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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VII
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since the Christmas Foundation Meeting at the Goetheanum. As
studies concerning the significance of this Christmas Foundation
Christmas Meeting was intended to be a fundamental renewal, a
Christmas Foundation Meeting I was always able to make a distinction
Christmas Foundation Meeting in Dornach, the opposite of what went
Society — so that, as was announced at Christmas, the
those who gathered at the Goetheanum at Christmas, it has been
able to visit. It can be said that what was undertaken at Christmas
the new Christianity. Up there — as in their bodies now
group experienced the form of Christianity which during the first
centuries of the Christian era had spread in Southern Europe
and also, to some extent, in Middle Europe. This Christianity
continued to present to its believers a Christ conceived of as
understanding, Christ was thus pictured by the Christians of the
throughout Christendom at this time the faculty of instinctive
the Christ once had His abode. The ancient clairvoyant perception of
the descent of the Christ to the Earth became superseded by mere
physical body. The majority of Christians now retained little more
— Christ Jesus — whose nature now began to be the subject
were, however, among the Christians certain individuals who came more
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VIII
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Christian terminology. They are directly connected with
Archangel known to Christians capable of speaking of these things,
Golgotha, Christ, the sublime Being of the Sun, has come down to the
the Christ Being has remained united with the Earth, it has not been
Gabriel, for the Christ Impulse itself actually to lay hold of the
themselves the Christ Impulse has been able to penetrate
connection in the real sense with the Christ Impulse.
Archangel known in Christianity as Michael. Over those civilisations
Mystery of Golgotha took place. At the beginning of the Christian
departure of Christ from the Sun.
were united with Michael in the realm of the Sun. Christ, who
the departure of the Christ from the Sun. “He is
departure of Christ from the Sun. They saw clearly: the Cosmic
eighth century of the Christian era, in the earthly realm itself. And
from Christianity — in the form of Arabism derived from
of Baghdad, Christianity was also developing and
upon by Arabism. In Europe, within the expanding Christian culture,
Chartres were pure and genuine Christianity, illumined by the ancient
penetrated deeply into the secrets of Christianity and who had no
Christian Initiation — of which the School of Chartres was one
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IX
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Christianity, Michael sent his impulses — his ‘cosmopolitan’
Archangeloi and human souls, witnessed the Christ departing from the
when the ninth century of the Christian era had come, those around
of the Christian era, when Gabriel became the administrator —
course, through a human being. Nietzsche's Anti-Christ, his
portraying the battle waged by Christian Scholasticism against
going out from the Christmas Foundation at the Goetheanum, that in

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture VIII
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spoke to Christ. In doing this you get the whole development of
the Christian Church in the conversation between the people

Title: Human Values in Education: Lecture X
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Tacitus, writes about Christ as if he were someone almost
nothing was known of Christ. And it is possible to paint a
the surface on those occasions when, in the arena, a Christian
his notes to the coming into being of Christianity, while his
the Christian civilisation has risen to the surface of the
earth and Christianity is beginning to expand in Europe where
today as the Romans knew about Christianity find all this very

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture I
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science takes Christianity as it
understand the depths of Christianity. This understanding can
the Christian documents with the aid of philology; but
Christianity may be brought home to them. Christianity is the
religions do but point to Christianity, which is the religion
Christianity to man from a new and different side.
any other man. The Christ-soul in the Jesus-body is something
quite different. St. John's Gospel represents Christ to us
must recall what was taught on this point in the Christian

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture II
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
Christian occult doctrine the world in which the egos of the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture III
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
evolution. In the Christian occult school of Dionysius the
teaching: “Christ.” But the Egos, as parts of the
personified in Christ Jesus. The Event of Golgotha is the

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture IV
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
Spiritual Science is very important. In Christian occult
Christian occult schools the true Light-bearer, the true
Lucifer, the Christ.
replaced by Christ, Who brought a higher love into the world
love. It is to this universal love that Christ's statement
It is the Christ Who pours out this universal love more and
into two parts through the appearance of Christ Jesus, —
between Jehovah, Lucifer, and Christ.

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture V
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
Christ.” If we thoroughly understand this passage we
of Christ on the Earth. In the earlier lectures of this
comes through Jesus Christ, has developed in us from within,
can only develop gradually. Christianity, which is to bring
Christianity on humanity. Humanity is to raise itself to a
development, and it is the task of Christianity to help them
the Gospel is called Christ had to step in. In the occult
fellow-men, that “he bears Christ within him.” In
occult schools in pre-Christian times, where pupils were
called Initiation. In all initiations of pre-Christian times
pre-Christian times.
advent of Christ Jesus an entirely new kind of initiation
through the appearance of Christ Jesus that it became
Thus all the pre-Christian initiates had undergone the
With Christ it is different. It is only through His
personality that His teachings become Christianity, and in
order to be a Christian it is not enough merely to follow the
teachings of Christianity. Those alone are true Christians,
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VI
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
of His conversation with the woman of Samaria, Christ Jesus
Advent of Christ.
Period of true Christianity
of Christianity which is to bring about the ascent. The Star
of Christianity appeared in the fourth age of civilization,
been reached. Christ Jesus appeared as the great Personality
can also be looked upon as a preparation for Christianity. In
the fifth age of civilisation Christianity has to withstand
hides the spiritual truths of Christianity. In the sixth age
Christianity will unite humanity into a great bond of
teachings given to mankind in Christianity are so profound,
able to displace or supplant Christianity. It will be
possible for Christianity to adapt itself to all the forms of
power of the Christ Spirit to enable this germ to develop,
and true Christianity will only be there when the Spirit Self
wonderful spiritual life. Christianity is now only at the
this deeper and more spiritual Christianity more and more
Christ possible; how in the fourth age the power of Christ
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Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VII
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
lectures we have considered the significance of Christ for
seat in the Sun. Christ belongs to these Beings as a cosmic-
of Christ came to the Earth, the astral body of this cosmic
force of the Christ Spirit sank down to the Earth at the same
time, and ever since the incarnation of Christ on the Earth
body of the Earth. Through the appearance of Christ on Earth
entirely new substance. If at the time of Christ a Being had
of the Earth, the Sun Spirit Christ became the Spirit of the
Earth as well. The Christ is therefore Sun Spirit and at the
same time Earth Spirit. From the time when Christ walked the
throughout”. The garments of Christ are the symbol for
If Christ is the planetary Spirit of the Earth,
that the Earth is the true body of Christ. This passage in
cosmic evolution. He sees the force of Christ spring up in
towards the Sun: he knows that the event of Christ becoming

Title: Gospel of John (Basle): Lecture VIII
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
St. John's Gospel, the writer says that Christ did many other
“I am” became individualised, and Christ is the
for this reason Christ could say: “Before Abraham, was
known in all Christian Schools. It relates that when Seth,
Christian teaching, the time when it was given to man was in
of eternity had first to be gained. Christ Jesus bore it
Christ teaches
the time of Christ wished to see what was going on in the
ruler of the Jews, came to Christ by night. He came to Christ
Christ says: “I am the way, the truth, and the
Deity through Christ? The “I am” works on the
most of the translations of the Bible, Christ's answer to the
a Christian, that God makes a man be born blind, in order
we view it with the knowledge of Spiritual Science. Christ
the way in which Christ's answer should be translated:
one incarnation to another. The fact that Christ's teaching
(words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was ChristJohn 9:22).
that Christ has died for us and that therefore they cannot
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture One
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Christianity with particular reference to the Gospel of St. John and
More than once it has been emphasized that the very depths of Christianity
the deepest depths of Christianity are to be found in the Gospel of
St. John, is it still necessary to study Christianity as presented in
The scope of Christianity itself is infinite and light can be shed
recognize as among the most profound in Christianity, do not by any
with the Christ Event, about which all three forms of cognition
super-sensible world, and who therefore describes the Christ Event as
Gospel the messenger of everything relating to the Christ Event that
Christ's Kingdom as receiving their character through the inner
penetrate into the world of pictures and there behold the Christ
all times discover about the Christ Event without the help of any
we speak of the Christ Event, a source for us is also that great
John or as Christ after the Baptism — that Being stands before
Being who was Christ Jesus, we must trace the paths traversed by the
Christ Event given by modern spiritual-scientific investigation, for
the Creator of Christianity was announced beforehand, how the birth
accounts of Jesus of Nazareth before the Christ descended into him.
of the Christ into the three bodies of Jesus of Nazareth. Many
riddles of vital significance concerning the essence of Christianity
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Two
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Christian era the Gospel of St. John was the text that made the
understanding of the cosmic mysteries of Christianity. This was the
Gospel used by all the Christian mystics who were striving to mould
and nature of Christ Jesus.
centuries a somewhat different attitude was adopted by Christian
enabled them to rise into the sphere of truly Christian feeling. The
who longed to be filled with Christian love turned their hearts and
Gospel than in any other Christian document. Those who were in any
They could say to themselves: Christ Jesus came not
representations of Christian truths and what art has acquired from
connection between Christ Jesus and John the Baptist have their
in harmony with what you have previously heard from me about Christ
an aspect of the Christian truths that may seem not to tally exactly
unusual aspect of Christian truths.
the Christmas message. Rightly rendered, these words would be as
mysteries of Christianity are embodied in these words, provided only
must contemplate the epoch when Christ Jesus came to humanity, and
Christ, spread far and wide in the form of Buddhism. An investigator
era because we shall neither understand the path of Christianity nor
2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord\'s Christ. \

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Three
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Christianity — Buddhism raised to a higher level — could be
to portray Christ Jesus as the Healer of body and soul because having
to say about Christ Jesus from the standpoint of a physician will

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Four
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conceptions that flowed into Christianity were thereby given to the
the great Spirit who later appeared as Christ; it was he who proclaimed:

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Five
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revelations vouchsafed to humanity through Christianity are not of a
once and for ever as a complete record. Christ's words are true: ‘I
perceived by those whose spiritual eyes are opened. Christianity is a
— Ahura Mazdao, later called the Christ — it was
place, the Christ was received into the inmost nature of this Being.

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Six
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civilization must fertilize each other. The Christ Event was to come
arrived — the time of the advent of the Christ-principle of which we

Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Seven
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two Jesus-children. The Incarnation of the Christ in Jesus of Nazareth.
development of the central Being of our Earth — Christ Jesus
To begin with it will be necessary to recall that Christ Jesus, as He
direction to the spiritual stream of Christianity. He is the Inspirer
of those who strive to understand Christianity in its living growth
perpetual duty it was to cultivate the teachings of Christianity. He
stands behind the great spiritual figures of Christianity, ever
moment the sublime Being we call the Christ descended into his
the Christ Being as is indicated in the words contained in the
Heaven, the Christ, is now begotten — begotten of the
The Christ Being cannot be understood if we think of Earth evolution
alone. The Christ is the Leader of those spiritual Beings who left
Earth from outside. If we think back to the pre-Christian period of
appearance of Christ, we must say: When men looked up to the Sun
the Sun to the Earth is He who was later called Christ. In
pre-Christian times, therefore, this Being was not to be sought on
Moses, the great forerunner of Christ Jesus.
Christ Being, while approaching the Earth, was revealing Himself
beheld the Christ! But just as the sunlight is not seen directly but
reflected from the Moon, so did Moses see the Christ in reflection. And
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Eight
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Christ-Ego.
kind of historical prelude to the great Christ Event. But we now know
received the Christ-principle into himself.
the deeds of Christ Jesus — that is, of the Individuality who
worked in the world for three years as ‘Christ’ in a human
accept narratives of a past epoch such as that during which Christ
Luke tells us of the deeds of Christ Jesus on the Earth in such a way
Christ Jesus as related in the Gospel of St. Luke?
Sower given by Christ Jesus to His disciples is applicable to the
people in regard to the words of Christ Jesus; it also frequently
into the soil. Then again, the words of Christ Jesus or the words of
it cannot thrive. The meaning, as Christ Jesus indicates, is that
that Christ Jesus appeared. Had He come in our epoch He would not
to Christ Jesus but to others as well, and the evolution of humanity
Christ came to the Earth. Had He come later, none of the things that
of Christ into the world signify?
when a man rightly understands Christ he learns to exercise his
coming of Christ signifies. The self-conscious Ego will reconquer
expiration of the old era. If the entry of the Christ-principle into
in order to be able to understand the Christ, and through this
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Nine
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Buddha's Teaching of Compassion and Love. The Wheel of the Law. Christ
about in humanity at the time of Christ Jesus — and this it
Christ Jesus appeared on Earth was so decisive that within a
was in this milieu that Christ Jesus was to work. The new impulse
He listens to a lecture let us say on the nature of Christianity,
right way of presenting Christianity overlooks one essential, namely
that you are presenting the truths of Christianity in a form suitable
relatively unimportant compared with what took place when Christ
rôle. Until the coming of Christ Jesus the fully self-conscious Ego
Christ Jesus had not come to the Earth. What would have happened? As
When Christ Jesus
should stream from it — that was the Deed of Christ Jesus on the
with love. To those around Him Christ could speak to the following
In memorable words Christ Jesus said to those around Him that whether or
not an individual will become Christian does not depend upon his personal
time’, Christ Jesus wished to make it understood that the old leaven
the times. Hence Christ Jesus called what the Scribes and Pharisees
the present age what Christ Jesus said of the Scribes and Pharisees?
in the sense of true Christianity, are very often the holders of
kind of action consistent with discipleship of Christ Jesus would be
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Title: Gospel of Luke: Lecture Ten
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Christianity
of two modes of Initiation in olden Times. The Christ-principle and the
the time when for three years Christ was on Earth, and the preceding
a wonderful account of the mission of Christ Jesus on the Earth, as
woven into Christian teachings, how is it that in the latter there is
even in the Christian era, and have undergone the available
teaching been proclaimed in the early centuries of Christendom in the
Christianity. In a certain respect the Gospel message was entrusted
absolutely necessary that what was proclaimed by Christ Jesus should
Did Christ Jesus and
within itself the all-embracing Christ-principle.
must now, in imitation of Christ, gradually develop what was present
only the impulse, as it were the seed, that Christ Jesus was able to
Being who appeared on Earth as Christ had to take care that His
In what manner Christ
Lazarus, Christ Himself ‘raised’, ‘awakened’,
But Christ had also to provide for the appearance, in later times,
How an Individuality was ‘awakened’ by Christ for this
of Nain lies the mystery of the progress of Christianity. Whereas in
so profound that Christ admitted only a few to witness the act and
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Title: Lecture: The Etherisation of the Blood
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twenty-two others, is entitled: Das esoterische Christentum
from the wounds of Jesus Christ.
Golgotha the etherised blood of Christ Jesus has been present in the
is supremely important. If what has thus come to pass through Christ
it has always been possibe for the etheric blood of Christ to flow
blood-stream unites with the blood-stream of Christ Jesus. A union of
unfold true understanding of what is contained in the Christ Impulse.
epoch. At the time when Christ Jesus lived on Earth, preceding
this event is the appearance of the Christ as an Etheric Being in
contradistinction to the Physical Christ of Palestine. For we have
now reached the point of time when the Etheric Christ enters into the
century. A number of individuals will see the Etheric Christ and will
Christ draws near to them. In only a few decades from now it will
or that. The truth is that Christ has come to him, although he
to turn. The door will open, and the etheric Christ will appear and
speak words of consolation to him. The Christ will become a living
waiting, they will see the Etheric Christ. He will Himself be there,
who experiences the awakening soul through Christ, the Christ who will
acquire forces that make for unification. In very truth Christ brings
that Christ lived for three years on the Earth in a human body
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture IX: The Etherization of the Blood
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
flowed from the wounds of Jesus Christ. This blood must not be
Golgotha, the etherized blood of Christ Jesus has lived in the ether
thus come to pass through Christ Jesus had not taken place, man's
Christ to flow together with the streamings from below upward, from
man, but the human bloodstream unites with the bloodstream of Christ
Christ impulse. Otherwise, there can be no union; the two streams
suitable for that epoch. At the time when Christ Jesus lived on
the etheric Christ in contradistinction to the physical Christ of
Christ enters into the life of the earth and will become visible, at
certain number of individuals will see the etheric Christ and will
moment when Christ draws near to them. In only a few decades from now
alert to this or that. The truth is that Christ has come to him,
knowing which way to turn. The door will open, and the etheric Christ
will appear and speak words of consolation to him. The Christ will
waiting, they will see the etheric Christ. He Himself will be there,
his soul through Christ, Who will now take hold of human culture and
positive forces. Christ brings constructive forces into human
by the fact that Christ necessarily lived for three years on the
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 1
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
Christ.”
have often spoken of: the figure of Christ Jesus Himself.
was before the Christian era and nearly lost in misty
Christianity were not yet quite completed. He might look back
world, while during this time Christianity streamed more and
part in the spreading of the Greco-Roman Christian culture.
With this intermingling of Greece, Rome, and Christianity,
Christian one. Then we see the beginning of the second
Christian millennium, the third historical civilization of
began for Western civilization with the second Christian
gave a lecture in 1870 about Christ and Christianity. It was
about Christ and Christianity. The actual mystery of
Christianity was quite remote from the Indian speaker —
fundamental fact that Christianity does not proceed from a
which he can grasp and is so clear to him is that in Christ
Christ and to hear him say, “If a man goes deeply into
Christianity, he will see that Christianity must, even in the
brings to my fatherland as Christianity does not appear to me
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 2
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
When they were reincarnated in the post-Christian era, they
Empedocles, when it reappears in post-Christian times as the
Christianity make themselves felt. Over and over again we
must emphasize the fact that Christianity is only at the
impulses which originated with the founding of Christianity.
progressive understanding of Christianity, we must learn to
Christ Jesus sprang forth from the fusion of the two souls,
interpret the event of Christ Jesus entirely in the sense of
appearance of Christ Jesus by keeping before us the words of
Testament pointing to the appearance of Christ Jesus. It is
solitude would show the path that Christ Jesus had to pursue
the wonderful figure of Christ Jesus Himself? Nowhere else in
figure of Christ Jesus Himself appears. Let us now also leave
regard him and his mission, Christ Jesus is Himself
we are told that these spirits recognize Christ Jesus. Of the
be baptized by him. But Christ is recognized by the
Christ gives names to His disciples which indicate that our
follow the soul-development of those whom Christ Jesus
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 3
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
that of Christ Jesus Himself. If we allow Mark's Gospel to
investigate the deeper causes of the founding of Christianity
Christ Impulse. The meaning of the baptism by John was that
Elijah was ready to prepare the way for the Christ. This was
wishes to prepare the way for the Christ! We can also say
which the Christ could now perform His deed. This is what
what he is as the Elijah-spirit remains, and in this Christ
from working actively. But the figure of Christ Jesus entered
forces through which Christ Jesus Himself worked were due to
the fact that Christ Jesus Himself was Elijah, or one of the
occurred through Christ Jesus he says, “John, whom I
Baptist had met his physical death, Christ Jesus came to the
significant is said here. Jesus Christ appears among the
of the Mark Gospel how the spirit of Christ Jesus entered
post-Christian era such a soul should work in Raphael through
told how Herod caused John to be beheaded, and how Christ
the reincarnated Elijah leaves his physical body and Christ
into the work of Christ Jesus. On two occasions it is
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 4
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
disciples — Christ Jesus. If among those pupils and
expression of this relationship? It is when the Christ
specific example of how the Christ spoke to the crowd in
a perfect example of how Christ Jesus taught. We are told how
Christ Jesus stand in relation to His pupils? His
Christ Jesus taught, we must speak of this in a more complex
Christ Jesus, however, has two different kinds of
facing Christ Jesus possessed indeed only the last remnant of
When Christ Jesus spoke to the crowd He spoke as if He were
They were indeed the first whom Christ Jesus could choose
necessity for Christ Jesus during the whole of the turning
in the middle of the crowd. It was the task of Christ Jesus'
one of them, with the difference that Christ Jesus spoke of
When Christ spoke to His intimate pupils about spiritual
sojourn of the human soul in the spiritual world. When Christ
reason, whereas Christ drew forth heavenly reason from the
enlightenment to his pupils; Christ in His parables gave
streams comes into being through Christ Jesus. We have
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 5
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
these most mature thinkers of Christianity, we meet with in a
pre-Christian era, in the form it had to take then, in
the forerunner of Christ Jesus. Thus everything is reversed.
Christ as its nucleus together with him who stands before us
the forerunner of Christ Jesus, then this formula expresses
Christianity than to other religions. Do such words as
than Christ? We refrain from using such words as
truth. It is not a matter of whether we place Christianity
Christ as a cosmic and earthly being. It was therefore

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Basel, 9-20-12
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more comprehensive understanding of Christ and to penetrate ever
Christ. If we strive seriously and apply thought power, effort and
time to understand everything that was and is being said about Christ

Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 6
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
the revelation through the Christ. It was especially noted
It was the special talent of Oriental wisdom, pre-Christian
all the unhistorical conceptions of the pre-Christian era.
Christianity is taken to the East — not a fanatical or
denominational Christianity — but a Christianity that
speak of several incarnations of Christ they are making the
incarnations of the Christ. Regarding this question the
this aura Christ Jesus entered. Where then is the soul of
the teaching of Christ Jesus, his way of teaching, differed
clear if we read the passage and reread it — Christ
Christ Jesus demands of His disciples that they should
hitherto been able to understand.” When Christ Jesus
individual men. It was for this that Christ wished to educate
careful attention to this saying. Christ Jesus sends His
Until this time Christ has interpreted the parables for them;
future gradually come near to the Christ Impulse. The
affected by the Christ Impulse, which was already in the
Christ first of all seems to us like a lonely personality,
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 7
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
of Christ Jesus, but with a rich world of external and occult
with the relationship between Christ Jesus and His closest
inner connection between the soul of the Christ and the souls
Christ was made up of processes of significance for that
the soul of Christ took place again in a kind of reflected
in the soul of Christ Jesus; but each of the Twelve
the soul of Christ Jesus was like a harmony, a great
within the soul of Christ, as, for example, in the case of
the great world-historical monologue of Christ Jesus. It is
the case of Christ Jesus it encompasses the whole of mankind,
entire Christ spirit. For this reason it must be pictured
differently when it concerns Christ Jesus Himself.
within the soul of Christ Jesus Himself. By contrast the
of Peter, and what Christ Jesus added to explain what took
Peter felt something of what the soul of Christ had been
Christ, this should be understood as meaning that Peter was
about within the soul of Christ. Because Peter was able to do
we must look at these things, enabling us to feel how Christ
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 8
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
Christ appears to them. They at first take Him for a ghost,
vision are unfolded. Thus Christ Jesus appears to His
the Christ wished to appear in the whole grandeur of His
on the other, with Christ Jesus Himself in the middle. And it is
imaginatively indicated in the Gospel that Christ was now in
of Christ Jesus. What is the significance of Elijah and
Christ Jesus we have, so to speak, in Moses those forces
mankind was later to be given in Christ Jesus and the Mystery
were, what was to come about through Christ Jesus. This then
on the one side of the Christ, and on the other the soul of
you will find that Christ was being callous when He said that
existence. The body of Christ Jesus, which was anointed in
for some strange reason Christ Jesus feels hunger, and goes
soul of Christ. We may see in Empedocles of Sicily a
mankind discharged itself into the soul of Christ Jesus as
Christ led
his sermon at Benares. Now Christ had to tell them that for
truth that is presented to us here? The truth that Christ
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 9
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
Christ is to be seen as a cosmic being, an earthly and
have been found in those who were nearest to Christ Jesus,
between Christ Jesus and the Sadducees, a conversation that
see that the answer given by Christ Jesus tells us clearly
other words Christ Jesus is here speaking of circumstances
another conversation when Christ Jesus is asked about
This was a conversation between Christ
answer given by Christ Jesus, “Yes, Moses gave you this
of Christ concerning these cosmic matters will be best
characterized in this way. The chosen disciples of Christ
understand the realities of Christ Jesus, but they were
expected to understand the fact that Christ Jesus came to the
lesser kind of understanding. That Christ Jesus had a mission
happens toward the end of this Gospel when Christ Jesus is
Christ Jesus if He wishes to speak of the Christ and
acknowledge Himself as the Christ, at which they would take
take offense? Simply because Christ was supposed to have
Christ Jesus was looked upon as the king of the Jews, and
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Title: Gospel of Mark: Lecture 10
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The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense
this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic
and crucifixion of Christ Jesus. This again is a feature of
confirming a belief in the existence of Christ Jesus. Too
influence proceeding from the name of Christ Jesus through
Christ Jesus. To those who professed Him in any way His
of understanding that the Christ could have lived within the
wore on the more any idea at all of the Christ was lost.
of a martyr. More and more the man Jesus replaced the Christ
tried to explain the appearance of Christ Jesus on the lake
suggested that the apostles went by ship while Christ Jesus
cannot believe in Christ Jesus, nor that someone was born as
“Christ research,” which in recent years has come
into Christ.” This was a most peculiar phenomenon,
an account of Jesus Christ. What is this Jesus Christ? Well,
of Nazareth, for the Gospels speak of Christ and they
Christ in recent years. But Christ is in no sense real; He
because it can prove nothing, and the “Christ
all current research regarding Jesus and Christ which has no
perception can find no path leading to Christ Jesus. For this
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Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Three: Awakening Spiritual Thoughts
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.
the death of a friend (Christian Morgenstern): The founders of the
deed of Christ. The nature of the physical world. The premise
have for many years called the Christ-Impulse. The Christ-Impulse, in
Those who compare Christ to
In the first place, Christ worked through a deed, the ancient
a teacher of humanity means not knowing at all who Christ is. The
I, but Christ in me.” Indeed, Christ has become the path into
days to deny Christ and claim that there is no evidence that Christ
historical Christ. But with that they merely prove that they missed
the point. If Christ had chiseled into a rock for all future
the forces of the spirit. Seen in this light, we find Christ
and art, to come across a view of Christ that is appropriate to our
modern civilization, namely the anthroposophical view of Christ
material needs of modern humanity, they serve Ahriman. Christ Jesus
have to work with quite different forces. Christ was the Word; in the
of Christ. Christ, not psychic powers, must work in us. These

Title: Lecture: The Four Sacrifices of Christ
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In our present civilization we need, above all, a new knowledge of Christ.
This new Christ knowledge is to be gained increasingly through the effects
official seal of Christianity is antagonistic to this new knowledge. It
deeper understanding of selflessness than that offered by Christ's
appearance upon earth. To know Christ is to go through the school of
Christ did for earthly evolution was included in the fundamental impulse
the earth. The Being whom we acknowledge as the Christ clothed
was thus permeated by the Christ. Through this means a force was
the splendor of surrounding nature is Christ's first sacrifice. By ensouling
I owe to Christ's first sacrifice in preparation for the Mystery of
observation and enjoyment of nature will be permeated by Christ; when
realize that it is not ourselves, but Christ within our senses Who enables
second step was taken toward the Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ Being
second Christ event. We see in perspective for the future that the human
organs because not I alone have developed myself in the world, but Christ
most comprehensive sense, that we say, “Not I, but Christ in me.”
Christ provided for the complete evolution of humanity.
harmonious working of the Christ. In consequence, toward the end of the
Atlantean evolution, the third Christ event occurred. Once more the
Christ Being ensouled Himself in an archangel, and the power thus
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Basel, 6-3-'14
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In Christo morimur,

