overcome the evil which opposes it. The task of evil is to promote the ascent of man. Things such as this give us a glimpse into the secret of life”. —Rudolf Steiner

Psycho Cheeto

I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire

Psycho Cheeto
Qu'est-ce que c'est

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