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Title: Lecture: Newborn Might and Strength Everlasting
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be impaired by our teachings concerning Jesus Christ that encompass such a
now that Christmas is with us. The souls that are carried off by devils
Christmas plays. We can see how the legend of the Child brought to the
knowledge of man his relationship with Christ Jesus. He needs this
year with the divine impulse of the Christ.
received the ego of Zarathustra in his twelfth year and the Christ in his
of Golgotha and prepares himself for the approaching Christmas festival. In
that can never be abandoned. The Christ impulse, related to all human life
Child on Christmas Eve. Although we must acquire other feelings than those
simple Christmas play. Indeed, we, too, feel just as happy when we see such
depths of the human soul. When we celebrate the Christmas festival, we must
indeed true that the Christ being entered the aura of the earth. True also
Were Christ to be born
memories during the Christmas festival.
experience as Christmas feeling arising from our anthroposophical world
In the blessed Light of Christmas,
See Christmas Plays from Oberufer, translated by A.C Harwood.

Title: William Shakespeare
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his marked personality, the expression of Christian ideals of that
time. The Christian type of his days, not the individual personal
general conception. The Christian principles of that time did not

Title: William Shakespeare
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the Christian ideas of that time. The Christian type of his time,
This was the general conception. The Christian principle had no

Title: The Manicheans
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founded by Manes about the third century after Christ and its great
‘Paraclete’ or ‘Holy Spirit’ promised by Christ to
Western Christianity. Manicheanism is supposed to have taught that
pulsates in the Catholic Church is the Christian Life. (From the time
Christianity. This pulsating Life emerges again and again. (As for
example in the Christian Mystics.) The form is nothing else than the
Christianity. Christianity will appear in its perfected form in the
Christianity and lives in all forms and confessions. Whoever seeks the
Christian Life will find it. It creates Forms and shatters Forms. But,
in addition, a form for the Christian Life of the Sixth Root Race must
organization, a Form, in which the Christianity of the Sixth Root Race
that was the contrast in the third and fourth centuries after Christ.

Title: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World
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days connected in the Church Calendar with the Christmas Festival —
poor man living among us has no meat at Christmas and we feel bound to give
him some in order that we may feel justified in eating our own Christmas

Title: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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CHRIST AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
name of Christ has no real place, is gaining ground more and more. I
in the Christ Problem. Since the advent of Christianity into
Christ Being has of course assumed the forms which were suited to the
Christianity, we find, in what is known as the ‘Gnosis,’
Christ. The Gnostic ideas were only able to prevail for a relatively
the Christ which later formed the content of the doctrines of the
development of the wonderful Gnostic ideas concerning the Christ
during the first Christian centuries. This is not because the
was contained in the ancient Gnosis of the first Christian centuries.
The early Christian Gnosis possessed a far deeper and
more profound conception of the Christ than all the other doctrines
brought forward in Christendom during those times. The Christ of the
region the ancient Gnosis looked for the Christ Being. To understand
existence, the Christ Being remained above in purely spiritual worlds
continue his progress therein; whereas the Christ Being remained in
in the world of Matter. Hence even in historical ages the Christ
designate as the starting-point of Christianity was recognised by the
humanity, for it was then that the Christ — having held back
united with that world in which the Christ was active. Then, at the
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Title: Lecture: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism
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of “Christ” — yet they always mean nothing but their
whether the religions of to-day speak of God, of Christ, or of

Title: Lecture: And The Temple Becomes Man
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the Christian Temple or Church. Such buildings, erected
Christian architecture is distinguished from that of Greece. The
of Christendom is quite different. I once said that by its very
underlying the Greek Temple. The Church of Christendom is quite
different. The call of a Christian church goes out to the hearts and
the Temple of Christianity, for Dom expresses a
culture and of Christianity, of the Mystery of Golgotha, although, to
once whole and perfect in itself, strove in the Church of Christendom
Cathedral of Christendom have arisen in the course of the evolution
creative power flows from Christ, Who having carried the Cross to the

Title: Lecture: The Migrations of the Races
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Christianity: the hallowing of the personality, the full descent to
by another Being, the Christ, who represents the whole Fifth Root
Root Race. This can be done by Christ alone, who is the actual impulse
of the Fifth Root Race. The Manu had made the preparation. Christ
Christ is the inner, divine principle. He must pour Himself into the
own, which was the highest existing form of the law. But Christ had
this idea very life. The Christ is given form in the Jewish
this could have led to the spread of Christianity on the physical
become Christians.
The Jews provide form for Christ
The Greeks understand Christ
The Romans become Christians
Hence Christianity began to spread only after the destruction of
framework for the Christians was already prepared and was the
culmination already attained. Thus the Christian tradition is
preserved in the Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. Christianity is
Rishis who now experience the teaching in a Christian form and want
always to protect the original Christianity from degenerating.
From this stems the adaptation of the original form in which Christianity
original Christianity which had developed continuously from Dionysius
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Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 6: Illness and Karma
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beautiful words of Christ, when He was speaking of man's entry into

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 8: The Manifestation of the Ego in the Different Races of Men
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two regions that such a thing as the Moses-Christ religion could
Christ is, among those people who already bore the feeling of
Christ. In Europe everything was prepared for the Christ. And because
remarkable description emerged there long before Christian times,

Title: Being of Man/Future Evolution: Lecture 9: Evolution, Involution and Creation out of Nothingness
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out of relationships is called in Christian esotericism ‘creating
virtuous relationships is called in Christian esotericism ‘The
him through the coming of Christ into our evolution. Through
experiencing the Christ Event on earth, man was able to ascend to
creating in the Holy Spirit. Thus it is Christ Himself Who creates
stands firmly on the basis of the Christ experience, and the Christ
then the Christ sends him the Holy Spirit, and man becomes capable of
we see the coming of the Christ to the Earth as a fulfillment as it
And the Christ Event has given man the greatest thing possible, the
Spirit. This again is an aspect of Christian esotericism. Christian
Saturn, Sun and Moon had passed away, Christ came to Earth as the
forcing the Christ to His resolution to enter a human body; He
Christian esotericism, and everything depends on our being able to

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture One
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Christianity as Mystical Fact,
You may remember what I once said about Christian Rosenkreutz

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Two
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evolution of humanity. The distinction between Christianity and other
for those who call themselves Christians. "Ye shall be as Gods"
Lucifer or Christ. Forces needed for renewal of the etheric body in
Chinese, of the Mohammedan, of the Christian, prepare the soul in
It was not always so. In pre-Christian times the process
Christianity in its development hitherto has achieved all its goals
denominations Christianity has produced only one-sided aspects of its
this respect true Christianity is very different. Christ Jesus, the
Individuality to whom the Christians turn, was least active among the
Christianity. The life of soul was the essential factor and in
deepest roots and from the very beginning Christianity was meant to
Christianity is rightly understood only when it is realised that it
have arisen from Christianity should be no cause of apprehension; for
Christianity makes possible the evolution of the “human
have to take place within the Christian world if the roots of
Christianity are to be rightly understood. A distinction will have to
be made between knowledge of Christian tenets and the reality
of Christianity.
clear that belief in Christ Jesus was not the prerogative of Judaism,
and spoke the words, “Christ died not only for the Jews but
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Three
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connection been lost. The Christ Impulse imparts feeling of kinship
Christ is the great Sun-Being who through the Mystery of Golgotha has
possible for man to take into himself the Christ-force on Earth;
permeation with the Christ Impulse will include the impulses of the
recognise in Christ the power that imparts feeling of kinship with
soul has true affinity — with Christ. She rejects the
Christ Impulse leads when it permeates the soul. The independence of

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Five
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This was a special lecture given "as a kind of Christmas gift"
on the subject of Christian Rosenkreutz and Gautama Buddha:
shall not be speaking today about the Christmas Festival as in
to think of what I shall say as a gift placed under the Christmas
tree in the form of an anthroposophical Christmas study — a
Christmas season we may very properly think of an individual
Christian Rosenkreutz.
propagation of the impulse given by Christ's appearance on the Earth
spoke of what may be called the last Initiation of Christian
of particular significance because it linked with the Christ Impulse
subsequently to be wrought by Christ Jesus. The Buddha spoke at the
shepherds was the message from ancient, pre-Christian times, of peace
the mission of Christ Jesus.
advancing stream of Christian evolution in the West and special
evolution. He had taken the Christ Impulse into the very depths of
Christian form. It may truly be said that when the Buddha had become
Christianity. A faithful pupil of his had absorbed into the depths of
teaching which represented a union of Buddhism and Christianity. It
that being who had been a pupil of the Buddha and Christ, who had
learnt of the Christ through the Buddha, appeared again on Earth, he
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Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Six
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in the souls of men by increasing understanding of the Christ Impulse
relationship between Christian Rosenkreutz and Buddha. This
being, after experiencing the Christ Event in the Sun sphere between
be an ever deepening understanding of the Christ Impulse. Everything
that contributes to this increasing understanding of the Christ
Mars being delegated by Christian Rosenkreutz to Buddha. This Mystery
is this: Why was it that even in areas where Christianity was
presentation of Christianity in its more advanced form?
outer, exoteric presentations of Christianity but also in the more

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Seven
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‘higher Adam’ — the Christ. According to Paul, the
Christianity had within them much stronger, more extensive spiritual
From Jesus to Christ
greater measure ‘descend’ from the Christ who is the
the extent to which they have learnt ‘to die in Christ’,
sphere — as we heard in the lecture at Christmas. Consequently
Mars. Christian Rosenkreutz had entrusted to Buddha a special
Christ Himself leads men between death and rebirth through the Mars

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Nine
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said here at Christmastime (in Lecture Five) about the Buddha and his

Title: Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture Ten
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of this — and the Christ Impulse is needed here — it also
the one hand we have the fact that Christ is the Sun Spirit who
From Jesus to Christ.
Earth is contained within the range of the Saturn sphere. The Christ
Old Moon eventually separated from it. The Christ Impulse continued
evolved to become Earth. What streams to us from the Christ Impulse,
Christ Impulse. Thus everything brought from the stellar worlds for
ensouled by what came to the Earth from the Sun, namely by the Christ

Title: Michelangelo
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Science we look at pre-Christian times, we shall find that the whole
Christianity but which originated in Judaism and still retained to
was a fact that no image was to be made. The earliest Christians did
not make any pictorial representation of Christ but employed only
symbols — the fish symbol, the monogram of Christ. The same had
Christendom, the Sistine Chapel in Rome, we see the command
during which sculpture rested, there appeared the Christian ideal: an
If we look at the dead body of the Christ we can see at once that
bears the adult body of her son Jesus Christ on her lap yet seems too
other Christian motif, the reason for this lay in the culture within
could be devised by the Christian world of the time. He sought to
of the world to its highest point in the coming of Christ to earth
what is to come in the Christ-Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha.
“Christ in the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail”
“The Four Sacrifices of Christ.”]
These Sibyls are very peculiar figures and modern Christianity will
pointers to the Christ Event and we have to take them just as
us the story of Christ emphasized so strongly how He drove out the
sibylline. For this reason also, Christ Jesus was so insistent that
Christ-impulse; that is the content, the theme of Michelangelo's
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Mystery, Novalis, the Seer
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The Christmas Mystery, Novalis as Seer,
The Christ Being, Past, Present, and Future.
Christuskünder. This volume contains three lectures
The Christmas Mystery
presence of the everlasting power of the Christ in the
and Cosmos, the Christ Being Himself appeared before him. He
of having discovered Christ as a living reality. Such an
Christ Jesus and rejected their proclamation, received in
higher vision the direct proof that Christ lives, that He is
truth Christ was not only present in the Body that was once
spirituality, would have allied himself with Christ had he
out of actual knowledge, Novalis says that the Christ whom he
working. The eye that beholds the Christ has itself been
formed by the Christ-Power. The Christ-Power within the eye
beholds the Christ outside the eye.
Event of Golgotha the Being we call Christ has been the
Body of Christ; he sees the waters of the Earth permeated
with Christ's Blood, and he sees the solid rocks as Christ's
Body of Christ; he sees the Earth and Christ miraculously
Christ.
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Title: Lecture: Buddha
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Buddhism and Christianity.
centuries before the Christ Impulse was destined to dominate Western
compare it with Christianity. Six hundred years after the appearance
the Christian has quite a different attitude. Putting aside
Christian conception as follows. In so far as the Christian
pictures of the Book of Genesis. The attitude of the Christian to the
world is very different from that of the Buddhist. The Christian
Thus in Christianity we are
temptation plays an essential part. The Christian who pierces
the surface of Christianity into its depths must say that because of
maya and illusion;” the Christian: — “I have
Christian asks the same question but realises: “The fault is
therefore he must overcome the world, but the Christian feels
When the Christian realises
And so the Christian feels
overcoming the thirst for existence. The Christian seeks liberation
and Paul's words: “Not I, but Christ in me!” —
must be overcome. He must leave this world!” But the Christian
is the fault!” The Christian stands in the world
“Not I, but Christ in me!” The Christian should say:
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture
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name of Christian Rosenkreutz, and that this Lodge longed to hear
when I reflect that in order to speak about Christian Rosenkreutz at
that for some years we have designated as the Christ is the result of
of Christ into the body of Jesus of Nazareth at the time marked by
yet, we could not understand Christianity without possessing
these truths. We cannot really understand Christianity, for instance,
cannot understand Christianity; for what could he make of the words
of St. Paul, ‘If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching
Christianity.
It is precisely these facts relating to Christianity, to the Mystery
not interested in Christ, and never have been. They do not feel any
meditating about the Being of the Christ, or in making occult
Christ.
contains great truths concerning everything not Christian, —
but in respect to what is Christian, is the greatest nonsense. With
exception of Judaism and Christianity, — The Secret Doctrine
is very useful. But nothing relating to Judaism and Christianity
became inadequate for the understanding of Christianity. Allow me to
mode of understanding Christianity, but it was not possible really to
understand Christianity by means of Eastern conceptions. These only
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Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspects of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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immersed as a spiritual being, feeling one with the Christ-being,
carried by the Christ-Being, swimming — though not in a sea of

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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the Christ-being when we grasp the idea of the bestowing virtue, the
to the earth by the Christ-Being is on the earth, fulfils its life on
nature of the Christ-impulse. We are then able to understand the dim
we see this picture again, and see how the Christ grows forth from
will be our task to study the Christ-Being in the spiritual nature of

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 4: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth (Part 1)
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as it were, we have before us the meaning of the earth, the Christ.
wish to avoid the death of sacrifice.’ That which Christ might
the greatest renunciation made by Christ Jesus confronts us when, by
to enter His sphere. If we are able to see in Christ Jesus all that
whose very nature was resignation. Christ renounced that which would
the Christ seated among the twelve, and Judas, the betrayer, in the
value might enter into evolution, Christ Himself had to place His
immortal Divine power. And this representation of Christ surrounded

Title: Evolution/Aspect: Lecture 6: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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by any of the phenomena known to man, that the Christ incarnated in
to have risen like Christ — all these reasons are on the same
‘Christ-Being’ it must clearly be impossible to
Christ-Being is the Mystery of Golgotha; that is, the conquest of
Would Christ undergo death He must descend to the physical plane!
Christ Himself belongs to the higher worlds and came down to the
perceive the Christ as an etheric figure of the astral plane, as Paul
becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher faculties
worlds, that Christ is a reality; that He lives; they will learn to
development of Christ Himself is progressing — and that
appears as a first shining forth of Christ in the world of man. So
Christ for the next three thousand years from our present century.
enacted on earth as the origin of all the subsequent Christ
Christianity could be brought about without having a power behind
Christianity as a Mystical Fact. They were able to convince
themselves of the actual existence of Christ Jesus by the
such and such a position, then He whom they call the Christ must have

Title: Lecture: Zarathustra
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centuries before the Christian era. It is however significant that
as he did thousands of years before the birth of Christianity, was
of the Christian era) did these two currents mingle and gradually
the Greek and Christian eras these two methods of development were
Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and even up to the Christian era,

Title: Lecture: Hermes
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millennia before the Christian era — knew from actual

Title: Lecture: Reincarnation and Karma
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Christianity and real Religion,” in one of the thirty-nine

Title: Lecture: Birth of the Light
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Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Thoughts on Christmas Eve.
THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS EVE
year that we are able to be together on this Christmas Eve, and
the feeling that we may have on this Christmas night?
this Christmas night there should pour into our hearts the
from this Christmas night something may overflow into all our
we would pour into our souls on Christmas night!
those beings who wanted to bring the significance of Christmas,
and the relation of Christmas night to the whole Christ-Impulse
this Christ Impulse stands before us, we may say, in a
threefold figure; and to-day at the Christ-festival this
threefold figure of the Christ-Impulse can have great
Christmas Eve, enters human evolution in such a way that three
yet another figure the Christ-Impulse can come before our
cosmic Christ-Impulse, which expresses how man is eternally
the cosmic Christ, we become aware how through the Mystery of
bearer of the cosmic Christ-Spirit. It is only this
Christmas. Everywhere, if we enter but a little more deeply
into human evolution, we are shown how deeply the Christ-Event
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Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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long before our Christian Era. A time which we can only

Title: Lecture: The Mission of Raphael in the Light of Spiritual Science
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the founding of Christianity, would lose something if they had not risen
of Christianity unites in this sense into an organic whole with what
culture coincides in a certain sense with the founding of Christianity and
like Augustine, for instance, who in the Post-Christian epoch is really
not so far removed from the founding of Christianity as we are from
on the other side there is the founding of Christianity. All the experiences
of Christianity was not to direct man's gaze to the world of sense in
symbol of the deep incision made by Christianity and Greek culture in
They are mighty figures, these popes, but “Christians” in
In these circles there was not much Christian piety. There was, however,
heathenized Christendom, but in what sense in this service? From out
his soul flow creations which give a new form to Christian conceptions
element of Christian legend rises again. What a contrast there is between
in the picture of the Madonna. We forget all that Christian traditions as
of Christian legends and traditions appearing again in Raphael's pictures
in the midst of an age when Christendom had, as it were, become heathenized
form to the figures of Christian tradition in an age when treasures
soil of Italy, I mean, Christendom. The mission of this inward deepening
of Christendom was not that of the external sense element in the Greek
express the inner experiences called forth in the soul by Christianity.
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Title: The Social Question and Theosophy
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the early time of Christianity, in the first Christian
spiritual life. Christianity brought the message of equality
what this pedagogy on earth was like in pre-Christian
In that regard Christianity took measures for education in
importance to him. It is merely illusory when Christianity
development of mankind since the rise of Christianity, a
Le nouveau christianisme (1825)
(The New Christianity).

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture I
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wall, above the fairly low doors; and at it Christ and His
Prior and of Christ looked across at each other like two opposite
on cushions. No, it had to resemble the present; Christ was to take

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture III
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pantomimes and through Christopher Marlowe had reached a literary

Title: Goethe's Secret Revelation: Lecture IV
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Christ and promised him all the kingdoms of the world and their
Whoever heard here the lectures on ‘Christian

Title: Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Modern Mankind
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Christianity in the Evolution of Mankind
of Spiritual Economy and was published in German as Das Christentum
CHRISTIANITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MANKIND
Christianity in the Evolution of Modern
Christ — that Being Whom we designate as the Christ, Who
the Christ-Being quite in vain in an earlier human embodiment,
lofty Avatar-Being as the Christ and lower Avatar-beings. The
significance through the appearance of the Christ
of Christ dwelt in the body
the Christ entered into the threefold sheath of Jesus of
Christ Principle in the earth evolution, there occurred in
characteristic for the pre-Christian time. When in this way an
Hebrew tribe. That was changed by the appearance of the Christ
The intimate history of Christian
described as the history of Christian development is a
Christian development. Anyone who can look more deeply into the
evolutionary progress of Christianity will easily perceive that
in the early centuries of the Christian era the manner in which
Christianity was spread was entirely different from that of
later centuries. In the first Christian centuries the spread of
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Title: An Impulse for the Future
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no longer sufficient to capture the newly pulsing life, the Christian
the individual, whom we have called Christian Rosenkreuz since
incarnations: Christian Rosenkreuz; and that this endowment shall be

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture I: The Significance of Supersensible Knowledge Today
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place of Christianity the world is to be inoculated with a
religion, Christianity. Christianity is capable of endless
a means to make Christianity more accessible to the scholarly
tolerance and patience. So far, Christians have tended to
not understand Christianity, each one tolerates the other's
Hebrews emerged the cult of Moses. In our time, it is Christ
Christianity will also work effectively when once again the
ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Christian times would

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture II: Blood is a Very Special Fluid
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this context a witty remark made by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1744–1799) was a physicist

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture III: The Origin of Suffering
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classical scholar and critic of Christianity.
salvation through Christ Jesus. It may strike us that,
Christianity reassures us concerning eternity, concerning
temporal. Thus, Christianity rightly sees in the pain and
suffering, in the anguish and misery to which Christ Jesus'
the cross of Christ Jesus bears witness to this truth, for,
as Christianity teaches, there soon followed the outpouring
Spirit was not yet there, for Christ was not yet glorified.

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture IX: Wisdom and Health
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Christianity arose, the same sect was known as the Essenes.
forces of love through their limbs. Christ was the wisest and
Spiritual Being is the greatest healer. From Christ is born

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XI: Who are the Rosicrucians?
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that it goes back to a legendary figure, Christian Rosenkreuz,
Christian Rosenkreuz (15th century) was the founder of Rosicrucianism,
summed up by saying that Christian Rosenkreuz — that is
Oriental. A few centuries before the Christian era began,
Indian race. At the beginning of the Christian era the right
method was the so-called Christian-Gnostic path. The human
Christian path, but it enables the striving human being to
water, and later with Christian purity. Became identified with

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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always been so. The great mystics of the early Christian
reincarnation and karma in the Christian-Anthroposophical
also the source of a Christian belief that life will
death; eternal life springs from the Death of Christ." At
spirit of Christianity, thus combining the Parsifal legend
higher self — in Christ Jesus foreshadowed humanity's
through Christ Jesus.
sense the presence of the Christ within mankind's spiritual
wanted new life to pour into the Christian festivals, which

Title: Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XIII: The Bible and Wisdom
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Christian faith, turns to the four Gospels known as the
that took place in the early Christian centuries, the
personalities who lived in the early days of Christendom.
Christian Church Father and writer.
Christianity was by no means the same as that of modern
himself a Christian by people with orthodox viewpoints. These
Augustine, Saint (354–430) a Christian theologian and
who said: “What is known today as Christian religion is
called Christianity.”
No Christian
recognizes the Truth when Christ says: “Heaven is in
Buddha, Moses and Christ are similar It was because they had to
were the writers of the gospels? In my book, Christianity as
the Gospels were connected with Christ.
Jewish and Christian writings appeared in Palestine between
from the way names were given that Christ did not refer to
the Eternal, the Christ, the Alpha and Omega.
at the time of Christ saw Him as a Divine Being who carried
how the first followers of Christ saw Hirn. What in ancient
These words applied to the followers of Christ. But how could

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture I: The Past Shows Us a Picture of Necessity
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been a free deed at all! Christ would then have been
When I was here at Christmas, I drew your attention to the fact

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture IV: The Roman World and the Teutonic Tribes
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position in world history could not fully take up Christianity,
had taken up Christianity with youthful energy.

Title: Necessity and Freedom: Lecture V: The "I" is Found on the Physical Plane in Acts of Will
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deny the existence of Christ because it cannot be proved on the
speak about the Christ in as vague a way as possible, appealing
they explain to this priest that we do represent Christianity,
not deny the existence of Christ, we will be able to gain
Christ. Then they would say, “You see, there are people
who do not believe in Christ. They do not belong to us.
us about Christ through ecstasy.” They do not say that,
them affirm the existence of Christ and even maintain
they have positive knowledge of Christ, and we become the sort
Christ in a different way from them: they then become far worse
existence of Christ. For they consider it their
privilege to present Christianity, and our mistake is
Christ.” You would make them far less angry if you were
“We deny the existence of Christ.” What infuriates
them is that we refer to Christ in a different context. Out of
Christian footing.” That is the worst thing you can
the more the I became separated. The Christ impulse is
in its purest form with the Christ impulse is expressed in the
built up out of the initials of Christ: I-C-H, Jesus
Christ.
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Title: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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had now — and this was the final result of the Christian

Title: Spirit of Fichte: Lecture I: The Spirit of Fichte Present in Our Midst
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nine-year-old Gottlieb was the son of Christian Fichte, the

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
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The Christmas Festival In The Changing Course Of Time
Here he surveys the meaning of Christmas in past, present, and future.
piritual mood connected with advent and Christmas in earlier times,
Christmas Plays. Steiner then discusses the future development and
significance of the Christmas festival, which will grow out of the
Christmas festival. Indeed, it is one of the greatest festivals of the
preparations and celebrations of the Christmas festival which we see
permeate ourselves with the Christmas mood, and wish to receive this
Christmas mood from what we can see in today's environment. There is a
discord in seeing the streets bedecked with Christmas trees and other
that the Christmas festival can do to deepen man's inner nature,
“What can this ‘Christ festival’ mean to us?”. And in their
Christmas festival meant to people for many centuries in the past.
our souls: What has the Christmas festival been for many centuries,
permeated the Christmas festival. On the other hand, let us compare
the Christ in their hearts during the great festivities surrounding
Christmas or Easter. Today it has become very difficult indeed,
German villages. When the Christmas season approached I could behold
prevailed during the rest of the year. When Christmas approached this
afternoons and evenings as the Christmas season approached. One would
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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity
post-Christian renewal of the principle of the ancient Mysteries.

Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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relevant to the life of the founder of Christianity. They are
general picture of the life of Christ Jesus. On the other
as it was born in him through the impact of Christianity.
could be taken as Christian historical facts.
explaining symbolically the Christ myth and the Bible in
that related to the life of the founder of Christianity, and
was the founder of Christianity could not readily be
Christian mystics so often expressed in profound and
Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times
an inner experience of Christ — there is the
it down says of Christ (the words are not to be taken
the life of Christ Jesus as John describes it from his own
is told us of the founder of Christianity is not authentic.
see genius. Although one learns the truth of Christ Jesus
relationship between Christ Jesus and the divine man that
which in its fullness represents the Christ. When you know
in order to experience the Christ, his own higher divine
Christ Jesus but a biography of the developing human soul.
only makes people into Christians but enables them to awaken

Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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make it alive in us, we come to know the Christian
Christian initiation has similarities with other ways of
Christian initiation.
pupil of the Christian initiation has to undergo seven
feet, the first stage of a Christian initiation. Christ
second stage of the Christian initiation is the
disciple who bears witness that Christ lives. Now the higher
Christian mystic. He feels as though the whole earth was part
Gospel is a description of this Christian path of initiation.
time is divided into before and after Christ.
Christianity attains its real meaning when it is followed as
be lived inwardly. The Christian spirit has to be experienced

Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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deeply into the essence of Christianity, and has shown us
Christian document. We have seen that it should not be read
the birth of Christianity.
last lecture we came to know the Christian initiation, but it
was not Christianity that first made initiation possible. At
Christianity all these things became more inward. Since
Christianity has provided us with such documents as the John
pre-Christian times available. One had to be introduced into
practised far into the Christian era. For a long time it was
at the time of the birth of Christianity it still had a
Christianity knows nothing of this teaching of reincarnation.
manifest. Can this be reconciled with true Christianity? No.
Christianity would be morally degraded. Interpreted
answered him, ‘We have heard out of the law that Christ
fundamental Christian truth: I am the Way, the Truth and the
Christian mystical truth — “I am the Way, the
recognise Christ through their higher comprehension. When
conception. Christ will reappear in the world. The doctrine
Christ, reincarnation was generally accepted. Life between
Christ, and the present day. Those living then, appear again
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Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture VI: Easter: The Mystery of the Future
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IN A former lecture I pointed out that Christianity is wider in
Christianity will have thrown off the outmoded forms of religious life
human culture. Christianity has the power in itself of transcending
Mysteries, in times long before Christianity had spread over the
replaced by the later, Christian Principle. In the Northern Mysteries
thither from Christianity. The presence of the Gothic Bible amid the
Christianity emerging from the narrow framework of the religious life
central idea of Christianity comes to birth, how it bursts the bonds
Christianity, as a religious idea. And after he had reached the
heights of that prophetic foreshadowing of Christianity to which he
Nibelungs,” this central Idea of Christianity found still wider
time when Christianity will embrace, not only the religious life, but
kindle the feeling of what Christianity can be for mankind in times to
relation between religion in the ordinary sense and Christianity. The
perhaps, those Christmas lectures in which we endeavoured to grasp the
meaning of Christmas in the light of the Mystery-knowledge. If from a
higher vantage-point we think of the Christmas Festival on the one
other, the relation between religion and Christianity, if rightly
moments of which I told you in connection with the Christmas Mystery,
In essentials, therefore, this pre-Christian Initiation consisted
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Christianity spread and grew in Europe is the result of it! And if we
gravity, and you will admit that Christianity then spread in Europe
as the announcement of Christianity, a certain European atmosphere was
were once seated together those who, when Christianity was first
we see the first small handful of Christians, possessing something
Christ-impulse, were the first Christians — and above, over their
Christians. You know all that, I need not relate it further. But if
when the old Roman culture was still above, and Christianity, tended
Christianity.
how the first announcement of Christianity was completely opposed to

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 5: Concerning the Subconscious Soul Impulses
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leading motive of all the works written by Christoph Oetinger, a very
in referring to the Theosophist, Christoph Oetinger, in November,

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connected with Christmas and the Christmas season. It treats of the
legendary person, passed the thirteen days between Christmas and the
following: Olaf Åsteson reaches a church door one Christmas Eve and
I have experienced a kind of Christmas sadness — one cannot call
our era that Being whom we have frequently characterised, the Christ
Mystery of Golgotha; — Paul saw the Christ spiritually through
their souls with the Christ-Event. Through this connection of single
individuals with the Christ-Event Christianity was spread abroad. At
disappeared. Christianity is spread abroad. But now the time has come
actual historical testimony in the Gospels, that Christ Jesus never
Christ Jesus did not intend to make things so easy for men that
Frederick the Great may be verified. Christ did not wish to make
that the existence of Christ may never be proved in that way, for that
with the proof as to Christ. Therefore there exists no historical
proof. Humanity will have to recognise this: although Christ lived on
historical documents. The Christ-Event must come to humanity in a
old historical documents. Just in reference to the Christ-Event it
must be understood in our epoch that one can only come to the Christ
We may be told that Christ exists, but to find Him really is only
the Christ-Event we have an occurrence concerning which all who will
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Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I
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The Twelve apostles as the twelve Christ-permeated stages of
the Christ passed. This can be recognised in the thirteenth chapter of
which indicates that Christ is indebted to the apostles for his attainment
after Christ, for example, through these narratives, our feeling life

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Double. The significance of Christ's death of atonement. The influence
From this aspect we must consider the entrance of Christ into world
history. Previously, anyone who wished to achieve a life in Christ had
But through the coming of Christ into the world, it came about that a
man who felt himself drawn to Christ could receive from him something
always possible that someone through union with Christ can preserve
atoning death of Christ. Before this, death in the Mysteries had to be
Christianity much that is of a communal nature has been brought about,
through true mysticism, community with Christ is possible. This has
also been embodied in language. The first Christian initiate in
J. Ch. = Jesus Christ. It was with intention that this was introduced
through the Ich. This centre point is literally the Christ.
Holy Spirit is to Christ, as the Atma is to the I.

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VIII
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Christianity and the teaching of reincarnation. Water or the drinking
of Christ. In addition, however, one finds others who are incarnated
800 years before Christ; that is about the time of the Iliad and the
About 800 years before Christ the sun in spring entered the
always slightly changing. Eight hundred years before Christ the sun
The fourth culture is that of the Ram, or Lamb; Christ stands in the
Christianity will be proclaimed. ‘Water-Man’ is also the one who will
will again be the forerunner of Christ, when the Sixth, the spiritual
Elias, Moses = the truth, Christ = the life. This appeared here to the
said further: ‘Tell it to no man until I come again.’ Christianity was
distributed, but in the Christian Mysteries wine. For in the
reincarnation. By his coming again Christ means his reappearance in
Theosophy actually carries out the testament of Christianity and works
800 years before Christ and 1800 years after Christ, then we have two
was to remain unknown. Christ therefore expressly forbade any teaching
about reincarnation. But from 800 years before Christ until about 1800
years after Christ, the time had elapsed during which nearly everyone
traditional Christianity, which lies in the fact that the Beyond is
teaching of Christianity has, so to say, borne its fruit. Today there
ultimate consequence of traditional Christianity. But now a new
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saved; this happened through the fact that Christian Rosenkreuz

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIV
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could place his body at the service of Christ. Christ stands above all
Christ.
Christianity. Christ had to raise and purify the self-centred ego, so
his body for the Christ.

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Buddha or a Christ arose, at least in part. In the ordinary way a

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XVII
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in our actions; he also stands behind the whole universe. Christianity
Christian religion calls Him the Word. Here something quite exact and
or Christ. He is the Spirit who lives as imagination in everything

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Christ, the ascending Buddhi-Principle — Black and White Magic.
it was the manifestation of Christ.
Christ-Principle seek to win the Earth for themselves, but there are

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXI
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Movement, then we should have done much. Christianity is not only
element emerged, which was absorbed by Christianity after it had

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIII
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Lucifer. Christianity and the teaching of Reincarnation and Karma.
karma, man is led upwards to spiritualisation. Christianity therefore
until he is mature enough for a new Christianity, with the teaching of
Christianity itself there is conflict between the two Principles: the
It might still be possible today for the teaching of Christianity
Hero, Who gave the second impulse, is the Christ, the Lion out of the
he represents the Father Principle. Christ is a Solar Hero, a

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXV
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Christian terminology: Power, Kingdom and Glory.
named in various ways. In Christian esotericism
When in Christian esotericism we speak of Power we mean ‘going through

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these is Christ. As Lucifer represents the Manas element, so the
Buddhi element is represented by Christ.
brought down from Mercury. Christ united his sovereignty with that of
one who prepared the path of Christ from the middle of the Atlantean
we should not have had the Christ-Principle. In the drops of
In the saying that Christ trod on and crushed the head of the serpent

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clear day-consciousness, as incarnated man, Christ Jesus.
preceding stages of evolution. Then for the first time Christianity

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXIX
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archangel known to Christian esotericism as Michael and the hosts of

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXX
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one which first brought forth Christianity and also the one which
who knew most about Christianity: St. John. He describes at the very
beginning the transformation of water into wine, for Christianity came
water into wine at the marriage in Cana, we are shown how Christ took
Christ appeared in the Fourth Sub-Race he pointed to Bread and Wine:
whose nourishment was flesh and blood; these are the pre-Christian
people with whom Christ in no way concerned himself. Secondly those
That which Christ killed, which was actually sacrificed after he had

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXXI
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and the future of Christianity came to magnificent expression through
was to come as Christianity.
its culmination in Christianity. So it is in this lesser racial branch
the civilisations that arose from this that Christianity could first
Jesus Christ was a native of Galilee ... ‘Galilean’ means: ‘The
received. It is here that Christianity first finds its real
by Christianity. Our present time with its materialistic culture is
Jewish Prophets, in the centuries before Christ, we find here
appears in Europe, it was Christianity which first halted him, because
peoples that they encountered on their way. Christianity alone made a

Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 1: The Birth of the Light
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When we see the Christmas trees in the streets today, we might think
that the custom of decorating a tree at Christmas is an ancient one.
Christmas trees, which are to be found in almost every home today,
nineteenth century. Trees first appeared as symbols of the Christmas
older than Christianity. Indeed, it was celebrated in all historical
In Christianity the Christmas festival has been taken as a symbol for
the birth of the Christian Redeemer only since the fourth century A.D.
In the first Christian centuries, December 25th was by no means
celebrated as the birthday of the Representative of Christianity. This
Christian festival.
Now the conclusion could be drawn from this that the Christian Church,
the Christmas festival, one must recognize the ancient wisdom hidden
in it. Festivals such as Christmas, Easter and Whitsuntide are nothing
Christmas festival has been celebrated since the beginning of history.
Greco-Roman period when Christianity appeared, and still further back
To really understand Christmas one must look back to that turning
The fourth post-Atlantean period, in which Christianity arose, began
We can understand the deeper meaning of the Christmas festival only if
everything withdraws into the earth. When Christmas arrives, a turning
reawakens. So the birth of the light at Christmas time has been
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 2: The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
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The Christmas Festival as a Symbol of the Sun Victory
everywhere for Christmas. Clear ideas about this festival are scarce,
made for Christmas that are published in our newspapers convince us of
understanding of Christmas than the material being published today.
connect it with a Christmas festival imbued with a
expressed in the Christmas festival.
The festival held at Christmas time is not only a Christian event. It
same time of year that Christianity recognizes the birth of Christ.
winter deepens as we move toward Christmas, nevertheless, a victory
will continue until the day we celebrate as Christmas, a day that was
fundamental concept of the Christmas festival as a cosmic festival, a
place in nature at Christmas time that was considered a monument, a
also expressed in the Christian view when it says there shall be glory
when mankind is to be rejuvenated by a newly deepened Christianity.
the ancients. Sun myths connected with Buddha and even with Christ
ancient religions, from Christianity, and from the anthroposophical
Christianity and of anthroposophy will have been fulfilled. Then it
but as living sensation, yields the anthroposophical Christmas mood.
If, during the time of Christmas, we feel and experience the orbit of
In all religions this Christmas festival has been a festival of
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Title: Signs and Symbols: Lecture 3: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
The Christmas festival, which we are about to celebrate, gains new
Christmas festival is a sun festival, and as such we shall become
Christmas Mystery. These words have been heard by the pupils of the
Many people who today merely know the Christmas tree with its candles
believe that to have a tree symbolizing Christmas is a traditional
the contrary, the custom of decorating a tree at Christmas is most
decorating a Christmas tree is a recent phenomenon, but the
celebration of Christmas is old. The festival at Christmas time was
The celebration of Christmas is the festival of the Sacred Night,
being they gave birth to the Christ."
incarnations. The moment will arrive for everyone when the Christ will
reached its lowest point at Christmas time, because those who are
hear today of what took place in the lesser Mysteries on Christmas
experience this Mystery. In our language the Word would be Christos.
they had experienced the rising of the Sun, of the Christos, they were
coming Christ, of the Spiritual Light, whose festival day falls in the
When Christianity arose in the course of evolution, it bore this ideal
within it in the highest sense. Man felt that within Christianity the
Christos was to appear as the great Ideal of all men, that He had been
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Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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the temple that was erected as a kind of anteroom of Christianity.
race. This was to change only with the advent of Christianity. But
what was to occur on earth through Christ was foretold in the Old
spirit of this nation out of which Christianity was created. Thus, if
understood them in early Christian times spoke of the Laws of Moses in
future. In this way the Christ took the place, for those who truly
understood Christianity, of the impulses that served as a preparation

Title: The Mission of Savonarola
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a new time and up to what point the development of Christianity
the empowering and the presentation of Christianity became
Christianity revealed itself in two gestures. This is the proof
of how Christianity could be expressed through the soul at this
Savonarola's way — is how Christianity could be lived
life in Christianity could be experienced. If one still had
world. One could compare Christianity with events happening in
is a Christendom. Its actual form is in fact unknown to people.
a new form which would reveal the true Christian spirit.
flooding Christian life, the entire declaration of belief of
monk painted a Christianity which hardly exists in the physical
conscience of Christianity.
entrance into Christianity? He is a historical figure. This was
church where Savonarola instilled his Christianity, something
of Christianity. This test proves it, not even such a figure as
Savonarola could be produced again in Christianity. The
Christianity to be exhausted. Such an instrument can only be
to re-discover Christianity, but with the means of

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture I - The Prometheus Saga
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Christ built. It is the same as the rock of the Caucasus. The man of
The Manu of the fifth root-race. In the English version of An Outline of Occult Science, this Being is called ‘the leader of the Christ-initiates’ or ‘the leader of the Christ-oracle’. (p. 177 in the 1949 edition).

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture II - The Argonaut Saga and the Odyssey
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book Christianity as Mystical Fact I tried to make use of its
again. The Virgin Mary too, in the Christian religion, is the striving
Manu. Described in An Outline of Occult Science as “the Christ-initiate” or “the leader of the Christ-oracle”.

Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture III - The Sigfried Saga
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Christianity first took root, in Asia Minor, Greece and Rome. But it
Christianity and was to carry it over into the sixth. Christianity
Christian era. But before this, for some centuries before Christianity
Foundation of Christianity. Sieg renounced his body and placed it at
foundation of Christianity. Sieg had to lead this northern culture to
replaced by the rising Christianity. What I am now saying is a
Christianised fifth sub-race. He in whom all that lives is the
that are always shown by the initiates of pre-Christian times; they
invulnerable by something that has preceded Christianity, has preceded
made the heroes invulnerable in the times preceding Christianity. But
Christianity. Nibelung treasure represents earthly property. It is
is the immediate predecessor of Christianity. Hagen belongs to an
Christianity. To this spot the Christian initiate will have to come
Christianity, because the place where the Cross has to rest is still
spot which Christianity will later render invulnerable. There
What are these northern races, the forerunners of Christianity,
from the East. Christianity knew that this influence could do it no
Christianity. It is Christianity that is to supplant the northern
Christianity. Those who have paved the way for it go to meet their
gone over to Christianity. They are Christian heroes. Christianity
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Title: Lecture: Greek and Germanic Mythology: Lecture IV - The Trojan War
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Christendom has come about through the word “pontoi” having

Title: Wisdom of Man: III. Higher Senses, Inner Force Currents and Creative Laws in the Human Organism.
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grasp the Christ Spirit in His true being. The spiritual beings whose

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: II. Action and Interaction of the Human Soul Forces.
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study of the dogmatism of the Christian Church would reveal to you

Title: Wisdom of the Soul: IV. Consciousness and the Soul Life.
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Jesus Christ's Descent into Hell. Like The Wandering Jew

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: I. Franz Brentano and Aristotles Doctrine of the Spirit.
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could be termed Christian concepts. It summarizes, however, all that
preceding the birth of Christianity — achieved in such a way

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: II. Truth and Error in the Light of the Spiritual World.
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From Jesus to Christ (October, 1911), I mentioned that the

Title: Wisdom of the Spirit: IV. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives.
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because Christian evolution retarded it in the Occident. Concerning

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
‘shock,’ the Christ-Being sank down into that etheric body.
the fate of a man, — of Christ that cannot be said. What is the
lowest principle of the Christ-Being? Counting from below, it is the
Christ once worked in the same way. Christ gives an impulse of the
extending to that Plane. A Being such as the Christ works into the
Christ. They then become pupils of Christ. A Being such as He, is
Christ was once on earth; He has descended to earth, has dwelt on the
there they meet the Being of Christ as Teacher, and they are fully
between the Bodhisattvas and the Christ takes place on the
meantime it is necessary that they should learn that the Christ-Being
to reach the true Being of the Individuality of Christ, one must first
Thus twelve Bodhisattvas belong to Christ, and they prepare and
following words: Christ, Who once lived on the earth, brought to this
Christ in the middle of the earth-evolution; the Bodhisattvas as His
to receive the Christ. Now, although men were ripe enough to have
Christ among them, it will be a long time before they mature
sufficiently to recognise, to feel, and to will, all that Christ is.
maturity in man what was poured into him through Christ, as was
man, Christ can only be understood to a minute extent. Higher
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
Lecture 3: The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity
THE ENTRANCE OF THE CHRIST-BEING INTO THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
the fact that the secret of Golgotha, the secret of Christ Jesus, is
humanity on earth was reached when the Christ-Impulse was given at the
Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ-Impulse would have been given to man
Christ-Impulse as had elapsed between the intervention of the
Christ-Impulse. Thus, through man's having acquired a likeness to the
Christ-Impulse. For before that could come man had to go through the
these, for then only could the Christ-Impulse descend to the earth. In
Christ had taken place therein. The essential point is that this
things are it came in the age in which Christ Jesus Himself worked.
Thus through the Christ-Impulse the consciousness came to man that in
the Christ-Impulse, it was made possible for man to say: ‘I must
Now if we look back to the pre-Christian time, we must say that when
Christ-Impulse, have distinguished in his inner being between good and
evil. In the pre-Christian time the decision as to the really Good,
earth by way of preparation. Thus, before the time of Christ, man was
Everything lacking in man will be made good by the Christ-Impulse; but
Christ-Impulse, to overcome selfishness and to heal his etheric body
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 4: The Sermon on the Mount
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
as the Christ, had to embody Himself in a physical body at the very
able to have a bodily perception and observation of Christ Jesus, as
of Christ Jesus can however, be understood by anyone who can apply
we can say: The Christ-Being descended into a physical embodiment,
other words it ought to have been able to take up the Christ-Impulse.
capable of enclosing the Christ-Being.
Through Christ, the impulse was to penetrate to the depths of man's
inner being, out of the body of Christ there spoke such an impulse as
Divine-Spiritual kingdom. That could only come about through Christ
permeate itself with what was the pattern of Christ. That enabled man
ecstatic condition at the time of the founding of Christianity, had
hostile spiritual powers. So at the time of the appearance of Christ
Christianity was founded. When in olden times he was filled with the
transported into the Spiritual worlds. Christ could not now say:
for the sorrows and sufferings of earth. Christ Jesus had to proclaim
Christ Jesus, Buddha described sorrow and suffering on earth as the
later, in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ in the second Beatitude
into balance. Now, however, the time had come — and Christ was to
through the spreading of Christianity — as righteousness:
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 5: Correspondences Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
When we go back beyond the founding of Christianity, we find two
stream, in what we call the Christian Initiation, and how this
into the one single form of Christian Initiation; it is an example of
in the life of the world. The other, the Christian initiation —
of Christ. We are living at an important crossing-point, when men will
Let us now picture the vision of Christ, as it will appear to the
Land of Shamballa. But the Christ-Event, which will be vouchsafed to
which Christ will once more reveal to mankind; — the Land of

Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 6: The Birth of Conscience
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
Being of Christ from many different aspects and we endeavoured in
various ways to point out that what we know as the Christ-Impulse is
further the Christ-Impulse from all sides, and moreover, when all is
connected with the appearance of Christ. We saw that the Gospels
themselves attempted to approach the subject of the Being of Christ
relate to the Christ-Problem; in fact, we shall to-day refer to the
intervention of the Christ-Impulse in the development of mankind. In
about five hundred years before the Christian era, we come to the
that name. Five hundred years before the Christian era the greatest
Christ. Look where you will in the old Testament for a word
as the Christ Impulse. We might say that conscience followed close on
the Christ Impulse; it entered the historical development of the world
course of its development was approaching the Christ Impulse and in
the Christ Impulse. And in our own age we see the epoch in which this
Christ-Impulse be exercised upon him.
that was to prepare them to receive the Christ-Impulse, others living
Christ-Impulse could find so unhindered an entrance into Europe and
why it gained so much influence there. Why was this? Could Christ have
That age was particularly adapted to come forward to meet Christ, as
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Title: Christ Impulse: Lecture 7: The Further Development of Conscience
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
on Earth of Christ-Jesus. This is by far the mightiest Impulse ever
mighty Christ-Well of life out of which He poured into human
new life-impulses? We have that which was given us in Christianity,
Christ-Impulse, that greatest Impulse in the development of mankind. I
Unknown and more especially of The Christ Myth. The
author of The Christ Myth, — a modern philosopher who may
Pauline Epistles, but as the author of The Christ Myth does not
the following conclusion: ‘What concept of Christ did St. Paul
hold? He formed the concept of a purely Spiritual Christ, who can
one. St. Paul nowhere asserts the necessity that the Christ, whom he
the Christ-concept of St. Paul is a purely spiritual one, simply
perfection, as a sort of God in man.’ The author of The Christ
the idea the Christians have of Jesus Christ — were already in
existence concerning a sort of pre-Christian Jesus, and that several
Christ which St. Paul had [and which Drews does not attempt to deny],
— what is the difference between the picture of Christ which St.
St. Paul, men had a Christ-picture of a God, a Messiah-picture of a
the general idea — The author of The Christ Myth now asks:
extent did he carry the idea of Christ further?’
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Suffering
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Redemption through Christ Jesus — then it can strike us that
Christian world-conception, these feelings which for so many are the
surrounds us, we shall well understand the words of a Christian
destruction of the earthly nature of Christ Jesus in pain and
suffering, in anguish and misery, Christianity rightly sees the
the Crucifixion of Christ Jesus which was soon followed, as
Christianity teaches, by the outpouring into the world of the Holy
the Crucifixion of Christ Jesus as a process indicated in the parable
Christ was not yet glorified. One who reads this Gospel more deeply

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 1
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Berlin, Nationality and Christianity -or-
only read the Christiania cycle on the

Title: The Earth As Being with Life, Soul, and Spirit: Lecture 2
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death: ‘Ex Deo nascimur, in Christo morimur!’