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture VIII: The Birth of Christ Within Us
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The Birth of Christ Within Us
"WERE Christ born a thousand times in Bethlehem, and not in thee, thou
Angelus Silesius. The one is the declaration that the true Christmas
of Christmas must quicken the impulse whereby in the Holy Night of
Within us we find some thing with which Christ is united if with
Christ Jesus.
earthly evolution proceeds, consciousness of Christ deepens, that
and greater understanding of the real nature of Christ. And we have
enables us to celebrate the Holy Night of Christmas, the Festival of
Christ Jesus in the course of human history. The historian was asked
Christ-forces that stream through happenings in the world belong to a
of these deeds of Christ is not possible in the writing of history.
times cannot claim to celebrate the Christmas Festival in an inner
sense. For in the soul of this historian, Christ Jesus as a living
perceiving that since the Mystery of Golgotha, the Power of Christ has
that the Festival of the Holy Night, the Festival of the Christmas
out of a deep and true feeling for the Christian Mystery. This was
the life of Christ Jesus, although the series continues beyond the
Second religion, the Philosophical: such a religion was it that Christ
related individually to the Christ. Folk-history, as it may be called,
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Title: Lecture Series: Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
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Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree
Christmas Thoughts and Voices, “Bergkristall” by Stifter.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch den Christus-Impuls.
Christmas Thoughts and Voices, “Bergkristall” by Stifter.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch den Christus-Impuls.
age, met the expansion of Christianity to the north. They
Christianity. This instinctive valour was lost later than
the Christ-impulse; the transformation of valour and bravery
Christ-impulse, has become the special virtue of the
in one who rightly understands the Christ-impulse, this
anthroposophical understanding of the Christ-impulse that it
will become feeling. Through the Mystery of Golgotha Christ
Now that the Christ-impulse is in the world, if through what
into which the Christ-impulse has flowed. Thus, because the
Christ-impulse is now here, we directly destroy something of
been said, that Christ was first crucified on Golgotha, but
man. Since Christ has entered into the Earth development
again: Christ is crucified anew as long as immorality,
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Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture IV: Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
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Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny
things that are connected with the physical birth of Christ Jesus.
We have often pictured how in Christ Jesus, so far as human
comprehension goes, two Beings merge as it were into one: the Christ
Being and the human Jesus Being. In the evolution of Christianity
meaning of the union of Christ with Jesus, in the Being whose physical
birth is celebrated at the Christmas Festival. We ourselves, of
course, recognise in the Christ a cosmic, super-earthly Being, a Being
preparation, to unite the Christ Being with himself, to receive the
Christ Being into himself.
nature of the union of Christ with Jesus, but the relationship of
Christ to Jesus contains a hint of significant secrets of the earthly
the union of Christ with Jesus, we follow events up to the present day
At the time when Christ was about to enter the evolution of humanity,
sublimity of the Christ Being. And at that time there existed a wisdom
running counter to the deeper Christian revelation: this was the
by the dogmatic Christianity of the West — after this Gnosis had
striven to find an answer to the question: Who is the Christ?
Who is the Christ?
other. How the Christ had descended through the worlds of the
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Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Eight
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of what is connected with the meaning of the physical birth of Christ
that in Christ Jesus two Beings flow together to form one: the
Christ-Being and the human Jesus-Being. This is something that people
on earth are capable of experiencing. As Christianity has developed,
significance of the uniting of Christ with Jesus in the body whose
physical birth we celebrate in the Christmas festival. Let us start
with what we know. In Christ we recognize a cosmic, super-earthly
Christ-Being, to take this Being into himself after thirty years of
the manner in which Christ united with Jesus. There is also, in the
relationship of Christ to Jesus, an indication of important mysteries
something about this uniting of Christ with Jesus, and in considering
itself the Christ-Being there came about a possibility, like an
picture, an idea of the whole lofty stature of the Christ-Being.
opposed to more profound Christian revelation. This was Gnosis,
western dogmatic Christianity, but not until Gnosis had also
endeavoured to find an answer to the question: Who is Christ?
answer to the question: Who is Christ?
a wonderful way, rank upon rank. He also saw how Christ strode down
how Christ came down from spiritual heights and was received on
mighty Christ-picture of the Gnostics. The Mystery-wisdom that lies
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture I: The Human Soul in the Supersensible Realm and Its Relationship to the Body
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and In the Turning Point of the Christian World Period. A

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture II: Anthroposophy Does not Disturb Any Religious Confession
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basically a servant of Christianity at that time that it could
so intimately into the Christian experiences as — and
Christ than we do — anthroposophy says nothing else; it
that one should accept, for example, not only that about Christ
Jesus as Christianity what the one or the other representative
can say things about the Christ impulse which are quite
of Christianity than the official representatives

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture IV: The Science of the Supersensible and the Moral-Social Ideas
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describing the first Christian centuries did not describe the
advancing, growing Christian life but that he could only

Title: Et Incarnatus Est: The Time Cycle of Historic Events
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Rudolf Steiner at Basel, in the Christmas Season of 1917. The
Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse,
festival whose modern symbol is the Christmas tree, is
Christianity, the resurrection from the dead, appears to modern
spiritual world, just as incredible as the Christmas mystery,
myrrh to the babe lying in the manger knew of the Christmas
proceeding from the Christ Who is to be incarnated in that
the impulse of the Christ. When the cosmic symbol of world
Christian words, “incarnatus de spiritu sancto ex Maria
Christmas?” Does there exist today a real consciousness
the Christmas tree should light up in our hearts an
Christ Jesus has lived in modern humanity in such a way as to
give rise to the thought: the Christmas mystery has its
eternal in the light of the Christmas candles.
tried to give a picture of Christ Jesus out of the
Christianity has become in this manner a delightful pastorale.
destroy of Christianity, Christ remains, a unique figure as
Christ of the Gospels is not historical, for we are not in a
inclination are of quite another kind, nor the early Christian
accept Christ as the model for our way of living. If, finally,
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Title: Lecture: The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Wie Kann die Menschheit den Christus Wiederfinden?
Neue Christus-licht.
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
A Christmas Lecture by
festivals, the festivals of Christmas and Easter, been set by
the Christian cosmic feeling within the course of the year,
say that in the conception of Christmas and the conception of
such — for instance, when the Christian cosmic
Pentecost. In the Christmas conception, however, and that of
Christ Jesus stand these two events of man's physical life
— and likewise in the Christmas and Easter
responsive Christian heart.
the thought of Christmas and the thought of Easter, the soul of
pillars of the spirit — the thought of Christmas and the
Christmas thought and the great Easter thought. During the
earliest times of the evolution of Christianity, when the Event
the earliest Christian centuries to feel in the Crucified One
Christ dying on the cross. But in the later times, especially
since the modern age began, Christian feeling — adapting
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 1
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul
of the spirit have the annual festivals of Christmas and Easter been
placed by the Christian world within the course of the year, itself
— when, for example, Christian feeling undertakes to symbolize
it in the festival of Pentecost. With Christmas and Easter, on the other
events of birth and death. In the life of Christ Jesus, and in our thoughts
of Christmas and Easter reminding us of it, these two events of man's
physical life stand before our soul, addressing the Christian heart.
two great mysteries in their relation to Christmas and Easter, we find
of Christmas and Easter. During the early Christian centuries, when
And they gradually formed the powerful imagination of Christ dying on
Christian feeling has adjusted itself to the materialism rising in human
a sensitive person will find European Christianity decidedly materialistic
from the way it has concentrated in recent centuries upon the Christmas
But the conception of Christmas
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Title: Lecture Series: What was the Purpose of the Goetheanum
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high, in which Christ, as the Representative of mankind, is
Representative of humanity, Christ, to the incorporation
of the Christ-God in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. It shows

Title: Lecture Series: Anthroposophical Quarterly - Winter 1978 Volume 23 Number 4
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Christian era, when man could no longer obtain spiritual wisdom in an immediate way. In the
which we take in through Christ, by saying, "Not I, but Christ in me", will become a
Christianized Spiritual Science in order that our astral body may become a source of light
When we take in this Christianized

Title: Links Between the Living and the Dead
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When a Christian of the Middle Ages, or even a Christian of more
— for example, the faces of Christ and of Judas as they actually

Title: Descriptive Sketches: Lecture I
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When the Christian of the Middle Ages, or indeed the Christian of but
the actual faces of Christ and Judas on the canvas. Yet one becomes

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

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 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: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 1903 or 1904
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figure of Christ, with the historical and outer one, and that's the
great thing about the Christian religion, that for all of its
The fact that the Christian religion is understandable to every stage
one in willing. Real Christianity is the integration of all initiation
unifying band for all I's: In Christ, the spirit of life, the eternal
And this is Christ's legacy.

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

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: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture I: What Does the Human Being Find in Theosophy?
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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: 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: 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

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

Title: (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: Greek/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: (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: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture I: Celts, Teutons, and Slavs
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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

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: Greek/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: (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: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture II: Persians, Franks, and Goths
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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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Christendom has come about through the word “pontoi” having

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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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, December 1904
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figure of Christ, with the historical and outer one, and that's the
great thing about the Christian religion, that for all of its
The fact that the Christian religion is understandable to every stage
one in willing. Real Christianity is the integration of all initiation
unifying band for all I's: In Christ, the spirit of life, the eternal
And this is Christ's legacy.

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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: History of the Middle Ages: Lecture VI: Culture of the Middle Ages
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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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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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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,

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: Signs/Symbols: 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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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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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: Lecture: The Work of Secret Societies in the World. The Atom as Coagulated Electricity
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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

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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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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

Title: Origin and Destination of Humanity: Lecture XVII: Ibsen's Attitude
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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: Schiller and Our Times: Lecture IX: Schiller and Idealism
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and appeared independently. Thus in Christianity there was

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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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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Are Founded on Fables or The Christian Religion Prevents from

Title: Lecture: 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: 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

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture II
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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: 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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Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture IX
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saved; this happened through the fact that Christian Rosenkreuz

Title: Two Essays on Haeckel: Essay II: Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe," Theosophy
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had now — and this was the final result of the Christian

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.

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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: 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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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

Title: Lecture Series: 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: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIX
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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: 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

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

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 16: The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement
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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

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 17: Freemasonry and Human Evolution I
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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

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 18: Freemasonry and Human Evolution II
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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

Title: Temple Legend: Lecture 19: The Relationship Between Occult Knowledge and Everyday Life
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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

Title: 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 Series: 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).

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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

Title: Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVIII
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clear day-consciousness, as incarnated man, Christ Jesus.
preceding stages of evolution. Then for the first time Christianity

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

Title: 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: 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: Riddles of the World: Lecture VI: The Basic Concepts of Theosophy. Human Races
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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

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: Riddles of the World: Lecture IX: Inner Development
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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.

Title: Signs/Symbols: 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: Riddles of the World: Lecture X: Christmas as Symbol of the Sun's Victory
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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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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: Temple Legend: Lecture 20: The Royal Art in a New Form
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adopted in the organisation of the Christian Church. And the Middle
Michaelangelo conceivable without the power of Christian concepts?

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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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XII: Reincarnation and Karma
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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.

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: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIII: Lucifer
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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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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: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIV: The Children of Lucifer
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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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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: Riddles of the World: Lecture XV: Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrines
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inside from Christianity.

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVI: German Theosophists at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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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

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVII: Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
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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

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XVIII: Parzival and Lohengrin
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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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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: Riddles of the World: Lecture XIX: The Easter Festival
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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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Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XX: Inner Development
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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

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture XXI: Paracelsus
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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: 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: Lecture Series: Karma and Details of the Law 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

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: 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: 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: 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.

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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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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: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 12-18-1906
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brightest, and that was in Christ Jesus. When it shines again now it's

Title: Lecture: The Lords 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: Esoteric Lesson: Berlin, 1-29-'07
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ugliest and most terrible things, as the Persian legend about Christ
— the Christ. All those who strive towards the eighth sphere

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: Lecture Series: Easter and the Awakening to Cosmic Thought
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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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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

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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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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!

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blood, as Christ worked in Jesus' blood from age 30 on. Before that
Christ took hold of the blood and purified it during the three years.

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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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In the context with the existence of Christ on earth

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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

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greatest man of sorrow was Christ.

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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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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

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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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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

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beautiful words of Christ, when He was speaking of man's entry into

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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.,

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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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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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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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independence always be preserved. And looking up to Christ, let there
always stand in our soul: Christ is the archetype of the I, let my I

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pantomimes and through Christopher Marlowe had reached a literary

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shows, he attained literary significance by Christopher Marlowe

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Christ and promised him all the kingdoms of the world and their
Whoever heard here the lectures on ‘Christian

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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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Christ to be born in one. And one can only overcome it through pure

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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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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

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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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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,

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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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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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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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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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Before Christ came to earth and became a man so much darkening had
Christ became flesh things brightened up slowly. That's why some
truth, to get to Christ.
was also the case with Christian Rosenkreutz. Some men may have been
right away. This was because the ego of Christ Jesus had been placed
The true and only name of Christ is “I am”; anyone who

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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

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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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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
the very early days of Christianity there was a sect in North Africa called

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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

Title: Metaporphoses/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: Christ Impulse: Lecture 1: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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‘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: 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: Metaporphoses/Soul One: Lecture 4: The Mission of Reverence
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture I
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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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Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture II
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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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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: Deeper Secrets: Lecture III
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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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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: 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: Metaporphoses/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: Metaporphoses/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: Christ Impulse: Lecture 2: The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life
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The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness

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: 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: 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: 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

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: Metamorphoses/Soul Two: Lecture 8: Human Conscience
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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: 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: 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: Part 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: 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: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag I: Das Wesen der Geisteswissenschaft und Ihre Bedeutung Für 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: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture I: The Nature of Spiritual Science and Its Significance for the Present
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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

Title: Excursus Mark: Part 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: 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: On the Mystery Plays: Lecture II: On the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation
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of the twentieth century, the coming Christ event. It is a

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

Title: Lecture: Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Goethe
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long before our Christian Era. A time which we can only

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

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: Excursus Mark: Part III: Excursus: Lecture V
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to

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: 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: 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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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: Lecture: Mendelssohn: 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: Excursus Mark: Part 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: 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: 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: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XIV: Moses
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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

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: Excursus Mark: Part 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: 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: 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: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft: Vortrag XV: Was Hat die Astronomie Ãœber Weltentstehung Zu Sagen?
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PropÃ¤deutik fÃ¼r die christliche Religion!

