Asuras

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selection principle. The headings are this index's own. The entry is the evil Asuras, named as a third power after Lucifer and Ahriman. Texts that give the name to the whole rank of the spirits of personality, or to the Asuras of Indian and Persian religion, are listed under headings of their own.

usage. This entry lists where Rudolf Steiner's collected works (the Gesamtausgabe, GA) treat the subject. It contains no quotations: the headings, scope lines and notes are this index's wording, not Steiner's. Under each heading Steiner's own books (GA 1 to 28) come first, then articles and notes (GA 29 to 46), then lectures in date order. A text is listed when it treats the subject or the point its heading names, not when the word merely occurs. A paragraph number marks the passage that is the point, and a range of paragraphs (at most twelve) the passages that are; a reference marked whole is a chapter or lecture that treats the subject throughout. A reference with neither a paragraph nor the mark whole was listed before this rule and names the chapter or lecture without saying where in it the subject is treated; such references are being read and pinned or marked. A book's defining paragraph is also listed in German where the German edition numbers or names it differently, and so is a lecture's paragraph whose German word the translation renders loosely; the two references are one passage. A lecture with more than one English translation is listed once. Texts with no English translation are listed in German, and so are the esoteric lessons (GA 266), whose German is the original record; each reference's witnesses name every language the site serves it in. A reference marked as listeners' notes was written down by others (a listener, a newspaper, the minutes), one marked report by others is another person's account of a meeting or event, one marked mixed sources comes from a volume that holds both listeners' records and texts in Steiner's own hand, one marked stenogram rests on a shorthand transcript, and one marked record unknown is a lecture for which no evidence of how it was taken down is on record, which is not an assurance of a stenogram. One marked may be abridged is a translation shorter than the German. A lecture names the place its own heading gives, and an English reference names its translator from that lecture's own source (never another lecture's or the volume's credit) or says that no translator is on record. Read a passage before saying what it contains.

Who the Asuras are

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Where Steiner says who the evil Asuras are: beings that remained behind, of the spirits of personality of Old Saturn or, in GA 93a, of the Old Moon.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XIX17 October 1905Berlinp011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906Munichp002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-01-2929 January 1907Berlinp003de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes1 January 1909Berlinp029en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  5. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909Berlinp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  6. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Questions And Answers I21 April 1909Düsseldorfp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

The name for the spirits of personality on Saturn

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Where the name Asuras is given to the whole rank of the spirits of personality, who passed their human stage on Old Saturn and gave egoism and independence.

Books

  1. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xiv. The Life of Saturnp012en:RSPI1959translated by Karl E. Zimmer
  2. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xv. The Life of the Sunp015en:RSPI1959translated by Karl E. Zimmer
  3. GA 11 Cosmic Memory (From the Akasha Chronicle): xvi. Life on the Moonp014en:RSPI1959translated by Karl E. Zimmer

Lectures

  1. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 14. Evolution and the Hierarchies11 August 1905Haubindap009 to p020en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 15. Forms of Consciousness12 August 1905Haubindap008 to p011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XII7 October 1905Berlinp004en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  4. GA 90b Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: XX. Knowledge of the Higher Worlds I11 December 1905Berlinp032en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  5. GA 99 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian: IX. Planetary Evolution I2 June 1907Munichp026en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond
  6. GA 100 Human Development and Christ-Knowledge: IX. The Earth's Passage Through Its Former Planetary Conditions24 June 1907Kasselp011en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  7. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1908-03-1414 March 1908Berlinp003de:originallisteners notes
  8. GA 102 The Influence of Spiritual Beings upon Man: Lecture VIII16 May 1908Berlinp006en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  9. GA 104 The Apocalypse of St. John: Lecture V22 June 1908Nurembergp018en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Mabel Cotterell
  10. GA 105 Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture IV7 August 1908Stuttgartp004en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by H. Collison
  11. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture III13 April 1909Düsseldorfp008en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  12. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XI20 May 1909Oslop005en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by James H. Hindes

The third power after Lucifer and Ahriman

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Where the Asuras are related to Lucifer and Ahriman: the third power after them, their will to evil, the hosts of Ahriman so named, an aspect of Lucifer.