Title: Lecture: Michaelmas VII: The Creation of A Michael Festival Out Of The Spirit (Extract)
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before Christ, in which men no longer experienced the secrets of the
Suppose that it is winter where we are, Christmas-time or the time of
Christ's activity on earth, is here; only the Jews misunderstood this
unite the Festival of the Resurrection of Christ Jesus with the Spring
aright when we say: The Christ has strengthened man's immortality
immortality of Christ Jesus in the right way only when we acquire this
“Christ” is hardly taken into consideration, but only
At Easter we should submerge ourselves in Christ's Death and
Christmas, Easter and Midsummer (St. John) festivals. At Christmas
but I have often explained in the Christmas and Easter lectures I have

Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 2: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers. Lucifer, Ahriman, Asuras.
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The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers.
blessing of karma? From a Power none other than Christ.
Although Christ appeared only later, He was always present in the
Sun”, of Christ. In the old Indian epoch of civilization the Holy
I AM) as the harbinger of Christ. All spoke of the Christ; but where was He
Christ-Spirit appeared in the underworld, flooding the whole world of
Christ on the earth is the event of supreme importance also for the
The impulse going forth from Christ is in the fullest sense reality.
Christ not appeared. Precisely from the opposite picture — an earth
without Christ — you can apprehend the significance of Christ's
coming. Let us suppose that Christ had not come, that the Mystery of
Before Christ's Coming, the condition in the spiritual world of human
That is what would have happened to an earth without Christ. That the
— this is due to Christ's Coming, to the Event of Golgotha. Therefore
Christ is the Power who has enabled man to turn earth-existence
owes to the working of the Christ Event, to the presence of Christ in
evolution of humanity. Had Christ not come upon the earth, man would
Christ is verily the Light which leads out of error and sin, the Light
of Christ's Deed only by realizing with full clarity of understanding,
the significance of Christ. The Christ-Power is there in very truth —
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Title: Deed of Christ: Lecture 1: Mephistopheles and Earthquakes
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of supreme importance for the evolution of the world. The Christ
Christ appeared in yonder world, in the realm of the Shades, and cast
From what has been said you can gather that through Christ's Coming,
the Christ-Mystery. And outside the forces streaming from the
Christ-Mystery, protection in the world against the influence of

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - I
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Christianity was born in the fourth sub-race. This sub-race was
Man. Christianity arose in the fourth sub-race. The fifth sub-race,
include everything into which the stream of Christianity flowed and

Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - II
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work, and of how Christianity too worked at the beginning, that is to
say, what forces made it possible for Christianity, like the other
Christianity, too, in the early centuries, had Mystery Centers, places
of the first Christian centuries found popular, simple words through
the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is
Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day ...” He says that
Christian, from the Christian standpoint. Therefore anyone who desires
and feeling of a deeply initiated Christian who has himself
experienced the full power of the Christian revelation.
to the theosophist as Atma, Buddhi and Manas. The Christian calls the
A Christian of the first centuries would have refrained from speaking
Me.” These words were uttered by the great Christian Master
Himself, by Him through Whom Christianity itself came into the world.
Christian of the first period of Christianity would have spoken. He
non-initiate a feeble idea of what an initiated Christian of the first
religions, and also for Christianity in its earliest form, the
world-creative Will. And when the Christian says anything at all about
announcer of the Spirit through the Will. And so the early Christian
the power of will. And so the Christian said, “The Father brought
Spirit descends in the Cosmic Word. If the Christian wanted to picture
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Title: Lecture: (On) Apocalyptic Writings - III
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What I have said about the relation of Christianity to Jesus [the]
Christ and about the relation of the writer of the Apocalypse to Jesus
The keystone for a true understanding of the place of Christianity in
Mystery-Temples was carried through Christianity on to the great arena
things will far rather be that the familiar Christian tradition is
at every point with what Christians believe. But the historic fact at
is related to its own fulfilment, to Christianity. In Christianity,
everything that pointed to Christ before His actual appearance is
to the Christian Mystery. Light will then be thrown on many a passage.
appearance of Christ as compared with other appearances. (If you have
Spirit, or since Christian esotericism calls the Spirit
“Angel.” This is Christian esotericism. First, the Word or
the successive stages. The Christian Initiates have always understood
Paul, one of the greatest Christian Initiates, could only hint at
in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed
before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty
hidden from them at the time when Christ, their Master, was on earth.
the presence of Christ. Then, at the end of the Fifth Root Race, the
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 3: What is Mysticism?
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life and death of Christ.
resurrection of Christ. Thus he sees the Christ-event taking place in his

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 4: The Nature of Prayer
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ordinary Christians during the Middle Ages. It occurred because the practice
ourselves more perfect — as many Christians did during the Middle Ages

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call the Christ-Impulse.
Christ-impulse that first made it possible for humanity to realise that God,
in our inward life. Only by understanding the divine humanity of Christ Jesus
nature in their own inner life, it was necessary for Christ to enter into the
evolution of humanity as an external historical-event. If the Christ, a
Christ Jesus, he could equally well say that we should have eyes even if
recognise the Christ-nature if the Christ-Impulse had not entered into
so the historical Christ-Jesus makes possible what we call the entry of the
that external understanding for the Divinity of Christ Jesus was born in the
Roman world, at the beginning of the Christian era, and the further westward
played into each other's hands. We see the sun of the Christ-nature
preparing the way for understanding the Christ. Hence the victorious advance
of Christianity is towards the West, not the East. In the East we see the
eastern world. Christianity takes hold of the western world, because
Christianity had first created the organ for receiving it. Here we see
Christianity brought into relation with the deepened element in western
culture: the concept of conscience embodied in Christianity.
and the greatest event in the evolution of mankind, the Christ-Event. Hence
human evolution, on the one hand by the light of Christ, shining from

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 9: The Mission of Art
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and West, and notably different in the South. In pre-Christian times it
Christian era. Here we encounter the great mediaeval personality who leads us

Title: Excursus/Mark: I: A Retrospect
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Christ-problem, more especially in its connection with the Gospel of
to go more deeply into this Christ-problem in a course of lectures to
Christ-problem did not consist merely in giving explanations of the
importance in the accounts of the Event of Christ is not found in any
Christianity, we feel we are summoned by spiritual science not only
problem and the figure of Christ. If this satisfied present day
Christian circles and has been accepted for centuries, but which
understanding and new conclusions with regard to Christian truths are
means that aid us in deciphering Christian truths there is one that
understanding the problem of Christ, but may, if rightly received,
actually lead us to a true and full appreciation of Christ Jesus.
Therefore I believe that a study of the Christ-problem cannot be
the Christ has been, is, and can continue to be to mankind.
the term — the “Christ-Problem.” I have always said:
Christ-problem from four points of view, and we find in fact that the
to you the importance of the Event of Christ to man we returned ever
impulse we shall continue the work of explaining the Christ-problem

Title: Excursus/Mark: II: Some Practical Points of View
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
when considering the Christ-problem from all possible sides must
mighty Event of Christ, and that they must he compared one with

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture I
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Christ-Impulse. The greatest spiritual Reality entered
evolution with the Christ Principle, with that which, like a last
physical plane in the Being of Christ, and that which man had
Christian centuries it was quite impossible for men to grasp the
spiritual nature of Christ with the thin thread of ideas spun from
first quite incapable of comprehending Christ except through faith;
why Christianity had at first to be a matter of faith; only later,
hundreds of years Christianity was only a matter of faith, and had to
Pre-Christian culture
day. The coming of the Christ-Impulse made this possible. It will
be able best to evolve towards the real, historic Christ, when all
Impulse of Christ will in future rise (ausleben) in man in the same

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture II
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
“Christianity as Mystical Fact,”
In studying pre-Christian ages we find that many persons passed
This was how it was in pre-Christian times.
What meaning for Christianity had these initiations into the ancient
Mysteries? What was their significance towards the Christ-Impulse?
pre-Christian times. An individual initiated in accordance with
kingdoms. But in the case of Christ Jesus something was present by
baptism in Jordan. The Spirit of Christ then entered into him. From
the person of Christ Jesus was initiated in so open a way — the
Spirit of Christ spoke to the people around Him of the Mysteries of
biographers in so far as they described the life of Christ by saying:
Nazareth, into whom the Christ entered, which we have seen happen
also for all it has to tell us about the Christ-Event.
What is the fact of greatest importance in the Christ-Impulse? The
the Christ-Impulse was drawing near; picture a man of the earlier
pre-Christian centuries. If wishing to enter the spiritual world he
belonging to pre-Christian times. What then was the position of a man
up within it came first to man through the Impulse of Christ. This
Christ-Impulse was approaching. They might have said: —
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture III
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
indicated concerning the profundities of the Christian Mystery, an
persons were mainly found in olden times, that is in pre-Christian
Mid-Western Asia, but not among the peoples that in pre-Christian
you already know in connection with the Christ Event you might ask:
Christ came down and entered into a human being — as Divine
the same, only here it is carried out in its sublimest form: Christ
human personality was organised into which the Christ entered; the
Gospel according to Mark describes the nature of the Christ, tells of
because Mark describes the Christ who had entered into Jesus of
the Gospels of Matthew and Luke describe the path the Christ
describes the kind of temptation Christ had to pass through when He
Christ Jesus
has come down into them from above. Only in the form of Christ are

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture IV
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
the Gospel of Mark. This passage tells how Jesus Christ, after He had
Christ Jesus. For I have already remarked that the Gospels as well as
we find Beings called in Christian esotericism, Angeloi or Angels;
those who sat in the synagogues when the Christ appeared among
the first to grasp the nature and Being of Christ through direct
the Event of Christ and in the Event of Golgotha the central point of
Atlantean times, and up to the time of Christ. Then came the Event of
with Christ, the “new Adam,” the “Adam” that
everyone can put on through union with the Christ.
see in the man of Lemurian times, and on into pre-Christian humanity,
receive within him the Christ-Impulse. One day he will again enter
Christ the true central point of the whole earthly evolution of man;
belongs to an age immediately preceding that of Christianity. It was
receive later through the Christ Event.
leader, of pre-Christian civilisation in Greece. They recognised
Christianity of St. Paul, is called the “Son of Man.” You
have I begotten Him!” This means: Now is the Christ —
Nazareth. Christ was actually born in Jesus of Nazareth at the moment
this — Paul said, “Not I, but Christ in
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture V
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to

Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VI
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
the Christ Impulse is put before us in the story of a child.
Christ-Impulse in this Gospel only goes back to the origin of the
Christ Being as he developed out of the Hebrew people. When we pass
on to the Gospel of Mark we meet with the Christ-Impulse directly.
foretold the coming of the Christ-Impulse, it describes the baptism
the Christ-Impulse, but this time it goes much further back as
of Christ. In the course of the spiritual development we have
abstract spirituality of Christ — the Gospel according to
Christ-Impulse as this passed through the ancient Hebrew people.
really very silly things about it. It is where Christ Jesus came out
Paul: — “Not I, but Christ in me!” will become ever
receives into it the Impulse of Christ, we ought to feel that this
experienced through the events of Palestine by Jesus Christ, as a
wherever Christ is taught from an inward understanding of Spiritual
in prophetic images as the Events of Christ in the Gospel according
sense in which Christ spoke of it will say in the near future:
spirituality as Thee, that is as the Christ.” And He
amazed, took the Christ aside and pointed out that such things
should not be spoken of openly. Then the Christ turned Himself
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Title: Excursus/Mark: III: Excursus: Lecture VII
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
so we may call it — the Christ-idea, developed out of the
ancient Hebrews as the Christ-idea does to the believers in Christ.
essence of Christianity Jahve did not really differ very greatly from
the Christ Himself. We must realise far more clearly the inward
connection between the Christ-idea and the Jahve-idea. It is very
Christ with direct sunlight, then Jahve might be likened to sun-light
can feel the passing over of the reflection of Christ into Jehova, or
of Jehova into Christ, as men feel the difference between moonlight
and sunlight — Jahve being an indirect and Christ a direct
religion of Christ a “sun-religion” (and we can use this
preceding Christianity, we have a sun-religion prepared for by a
Christian religion and the symbol of the sun; but where thoughts are
time the Impulse of Christ entered, and that through this Impulse the
reached the Christ-Impulse begins to affect it and will continue to
Christ-Impulse. The Christ-Impulse was poured forth at the beginning
and in the middle of this period the Christ-Event took place. In the
and the fifth ages we have the Christ-Impulse. This relation-ship is
took place in pre-Christian times during the ancient Hebrew
civilisation appears again in a certain way in post-Christian times
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Title: Excursus/Mark: IV: The Path of Theosophy from Former Ages until Now
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
the great Beings, who in pre-Christian times instructed
strengthened this teaching by introducing into it the Christ so that
— the Christ who had now become the great leader and guide of
tell the world to-day concerning the Christ; you will realise how in
humanity did in fact further arid support the teaching of Christ in
the Christ. When we are aware of this connection we catch a glimpse

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I - Lecture I: The Eternal and the Transient in the Human Being
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different. Only during the later centuries of Christianity the faith

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture II: The Origin of the Soul
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creation is every soul also for the exoteric Christianity of the later

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I: Lecture III: The Nature of God from the Theosophical Standpoint
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have the same contents: Christianity, Hinduism, Zarathustrism, and natural
this view of Cusanus, you get an idea of the fact that Christianity

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course I - Lecture IV: Theosophy and Christianity
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Theosophy and Christianity
Theosophy and Christianity
the way how true, real theosophy is to be found in the really understood Christianity,
Society compared with Christianity.
to be nothing else than a servant of Christianity. It wants to serve trying
to extract the deepest core, the real being from the Christian denominations.
Thereby it expects to take nothing away from anybody who is attached to Christianity
whose heart is connected with Christianity. On the contrary, those who understand
the theosophical movement know that just the Christian can receive a lot that
many disputes, which have today taken place everywhere in the Christian confessions,
Christianity originally following the founder of Christianity. Go back to the
early times of Christianity, possibly to Clement of Alexandria,
up with Christianity in serious work. One went to work critically above all
truth is, he tried to outline a picture of Christianity independently. Now this
the stories about the person Jesus Christ that formed in the times in which
Christianity came into being are nothing else than myths which the imagination
look in the Christian confessions — you never will find a certain word
in a personality, in similar way as in the first Christian century when all
which stands at the beginning of Christianity only as a human being and wants
the image of Christ to the field of the purely actual.
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Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture I: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy I
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At that time when Kant was still young, the philosophy of Christian
Christian

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course II: Lecture III: The Epistemological Basis of Theosophy III
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the Muslims and the Christians is not justified. The theosophist also knows

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course III - Lecture I: Theosophical Teachings of the Soul. Part I: Body and Soul
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Buddhism and of the Greek philosophy and in the first centuries of Christianity.
Christianity everybody who thought and tried to explain the human being considered
him as consisting of body, soul and mind. Go to the first Christian church teachers,
Christian science and dogmatism. Later one regarded this teaching as dangerous
within Christianity. One thought that the human being would become too arrogant
of the trichotomy got lost more and more to the Christian science which cared
that they speak under the influence of a Christian dogma. One believes —
which approach from some sides — according to the Christian Middle Ages
only some years before Christ. Somebody who investigates the conversation sees
ways on which still the sages of the Christian Middle Ages looked for the soul
Christian researchers, about that of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless if anybody
which have led the first Christians and the great Christian Church Fathers to
a scholar centuries before Christ what has been found on quite different ways.

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course IV - Lecture III: The History of Spiritism
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find in the whole antiquity, a way which changes only in the Christian times.
the Christian. And now this basis of spiritual truth was removed from any human
Christian culture spread over the countries of the Mediterranean Sea, it appeared
that the cult actions and the ceremonies of Christianity and also most of Christian
pagan world what God revealed to the Christian church. — However, it is
an odd imitation which leads the way of the original! The whole Christianity
that of the authoritative Christian faith, as Augustine characterised it, was
that of the Rosicrucians, the deepest and most significant one, founded by Christian
like Solomon's temple, like the body of Christ and ... like something else that
these phenomena as a religious Christian. Because he had tendencies to be a
religious Christian, the whole world seemed to him to manifest nothing but the
truth of the Christian teaching. Because at the same time natural sciences made
claims, we see a mixture of the purely Christian standpoint with the standpoint
book he informs us that he was educated as a farmer boy like a Christian, but
he realised soon that the Christian faith can deliver no conviction, because
or Gladstone, Wallace, Crookes who assumed angelic spirits of the old Christendom
faced these facts tried to understand them in his way. The Christian faith found
Christian
Christoph Oetinger (1702 -1782), Swabian theologian and theosopher

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture II: What Do Our Scholars Know about Theosophy?
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happened as Christianity had to assert itself against old ideas, against an

Title: Spiritual Teachings of Soul/World: Course V - Lecture III: Is Theosophy Unscientific?
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We progress to the first Christian
field was only conquered by the spirituality of the Christian time. It is the
Plato it begins that the moral being separates itself. Christianity conquers
art by imagination spiritually, Christianity conquered the physical morality,
and the telescope have conquered the world. As well as the Christian art conquered

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who stands, for example, on the Christian point of view asks himself rightly:
what does a religion like Buddhism mean to somebody who has a Christian confession
or is educated in a Christian surrounding. Is Buddhism not a religion that was
what was called Gnosticism during the first Christian centuries. Knowledge by
old Jews, also Pythagoras and Plato, and, finally, the teachers of Christianity.
Christianity knew this difference
between any kind of esotericism and exotericism. The Christian Gnostics of the
of these great Christian teachers know to tell how their souls were completely
Christianity who had turned away from Christianity because of the interesting
scientific facts. The theosophical movement has deepened this Christianity again,
it has shown the true, real form of Christianity, and it also has led many of
those to Christianity who had no longer been able to satisfy their souls and
internal core of Christianity, and to show it in its true figure. However, it
absolutely from our European culture, from the Christian culture without pointing
of life. Nirvana is exactly the same about which also Christianity speaks. But
only those who were initiated into the deeper secrets of Christianity can point
One cannot deny that the true Christians
we attribute such a quality to the divine being — as this Christian esotericist
of Cusa renewed this view in the 15th century, also the Christian mystics,
if we look for the European, Christian terms of it.
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Title: Novalis: On his Hymns to the Night
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the Mystery of Golgotha when Christ appeared in a physical
Humanity understands Christ in His universal unfolding when the
actual essence of what the Christ death implied. In the night
riddle of the Christ. This was it, which this extraordinary
lives — what the Christ, what the event of Golgotha signified

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 1: Whitsuntide. Festival of the Liberation of the Human Spirit
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and one of the most difficult to understand. For Christian
belonging later to Judaism and even to Christianity contains a little
attended by Jesus. The founder of Christianity there speaks of the
Christ's
lies what is truly Christian, and it also embodies the deeper mystery
Christianity. Health and healing are connected with holy. A spirit

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 2: The Contrast Between Cain and Abel
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human desires until the time when Christ incarnated in Jesus of
‘Christ descended into the forecourts of Hell.’ It was
on the other hand there was Christ Himself who was a purely spiritual
Christianity. Something occurred at that time in occult spheres; it
the Saga of the Antichrist, who was put in chains but will make his
appearance again, if not opposed once more by the Christian principle
Jesus Christ remained on the earth for ten years after His death.
Christ, the first Christian teachers, all adhered to reincarnation.
For that reason Christianity had no knowledge of reincarnation for 1,500

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 3: The Mysteries of the Druids and the 'Drottes'
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origin? We must look to a time before the spread of Christianity.
Into Christianity was blended what had lived in Ireland, Scotland ...
of Europe, had provided the soil on which Christianity could build.
highest, the holiest of things. At the time when Christianity was
so that Christianity came as a redemption.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 4: The Prometheus Saga
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Peter is the ‘rock’ upon which Christ founded His Church.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 5: The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians
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secrets in the East. This was Christian Rosenkreutz.
Christian Rosenkreutz had come to an end, he had initiated about ten
Christian
Christian Rosenkreutz could not be imparted to many people, but it
the founding of Christianity. Through it, the earlier piety, which
through Christ — Christ, who is not only the incarnation of wisdom,
kind of piety can also develop enthusiasm. It is Christian piety,
Cain, however; they remain adversaries. Were Christianity to take
Christ would not be born within man as his brother, but only as
to the War of All against All. Even though Christianity had come into
equal in the sight of God. That is a basic principle of Christianity,
Revolution drew its conclusion from this Christian doctrine in a worldly
all tranquillity from a worldly view of life to a truly Christian
themselves by material violent means. Christian Rosenkreutz foresaw
against it. He, Christian Rosenkreutz, in his incarnation in the
It remains the possession of a few initiated Christians. It is sealed
the same as the secret belonging to Christian Rosenkreutz, who was
Christ, and who gave utterance to a remarkable saying at that
describe in a few words how this Christian Rosenkreutz came to repeat
Christian Rosenkreutz.
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 6: Manicheism
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by Christ. We should understand by this that he saw himself as one
Faustus is, in Augustine's conception, the opponent of Christianity. Here
distinguished from western Christianity by its different
interpretation of evil. Whereas Catholic Christianity regards evil as
unchristian and quite incomprehensible.
voiced the opinion: ‘I would not accept the teachings of Christ
century was the Christian life. The life therein is Christianity.
into form, to the later Christianity; even its capital city, Rome,
been in preparation since the founding of Christianity. It is just at
the time of the sixth Root Race that Christianity will be expressed
Christian life, as such, overcomes every form, it is propagated by
external Christianity and lives in all forms of the various
confessions. Whoever seeks Christian life will always find it. It
That must be created beforehand, it has to be there so that Christian
beings who create an Organisation, a form, so that the true Christian
spark of Christianity will first be truly kindled.

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 9: The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science - 3
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had been repeated by Christ. Those were words which were

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 10: Evolution and Involution as they are Interpreted by Occult Societies [The Atom as Congealed Electricity]
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connected in the Church Calendar with the Christmas Festival — most
among us has no roast meat at Christmas, and I feel the need to give

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 12: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 2
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expression later, in Christianity. The temple leaders guarded this
‘Christianity has a future, a new task. And we have the task of
generally, for a future in which Christianity will emerge into a new
Christianity rise in the fourth cultural epoch; it will develop
human souls in such a way that a genuine, true and pure Christianity
relationship of man to the Christ should stream out all over the
expounded the development of Christianity throughout the world, and
Christ on earth. It is always so with such teachings. For a time what
Jason and the search for the Golden Fleece). And Christ Himself was,
later on in early Christian times, represented by the Lamb. He called
excluded. It was made clear to those who remained that Christianity,
[the Baptist] who scatters Christianity as a seed, as if with a grain
receive the Christian baptism of fire. The coming of a
announce a Christ who would renew the Temple, once the great point of
time should have arrived when Christ will again speak to humanity —
[and Jesus]. While the one name J.N.R.I. denotes Christ himself.
‘Earth’ is the place where Christianity itself must at first
again, when he has learnt to understand Christ, when the Water
three bodies, when the ego discovers in Christ its greatest
struggle to raise oneself up to a proper understanding of Christ,
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Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 13: Concerning the Lost Temple and How It Is To Be Restored - 3
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have spoken several times about Christianity and its present and
the Cross has had for Christianity; and today I would like just to
particular Cross of which Christ speaks, the very Cross on which
Christ Jesus was crucified. Now you know too that the Cross is a
symbol for all men, and it is found not only in Christianity, but in
basic significance for Christianity.
Christian legend about the Cross
the appearance of Christ Jesus on earth, there were two tendencies:
to earth through the Christ Jesus, could be received. A dwelling had
could be united with each other, Christ Jesus united these two
until, in the shape of Christ Jesus, He should arrive Who was able to
building wood later used for Christ's Cross. It was first given to
the Sons of God, the sons of Abel and Seth. Through Christianity,
should unite together. And it is basically a Christian attitude today
symbol of Christianity. What is the Cross? There are three Kingdoms
flow into each other, the Christ, is Himself joined to the living
the Christian sense he now lives in higher nature, and the Cross —
Christianity brought about, and which must fulfil itself more and
more as time goes on by Christianising the world. We have seen how
why the Christian churches have the symbol of the Cross in their
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found again. But with it we touch on Christian mysteries of a real
Christian truths.
present in early Christianity, but which has been gradually lost in
Christianity as it has survived in the various western Churches.
Christian esotericism calls this the ‘Son’ or ‘Logos,’ and calls the
Sub-Race and continued into the fourth. From them Christianity
Christ Himself, the Word made Flesh, who points to the future Word,
proceeded from the Christ incarnated in the Flesh. When man, through
mankind gradually attains to what was achieved by Christ's appearance
point in the sixth epoch when the Christ Principle, which is only
hinted at in Christianity today, finds its fulfilment. ‘No man cometh
prepare humanity to receive the Logos. The great initiate, Christ
bodies immortal. Once this has happened, then the Christ Principle
etheric body has still not attained immortality. Christianity
festival is connected with the other two Christian

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originated. Christ is called the ’Lamb of God.’ Still earlier one

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that, through the appearance of Christ, things happened on the
and fourth Sub-Races. The fourth Sub-Race adopted Christianity. Then,
which used to live in Christianity, and as it still lives as a
longing in the best Christian souls, and can be won back again, then

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same epoch in which Christianity later began.
a few hundred years before the birth of Christ.
male counterpart. Already, in pre-Christian times, what the man [male

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with Freemasonry. Christ lived in the Church as ideal — a male ideal,
the sexes. But the way of achieving this aim varied. The Christian

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mission of Christianity from an ethnic standpoint. The thought
[inspiring] this Race was to spread Christianity in its first stage
had its effect directly on the physical plane. Finally, Christianity
Christianity, carrying it to Northern Europe, whereby the Germanic

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adopted in the organisation of the Christian Church. And the Middle
Michaelangelo conceivable without the power of Christian concepts?

