Spiritual Knowlege Institute

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What is so special about this series? It answers some very important questions, for example:

The Riddle of The Duality of the Mind

The Riddle of Light Against Darkness

The Riddle of Evil vs Good
Circular Riddles

The Riddle Love and duty

The Riddle of Infinity

The riddles of the soul: sentient, intellectual, and consciousness soul configuration.

The Riddle of Light and Thought

The Riddle of Time

Do you ask: What is the Council of Manes? Join the course and the Discussion too!

In an exciting moment of spiritual vision the clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner spoke this to an audience of his private students,  

"There is a fourth individuality named in history, behind whom for those who have the proper comprehension, much lies hidden — an individuality still higher and more powerful than Skythianos, than Buddha or than Zarathustra. This individuality is Manes, and those who see more in Manichaeism than is usually the case know him to be a very high messenger of Christ. 

It is said that a few centuries after Christ had lived on the earth, there was held one of the greatest assemblies of the spiritual world connected with the earth that ever took place, and that there Manes gathered round him three mighty personalities of the fourth century after Christ. In this figurative description a most significant fact in connection with spiritual development is expressed. Manes called these persons together to consult with them as to the means of reintroducing the wisdom that had lived throughout the changing times of the post Atlantean age and of causing it to unfold more and more gloriously in the future."  Rudolf Steiner 08/31, 1909

Manes thus called a council of the great initiates of the past ages to consult with them on how to sustain the ancient wisdom and to bring it to a further glory.   In this course we will search for the  meaning of the utterance of the great initiate and explore the teaching of Manes, and search for evidence of this in earthly events, teachings and philosophies.

Do you want to explore this statement by Rudolf Steiner and take a deep dive into the middle Eastern spiritual spiritual-cultural life? Then click below.

Rudolf Steiner goes on to say this was all in preparation for what became the Rosicrucian stream that later flowed everywhere in European culture affecting science, and religious philosophy and education and eventually transformed Europe.

In this series of five lectures we will focus on the teachings of Manes, Light against Darkness, and how this teaching progressed into living discussions of pupils and teachers.  We will get a feel for the Persian/Arabian cultures from the 4th century to the 10th.

culture, to the advent of the Islamic teachers of Anatolia to the dawn of the Sufis.
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Known as Manichaeus Corbicus. Mani, in Latin Manichaeus, (216 -v276), of Iranian origin was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct. Mani was born in or near Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Asuristan (Assyria), at the time still part of the Parthian Empire. Six of his major works were written in Syriac Aramaic and the seventh, dedicated to the king of the empire, Shapur I, was written in Middle Persian. He died in Gundeshapur, under the Sassanid Empire.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches ^IB of sweet harmony.
^HN Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
^FT There's not the smallest orb that thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
^WW Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
^PJ But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
^SA Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!
With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,
And draw her home with music.
^ES I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
^RE The reason is, your spirits are attentive –
^HW The man that hath no music in himself,
^RH Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
^RE Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
^NA The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. ^MBr Music! hark!
It is your music of the house.
^AD Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.
^MJ Silence bestows that virtue on it
^ET How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection!
^MBa Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion
And would not be awak'd. Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches ^IB of sweet harmony.