Basic Prerequisites for the Comprehension
of Esoteric Explanations

THE PATH FROM THE BASIC VIA THE ADVANCED
TO THE ESOTERIC LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING

There exists different levels of investigation and understanding of diverse aspects of human existence, including health and the origin of illnesses. For practical purposes I divide them into three levels:

• The basic one is the level of unprejudiced observation of all available facts and the logical verification of them. We can call it the common sense level. On my website it is called basic level or Level 1.
• The next level demands that we take into account the existence of etheric, astral and spiritual forces and substances. We can call it the anthroposophical level. On my website it is called advanced level or Level 2.
• The third level demands that we take into account the existence of various kinds of spiritual beings and their impacts on people and their environment. This is the esoteric level or occult level of understanding that can be acquired only after prolonged study of spiritual science – either anthroposophical spiritual science or any other kind of spiritual science.

In the articles about the corona pandemic I have tried to explain things in such a manner that everyone with an open and unprejudiced mind can grasp them. As one can notice my website is divided into explanations of nutritional principles on a basic level and on an advanced level. But there are no explanations on an esoteric level. For that reason I was intentionally avoiding entering into the very challenging esoteric explanations about the origin of infectious diseases and epidemics, for these explanations can be grasped only by those who have progressed on the path of knowledge of cosmic and human evolution far enough.

Although the content of my articles is the result of twenty years long research of the spiritual backgrounds of the origins of diseases and nature of human health [1], I am well aware that this is not something that all readers would be interested to read about or capable to follow it. However, as there are people interested in entering into esoteric aspects of the epidemics (especially among the members of anthroposophical movement) here is the list of topics one should be fairly well familiar with beforehand if s/he wants to understand Steiner’s explanations:

• One should become well acquainted with the basic spiritual scientific descriptions of THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN BEING. For only with the knowledge of the supersensible bodies of a human being can one penetrate into the real causes for the emergence of diseases. This is also true in the case of the infectious illnesses.
• As the primeval origins of the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the ego can be traced to previous stages of cosmic evolution as described in Occult Science and other works of Rudolf Steiner, one needs to become fairly familiar with the basic outlines of cosmic evolution from the perspective of anthroposophical spiritual science.
• For a proper understanding of the previous stages of cosmic evolution – the Old Saturn, Old Sun and Old Moon – and their repetitions in the present Earth stage, one needs to also become familiar with the basic spiritual scientific explanations of the NATURE OF SUBSTANCE.
• The last preparatory step which is necessary if one wants to grasp the esoteric explanations on the origin of epidemics is to become familiar with the basic descriptions of the HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING from the perspective of anthroposophical spiritual science.

This is not something that one can attain overnight, or by reading one article or even a book. For there are no shortcuts if one wants to attain a real understanding of the esoteric aspects of the origin of human diseases which encompasses the working of karma in the successive human incarnations and the manifold manners of participation of various spiritual hierarchies, nature spirits and elemental beings in the evolution of humanity.

   NOTES

1. I have been collecting Steiner’s explanation about the origin of illnesses, the nature of human health and suitable methods of healing since my arrival in England at Easter 2000. The present fruit of this work is collection of 207 extracts – the majority of which is not taken from Steiner’s courses for doctors or other series of lectures which have medical titles. Although it has to be admitted that this is far from a finished collection, you can nevertheless see – if you just look at the titles of these extracts – that the spiritual scientific explanations of human health and origin of diseases are extraordinarily complex.