Title: Answers to Big Questions: Lecture XV: What Has Astronomy to Say about the Origin of the World?
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Christian religion! — The things are different everywhere

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

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: 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: 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: 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: Lecture: 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: 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: 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: Human History: Lecture IV: From Paracelsus to Goethe
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Father in the world; by faith we learn to recognise Christ, the

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: Lecture Series: Ein durch Rudolf Steiner gegebener Zukunftsimpuls
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Leben einzufangen, vollzug sich der christliche Einschlag, der den
Christian Rosenkreuz belegen. Dasjenige, was heute schon darüber
dieser Individualität Christian Rosenkreuz – als Stiftung

Title: Lecture Series: 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: 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: 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: On the Mystery Plays: Lecture III: Symbolism and Phantasy in Relation to the Mystery Drama, The Soul's Probation
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effects of Christianity and the Mystery of Golgotha. It was
will that has already taken up Christianity, the other kind of

Title: Lecture: 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: Human History: Lecture X: Christ and the Twentieth Century
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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: 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: 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

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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

Title: Human History: Lecture XII: Copernicus and His Time in the Light of Spiritual Science
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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

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

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: Evidences of Bygone Ages in Modern Civilisation
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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: Lecture: The Nature of Eternity
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century after Christ by the great mystic and philosopher,

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: Chance and Present-day Consciousness.
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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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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,

Title: The Forces of the Human Soul and Their Inspirers.
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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: 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

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

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: Lecture: Birth of the Light/Thoughts on Christmas Eve
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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: 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

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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: Lecture Series: Jacob Boehme
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of Christ before Paul at Damascus. Only, an explanation which
Christianity, proceeded from a “dream.”

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: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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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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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: Lecture Series: 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: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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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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Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 1
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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 2
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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 3
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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity

Title: Fairy Tales in the light of Spiritual Investigation
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of Technology) in Vienna, discoverer of the Oberufer Christmas

Title: Mysteries of the East: Lecture 4
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The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity
post-Christian renewal of the principle of the ancient Mysteries.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Berlin, 2-8-'13
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In Christo morimur

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: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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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

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and Denomination
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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

Title: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture IV: On Death
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Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of

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: 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: 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: Lecture: 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: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, Berlin, 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: 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: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VI: The Evil
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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

Title: Lecture Series: Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge
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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

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: 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: 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: Spiritual Science/Treasure for Life: Lecture VIII: Voltaire
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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

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

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture One: Understanding the Spiritual World (Part One)
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.
spirit. The nature of Christ. More about dreaming. The nature of the
including Christ among them. I have often said that Christ's
but Christ's main deed was to imbue humanity with His own power
Christ as only a great cosmic teacher. For those who really
understand the full significance of Christ, this is simply nonsense.

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Seven: Robert Hamerling: Poet and Thinker
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Two: Understanding the Spiritual World (Part Two)
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.
poet (Christian Morgenstern) and his nature in the life after death.

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: Esoteric Development: Lecture X: The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

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: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 2: On the forming of Destiny
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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,

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

Title: Forming of Destiny: Lecture 6: Lecture on the Poem of Olaf Åsteson
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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: 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: Ascension/Pentecost 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: 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.

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 6: The Feeling For Truth
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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

Title: Toward Imagination: Lecture 7: Toward Imagination
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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: 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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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

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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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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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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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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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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,

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Christian era, describes the fall of the Roman Empire, but not the
gradual ascent of Christianity, its growth and

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Christian Community) exhausted in an article in the magazine
Die christliche Welt (The Christian World)

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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

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Constantinople. The dogma was then drawn up that Christians

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Theosophy) in The Christian World about that which

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At the Turning Point of the Christian World Period. The
Heinroth (Johann Christian H., 1773-1843, German

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lectures I gave in Christiania on

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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

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Berlin, Nationality and Christianity -or-
only read the Christiania cycle on the

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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

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death: ‘Ex Deo nascimur, in Christo morimur!’

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we are born, and in Christ we die.”

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was destroyed in the last era before the birth of Christ and

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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

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Nothing can face the real Christianity and the real piety more

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Christian question of conscience: Where are the men to be
“Christianity As Mystical Fact” was mentioned in

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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

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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,

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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

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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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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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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

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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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of “Christ” — yet they always mean nothing but their
whether the religions of to-day speak of God, of Christ, or of

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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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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.

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ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte des Abendlandes. So haben wir

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Christian Centuries of the West.

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m der «Christlichen Welt», von der ich — weil ich sie vorher nicht
was das Christentum betrifft. Nun möchte ich darüber das Folgende
Inhalt der Christologie; und ebenso versucht sie mit Hilfe ihrer
übersinnlichen Forschung über den Inhalt der Christologie dasjenige
was die Stellung der Anthroposophie zur Christologie
das Christentum annimmt und predigt, dieses durchaus im Geiste des
Christus umprägen in den Vatergott und nicht wahrnehmen die
Differenz zwischen dem Vatergott und dem Christus.
Wladimir Solowjew —, dort sehen wir, wie das Christus-Erlebnis als
zu dem Christus-Erlebnis kommen, das zunächst als ein unbestimmtes
kommenden Christus-Geist.
durch Anschauung erkennen lernen, wie dieser Christus-Geist in der
was in den populären [vorchristlichen] Religionen war, so sehen
Christus-Vorstellung ist. Wir sehen, wie sich die Gemüter der
konnte, in einen Menschenleib: das Einströmen des Christus in den
haben]. Und der Christus, der durch das Mysterium von Golgatha
gegangen ist, der Christus, den Paulus geschaut hat auf dem Wege
nach Damaskus, der Christus ist dann innerhalb der Erde bei der
wenn in dieser Weise der Weg zu dem Christus gesucht wird, erlebt
Christus durch Anschauung; dann findet er in innerlichem Erleben
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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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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

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Johannes-Evangelium die Wesenheit des Christus Jesus in
Wesenheit, welche als der Christus Jesus im Beginne unserer
Weisheitsgröße des Christus Jesus, zeigt das
vier Urkunden. Es schildert uns den Christus Jesus am
als Matthäus-Christus Jesus auf uns wirken lassen, in
und Opferfahigkeit von diesem Wesen, das wir den Christus
die Schilderung des Christus Jesus sich anlehnt an den
durchströmen. Denn so, wie der Christus Jesus im
Christus Jesus gleichsam Extrakte sind von kosmischen
Wirksamkeiten. Wie der Menschengott Christus Jesus, so wie er
Christus-Wesenheit nennen? Diese Frage wird uns
Christus-Wesenheit sich in einem physischen Leibe
hingewiesen, die später in der Geschichte als der Christus

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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
the Being of Christ Jesus in His spiritual stature, St.
Being who lived as Christ Jesus at the beginning of our
wisdom of Christ Jesus; the Gospel of St. Luke,
the four records and describes Christ Jesus as a man, in
the Gospel, where Christ Jesus is referred to as the
evolution of our world. For the picture of Christ Jesus
agency. St. Mark sets out to describe the deeds of Christ
as extracts of cosmic activities, how in Christ Jesus,
Being we call Christ could reveal His presence there ? We
are told: In order that the Christ Being might be able to
same Being who lived later on in history as the Christ. [

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Gewisse Tatsachen im Leben des Christus Jesus sind ja nur
vorchristlichen Jahrhundert imstande waren, ihn zu hören.

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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
the life of Christ Jesus which cannot be understood

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Christus. Durch diese dreimal vierzehn Glieder - wobei immer
Christus.

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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ. Through these three times fourteen generations
Christ was to be made possible.

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
durch die Erscheinung, durch die Offenbarung des Christus
christlichen, daß die christliche Erkenntnis in der
Sonnengeist, den Christus, von dem er sagte: Er wird kommen in
Christus auf der Erde, sich noch größere Tiefen
Christus-Einfluß kommt. Das wird uns wieder in der Bibel
Christus ausgedrückt werden soll für seine Bekenner
Melchisedek schöpft, und woheraus der Christus
Zarathustra die Offenbarung des Christus auf der Erde
von dem großen Mysterium Christi. Sie fühlten
Eingeweihten des Christus-Mysteriums, daß die Blutmischung
meinem Buche «Das Christentum als mystische
was uns die talmudische Literatur berichtet, ein Halbchrist
war, ein sogenannter Judenchrist. Solche gab es schon in
Richter, der schon etwas vom Christentum weiß, macht
was sagte der Richter? Der Christus «sei nicht gekommen,
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ in the evolution of humanity. The Hebrew people
advance of this form of knowledge to thc Christian form
prophetic announcement that Christ, the Sun-Spirit, would
instrumental in bringing about the incarnation of Christ
Christ's influence was eventually to pour. This again is
the Christ-Mystery was given expression in the
by Christ was one and the same.
manifestation of Christ on the Earth.
Christ-Mystery felt that the very blood of Jesus of
original Initiates of the Christ-Mystery felt that the
in my book Christianity as Mystical Fact. [
Jewish Christian. (Such men not uncommonly occupied
Christianity, Rabbi Gamaliel insisted that according to
Gospel, to the effect that ‘Christ did not come
accordance with Christian tenets.
original Christian script from which words now contained
Christ Jesus did not live at the beginning of our era.
Christ, and all the happenings that took place around
them is contained in my book Christianity as Mystical
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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
des Christus-Ereignisses gesteinigte und nachher an einen
Ausdrucke «Christus» bezeichnen. So daß von dem
Christus alle Bodhisattvas dasjenige empfangen, was sie im
6. Jahrhundert der vorchristlichen Zeit bis in unsere Zeit
ChristusEreignis sich auf der Erde abgespielt hatte.
Christus-Erscheinung zu begreifen. Die wichtigsten
Christus-Ereignis zu begreifen, stammten aus den
Christus verständlich machen konnten. Das Genauere
Jahrhundert vor dem Christus-Ereignis blühten, um es durch
für das Christus-Ereignis. Das war geradezu ein Mysterium
der Träger der ChristusMission werden konnte, das
Träger für die Christus-Wesenheit werden sollte,
Zeit des Christus Jesus - im höheren Sinne hellsichtig
machten zum Träger des Christus, dann mußte es
wenigen Menschen das Geheimnis von dem Christus Jesus

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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
hundred years before the coming of Christ, Jeschu ben
we are accustomed to call ‘Christ’. It is
from Christ that all the Bodhisattvas receive what they
disappeared comparatively soon after the Christ
event of the appearance of Christ. The most important
understanding of the Christ Event stemmed from the
Mystery of Christ, could be brought within reach of man's
flourished a century before the Christ Event in order to
the coming of Christ. That was the mystery with which the
which prepares for Christ's coming, was established, in
the bearer of the Christ Being — not only physical
and this applies also to the time of Christ Jesus —
the Christ, it was natural that the Gospel of St. Luke
age when the mystery of Christ Jesus was imparted to only

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
bis auf Christus genannt werden, und er könnte
Christus Jesus. Er hatte wenigstens einige wenige darauf
Christus sein werde.
Christus Jesus nicht begreifen können. Die
man darüber in christlichen Kreisen nicht die Wahrheit
zur Aufnahme jener Wesenheit, die wir dann als den Christus

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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Abraham to Christ, when a simple calculation will show
of Christ Jesus. It was his mission to prepare at least a
of what the coming of Christ would be for the Earth.
hundred years before the Christian era the Magi of the
Christ Jesus. During boyhood the
was regarded as extremely heretical, because Christian
three sheaths into which the Being we call Christ might
Christian Origins (Nelson, 1961).
first Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ,

