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Title: CaMF: Bibliographical Note
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
Rudolf Steiner's Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of
the Mysteries of Antiquity), was published by the well-known Leipzig

Title: CaMF: Chapter 1: Points of View
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss

Title: CaMF: Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
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Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
Thus it was with those persons who through the Mysteries were
The sages of these peoples speak of the Mysteries with the greatest
same time the ancients regarded the Mysteries as something dangerous.
brought something from the Mysteries to the stage. He was able to
Mysteries. Menippus relates that he journeyed to Babylon in order to
Are not dangers described in speaking of the Mysteries? Is it not
the Mysteries. For this a truly unprejudiced mind is necessary.
Plutarch informs us that in the Mysteries “it is possible to gain the
And from Cicero we learn that “those occult Mysteries ... when
This God was also the God of the Mysteries. He could be called “a

Title: CaMF: Chapter 3: Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
Mysteries. How reverently Plato speaks of the “secret teachings” in
Mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning
the Mysteries, ‘the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few;’
when they are illuminated by the Mysteries.
essence of the Mysteries, saying that his thoughts are “a path which
relationship to the Mysteries has already been contributed by Edmund
Obscure” because only the light of the Mysteries provided the key to
remained lying fallow. It was the task of the Mysteries to open them
the eternal: “Happy is he who has seen those Mysteries ere he passes
grew from the same foundation in the essence of the Mysteries, within

Title: CaMF: Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
THE SIGNIFICANCE of the Mysteries in the spiritual life of Greece can
forth from the Mysteries. The later pupils of Plato, the
in the Mysteries. What Plato never wrote and never intended to write
experienced the atmosphere of the Mysteries. The words had overtones
the Mysteries. Otherwise they died away unheard.
medium, to be what the initiator was in the Mysteries. Well does Plato
know himself to be at one with the methods of the Mysteries! He
world conception with the Mysteries. At the very beginning of this
another secret of the Mysteries is expressed in Plato's philosophy.
Mysteries that are celebrated among them, that Adam is the archetypal man.”
This point throws light on the conception held in the Mysteries regarding
was the secret of the Mysteries. No wonder that it was accounted
dangerous to “betray” the Mysteries. This meant “betraying”

Title: CaMF: Chapter 5: Mystery Wisdom and Myth
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
of thinking of the Mysteries. Such accord exists to the fullest extent
into the Eleusinian Mysteries. At the command of King Eurystheus of
Mysteries led man through the death of the transitory and thus into
soul. The Minor Mysteries were celebrated in February, the Major
Mysteries in September. Initiations were connected with the festivals.
spirit of the Eleusinian Mysteries is to be found in the book,

Title: CaMF: Chapter 6: Egyptian Mystery Wisdom
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
At the root of this lies the conception of the Mysteries concerning
features contained for all time in the wisdom of the Mysteries. The
in the traditions of the Mysteries, not in outward physical history.
What was enacted for the ancient cults of the Mysteries within the
the Mysteries was indissolubly bound up with the personality of Christ
through the Mysteries. — Henceforth for those in the community of Christ
personality the power to make them appear as truth. The Mysteries
the supersensible facts of the Mysteries. What had descended upon the

Title: CaMF: Chapter 7: The Gospels
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
of the Mysteries, as the typical life of the Son of God. It was these
one who lived the typical life marked out in their Mysteries. Each of
communications were made through the Mysteries. They narrate in the
the Mysteries was embedded in the religion of the Israelite people.
that what had been an individual concern in the Mysteries became the
— And it is also certain that there were Mysteries in Judaism which
Mysteries. He had to be willing to take it upon himself, through his
Mysteries hitherto had been to those who took part in it. Indeed he
could not at once give the experiences of the Mysteries to the whole
give to all the certainty of what in the Mysteries was perceived to be
truth. He wished to cause the life which flowed in the Mysteries to
stream flowing through the Mysteries. “The Son of Man is come to seek
Mysteries. Henceforth the Kingdom of God is not dependent on “external

Title: CaMF: Chapter 8: The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
into the Mysteries, and at once the meaning becomes clear What does
about the purpose of the Mysteries? They were
Mysteries cannot be more significantly described than in the words spoken by
should partake in the Mysteries, you will feel ashamed of having been
entered. In the language of the Mysteries, he became an initiate
Mysteries must be ashamed, had to be laid aside. The earthly part had
is attained. An initiation into the Mysteries had been fulfilled.
Christianity is linked with the Mysteries. Lazarus had become an
the Mysteries, and that they paved the way to this meaning. He is the
an eminent modern investigator of the Mysteries, in Die Zeit
Jesus had revealed the secret of the Mysteries. It is easy to
had he betrayed the secrets of the Mysteries. For Jesus the main point
might be accomplished only in the secrecy of the Mysteries. The

