{"id":67894,"date":"2025-09-24T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=67894"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:18:42","slug":"the-longing-of-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-longing-of-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longing of Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"G\u00fcnther Dellbr\u00fcgger\u2019s book, published in 2024, is a hermeneutic device that manages to touch both the hearts and longings of its readers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cOne of the most shocking statements in spiritual science is that the spiritual world had reached a point in its development where it could not continue to progress any further on its own.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. The faculties that the spiritual world needs for its further development must now be cultivated in the sensory world, and this must be done by human beings. It may be helpful to imagine that the gods also have a kind of religion\u2014something they look up to and to which they make sacrifices\u2014and that this is the human being.\u201d G\u00fcnther Dellbr\u00fcgger wrote these lines in 2001 in a short note while sitting at the Goetheanum. The words will surprise <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00fcnther Dellbr\u00fcgger\u2019s book, published in 2024, is a hermeneutic device that manages to touch both the hearts and longings of its readers. \u201cOne of the most shocking statements in spiritual science is that the spiritual world had reached a point in its development where it could not continue to progress any further on its own.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. The faculties that the spiritual world needs for its further development must now be cultivated in the sensory world, and this must be done by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15988,"featured_media":67647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8786,10376],"tags":[11700,11701,8814],"class_list":["post-67894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christology","category-review-en-2","tag-ausgabe-37-2025-en","tag-english-issue-39-40-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}