And these three characteristics therefore determine the Russian nature to enter into a certain connection with the Central European, Western European nature. Because the Russian people are adaptable, they are initially called upon to achieve what we have often spoken of, what they have to achieve in the sixth post-Atlantean cultural period, not initially through creativity, but through their experience, by absorbing what comes to them from the West. I have often called it a kind of spiritual marriage, years, indeed I may say decades before the outbreak of this war, a kind of marriage that is necessary between the Central European being and between the Russian being in terms of the development of the soul.
Because the Russian people have a certain aversion to intellectualism, it will be possible to create certain social institutions with the Russian people, which will only be possible if the marriage just mentioned really takes place.
And the Russian people will have to behave in a similar way towards what can be given at all within Central Europe. Tomorrow, in the public lecture, we will again have to speak of such things that have to follow from the Central European being, and which must be incorporated into the whole course of development of mankind as something great, mighty and imperishable. But the Russian people will have to accept what is achieved by the Central European being. Initially it is not self-creative within this post-Atlantean period.
Rudolf Steiner, GA 174b
Dear Michaelites!
The Mystery Centre of Northern Europe in Järna became a Holy Mantra, through which the mysterious foundation of the Sixth Cultural Epoch will begin. This will take 1500 years of the current Fifth Cultural Epoch to prepare.
The essence of this mantra lies in a call that resounds from Central Europe to Eastern Europe. Its topicality and urgency lie in the fact that the cosmic rhythms and the external world situation demand from the Michaelites a conscious awakening of the Slavic land from its millennia-long sleep and thus the beginning of the establishment of its connection with the Slavic archangel.