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Wenn wir die ganze Bedeutung des Christus-Ereignisses für
die Hauptpunkte der Christus-Tatsache einmal vor unsere
durch das Christus-Ereignis in die Menschheit einfließen
Christus-Wesenheit in die Menschheit eingeflossen ist, das wird
Christus-Ereignis gekommen ist?
ChristusEreignis in die Menschheit gekommen ist, so
Was in allen alten, vorchristlichen Zeiten lediglich
können, das ist, seit dem Christus-Ereignis, in
das Wesen der Einweihung in den vorchristlichen Zeiten
Luzifer und die Brüder Christi» weite
habe schon zu anderen Zeiten erwähnt, was die christlichen
diese christlichen Heiligen durch das Ausschließen der
Christus-Ereignis da. Das Christus-Ereignis bedeutet
Christus Jesus ist, das Hinuntersteigen in den physischen
Christus-Ereignis, daß dieses umfassende Wesen des
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
to realise to some extent what the Christ Event signified
because to-day we shall be studying the Christ Event in
which is to stream into humanity through the Christ Event
the Christ Being will live and continue to work as a
humanity through the Christ Event, as an impulse
which man could attain in pre-Christian times only
through the Mysteries, have, since the Christ Event,
pre-Christian era.
Christian martyrs and saints when for the first time they
describing. These Christian saints describe the
The Christ
fullest possible sense, by a Being as sublime as Christ
Jesus. The fundamental significance. of the Christ Event
is that Christ, the all-embracing Being, accomplished in
to pass as a result of the Christ Event?
necessary on the one side that the Christ Himself should
sanctified that it was possible fur the Christ so to
of things was radically changed through the Christ Event.
Before Christ's coming, no Ego had ever consciously
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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
welthistorischer Vorgänge in dem Christus-Ereignis, liegt
Wesentliche dieses Christus-Ereignisses.
zum Beispiel eine Essäerinitiation der vorchristlichen
Erdenmenschen, für den der Christus auf der Erde gewirkt
soll eine Christus-Initiation eben darinnen bestehen, daß
Sprachgefühl der vorchristlichen Zeit. Da müßte
Christus. Da war die Zeit gekommen, von welcher der
Vorläufer des Christus sagen konnte, jetzt komme die Zeit,
jetzt werden wir begreifen, was der Christus, nachdem er die
charakterisiert, daß der Versucher, der dem Christus
Leidenschaften und Emotionen haben. Die Christus-Wesenheit
in einem Muster, die Christus-Wesenheit der Menschheit vor. Und
ChristusWesenheit sozusagen vorgelebt hat in einer
in der äußeren Welt durch die Christus-Wesenheit in
Darstellung dessen, was der Christus gab als die
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
yesterday that through the Christ Event the two forms of
study in greater detail an Initiation of pre-Christian
was in those among whom Christ worked on the Earth. In a
the spiritual world. The essence of Christian Initiation,
offer up that body to the Christ. [
Christ's forerunner had declared that the Kingdoms of
now realise the nature of the task facing Christ after
Christ Jesus bade Him turn stones into bread. This is
have been overcome. The Christ Being knows this and
The Christ
the result of the Christ Being having lived through as an
through the Christ Being during the time following the
conception given by Christ of the Kingdom, of
Christ Jesus said: The time has come when in their
historic Christ Event consists in the carrying of

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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Wesentliche des ChristusEreignisses in folgendem
Geistes, die in vorchristlichen Zeiten nur innerhalb der
der Menschheitsevolution, der so durch das Christus-Ereignis
Impulses, der mit dem Christus-Ereignis gegeben worden ist.
überragenden Individualität von dem Christus Jesus
eben in einem anderen Zustande, als es der Christus Jesus
alten Mysterien, beschreibt er es bei dem Leben des Christus
Jahrhunderten vor dem Erscheinen des Christus -: Irgendein
Evangelien schildern von dem Christus-Ereignis. So können
in meinem Buche «Das Christentum als mystische
mit dem Christus Jesus vorging? Man konnte es, weil man eben
sich abspielen sah, weil das Christus Jesus-Ereignis,
steht, daß das Christus-Ereignis ein historisches ist,
Gleichheit der Christus-Biographie in den Evangelien mit den
ChristusEreignis in Palästina, nahmen wahr das
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
clear that the essence of the Christ Event may be
realms of the Spirit was attainable in pre-Christian
evolution, made possible by the Christ Event, is truly
mighty impulse given by the Christ Event.
Individuality, by Christ Jesus, as a pattern for mankind.
Christ Jesus. Therefore if someone were to describe what
write of the same experiences in the life of Christ
Christ. — Suppose some painter or scribe, having
the account of the Christ Event given in the Gospels. We
Christianity as Mystical Fact I have explained
the life of Christ, was it possible to describe the
fact; because the Christ-Jesus-Event was a
kept in mind. The similarity of episodes in Christ's life
witness the Christ Event in Palestine observed the
the Christ Event on the stage of world-history itself. It
fundamental importance in the life of Christ Jesus,
Christ. In a certain widespread movement in Germany there
were many vapid discussions as to whether Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus had undergone the experience described in
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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
Daß der Christus Jesus für die Menschheitsevolution
vorchristlichen Menschheitsentwickelung war es nicht
Christus Jesus selber - heruntergeholt werden, damit die
sozusagen von den Berichterstattern des Christus
durchleuchtend, daß sich der Christus Jesus fühlte
weil sich der Christus Jesus fühlte als der
den Christus Jesus in die Menschheitsevolution
Christus Jesus gelebt hat, oder gar noch vorher, vergleichen
Zeit des Christus Jesus. Und namentlich war die Art der
ausgedrückt haben, aus welchen das Christentum
solcher Mensch wäre Jünger des Christus Jesus
Nicht auf diese Weise wurden Heilungen beim Christus erreicht,
sondern was als ein einmaliger Impuls in Christus lebte, das
dem Christus im Beginne unserer Zeitrechnung, das wird
Was sich in dem Leben des Christus Jesus durch die sogenannte
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Title: Gospel/Matthew (1965): Lecture 10
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
heard in these lectures that through the coming of Christ
to the character of human evolution in pre-Christian
preaching of John the Baptist and then of Christ Jesus
Christ-Jesus-Event should have described the different
that Christ Jesus felt Himself to be the bringer of
you!’ — for Christ Jesus felt Himself to be '
repeatedly to the new impulse inculcated through Christ
in mind and you will feel that Christ Jesus wished to
physical body of the time of Christ, let alone earlier,
solidified, has become denser; at the time of Christ
the birth of Christianity, the word ‘Jesus’
follower of Christ Jesus, he would have said: Wondrous
that although in the case of Christ Jesus healings were
accomplished by Christ at the beginning of our era will
took place in the life of Christ Jesus in the form of the
Christ, the forces streaming from the physical body and
that follow it. The power of Christ Jesus now worked as
here again it was inevitable that Christ Jesus should
Christ Jesus had necessarily to acquire not only the
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Title: Matthäus-Evangelium: Elfter Vortrag
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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
was der Christus Jesus zunächst seinen Jüngern als
die ausgingen von dem Christus Jesus und sozusagen in die
Christus Jesus seinen Jüngern zu geben hatte. Er war eine
gesammelt werden konnten, die in der Wesenheit des Christus
Wesenheit des Christus Jesus den Jüngern zu als die
des Christus Jesus auf sie hinüberstrahlten. Sie
Christus Jesus und auf sie überging. Wir können daher
Zeit des Christus Jesus -, so liegen in ihm Anlagen, wie zum
Zeit des Christus Jesus der Fall war, nur Empfindungsseele und
dieser Weise konnten die Menschen, die zur Zeit des Christus
des Christus Jesus nennen, wenn die Jünger wirklich
gab es. Und die Jünger des Christus Jesus sollten daher
fragte der Christus Jesus, um sich zu überzeugen, wie sie
müssen wir uns den Christus Jesus vor seinen Jüngern
Christus geworden war, daß jene Führer Kräfte in
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Title: Gospel/Matthew (1965): Lecture 11
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
is followed by indications of what Christ Jesus was to
transmission of forces from Christ Jesus into the souls
nature of the teaching given by Christ Jesus to His
disciples. We may think of Christ Jesus Himself as a
concentrated in Christ Himself. Through Him, forces which
because thc powers and forces of Christ Jesus had poured
them from Christ Jesus. In a human being — either
as he is to-day or also as he was at the time of Christ
— who in the days of Christ Jesus had developed
were living at the time of Christ Jesus the intellectual
was this growth defined in the environment of Christ
of Men’. Hence it behooved the disciples of Christ
far this was understood by His intimate disciples, Christ
the Aramaic original.) We must picture Christ Jesus
transmitted to them by Christ the disciples knew that
Christ Jesus as indicated in the Gospel of St. Matthew,
namely that through the Christ Impulse it was possible
plane. This was made possible through Christ's existence
on the Earth. We can therefore say: Christ Jesus is the
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Title: Matthäus-Evangelium: Zwölfter Vortrag
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in den vorchristlichen Mysterien. Christus, die Erfüllung und das
Vorbild der neuen Initiation / Das Christus-Ereignis als historische
Tatsache. Die Initiation des Ich / Das einmalige Erscheinen des Christus in
einem physischen Leibe. Das Wiedererscheinen des Christus im
durch den Christus / Die Christus-Wesenheit und die beiden Jesus-Knaben.
einer Wesenheit haben wir es nun bei dem Christus zu tun?
«Christus, der Sohn des lebendigen Gottes», eine
Wesenheit, die wir als die Christus-Wesenheit bezeichnen,
die Christus-Wesenheit auf der Erde wandeln zu lassen? Und aus
Empfange und zum Verständnis für den Christus
Anführer der Christus ist, so werden wir sagen: Es gibt
ausdehnen, wie auch der Christus erst im Laufe der Zeit
Aber es war in der vorchristlichen Zeit noch nicht so, daß
Sonnengeister, dem Christus. Das war nicht möglich,
Christus Jesus: wie die Menschenwesen sein müßten,
hohen Sonnenwesen, dem Christus, ent-Aber es waren nicht alle
dem Christus haben wir also das Herunterwachsen auf die aller-
Gestalt des Christus Jesus. Er beginnt daher gleich mit der
des Christus Jesus von vier Seiten her geschildert. Daher
schildern uns den Christus in dem Jesus von Nazareth alle vier
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Title: Gospel/Matthew (1965): Lecture 12
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
nature of the Being we call Christ?
lecture yesterday we learnt that ‘Christ, the Son
Being. And because the Being we call Christ is so
the Christ Being to tread the Earth? And his knowledge
who prepared mankind to understand the Christ. This
Note 03 ] remembering that Christ
Earth, just as it is only in course of time that Christ's
the Earth. But in pre-Christian times it was not possible
Leader of the Sun Spirits, the Christ. It was not
with reference to Christ Jesus: for example, what the
sublime Sun Being, the Christ.
of Christ, the descent was infinitely complex and it
of Christ Jesus. Hence his Gospel begins immediately with
were apportioned and the complex Being of Christ Jesus
the Christ in Jesus of Nazareth. But each of these four
perceptible in Christ, and the writer of the Matthew
of Christ Jesus which was of primary importance to him
of the Nathan Jesus, Christ Jesus was the very embodiment
compassion, to whatever Christ Jesus is able to
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Title: On the Mystery Plays: Lecture I: Self-Knowledge Portrayed in the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation
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come to the ego principle, because the Christ has brought us

Title: Self-knowledge and the Portal of Initiation: Lecture
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Christ once upon a time brought us the I. In the most varied

Title: Life Between ... VII: The Working of Karma in Life After Death
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this respect, Christianity is absolutely not the same as all the
many respects, Western Christianity is not permeated by religious
Christ impulse can bring man to a right connection with his fellow
the Old Testament religion, Christianity is not one-sided. Attention
beautiful sayings of Christ, “Ye are Gods,” is
reminiscent of the Old Testament. Christ points to the fact that a
It is a lofty teaching of Christ that points man to his divine
wonderful and deeply moving teaching of Christ! Another being has
used the same words, and it is indicative of the Christian faith that
Paradise and later Christ Jesus use the same words! We touch here
upon one of the deepest and most important aspects of Christianity
Ahriman or the Christ. We touch here upon a deep cosmic mystery, and
uttered on one occasion by the Christ, on the other by Lucifer.
Sun sphere where a thorough understanding of the Christ impulse is
earth, for Christ once did dwell in the Sun but, as we know, He
beings through the Christ impulse and learn to understand Him in the
We must learn to discriminate between Christ and Lucifer, and in our
understanding of Christ that we bring with us from the earth leads us
earth an understanding of the difference between Christ and Lucifer,
fast in memory what we have brought with us of the Christ impulse. We
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Bern, 12-16-12
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die in Christ, and we'll be resurrected through the Holy

Title: Universal Human: Lecture Four: The Universal Human: The Unification of Humanity through the Christ Impulse
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through the Christ Impulse
divine-spiritual being we have so often spoken of — the Christ
Christ
being. To this end, as we have discussed, the body for Christ was
from the thirtieth to the thirty-third year, Christ took possession
possible, and physical death occurred. Thus, the sun-being, Christ,
Christ the divine spirit was sent to us who was to counterbalance and
the innermost essence of the human being through the Christ-Spirit.
the Christ-Spirit something was given to the earth that, when rightly
to all earthly humanity. The real substance of Christianity, which
explored by those who, in regard to Christ, seek in the spiritual
world what Christ is continually revealing in accordance with his
When what can be conveyed to human beings in the name of Christ from
into a unity in their spiritual nature through Christ.
the world in the name of Christ, through the Christ impulse,
There are setbacks from earlier epochs that run counter to the Christ
here we see a very profound meaning of this Christ
impulse. Based on true knowledge, we can say Christ is our savior who
Christ impulse, and this is connected with the fact that this
that the Christ impulse has worked in the earth aura for the last two
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XIII: The Three Realms of the Dead: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
already say that the greatest enemies to grasping the Christ impulse
Christ impulse is the way in which the clergy and the theologians
interpret this Christ impulse, because they are far from
regarding the Christ impulse. We have already compiled a great deal
perceive that the Christ impulse must, in the most profound sense, be
the Christ impulse with the same methods with which one speaks of
because all that can be offered as historical proof that Christ lived
simply not there for the existence on earth of Christ Jesus.
etheric reappearance of Christ in the twentieth century and that I
spiritual activity, that Christianity must have an essentially
mental pictures about the Christ and His activity, but one must also
be able to find in a certain way the realm of Christ within the
earthly realm. Christ descended into the earthly realm, and one must
only nature. In nature we will never find the Christ impulse. How are
power at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and the Christ impulse
took their place. Now you have the Christ impulse bound to human
the Mystery of Golgotha, however, the Christ impulse is living within
it. Christ is the directing power in this realm that I have
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Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture VI: Spiritual-Scientific Results about the Ideas of Immortality and the Social Life
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historian Gibbon so significant describing the first Christian
significant growth and becoming which the Christian impulses

Title: Freedom/Immortality/Social: Lecture X: Moral, Social Life and Religion from the Viewpoint of Anthroposophy
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summarised in Christianity what was distributed in the other
religions that Christianity as a religion is in certain sense
which appeared in Christianity as a religion among other

