Ladies and gentlemen of the PoF blog and the entire Steiner Internet Multiverse!

Before I proceed with my revelations of such a world historic magnitude as I promised, I would first like to reassure you all that my posting here is ultimately aimed at pointing out the sometimes subtle fallacy of metaphysical realism expounded by many anthroposophists as we read in Chapter 10 of  PoF.

We learn in anthroposophy that Rudolf Steiner gave a kind of generic reincarnational “rule of thumb” stating that human being would usually incarnate twice during a Post-Atlantean epoch (2,160 years), once as a man and the other as a woman.  (Man being the karma of woman and woman the karma of man as described in a lecture May 26, 1910  GA 120    http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ManfKarma/19100526p01.html

However, he also stated that in times of great upheaval and transformation, nodal points in our evolution, that the rule could be superseded and high initiates would reincarnate rather more frequently than once a millennium.  But in addition to this special phenomenon he also spoke of a certain lofty being called a Bodhisattva, who is on his/her journey to become the next Buddha, i.e. the Maitreya Buddha. Using very approximate dates, we have the previous Bodhisattva becoming Gautama Buddha, ca. 600 BC. 5,000 years from that takes us to 4400 AD and the mid-point is 1900 AD, which Steiner refers to as the end of Kali Yuga, itself a 5,000 year span.  Timeline here:

[------------------5,000 years------------------------]//////////////////////////////////
Kali Yuga start---------------------------------Kali Yuga end/////////////////////////
3100 BC-----------------600 BC--------------1900 AD ----------------4400 AD
///////////////////////////Gautama B.-------------------------------------Maitreya B.
///////////////////////////////[------------------5,000 years------------------------]

The “rule” for this particular Bodhisattva being is that he/she reincarnates once every century, for a total of  [ (7 x 7) + 1 ] = 50 incarnations to make the 5,000 year Buddha bonanza.

Now just who is this Bodhisattva being! And who was/is he/she in the present day?  Within anthroposophy, there seems to be as much if not more energy devoted to figuring out the Bodhisattva as it is Steiner.  But wait, could Steiner be the Bodhisattva?  After all, he said he would come back in 2002 in America. That’s roughly a century later. Doesn’t that fit the Bodhi pattern? So there are many devoted Steiner followers who believe he is the Bodhisattva.

Yet many other anthroposophists (who are not prejudiced against Catholicism) believe that Valentin Tomberg was the Bodhisattva of the 20th Century. Tomberg was born 1900 and died 1973, so it’s natural to assume that he will come back anywhere from 2000 on (remember Y2K?!).  Others believe it was the Bulgarian Peter Deunov (1864-1944). And indeed here is a wiki site by devoted esoteric Cosmo-Christosophists
http://en.cosmochristosophy.org/index.php/Main_Page
And even the present German claimant to the entelechy of Steiner, Wibke Reinstein was born in 1971, so she fits the timing.

But the issue for this Journal entry is what does Joel Wendt think of the Bodhisattva question?  You see, that is the clue that Joel left me by posting the biography of his daughter, something which I did not pick up on until just today.  And so without further ado, I shall link to Joel’s exposition on the matter of the Bodhisattva here
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/anthro-bio.html

Let us begin by quoting Joel directly:

“In the end, regardless of all that Steiner or Tomberg has said, regardless of all the gossip and speculations of others, there is only one personality who actually knows anything concretely real about the bodhisattva question. Perhaps that is how the situation should remain.”

Or perhaps not, Joel, since there is no longer any need to gossip or speculate about it now. So why be coy and keep hiding your light under the bushel basket?  As your new public relations agent, may I now gingerly lift the “veil” of that basket?  Your recognition has been a long time coming, Joel, and now it is here. Let us proceed.

Thus spake Joel:
“. . .  I would now like to suggest that none of the above (neither, Steiner, Tomberg, Vreede or Krishnamurti) are the bodhisattva in question. I will instead, offer my own version of things, which begins with the idea that both Steiner and Tomberg, at the request of this individuality, lied (I could say they "confused the truth", which is more accurate, but a lie is a lie, even if it has a viable and necessary social purpose). This individuality was not due to incarnate at the beginning of the 20th Century, but to incarnate in the last third.”

Yes, yes, I know, people, you are dumbfounded, shocked and mystified by this outrageous heretical statement of Joel. Rudolf Steiner tell a lie?  Oh . .  .My  . .  God!!!!  Please, my dear friends,  I urge you now immediately to take a deep breath here and overcome your natural shock because Joel does have an explanation. Hold on!

