The “First Man”
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Jesus
was marginalized in the Jewish community during his life and supposedly
joined the Essenes at the age of 18. Jesus felt that Palestine was the
best place in all the Roman world to live out the final scenes of his
life on earth. He was satisfied to reveal his divine identity among the
Jews and gentiles of his native Palestine. He finished his life on
earth in the same land where he was born, in Palestine and among the
Jews. No mention is made of the “First Man” found in the Babylonian
belief system that is seen as an intermediary between the gods of light
and this earth.
In the unfolding consciousness of
the Age of Aquarius we find ourselves in now, Maria Roschl-Lehrs
examines the lives of the German poets Lessing, Goethe and Novalis: in her book The Second Man In Us
(1977): “Souls have come to be at home in the preternatural, but
usually they did so in a peculiar way…namely, through a body-free
expansion into extra-human and extra-terrestrial realms, mostly with
the surrender, however, of their self-consciousness, through a
going-out of themselves into space. And only very special individuals pierced, also in their own way, the boundaries of time,
and so came to an understanding of repeated earthly lives, as did, for
example, Lessing, Goethe and Novalis… This second, cloud-like man is
working so strongly, and thus giving rise to so many questions in the
souls today, again points to one of those inner metamorphoses which the
present age is bringing about; it is the development of a more intense
consciousness of the soul and spirit of man, a development that begins
in puberty. Of course a small child also has active in its astral, its
star body the vehicle of its feelings and of musical experience, but
with the child this astral body is around it, it envelops it,
interlacing and weaving itself through it from the outside…”
During the years of childhood, these forms of light merge with the
organs of the human body. The astral body becomes a part of the young
person, linking him with the cosmic forces and new organs of
perception. The cloud-like man is literally drawn into the human being
and we see the birth of the astral-ego member becoming more conscious.
Today the human soul brings up many questions for us about eternal man,
bearer of karmic development.