Rudolf Steiner's Vision for the Future - Anthroposophical Society in ...

The Radical Re-Visioning of Psychology
Jacchus Madonna, by Dennis Klocek.
variety of autistic spectrum type behaviors reinforced by a
culture that spawns demons. He drew from spiritual
scientific insight about the nature of consciousness itself
and asserted the need for a particular type of attention.
Citing Frank Wilson’s phenomenal book, The Hand,
Dennis emphasized the importance of eye/hand coordination
in early development. The training of the eye (window
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of the soul) with the hand (the embodied instrument
of creativity) can be raised to the level of an
enlivening activity for stimulating neuronal
development. In addition to this central area for
intervention, Dennis spoke of the critical need to
exercise the artistic faculties that give rise to imaginations,
imaginations as leading orientations to
rediscovering and creating reality.
Movement VIII
The concluding talk was given by
William Bento, who picked up the themes of
Sophia as Holy Wisdom and the emergence of
psychosophy as a path of transforming the individual
soul and the culture in which it lives. He
sketched a diagrammatic picture of a Holy Trinosophia
comprised of astrosophy, psychosophy,
and anthroposophy. From his references to a
realm of ineffable light he emphasized the human
soul’s longing for mysticism, for a communion
with the stars. And he inferred that the study of
the stars in its relationship to how the soul lives
in the stream of time requires both a “new star
wisdom” and a new form of gnosis — a gnosis of
the anatomy and physiology of the soul as found
in the indications given by Steiner in 1910.
He then articulated aspects of the sentient
body, sentient soul, comprehension-seeking
soul, consciousness soul and spirit self. References
to the Pistis Sophia were utilized to expand upon
the nature of these mysteries of the embodied
human soul. Bento then asserted that putting the
wisdom from a soul-gnosis into practice is the call
of those who wish to take up psychosophy. In his
view it was nothing less than being willing to
practice a magic that would lead to the Royal Art
of creating a new culture. This latter remark opened up an
exploration into the hermetic methods implicit to the spiritual
science of anthroposophy, a path Sardello had already
made clear as the way of the Black Madonna.
As a call to the awakening of these mysteries Bento
spoke of the individuality of Mani and the explicit task in