Title: Lecture: Social and Anti-social Forces In The Human Being
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a revised translation by Christopher Schaefer of a lecture given by
development, which began in the 15th century of our Christian era, is
the ensuing periods of earth evolution as the Christ Impulse. We have
often said that just in our age a reappearance of the Etheric Christ
will take place. This reappearance of the Christ is indeed not far
self-seeking, theosophical theories. The Christ Impulse has various
wisdom wants to be realized and the Christ Impulse will be a help in
one side stands the Christ Being, calling us of our own free will to
the world, unite!” But we unite by striving to realize the Christ
Impulse, by doing those things which are the will of Christ for this
super-sensible world, the Christ Spirit and the adversary, the
strongly as the missionaries of the Christ-Spirit today, who have to

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Three
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a time as pagan culture in the period of Christian development
Hebraic-Jewish culture took root, having Christianity as its
before Christ.
go back far enough, say to the fifth pre-Christian millennium, it may
fact that in the third millennium before Christ an incarnation of
the pre-Christian, pagan culture which still survived in the gnosis
of the earliest Christian centuries.
Christendom. And when the Mystery of Golgotha had taken place on
Lucifer; at the beginning of our own era the incarnation of Christ
Christ was grasped because the power of the old Lucifer incarnation
Christ which gives the earth its meaning, a third incarnation will be
unconscious of what the incarnation of Christ and the event of
wisdom still survived. In the first centuries of Christendom,
intervention of the Christ being in earthly evolution is possible
realization of the Christ being as he truly is, but only to an
of the Christ being. No real connection with the Christ impulse can
a hallucinatory picture of the Christ. Hence the prevalence of the
theological view that the Christ was not present in the man Jesus of
to a hallucination of the Christ, not to vision of the real Christ.
they are being most truly Christian by rejecting any development of
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture III
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Christian development itself.
took root, having Christianity as its offspring.
some four or five thousand years before Christ.
pre-Christian millennium, it may be said that men made use of
in the third millennium before Christ an incarnation of
described as the pre-Christian, Pagan culture which still
survived in the Gnosis of the earliest Christian
first centuries of Christendom. And when the Mystery of
of our own era the incarnation of Christ took place. And to
begin with, the significance of the incarnation of Christ was
the incarnation of the Christ which gives the earth its
incarnation of Christ and the Event of Golgotha really
centuries of Christendom, men's understanding of the Gospels
understanding of the intervention of the Christ Being in
the Christ Being as He truly is, but only to an illusory
Christ Being. No real connection with the Christ Impulse can
but only an hallucinatory picture of the Christ. Hence the
prevalence of the theological view that the Christ was not
rise only to an hallucination of the Christ, not to vision of
the Real Christ. And so Paul's vision at Damascus is also
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Title: Lecture: The Souls Progress through Repeated Earth Lives
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who as souls previously lived in the south during the first Christian
the south during the first centuries of Christianity and who then
the first Christian centuries, at the time of the migrations of
Christianity as it advanced from the south, transforming it into
developed as Christianity in the Greek and Roman world. These souls
impressed by Christianity as it made its way northward from the
absorbed Christianity at the time of the folk migrations brought to
selflessness of Christianity. As a result the soul was shaped in a
Christianity a few centuries after it had come into existence.
European population of today have learned about Christianity in an
as Indians, absorbed anything of Christianity. We can easily
Christianity once we have discovered that these souls for the most
part have experienced nothing of Christianity in their former
incarnations; that Christianity with them is merely a matter of
Christianity in Europe, that is, in its early development,
permeated with Christianity now swing in the other direction, and
incarnation among a people who had accepted Christianity.
and, above all, through their inward permeation with Christianity, to
foundation for whatever understanding was brought to Christianity in
incarnation of Christ in the man, Jesus of Nazareth.
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture I
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Christ, did not remain on the Sun but came down from the Sun to the
mankind. Something of this remained in the Christ and is an infinite
that His power knows no differentiation among men. Christ is not the
Christ of this or that nation, of this or that rank or class. He is
the Christ for all men, without distinction of class, race or nation.
Nor is He the Christ of particular individualities, inasmuch as His
help is available alike to the genius and the fool. The Christ
heart and soul which can receive the Christ Impulse; but once
but of the universal-human. This is because Christ is a Sun Being.
the Christ, He enables us, because He is a Sun Being, to be more than
with whom — with the exception of the Christ
Christ will lead us to those who were once His companions on the Sun.
Christmas Foundation Meeting at the Goetheanum we tried
what took place at Christmas. I would like particularly to draw your
Christmas Meeting is to make this News Sheet a medium for all
spiritual value was achieved at the Christmas Meeting shall in some
Spiritual Science was founded at Christmas with the aim that esoteric
at Christmas. May the Members of this Berne Group be able to

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture II
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aim of the Christmas Foundation Meeting at the Goetheanum was to
too often, for the gist of the matter is this: before the Christmas
Christmas Foundation Meeting I often found it necessary to emphasise
the Christmas Foundation Meeting at the Goetheanum this has
are now one. Therefore what was not the position before the Christmas
this Christmas Foundation Meeting in Dornach it must be recognised,
incorporation of the Christian Community into the
relationship between this Christian Community and the
cannot in any way be regarded as the Founder of the Christian
Christian Community formed itself, through me, by the side of the
the Christmas Foundation, a new character and impulse is to enter
real esotericism. The Christmas Foundation Meeting, when the esoteric
altogether in keeping with Christianity, with true Christian
not Christian. Whence do they originate?
know that about six hundred years after the founding of Christianity,
sense was at variance with Christianity. To what extent at variance?
Spirit — is of the very essence of Christianity. The origin of
representative of the Christ; at the seventh and highest stage as a
Christianity. We look upwards to the Father God, seeing in the Father
forces of the Father God, through the Moon forces. When Christianity
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture I
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ Jesus in its spiritual grandeur. Luke shows us this
the Being, Who at the beginning of our era, is called Christ
John reveals the greatness of the wisdom of Christ
of them all, and more than the others it presents Christ
we give the name of Christ Jesus. how this flowed out into
beginning of the Gospel, for here the description of Christ
of the world's development. For in this Gospel, Christ Jesus
seeks to describe the acts of Christ as an extract of cosmic
activity; to him the divine man, Christ Jesus, walking on the
in history as the Christ. Such was the mighty mission of

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture II
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ, were ready and able to hear it. In respect of this
the life of Christ Jesus.

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture III
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ. During this long period the mission of the Hebrews,
for Zarathustra, in which the Christ could incarnate.

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture IV
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Christ-event.
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
the entrance of Christ into human evolution. The possibility
the consciousness of the race.’ The Christian
only be prophesying of the Sun Spirit, the Christ, of Whom he
whose mission it was to prepare for the incarnation of Christ
that which came from Christ. This is indicated symbolically
to become the expression of the Mystery of Christ in the
Christ.
which the manifestation of Christ on earth could be brought
of the mighty Mystery of Christ. To them it already seemed
Initiates of the Christian Mysteries recognized in the
Christianity as Mystical Fact.
a judge who was a Jewish Christian. Such individuals existed
Christianity, that according to Jewish law, the son only and
Aramaic script of the Matthew Gospel. He said, ‘Christ
Christian doctrine.
know that in the year 71 there existed a Christian document
impossible at that time to deny that Jesus Christ had lived,
immediately after the Christ Event in human evolution.
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture V
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
the Christ Event, and vas stoned and hanged upon a tree. It
century of the Christian era. Having stated emphatically that
none other than He Whom we call the Christ, from Whom all
disappeared comparatively soon after the Christ Event, as
the coming of Christ. The most important teaching man had
received to aid him in the understanding of the Christ Event
Palestine — the Mystery of Christ. External history
communities flourished a hundred years before the Christ
Christ Event. This was a mystery peculiar to these
mission of Christ, was first implanted in them by the
the bearer of the Christ-being — not only a physical
the same at the time of Christ Jesus — what must then
the Christ, it had to relate how the divine force descended
Mystery of Christ was imparted only to a few, it should have

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture VI
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
generations from Abraham to Christ are mentioned. Now it can
period from Christ to Abraham, but it must be remembered that
there should be an understanding of what the Christ would
should be an understanding of what the Christ would be.
full meaning of the great Mystery of Jesus Christ.
sentence occurs, for even in Christian circles no one wanted
Him Whom we call the Christ.

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture VII
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(the Eight-fold path). Nature of Initiation in pre-Christian
helpers of the Hierophant. The Christ-event the beginning of
freedom. Christ the model - the fulfilment - of the
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
explain the significance of the Christ Event in human
which is to enter humanity through the Christ Event will not
actually entered through the Christ Event, in a way similar
described as follows: That which in pre-Christian times could
Christ Event, become to some extent a common attribute of
ancient Mysteries and pre-Christian initiations is
Christ’ heard of far-reaching cosmic mysteries from the
lectures have referred to the experiences of Christian
stimulation of the inner, the Christian saints were able to
The Christ
exalted nature — Christ Jesus. The essence of the Event
of Christ is: That this all comprising nature of the Christ
did take place through the Christ Event?
the Christ Being had himself to descend into a physical and
one human Being had been so sanctified that the Christ could
agent. For this the Christ came down to earth, and
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture VIII
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external world through the historic Christ-event. The Kingdom
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
what is most essential for us in the Christ Event.
examine the pre-Christian initiation of the Essenes more
Thus it is to-day, and so it was in the days when Christ was
Christian initiation really consists in the Ego remaining as
the sense for language that existed in pre-Christian times.
perfection, he could offer up to the Christ. The
time had come of which the forerunner of the Christ declared:
understand what the first self-imposed task of Christ was
Jesus Christ told Him to change stones into bread. Here we
emotions have been overcome. The Christ knew this, and facing
Christ Jesus
What was found to result from Christ having experienced in
Christ to all the world during the time following on the
Mount, which show what Christ meant by ‘Malchut’
ego.’ But Christ Jesus said: ‘The time is now
the Mysteries is the historical side of the Christ Event, and

Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture IX
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Mysteries. The Life of Christ, a repetition of Initiation on
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
following are the essential facts of the Christ Event. The
spiritual realms was only attainable in pre-Christian days
in human evolution imparted by the Christ Event is the
Event of Christ?
individuality by the Christ as a pattern for mankind. Through
Christ, Who experienced it on the highest level. Therefore a
a description of the life of Christ Jesus. What then took
centuries immediately preceding Christ. Let us suppose that
what is related by the Evangelists of the Christ Event; and
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
in the Mysteries. Why in telling of the life of Christ does
life of Christ Jesus were a repetition, exalted to the level
the historical truth of the Christ Event may rightly point
out the resemblance between the Gospel biographies of Christ
more exactly, those who were destined to behold the Christ
history as the Christ Event, and could be seen by those who
Christ Jesus, and the fact of supremest importance is, that
in the great plan of world history, the life of Christ is a
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture X
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describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ Jesus means for human evolution is the gradual
but with human nature constituted as it was in pre-Christian
Baptist, and then in accordance with that of Christ Jesus
concerning incidents in the life of the Christ Jesus should
employed in the Sermon on the Mount that Christ felt it was
expression, ‘I say unto you,’ showing how Christ
humanity through Christ Jesus. Read in this way the
that Christ wished to say: ‘Until now, ye were unable
between a physical body of the time of Christ or earlier, and
those associated with the origin of Christianity, the word
become a disciple of Christ Jesus he might then have said,
wishes to point out: ‘Christ did not perform His
Christ at the beginning of our era will slowly and gradually
have seen that what happened in the life of Christ through
Christ Jesus worked and attracted to Him pupils, in the same
imaginations. Those who dwelt much in the presence of Christ
Christ Jesus had gradually to pass over to those who were His
First it is shown how, after the Temptation, Christ was
higher knowledge. What proceeded from Christ Jesus acted
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture XI
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through the Christ. Their transmission to the disciples. Their
disciples into the Macrocosm by the Christ. The inpouring of
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
Christ to His disciples. This was a teaching in a completely
given to the disciples. Christ Jesus was a kind of focal
Christ Jesus. Forces, formerly only bestowed on men while
through the being of Christ Jesus from universal space, as
Christ Jesus had streamed into them. They had to develop in
Christ Jesus. When we observe mankind — either at the
present time, or at the time of Christ Jesus — we must
at the time of Christ Jesus possessed only sentient and
Christ Jesus walked on earth the normal man had developed the
and in the circle where Christ Jesus spoke to His disciples
this that Christ asked His more intimate disciples,
something has been lost in it also. We have to picture Christ
Christ. They knew that these leaders of men had developed
mission of Christ Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew,
through the Impulse of Christ it has become possible for men
to-day. This has become possible through the life of Christ
become possible through the impulse imparted by Christ. This
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Title: Gospel of Matthew: Lecture XII
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Baptism in Jordan and the life and death of Christ Jesus as two
stages of Initiation. The Resurrection revealing Christ as the
describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us
we concerned in the Christ?
lecture we learnt that in the designation, ‘Christ, the
Because the Being we call the Christ is so universal, so
Christ for His life on earth? And because of what the writer
comprehension of the Christ—that is the Zarathustra
and the beings whose supreme Leader is the Christ withdrew
Christ, in the course of time, has allowed His influence to
which was to descend to earth. In pre-Christian times it was
Sun-being, the Leader of the Hosts of the Sun, the Christ. It
concerning Christ Jesus; telling what the nature of those
Christ.
In Christ we see this gradual descent in its most complex
form of Christ Jesus. He therefore begins his Gospel with the
distributed, and the complicated nature of Christ Jesus
tell of the Christ in Jesus of Nazareth, but each of them
These qualities could naturally be remarked in the Christ,
for they were there, but that part of Christ Jesus which had
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Title: Lecture: The Significance of Spiritual Research For Moral Action
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earthly evolution, to the Christ as the great archetype of the human being.
Christ is the Spirit of the earth. Our fingers, our toes, our nose, all our
evolution it would be folly not to take up the idea of Christ, for what the
heart is for the organism Christ is for the body of the earth. Just as
strength, so must the Being of Christ have moved through all single souls on
the Christ in me.” The Christ must have flowed into all human hearts.
Whoever wanted to say, “One can continue to exist without Christ,”
entered the organism of the earth only with the Christ. For the following
ages, however, this heart's blood of Christ must have entered all human
is, they would balk at receiving Christ in their souls. A number of human
reached the goal: they have not recognized Christ, have not received
Christ-feeling, Christ-knowing into their souls. They are not mature.
Christ element, the life of Christ, as this can be attained only through
sequence of incarnations human souls take up the Christ into their
corpse of the earth will fall away and that which, permeated with Christ,
What will happen now with those people who have not taken the Christ
opportunities to be able to recognize the Christ, to be able to take the
Christ into themselves. Today people still resist doing so. They will resist
Christ into themselves, is first present in a soul-spiritual state. But this
persons who did not take the Christ into themselves during the earth
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Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture II: The Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture III: Spiritual Science and the Mystery of Death
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them the Christian religion in its eastern form. They become
it. We have to discover internally that the return of Christ is
concession. We are able to look at Christ as a figure only with
physical body. Hence, the absurd idea to present Christ in the
the reincarnated Christ by Annie Besant, the president of the
you consider the biggest mystery, Christ's Death and
Resurrection, you may believe that Christ, after he has gone
about Christ was the least.
of Christ instead of the old field signs. Thus it happened, and
The Christ Impulse had here worked in the subconsciousness of
Christ Impulse was implanted just before she saw the physical

