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• Title: CaMF: Bibliographical Note
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
  • of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
  • the nature of Christ and Christianity.
  • Rudolf Steiner's Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of
  • Antiquity (Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache) was first published
  • thirty one thousand copies of Das Christentum ak mystische Tatsache
  • translation of Christianity as Mystical Fact is entirely new having
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 1: Points of View
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  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • spiritual developments like Christianity, or the world of ideas of any
  • beginning of Christianity, it is of just as much or as little value to
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 3: Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
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  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • birth of Christianity, thought about the laws of the Bible. He says,
  • before Christ. The Pythagoreans saw the foundation of things in
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • as the Christ: “For since God is the first and sole King of the
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 5: Mystery Wisdom and Myth
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 6: Egyptian Mystery Wisdom
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • Buddha and Christ. We need only follow up the details to see that all
  • of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be
  • and Resurrection. The difference between Buddha and Christ lies in
  • what necessitated the continuation of the life of Christ Jesus beyond
  • that of Buddha. Buddha and Christ are not understood by simply
  • definite way, so a Buddha or a Christ can live only in a quite
  • the Gospels are intended to be an ordinary biography of the Christ
  • Christ Being incarnates in him.) Thus everything transitory is removed
  • himself to his community as Christ. At the moment of his
  • universal Spirit. Christ Jesus awakens this universal Spirit once more
  • Mystery-temples, through Christianity has been grasped as a
  • world-historical fact. His community acknowledged the Christ Jesus,
  • that the world is divine. For the community of Christ, the wisdom of
  • the Mysteries was indissolubly bound up with the personality of Christ
  • through the Mysteries. — Henceforth for those in the community of Christ
  • Christian community propagates this truth itself. Faith in the One,
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 7: The Gospels
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • a Christian theologian (Harnack in Wesen des Christentums, The Nature
  • of Christianity). If one agrees that the Gospels have a mystical
  • as the Evangelists narrated the life of Christ. But naturally there
  • as the content of the Christian conception of life, are included. In
  • Christianity. Their intention is to report in the style in which
  • Christianity arose out of Judaism. We need not be surprised therefore
  • to find engrafted on Judaism together with Christianity, those
  • who lived in the earlier days of Christianity found so much agreement
  • “people.” Christianity was to be a means by which everyone could find
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 8: The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
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  • “Word.” And for him Christ is the “Word.” Plato might have said,
  • Christianity is linked with the Mysteries. Lazarus had become an
  • initiate through Christ Jesus himself. Thereby Lazarus had become able
  • Christian initiate and the first to be initiated by Christ Jesus
  • in Christ Jesus, and thus there stood before him in the personality of
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 9: The Apocalypse of John
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God granted him, to show to his
  • revelation of Jesus Christ. What became revealed to the world through
  • Christ Jesus appears in an esoteric form. Such an esoteric sense
  • therefore must be sought in the teaching of Christ. This revelation
  • bears the same relationship to ordinary Christianity as the revelation
  • of the Mysteries in pre Christian times bore to the folk religion.
  • marked out by Christianity. He is able to distinguish between the
  • false adherents of Christianity and the true. He wishes to be
  • Christian, and has founded his work on the name of Christ. But it is
  • course through such errors. Through Christ Jesus the path toward
  • Christ and then, after all, leaves this leadership by surrendering
  • this height, it remains among transitory things. Christ Jesus has
  • were a sect who took Christianity too lightly. They saw but one thing:
  • Christ is the divine Word, the eternal wisdom which will be born in
  • realize the divine in the world. But the meaning of Christian wisdom
  • Christian path with patient endurance. But you must not believe that
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 10: Jesus and His Historical Background
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • THE SOIL OUT of which the spirit of Christianity grew is to be sought
  • Christianity. The Essenes were a closed Palestinian sect, whose
  • numbers at the time of Christ were estimated at four thousand. They
  • life of a community existing long before Christianity and well known
  • Mysteries to Christianity. Christianity, however, wished to extend to
  • was ripe for the comprehension of the Mystery of Christ. In the
  • Jesus became able to receive into its own soul Christ, the Logos, so
  • of Nazareth is the Christ, and the outer personality is the bearer of
  • the Logos. This event of the “Ego” of Jesus becoming the Christ is
  • were able to attain this “union;” through the Christ event something,
  • — that is, the deeds of Christ, — was placed before the
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 11: The Essence of Christianity
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  • Chapter 11: The Essence of Christianity
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • influence upon those who acknowledged Christianity. Previously the
  • and backward. Through Christianity this changing Logos is directed
  • this position during the first centuries of Christianity. They knew
  • the nature of the Mysteries; if they wished to become Christians they
  • This conflict is reflected in the writings of early Christian times,
  • both of pagans attracted by the sublimity of Christianity and of those
  • Christians who found it hard to give up the ways of the Mysteries.
  • Christianity grew slowly out of Mystery wisdom. On the one hand
  • Christian convictions were presented in the form of the Mystery
  • truths, and on the other the Mystery wisdom was clothed in Christian
  • words. Clement of Alexandria (died 217 A.D.), a Christian writer whose
  • the edifying of the body of Christ.”