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(Johann Christian August H., 1773–1843, German physician,
on the wall above the not too high doors. At the table, Christ
the prior and Christ, as two counter-images, looked at each
Christ should take his supper with the Dominicans in

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believe to stand on the ground of Christianity, we must say to

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brilliant Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860) led. Baur's view
already appeared in the Christian communities, it were written,
so that John created a picture of Christ Jesus, which could
like a Christian up to the second century, however, it was no
viewpoint. If one must say on the other side that Christian
figure of Christ Jesus survived which prevailed for centuries,
ourselves, is it yet possible to speak about Christianity as
Christianity if we understand the documents, which tell about
this Christianity, purely materialistically? Is it possible to
answered in outlines. Let us assume that Christian Baur's view
word of Christianity, of the Bible as such a work which reports
Christian worldview based on, an effect that nobody can deny?
that Christ has risen, and that in the Mystery of Golgotha the
Christ Jesus? He does not take it, as for example the others
who were round Christ Jesus, from an immediate instruction. He
— Paul means nothing but that he has seen Christ in
Christ lives. He announces Christ, whom he got to know in his
other phenomena, because he says to us, after death, Christ
that time that Christ lives for someone who rises in the
is, you can say, what he said is set aglow by “Christ was
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Christianity. He strove in such a way, as if he had wanted to
comprise, to penetrate the liveliness of Christ's soul with his
own soul. With this spirit of Christ's soul, he wanted to
believes now to feel in his soul, what Christ had thought and
the spirit of Christ prevail and to get out a renewal of all
human life out of the spirit of Christ. With it, we have
putting as its next goal the renewal of the spirit of Christ
the renewal of Christ's life which it nowhere finds in reality.
affirms what he calls the spirit of Christ, which he could not
Christianity. He had to go back to the historical sources,
thinking, a Gospel that follows Christ. However, Carnegie
takes Christ in such a way as it is not suitable at all to our
understand Christ in such a way that one transfers Him to the

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as intensely as possible. Heinroth (Johann Christian August H.,

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIII: The Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Exoteric
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shows, he attained literary significance by Christopher Marlowe

Title: Where/How/Spirit: Lecture XIV: Riddles in Goethe's Faust - Esoteric
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Christ, where the tempter promises all kingdoms of the world
Christian-ecclesiastical figures and images.” Who has
listened to the talks on the Christian initiation here

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criticises Christianity in his
Antichrist
(1895). For Christianity is that what he says a harsh but comprehensible
Antichrist
this spirit in the modern form of Christianity. It will turn
the whole deepness of Christianity only by spiritual science,
so that one can say, Christianity has been recognised up to now
consciousness; he did not recognise Christianity properly. Why
About 600 years before Christ, Buddha appeared whom one cannot
look at Christ now. We reincarnate in the substances of the
blessed, because Christ walked about it, because his body was
Christians spoke that way. The human being absorbs something of
the Christ principle in every life, purifies himself thereby
Christ impulse again, the illnesses would be overcome. On
inspired by the Christ principle. One learns bit by bit to
experience this union as reality. The Christ principle
Nietzsche regards Christianity just as the opposite of that,

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Christian centuries in the catacombs where we find the Madonna,
on her knees, the Madonna of that age, because Christ has
highest ideal, the highest humaneness that is just Christ? In
appearance of Christ Jesus on earth. For Christ Jesus was the

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Europe, the ground was thereby prepared for Christianity that
the deepest and most intensely, who appeared in Christ Jesus.
the personal god in Christ.
mysteries, long before the appearance of Christianity. We hear
a self-conscious ego-filled clairvoyance. A quotation by Christ
Jesus applies to it best of all. While Christ Jesus pointed to

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must go back to ancient times, which preceded Christianity, and
culture has originated in the pre-Christian age.
strong Christ impulse occurred that could work stronger here
the Christ principle, has lived in an earthly body among human
that what one can experience in the figure of Christ, in this
biggest impulse, who finds a relationship to Christ can know:
the Christ impulse can flow into the human soul. Thereby it
Because the soul gets a right understanding of Christ, it is
about Christ, the search of the soul, Ceridwen, for Hu or
did by the Christ impulse. Let us go again back to the old
Christ says, Before Father Abraham was, the “I-am”
arrival of Christ, the world was not yet ripe and it is not yet
even today. Paul beheld the living Christ in the spiritual
Christian mysteries.
the Christ mystery impregnated and interspersed the druidic and
Christ. However, one said to oneself that the human beings were
not ripe in general to accept consciously what Christ brought:
holy Christian mystery. Who was initiated, however, into this
outside world. However, when the initiates of the Christian
nothing else than an expression of the Christ mystery. The
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the Christian religion from the viewpoint of spiritual science,
one would have to show how the contents of the Christian
impulse had to come. We call it the Christ impulse, which
of the Christ being in the world would arise. Then one would
those sayings in them as Christ appeared like out of uncertain
Christianity. Christianity loses

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Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of

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establishment of Christianity in Greece, namely to the stoics,
270), the Neoplatonist, who lived in the post-Christian
beings repeatedly: does the old Christianity not satisfy the

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fourteenth century. From the eighth, tenth pre-Christian
post-Christian centuries the development of the intellectual or
Since hagiography was only a collection of legends, and Christ
The fiend, with rage, Christ's meck
By Christian priests, in yearly triumph
Christ by Thomas à Kempis

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Father in the world; by faith we learn to recognise Christ, the

Title: Human History: Lecture VII: The Prophet Elijah
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remind of the fact that also the foundation of Christianity is
Christianity is intimately connected with the event of
a particular force on Elishah, as for example Christ Jesus
happened until the foundation of Christianity. Thus, we come

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Christ and the Twentieth Century
Christ and the Twentieth Century
the question that is connected with the name of Christ has no
question of Christ. Indeed, since the appearance of the
Christian movement in world history, the human imaginative
power towards the being of Christ has always taken that form
During the first post-Christian centuries,
gnosis magnificent ideas of the Christ Being develop. These
go into the gnostic ideas about Christ with few words only,
even if the spiritual-scientific concepts of Christ do not
deepest, most important concept of the Christ Being first
compared with all that what originated in Christianity at that
time. Since it regards this Christ Being as an everlasting
spiritual facts the old gnosis already searched the Christ
material world, the Christ Being. Whereas the human being
advanced within the material world, the Christ Being
time of the emergence of Christianity as a particularly
important time of human evolution in which the Christ Being
world in which Christ was effective and beheld Christ
ripe to take up a being, the Christ, not connected with the
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Title: Human History: Lecture XI: Human History, Present, and Future in the Light of Spiritual Science
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with Thales five to six centuries before the Christian calendar
Christian calendar than we live today after its beginning. One
Then the Christian culture entered with
regards the Christ impulse as that by which the human ego
and how it changes can also not realise how the Christ

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before the Christian calendar. As far as these philosophers and
researchers of the Middle Ages were Christian, they connected
the Christian doctrines harmoniously with that what they had
Aristotle by the Christian researchers. These called Aristotle
a precursor of the Lord, of Christ the things of the natural world order. For them the
could originate only from the Christian revelation, from the
teaching which the Christian scholars of the Middle Ages
our Christian calendar.
regarded as well founded on the Christian faith. It appears in

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that the Christian culture with its ideas of equality and
Christianity as the religion that can never change into a
Christian civilisation. Sharply he expresses from that
viewpoint that Christianity leaves the outer garb to the
accepts Christianity. Since Gobineau regards Christianity as a
human types can be equalised as humanity takes up Christianity
holiest, the most important Christian view which can become no
Christian view will lead, while it equalises the human beings,

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Wieland's death (Christoph W., 1733-1813, poet and writer).
Christianity. He, who stands on the ground of a purified
Christianity, differentiates the pre-Christian epoch and the
post-Christian epoch in the evolution of humanity and speaks of
Christ event, which was not there earlier for the earthly
what about the souls, which have lived before the Christ event,
Christ event?
took up achievements of the pre-Christian time, are
reincarnated, after the stream of the Christian development had

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time of the foundation of Christianity, Philo (Ph. of
“Not I — but Christ in me!” Moses had led
connection with the source of life. However, the Christ impulse
Christ in me” meant: Moses led the human beings to that
time, but the concentric Christ source behind any unity.
Christianity; we realise how he prepares the vessel for the
Christ. We understand that Moses is placed in the human

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Christian religion! — The things are different everywhere

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture I: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy
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was also the last consequence of the Christian worldview.

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture II: Our International Situation. War, Peace and Spiritual Science
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the human being most notably. Christianity prepared the human
back at the time before Christ when in ancient Egypt the huge
the great previous development of Christianity that it
saying in a Christian way if we penetrate this emotionally and
vividly. A new Christianity or rather the original Christianity
saying that envisages such a care. However, Christianity also

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of Christianity. The southern peoples are not able to
understand this Christianity in its peculiar figure. In Greece,

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture VII: The Core of Wisdom in the Religions
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also in the Christian sense. However, the creation of the world
Christianity. If you understand this really, you find this
is already in the world. As true as Christ said, I will be
also true that he will come again that the whole Christianity
Christianity is to be understood as a religion that has to

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mentioned in the different religions. The Christian religion
understood the feeling approximately which also Christianity
on his post, and nobody is higher than the other is. Christ
legend about Christ Jesus, which has been preserved to us not
can say yes. Make it like Christ who admired the beautiful
speak again about the other and deeper matters after Christmas.

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Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
preparations of Christmas everywhere. There are slightly clear
a look at the so-called Christmas considerations of our
hearts if we link on Christmas from the spiritual-scientific
the old sages expressed in the Christmas.
Christmas is not only a Christian festival. It existed where
same festival during the days in which also the birth of Christ
is celebrated by the Christians.
wintertime advancing to Christmas. But in nature a victory has
the day at which we celebrate Christmas and at which our
the great basic idea of Christmas as a universal festival, a
occurring in nature at Christmas that was considered as a
these sages in its whole glory. The Christian worldview also
moment when Christianity should rejuvenate humanity, it let the
even with Christ, one looked for such sun myths and found them.
shines to us in the old religions of wisdom, in Christianity,
ideal of the old teachers of wisdom, of Christianity, of
anthroposophic mood of Christmas results from this, not as a
bonae volutatis). Thus, two feelings are connected as Christmas
sun in nature in the right way during Christmastide. If we
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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XI: The Christian Teachings of Wisdom
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The Christian Teachings of Wisdom
it. We reckon with the long period before Christ's birth and
with the long period after Christ's birth. One no longer feels
of Christ Jesus is deeply hidden in the human breast. Who could
This question should occupy us today, the Christian doctrine of
world also tries to deepen the Christian doctrine of wisdom.
anthroposophic view of Christianity there are the conceivably
teach and explain Christianity are just only a very few who
this core of wisdom in Christianity above all, in the religion
does not understand Christianity today, does not understand
himself, and if Christianity has to perform anything great for
task to penetrate into the depths of Christianity and to search
teaching of wisdom of Christianity, about our subject today,
you have said to us is the choicest Christianity, but it is
only for the choice ones who want to have Christianity in such
detailed way. However, we announce Christianity in a form in
of wisdom of Christianity, because I would consider it as
will also speak to those who remain in full Christian
devoutness in old Christian traditions, and to those it will be
Christianity. The spiritual-scientific saying, nothing is
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Zarathustra and — in the extreme — Christ Jesus. If
element of Christian feeling and sensation had been a basic
Western hearts and fulfilled them with bliss. Did Christ not
generate it and did it not exist in Christ? Was it not brought
we have what we call Christ in the Christian mysticism,
the voice the second member, buddhi, or Christ, lives as you
have seen just now. The Christian mysticism expressed this the
speech Christ. In the female nature, it is somewhat different.

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in Europe, the Christian one, complies with what in the
us down. If we look at the Christian-Jewish myth, it cannot
the Christian mysteries of the Middle Ages we speak that the
he lives today. The Christian mystic Angelus Silesius says
Christianity — speak of the fact that God or the gods are
the human being himself. The human God, the Christ impact
Christ originates from the sensuous Jehovah. This spiritualised
Thus, Christ becomes the founder of the law that does not
Jehovah gives the commandment, Christ gives the power of
working. If the god Jehovah determines what is good, Christ
spiritual love due to Christ. The law itself is warmed up by
a Christian term.
first the Christian caritas, the Christian love is the refined
once immersed in love. This is the first time of Christianity.
Hence, the Christian virtue became the virtues of community,
and this is the principle of the Christian religion. As once,
body found body in the natural principle, now in Christianity
soul meets soul in the higher love due to the Christ principle.
blood, based on family, clan, and people, Christ was called to
not the opponent; it is the necessary supplement of the Christ
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spiritualised Christianity as theosophy, as a divine concept,
ensouls this urge was refined and deified by Christianity;
is caused by the understood Christianity. Spirit and love are
the deepening of the principle of love by Christianity. Now we
Christian calendar. It was the Roman world domination and made
Christianity, which should spiritualise the drive of the human
one side and on the other side at the subjugating Christian
service of Christianity as chaste sacrificial virgin. We see
Caesar principle, and on the other side the Christian virgin
subjugating his hometown on the one side, the Christian
Thus, they are not anti-Christian. They are so minded that they
say: in Christ, the god appeared who became a human being who
a similar being. As Christ is now that who descended the
whom the deified human being meets. Christ and Lucifer belong
principle, Kleonis develops from a Christian virgin to a
the human love in the human nature itself. Thus, the Christian
Christ has come to life in the Christian virgin because she
but achieves that she rises to the Christian love. Phosphorus
a future which should still arise once. Christianity and
Christian formalism at first, cannot host both who have got
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inside from Christianity.

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Christianity knows for sure that this is not the case. What one
mysteries and showed how Christianity originated from them and
what Christianity concerns. Then we who live more than half a
regard it as Christian. However, he speaks of a pre-being whose

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an initiate as for example Christ Jesus appeared, he would
Christianity appears. Christianity shines into the old
essence of Christianity. This did not yet belong to Siegfried's
which then the Christian love rises which has replaced the old

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different type. We enter that time with them when Christianity,
Christianity and everything that is connected as a result with
gradually appeared with Christianity. The inner being of
Christianity maybe was nowhere expressed as magnificently and
bit and in which the task of Christianity within Central Europe
What did Christianity have as its elixir of life? The absolute
equality of all human beings. One felt Christianity that way at
real mission of Christianity. The ancestors of the Teutons were
The human being without title, without name was the Christian
influence of Christianity as worldly knighthood, generally as
that the Holy Grail is the chalice in which once Christ Jesus
Again, these are twelve, but Christian spiritual knights now.
aims at this now within the Christian world in a new way. In
addition, the Christian initiation was internalised.
Christianity should bring an initiation that takes place only
salvation to Christianity by pouring his blood; every single
Silesius, the great Christian mystic, later expressed with the
felt Christianity that way in Central Europe. No name and no
prescribes all over the world, transferred into the Christian,
influence of Christianity.
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nature is the Easter festival, which is for the Christian of
celebrate Christmas and awakes at the moment of the Easter
whole nature. Also Christmas builds in a significant way on big
shorter and that from Christmas on the sun emits bigger heat
again, so that Christmas is a festival of the reborn sun. The
Christians felt it as something like that, this festival of the
When in the sixth and seventh centuries Christianity wanted to
go back to old, holy events, the birth of Christ Jesus was
Christianity, the symbol of Christianity was shown in the cross
the spring, the sun appears in that time in which Christianity
Colchis. Christ Jesus calls himself God's lamb, and he is shown
in the first time of Christianity symbolically as the lamb at
With it, Christmas and Easter do not separate so distinctly,
festival, Christmas. Something different must be expressed in
Christian meaning of the resurrection after death. The
increases already since Christmas. We have to look deeply into
sleep of Vishnu begins around Christmastide when the astral
resurrecting World Saviour, of Christ Jesus, and the idea of
Christmas. Easter is tied on the middle of the growing solar
redeeming Christ was connected with the cosmic thought.
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it is unchristian and antichristian at the same time. Only in
legend is authoritative that reports to us how Christ Jesus and
dog, the animal were too ugly. However, Christ looked at the

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his whole life this way. One can state the parable of Christ
Jesus with the dead dog where Christ Jesus pointed to the nice

Title: Knowledge of Soul and Spirit: Lecture I: The Mission of Occult Science in Our Time
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Christianity today who wants to appreciate what Christianity
the ancient imperial Rome in the first Christian centuries. He
think of Christianity? They made the Christians links

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of the Christian development originated. Even the older
Christianity that has still gone out from the teachings of
this later Christian concept of the soul, which refrains from

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In the context with the existence of Christ on earth

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by a certain stage of Christian Initiation which is called “the

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to the Christ. Just as the force of Jehovah is related to man's process
of breathing so is the force of Christ, indeed the whole Mystery of
The necessary window was opened when the Being of Christ, through the
How can I find a relationship to Christ? Certainly it is a question
world through the impulse coming from Christ just as he sees external
etc. are seen, nor do we see the Christ impulse through which we see
by historic means. To seek for Christ historically like any other event
is inherent in the Mystery of Golgotha that Christ Jesus cannot be found
before Christ had descended to the earth man knew, through his atavistic
clairvoyance, that Christ was there above in the spiritual world and
experience, of the Christ who was to come. It is a paradox that man
could know of Christ as long as He had not yet come to the earth. From
Just as one experiences the eye when one perceives, so the Christ-event
from early on, in the development of Christianity, faith was emphasized
rather than knowledge. Christians were not to expect knowledge concerning
where the impulse of Christ fights the impulse of Ahriman. Man's evolution,
over and above mere faith with which to establish the Christ impulse
what we call the impulse of Christ. It will enable him to find within
himself the strong force with which to protect the Christ impulse in
his consciousness against the attacks of Ahriman. The Christ impulse
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does not discover: the Christ impulse which lives, or at least can live,
in modern man. He points to Christ in only one place — two other
places where he mentions Christ have no significance — and what
human beings only know ourselves through Jesus Christ; that we know
life and death only through Jesus Christ; through ourselves alone we
comes from within man yet does not stem from himself; i.e. the Christ
Christ. This, once more, is an example of someone who is striving for
truth yet cannot find the Christ and is unaware that he does not find
he leaves out is the Mystery of Golgotha. He speaks of Christianity
with reason and the like can lead to Christ; it can lead only to a universal
God. Christ, the God who descended from cosmic heights into earthly
and ourselves only through being permeated by Christ. This truth can

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Christ impulse, how does one come near the Being of Christ? In one form
that seeking Christ is deeply connected with the nature of the human
between the Being of Christ and the human ‘I’ the Christ
the Mystery of Christ are actual means by which we draw near the Christ.
It is through feeling- and will-filled contemplation of Christ that
in relation to the Event of Christ. Historically, the present is a significant
possible only because a Being from the spiritual world, the Christ Being,
the far-reaching meaning of the Rosicrucian saying: In Christo Morimur,
in Christ we die. These words express in a sense the very meaning of
the Christ? All one can say about this is that so many and so far-reaching
has been said with the Mystery of Golgotha: Christ had incarnated in
of death? The Christ-being, that lived for three years in and through
consciousness is drawn together. Did not the Christ have to lead Jesus
we too may hope to attain an intensified comprehension of Christ. This
with it the Christ Impulse. We are preparing ourselves to receive it
the Christ Impulse. However what meets us at death we can understand
Christ, it is only when we are free of the etheric body that the astral
Christ had — in dying on Golgotha — entrusted to Jesus as
had to occur: Jesus, in whom the Christ dwelt, rose to new life through
Christianity is the Resurrection. Anything calling itself by that name
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dog would be the best Christian. Similarly if fear is the criterion
not arrive at any real awareness of Christ. He allies himself with the
most prominent Christian institution of the day, that of Rome. But despite
of any conscious search for the Christ Impulse. Yet the most pressing
need in our time is to gain an ever clearer understanding of the Christ
is a Christian; nor is that possible through natural science if one
remains within its limits. To become a Christian something quite different
in what he will become through Christ.
this philosophy to the Christ Spirit; just as a bridge can be built
thinking the Christ Spirit cannot be attained. Consequently as long
that belongs to pre-Christian times, philosophy will continue to cloud
the issue of Christianity.

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one, at a time when preparation for Christianity was being made in the
was said concerning Christianity during those later centuries. Through
for Christianity, which lasted more than half a millennium during the
very spiritual concepts and ideas concerning Christianity and the Bible
fruits of what was taught in the pre-Christian Mysteries. Luther was
way for the founding of Christianity. What he absorbed in these Mysteries
epochs. He was destined to rescue for mankind a view of Christianity
mysteries preparing for Christianity and then had an intermediate incarnation

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 8
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a former incarnation, in the pre-Christian Mysteries that prepared the
way for Christianity. Nevertheless he was in the fullest sense a true
epoch — the teachings in the pre-Christian Mysteries had taken
of Christian Rosenkreutz and the “Chymical Wedding” by Johann
of the Christ Being passes into man as he receives the bread and the
in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch he interpreted in the light of Christianity.
He understood it in the Christian, or better said Biblical sense, as
Christ. Schiller said: No, something else is present in man: in the

Title: Karma of Materialism: Lecture 9
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point to a deep truth uttered by Christ Jesus but one which people will
plane. Christ said: “The kingdom of God is within you.”
The Christ Principle is understood rightly only when one strives to
presumption or lack of humility, of how the first Christians in early
later what had become of that old order whose treatment of early Christianity
magnitude as Christianity itself. What today dominates the world as
Christianity evolving below in the catacombs.
Valentin Andrae wrote The Chymical Wedding of Christian

Title: Olaf Oesteson: The Awakening of the Earth Spirit
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about Christmas to the present date (Jan. 7th) is really an
Christmas Eve to Epiphany, Jan.6th.
kept in touch with nature, what happens at Christmas time
through in the time between Christmas and Epiphany is
He went to rest on Christmas Eve.
He went to rest on Christmas Eve:
I went to rest on Christmas Eve,
At the side of Jesus Christ.
The judge of the world, Jesus Christ.
poem on my visit to Christiania the time before last, and
was asleep for thirteen days, beginning from Christmas
Christmas time outer nature is as though asleep, it is
accord with this occult truth the festival of Christmas,
Christmas time, during the “Thirteen days.”
after Christmas. At that time, without noticing it,
between Christmas and New Year is most important.

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture II
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the name of Christian Rosenkreuz speaks to those whom he chooses from
Christian Rosenkreuz came to him in a former incarnation, but for
Christian Rosenkreuz.
The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture V
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in evolution, for example, the subject of Christ, this is not the
essential point is the form which the subject of Christ
hearts of men. The light thrown upon the subject of Christ by the
profoundly concerned with the subject of Christ. We need only be
esoteric Christianity was deepened by those who gathered under the
at the Christmas Meeting of 1923, in Dornach, when Rudolf Steiner

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 1: Zarathustra
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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
Christianity. It is, however, a remarkable and interesting fact
of Christianity, was doubtless confronted with a very different
is, at the dawn of the Christian era, these two separate thought
In olden times before the Grecian or Christian
further even to the time of the spreading of Christianity.

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 2: Hermes
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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
Christian era. Here, then, is one reason why this particular
Egyptians, down to less than 1000 years before the Christian era,
Christianity as a Mystical Fact, I have gone more fully

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 3: Buddha
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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
Christ-impulse began to dominate Western thought. It is only in
we have gained through Christianity. Six hundred years after the
advent of the Great Buddha, there arose in Christendom a wholly
In Christendom, six hundred years after the
Christian trend of thought as follows: — From that part of the
Christian concept which is founded upon the stories in the Old
in Christendom we find man’s relation to the world to be of
following may be considered as the Christian’s point of
Christianity and studies deeply, learns that while history ran
Maya.’ But the Christian, on the other hand, would exclaim:
itself that is Maya.’ But the Christian says: — ‘It
overcome. The Christian exclaims: — ‘I have been placed
world. The Christian, therefore, is of opinion that in order to
It is in this way that the Christian feels that
Christian seeks liberation from his lower personality, and looks
Paul: — ‘Yet not I but Christ liveth in me’
and this desire he must overcome — he must away! The Christian,
We Christians dwell upon this earth equipped with
St. Paul, — ‘Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,’
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Title: Turning Points: Lecture 4: Moses
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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
lived at the time of the founding of Christianity, we realize at
St. Paul: — ‘Yet not I, but Christ liveth in Me’
of life. From the Christ-Impulse, humanity has learnt that
St. Paul’s words: — ‘Yet not I, but Christ liveth in
Christ-Source — which underlies and is concentric with all
one who paved the way for Christianity; and we have learnt in
fitting receptacle replete with the essence of the Christ-Being.

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 5: Elijah
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evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
Christianity owes its foundation, for the most part, to that
true origin of Christianity is intimately connected with what
righteous founder of the Christian Faith; and the knowledge and
glorious inspiration which Christ Jesus Himself gave to His
events which ultimately led to the founding of Christianity. We

Title: Turning Points: Lecture 6: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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Christ and the Twentieth Century
evolution of consciousness and the central role of the Christ event in that
CHRIST
the name of Christ find no true and proper place.
Being to Whom the name of Christ has been given, are directly rooted
of the Christ-conception. This divergence may well be due to the
Christ-Movement into the world’s history, man’s power
of conception concerning the Christ-Being and the form which it
advent of Christianity into the world’s history, we realize
Christ. We find, however that the universal acceptance of these
short period as compared with that idea of The Christ which was,
enlightening to consider briefly those lofty Christ-concepts
the first centuries of the Christian era — not, be it
ideas which it has to put forward with regard to The Christ
extend far beyond the ancient gnosis of those early Christian
few centuries of the Christian era, this ancient gnosis put
forward the most profound ideas concerning the Christ-Being —
with the dawn of Christianity. This higher spiritual wisdom
maintained that the Christ-Being was eternal, and not alone
The old gnosis sought the Christ-Being in that
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture IX
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Baptism and the life of Christ after the Baptism. Among the scenes
Prayer, and the temptation of Christ after the Baptism.
of the life of Christ Jesus according to what I have
Temptation. But in this Temptation Christ Jesus was
Christ Jesus and in the evolution of the Earth. It was as
was made ready, by these events, to receive the Christ
connection between the Christ Event and the Parsifal
Christ Impulse, but to speak of something that underlay
important stage of the further development of the Christ
Now the Christ Impulse was a Deed which mankind had not
Christ had passed into the Aura of the Earth, He was
dogmas and teachings. Christ was working in the hidden
Christ-Impulse was to be purely in the life of soul, in
life played no part. His connection with the Christ
influences in the onflowing Christ Impulse were to work
world but Christ works in the supersensible and
where the living essence of the Christ Impulse confronts
asked what the Holy Grail contains, what the Christ Event
one which bears within it the Christ Impulse, the other
Science can tell us about the Christ Impulse makes us
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture X
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Baptism and the life of Christ after the Baptism. Among the scenes
Prayer, and the temptation of Christ after the Baptism.
Jordan, when the Christ being united with Jesus of
Baptist when the Christ is to descend into him.
understand John the Baptist and Christ Jesus' relation to
(Lecture-Course XXXI. Christ and the Spiritual
influence of the Christ Impulse, humanity now rightly
truth of Christ's Resurrection? We must here consider the
that before Christ entered into the Aura of the Earth
Christ worked in those spheres before He passed into the
at Damascus he had not perceived Christ's actual presence
Christ above 14 years ago... and so on. Paul is, of
Christ while He was still in the spiritual
Christ had now passed into the Aura of the Earth and was
of Christianity uttered such strange words. They said:
Christ is the true Lucifer. They understood: In
strove to look upwards to the Christ, they could only do
called the physical sheath of Christ, the “Ahura
dwelt the Christ. But now the Christ had departed from
worshipped Jehovah had prepared the way, Christ was able
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Title: On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture XI
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Baptism and the life of Christ after the Baptism. Among the scenes
Prayer, and the temptation of Christ after the Baptism.
John in the Jordan, the Christ Being descended into the
conception of the Being Christ Jesus gives us an
as the Nathan Jesus and become the bearer of the Christ
not the first Christ Event taken place in the
Christ Being Who later on, at the Baptism in the Jordan,
of the Event in Palestine that the Christ Being then
first Christ Event.
— was again “ensouled” by the Christ
human nature. Although the first Christ Event had brought
Lucifer and Ahriman. The second Christ Event took place
world “in wisdom” if the first Christ Event
and moderation if the second Christ Event had not
epoch, the third Christ Event had not taken place. Once
again the Christ Being united with the
a pictorial presentation of the third Christ Event: St.
George or the Archangel Michael is inspired by the Christ
preserved definite consciousness of the third Christ
Christ Being permeating the soul of the later Jesus boy.
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 1: The Immortality of the I
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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. Everyone will feel the great difference
Christmas is pre-eminently celebrated as
though not always — includes a Christmas tree, brought into our
houses from snow- and ice-clad nature. And we remember the Christmas
popular parts that are easiest to understand. Thus, Christmas is a festival
is much that is lovely and speaks to all human hearts in Christmas,
only when we remember what we know through spiritual science. Christmas
ever celebrated to commemorate the birth of a Savior. Christmas is connected
a cave. Thus, Christmas is a festival closely linked with nature, as
symbolized by the Christmas tree. Even the birth it celebrates is a
part of nature. At the same time, because Christmas celebrates the birth
when nature appears to be asleep and frozen. Christmas leads us into
elemental nature; the lighting of the Christmas candles should be our
relationship between Christmas and human beings, we have to think of
truth that Christmas also commemorates our etheric, elemental nature,
of Christmas and Easter is also intended to remind us of our connection
Just as we can associate Christmas with the
Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost! Just think, Christmas as we celebrate
In a way, our celebration of Christmas follows
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Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 2: Blood and Nerves
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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows
about the descent of Christ from the cosmos into our earthly sphere.
we left behind later followed us and descended in the Christ Being.
us later in the Christ Being. And what did that life have to lay hold
and nervous system through our participation in the Christ Mystery.
in the right way with the Christ Being that pulsates through the earth
Christ said: “I am with you always,
not cowards know Christ is always revealing Himself; therefore, we may
accept what He has revealed in the form of anthroposophy as a true Christ-revelation.
Christ. This is a naive question; for everything we strive for, every
relationship with Christ. In a certain sense, we really do nothing else.
with Christ are only naively expressing that they would prefer to avoid
we can have on earth: to Christology. You cannot find this transition
nerve substance lost? When Jesus of Nazareth was thirty years old, Christ
Mystery into our blood to fill the luciferic element there with Christ,
with Christology.

