Approx runs on 13 max-level chars every week was about 312. The famous and widely popular Astral Cloud Serpent Mount from Mogu-shan Vaults in Kun-Lai Summit, Pandaria.
Rudolf Steiner, Foundations of Esotericism It was the fructification of the maternal earth with the paternal spirit. The astral body with the head formation united with the winged-serpent body with its fiery opening. At that time, the union took place between these forms on the earth and the other beings already described. It represents the lower nature with the open formation of the head. The Guardian of the Threshold, the lower nature of man, frequently appears in a form of this kind. Such was man's grotesque form at that time, reptile-like. This gave rise to the tales about the winged serpent, about the dragon.
When eventually this reptilian human being assumed the upright posture, the formation of the head, quite open in front, out of which gushed a fiery cloud, became visible. It is a fact that at that time the earth was inhabited by beings reptilian in character human bodies too were reptile-like. The ichthyosaurs and so on are descendants of these animals. His other living companions were, in the Lemurian Age, of the nature of reptiles animals of grotesque shapes who have left no traces behind them. Walter Johannes Steiner, The Death of Merlin (182)Īlready on the Old Moon man had some slight power of using both his front limbs for the purpose of grasping, so that now the time came for assuming the upright posture. The vessel itself was made from a stone which fell from Lucifer’s crown when he was cast down to earth and angels carried the Grail westwards through the heavens. The Grail stream is also connected with the forces of the blood the Grail holds inwardly transformed blood, blood purified of desire, the same pure blood that flowed from the cross on Golgotha and which Joseph of Arimathea collected in the vessel used by Christ at the Last Supper, with his disciples. Although it became effective at about Charlemagne’s time it did not surface until about 1180. It finds its historical expression in the legend of the Holy Grail. There is indeed a third stream which became active in western Europe from the eight or ninth centuries onward. Goethe rightly adds a third image to the picture of the ‘bear’ and the ‘dragon’ in his poem ‘Die Geheimnisse’ (‘The Secrets’). The tamed dragon in the service of the bear fought against the wild dragon as the Arthurian knights imposed bloody order on bloodthirsty chaos. When Orilus became an Arthurian knight, the knight of the dragon served the bear. The Bear, a constellation in the northern sky, represents forces coming from the north, while southern forces of the blood and the passions are expressed in the dragon. Arthur means bear, as a ninth century writer, Nennius, reports. The name of King Arthur and the name of his father, Utepandragun (Dragon Head), provide images for two forces. Rudolf Steiner, Man as Symphony of the Creative Word
And now, if we wish to look at what is similar in man, again seeking for the correspondence between what is developed in the cow in a one-sided way, the physical embodiment of a certain astrality, we find this in man - harmoniously adjusted to the other parts of his organism, woven, as it were, into his digestive organs and their continuation - in the limb-system. For this is beautiful, this is grand, this is something of an immense spirituality. And when it is said by ordinary philistine concepts, indeed by philistine idealism, that the process of digestion is the most lowly, this must be indicted as untruth, when, from a higher vantage-point, one gazes with spiritual sight at this digestive process in the cow. Seen astrally, something immensely beautiful lies in this digestion. The cow becomes beautiful in the process of digestion.
Cow Lithograph AP Circa 1977 by Leonora Carrington
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