Title: Lecture: The Dedication of an Anthroposophical Group
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spite of all Christian doctrines? In a town in southern Germany, a
knew that this Highest Being was embodied in Jesus Christ. But he
he saw that the Highest Being lived in Christ. Now it had actually
come to life in man. Therefore Christ said at the Last. Supper —
examine and compare a time 600 years before the birth of Christ, let
us say, with a time 600 years after the birth of Christ. What has
Christ, Buddha lived. He lived in a king's palace. Then he went out
suffering, if he has united himself with the Christ-Being, the Being
years after Christ, and since that time it has been possible for man
to feel united with the Christ, the Spirit of the Sun, Who is also
Christians had been torn to pieces by wild beasts. That was ancient
catacombs! There we find the first followers of Christianity, of the
hidden away, they worship Christ; there they perform their symbolic
rituals. Down there the first Christian communities are founded.

Title: Lecture: Conscience and Wonder as Indications of Spiritual Vision in the Past and in the Future.
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before the beginning of the Christian era, we should find that

Title: Lecture: Conscience and Astonishment as Indications of Spiritual Vision in Past and Future.
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the Christian era we would find that all human beings still had this

Title: Life Between ... XIV: Further Facts About Life Between Death and Rebirth
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souls were deeply moved by the Christ impulse, at last a part of
Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ impulse affords the possibility of
understanding every human experience. Christianity is a general
religion, valid for all people. Christianity is not limited to a
the Christian creed. One is not a Christian in the true sense because
one adheres to one or the other Christian dogma, however, but because
one knows that Christ died for the whole of humanity. Only gradually
will people learn to live truly as Christians.
a human being in the face of the earth the Christ impulse can be
The Christian knows that Christ lives in every human being. Spiritual
in a rightly understood Christianity, and that every religion,
understand the Christ correctly if we do not clearly see that the
Christ has not gone through one or the other form of initiation on
nature of the Buddha. This is not so with the life of Christ. The
Christ life is such that one must first establish a connection with
one can behold many things, but one cannot see the Christ if one has
Christ is a Being who is of equal importance for the most primitive
find a relationship to Christ, and the initiate must also find it.
Christ has become the companion of man on earth and the event of
developed themselves in a special way. Christ had never been on the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Three
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Christianity, a certain Initiate was incarnated in the East, in
going on now for more than two decades. But at the Christmas
through the Christmas Foundation Meeting. The Christmas Meeting

Title: Lecture: Youth in an Age of Light
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movement was refounded at Christmas at the Goetheanum, this soon led

Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Four
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Christianity, and who with strong intellectual leanings to
Hellenised Christianity passed through experiences in the Roman
Christians, the brutalities of Roman Imperialism, the unjust
Caesars and the sacrifices of individual Christian martyrs,
Hellenised Christianity and on the other from the horror and

Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Five
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Then, having caused wood and nails from the Cross of Christ to
nails of the Cross of Christ. Later on, another legend came to

Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Six
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the East men had turned away from Christianity. Bacon was
outwardly a Christian, but inwardly, in his real aims,
unchristian. The other man, the one who had once been the wise
clearly — it is a phase when Christianity is temporarily
what happened here. Christianity has spread, has taken a
something creeps in that is not genuine Christianity, but
original Christianity reveals the deep significance of the fact
the Son Being, the Christ — the Second Form of the
impulse of our Christmas Foundation, the time has come when

Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Seven
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lead one back into the early Christian centuries, when they had
Middle Europe, Christianity had assumed the form which later on
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
the Mystery-wisdom out of which Christianity had grown, had
the Cosmic Christ, the knowledge that the Christ had proceeded
influential Christians in the first century and faded away in
against the conception of Christ held by Anthroposophy is that
Anthroposophy regards Christ as a Cosmic Being, as a Sun Being.
conception of Christ. It is said that this is a warming-up of
what once existed as Gnostic Christianity. — Now people
have no idea whatever of what Gnostic Christianity is. For with
so, to connect the Christ with the Spirit of the Cosmos is
of Christ. But that conception has gradually been rooted out.

Title: Karmic Relationships, VII: Lecture Nine
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nomenclature of the earlier Christian world-conception in which
somewhat earlier than the founding of Christianity, with a task

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture XI: From Buddha to Christ
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From Buddha to Christ
where we can receive into ourselves the 'I-being' of the Christ,
which is indeed our greatest goal - 'not I but Christ in me.'
From Buddha to Christ
Christ, more precisely what knowledge they can offer from the
Christianity was already obscured since it had taken on an
external form. At a time when Christianity in the outer world
the Christ-Being.
revelation precedes the Christ. That was at the time when the
Christ-Being could gradually descend to the earth. What had
Christ-Being was known in all the mysteries. In ancient
represented Christ was called Vishva Karman. Zarathustra
Christ united Himself with the earth when the blood streamed
first man to see Christ in the aura of the earth? It was St.
Christianity. What caused Saul to become Paul? Neither the
Christ, but as an initiate of the cabala he knew that the
Christ would be visible in the aura of the earth once He had
Christ was.
The Christ
the earth. Through the Christ-Principle a new light has been
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Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture I: Rosicrucian Esotericism
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known as Christian Rosenkreutz. It was he, Christian Rosenkreutz, who
be made for something else as well. He, Christian Rosenkreutz, spoke as
evolution, arguing about whether Buddha or Christ is the greater. But that
individuality who was Christian Rosenkreutz foresaw what demands of
differed from what it is today at the time when Christ was on the earth.
body, and speak for three years in a man, Christ Jesus. This was known
Christ, the living Christ, who revealed Himself as the same Being who
previously have been possible. Earlier than two thousand years ago Christ
lived on earth as a man in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Hence Christ
indicated that it was not possible for the Christ Being always to reveal
Himself as He did, for example, in the case of Paul. The Christ Being had
realize that Christ has not always been the same and in His distinctive
part of Rosicrucian esotericism to show how a being such as Christ has
such as Jesus of Nazareth, in whose body Christ lived as soul for three
brain into which it subsequently passes, so, too, had Christ previously
souls had, however, worked at the earth in such a way that the Christ
Christ? The Christ Himself had done this! To begin with He had worked
Christ could reveal Himself supersensibly that He became the planetary

Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture VI: The Configuration and Metamorphoses of Man's Physical Body
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Archangels or Fire Spirits — Archangeloi in Christian esotericism.
called Angeloi in Christian esotericism and in India, Lunar Pitris.

Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture VII: Evolutionary Stages of our Earth before the Lemurian Epoch
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in Christian esotericism, also Spirits of Revelation, Powers.
the entry of the ego, the Christ principle, was first achieved.

Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture VIII: Stages in the Evolution of our Earth. Lemurian, Atlantean, Post-Atlantean Epochs.
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or like the first Christians in ancient Rome who gathered together in
the event of Golgotha and the appearance of Christ Jesus on the earth.

Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture IX: Man's Experience after Death
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lived on the earth as Christ. To his pupils Zarathustra proclaimed,
Christ says, “How
Herewith Christ confirms that the Old Testament had proclaimed in advance,
only under different names, the same God whom He, Christ also proclaims.
earthly events: the Christ passed into the earth's aura as the Spirit
on Golgotha, at that moment the ego of Christ united with the earth. But
begin to change for souls after death. This was the meaning of Christ's
what could be seen there later on, when Christ Jesus had passed through
of Damascus that in the earth's aura he beheld the Christ spirit,
the living Christ, who could not previously have been seen there. He
body. Those who follow the course of Christianity know that the personality
that through that clairvoyant experience humanity was led to Christ.
Since then Christ has been the Spirit of the earth, the planetary Spirit.
The earth is the body of Christ; His habitation is within the earth.
in an adverse sense or as a pointer to Judas who betrayed Christ. Rather,
the reference is to the Christ-Jehovah Divinity and His relation to
compares the effect of the art of the Greeks and post-Christian art upon
contemplating works of art of the post-Christian era or, for example,
New Testaments that have to do with Christ-Jehovah or Raphael's
the Redeemer's wounds. When Christ was no longer living in the physical
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Title: Rosicrucian Esotericism: Lecture X: On Karma, Reincarnation and Initiation
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cultural-epochs up to the Greco-Latin when Christ Jesus appeared on
is based upon the life of feeling; it is the fundamentally Christian
today that process is no longer necessary. The Christian and the

Title: Lecture: The Structure of the Lords Prayer
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Dar christliche Mysterium.
different aspects of Christianity. In should be remembered that in his
and of a fundamental book on the subject of Christianity will be found
so-called meditation, whilst Christianity and a few other religions
mental realm. Fundamentally Christian prayer is no different except
feeling part of man. The Christian merges with the all-pervasive
One should not imagine however that Christian prayer was always
original, archetypal Christian prayer in which Christ Jesus Himself
Christian should adopt towards prayer. And the injunction of this
all faced with a definite request — Christ asks to be spared the cup
key-note of prayer, if prayer is to reflect the Christian spirit.
This is the predominant spirit of Christian prayer and it is this
Christian tradition, the Lord's Prayer, which according to Christian
tradition was taught by Christ Himself. This prayer must, in fact, be
when Christ Jesus taught His followers to pray, many of these magic
for oneself, was contrary to the Christian idea of prayer. Such
prayers were secular in intention. When the Christian prays he should
with its God. This union of the soul with its God is called by Christ
Now that we have described the nature of Christian prayer and what is
demanded of the Christian in prayer we shall be able to turn our
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture I: The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture I: The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World
The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World,
period in which John the Baptist worked, as well as the Christ. It
If, in the time of Christ Jesus, someone were to have
spiritual world, the divine being, the Christ, had to come down into
the physical, sensible world. This is the reason that Christ had to
through beholding the life and deeds of Christ on the physical earth,
kingdom of heaven, with the spiritual world. The period when Christ
connection with the Christ, all human connection with the spiritual
have continued to incarnate for a time without the Christ, but they
might have happened that the event of the appearance of Christ on
they knew of Christ in Rome at a certain period! You are perhaps also
Christ had walked upon the earth.
to live at that time and yet know nothing of the appearance of Christ
failed to notice the occurrence of the Christ event at the beginning
today, even as John the Baptist, as the forerunner of Christ, and
Christ Himself once let it resound: A new age is at hand, in which
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Title: True Nature: Lecture I: The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World
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The Event of Christ's Appearance in the Etheric World
Event of Christ's Appearance
The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Christ Himself on earth. In that epoch, when 3,100 years of the Dark
of Christ Jesus someone had voiced the truth in regard to the conditions
Being, Christ, to come down into the physical world ... Christ's
order that through beholding the life and deeds of Christ on the
world. And so Christ's sojourn on earth took place during a period in
no human beings had been able to find a living link with Christ in their
men would have withered, gone to waste, decayed. True, even without Christ
event of the Appearance of Christ on the earth might everywhere have
was all that was known in Rome of Christ! And you may possibly also
that Christ had been upon earth.
advent of Christ Jesus on the physical plane — it was quite
of surprise, for it was the same when the Christ Event took place at the
letting the call of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, and
of Christ Himself, again resound: A new epoch is at hand when the
The Being we call the Christ was once on earth in the flesh at the
to perceive Christ inasmuch as through this etheric sight they
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Title: Lecture: From Jesus to Christ (single lecture)
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FROM JESUS TO CHRIST
FROM JESUS TO CHRIST
connected with the Name of Christ and of Jesus, beyond number also are
intellectually grasped as “Christ” withdrew into the background
before entering on the subject of “Christ Jesus.”
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Mysticism of Christianity,’ nor ‘The Mystical Contents of
Christianity:’ its object was rather to show that Christianity in
that possibly not only may Christianity have a mystical content but that
In order to realize what Christianity is, and what it can and must be
the words of St. Augustine: “That which we now call the Christian
the beginning of the human race up to the time when Christ appeared in
there received the name of the Christian Religion.” Thus does a
along other lines than the Christian. If we wish to test the other way
Christianity, we are referred by the historical development of humanity
attention be focused, but upon what was practised in pre-Christian times
pre-Christian times are still possible in the same way it can only be
form. The pre-Christian method of Initiation is not now possible. A
in the post-Christian period which entirely differed from what was
thought — did not exist in pre-Christian ages. The Mysteries did
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Title: Lecture: Jesuit and Rosicrucian Training
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containing the German texts is entitled, Von Jesus Zu Christus,
From Jesus to Christ
an idea of the Christ Event in so far as it is
Christ in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. So many
conscientious preservation of the Christ-Principle.
Christ-movement which above all seeks carefully for
attitude of Christ Jesus towards His first disciples
is told concerning the Christ-Event we can gather
in the land where the Christ Event took its course,
Messiah, or the Christ — for the crucifixion had
Gospels wished to give the impression that Christ
The influence that Christ Jesus had acquired — an
be clear: for those to whom Christ appeared after
Christ appeared in this altered form. But they also
wish to indicate something else. For the Christ to
actual sight of the Christ-Being.
stands before us in actuality. What the Christ
Christ; hence, too, the variations in the accounts,
showing how the Christ appeared to one or other
concerned. Here we see the Christ-Being acting on
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture I: Jesuit and Rosicrucian Training
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
Christ-Event in so far as it is connected with the historical
appearance of the Christ in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. So many
conscientious preservation of the Christ-Principle. When we place
Christ-movement which above all seeks carefully for the ways of
accounts of the attitude of Christ Jesus towards His first disciples
and followers. From all that is told concerning the Christ-Event we
with that form of death which, in the land where the Christ-Event
Messiah, or the Christ — for the crucifixion had made a milder
Christ Jesus, through his subjection to the shameful death on the
account something else is connected. The influence that Christ Jesus
thing will be clear: for those to whom Christ appeared after the
impression that the Christ appeared in this altered form. But they
also wish to indicate something else. For the Christ to exert
Christ-Being.
before us in actuality. What the Christ brought about from person to
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture II: Rosicrucian Training and Anthroposophical Training
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
Initiation is essentially a development of the Christian Initiation,
so that we can speak of it as a Christian-Rosicrucian Initiation. In
earlier lecture-courses the purely Christian Initiation; with its
Christianity. In the thirteenth century the teaching of reincarnation
Christ Jesus concerning human brotherhood: that it is beyond all
light, its external revelation, or, as is said in Christian
Gospels, the leading of Christ Jesus to the mountain, the promise of
him appears to us in the great Imaginative picture of Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus and the Tempter. Then we know it is true in the Spirit
can taste in this moment. The picture of Christ in Gethsemane stands

