Solomon
Solomon (Hebrew: שלמה Shlom:o, connected with שָׁלֵם shalem "whole, complete, intact" or שָׁלוֹם shalom "peace"), also called Yedidiah (Hebrew: יְדִידְיָהּ), lived in the 10th century BC and was, according to the Bible account, the third ruler of the United Kingdom of Israel after Saul and David. According to the Bible account, he had the first temple built in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. The visit of the legendary Queen of Sheba (1 Kings 10:1–13, 2 Chronicles 9:1–9:12), reported in the Bible, also falls into this period. According to the temple legend of the Freemasons, the master builder of the temple was Hiram Abiff, who, according to Rudolf Steiner's statements, was reborn at the turn of time as Lazarus-John and later as the high initiate Christian Rosenkreuz. The apocryphal Testament of Solomon, which is considered the oldest Christian demonology, also refers to the time of the building of the temple. Later Jewish tradition also relates Solomon to Lilith.
Solomon as a Hebrew term for the spirit self
According to Steiner, Solomon, in whom all 7 members of the human being were already very perfectly predisposed, was at the same time also a Hebrew designation for the human being's spirit self:
„And finally they called this ancestor Manas or Spirit Self - because they said that such a Spirit Self must contain within itself the disposition to be inwardly complete, to be in balance - with a word that means "inner balance", "Solomon".
Thus this ancestor, who is usually only known by the name "Shelomo", "Shlomo" or "Salomo", has the three main names: Yedidiah (spirit man), Kohelet (life spirit), Solomon (spirit self); and he has the four secondary names Agur (physical body), Ben Jake (etheric body), Lamuel (astral body), Itiel (I or I-bearer), because these names signify the four sheaths, while the first three names signify the divine inner being. For the ancient Hebrew secret doctrine this personality has seven names.“ (Lit.:GA 116, p. 83)
In the Jewish Kabbalah, the spirit self, namely in its connection with the consciousness soul, is called Neshama (Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה, also N'schama).
See also
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Der Christus-Impuls und die Entwickelung des Ich-Bewußtseins, GA 116 (1982) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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