Mammon

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selection principle. Rudolf Steiner uses the name for a being, the god or spirit of hindrances whose hosts fight against Michael, for the word in the Gospel saying that no one can serve God and Mammon, which he explains as that god, and for money and capital as the name's secondary meaning. Mammon as an everyday word for money is not listed. Texts that give the title of hindrance to Ahriman or other beings without naming Mammon have their own heading.

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 Mammon is

10

Where Rudolf Steiner says who Mammon is: the god or spirit of hindrances who leads hosts against progress, and the power that money is named after.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXV. On the Apocalypse I21 May 1904Berlinp007en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 92 Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends: 1. Good and Evil24 June 1904Berlinp016en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 13. From the Arhats to the Mahatmas6 September 1904Berlinp027en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  4. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX3 November 1905Berlinp009en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  5. GA 68a The Essence of Christianity: 29. The Parable of the Unjust Steward — Gospel of Luke XVI, 1-189 April 1907Munichp024en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-10-1818 October 1907Berlinp002de:originallisteners notes
  7. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1907-12-055 December 1907Munichp003de:originallisteners notes
  8. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Stuttgart, 1908-08-099 August 1908Stuttgartp003de:originallisteners notes
  9. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XI20 May 1909Oslop003en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by James H. Hindes
  10. GA 114 The Gospel of Luke: Christ: The Bringer of the Living Power of Love25 September 1909Baselp015en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond and Owen Barfield

The god of hindrances

6

Where Mammon's work as the god of hindrances is described: holding back progress and placing obstacles in its way, with his hosts and helpers.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXV. On the Apocalypse I21 May 1904Berlinp007en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX3 November 1905Berlinp009 to p010en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906Munichp002 to p003de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-10-1818 October 1907Berlinp002 to p003de:originallisteners notes
  5. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Hamburg, 1907-10-2626 October 1907Hamburgp002de:originallisteners notes
  6. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp002de:originallisteners notes

Michael's battle with Mammon

5

Where the hosts of Michael and of Mammon are said to fight, the battle decided on the astral plane in 1879 and still to be fought on earth.

Lectures

  1. GA 92 Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends: 1. Good and Evil24 June 1904Berlinp016 to p017en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX3 November 1905Berlinp009en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-10-1818 October 1907Berlinp002 to p004de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp004de:originallisteners notes
  5. GA 265a Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Twelve Senses12 May 1913Colognep011 to p013en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library

Oriphiel and the dark age to come

5

Where Oriphiel is related to Mammon: a leader whom Mammon's hosts serve, ruling at the time of Christ and again in a dark age from about the year 2400.

Lectures

  1. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Berlin, 1907-10-1818 October 1907Berlinp003 to p005de:originallisteners notes
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Hamburg, 1907-10-2626 October 1907Hamburgp002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1907-12-055 December 1907Munichp003 to p005de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp002de:originallisteners notes
  5. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp004de:originallisteners notes

Bacteria and infectious illness

4

Where bacteria and bacilli are said to embody Mammon's helpers, or infectious illnesses and epidemics are traced to him.

Lectures

  1. GA 93a Basic Elements of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX3 November 1905Berlinp009 to p010en: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 — Berlin, 1907-10-1818 October 1907Berlinp002 to p004de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1907-12-055 December 1907Munichp003de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Stuttgart, 1908-08-099 August 1908Stuttgartp003de:originallisteners notes

The lower astral world

2

Where Mammon is said to dwell in or rule the lower astral world, the world below the physical that opposes evolution.

Lectures

  1. GA 90a Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: XXV. On the Apocalypse I21 May 1904Berlinp005 to p007en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 104a From the Pictorial Script of the Apocalypse of John: Lecture II-XI20 May 1909Oslop003en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by James H. Hindes

Beelzebub, the Satans and the Asuras

3

Where Mammon is named with Beelzebub, or one lesson calls the gods of hindrances, also called Mammon, the Satans and the Asuras.

Lectures

  1. GA 92 Occult Truths of Old Myths and Legends: 1. Good and Evil24 June 1904Berlinp016 to p017en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — München, 1906-11-011 November 1906Munichp002 to p003de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Stuttgart, 1908-08-099 August 1908Stuttgartp003de:originallisteners notes

Mammon and Ahriman

3

Where Mammon is set beside Ahriman: named with Ahriman and Mephisto, or his hosts counted among the beings under Lucifer and Ahriman.

Lectures

  1. GA 265a Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Twelve Senses12 May 1913Colognep011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 148 From Akashic Research: Second Munich Lecture10 December 1913Munichp031en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 148 From Akashic Research: Lecture II18 December 1913Colognep038en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Frank Thomas Smith

Consciousness, the senses and the soul

6

Where Mammon's spirits are said to darken consciousness of the divine, bind knowledge to the senses and the brain, or enter the soul as worry.

Lectures

  1. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Stuttgart, 1908-08-099 August 1908Stuttgartp003de:originallisteners notes
  2. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp002de:originallisteners notes
  3. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Düsseldorf, 1909-04-1919 April 1909Düsseldorfp004de:originallisteners notes
  4. GA 266a From the Contents of the Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden — Kassel, 1909-06-2727 June 1909Kasselp003de:originallisteners notes
  5. GA 114 The Gospel of Luke: Christ: The Bringer of the Living Power of Love25 September 1909Baselp016 to p017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond and Owen Barfield
  6. GA 265a Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Twelve Senses12 May 1913Colognep011en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library

God and Mammon in the Gospel

3

Where the saying that no one can serve God and Mammon, or the parable of the unjust steward, is explained.