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 3: The Twelve Human Senses
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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 4: The Human Organism Through the Incarnations
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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 5: Balance in Life
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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows
we may experience on seeing the figure of Christ in Michelangelo's famous
poetry when out of Christianity's eternal truths there pours forth:
but the renewal of the true Christian life of feeling and experience.
will ultimately culminate in the Christian view of the world, which
to fully understand again the spiritual that is contained in Christianity.

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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows
I said that nowadays many people believe themselves to be good Christians
the true wellspring of life for Christianity, can be understood only
understand Christianity and the Mystery of Golgotha without taking the
path of spiritual science. The number of people who can understand Christianity
of Christianity because the Mystery of Golgotha will not be understood.
about some of the treasures of wisdom in Christianity. Two clergymen
really astonished at my positive attitude toward Christianity. They
to be in Christianity. However, they felt my manner of presentation
while their way of presenting Christianity was for all people and therefore
is right. Those who know the least about Christianity are often the
The decisive point was not what these clergymen thought about Christianity

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with a new look at the Christian festival of Pentecost, Steiner shows
— that because we can see the Christ Mystery in our spiritual
does not include the Christ Being. The Japanese, Chinese, Hindus, Persians,
do not include the Christ Being in their thinking about the spiritual
the Christ Mystery makes their world view an atavistic one. To be able
of the Christ Mystery over the Asian cultures. But what do Asians say
have the advantage of the Christ Mystery over them. They say, “That
which is very nice. However, you have had Christianity for two thousand
Christianity in a higher sense.
about Christianity, even the best of them, from truly understanding
very “profound” to say we must experience the Christ in
of Christ as merely an inner experience even though in reality it is
a historical event. Christ really did rise again in the world, but many
people should experience the Christ only inwardly. There are theosophical
them.” The Christ is a social phenomenon. The Christ passed through
thing is for people to find the Christ, everything depends on the Christ.
advance only when people find the Christ, whom they have not yet found.
and said, “You see, with Christ it's like this. Just think, I
I think of the Christ. He belongs to us all, He is the person we all
of the special life of Christ, of His isolated life! He has discovered
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Title: Jacob Boehme
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of Christ before Paul at Damascus. Only, an explanation which
Christianity, proceeded from a “dream.”

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture I
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on behalf of the spreading of Christianity. Art and the
Christian civilisation. The influence of the Holy Grail gradually

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture II
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sub-race still lacks something which Christianity alone can
Christ, Who carries the Cross resting between his shoulders at the
Christianity was
races must give way to Christianity, personified in Leo, the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture III
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where Christ bore the Cross. Siegfried cannot as yet take the Cross
the North still lacked, and it also shows that Christianity was still
signifies that during the last phase, before Christianity arises, the

Title: Richard Wagner: Lecture IV
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the Christ, the Christian principle. Unselfish love opposed to
to set forth the Christ principle in all its depth, after his
Christianity.
Wagner created an eminently Christian drama, the work with which he
Christ-problem stands in the centre of the drama. Out of Parsifal
countries, and what arose later on in Christianity as purified
transformation. Later on, in the early times of Christianity
special significance for Christian Europe.
their name from it. Christianity itself may be led back, as a fourth
spread over the whole of Europe influencing even Christian monks.
mission of Christianity. The Germanic peoples longed for this new
form of Christianity: a Christianity was to be called into life which
Christianity has appeared, it is a mortal sin to kill, and killing is
is the representative of a new Christianity. He becomes the King of the
cup which was used by Jesus Christ at the Lord's Supper, the cup in
Arimataea caught up the blood streaming out of Christ's wound. The
two forms of Christianity. One kind is represented by the knights of
the organ of desire. He personifies the form of Christianity which
confronted with two phenomena. On the one hand, Christianity which has become
Holy Grail as a sorrow-laden king. This higher Christianity is
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Title: Lecture: Theosophic/Esoteric Cosmology: Spiritual Cosmology
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knowledge is in a very definite way determined by Christian and
the most faithful church-going Christians cannot imagine to what

Title: Lecture: Theosophic/Esoteric Cosmology: Esoteric Cosmology - 3
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2 Dhyani Chohans: in Christian terminology these are archangels.

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 1: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn-embodiment of the Earth
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immersed as a spiritual being, feeling one with the Christ-Being,
carried by the Christ-Being, swimming — though not in a sea of

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 2: The Inner Aspect of the Sun-embodiment of the Earth
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was born the Being who appeared on earth as the Christ-Being. And we
Christ-Being when we grasp the idea of the bestowing virtue, the
to the earth by the Christ-Being is on the earth, fulfils its life on
nature of the Christ-impulse. We are then able to understand
and see how the Christ grows forth from the Sun-Sphere, we shall
lecture it will be our task to study the Christ-Being in the spiritual

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 3: The Inner Aspect of the Moon-embodiment of the Earth - 1
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as it were, we have before us the meaning of the earth, the Christ.
avoid the death of sacrifice?” That which Christ might have
greatest renunciation made by Christ Jesus confronts us when, by
to enter His sphere. If we are able to see in Christ Jesus all that
nature was resignation. Christ renounced that which would have
Christ seated among the twelve, and Judas, the betrayer, in the
value might enter into evolution, Christ Himself had to place His
this representation of Christ surrounded by His Apostles, He who on

Title: Inner Realities: Lecture 5: The Inner Aspect of the Earth-embodiment of the Earth
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phenomena known to man, that the Christ incarnated in Jesus of
risen like Christ — all these reasons are on the same level as
call the “Christ-Being it must clearly be impossible to
Christ-Being is the Mystery of Golgotha; that is, the conquest of
metamorphosis. Would Christ undergo death He must descend to the
Christ Himself belongs to the higher worlds and came down to the
to perceive the Christ as an etheric figure on the astral plane, as
gradually becoming able to perceive the Christ by means of the higher
higher worlds, that Christ is a reality; that He lives; they will
understands that the development of Christ Himself is progressing
actually appears as a first shining forth of Christ in the world of
the Christ for the next three thousand years from our present
which is enacted on earth as the origin of all the subsequent Christ
the idea that effects such as those produced by Christianity could be
Christianity as Mystical Fact).
Christ Jesus by the star-constellation, for they were then still very
whom they call the Christ must have lived on earth at that time. In

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 1: The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
out to our friends that the Christ, of whom we have
being filled with the Christ spirit in our day, we shall
find out if we rightly have the Christ within us, the
Christ who acts from our own hearts into the hearts of
Christ goes unrecognized
in accord with the true Christ impulse.
allied with Christ, is in dialogue with Christ. This
spirit is holding such a dialogue with the Christ in the
spirit of Christ that we turn to the spirit who we hope
To the Christ-endowed soul,
Of mind of man all given up to Christ.

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 2: Nationalities and Nationalism in the Light of Spiritual Science
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
Golgotha, the Christ spirit, the spirit of courage, the
Byzantine Christianity that was received, descending like
instance, received the Christian faith, or the way the
nations or bring them to the Christian faith — the
Christianity that is to come for the Russians. He would
Christian faith that has gone through the Faust nature
attitude to the Christian faith? If we consider what
confuse it with the Christian faith of the Western

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 3: The Nature of European Folk Souls
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
present century the revelation of Christ will be made to

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 4: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 1
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
The Nature of the Christ Impulse
essential things that have happened, the Christ impulse
Christianity is generally understood to cover only what
Christianity is so great, so tremendous, that human
the Christ impulse. If Christ had worked only on the
form of the Christ, but rather the fact that he has been
of the profundity of the Christ impulse even today.
understanding of the Christ impulse as we have so far
today than it has been possible to grasp of the Christ in
on the Christ by using the means available through
Immediate comprehension of what the Christ is, and what
in regions where the Christ still had to enter, as it
were. Yet the Christ impulse had to come in, for instance
will be the best way of demonstrating how the Christ is
in AD 312 that the man through whom Christianity became
Christ impulse to influence mankind in a way commensurate
possible to see how much of the Christ impulse could be
understood at the time, how much of that Christ impulse
fought Christianity out of honest conviction, on
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 5: The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It - 2
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
The Nature of the Christ Impulse
Christ impulse — are living impulses within the
the nature of the Christ impulse with their reason, with
historical events to Joan of Arc through whom this Christ
having to operate in a Christian age, acting from within,
with the subtlest powers of the Christian faith.
and the winter night the darkest, around Christmas
Christmas at that time, of the birth of the spirit who
relation to earthly things, and where the Christ impulse
that the Christ impulse can be the only one to enter into
in the time around Christmas, on the 6th of January, with
the days of Christmas immediately preceding her entry on
through the Christ impulse, as I indicated to you the
day known as that of the manifestation of Christ. But we
ahead of the Christ, as it were, before the Mystery of
Christ influenced Joan of Arc through his Michaelic
Christ impulse to expression specifically in our time, in
spiritual world, from the Christ impulse down through

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 6: Spiritual Perception Essential at the Present Time
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 7: Personal and Supersensible Aspects
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 8: Three Decisions on the Path to Imaginative Perception
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 9: The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 10: Problems on Spiritual Path - National Characteristics in Europe Moulded by Folk Spirits
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
Paul: ‘And if Christ be not risen, then is our

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 11:Etheric Man within Physical Man
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 12: The Group Sculptured for the Building in Dornach
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
figure in which the Christ dwelt for three years. It will
Christ. But the issue should not be forced. We must not
going to look upon the Christ.’ If someone arrives
that that is the Christ. The point is not immediately to
Christ’.
still in the process of really grasping the Christ
through spiritual science. The Christ neither hates nor
to break Lucifer's wings. The Christ is the one who
not broken by the Christ but that he breaks them himself.
true for Ahriman. Christ does not do anything to those
present age to present Christ in his true light.
been many portrayals of the Christ in the course of
the Christ shown in the Last Judgement. His stature
to the other. That is a Christ who cannot be the Christ
evildoers. Future Christians will reward and condemn
through Christ. Michelangelo lived at a time when the
most profound truths relating to the Christ could not yet
such that the Christ principle is taken to be what it is
of Christ until now cannot continue on into the future,
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Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 13: The Prophetic Nature of Dreams: Moon, Sun and Saturn Man
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
to grasp the utter profundity of the words Christ spoke:
as we know it so far, Christ's words: ‘Heaven and
Christ out of spiritual science. There will have to be
many of them before the full meaning of Christ's words

Title: Destinies of Individuals and Nations: Lecture 14: The Cosmic Significance of Our Sensory Perceptions - Our Thinking, Feeling and Will Activity
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consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve Him. Also
of Jesus Christ, as a man compelled to speak to the
ambassador of Christ. Later, when he had further
ambassador of Christ but nevertheless let it appear in
in the service of those other powers. The Christ impulse

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 1: The Present Position of Spiritual Science
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Christian era, describes the fall of the Roman Empire, but not the
gradual ascent of Christianity, its growth and

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 2: A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Human Being
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Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Christianity I said the very opposite of what he quotes of the
Christianity as Mystical Fact
Christianity as Mystical Fact

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 3: The Living and the Dead
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Constantinople. The dogma was then drawn up that Christians

Title: Earthly Death/Cosmic Life: Lecture 4: The Cosmic Thoughts and our Dead
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lectures I gave in Christiania on

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture I: Folk Souls and the Mystery of Golgotha
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given in Christiania to learn that a Folk-Soul is a concrete, real
its place in the Earth life as a unique event. Christ Jesus lived
that which happened to Christ Jesus, which fulfills itself out of the
neither acknowledge, nor recognize Christ-Jesus personally or

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture II: The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology
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we are born, and in Christ we die.”

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth
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was destroyed in the last era before the birth of Christ and

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture V: Thoughts on Life and Death
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history of the continuous Christian impulse — not of
Christianity — we find Ahrimanic powers working through
humanity, and particularly in the Christian development. One
what on the other is Christ and Christ-force. If the
spiritualization of mankind through the Christ-Mystery
Christ-Mystery but which afterwards became the
Christ-Mystery. Julian, the recreant, the apostate, only knew
that it was the Christ-Mystery. That was his tragic fate; he
by Christianity during the past centuries and thousands of
regard Christianity? — considering that it has indeed
peculiar who demand that Christianity should go back again to

Title: Life Gifts: Lecture VII: Whitsuntide Lecture
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Christian question of conscience: Where are the men to be
“Christianity As Mystical Fact” was mentioned in

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture I: States of Consciousness
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eighth century before Christ. In earlier times, human nature
birth of Christ, or at the time of Origen, it would not have
mind what is implied in the close of my article on Christian
Christian Rosenkreuz by Johann Valentin Andreae. Philologists

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture II: The Building at Dornach
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in stone or metal, and all Christian ones — ours being
in the most eminent sense Christian — better in wood. I
and the same applies to other Christian sculpture I have
representation of Christ Jesus. It seemed to me
carve a figure of Christ Jesus”. I wanted to produce
Christ Jesus. I should be most glad if that were so; but the
expression; to set out to carve a figure of Christ Jesus
neither Lucifer nor Ahriman can endure this love. The Christ
— Christ-Jesus.
living entirely in the soul, as Christ-Jesus did, this
to continue in painting; the theme of the croup. The Christ,

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture III: East and West
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century after Christ, not so very far behind us, there was
days before Christ, when the sentient-soul was seen in all

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture IV: History and Repeated Earth-Lives
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Christianity — really takes the line of concealing and
The few sick folk healed by Christ Jesus himself —
Christianity coincided with this condition of the Roman
Christianity throughout those early times. There is an
Christianity) is nothing else than a positive
the first Christian centuries out of true knowledce, will see
Christianity, and it lasted on into the ninth century. A
study of the details of this spreading Christianity shows that
that Christianity might spread, it was made suitable for
or less disappeared from Christianity; everything was centred
a genuine Christ-consciousness. We must not forget
that Christ was known in the highest sense during the first
Christian centuries by those who knew how the Christ-Figure,
the Christ-Being, stood in relation to all the forces of the
Christ-Figure, the ground of their emotion was that they
it were the approach of the Christ-Figure to the Earth
of Christ Jesus prevailing in the early centuries”,
conceal the greatness of the Christ-idea and the profound
everything was made simple, designed to show that Christ
that in the early centuries of Christianity it was possible
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture V: The Being and Evolution of Man
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Isis, also various Christian portrayals in which three
home to ourselves that the Christ, Who went through the
words, “Not I, but Christ in me,” this “in
if he would find the right connectiona with the Christ. One
of St. John, where John speaks as go the Christ came to man
result of the Union of the Christ-Being with earthly
upon it and asserted that Christians therefore maintained
men of Christ having passed through the Mystery of Golgotha
but only in connection with the Christ. This, however, was to
Christianity, as it had come into the world through the
It embodied very spiritual views of the real nature of Christ
of Christ, to bring it about that souls should not approach
Christ. This negative task of the Church has its
Christ, and fundamentally through all these centuries man;s
approach to the Christ has been a continual struggle of the
teaching. The path to Christ was really always a
slowly and gradually could men win their way to Christ. We
holy, lofty Christian life flowed to them from the Gospels.
acquiring concepts, concrete concepts, about the Christ and
strictness, in order to distinguish the path of Christianity
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Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VI: Problems of the Time (I)
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8th century before Christ, and in respect of this feeling of
centuries before Christ. Humanity had withdrawn into the
entrance of the Christ into earthly evolution. Therefore the
province of Palestine, with regard to Christ Jesus? How
Christianity had made itself at home in this secular culture
accepted as outer dogma to this extent: Christ had come, had
that in reality all those who accepted Christianity in these
Christianity were not such as to help people to unite
account, independently of us, and Christ will take care that
Orthodox Christianity of the East, so the Ahrimanic fear, the
Christianity, in the course of its expansion, as well as the

Title: Sound Outlook: Lecture VII: Problems of the Time (II)
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Christ-Mystery.
did not speak of ‘the Christ,’ their inspirations
came from the world in which Christ always was, for He is a
The Christ descended from the world of the cosmos to the
in ancient times, because Christ was no longer to be found in
out, but Christ had to come down to them. He came to the
summed up in the Christ, and could be beheld in Him. The one
Christ descended to the earth from the cosmos. That was one
must err. Thus the Christ, dissenting from worlds becoming
Nazareth and become Christ-Jesus, so that in a human body
Earth-development. So we have in Christ the Cosmic Being,
directly; and in the Jesus to whom the Christ came, we have
“Christ”, nor as “Jesus”. To speak of
the “Christ” only, is not to comprehend Him; for
the “Christ” of — for example — the
account the Christ Who drew into him. Unless we give due
weight to this fact of the Christ in Jesus, we cannot grasp
how far Christ-Jesus is this double Being is a great task;
Christ in Jesus by all sorts of means. On one hand there is
combat the Christ, and with that came to set up a false
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Title: On The Gospel of St. John
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concern is to enter into the spirit of Christianity and into the
Time — which is, in essence, the spirit of Christianity.
unfold. This Power is Christianity. The primary task of Christianity
Christianity was intended to be an education. The trend was that,
consciousness of it had to be preserved. To that end Christ came to
Christ said Elias has come again and men have not known
him. To the Disciples, Christ here set forth the doctrine of
the material world — and Christ was their Leader. But now and
henceforth man is called upon to experience the Christ within
when everyone will know in quite another light, what the Christ is,
in reality. The Christ will appear on the Earth again in Glory and
then the second chapter of Christianity will begin. The ‘New
misunderstanding. A new understanding of Christianity will awaken and
writings of Christianity, will bring its own revenge. Another dawn
would light up in our age if the Christian Churches had a better
understanding of what Christianity is. Our age, too, is inscribed in
Who betrayed the Christ? He who had the 30 pieces of silver, he who
the Christian era, the Divine Spirit descended. The Christ came to
to deliver up the Christ to the material forces of existence, Because
humanity followed the 30 pieces of silver, Christ vanished —
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Title: Lecture: The Lord's Prayer
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Think of Christian prayer. You all know what it is. It has often been spoken
the Occident, especially in Christian communities, prayer has taken its
place. It is by prayer that the Christian customarily approaches the
no means have been considered such in early Christian times, least of all
by the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus Himself. For if it were to
People so praying disregard the prayer in which Christ Jesus set forth the
done.” This is the Christian attitude of prayer.
be given in a Christian manner. When this is the character of his plea, the
in Christian prayer renders it similar to meditation, though more colored by
feeling. Originally, Christian prayer was not essentially different from
gradual development transmuted his own being into what Christianity
which Christian esoteric teaching characterizes as of the kingdom of
Who founded Christianity — Christ Jesus — had in mind the seven
laws. For two thousand years the Christian has been praying as the
that is central to Christian life, the Lord's Prayer, expresses this primeval

Title: Lecture: History of the Physical Plane and Occult History
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Christ. Now from the lectures you have heard in the domain of
appearing of Christ Jesus upon the earth and even further
into the centuries before Christ? The people who enter
post-Christian epoch. Let us compare the ages. In earthly
in the ages before the external appearance of Christ Jesus on
post-Christian times and then entering our physical plane at
the first Christian centuries, and again died and passed into
one another, beginning from the 4th century before Christ and
Christ. And we gain an idea of the progress of history in the
deed of Christ for the Earth? What significance has the
point of time of the appearing of Christ Jesus upon the
messengers were upon the physical plane in the pre-Christian
pre-Christian times that which the initiates brought over as
Christ, that which took place in the period of deepest
Gospel regarding that visit which Christ made after the Event
truth. Just as truly as Christ wandered among men during the
with the appearing of Christ upon the earth a completely new
that which the Christ accomplished for the evolution of the
This visit of Christ to the other side signified a revival of

Title: Lecture: Christianity in Human Evolution
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Christianity in Human Evolution
Christianity in the Evolutionary Course of Mankind
Originally published with the title, Christianity in the
Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings,
CHRISTIANITY
Originally published with the title, Christianity in the
from the spirit of the lectures given here, is the Christ, that Being
Whom we designate as the Christ, Who took possession of the bodies of
significance as an avatar being. We should seek the Christ Being
must distinguish between such a lofty avatar being as the Christ and
Christ on earth. Because the Avatar Being of Christ lived in the body
kindled in the astral body of Jesus of Nazareth when Christ entered
Now, through the appearance of the Christ principle in earthly
and characteristic of the pre-Christian times. When an etheric or an
the Christ Avatar Being appeared. The etheric and astral bodies of
The intimate history of Christian development is connected with
this fact. What is ordinarily described as the history of Christian
of actual periods in Christian development. Anyone who can look more
deeply into the evolutionary progress of Christianity will easily
perceive that, in the early centuries of the Christian era, the
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Title: Isis and Madonna
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changed from the simple figure of the catacombs in the first Christian
age when Christ had already passed through death but is portrayed with
sublime ideal, the highest peak of humanity, the Christ Himself — for
as a result of the appearance of Christ Jesus on earth; for in Christ

Title: Lecture: The European Mysteries and Their Initiates
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For this purpose we must go back to ancient pre-Christian times and
European civilisation and culture in pre-Christian times. Now the
Christ Impulse which could work more strongly in Europe than anywhere
else — the news that a sublime Spirit, the Christ, had lived in
become historic fact in the Christ Event. In the ancient
the mighty impulse brought by the Christ-Being, he who can link
himself with Christ, will realise that just as the sun irradiates and
quickens the life of the plants, so the Christ Impulse can flow into
quickened by a true understanding of Christ. — And it was also
the Christ Impulse. To understand this, let us think once more of
blood-stream which passes down through the generations. Christ says:
Christ, nor is it to-day. Paul had a vision of the Living Christ in
were received and the influence of the Christ Mystery so
as Hu and Baldur, had come to earth as Christ. But they said among
It was only in small circles of Initiates that this sacred Christ
of the Christ-Mystery, however, demand that I shall not wait until
Parsifal or Grail legend is simply a form of the Christ Mystery. The
Grail is the holy Cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and
Parsifal. Only when he asks, does he become an Initiate of the Christ
The Mysteries which were illuminated by the Christ Impulse have one
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Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ
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Buddha and Christ
From Buddha to Christ.
From Buddha to Christ.
BUDDHA AND CHRIST
and Christianity from the standpoint of Spiritual Science.
European culture — Christianity, or whether it be Buddhism.
be able to compare it with the spirit of Christianity, we shall do
Now if we turn from Buddhism to Christianity, we can —
this instance of Nagasena in the Christian sense, and represent it
dominated by the spirit of Christianity it would necessarily have to
spirit of Christianity: — ‘True it is that the shafts are
seen. The spirit which imbues the Christian way of thinking —
Christian conception of things, remarkable consequences arise
Now whither does the Christian conception lead us? It
Christianity, that which makes man a unity in his earthly life is the
both for the Buddhistic and the Christian conceptions. In the
Benares, about the fifth or sixth century before Christ.
Christianity is a ‘religion of redemption’ in the same
sense as Buddhism. If we place Christianity in its correct relation
For Christianity proceeds from the knowledge that everything which in
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag I: Das Wesen der Geisteswissenschaft und Ihre Bedeutung Frü Die Gegenwart
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Diese Frage nimmt für die Bekenner des Christentums eine
geläuterten Christentums steht, unterscheidet in der
Entwickelung der Menschheit die vorchristliche Epoche von der
nachchristlichen und spricht davon, daß von dem
Christus-Ereignis ein Strom neuen geistigen Lebens
Seelen, die vor dem Christus-Ereignis gelebt haben, vor der
Verkündigung dessen, was vom Christus-Ereignis
Christus-Ereignis Errungenschaften der vorchristlichen Zeit
Strom der christlichen Entwickelung seinen Anfang genommen hat,

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag IX: Zarathustra
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der Erscheinung des Christentums auf die Erde zu versetzen
Jahrtausende vor dem Eintritt des Christentums in der Welt
Entstehung des Christentums hineinfällt, rinnen gleichsam
der vorgriechischen oder in der vorchristlichen Zeit aber war
vorgriechischen und vorchristlichen Zeiten entgegen in der
das Christentum ausgebreitet hat, zu verfolgen: überall

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag X: Galilei, Giordano Bruno und Goethe
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christlichen Zeitrechnung liegt und was uns nur

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XII: Hermes
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bis herein in die letzten Jahrtausende vor der christlichen
Christentum als mystische TatsacheÂ»: Wenn der

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XIII: Buddha
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abendländische Leben der christliche Impuls geltend machte
wenn man ihr nicht gegenüberstellt, was uns im Christentum
darnach der Mensch im Christentum zur Gesamtentwickelung der
christliche Idee ist, in der folgenden Weise
Insofern die christliche Idee auf den Ideen des Alten
des Christentums zur Welt stellt, als es im Buddhismus der Fall
ist. Da kann als christlich die Idee bezeichnet werden: In mir
blickt der, welcher von der Oberfläche des Christenturns
steht der Christ der Welt gegenüber: Ich bin in diese Welt
ist? fragt der Christ. Er antwortet: Es liegt an mir! Ich
überwinden! So darf der Christ sagen: Ich bin in die Welt
Wenn der Christ einsieht, daß die Geisteswissenschaft ihn
steht der Christ historisch in der gesamten Menschheit drinnen
Dasein», so sucht der Christ Befreiung vom niederen
des Paulus: «Nicht ich — sondern der Christus in
dieser Welt. — Der Christ aber sagt: Nein, nicht an der
— So stellen wir uns als Christen in die Welt mit unserem
— sondern der Christus in mir, — sondern ein
heruntergestiegen — muß der Christ sagen — bis
nur geschehen, wenn nicht ich, sondern wenn der Christus in mir
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Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XIV: MOSES
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des Christenturns gelebt hat, Philo, dann sieht man, wie
Â«Nicht ich — sondern der Christus in
Christus-Impuls gegeben. So war mit dem Worte des Paulus
Â«Nicht ich — sondern der Christus in
aller Einheit selbst gegebenen Christus-Quell!
das Christentum; sehen, wie dem menschlichen
Christus-Wesenheit ausgefÃ¼llt werden soll. So

Title: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XV: Was Hat die Astronomie über Weltentstehung Zu Sagen?
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PropÃ¤deutik fÃ¼r die christliche Religion!

