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• Title: CaMF: Bibliographical Note
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  • Christianity As Mystical Fact
  • Rudolf Steiner's Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of
  • translation of Christianity as Mystical Fact is entirely new having
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 1: Points of View
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  • or in the traditions of the Greek mystics. In these documents the
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
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  • and that he passed through fire and ice. We hear that the mystics were
  • and decay. — The mystics did not desire to gain the mere conviction that
  • be worthless. This is because they believed the non-mystic simply does
  • eternal, he would speak of nothing. The mystics seek the eternal
  • and he alone enters eternity who has experienced mystical life.
  • darkness. But in this darkness dwells innocent happiness. The mystics
  • mystic “betrayed” his secret? He would have spoken words, nothing but
  • For the mystic, everything depends primarily upon the frame of mind in
  • concern of each personality. For the mystic, however, it is so. Tell
  • The mystic will consider it nothing but empty sound if the individual
  • the greeting the mystic offers the divine being who approaches him:
  • us here is an essential condition of the life of a mystic. Man
  • man, but they are a revealed reality only in the mystic. Therein lies
  • the transformation that has taken place in the mystic. By his
  • participate in his creation. Such feelings lived in the ancient mystic
  • In this way the mystic experienced his apotheosis.
  • The mystic named the force thus kindled within him, his true spirit.
  • Power of the cosmos, the Godhead. The mystic sought his true spirit.
  • the mystics in the Mystery temples. There the forces slumbering within
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 3: Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
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  • the Greeks stems from the same basic conviction as does mystical
  • the Mysteries, ‘the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few;’
  • and these mystics are, I believe, those who have been true
  • them by a mystic.
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
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  • Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
  • to which the mystic should be led! He expresses this in the Timaeus:
  • The mystic knew what
  • According to the ancient mystics, only he can approach Him who awakens
  • divine. This leads us to an important idea of mysticism. The soul is
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 5: Mystery Wisdom and Myth
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  • THE MYSTIC SOUGHT within himself for forces, for beings which remain
  • life. The mystic formulates the great question about his own spiritual
  • them. The mystic perceives that he creates gods; he perceives why he creates them; he can, so to speak, see beyond the natural laws of the
  • investigates its laws. — The same is true of the mystic with respect to
  • — The mystic had to recognize how the creative spirit of man comes to
  • to discover its laws, so the mystic wished to contemplate the creating
  • Sallustius discloses the attitude of a mystic-sage toward such a myth:
  • The mystic was conscious that by seeking the truth contained in a
  • world. The mystic knows this mystery. It indicates a force in the
  • which has the same structure as the mystical truth. This truth is
  • mysticism and mythological tales, must see how mythology is dealt with
  • In the myth of Osiris the mystic is able to find these thoughts about
  • in the opinion of the ancient mystics, he must have passed through
  • element in him from destruction. As a mystic he could overcome death.
  • Hercules overcame the dangers of the nether world as a mystic. This
  • immortal. Man may not betray this secret until a mystic (Hercules)
  • He becomes a mystic. Now he is exposed to the dangers which beset a
  • mystic on his ascent from the lower to the higher stages of
  • Charybdis. In his early stages the mystic wavers between spirit and
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 6: Egyptian Mystery Wisdom
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  • those of Greek mysticism. — Of the various deities worshiped in
  • the mystics, could be replaced by the conviction that the divine is
  • extend mystically from generation to generation. In this way we may
  • the primordial Initiator was to be added to faith in the mystical
  • mystics sought apotheosis; they wished to experience it. Jesus was
  • of initiation is to be seen. When the mystic of pre-Christian times went
  • world. Now when the Christian mystic goes through this experience,
  • mystics within the Mystery temples in earlier times thus descended
  • initiation gives the Christian mystic the possibility of becoming
  • causes mankind to participate unconsciously in the mystical current
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 7: The Gospels
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  • with the mystical content of the Gospels, such a point of view is
  • of Christianity). If one agrees that the Gospels have a mystical
  • mystical tradition as was Philo. — In the Gospels one finds various
  • drew was a mystical school which believed parables to be unnecessary.
