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Throughout human history, ancient wisdom and traditional myths have placed human beings between the heavens and the underworld, describing the heavens as the light-filled realm of the gods and the source of goodness, and characterizing the underworld as a demon-filled realm of darkness and the source of evil. Modern science, however, denies the heavens and knows little of the Earths interioreven physicallybeyond the first few miles, after which it simply resorts to conjecture based on the extrapolation of existing sensory data. In other words, natural science fails to take into account that the Earth is a living, spiritual being and ignores the presence of its soul-spiritual qualities and influences.
To remedy this, during the early twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner researched the psychic, spiritual, and cosmic nature of the Earths interior. He described how the different layers of the inner Earth affect and interact with human beings living on Earth. More theologically and cosmically, he spoke of the layers of Hell, through which Jesus Christ traveled in the period between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, uniting and integrating himself with the Earth and with human destiny.
The seven authors in The Inner Life of the Earth approach this difficult and little-discussed topic from different directions. They discuss how the forces emanating from the interior of the Earth affect the weather, our atmosphere, human beings, and how human behavior in turn affects them, showing that earthly and human evolution are a unity and should never be thought of as occurring separately. They also discuss the deep significance of Christs incarnation, by which he united with the Earth to become the Spirit of the Earth.
Without Christs deed, the Mystery of Golgotha, which reunites cosmic and human evolution with the divine, human beings would be unable to work in freedom with Christ or with Sophia, divine feminine Wisdom, in her form as the Soul of the Earth, to overcome evil and help lift all creation toward goodness and greater human, cosmic, and divine fellowship.
Contents:- Introduction by Paul V. OLeary
- Evil: Our Dance Partner through Life by David S. Mitchell
- As Above, so Below As Below, so Above by Dennis Klocek
- Subnature and the Second Coming by Robert Powell
- Portals to the Inner Earth by Marko Pogacnik
- Transforming Subearthly Energies through Eurythmy by Rachel C. Ross
- The Mineral Earth as the Gateway to Freedom and the Subterranean Spheres: The Ministry of Jesus Christ by Paul V. OLeary
- Paradoxical Thoughts on Christ and Sophia in the Human Mystery of the Earth by Christopher Bamford