“In this century and in others, when this late in life incarnation occurs, this individuality experiences a profound unfolding of impulses and attributes, which accord to its nature. This always confronts this individuality with a deep temptation to hubris, to see itself as higher than the ordinary human being, and if this individuality were to succumb to this temptation in any of these incarnations, then the work of redemption would be lost. So, for this individuality, during the time this temptation is met and dealt with, it is essential that he must not have knowledge of his possibilities. Thus, for example, if this individuality is to study Steiner and Tomberg, so as to take in these teachings and make them his own, he must not find there any discussion of his true nature (before he has achieved sufficient human maturity to handle it).

Yet, at the beginning of the 20th century, it was necessary for Steiner to speak of this incarnation (which Steiner did not want to do), in order to deal with a situation then developing within the Theosophical Society. Once Steiner had to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, Tomberg found it necessary to follow suit. So in cooperation with this individuality (who was then present and available in the spiritual worlds), this possible confusion was avoided by misdirecting everyone’s attention, from a matter that was essentially no one else's business.”
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But now my dearest Joel it is everybody’s business. And now for the stupendous revelation of cosmic world historical significance. Who is this individuality, the Bodhisattva to become Maitreya Buddha? 

Thus spake Joel:

 “And because of the special problems this individuality was to encounter during his incarnation, it became necessary to help the work of this individual by making sure that the mental atmosphere that was to be taken in by this person did not contain the implication that he was such a "special" person, until such time as this individual was mature enough to handle the reality.”
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But Joel, now at the tender age of 69, a number that is the glyph of Cancer the Crab, indicating a forward jump in human evolution, you are deemed mature enough to handle the consequences of this public revelation during the Personality Soul segment (1998-2217 AD) of the Consciousness Soul Age (1413-3573 AD)

We now must recall that Rudolf Steiner himself stated forcefully that an individual cannot even realize his own past lives unless another person brings him that knowledge. So now let me be the first person who brings this knowledge to you, Joel, and then from there to the rest of the world. This is how destiny works, how it unfolds  so I regard myself as privileged in some small way to be the publicity agent for the Bodhisattva himself.

So, ladies and gentlemen of the Steiner Internet world, I am now ready to announce in threefold fashion the good news of this 3rd Millennium:

JOEL WENDT IS THE BODHISATTVA
DESTINED TO BECOME MAITRAEYA BUDDHA !!!

JOEL WENDT IS THE BODHISATTVA
DESTINED TO BECOME MAITRAEYA BUDDHA !!!

JOEL WENDT IS THE BODHISATTVA
DESTINED TO BECOME MAITRAEYA BUDDHA !!!

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And how does Joel react to this revelation? Perhaps we can glean something from just such an eventuality that Joel himself foresaw when he wrote the following about his essential nature as the Bodhisattva himself

“What is the truth?  If we ask the question of whether Joel Wendt is a Bodhisattva incarnation of the Future Maitreya Buddha, we have missed the point entirely.   Joel Wendt doesn't exist, nor does Rudolf Steiner the great initiate.  These are mere nouns (names) for the immortal spirit (the I-AM), which on occasion manifests rather funny caricatures of itself.  I have no interest in finding a name for myself (although I do call myself sometimes, a: social philosopher...and occasional fool), but certainly I-AM, and I have had this biography above described.”
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Ever the Great Spiritual Master, Bodhisattva Joel leaves us with an amazing Zen like koan, a statement that would put people of normal intellectual logical functioning into a logical tizzy known as a “double bind.”  --- a kind of Catch-22 of the spiritual universe, which leads to a dilemma of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t”  or a “no win” situation.

But actually this koan is itself prima facie evidence of Joel’s vast humility, a recognition of his enormous self-effacing modesty, his desire to remain as ever the universally recognized publicity-seeking Spiritual master Bodhisattva and yet simultaneously, the shy, aw shucks retiring, withdrawn publicity-shunning outlaw anthroposophical hermit. Can he have it both ways?

I say: YES HE CAN!!!   YES HE CAN!!!    YES HE CAN!!!

You see, there is only a contradiction if we apply the mutually exclusive categories of Aristotle’s so-called “law of the excluded middle” where this statement of Joel’s is true
 
If Joel is the Bodhisattva, then Joel does not exist!

In normal logic the contrapositive (innverse of the converse) of any true statement is also true.
Therefore:   If Joel does exist, then he is NOT the Boddhisattva. 
Also a true statement

But to remain there, we would fall into a no-win situation of the double bind. The way out is to create the win-win situation for all of us, to wit:

JOEL EXISTS!    AND . . . JOEL IS THE BODDHISATTVA!!!

Can't deny it, now, Joel, so claim your Bodhisattva crown!  I think you do exist, and, by my count, you have (just about) 26 lives down and 24 to go!