  • the Christian ones. And each of them, believing he was on the right
  • During the first centuries of Christianity the search for the divine
  • Christian religion acquired a special stamp through the various
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 12: Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
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  • Chapter 12: Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • AT THE TIME of the first beginnings of Christianity there appear in
  • the Logos, to Christ. In this sense, cognition, for Philo and those
  • who thought like him, was a birth of Christ within the world of
  • contemporaneously with Christianity, was a continuation of Philo's
  • to Christianity. Among those who acknowledge the community of Jesus it
  • and similar conceptions of the world it leads to a concept of Christ
  • a fusion of this concept of Christ with a historical manifestation,
  • writer of John's Gospel, and with him the community of Christians,
  • significant thought of Christianity had long before been outlined as a
  • of the old wisdom becomes historical fact through Christianity. Thus
  • Christianity became the fulfillment not only of what the Jewish
  • conceptions; at the starting-point of Christianity it meets us within
  • this point of view the mystical element in Christianity can be
  • grasped. Christianity as mystical fact is a stage of development in
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 13: Augustine and the Church
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  • Christian believers during the transition from paganism to the new
  • of a passionate nature. He passed through pagan and half-Christian
  • to become a Christian. Jesus, the Logos become man, had shown the path
  • Christ event other conditions had begun for souls seeking the spirit
  • established that in Christ Jesus there had been revealed in the outer
  • "What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the
  • race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in
  • existence received the name of Christian."
  • of the Christ and of everything connected with him. This would have
  • been a Mystery knowledge enriched through the Christ event. The other
  • ideas connected with the Christ event from written accounts and oral
  • inward happiness by the fact that since the "appearance of Christ in
  • what the written and oral traditions of the community of Christians
  • tell about the Christ and his revelation. On this point he says: "What
  • the Christ event. The description of this method will be found in my
  • — Whereas in pre-Christian times one
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• Title: CaMF: Comments By the Author
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• Title: CaMF: Contents
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  • X. The Essence of Christianity
  • XVI. Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
• Title: CaMF: Cover Sheet
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• Title: CaMF: Back Cover Sheet
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• Title: CaMF: Foreword
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  • in the Mystery of Golgotha, accomplished by Christ “on the great stage
  • and Resurrection of Christ — the Mystery of Golgotha. In the latter
  • Christ's Deed of Freedom he recognized the spiritual impulse in which
  • significance of Christ, how he prepared for it by long and arduous
  • The present translation of Christianity as Mystical Fact is the fruit
  • writers of the late classical and early Christian centuries, he
  • conscious perception of spiritual reality, he saw in Christianity a
  • spiritual achievement. In an early Christian century one of the Desert
• Title: CaMF: Translators Notes
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  • the Bible and Christianity destroyed his political career, and his
  • The Christmas Antiphon to which Steiner refers is found in the
  • Breviarium Romanum, and appears just before the end of the Christmas
  • Hodie Christus natus est; hodie Salvator apparuit:
  • on the Apostles' Creed, in 1893 a history of early Christianity, in
  • Christianity, (referred to by Rudolf Steiner in this book), and a
  • but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you
• Title: CaMF: Author's Preface to the Second Edition
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  • CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT was the title given to this book by its
  • not merely the mystical content of Christianity in its historical
  • form, but how Christianity arose out of mystical conception.
  • method of describing the mystical content of Christianity. For even
  • Christianity in the capacity of believers. The author of this text
  • out to show how the source of Christianity created its preliminary
  • conditions in the ancient Mysteries. In this “pre-Christian mysticism”
  • is demonstrated the soil in which Christianity germinates as an
  • Christianity in its independent essence, although at the same time one
  • can follow its development out of pre-Christian mysticism. If one
  • its independence through the belief that Christianity is merely a
  • further development of what existed in pre-Christian mysticism. Many
  • opinions of today lapse into this error, comparing Christianity with
  • pre-Christian viewpoints, believing that the Christian viewpoint is
  • merely a further development of the pre-Christian. This book sets out
  • to show that Christianity presupposes the previous mysticism as the
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• Title: CaMF: Opening Quotes by Rudolf Steiner
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  • Christianity is only in the beginning of its activity, and its real
  • What Christianity bestows goes with us into all ages of time to come
  • as such has been transcended, Christianity will remain. The fact that
  • process of humanity. But Christianity as a world-view is greater than
• Title: CaMF: Reference Guide to Principal Themes in Christianity As Mystical Fact, Based on Other Works by Rudolf Steiner
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  • This early, fundamental work shows how Christianity arose out
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  • themes of Christianity as Mystical Fact are here traced to other
  • of Christ, the pre-Christian Mysteries, and on the religious strivings
  • General References toChristianity as Mystical Fact
  • From Jesus to Christ,
  • Cycle 22, Lecture 4, Christiania (Oslo), June 6, 1912.
  • references to Christianity as Mystical Fact.
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact
  • Christiania (Oslo), June 12, 1910.
  • The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego Consciousness,
  • From Jesus to Christ,
  • The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity,
  • Christiania (Oslo), June, 1910.
  • From Jesus to Christ,
  • Christiania (Oslo), June 10, 1910.
  • Christ and the Spiritual World,
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• Title: CaMF: Introduction: Rudolf Steiner -- A Biographical Sketch
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  • first-hand experience of Christ and His active presence in the evolution
  • now emerges from the hidden mysteries of Christianity. One does not
  • title and its reference to Christianity, it will be of particular
  • Movement for Religious Renewal, formed by a body of Christian
  • Movement is known today as “The Christian Community” and has
  • Movement a complete spiritual rebirth of the Christian Sacraments for
  • the modern age and a renewal of the Christian priestly office.
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact
  • Christianity as well as in Steiner's own life.
  • Compared with the free flow of spiritual teaching on Christianity
  • content of Christianity,” he says in his autobiography. “I
  • the New Testament Book of Revelation for the priests of the Christian
  • Christ which he had carved and nearly finished. Even in the literal
  • sense of the word he had laid down his life at the feet of Christ.