Lectures

  1. GA 68a The Essence of Christianity: 29. The Parable of the Unjust Steward — Gospel of Luke XVI, 1-189 April 1907Munichwholeen:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 96 Original Impulses of Spiritual Science: XIX. How We Come to Christianity through the Science of the Spirit27 April 1907Berlinp018 to p023en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Anna Meuss
  3. GA 114 The Gospel of Luke: Christ: The Bringer of the Living Power of Love25 September 1909Baselp014 to p017en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond and Owen Barfield

Money, capital and mammonism

6

Where money or capital is called Mammon and related to a spiritual power, or the capitalism of the age is called mammonism.

Lectures

  1. GA 91 Cosmology and Human Evolution; Color Theory: 13. From the Arhats to the Mahatmas6 September 1904Berlinp027en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  2. GA 68a The Essence of Christianity: 29. The Parable of the Unjust Steward — Gospel of Luke XVI, 1-189 April 1907Munichp024 to p025en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  3. GA 148 From Akashic Research: Second Munich Lecture10 December 1913Munichp031en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  4. GA 192 Spiritual-Scientific Consideration of Social and Pedagogic Questions: Fourteenth Lecture20 July 1919Stuttgartp020en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  5. GA 296 The Education Question as a Social Issue: I. Historical Requirements of the Present Time9 August 1919Dornachp061en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges and Doris M. Bugbey
  6. GA 191 Social Understanding Based on Insights from Spiritual Science: Third Lecture5 October 1919Dornachp010en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

Spirits of hindrance under other names

19

Where the title god or spirits of hindrance, given Mammon in the early texts, is given to Ahriman or other beings in texts not naming Mammon.

Lectures

  1. GA 99 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian: VI. The Law of Destiny30 May 1907Munichp026 to p027en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond
  2. GA 110 The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Lecture X18 April 1909Düsseldorfp018 to p022en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  3. GA 129 Wonders of the World: 4. Dionysos as the representative of the ego-forces. The entry of the Christ Impulse into human evolution and the activity of the planetary gods.21 August 1911Munichp026 to p027en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy Lenn and Owen Barfield
  4. GA 130 Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: III. The Death of a God and its Fruits in Humanity5 May 1912Düsseldorfp030en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd and Charles Davy
  5. GA 246 Supplements to Member Lectures: 54. The Karmic Consequences of Laziness and Mendacity23 January 1913Klagenfurtp009en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  6. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: 9. Life After Death26 January 1913Linzp036 to p037en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by René M. Querido
  7. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: 9. Life After Death26 January 1913Linzp043en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by René M. Querido
  8. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: Anthroposophy as a Substance of Life and Feeling16 February 1913Tübingenp013en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  9. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: Anthroposophy as a Substance of Life and Feeling16 February 1913Tübingenp016en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  10. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: I. The Cosmic Aspect of Life between Death and New Birth, The Way through the Planetary Spheres17 February 1913Stuttgartp008en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Ruth Hofrichter
  11. GA 140 Occult Investigations into Life Between Death and Rebirth: II. The Establishment of Mutual Relations between the Living and the So-called Dead20 February 1913Stuttgartp011en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Ruth Hofrichter
  12. GA 246 Supplements to Member Lectures: 57. Collaboration with the Spirits of Health28 February 1913Karlsruhep015en:Englishlisteners notestranslated by Steiner Online Library
  13. GA 170 The Riddle of Man: The Spiritual Background of Human History: Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos7 August 1916Dornachp023en:Englishrecord unknownno translator on record
  14. GA 272 Faust, the Striving Human Being: 15. Goethe's Search for the Depths of Becoming and the Mysteries of the World in His “Faust” The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Temptation11 September 1916Dornachp045en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  15. GA 177 The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: 13. The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World27 October 1917Dornachp026en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Anna R. Meuss
  16. GA 174a Central Europe between East and West: VIII. Michael's Battle and Its Reflection On Earth—Part II17 February 1918Munichp013en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Lisa D. Monges
  17. GA 174b The Spiritual Background of Human History: Thirteenth Lecture24 February 1918Stuttgartp006 to p009en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  18. GA 174b The Spiritual Background of Human History: Thirteenth Lecture24 February 1918Stuttgartp012en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library
  19. GA 174b The Spiritual Background of Human History: Thirteenth Lecture24 February 1918Stuttgartp014en:Englishrecord unknowntranslated by Steiner Online Library

distinguish from. Ahriman, the adversary being Steiner treats in his own right; once he says that Ahriman, Mephisto and Mammon mean the same (GA 148 of 18 December 1913), and he counts the hosts of Mammon among the beings under Lucifer and Ahriman (GA 265a of 12 May 1913); Beelzebub, named once as Michael's adversary beside Mammon (GA 266a of 9 August 1908) and once as the leader of a second host against Michael (GA 92 of 24 June 1904); the Asuras, whom one esoteric lesson names with the Satans as the gods of hindrances also called Mammon (GA 266a of 1 November 1906).

see also. illness and health; Michael; Lucifer; evil.

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