Beast with ten horns and seven heads

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The beast with ten horns and seven heads rising from the sea is described in the 13th chapter of John's Apocalypse, after the seventh trombone has sounded. Previously had appeared the woman clothed with the sun, with the moon at her feet, and with the child she gives birth to, she is pursued by the great red dragon, the Luciferian serpent. The sun will have reunited with the earth at this (→ reunion of the sun with the earth) and the earth will pass into the astral state. The moon will be excreted as dead cinders and orbit the reunited earth as a kind of hardened minor planet.

„1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” 5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear: 10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.“

The beast with the seven heads and ten horns is an imaginative image for that part of humanity which has become the slave of its animal instincts through the ahrimanic and asuric influence. Those people, however, who have fully consciously devoted themselves to black magic, make possible the earthly incarnation of the solar demon Sorat, the beast with the two horns, which subsequently rises from the earth.

That which is predisposed by the etheric in man is called a "head" in the occult language of the Apocalypse and also appears in this way to the clairvoyant gaze. Seven such etheric heads were formed in the Atlantean period. In the first four epochs man was still completely integrated into the group soul, which shows itself to the clairvoyant gaze in the typical figures of lion, eagle, bull and man, as is also found in the sphinx figure. In the last three Atlantean epochs, when the I-consciousness was already awakening, the still animal-like forms of the heads were lost and they became more and more similar to the modern human head. Altogether, seven heads were thus formed in the etheric.

What is physically effected in the human being by a part of the etheric body, on the other hand, is called a "horn". Although the separation of the sexes had already taken place, people did not perceive their sexuality as long as they were still firmly connected with the group soul. The act of procreation took place in sleep and the human form still appeared to them in a uniform sexless form. The first four "horns" correspond to this. From the fifth Atlantean epoch onwards, in which thinking and thus self-consciousness awoke in the primeval Semites, one must distinguish between a male and a female form. Therefore, not only three but six "horns" follow in the last three Atlantean periods of development. Altogether this makes ten horns (4 + 2x3 = 10).

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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