The Festival of Easter
On-line since: 31st March, 2013
CONTENTS
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The
development of the Festival out of the Mysteries. The Mystery of
Adonis. The continuance of the Mystery-thoughts into rightly
understood Easter-thoughts
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Moon-birth
and Sun-birth. Constraint through the natural necessity of the paternal
Moon-forces, liberation through the dissolving Sun-forces. Stage of
ancient Easter initiation. Resurrection of the man of soul and spirit
out of the physical body into the Cosmos
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Observation
of relationships on the heavens. The secret of the moon. The planets
and their influence on the etheric body of man. The moon's influence
on man. Man as bearer of the Sun-light. Moon-initiation: the decline
of spirituality in spring. Sun-initiation: the rise of spirituality
after the death experience in autumn
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Decline
of the life of the Ancient Mysteries and the development of freedom.
The carry over of what is once experienced into knowledge. The
Ephesian Mysteries. The descent of the spirit into the light-ether
body. J O A equals man. Tone is light. Reading in the Cosmic script.
The Easter atmosphere in Anthroposophy which leads back to the
Mysteries, but also to the conviction of immortality and repeated
resurrection in the spirit
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