As mentioned in another post ,I offered a copy of Tazo's "Poet and the Archangel" to a friend, for whom I thought it might be an accessible poetic -artistic introduction to some deeper spirituality.
She said that her Roman Catholic schooling had given her some reluctance around the word Archangels - whatever they were.
To attempt to 'de-religious' the word I described the seven-fold evolution. So archangels went through their " human stage" two cycles before us. First time I have attempted such an explanation. And I could say to her that it was the standard teaching in most serious spiritual schools over the ages. ( as I understand it.)
In Steiner we read of various beings going through the “human stage”. I have often wondered what a human stage actually meant and also wondered what it consisted of for angels, the archangels, and even (probably) cherubim.
On the way home it dawned on me that the first esoteric lesson held the real answer to this question and one I could now relate my own ( currently HUMAN) experience.
It’s a stage in consciousness progressions as given in the first esoteric lesson. The human stage is the coming aware of oneself as a being and of one’s context,
The ‘human stage’ is waking up to the possibility of taking the ball of divine potentials and choosing in some way to run with it or activating a potential in some way which must have been very different for each life wave.
Prior to that we are dreamers in a nurturing environment albeit slowly , slowly waking up or being woken up.
It’s speculation about the nature of the human stage for a seraphim but not so much about the level of consciousness now attained which would, presumably be one of the five creative stages of consciousness. This is assuming the first lesson schema is applicable.
Looking forward to some comments and additions and ideas…