Title: Lecture: Prayer
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mistake of many mystics, and even of ordinary Christians in
Christians and perhaps still is today — if we do not

Title: Lecture: Mendelssohn's 'Overture of the Hebrides'
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Das Christus-Ereignis als Mittelpunktsgeschehen
first impulses of Christianity and the few centuries which followed.
human beings were prepared who should later receive the Christ

Title: Prophecy -- Its Nature and Meaning
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sons. Concerning his son, Christian, the indications were accurate;
Christian, although it contends that there need have been no Christ

Title: Lecture: Death in Man, Animal, and Plant
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celebrate the Christmas festival, when life without is dead, then we

Title: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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century after Christ by the great mystic and philosopher,

Title: Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci
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figure of the Christ in the center, and on either side of Him the
Jesus Christ uttered the words, “One of you shall betray ME”.
time a coat of arms was placed right over the head of Christ. In
painting the Christ Figure, his hand trembled. Indeed, if we put
“The picture is to represent Jesus Christ and Judas, the two
models for them in the world, neither for Judas nor for Christ”.
Judas figure. If we now turn to the Christ Figure, approaching it not
Christ Figure, standing out as it does from the other figures, seem
the other countenances but not that of Judas nor that of Christ
the light on the face of the Christ cannot be explained by the outer

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 1. Materialism and Spirituality.
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century must bring to humanity the Vision of the etheric Christ. Just
time of the Mystery of Golgotha Christ walked among men in a physical
form, in one known part of the earth, so will the etheric Christ walk
see the Christ Who will come and Who must be seen.
Christ-Spirit on the physical plane, yet if men's souls will but open
themselves to Him, the Christ, Who is now approaching, is very near.
very near to Christ, to find Him in a quite different way than has
force. Christ spoke the word which should be deeply engraved in the
knowledge. That time is now over, it lies behind us. Christ has
intensity that kingdom of which Christ spoke, of which He said, that
For with the coming Christ, with the presence of Christ, will come the
souls, but concerning their immortal part on earth. Christ is not
possible from any appeal to Christ. We must ask ourselves this
Christ Jesus say to what is now taking place?’ Who puts such a
here, addressing it directly to Christ Himself. Yet the time must come
part, ask of Christ, when they think of undertaking something:
Christ standing by them as the beloved Companion and they will not
only obtain consolation and strength from the Christ-Being, but will
kingdom of Christ Jesus is not of this world, but it must work in this
individual acts, as well as events, must be put to the Christ.
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 2. The Metamorphoses of the Soul-Forces
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lecture, when Christ will walk the earth in His etheric form. I even
further what we have begun today and connect it with the Christ and

Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 3. The Human Soul and the Universe (part 1)
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the Christian sense: we must from time to time meet with a being of
Whether in the Christian sense we place this being in the Hierarchy of
peculiar sentiment we connect with the Mystery of Christmas and with
fixing of the Festival of Christmas. At that time in winter which is
Christmas-time and on to our present New Year, man goes through a
Upon this meeting with the Life-Spirit depends the nearness of Christ
Jesus. For Christ Jesus reveals Himself through the Life-Spirit. He
Christ Jesus at the present stage of development — which has
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
meeting with the Life-Spirit, or Christ. It is actually a fact, my
dear friends, that in the time following immediately on Christmas and
to a man's consciousness this meeting with Christ Jesus. In a profound
culture of today — the season of Christmas is connected with processes
part in the Christmas changes in the earth. The season of Easter is
whereas Christmas is fixed by the conditions of the earth, Easter is
aroused in us by the meeting with Christ at Christmas, really unites
Christ, who, as it were, has been moving beside us, at this season
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
and particularly as regards the Mystery of Christ, be taken as a
standstill, stopping at the merely abstract ideas of God or Christ,
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 4. Morality, As A Germinating Force
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the Christ Mystery which must take its place in the very centre of the
true sense. The way in which man thinks of the Christ Mystery in the
feeling. The position which man has assumed to the Christ since the
in the near future). If he cannot look upon the Mystery of Christ as a
believe themselves to be very courageous, the Christ-Mystery forms
who see nothing more in the Christ-Mystery than the fact that at a
importance. Now, if Christ is only considered as the greatest Teacher
teachings of Christ Himself would have disappeared, and there would
and which is now connected with the meeting with Christ — man is
would be that Christmas might by one person be celebrated in December
have different designations for the Festival of Christmas, there is
order of nature. In olden times, long before the Christian Era,
Heavenly Being. This means that we must think of Christ Jesus not
warmed. In like manner did the Christ-Being pass into Jesus of
by them as a spiritual marriage, whether with Christ or another. Many
Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz.
The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz,
again to be taken in a truly Christian sense. Those who thought more
with fine words. It is unchristian too; for the true basic principle
of Christianity is that the Christ did not pour His teaching into
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 6. Man and the Super-Terrestrial
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Christmas time was then not precisely the most important time, though
period. That is the world in which we must think of Christ, the Son,
Christmas in his winter: the meeting with the Son. Thus in the course
designate as the Christ has united Himself with the course of the
entered into relation with Christ, through becoming aware of the
Christ who dwelt in Jesus of Nazareth, recognition of that Being who
elements of Christianity will be then united as they really should and
must be, if on the one hand Christianity, and on the other humanity,
Christian traditions the Legend of Christ Jesus was part of the yearly
celebration of the Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide Festivals, is
that the Festival of Christmas is kept at a fixed date, while Easter
connected with this. Christmas is celebrated in accordance with the
winter and this hangs together with the meeting with Christ, with the
Son, which meeting really takes place at that season. Christ, however,
— for the Easter Festival is intended to show that Christ belongs
to the whole universe, just as Christmas should point to the descent
of Christ to the earth. So it was right that what belongs to the
Spiritual Science the Christ-Impulse must once again be bound up with
respect to the mystery of Christ Jesus; but rather adds to them the
Christ on the earth alone, but in the whole universe.
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Title: Cosmic/Human Metamorphosis: Lecture 7. Errors and Truths.
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Theosophy of Frederick Christopher Ötinger. In this preface
Christian truth, The orthodox theology did not suffice him, it seemed
Christian faith to mere abstractions, to mere thought-pictures. Hence
‘life in its innermost being in Christianity,’ (so says
richer, Christian world of wonder than that of this idealism to which
of taking the word of God too literally. Indeed, this Christian
who believe themselves alone to be in the right. For to Christian
light and meaning come into men's conceptions. This Christian realism
Now, read in the Gospels how Christ says to His Disciples: ‘Ye
with the present meaning, we do not get the words spoken by Christ,

Title: Lecture: The Human Soul and the Universe
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the Christian sense: we must from time to time meet with a being of
Whether in the Christian sense we place this being in the Hierarchy of
peculiar sentiment we connect with the Mystery of Christmas and with
fixing of the Festival of Christmas. At that time in winter which is
Christmas-time and on to our present New Year, man goes through a
Upon this meeting with the Life-Spirit depends the nearness of Christ
Jesus. For Christ Jesus reveals Himself through the Life-Spirit. He
Christ Jesus at the present stage of development — which has
we may call the meeting with the Life-Spirit: the meeting with Christ
meeting with the Life-Spirit, or Christ. It is actually a fact, my
dear friends, that in the time following immediately on Christmas and
to a man's consciousness this meeting with Christ Jesus. In a profound
culture of today — the season of Christmas is connected with processes
part in the Christmas changes in the earth. The season of Easter is
whereas Christmas is fixed by the conditions of the earth, Easter is
aroused in us by the meeting with Christ at Christmas, really unites
Christ, who, as it were, has been moving beside us, at this season
to the way in which Christ is now able to penetrate and permeate our
and particularly as regards the Mystery of Christ, be taken as a
standstill, stopping at the merely abstract ideas of God or Christ,
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Title: Lecture: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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through the Christian civilisation until our own time. But the
kind of Christianity which he regards as the true Christianity. —
‘original Christianity.’ In his view, Christianity has been

Title: Lecture: On The Three Magi
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You will remember that I have spoken of the meaning of the Christmas
importance is attached than to the Christmas Festival itself, namely,
is the same Festival, but in its Christian form. This Festival was
egoism is Christ Who appeared in the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
the coming of Christ, the Bringer of the Love that is free of egoism
descending Christ, the descending Logos. All this the Magi foresaw.
Christ Principle from childhood onwards. Only then, in the Sixth Root
receive the Christ Principle. In the fourth sub-race of the Fifth Root
of a sublime Being, as did Jesus of Nazareth when Christianity was
founded. At the time of the founding of Christianity it was still
mystical fact then consummated. At the moment of Christ's death, the
the principle of Love (Budhi) could shine forth in Christ Jesus. Budhi
the Christ Love. Kama is purified in the fire of the Divine Love.
in the Fourth Root Race, the Atlantean. The task of Christianity is
radiant guide. In Christ, the Star of Budhi lights up — the Star
before the Magi is the soul of Christ Himself. The Second Logos
a hollow. In the body of Jesus shines the Christ Star, the soul of
Christ. This must be conceived as a reality, taking place in the
very truth, the Christ Soul shines as an auric Star, and it is by this
Masters, are. And then understanding of Christianity will lead to

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VII: The Great Initiates
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.
“Imitation of Christ,” by Thomas a Kempis. He who
the coming of Christianity. It cut into evolution with great
significance. And since the appearance of Christ it has been
as one speaks of a poet of nature. There have been Christian mystics
carry Christianity into all the world under the influence of the
Jesus, who bore within Him the Christ.

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture I: Inner Development
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.
Christian religion describes it with the well-known sentence, , which
begun to grasp the feeling that Christianity intends by the statement
other. Christ has attempted to demonstrate this most beautifully in
Christ did when he admired the beautiful teeth on the dead dog. This
only a few indications to you about this matter. After Christmas,

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
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The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun
at this season and see all the preparations made for the Christmas
imperishable in the world! A glance at the ‘Christmas Reflections’ as
that the Christmas Festival can bring home to our hearts if we regard
set out to express in the Christmas Festival.
Christmas is not a Festival of Christendom only. In ancient Egypt, in
of years before the Christian era we find that a Festival was
of Christ.
draws to its close and spring begins. It is quite true that Christmas
Festival of Christmas. There is confidence that the Sun, again in the
when we celebrate the Christmas Festival and when our forefathers also
This brings us to the true meaning of Christmas as a Festival of the
Christmas Festival was a kind of memorial, a token of remembrance of a
perpetuated in the Christmas Festival.
in all its glory to the sages of old. And again, in the Christian
depths of Christianity rejuvenate mankind — when this poetic wisdom
found in connection with Buddha and with the Christ.
ideal of Christianity, the ideal of Anthroposophy will be realised. It
Christmas signifies in the light of anthroposophical teaching. If the
which arise at Christmastide. When with this great vista of the divine
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture VIII: The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.
second is the Christian-Gnostic path, and the third is the
Christian-Rosicrucian path. These three paths lead to the single
still inwardly upright and honest Christians, those who are permeated
with certain principle themes of Christianity, may choose the
Christian-Gnostic path, which differs little from the Cabbalistic
of the guru is totally impossible. The Christian-Gnostic or
the physical plane. The guru leads his pupil to Christ Jesus; he is

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IX: Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

Title: Lecture: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
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Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival
[ The lecture was given by the side of a Christmas Tree adorned
THE Festival of Christmas which we shall soon be celebrating acquires
brought to bear upon it. In a spiritual sense the Christmas Festival
Christmas Mystery is mirrored. In all ages these words resounded in
Many to whom the Christmas Tree with its candles is a familiar sight
not the case. The Christmas Tree is a very recent European custom,
however, the Christmas Tree is a recent custom, the Christmas Festival
The Christmas Festival is the Festival of the Holy Night, celebrated
have brought the Christ to birth within them.
Christ will be resurrected within them and new vision, new hearing
external sun gives out least light and warmth — at Christmas time —
would be Christos. Those who gazed at it knew: It is the sun which
experienced the rising of the spiritual Sun, of the Christos, they
coming Christ, of the spiritual Light, he whose festival day in the
When Christianity came into being it bore this Ideal within it. Man
felt that the Christos would arise in him as the representative of the
Before men spoke of the Christos, they spoke in the ancient Mysteries
of a ‘Sun Hero’ who embodied the same Ideal which, in Christianity,
was embodied in the Christos. Just as the sun completes its orbit in
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture II: Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
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Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading Individualities and Avatar Beings
where we can receive into ourselves the 'I-being' of the Christ,
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
Christianity in Human Evolution: Leading
Christianity in Human Evolution.
the spirit of our lectures here, is the Christ — the
Being whom we designated as the Christ, and who took
be in vain for us to seek the Christ-Being in an earlier
human embodiment on earth. The difference between the Christ
distinguish between such a lofty avatar being as the Christ
with the appearance of Christ on earth. Because the avatar
essence of Christ lived in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, it
Nazareth when Christ entered his threefold sheath. However,
appearance of the Christ principle in earthly evolution. What
characteristic of pre-Christian times. When an etheric or an
Christ Avatar Being appeared, all this was changed. The
history of Christian development is connected with this fact.
What is normally described as the history of Christian
periods in Christian development. Anyone who can look more
deeply into the developmental progress of Christianity will
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture X: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega
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where we can receive into ourselves the 'I-being' of the Christ,
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
the corpse was hanging on the cross, the Christ appeared in
can find the light of Christ — that which has immersed
itself into the earth, for the Christ has become the spirit
that this Sun God was no one else but the Christ-Spirit, who
yet perceive the Christ-Being. The being that was formerly
receiving the Christ-Spirit, let alone be permeated by it.
the East six hundred years before Christ. Buddha had to be
essence of Christianity is usually not properly understood.
Christianity. They knew that in spite of all their work in
accepted Christianity. Human beings could say to themselves:
“By setting up Christ as my ideal, I develop something
Christ had actually been on earth not as a Deva, but
years before Christ, Zarathustra was born again in the land
greet the Christ as the new Star of Wisdom. Zarathustra had
taught that the Christ would come, and those who were left as
had to make it possible for the Christ-Impulse to descend to
— the Christ-Spirit — entered and lived three
Christ-Impulse.
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 1: The Mission of Spiritual Science
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
the very early days of Christianity there was a sect in North Africa called

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 3: The Mission of Truth
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
Christianity more than truth, he will soon find that he loves his own
Christian sect more than Christianity, and then he will find that he loves

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 6: Asceticism and Illness
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 7: Human Egoism
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
into this and experiences in herself the whole life of Christ Jesus up to His
it can easily be despised, leads to a right understanding of the Christian
religion. For it is emphasised that the Christian religion shows how God came
promote a right understanding of the Christian religion.

Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
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Lecture 8: Buddha and Christ
asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
Buddha and Christ
and that of Christianity on the other, from the standpoint of Spiritual
sources of every religion — including Christianity, the basis of
Science, so that we may then compare it with the spirit of Christianity, we
from Buddhism to Christianity, we could — though it has never been done
— rewrite Nagasena's examples in a Christian sense, somewhat as
Christian and that the ensuing conversation is permeated, with the spirit of
Christianity. Nagasena would then have to say: “Look at your hand! Is
Christian sense: “True, the axle is not the chariot, for with the axle
Christian approach sees the parts of a chariot, or of any other object, in
can see that both the Christian and the Buddhist approach to the outer world
Christian way of thinking make of all this? It regards any single part of the
earth-life. For Christianity, the principle that holds a man together is a
connected with a final difference between the Christian and Buddhist
obviously not be right to call Christianity a “religion of
Christianity in its right relationship to Buddhism from this standpoint, we
could call it a “religion of rebirth”. For Christianity starts
experienced, that we should look on Christianity — a religion for which
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Title: Metamorphoses/Soul One: Lecture 9: Something about the Moon in the Light of Spiritual Science
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture One: On the Investigation and Communication of Spiritual Truths
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
teaching on Christianity and the nature of the Second
The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness.]
concerned with the Christ-problem, particularly in relation
study of the Christ-problem in connection with the Gospel of
authority for what we have to say about the Christ Event is
new understanding of the recorded sources of Christianity, we
what it says about the significance of the Christ Event for
Christ. If that were sufficient for the cultural needs of the
reconcile their sense of truth with accepted Christian
enunciation, of the truths of Christianity.
other aids to the investigation of Christian truths one is
understanding of the Christ-problem more difficult, if
rightly applied help us to realise the nature of Christ
introduction to the study of the Christ-problem than an
acquire some measure of knowledge of what Christ has been for
the Christ-problem. On the contrary, I have always said that
approach the Christ-problem from four different standpoints.
significance of the Christ Event for humanity — emphasis was
we shall continue our task of presenting the Christ-problem,

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Two: Higher Knowledge and Man's Life of Soul
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
instance, of the many aspects of the Christ-problem. In all
the great Christ Event from four different aspects and that

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Three: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
world: the Christ Impulse. The greatest of all spiritual
side the infinite spirituality of the Christ Being who
world — in other words, to contrast the Christ Principle
plane in the Being of Christ and the spirituality which man
simply not possible in the first centuries of Christendom to
comprehend the spiritual nature of Christ. And then,
Christ except through faith. Christianity was bound at first
the Gospels. For hundreds upon hundreds of years Christianity
other impact. Similarly, pre-Christian culture tended to
this possible was the purpose of the Christ Impulse, and the
It may be that the Christ Impulse will work most strongly
find their way to Christ Himself as the true reality.
poured into humanity under the direct influence of the Christ

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Four: The Symbolic Language of the Macrocosm in the Gospel of St. Mark
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Christianity as Mystical Fact
pre-Christian times many human beings were initiated in the
pre-Christian times. But what did Christianity, what did the
Christ Impulse signify for those who had been initiated in
that had been customary in the pre-Christian Mysteries. A man
worlds. But the Christ Event meant that something had come to
happened at the Baptism in Jordan, when the Christ Being
initiated, the Christ Spirit spoke to those around Him of the
secrets of the spiritual worlds. Christ made manifest on the
with the Mysteries of pre-Christian times.
They described the life of Christ by saying that in Jesus of
Nazareth, in whom the Christ was present, something happened
Christ-event. What is the fundamental significance of the
Christ Impulse? We have expressed it as follows. — Through
the Christ Impulse the human soul became conscious for the
of Christ. When a man of very early pre-Christian centuries
— Such were the conditions in the early pre-Christian
‘I’ itself was brought by the Christ Impulse.
period just before the coming of Christ. Such a man was bound
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Five: The Two Main Streams of Post-Atlantean Civilisation
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
from the deepest Christian mysteries, an opportunity to
chiefly to be found in the early, pre-Christian civilisations
recall what you already know about the Christ-event, you will
diving-spiritual Being, the Christ, descended into a human
highest level. Christ descended into a human being in his
the Christ entered had been evolved, the Gospel of St. Mark
describes the nature of the Christ Himself, the element in
describing the Christ who had entered into Jesus of Nazareth.
Christ when descending into the sheaths He received from
of temptation which the Christ was obliged to undergo when He
spiritual Being. Christ Jesus experienced both these kinds of
experienced only one. Christ united in Himself the two ways
them from above. It is in the figure of Christ alone that
we can rightly understand the Christ.

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Six: The Son of God and the Son of Man. The Sacrifice of Orpheus
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
‘wilderness’, Christ Jesus went into the
Christ's mission. I have already called your attention
Beings called in Christian esotericism, Angeloi,
when Christ Jesus came among them? Hitherto they had been
to recognise the nature and essential being of the Christ
in post-Atlantean times until the coming of Christ. Then came
Adam. Hence Paul calls the Being who appeared in the Christ,
himself through union with Christ.
Lemurian on into pre-Christian times we have to see the
which he receives the Christ Impulse into himself. One day he
sees in the Christ the central point of the whole process of
Christianity. We may think of him as the one responsible for
the opening stage, was a preparation for the Christ Event and
pre-Christian Greek culture — certainly not the physical
the spirit which in Pauline Christianity is called the
begotten him.’ That means: Here the Christ is
the moment of the Baptism by John. In the Christ there was
St. Paul: Not I, but Christ in me — the Christ, that is, who
incompatible. Nor were they any more compatible in Christ

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Seven: The Higher Members of Man's Constitution
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to

Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Eight: Laws of Rhythm in the Domain of Soul-and-Spirit.
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Gospel the account of the Christ Impulse is preceded by
Gospel the account of the Christ Impulse takes us to the
Christ Being is born. In St. Mark's Gospel we meet the
Christ Impulse at the very beginning. The whole childhood
was the forerunner of the Christ Impulse and the Gospel then
a very profound way to the Christ Being Himself.
spirituality of Christ — namely, the Gospel of St. John.
understand the Christ Impulse as proceeding from the ancient
passage where we are told that after Christ Jesus had chosen
Paul's saying, ‘Not I, but Christ in me’,
receives into itself the Christ Impulse can work fruitfully,
Christ Jesus during the events in Palestine will be lived
wherever Christ is proclaimed with inner understanding,
Christ's life described in St. Mark's Gospel is
was said of Christ will be said of those who proclaim the
Spirit in the truly Christian sense: There are many among
essential spirituality to be Thou, the Christ!’ And
Christ charged those around Him: ‘Tell nothing of
amazed, took the Christ apart and intimated to Him that
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Nine: The Moon-Religion of Jahve and its Reflection in Arabism
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Christ-idea, arose out of thoughts and feelings of the
as the Christ-idea meant to those who became His followers.
deeply into the essence of Christianity, the Being Jahve or
Jehovah is not to be distinguished from Christ Himself. We
relationship between the Jahve-idea and the Christ-idea. It
think of Christ as symbolised by the direct sunlight, we may
Christ in Jahve into Christ Himself just as they think of the
indirect and Christ a direct revelation of the same Being.
occultism will say: If we call the religion of Christ a
reflection of the Christ-religion. Thus in the period
preceding the birth of Christianity the Sun-religion was
Christianity.
reached at the time of the Christ Impulse, after which the
descent was transformed gradually into an ascent. The Christ
continuations of impulses given in earlier times. The Christ
during which the Christ event took place — and our own fifth
Christ Impulse was given in the middle epoch (the fourth) and
pre-Christian times during the period of ancient Hebrew
culture reappeared later in post-Christian times: something
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Ten: Rosicrucian WIsdom in Folk-Mythology
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Beings who in pre-Christian times imparted instruction to
Christ, the unique Individuality who became the great Teacher
teaching about Christ as we give to-day, make it quite clear
of learning, was vested in Christ. All spiritual leadership

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Berlin, 4. November 1913
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als Mitteilung über das Leben des Christus Jesus nicht in
des Christus Jesus-Wirkens empfängt, als dies
bewußteres Erfassen der Gestalt des Christus Jesus notwendig ist, als es für
christliche Entwickelung verstoßen würde, etwas Neues
über das Leben des Christus
dann, wenn es in einem Zeitalter notwendig ist, Neues über das Leben des Christus
und später des Christus-Leidens
Christus-Wesenheit, nachdem sie in den Leib des
zu schildern haben von tiefstem Leiden gerade des Christus in

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Dritter Vortrag, Berlin, 18. November 1913
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den Christus in sich aufgenommen
Christus-Wesenheit in sich aufnehmen konnte.
Evangelien bekannt ist, bei der Taufe, die Hineinsenkung der Christus-Wesenheit in die
Christus-Wesenheit, die jetzt
Empfängnis der Christus-Wesenheit folgenden Versuchung. Nur ergibt
der Christus Jesus, zuerst dem Luzifer gegenüber. Und Luzifer stellt
einstürmt. Aber der Christus
den Christus Jesus die Frage von dem
alle Furcht, diese Frage gestellt werden. Der Christus
werden sollten. Wenn der Christus wirklich die Macht
Nicht ganz vermochte der Christus Jesus diese Frage dem Ahriman
der Christus Jesus wußte:
gegenüber unbeantwortet gebliebenen Frage bei dem Christus Jesus das Ideal entstehen, nun
die ganze folgende Erdentwickelung durchchristet werden! Der
Christus mußte übergehen in die Erdentwickelung. Ahriman hatte die Gewalt, dem Christus
das Medium, um den Christus wirklich zum
Tod ging die Christus-Wesenheit über in die
identifizieren mit der Christus-Wesenheit.
Christus wußte jetzt, daß
nicht gleich wurde die Christus-Wesenheit vollständig eins mit den drei
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Berlin, 6. Januar 1914
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Christus Jesus-Lebens, wie wir sie
sich so vollzogen, daß der Christus Jesus nicht nur dem einen Wesen
Zuerst stand der Christus Jesus einem Wesen
Christus Jesus zu versuchen, daß die Steine zu Brot
ganzen Christus Jesus-Entwickelung und damit in der
Ereignisse vorbereitet, die Christus-Wesenheit in sich aufzunehmen. Und damit
Christus-Ereignis zu dem Parzival-Ereignis hin. Heute will
Christus-Entwickelung; aber auf etwas, was dort alle
bildet für das Fortwirken des Christus-Ereignisses
des Christus-Impulses gewirkt worden
Seite das, was dadurch, daß der Christus
theologischen Dogmen. Denn der Christus-Impuls hat weitergewirkt! Und die Gestaltung
Christus-Impulses, der gleichsam in den Untergründen auf
wir zur Parzival-Zeit einen wichtigen Moment herbeikommen, wo der Christus-Impuls
Tugenden in den Dienst des Christus
Christus-Impuls in den Untergründen seiner Seele in
was die Menschen über den Christus
Christus-Impulses. So sollte es bei Parzival sein.
auch der sinnlichen Welt an. Aber der Christus-Impuls hat übersinnlich gewirkt und
fragen dort, wo ihm die Bedeutsamkeit des Christus-Impulses entgegentreten konnte: am
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, 13. Januar 1914
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Christus-Wesenheit sich verbunden hat mit jener
die Christus-Wesenheit von ihr
die Stellung des Christus Jesus zu
zweitausendjÃ¤hriger christlicher Entwickelung wieder nach oben schaut, mit
Auferstehung des Christus nannte? Da
daß der Christus, bevor er durch das Mysterium von
Ã¼bernommen hat, als Christus in kosmischen Regionen seine Mission hatte,
zurÃ¼ckverfolgen und werden finden, wie der Christus zuerst in
Â«Der Christus ist schon da!Â» Aber
Menschen in Christo [Paulus meint sich selber
den Christus gesehen, wie er noch oben war
von Damaskus ist es ihm klar geworden, daß der Christus in
BegrÃ¼ndung des Christentums ein heute ja sonderbar
Luzifer ist ChristusÂ», sagten sie. Sie verstanden eben: Wenn man
vorher wirklich zu dem Christus
physische HÃ¼lle des Christus,
und wissen: Da drinnen lebt der Christus. — Aber
ist der Christus mit dem Mysterium von Golgatha geworden. Ja, so ist der Christus geworden,
Christus Jesus und der TÃ¤ufer Johannes. Wenn wir uns
wird uns das zeigen, in welchem Sinne der Christus Jesus sozusagen dem
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Sechster Vortrag, Berlin, 10. Februar 1914
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Christus-Wesen eingezogen ist in die dreifache Leibeshülle
Bedeutung der Christus
Christus-Wesenheit, vorher gewisse Schicksale in den
wäre, wenn nicht das erste Christus-Ereignis in den geistigen Welten in der alten
Christus-Wesenheit, die später durch die Johannestaufe im Jordan sich mit dem Leibe des
kann, das Christus-Wesen verkörperte sich
Christus-Ereignis sagen, es verseelte sich in
Christus-Wesenheit mit der Seele des späteren Jesus von Nazareth, und durch alles, was
dieses ersten Christus-Ereignisses.
durchseelt wurde von der Christus-Wesenheit. Dadurch wurde ein
wenn die Sinne durch das erste Christus-Ereignis schon gesund
Ahriman. Da trat das zweite Christus-Ereignis ein, wiederum ein Ereignis in den
das erste Christus-Ereignis in der lemurischen Zeit
können, wenn nicht das zweite Christus-Ereignis im Beginne
Zeit das dritte Christus-Ereignis stattgefunden hätte. Das
befindlichen nathanischen Jesus mit dem Christus — ,
bildliche Darstellung des dritten Christus-Ereignisses: der
der Christus-Wesenheit. Daher gibt
Christus-Ereignis, von jenem
Christus-Ereignis, das sonst eben für die
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