Lectures

  1. GA 89 Consciousness — Life — Form: Planetary Evolution I17 October 1904Berlinp009en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Anna Meuss
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906Munichp002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes1 January 1909Berlinp029en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  4. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909Berlinp021en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  5. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Questions And Answers I21 April 1909Düsseldorfp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 246 Supplements to Member Lectures: 31. Life after Death9 October 1910Stuttgartp012en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  7. GA 194 Michael's Mission: IV. The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth15 December 1919Dornachp038en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Frances E. Dawson

The Asuras, the consciousness soul and the I

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Where the Asuras are described as entering the consciousness soul and the I, and what they tear away is set apart from what karma makes good.

Lectures

  1. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909Berlinp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Sensuality, the great cities and cultural death

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Where the work of the Asuras is shown in sensuality, in the orgies of the great cities and in the cultural death and illness of a civilization.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XIX17 October 1905Berlinp014en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906Munichp002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 107 Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology: I. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras22 March 1909Berlinp022en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond
  4. GA 194 Michael's Mission: IV. The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth15 December 1919Dornachp038en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Frances E. Dawson

Asuric beings in human thought forms

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Where asuric beings are described as embodying themselves in the thought forms and passions human beings create, in meditation without clear thought.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XIX17 October 1905Berlinp011 to p015en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett

The Asuras, matter and the eighth sphere

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Where the Asuras are described as striving to condense matter so that it cannot be spiritualized, and as tending toward the eighth sphere.

Lectures

  1. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-01-2929 January 1907Berlinp003de:originallisteners notes

The evil higher Devachan

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Where the evil higher Devachan is called the province of the Asuras, beside the provinces of Lucifer and Ahriman, and forces such as magnetism are traced there.

Lectures

  1. GA 130 Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: The Etherisation of the Blood1 October 1911Baselp053en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record

Devas and Asuras in India and Persia

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Where the Asuras of India and the Ahuras, the Persian form of the name, are treated, and the names of good and evil spirits reversed between the two.

Lectures

  1. GA 93 The Temple Legend and the Golden Legend: 1. Whitsuntide—Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit23 May 1904Berlinp011 to p013en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by John M. Wood
  2. GA 51 Philosophy, History and Literature: II. Persians, Franks, and Goths25 October 1904Berlinp007en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  3. GA 109 The Principle of Spiritual Economy in Relation to Reincarnation: 10. The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega25 May 1909Berlinp023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Peter Mollenhauer
  4. GA 121 The Mission of Individual Souls in Connection with Germanic-Nordic Mythology: Lecture IX15 June 1910Oslop013en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  5. GA 69b Knowledge and Immortality: VIII. Zarathustra, His Teaching and His Mission11 December 1910Munichp042en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 60 Answers of Spiritual Science to the Great Questions of Existence: I. Zarathustra19 January 1911Berlinp068 to p071en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Walter F. Knox
  7. GA 69e Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity: XXII. Zarathustra, His Teaching and His Mission31 January 1911Colognep006 to p008en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  8. GA 142 The Bhagavad Gita and The Epistles of Paul: Lecture IV31 December 1912Colognep026en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bughey

distinguish from. the spirits of personality or Archai, the rank of the hierarchies that passed its human stage on Old Saturn, from whose evolution the evil Asuras fell away (GA 107 of 1 January 1909); Ahriman: GA 107 of 1 January 1909 says that certain teachings call the hosts of Ahriman Asuras, and GA 110 of 21 April 1909 places the evil Asuras one degree above the ahrimanic beings in their will to evil; Lucifer, whose beings enter the sentient soul as the ahrimanic enter the intellectual soul, where the Asuras enter the consciousness soul (GA 107 of 22 March 1909); Sorat, the demon of the sun of the lectures on the Apocalypse, the adversary of the Lamb (GA 104 of 29 June 1908); Mammon, the god or spirit of hindrances; one esoteric lesson names the gods of hindrances, also called Mammon, the Satans and the Asuras (GA 266a of 1 November 1906).

see also. the consciousness soul; evil; spiritual hierarchies; the eighth sphere.

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