Title: CaMF: Chapter 9: The Apocalypse of John
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
of the Mysteries in pre Christian times bore to the folk religion.
spirits” (daemons) of the wisdom of the Mysteries have become the
glory was like the shining sun.” In the Mysteries this sword is also
old. Christianity should not be confined, like the ancient Mysteries,
been attained in the Mysteries. In them also the serpent had to be
many Mysteries of antiquity. Jesus, in whom the Logos became flesh,
Saint John” is that the Mysteries shall no longer be kept hidden. “And
of antiquity. He wished to express what he thought about the Mysteries
Mystery. — Thus Christianity emerged from the Mysteries. In the
contradictory to say that the secrets of the Mysteries became revealed
reflect that the secrets of the ancient Mysteries were revealed
what previously had been veiled in the Mysteries. A new Mystery has

Title: CaMF: Chapter 10: Jesus and His Historical Background
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
in the wisdom of the Mysteries. It was only necessary for the
through the Mysteries themselves. But such a conviction was present in
mysteries of the sanctified life ... They also have works of ancient
Mysteries had become the concern of a community. But naturally its
Mysteries to Christianity. Christianity, however, wished to extend to
Mysteries the neophyte was artificially prepared so that at the
represented by the Baptism by John. During the time of the Mysteries,

Title: CaMF: Chapter 11: The Essence of Christianity
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
met only on a spiritual plane in the dark secrecy of the Mysteries but
the nature of the Mysteries; if they wished to become Christians they
Christians who found it hard to give up the ways of the Mysteries.
allowed us to communicate of those divine mysteries, and of that holy
The conflict between the method of the Mysteries and that of the
them as saturated with the ancient wisdom of the Mysteries and
Mysteries or in the Neoplatonic philosophy which was derived from the
from the mystics of the ancient Mysteries. (See my book, Die Mystik im

Title: CaMF: Chapter 12: Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
interpretation of the folk myths in the light of the Mysteries. The
Mysteries; indeed he relates that the Therapeutae interpreted ancient
Mysteries. — The Cross of Golgotha is the Mystery cult of antiquity
the process of human evolution; and the events in the Mysteries and

Title: CaMF: Chapter 13: Augustine and the Church
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
Mysteries. In the age of Augustine such convictions could lead a man
What had been guarded in the Mysteries was embodied
Mysteries. One of his most significant utterances is the following:
necessarily directed to the way of the Mysteries, Augustine was able
The cognition of the eternal which the ancient Mysteries withheld from
revelation through his cognition. The wisdom of the Mysteries is a
of the Mysteries lived on. But it lived on in an altered form. All,
to faith. Christianity brought the content of the Mysteries out of the

Title: CaMF: Comments By the Author
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
teachings of the Mysteries refers to the fact that they cannot be
content of the Mysteries in a generally comprehensible manner.

Title: CaMF: Contents
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
VI. Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom

Title: CaMF: Cover Sheet
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
The Mysteries of Antiquity

Title: CaMF: Back Cover Sheet
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss

Title: CaMF: Foreword
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss

Title: CaMF: Translators Notes
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
the Eleusinian Mysteries. When charged with betraying the Mysteries,
Stromata II, 14: “Aeschylus, who divulged the Mysteries on the stage,

Title: CaMF: Author's Preface to the Second Edition
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
conditions in the ancient Mysteries. In this “pre-Christian mysticism”

Title: CaMF: Opening Quotes by Rudolf Steiner
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss

Title: CaMF: Reference Guide to Principal Themes in Christianity As Mystical Fact, Based on Other Works by Rudolf Steiner
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
of Christ, the pre-Christian Mysteries, and on the religious strivings
GREEK MYSTERIES AND MYSTERY WISDOM (General) —
of Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom.)
The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity,
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity,
ANCIENT EGYPT AND EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES:
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries and their Connection with the Active Spiritual Forces of Today,
See references on Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Mysteries, above.
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries,

Title: CaMF: Introduction: Rudolf Steiner -- A Biographical Sketch
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of what was prepared in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Christianity,
these Mysteries but something unique and independent. From an
examination of the ancient Mysteries, Steiner goes on to discuss
lectures on the Mysteries of Eleusis. Steiner immortalized the herb-gatherer
now emerges from the hidden mysteries of Christianity. One does not
Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity
attempted to show that in the ancient Mysteries cult-images were given of

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