  • as mystical facts, as experiences recognizable only by spiritual
  • vision, and which stem from various mystical traditions. If we admit
  • ceases to exist. For mystical interpretation, historical research
  • written a few decades earlier or later, to the mystic all of them are
  • interpreted mystically. They are supposed to break through the laws of
  • way a mystic would speak of an initiate. However, they give the
  • The individual mystic was not permitted to be saved by himself; the
  • of a secret cult. A fully developed mysticism existed side by side
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 8: The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus
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  • divided the life of the mystic into two parts. One who does not know
  • robe of the mystic. He enclosed himself in a condition of lifelessness
  • that when he awakens his own being in man, man becomes a mystic. In
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 9: The Apocalypse of John
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  • seven. The mystical wisdom of Plato designates as seals the eternal
  • “has ears to hear.” The ancient mystics were singled out from a great
  • Apocalypse it appears as the “old Serpent.” In all mystical wisdom
  • humanity was to become his own community of mystics. Not a separation
  • able to become a mystic according to his maturity. The message sounds
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 10: Jesus and His Historical Background
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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 11: The Essence of Christianity
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  • possible to find it again in Jesus. The mystic was dealing with a
  • firmly to this conception a fundamentally mystical attitude of soul is
  • For mysticism is a direct feeling and experience of the divine within
  • Christian mysticism represent the effort in one way or another to lay
  • and religious feeling. This gulf does not exist for a mystic in the
  • divine principle. A mystic of this kind does not wish to recognize a
  • its mysticism in this sense starts with an assumption. The Christian
  • mystic seeks to behold divinity within himself, but he must look to
  • see, so the Christian mystic says to himself, I will intensify my
  • In this the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages show how they differ
  • from the mystics of the ancient Mysteries. (See my book, Die Mystik im
  • Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age,
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 12: Christianity and Pagan Wisdom
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  • is a reflected image of this mystical reality, experienced in the
  • mystic searches for the deeper truth in the myths
  • And as the mystic treats the myths of paganism, Philo handles Moses' story
  • the ways of God, and its mystical striving for wisdom can take only
  • The soul life of the mystic is the fulfillment of the prototype given
  • personal experience of the mystic during “initiation.” The Logos
  • this point of view the mystical element in Christianity can be
  • grasped. Christianity as mystical fact is a stage of development in
  • their effects are the preparations for this mystical fact.
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 13: Augustine and the Church
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  • spiritually laid open and expounded by him, the mystical veil thereof
  • historical world what the mystic had sought through preparation in the
  • conviction of the pre-Christian mystic that to him was given cognition
• Title: CaMF: Comments By the Author
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  • Comment 7: In ancient mysticism “Mantic” signifies everything relevant
  • Comment 8: “Cabeiri” in ancient mysticism, are beings whose
• Title: CaMF: Contents
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  • VIII. Plato as a Mystic
• Title: CaMF: Cover Sheet
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• Title: CaMF: Back Cover Sheet
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• Title: CaMF: Foreword
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  • The present translation of Christianity as Mystical Fact is the fruit
  • In his use of the word “mystical” in the title of this volume, Steiner
  • “Mystical Fact” of a scope and significance beyond the powers of
• Title: CaMF: Translators Notes
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  • life.” The Greek words for “body” and “tomb” suggest a mystical
• 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.
  • word “mystical” to denote a conception which relies more on indefinite
  • exposition.” In many circles today the word “mysticism” carries such a
  • science.” In this book the word “mysticism” is used for the exposition
  • Only one who admits that in “mysticism” the same clarity can exist as
  • method of describing the mystical content of Christianity. For even
  • mysticism. This interpretation can show that any other attitude toward
  • combined with genuine mysticism.
  • By means of what is here called “mystical cognition” this book sets
  • conditions in the ancient Mysteries. In this “pre-Christian mysticism”
  • can follow its development out of pre-Christian mysticism. If one
  • further development of what existed in pre-Christian mysticism. Many
  • to show that Christianity presupposes the previous mysticism as the
• Title: CaMF: Opening Quotes by Rudolf Steiner
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• Title: CaMF: Reference Guide to Principal Themes in Christianity As Mystical Fact, Based on Other Works by Rudolf Steiner
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  • Reference Guide to Principal Themes in Christianity As Mystical Fact,
  • themes of Christianity as Mystical Fact are here traced to other
  • General References toChristianity as Mystical Fact
  • references to Christianity as Mystical Fact.
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact
• Title: CaMF: Introduction: Rudolf Steiner -- A Biographical Sketch
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  • coined by Thomas Vaughan, a brother of the English mystical poet,
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity
  • series had been preceded by another on the German mystics from Master
  • Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age)
  • After these lectures on the mystics which was something of a prelude,
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact
  • Steiner considered the phrase “Mystical Fact” in the title
  • to be very important. “I did not intend simply to describe the mystical