Title: Lecture IV: WHITSUN: A Symbol of the Immortality of the Ego
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year: Christmas, Easter, Whitsun. Everyone who has not become
associated with each is expressed in their outer symbolism. Christmas
Christmas Tree brought into the house from snow-clad nature outside.
Our thought also turns to the Christmas Plays so often performed among
contrast with the tenderness and universal appeal of the Christmas
arising from the Christmas festival. We are reminded, for example, of
Christmas is a festival linked with nature is symbolised in the
Christmas Tree, and the birth, too, leads our minds to the workings
can feel that the Christmas festival leads us into elemental nature
herself, and that the lighting of the Christmas candles is a symbol of
If we would relate the Christmas festival to the life and being of
addition to everything else, the Christmas festival is a token that
would then be realised that the purpose of instituting the Christmas
pervades them all. And just as the Christmas festival can be connected
And how beautifully this comes to expression when the Christmas
further! The Christmas festival is directly connected with earthly
shrouded in deepest darkness. In celebrating the Christmas festival we
that is now alive within the earth. The Christmas festival is
then, the Christmas festival is linked with the earth, and the Easter
festival with the cosmos. At Christmas we are reminded of what is most
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVII: Consciousness of Pre-Existence
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that in this they are not really teaching Christianity but
Church, of Christianity. It was not part of it. To the real
practical teaching of Christianity belongs the penetration of
of you have often allowed a saying by Christ from the Gospel
Christ mean? It has no meaning for the person who believes in
knowledge that Christ Jesus said, “Heaven and earth
the truly Christian saying, “Heaven and earth will pass
Christianity has no validity for them. Those whose task it is
to proclaim Christianity would have to fight against the
materialism of the universities for the sake of Christianity.

Title: Lecture: Easter
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festival, representing for the Christian a commemoration of
year when we celebrate Christmas, to awake again at Easter.
Nature. The Christmas festival also has a significant
radiates more heat from Christmas onwards, so that Christmas
Winter festival was felt by Christians. When Christianity, in
ancient, holy events, the birth of Christ was transformed to
During the first Christian century the symbol of Christianity
are synonymous. During the time when Christianity was in
before Christ the Sun had advanced into this zodiacal sign.
from Kolchis. The Christ Jesus speaks of himself as the Lamb
of God, and during the early period of Christianity is
Christmas and Easter seem rather similar, for the Sun has
— the Christmas festival; therefore something more
essentially something more; It is indicated in the Christian
solar power which commenced at the festival of Christmas. We
Vishnu begins at the Christmas time when the astral light
the Christ Jesus, and the thought of Parzifal seeing the Holy
contradiction has been said to exist between the Christian
salvation through Christ Jesus and the idea of Karma. Such
individuality like that of the Christ Jesus comes to the aid
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Title: Raffaels Mission Im Lichte der Wissenschaft vom Geiste
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Begründung des Christentums so grandios geschildert worden
das, was Homer lange Zeit vor der Entstehung des Christentums
zusammenfällt mit der Begründung des Christentums,
der nachchristlichen Zeit von der Begründung des
Christentums kaum so weit getrennt ist als wir etwa von der
Christentums, die zunächst darauf ausging, alles, was die
Schönheit getragenen Christus am Kreuz. Das ist schon das
das Christentum und das Griechentum in die Entwickelung der
«Verklärung Christi».
Gesinnungsgenossen «Christen» genannt hätten. In
war das Papsttum übergegangen. Von christlicher
Christenheit sehen wir in Raffael. Aber wie? Wir sehen ihn so,
welches die christlichen Ideen vielfach in einer neuen Gestalt
christlichen Legendenwelt auf den Madonnen-Bildern und in
herausgewachsen ist, und von allen christlichen Traditionen
sehen das, was in den christlichen Legenden, in den
christlichen Traditionen lebt, in den Bildern Raffaels
auftauchen mitten in einer Zeit, in welcher das Christentum wie
Griechen. "Wir sehen Raffael diese Gestalten christlicher
Boden Italiens als Geistesleben entwickelte: das Christentum,
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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In Christo morimur

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 3-16-'13
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mood, dying in Christ, i i o o i u: being one, embracing, becoming

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 11-17-'13
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meditation or after it one could ask oneself: Where is the Christ?
which his light form comes to him, there the Christ is also.
don't find their way to the Christ see the figure of death walking
beside them. But we know that Christ lives in the earth's aura and
it alive in us, the picture of death takes on Christ's features and
clairvoyantly. Then we know where to look for the Christ. We can't
knowledge that Christ lives and that we can get to him will keep our
In Christo morimur.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 1-24-'14
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In Christo morimur
Father God who has a son in Christ. It was a deep thought of
Christianity to express this relation with the help of the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 3-27-'14
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In Christo morimur,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-4-10
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symbolically, in the three years that Christ lived on earth.
Christ set a good example for this.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-15-11
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Christo takes place in us that we can be reawakened by the Holy

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 6-12-11
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the Christ himself. This wasn't the case before the Mystery of
Christ has become the spirit of our earth. He has poured himself
Now is the point in time when this poured out Christ substance has
Christo morimur means nothing else than to immerse oneself in
this spiritual substance and to take in Christ completely with it, so
that one can say: Not I, But Christ in me.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 10-30-11
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that hits us. This is the scourging stage in Christian initiation,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 12-16-11
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the scale's crossbeam was level, and then Christ's deed
that now every man can find the Christ deep within his soul. A man
Christ connected himself with earth evolution, so that a man can find
Christ's forerunner dipped men into the Jordan. A man had to go
make a bridge to cross it instead of drowning in it. Christ offers
victorious Christ force as an incursion upon his freedom. But the
Christ leaves us so free with respect to the acceptance of his being,
they intervened, Christ remained behind and so men find him in the
considered to be a shortcoming of Christianity that it's not at
revelation of Christ will take place in the near future has often
Christ; deadly separatedness submerges in divine egoity. And

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 3-22-12
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can arrive at a new awareness of the Christ impulse and can feel it
Christ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 4-24-12
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it: that of the fatherless Christ.
forces of the cosmos, mother forces are added since then by Christ
now because Christ Jesus, the fatherless human being, has completely
downward, Christ forces, would rule a man, he wouldn't
in John's Gospel in Christianity. It was only the union of
forces between birth and death. Christ Jesus couldn't get older
that streams into us directly from Christ.
Golgotha is the fatherless man, Christ Jesus, the dying force, the
In Christ we die, that is, die with all of our physical concepts and

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Berlin, 11-8-12
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accompany the Ex Deo nascimur, In Christo morimur, Per Spiritum

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture I: Aim and Being of Spiritual Research
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Christian Community) exhausted in an article in the magazine
Die christliche Welt (The Christian World)

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture II: The Human Being as Being of Soul and Spirit
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Theosophy) in The Christian World about that which

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture III: Goethe as Father of Spiritual Research
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At the Turning Point of the Christian World Period. The
Heinroth (Johann Christian H., 1773-1843, German

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture VI: The Historical Life of Humanity and Its Riddles
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people from the first Christian centuries up to now to the
Christianity describes the decay of the Roman Empire only, but
not the rise of Christianity. Grimm made a right aperçu,
life of humanity: one behind the eighth pre-Christian century
the eighth pre-Christian century, if one had taken prejudices
with the eighth pre-Christian century another attitude was
lasts from the eighth pre-Christian up to the fifteenth
post-Christian centuries where the European civilisation is

Title: Eternal Human Soul: Lecture IX: The Supersensible Human Being
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Nothing can face the real Christianity and the real piety more

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture I: Schiller's Life and Characteristic Quality
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materialistic current. A good Christian of the Seventeenth

Title: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture VI: Schiller's Later Plays
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Christian monk tells her that her daughter will unite the two
be interpreted by an Arabian, the second by a Christian; but

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and appeared independently. Thus in Christianity there was

Title: The Situation of the World
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Christianity was in fact a preparation for the attainment of
you go back to the time before Christ, to ancient Egypt where
the great course of development of Christianity, up to the
this will be in accordance with Christianity. And a new
Christianity, or rather the Christianity of the past, will
which envisages this. But Christianity contains even more

Title: Knowledge of Healing: Lecture II
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the birth of Christ.
the event 300 years before Christ's birth, we can quite well see its
The men of the third, fourth century before Christ's birth were clearly
centuries before the birth of Christ creative art was already in
third millennium, about 2,500 years before Christ's birth, people
experience something in the same way that, 300 years before Christ's

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spiritual beings have seven members of their being. Christ, the
‘Sacrificial Lamb’ or ‘Ram’ is given to Christ.
Christ belongs to the cosmos as a whole. His I, his Ego, reaches to

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is the Deed on Golgotha. This event is the appearance of Christ on earth!

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture VI
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the incarnations. Christ as Sun Being, as Mystical Lamb, as the
Christianity as religion of humanity is greater than all religions...
are living, yes, even if we go back to the first Christian centuries,
call the Christ, and since He has an interest not only in the individuality,
The Christ became the centre, the focus, in so far as the single personalities
having a connection with the Christ Being. Looking towards, feeling
oneself united with the Christ purifies and ennobles the personality.
Christ then the human body — if we speak in a comprehensive sense
was created. This mid-way solution prepared for the appearance of Christ
the meaning of earthly evolution and the place of the Christ within
the Christ from the time of the Mystery of Golgotha has to guide earthly
They have brought men to liberation. If the Christ-Principle has brought
Spirits of Love under the guidance of the Christ-Principle who so prepare
to an equal degree. Christianity prepares this conception and it is
overcome. The mission of Christianity is now to kindle in man the love
real Christianity. In this way we can characterize the evolution of
the Christ-Principle and the Luciferic Spirits work together in world
consequence that in early Christian centuries the Luciferic principle
was excluded and men were referred to the Christ-Principle alone. Humanity
to the Christ-Principle; for the Christ-Principle is so all-embracing
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Christ. He uses no compulsion, the human being must come to him
above man are called in esoteric Christian terminology “Angels,”
in the Christian sense, one calls the actual “Godhead.”
continually transformed. At the time when Christ Jesus walked upon earth
developing the spirit-self in the astral body. In a part of Christian
now grasp what a deep meaning lies in the fact that the Christ appeared
Christ Being Himself. Christ brings something to earth which is not
And to the Christ man must find his way himself; for it is only the
Original Forces who constrain man to find them; to the Christ he must
Being, the Christ. On another opportunity we can consider what is to

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or Angels in Christian esotericism, possess no coarse bodily nature
way. That is the legend of Ahasuerus, who has thrust from him the Christ,
to true realization. It is the saying which we have learnt in Christian
esotericism, and which the Leader of Christian life proclaimed to his

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture IX
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which the Christ has endowed mankind surpasses that. The ego through
of Samaria at the well. Here it is expressly pointed out that Christ

Title: Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man: Lecture XI
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the world. Had the first Christians not borne the thought in the soul
Then he says to himself: What did the Christians of the catacombs accomplish,
it in the spirit, somewhat as the thoughts of the Christians were able

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spiritual Individuality, Christian Rosenkreutz, of whom the members
to speak about Christian Rosenkreutz at all, in order to understand
for years as the Appearance of Christ, is the result of the occult
Nazareth,” concerning the two Jesus boys, the descent of Christ
the twelfth century down to the present time. Christianity cannot be
great a theologian he may be — can understand Christianity unless he
theologians of today simply cannot understand Christianity — for
what can they make of the words of St. Paul: “If Christ be not
can be no understanding of Christianity! On the other hand it must
Mysteries of the West, with the Mysteries of Christianity. And why?
men are not, and have not been, interested in Christ. They do not feel
Christ. The Oriental school of Theosophy cannot, therefore, be
expected to have any real knowledge of the Christ.
connected with Christianity contains great truths, but the greatest
nonsense in regard to Christianity. Concerning the various religions
Judaism and Christianity — The Secret Doctrine is very useful,
but nothing the book says about Judaism and Christianity is of the
understanding of Christianity. Let me make it clear, by an example
light on Christianity; but no real understanding of Christianity was
Christ had come. Of Christ she knew only what was said in the West,
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descent of the Christ-Impulse into humanity. But side by side with
acquired in Christian culture in such a way that it will have to be
they must stand firm on the ground prepared by Christianity!
Post-Atlantean, Christian culture has imparted to the soul. Weaklings,
comprehension of the Christ-Principle; it lies in what has been
the founts of spiritual life from Christian Mysticism and Christian

Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 3: 'Chance' and Present-day Consciousness. An Easter Meditation
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statement occurs concerning Christ Jesus.
but as the Exusiai speak out of the facts of Nature. Thus did Christ
facts of Nature! And with this same Nature-necessity, Christ spoke out
of the clouds, to the very Realm of the stars. Thus did Christ speak
understanding of where the might of the Christ-Impulse lies, and of
the heights to which the Christ-Impulse can raise them.

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and Christianity — must obviously have been a later addition; for
closing runes introduce an essentially Christian element — but very
culminated in a delicate reference to Christianity — and, it may
Christianity that it is possible to imagine, hardly recognisable by
Christian concepts as they now are! Here, therefore, it is clear that
been born at the same time as Christian culture among the other
peoples of Europe: for Christian culture arose long after clairvoyance
brought into play by Christian culture. This is something quite
life of Christ Jesus, between the twenty-eighth and thirty-fifth
reached his thirtieth year, and was then inspired by the Christ, by a
another point of time, when the “Christ-Ego” appears, in
the Christ-Event has not still to take place, but that it has already
new Appearance or Manifestation of Christ.
be the attitude of a Christian to a Buddhist? The Christian will
Christianity itself will learn to understand Reincarnation and Karma,
the Christian will recognise the greatness of this teaching of
“Bodhisattva” to that of “Buddha.” The Christian
The Education of the Child. With this knowledge the Christian will
physical body. Christians who are Theosophists, or, if you prefer,
Theosophists who are Christians, do not regard these teachings of
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 5: The Idea of Reincarnation and Its Introduction Into Western Culture
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THE HERALDING OF CHRISTIANITY
again of all that Christianity has brought into the world, we know
attained in the East before the coming of Christianity, have not again
simply to describe a certain difference between pre-Christian,
Oriental culture and Christianity (not Pagan or even ancient Hebrew
Christianity has been deepened by Spiritual Science.
which, up to now, Christianity has paid little heed. Oriental culture
Earth-lives, and of Karma. Whereas Christianity through the centuries
Christian thought has actually lost sight of something which the East
is the knowledge won by Christianity. The work and mission of Elijah
are therefore a true heralding of Christianity. This can be said when
which Christianity was heralded by Elijah has changed with the flow of
Christianity was scattered into countless sects over the whole Earth,
Christendom. And now we turn to Raphael's paintings. It is a strange
in the Christian world at the time and a kind of jubilation at the
power with which Christianity has taken root in human evolution
difference between the pre-Christian views prevailing in Greece and
those of Christianity; we also find this in the picture usually,
force streams out of them; we feel that Christianity is living on in
a Christianity in which there can be no strife or splitting into
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Title: Earthly/Cosmic Man: Lecture 6: The Mission of the Earth
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WONDER, COMPASSION AND CONSCIENCE. THE CHRIST IMPULSE
seven centuries before the inpouring of the Christ-Impulse into
turn to the greatest of all Impulses — the Christ-Impulse which
how the Christ-Impulse made its way into the evolution of humanity.
I want here to refer to one aspect of the Christ-Impulse. I have told
alleged in certain quarters outside that here we speak of Christ as
the Christ Idea. Yet outside our field of work, by talking round an
abstract concept, people allege that we speak of the Christ as the
periodicals abroad that the Christ is spoken of by us as the
If we conceive the Christ Impulse to be the down-pouring of that
Who is known as the “Christ” was not, even at that time,
Nazareth” in order that for three years of his life the Christ
that for three years the Christ Impulse lived on the Earth in the
time, the Christ Impulse was not “incarnated” on the Earth
Christ, but only of an Impulse which was present once, during the time
astral body of Jesus of Nazareth; within these sheaths the Christ was
then present on the very soil of the Earth. From that time Christ has
of the Earth when its goal has been reached? The Christ Impulse was
of Earth-evolution. But how does It live on? When the Christ Impulse
vehicle for the Christ Impulse.
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THE last lecture dealt with the subject of how the Christ Impulse will
heard that sheaths will weave themselves as it were around the Christ
the Christ Impulse Itself — passed into the Earth through the
The Christ Impulse came, so to say, in the middle of the epoch
coming of the Christ Impulse. As the last lecture indicated, it is not
the Christ Impulse lays hold of man, leaves its stamp and signature
undertaken consciously — whereas, to begin with, the Christ
the imprint of the Christ Impulse.
beings will experience the Appearance of the Christ Impulse, will be
able to experience the Christ Impulse in the spiritual worlds. But
and 29th May, 1912; and two lectures in Christiania:

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The “Mystery of Golgotha,” as the essential Christ Event,
Christ Event will be an inner concern, inasmuch as the soul of man has
been so quickened by the first Christ Event that in days to come, the
way to Christ will be found in the Spirit, out of the life of soul.
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Earth, was the Christ Being, the great Sun Being Who through the
all the antecedents of Christianity were brought to a kind of climax
and culmination in Christianity itself. With the Mystery of Golgotha,
conceivably be argued that if the Christ came once and once only, this
Christ, therefore, is of equal significance for the souls of the
pre-Christian ages, because they all incarnate again in the times
following the founding of Christianity. The lectures in Christiania
Christ on the Sun to the “Venus men” before they came to the
of the Buddha, therefore, had been sent forth by Christ from the Sun
of Christ. He was in very truth a “Christian” before the
time of Christ. We know, too, that later on he revealed himself in the
Christ Stream, a different task devolves upon him for the times to
come. (This task was described in greater detail in the Christiania
of the Christ and had lived on Venus. Then think of the uniqueness of
that of a Christian Saint. But such a statement would not be based
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture One
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
of a certain aspect of the Mystery of Christ. My last
that aspect of the Christ Mystery which I now propose to
Christianity As Mystical Fact,
could approach the Mystery of Christ. This book (which in its
interpret Christianity from a spiritual standpoint, a
less lost to Christianity during its development in the West.
Gospels is not nearly so late as contemporary Christian
first two-thirds of this century. There are indeed Christian
adduced that in the first century of the Christian era people
Jesus Christ.
Christian and Jewish records. But the fact that the
the Christian church, are very little known today and are
virtually ignored, especially by Christian theologians,
of recognition is that, to a large extent, Christianity, and
leanings towards Christianity, or perhaps a Jew with leanings
towards Christianity. Now Gamaliel pleaded that he was the
Christianity As Mystical Fact.
Christianity in the first century of our era is virtually
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Two
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
Christian philosophy in so far as this philosophy rejects the
has been called to the anti-Christian nature of many aspects
Passion, the Death and Resurrection of Christ, can be found
this was that the Christian Easter Mystery was simply a
identity and said: “What the Christians say of Christ,
— all these Christian ideas are to be found in the
even in the sphere of orthodox Christianity — one need
speak, and that in the early Christian community the Christ
official representatives of Christianity declared that the
“Idea of Christ” which arose in the primitive
Christian community through the impact of divers social
temptation to compare them with the Christian Easter Mystery.
similarity to the Easter Mystery of Christianity. Because
under Christian influence and transferred to Jesus of
pre-Christian rites. They date far back into the past and
the Christian Easter Mystery? They felt that unless the Earth
recognized as the Christ who had come to save the souls of
men. Men were now able to unite spiritually with the Christ,
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Three
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
within, we shall find the Christ. The majority of those who
Christ. We shall not find the Christ if we maintain, as many
divine within and we shall then experience the Christ. That
understood, be called the Christ, but might be called a
that they can find the Christ through what is usually called
position to speak of the Christ. In effect, they portray
Universal Divine Being, but not the Christ. The philosopher
dream of calling this Divine Being the Christ. Neither the
to the historical evolution of mankind, that Christ, by His
Christ we are no longer in touch with Him. We may, in that
cannot speak of the Christ.
terms with the problem: what did Christ Jesus mean by faith
idea of faith with the conception which Christ Jesus
paradoxically yet radically expressed in the words of Christ,
show what is the essence of Christ's conception of
of Spiritual Science. Christ went into the ruler's
Him and touched the hem of His garment and was healed. Christ
Christ healed the woman He felt that “virtue” or
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Four
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
example of Goethe whom many did not regard as a Christian,
but whose “Weltanschauung” was more Christian
take Christianity seriously. Goethe, however, was by
temperament and disposition inherently Christian, more
profoundly Christian than those who forever have “Lord,
Christianity on his sleeve, but his view of the world was
profoundly Christian in character. And here I would like to
deeply into the soul of Goethe, I mean, into his Christian
non-Christian world would have precious little confidence in
of mankind. There will be a bitter struggle before the Christ
evolution — in order to forestall this, the Christ
Christ Impulse was implanted in the whole of Earth evolution.
Christ Impulse loses anything of its majesty or sublimity
Christ Impulse was necessary in order that the end of Earth
purpose that the Christ Impulse entered our Earth evolution
sense, but with the true faith demanded by Christ, can find
understanding of the Christ Impulse can gradually be
external investigation and once again relate the Christ
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Five
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
Christ Event from the account of human history, to study
historical investigation that made the Christ the pivot of
is to expunge the record of the Christ Event from the pages
prevent the real, deeper significance of the Christ Event
point of view, then we see the pre-Christian era in such a
moment are felt in post-Christian history. Instinctively they
politely the Christ Event from history by refusing to accept
upon history, in particular the history relating to Christ
Christianity in the Ideological Struggle of Today.
Christianity and leads directly to Spiritual Science.
Mysteries in pre-Christian times and I attempted to show the
Christianity As Mystical Fact
Christianity As Mystical Fact
training the neophyte in pre-Christian times was granted
pre-Christian times — and the real purpose of the
the pre-Christian era, so Spiritual Science plays its part in
especially set great store on this. Just as Christ Jesus
the Baptist and Christ Jesus, he foresaw the end of the
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Six
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
years of Christianity. This may seem paradoxical today. It is
Christian era. It is not even possible to characterize the
characterization. But those who study the first Christian
of Christianity in the
important to realize that the intervention of the Christ
Christ was known to the devils has deeper implications than
is usually recognized. We are told that Christ performed acts
devils knew who Christ was. On the other hand Christ Himself
they knew He was the Christ.”
them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was ChristLuke IV, 41).
The appearance of Christ therefore was not only a matter
Christ presaged. But the devils — beings belonging to a
of the early Christians were firmly convinced that the coming
of Christianity was not merely an event on the terrestrial
Christianity were firmly persuaded of this.
the Christ Impulse. There were some emperors. however, who
effectiveness of the Christ Mystery. And it was these more
a definite policy towards Christianity which was then gaining
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Seven
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
of exoteric Christianity in the Empire.
decided to give him a sound Christian education which
form of Christianity.
Christianity; he simply favoured the continuity of Hellenism.
opposing Christianity. With passionate enthusiasm he strove
the one hand, Christianity was introduced as a political
day. He found that the Christian dogma had been introduced
He therefore forbade those who, by virtue of their Christian
He said to himself: If that which is manifested in the Christ
with the Christianity of his time in its exoteric aspect. He
mission of Christianity could not be accomplished. At the
understand Christ Jesus better than Rome and Constantinople.
that world. The conception of Christ Jesus that was commonly
somewhat nebulous idea of the Christ who had incarnated in
evolution. Ideas about Christ have become incredibly vague,
afforded by Christian dogma about Christ and His mission will
take us very far. If Christian ideas are not powerful enough
one day become extinct, then all our conceptions of Christ
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Eight
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
understanding of Christ Jesus and the Mystery of Golgotha is
knowledge of Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha that carries
existence of Christ Jesus to the beginning of our era. This
the development of Christianity during the early centuries of
Christianity, the early Church Fathers, the post-Nicene
Fathers and the later Christian philosophers, and the
centuries of the Christian era. Today, for example, there is
Christian centuries pagan temples, with their statues of a
Christianity) to eradicate all traces of paganism. Edicts
path leading to Christ Jesus is also obscured and cannot be
lapse and that Christianity could not manifest its redemptive
evolving Christianity and the Roman empire. I have already
the evolution of Christianity we must consider not only the
Christian cult. And ordination was an attempt by the Church
initiation and came to Christianity in their own way, if we
mutilated, not by Christianity, but by the Church (though not
Christ.
express it in no other way) the Christ, the Risen Lord is
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Nine
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
the iconoclasm of the (Christian) Church, are known to
which Christianity in the first centuries destroyed the
Christianity unless one is prepared to see this destructive
evolution that preceded Christianity. But how different this
lecture yesterday. I pointed out that the forms of Christian
eradicated by Christianity in order to conceal their origin.
Christianity had made a clean sweep of the pagan forms of
post-Christian centuries, we must be aware that they were
the time when the message of Christianity first made its
Christianity was opposed to such a possibility. We will
simply to register the fact that Christianity was opposed to
the transmission of this knowledge. Thus Christianity was
Through the fact that Christianity suppressed all documentary
ignorance; Christianity in fact consciously fostered
Christianity borrowed those aspects of the pagan teaching
meaning, but Christianity gave them a different
world or — omnia instaurare in Christo” (to renew
all things in Christ).
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Title: Building Stones: Lecture Ten
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come together in the deed of Christ. As Steiner explains, whether a
by its relation to the Christ-Impulse.
Christianity because the Christianity of his day sought to
deny Christ's relation to the sun. Through Imaginative
Christianity that was practised by the Church during the age
he saw a form of Christianity emerge which modelled Christian
society and the organization of Christianity on the original
principles of the Roman empire. He saw that Christianity had
golden age of the rise of Christianity before the era of
the Christ Impulse had been harnessed to the Conciliar
conception of this Mystery and of the crucified Christ is
the Christianity of Constantine. In Clement of Alexandria
the Christ Impulse. If you compare these utterances of
main stream of Christianity, to be a new flowering of
Christianity to meet the needs of our time, then the cry is
mention of Gnosis many professing Christians today begin to
Christian of today is satisfied with faith alone and asks no
realize today. Christianity therefore demands that gnosis,
the development of Christianity. But the modern philistine
it may seem we must make the true form of Christian life once
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Christian; whether it is still possible to retain to the ideas which
of Christianity, take Origen and the other first church teachers. You

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture III: Reincarnation and Karma
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only in the last century before Christ. Some think that the daimonion
only in the Christian world. There is a drama trilogy, the Oresteia
all times of evolution. It signified to the first Christians not only
in the Christian what Tolstoy describes as a mood in the human soul
get exterior things are not in the sense of early Christianity. “Yet
old Christian sense? It is that will which shows the primal law of
up, if one strives for apotheosis with it, for the divine, the Christian
religion. Someone who knows Christianity and its methods and the prayer
belongs to the methods of Christianity, because it is a means of the
Question: What does the theosophist think of the Christian baptism?
mysteries. Then there came Christianity and put what had been taught
higher planes of existence it is also a fact. The external Christianity

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture V: Theosophy and Tolstoy
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epoch, then in the Graeco-Latin culture and, finally, in the Christian
is why Tolstoy resorts again to a kind of higher organised Christianity,
which he considers as the true Christianity: do not look for the kingdom
he calls early Christianity. Christianity has externalised itself according

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Hence, it shines through some things what the first Christian initiates
is irradiated by the light of aeons as the Christian mystics called
has put to him in the physical life. We see the Hindu, the Christian

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture VIII: Friedrich Nietzsche in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Christianity and did not know how it develops, before our philosophy,
of the past. Thus as to Nietzsche, indeed, beside the figure of Christ
that of the Antichrist stood in the astral world, beside the figure
Antichrist where he describes the ghost, the criticism of Christianity,

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture X: Goethe's Gospel
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to Julius (Christian Gottfried Körner in Schiller's Thalia)

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XI: Origin and Goal of the Human Being
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Before Christmas, in the
the Six-day Work, are also for the so-called orthodox Christian doctrine
serious, also Christian, researchers in the former centuries.
in which Christianity originated. It arose from older world views. However,
Aristotle, the neo-Platonism, the Christian Gnosticism, they all live
Christian Gnosticism we have a creation doctrine which I have to characterise
in himself. This was also the deeper substance of Christ. The human
being experiences Christ, lives with Christ, and participates in Him.
Christ is the same as buddhi.

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XII: Goethe's Secret Revelation I
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love. Its kingdom is called the kingdom of appearance; Christianity

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIV: Goethe's Secret Revelation III
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and shows in such a way that he is a Christian. He shows the marvellous

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XV: The Evolution of the Earth
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Christianity is a decayed Christianity. Thus it is also from the theosophical

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVI: The Great Initiates
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the Imitation of Christ (1441) by Thomas à Kempis (~1380-1471,
With the emergence of Christianity
Since the appearance of Christ, it was possible that one could be initiated
Christian mystics who had received the initiation by mercy. The first
who was called to bring out Christianity all over the world under the
Christ in himself.
Question: Why did Christ not leave writings behind?
the former founders of a religion. Christ says: “I am the way,
we find no difference of the contents, no difference between Christianity
in Christianity also there. That applies to all religions. Christianity
Hence, I have called my book: Christianity as Mystic Fact and
the Mysteries of Antiquity (CW 8). The appearance of Christ signifies
who was connected in faith with the founder. Christ descends to the

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Bit by bit we can pursue this. With the emergence of Christianity it
adapt himself like a limb to the whole body. Christianity brings another
with nature, one seeks above nature. The Christian searches what should
This unification of Christianity with the antique ideal is the reverse

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVIII: The Future of the Human Being
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Question: Has Christ really lived hundred years before the year

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XIX: Schiller and the Present
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which was revered in faith, in particular that of Christianity. The
father of the freedom poet Körner (Christian Gottfried K., 1756–1831)

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XX: The Divinity Faculty and Theosophy
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sermon without theology is possible. In the first times of Christianity
the first times of the Christianity, somebody was basically a theologian
that one had in the Christian world view about the relation between
significance of Christ's personality. One must have accepted all these
We want to do it, however, only to the first times of Christianity.
Christ to understand Him, but one has only pointed to the fact that
the life work of Christ who looks at it only as history who only wants
is Christianity? (1901) by Harnack (Adolf H.,1851–1930, Protestant
, then also of speeches and actions of the risen Christ; the reports
do not know how to estimate the value of the words about the risen Christ

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXI: The Faculty of Law and Theosophy
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Therefore, the Gnostics, the great mystics of the first Christian centuries,

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XXIII: The Arts Faculty and Theosophy
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Are Founded on Fables or The Christian Religion Prevents from

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture I
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and that just at this point in time Christ Jesus reached the
that point the death on Golgotha took place. Christ Jesus had
earth received when the Christ Spirit united with the
evolution and the age and death of Christ Jesus. I can think
post-Atlantean epoch and the age of 33 of Christ Jesus just

Title: Aspects/Evolution: Lecture II
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Christ.
Christ-God—who had not yet descended to earthly
spirit lives. Consciousness of the cosmic Christ was general.
of mankind, 35, he still had imaginative knowledge of the Christ
Christ gradually faded. Then came the event which replaced
dropped to that of 33, the cosmic Christ descended to the
earth and entered the body of Jesus of Nazareth. The Christ
bodily development, through the impulse initiated by Christ.
to recognize Christ must be regarded as a misfortune, a
tragic destiny, for Christ — from the external world

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development proceeded only up to that age, and Christ, in the
the Christ Spirit approached man from outside. You see how
essential was the Christ Spirit's entry into mankind's
mankind's age receded to 33, Christ had to come from other
the spirit reveals Christ's entry into human evolution as an
understanding of the Christ Impulse can be seen at every
Christ Jesus in the modern world.
what was called the “Christ Myth” to show that it
discusses Christ Jesus from an odd point of view. In the June
“Jesus Christ and German Piety.” He builds up the
especially if one is German, the truth about Jesus Christ
Drews, no historical Christ Jesus can be found through
Christ is interspersed in the writings of Harnack,
path can lead only to a general Godhead. Christ cannot be
understood by Drews. In Boehme the Christ can be found for it
is of Him that he speaks. Christ is to be found neither in
seeks the Christ and does not find Him, because that is
the age of Christ Jesus in relation to the Mystery of
Golgotha. Drews fails to find Christ because he remains at
find a general God but not Christ. It is an outlook that is
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“The Christ or Sun-man taught seven great
Christ as the higher “I” (p. 191) which is
Christ or Sun-man.” Dessoir presents things at times
to speak about Christian Science. You know how much
connection I have had with that! My relation to Christian
always answered to questions about Christian Science, It is
utterly materialistic; furthermore, this so-called Christian
Science has no right to call itself Christian. Dessoir
is irreconcilable with the spirit of Christianity; a
the Gospels as precedent. Christianity proclaims with
God's mercy and the sacrificial death of Jesus. Christian
Science is not Christian. (243)

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today are in their second incarnation since the Christian
they received the Christ impulse from their immediate
people are gradually losing the Christ impulse. Were people
received the Christ impulse anew they would have lost it
Christ find entry into human souls in the form presented by
to historical evidence but is able to relate the Christ
Christ impulse the way we did in our first incarnation after
the Christ event. That is why we are going not only through
Christ impulse. Traditions no longer suffice. People are
honest who say that there is no proof of historical Christ.
But spiritual knowledge enables man to discover the Christ
course of external events shows the necessity for the Christ
there is only one answer: Christianity. Strange as it may
seem to many, the greatest loss has been to Christianity.
Wherever you look you see a denial of Christianity. Most
things that are done are a direct mockery of Christianity,
mankind. Can that really be said to be a Christian view? I
simply whether the idea is Christian or not. And is it
Christian? Most emphatically it is not. A view based on
Christianity would be that nations should come to agreement
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being we speak of as the Christ? One cannot give a simple
which Christ lives. As you all know, only once, at the time
of the Mystery of Golgotha, did Christ walk on the earth as a
If today one wants to draw near to Christ one must seek Him
consciousness in which the Christ can be truly experienced.
cannot comprehend the Christ with the ordinary thinking that

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mankind's age had receded to 33, Christ Jesus, aged 33,
arise through the Christ impulse. It is simply a fact that

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These lectures examine the four aspects of Christ as portrayed in the
for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
that all through they took the view that the Being of Christ-Jesus —
be no one-sided presentation of who Christ-Jesus was and of
enabled him to understand Christ-Jesus fully and completely, he would
my spirit.” Here Christ-Jesus is seen, not only as the Light
express, a second aspect of the Being whom we call Christ-Jesus is
of Christ-Jesus — these are the aspects that have been described.
Christ-Jesus was “Light” and what in Him was “Love
understand two attributes of Christ-Jesus in their universal significance.
The meaning of what was said of Christ as the spirit-Light of the world
contemplates this eternal wisdom in Christ-Jesus sees it, not only as
as manifested in Christ-Jesus, that we realise that Love is the crowning
have understood nothing beyond those attributes of Christ-Jesus which we
then, depicts a second attribute of Christ-Jesus.
two attributes because in Christ-Jesus the greatest of all riddles stands
Being. In describing these two attributes of Christ-Jesus, nothing that
can here be given. I may put it in this way. The Christ presented in
the Christ of St. John's Gospel, the dominating feeling will be that
fire of love springing from the heart of Christ. This indicates that
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These lectures examine the four aspects of Christ as portrayed in the
for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
Christ-Jesus is presented. Secondly, there is given in it a complete
survey of events which show how the coming of Christ-Jesus is related
a complete picture of Christ-Jesus until he has become acquainted with
we are shown how the two great pre-Christian streams of spiritual life
— Zoroastrianism and the stream which reached its pre-Christian
into the great Christian stream of spiritual life on the earth. The
from the Babylonian capitivity to Christ-Jesus, 14 generations.”
(are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ)
far more than this was, of course, to be embodied in Christ-Jesus, but
come to the earth.” — So spoke the forerunner of Christ-Jesus,
and Christ-Jesus Himself: “The kingdom of heaven is at hand”.
was the age when the birth of Christ-Jesus had to take place. He was
were contributory to Christianity
Christ-Jesus from this people. Then will become manifest to us this

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These lectures examine the four aspects of Christ as portrayed in the
for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
how Christ-Jesus sprang from this people. In studying the Gospels our aim
life converged, in order, eventually, in the great Christian stream,
mission differed from that of the other pre-Christian peoples. To the
slowly, and by degrees, in the course of the pre-Christian era. A
pre-Christian times, with the one exception of the ancient Hebrew people.
of the pre-Christian peoples. The development of the new faculties was
all the other forms of pre-Christian spiritual life, and why had they
point of time — already drawing near — when Christ-Jesus
preceding and following the birth of Christianity. In the 12th and 13th
everywhere people came forward proclaiming the imminent return of Christ,
or another being the new incarnation of Christ. — No words need
people who are constantly talking about a Christ who is to come again.
they would take the Christ for something altogether different from the
Christ.
Preparation for the Christ
of understanding the Christ Event, which — to characterise one
aspect only — consisted in knowing that Christ was the One Who
to be able to understand the Christ Event. In the earliest times there
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century before Christ, there existed in India a reciprocal respect
Asoka proves. The Christian feeling which sprang up later, in the
Antichrist, while pining in a prison in Prague. That which

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rise of Christianity, which was to acquire so great a significance
Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, had already accepted Christianity. It
apprehended Christianity. Whereas the Franks, who later spread
Christianity from west to east, thrust it upon other races with
Christianity from those whose conversion issued later from the west.
thrust Christianity upon the Saxons by force of arms. (All these
The Arian Christians
Goths believed in the deification of man, as Christ, Who had gone
possible between two Christian creeds which were so different from
faith, exploited Christianity for political purposes.
Christ a man highly developed above all other men, but a man among
men. Their Christ belonged to humanity and dwelt in the human
breast. The Christ of the Athanasian Christians is God
Christian Germanic tribes had neer known anything but absolute
tolerance; the Christian Franks brought in a compulsory
Christianity. This led to a change of temperament. On the evolution

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Christian Rome, the Germanic races pressed. From this type of
Christianity. Those other races — Goths, Vandals — who,
provided a base upon which evolving Christianity was able to expand.
Although the Visigoths were originally Aryan Christians, other ideas
characteristic culture of this form of Christianity was developed.
possible for Christianity to be, at that time, not a mirror of
determined by Christianity. All the knowledge of antiquity was thus
preserved by Christianity for the Germanic tribes. Aristotle gave
the spiritual kernel, which Christianity sought to grasp. At that
time there was no dependence on Rome. The Christian life could
description you will see that southern Christianity was bound to be
Christianity of the Franks was comparatively independent, and could
opposing him, namely, Christianity; therefore he bowed before
this tribe forced other to accept Christianity. We see further that
than Christianity; all sorts of culture forms received their stamp
from external Christianity. And because they were able to maintain
Christian empire, in spreading Christianity by force, it set itself
in opposition to the spirit of Christianity. Hence Christianity was
who had chosen for themselves a tolerant Christianity, this question

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relationships, and the powerful penetration of Christianity in the
Christianity is essentially due to foreign influence. It was not the
Christianity. We see mysticism, dogmatism, but also enthusiasm and
the spiritual side of Christianity they were not inclined to conform
force of the Germani and the spiritual strength of Christianity.
how these tribes submitted to Christianity, and how Christianity
Christianity by force of arms. It was not forced into their souls as
Christian. Much of what appears today as exclusively Christian was
empire, on the contrary, we see in ecclesiastical Christianity a
invocation to “Christ, Who loves the Franks above all other
represented the moral influence of Christianity, the influence of
They were Aryan Christians. That was why the Roman bishop turned
saw in Christianity. All this took place in the west, in the 7th
Frankish Christian culture, although it had efficiency, intellect
contact with Christianity. And just as the Frankish tribes took no
Christianity once came, came now this new culture, from the Arabs.
than Christianity. The spiritual content of Mohammedanism is,
in the Christian Germanic tribes namely, with external science. Here
power, and how an opposing current was flowing from Christianity.

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science of Christianity.
sublime, by the Christians, than the Lord's Supper. It was regarded
of Christianity. Then came the secularisation, the lack of

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a complete form of culture, such as Christianity is, was living a
traditions, seen through the spectacles of Christian conceptions. On
brought education to them was Christianity. Yet the actual Sciences
of Christianity. Especially among the Frankish tribes, the influence
Christianity as a means to obtaining power. Charlemagne, in
monastery schools. Christian theology embraced a septuple of

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Church; Christianity was politically exploited. The Magyars were
converted to Christianity especially by the bishopric of Passau. TO
representative of Christ, as well as lord of the secular domain
— as if the empire of Christ gave him also secular
case of Clovis, that the God of the Christians was his God, because
Christianity had become authoritative in all circumstances of life,

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Christian religion knew nothing of clinging to any kind of dogma. It
have seen in how free a way the Christian idea was developed in
the life of Christ into Old Saxon conditions. He conceived the

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on Earth in the two thousand years' tradition of Christianity.
early times when the Christian religion was still entirely a
enthusiasm for Christianity, and all hearts are filled
again a progress. Here we have the Christian philosophers who
the Christian Wisdom.
expression of what happened from the pre-Christian age down to
pre-Christian age when men were surrounded only by the world of
Christ Jesus into human evolution the spiritual was revealed to
Father,” then “God the Son” or Christ, and
— Christ coming forth from a figure like a bird, Christ
mystery of Christ, His whole descent from the higher worlds was
form. Christ born from the bird, — let us hold the motif
that is among all the Christian symbols! Much, very much is
prophetic foreshadowing of a third picture, A pre-Christian
second expresses what has come about through Christ in the
which has been sent by Christ and will divest itself of its

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Christliche Esoterik im Lichte neuer Geist-Erkenntnis.
Christliche Esoterik im Lichte neuer Geist-Erkenntnis.
and with ever-recurring happenings in Nature. Easter is one such Festival. For Christians today,
Christmas and wakes at the time of our Easter Festival. Those who adhere to this Eastern teaching
The Christmas Festival too, the old
weakens. But from Christmas onwards greater and greater warmth again streams from the Sun.
Christmas is the Festival of the reborn Sun.
It was the wish of Christianity to
the heavens. In the first century A.D. the symbol of Christianity was the Cross,
for Christianity, the Sun was rising in the constellation of the Ram or Lamb. As we all know, the Sun
Approximately seven hundred years before the coming of Christ, the Sun began to rise in the
fleece from Colchis. Christ Jesus Himself is called the Lamb of God and in the earliest period of
Christianity He is portrayed as the Lamb at the foot of the Cross. Thus the Easter Festival is
Between the Christmas and the Easter
in Christianity of the Resurrection after death. Vishnu's sleep sets in at the time when, in
Christmas Festival. When the Easter Festival is celebrated the Sun is continuing its ascent which
had been in process since the Christmas Festival.
to him of the Saviour who had died and had awakened, the thought of Jesus Christ, also of Parsifal
Sun's power is celebrated in the Christmas Festival, the Easter Festival takes place at the
of contradiction between what a Christian sees in the Easter Festival, and the idea of Karma.
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Christliche Esoterik im Lichte neuer Geist-Erkenntnis.
Ursprungsimpulse der Geisteswissenschaft. Christliche Esoterik im Lichte neuer Geist-Erkenntnis.
stressed that the idea of Karma, rightly understood and to be found in Christianity, must
already spoken of the compatibility of the Christian teaching of the Redemption with the
the Redemption through Christ Jesus is unfounded, that Theosophy could not accept the idea
of Redemption through another being, for every man must redeem himself. Christian Theologians
dispute this, saying: we believe in the Redemption through Christ Jesus, but you believe in
followers. This Being is Christ Jesus. The fact that the Redemption was brought about by a
certain form of evil, does not contravene the law of Karma. The Redemption through Christ

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of Christianity in Greece: to the Stoics, that group of
time since the foundation of Christianity and who had a major
influence on the forming of Western Christianity: to
Neo-Platonist, who lived in post-Christian times and still
yes, cannot old Christianity satisfy souls much more than your

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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
touched upon within the German Section until then. Of course, the Christ
called the prehistory of Christ. Here one has to do with very complicated
to the Mystery of Golgotha. About this high Christ being has already been
in the thirtieth year received the Christ entity into itself, is composed
Christ event will then come to us in a completely different light in such a
spiritual currents that met in the Christ event. One is linked to Buddha,
precisely in that Christ event. One usually speaks of such spiritual
before. However, that embodiment in the 6th century before Christ was a
century before Christ â€” sitting of the Bodhisattva under
to it as a bodhisattva. In this way The great Christ event was also
before Christ in Chaldea as Nazarathos or Zarathos and finally again as

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for the understanding of the Christ Mystery.
about the Gospel of John and subsequently about the image of the Christ
years old. In him we meet the high solar entity, the Christ entity. We are
dealing here with the last three years of the life of the Christ
possible for this important essence of the Christ to flow into the
that was the Buddha into Christianity in this way. Thus we see how Buddhism
flows into Christianity. You have to think of this in concrete terms, not
Buddha, who has progressed to that next level, joins Christianity. This is
stream of Zarathustrism to Christianity. Therefore it is also described
understand Christianity in all its deep meaning, we have to realize that
received the Christ in itself.
earlier it was said that it was the mission of the Christ to spread love.
compassion and love; but Christ is the power of love. He brought love
also stood on the level that Buddha six hundred years before Christ could

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founding of Christianity, would lose something for us, in
forth long before the advent of Christianity joins itself for
certain respect with the founding of Christianity, presents a
who is barely separated farther in time from the advent of Christianity
On the other hand, we have the founding of Christianity, that
turning point represented by Christianity and the culture of
“Transfiguration of Christ”
Christians. The papacy had passed over into heathenism, not in
Christian piety in these circles, though certainly of the
servant of this heathenized Christendom. But such that
something is created out of his soul by which the Christian
Christian legends arise in the Madonna pictures and other works
Christian traditions that tell of the Madonna.
see the living content of Christian legends, of Christian
Christianity had become pagan and given over to external pomp
We see Raphael giving form to the figures of Christian
Italy: Christianity, the internalizing of Christianity.
in which Christianity is able to speak
we forget everything that followed as the life of Christ-Jesus.
the whole Christ tragedy within itself, in speaking its words
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significant in world history: The Christ figure in the middle,
the twelve apostles of Christ Jesus arranged on either side. We
Goethe refers strikingly to the moment in which Christ Jesus
the head of Christ: in short, the picture was treated in the
paint on the Christ figure, his hand trembled. And, considering
and he took the artist to task. Leonardo replied that Christ
world, not for Judas, nor for Christ Jesus. He also did not
darkness. And in coming to the Christ-Jesus figure, if one does
justified, as little does the sun-like quality of the Christ
Judas and not the Christ-Jesus countenance. Proceeding in
He wanted to make clear that this Christ countenance stands
could have its justification only in the Christ figure. It

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of Technology) in Vienna, discoverer of the Oberufer Christmas

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humanity's development stands before his soul: the Christ
of Christ, just as he is restrained in various other matters.
Christ, as it were, to the point of a mere thought impulse, as
he would go along with those who want to see Christ Jesus only
actually proceed from the figure of Christ — one of
by the Christ impulse and the resulting mixture of Christianity
second millennium, the first Christian millennium. The Roman
element is not the main thing for him, but rather the Christian
everywhere at how the manifold Christ impulse makes itself
felt. His conception of Christ is neither narrow. nor small,
the Christ figure had undergone changes over the
to demonstrate how the Christ impulse undergoes changes. He
pointed out that people had always conceived of the Christ
conceived of Christ once again in a narrow sense only.
Herman Grimm's view, Christianity needed about a thousand years
Christian one, in which we still find ourselves today. It is

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Christian Centuries of the West.

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handed to me; a notice in “Christian World,” a
time a strong need has developed to express what Christianity
content of Christology; it likewise tries to help with research
into the supersensible regarding the content of Christology,
Christology, but I would like to say the following.
when Christianity is outwardly accepted and preached that it is
sense Christianity reshapes the Father-god and doesn't discern
a difference between the Father-god and Christ.
philosopher Vladimir Soloviev — how the Christ
pursuing it, come to a Christ experience, which is initially
the coming of the Christ-Spirit.
the Christ-Spirit was not united with the earth in the time
was sought for in the mysteries, was popular in pre-Christian
finally all melt together into what the Christ-Imagination is.
the in streaming of the Christ into the human body of Jesus.
knowledge confessed about. The Christ who went through the
Mystery of Golgotha, the Christ who Paul saw on the way to
Damascus, the Christ then remained within in the earth with
Christ is searched for in this way, a person — by looking
Golgotha happened on earth — can see Christ walking; he
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During Christmas in Dornach I held a lecture cycle at the

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and of “Christ,” but all the time they only mean
creeds may speak of to-day, whether of God or Christ or other
great migrations and the spreading of Christianity. The
Christian impulse came over from the East, by way of Greece and
therefore the surge of Christianity was not absorbed by
is coming from the spiritual world. Just as Christianity was at
believe in Christ and in what the State does.” First he

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Further, we must fully realize that the Christ-Impulse entered
whole Earth-development — the Christ-Impulse, the
believe that in the personality of Jesus of Nazareth the Christ
first Christian centuries could not last: it was bound to
— the indwelling of the Christ in Jesus of Nazareth
of the supersensible, cosmic Christ, but talk of Jesus of
Christ must arise. It can only come if sought by the means
sensible. The new understanding of Christ must arise from
understanding of Christ Jesus. Nor will
there is as a hope from this new Christ-Impulse, something we
surface. New comprehension of the Christ-Impulse alone can
be united by the Christ-Impulse, as presented by Spiritual
Christ-Impulse in man.
take the Christ into its scientific, exact view of things, that
purpose, that in 1910 I lectured in Christiania on the

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of the Christian virtues, while a fire warms them which is fed
Christianity and so forth. Here, then, confronts us, as a

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