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture III: Sources of Knowledge of Christ, Lord of Karma
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From Jesus to Christ
Lecture III: Sources of Knowledge of Christ, Lord of Karma
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
concerning the relation of Christ Jesus to these higher worlds.
you all that the evolution of Christianity so far has been such that
clairvoyant knowledge to the mysteries of the Christ-Event. It must
be granted that Christianity has entered into the hearts of countless
of Christianity, must be carefully distinguished from the religious
inclination to Christ and the intellectual leanings towards Him of a
accepted the mysteries of Christianity in a deep inner way, and from
the Christ-Event will take place, for this is when a certain general
be able to attain a direct vision of Christ Jesus.
concerning the Christian mysteries for persons who could not rise by
the facts of the Christ-Event. Other persons followed these
the evolution of Christian humanity up to the present time. And, now
significance and the Being of Christ Jesus.
essential difference between the clairvoyant vision of Christ which
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture IV: Experiencing the Christ Impulse, Jerome and the Gospel of St. Matthew
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From Jesus to Christ
Experiencing the Christ Impulse, Jerome and the Gospel of St. Matthew
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
means to an experience of the Christ-Impulse — an experience
Christ-Experience. The second way for the exotericist was described
gate of Initiation could come to the Christ-Event, not through the
Palestine, can lead on to the birth of the Christ-Event within him.
persons will grow up able to look on the Christ. That which has
by what may be called the Vision of Christ.
task to show further how from the usual way of experiencing Christ,
what may be called the Christian Initiation. In the next few days we
Christian Initiation and we shall also need to characterise more
closely the nature of the Christ-Event. Thus a picture of the
Christian-Initiation, and of the Christ-Event, from the Baptism by
What is the relation between external Christianity, Christian
evolution, as it appears in world history, and the Christ-Event
Christ-Experience.
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture V: Redemption of the Physical Body
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
upon the Christ-Impulse as the most profound event in human
full greatness, the full significance, of the Christ-Impulse, from a
human minds the super-sensible nature of the Christ-Being, has drawn
into the concept, the idea, of the Christ, the whole of human
concerning the Christ-Being, we must come nearer to an understanding
Christ-Impulse came. Let us therefore consider what we already know
grounding in Christology. For concerning what goes beyond Maya with
the Christ-Impulse and everything connected with it has first been
mentioned that if a Christian sage were to be compared with the
Christian sage would have said: ‘O wise King Milinda, thou hast
The Christian sage
which then becomes the foundation, the basis, for the Christ-thought.
follow from the story of Job that Christ awakens the dead and rescues
Christ-Being?
to human evolution by the Christ related to the significance of the

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VI: St. John and St. Paul, First Adam and Second Adam
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
come nearer to the fundamental questions of Christianity and to
means can we see into the heart of what the Christ-Impulse has become
Christianity in words of truth: ‘Children, love one another.’
essence of Christianity and of all truth for men. Before the Apostle
essence of Christianity, but the same words from the mouth of another
understanding of Christianity from far a field, so that we may apply
towards understanding the nature of Christianity. But if we are to
take up a question which is central to the whole Christian cosmic
conception; a question which lies at the very core of Christianity:
How it is with the Resurrection of Christ? Must we not assume that
for the understanding of Christianity it is essential to reach an
If Christ has not
testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it
then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your
have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life we who
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VII: The Mystery of Golgotha, Greek, Hebrew and Buddhist Thought
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
we saw that in a certain respect the question of Christianity is the
question of the Resurrection of Christ Jesus. In particular, we spoke
of Paul, the proclaimer of Christianity, who from his knowledge of
the essential nature of the Christ-Impulse recognised immediately
that after and since the Event of Golgotha, Christ lives. We saw that
went on to build up a picture of what Christ Jesus was directly after
human Ego but by a Cosmic Being, the Christ-Being. Through years of
endeavour we have tried by means of words to bring the Christ-Being
nature of Christ Jesus, it is obvious that for Him one must rule out
about Christ having
Christ-Jesus-Being was completely independent of the human Ego from
comprehend Christianity unless we understand that at the time when
of the Christ, had gone through such a death that after three days
body of Christ that rose out of the grave. Just as from the body of
grave. And it is possible to establish a relationship with Christ
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture VIII: The Two Jesus Children, Zoroaster and Buddha
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From Jesus to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
really happened to that Being whom we designate as Christ Jesus from
his thirtieth year became the bearer of the Christ. The essential
lectures that the words we still have today as a Christmas message —
unthinkable without the specific influence of Christianity. All those
currents, are permeated by the Christ-Impulse, but the Buddha has
Buddha gave to men about 500 years before the Christian era, but on
into itself the Christ-extract of the Macrocosm. If this bodily
substance of the Christ from the thirtieth year up to the Mystery of
with the substance of the Christ in the thirtieth year. To be able to
receive the Christ, this bodily nature had to be prepared, expanded,
Christ-Individuality entered into him, we have to do neither with an
Christ-Individuality. But now, through the union of the
Christ-Individuality with this bodily nature, by necessity the
in Jesus of Nazareth no human Ego, but solely the Christ
with the Baptism in Jordan and the entry of the Christ Individuality
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Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture IX: The Exoteric Path to Christ
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From Jesus to Christ
Lecture IX: The Exoteric Path to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
relates to the objective event connected with the name, Christ Jesus;
to the nature of that impulse which as the Christ-Impulse entered
establish his connection with the Christ-Impulse? In other words, how
can the Christ-Impulse become effective for the individual? The
have seen that the Christ-Event is an objective fact of human
forth to meet us in the Resurrection. With Christ there rose out of
Christ-Impulse.
Christ-Impulse. Today we wish to add the subjective side. We will try
forth through the Resurrection of Christ?’
Christianity entered into the world as a religion, it was not merely
a religion for those who wished to approach Christ by one or other of
was not necessary for finding the way to Christ. We must therefore
fix our attention first on that path to Christ, the exoteric path,
seek the Christ by gaining access to occult powers. We must
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Karlsruhe, 10-14-11
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why in old paintings Christ on the cross wasn't made beautiful

Title: From Jesus to Christ: Lecture X: The Esoteric Path to Christ
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From Jesus to Christ
Lecture X: The Esoteric Path to Christ
rediscovering the esoteric path to Christ and of awakening to the new
revelation breaking through in our time: Christ as the Lord of Karma.
This book contains many of Steiner's fundamental ideas concerning Christ
Steiner's Christology.
we tried to characterise the path to Christ that can still be taken
leads to Christ in such a way that he can be found within the
note that this esoteric path to Christ Jesus was also the way of the
Christianity as Mystical Fact
of the Christ-Event had to go through the stages which you will find
Christian Initiation: The Washing of the Feet; The Scourging; The
can attain by going through this Christian Initiation.
lectures on this subject, Christian Initiation is very different from
this course. In Christian Initiation certain feelings which belong to
John Gospel as the Washing of the Feet, where Christ Jesus, who is
according to the example of Christ Jesus. In line with this example
making in all seven stages of Christian Initiation? From the
every act of devoted love. In Christian Initiation, this ought in a
cycles, and so have met with Christian Initiation in its seven
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Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture I: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.
when Christianity arose, we always come across the same
as Christian Rosenkreutz, founded, with quite a small number
connection between this Rosicrucian wisdom and Christianity?
There is no difference between the genuine Christian
Christianity in its essence, we obtain the theosophy of the
but Christianity should be grasped in the way in which the
early Christians grasped it. Only a few people still know
something concerning the mysteries of the early Christian
knowledge of the Christian mysteries, who taught those mighty
been taught, particularly to those who had to bring Christ's
understand Christianity in the right way, can have an idea of
theosophy had to say in connection with true Christianity, we
un-Christian that this! It is still possible to-day for a
Christ: “Do not seek the Kingdom of God, for the
Christianity has long ago lost the capacity of understanding

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture II: Introductory Explanations Concerning the Nature of Man
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Human Development and Cognition of Christ. Published in German as,
Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis.

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture III: Man's Self-consciousness
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This lies at the foundation of Christ's words: “Unless

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earth in the second century after Christ. What aspect did the

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member which man does not attain and which Christian
Christian meaning, as it was grasped in the Occult School of
according to its true Christian meaning, and the pupils were
three lower members. Early Christianity used to look upon
standpoint, the esoteric Christians of the past used to call
of the world's creation. The creation in the Christian
thousand-fold. The esoteric Christian of olden times said to
given to the pupil of esoteric Christianity in olden times,
the three higher members esoteric Christianity then considers
early Christian esotericism as something connected with man's
objection: The Lord' s Prayer is one that was given by Christ
The Christian

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture VII: The Law of Karma
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Christianity, you would never have heard people say, for
in relation to Christianity. In this connection there are
forgiven us through Christ's death upon the Cross, and you
theosophists who declare that they cannot accept Christ's
Karma? The Christ-Being has, in the largest measure, done
Christ's death of atonement, therefore harmonizes completely
be seen by those who do not understand this law. Christ's
contradiction be found between Christianity and the law of

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture VIII: Supplementary Thoughts on the Law of Reincarnation and Karma
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the pre-Christian training, secondly the Christian training,
school of pre-Christian times, to enable man to enter the
in the first centuries after Christ's birth, up to the 8th
for equality which was advanced during the first Christian
centuries of Christianity and who then passed through the
freedom comes from Christianity.
many centuries and it was taken over by Christianity. That is
Christ. And that is why Christ was called the Lamb of

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Logoi”; in Christianity they are called the Holy Spirit,
be active. This contrast has always been felt. Christianity itself
Ghost in the Christian meaning, and finally the Son or the Word. They
Word, is the Christ, in the esoteric meaning of Christianity. His is
the Sun state of existence. Upon the Sun, Christ would not yet have
been called by that name. The old form of Christianity always
taught this truth, and the difference between genuine Christianity
and the exoteric form of Christianity, which is in so many cases
based upon misunderstandings, is that the older form of Christianity
Nazareth. The ancient form of Christianity wished to gain a
Being of Christ within Jesus of Nazareth in accordance with this
of the World” literally, these imply that the Christ is the
Leader is the Christ as the “Fire Spirits” and we say:
this stage. For this very reason, Christ is named the “Word”
GHOST” in Christian esotericism. In the early, original
form of Christianity, the threefold Godhead was therefore intimately
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yet developed, the “Three Logoi”; in Christianity
This contrast has always been felt. Christianity itself makes
the Christian meaning, and finally the Son or the Word. They
whose highest member was the Son or the Word, is the Christ,
in the esoteric meaning of Christianity. He is the real
Sun state of existence. Upon the Sun, Christ would not yet
have been called by that name. The old form of Christianity
Christianity and, the exoteric form of Christianity, which is
older form of Christianity exerted all its thinking power and
ancient form of Christianity wished to gain a conception of
of Christ within Jesus of Nazareth in accordance with this
the Christ is the great Sun Hero, and that the Light which
whole hosts of Spirits whose Leader is the Christ as the
stage. For this very reason, Christ is named the
the “Holy Ghost” in Christian
esotericism. In the early original form of Christianity, the
whole host belonging to the Holy Ghost is called in Christian

Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture X: Further Stages of the Development of Our Earth
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Title: Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture XI: Progressive Development Through the Different Cycles of Culture
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rise of Christianity, the most significant influence in the
Christianity. Buddha, Hermes, and so forth, prophetically
pointed towards Christianity, for Christianity must lift man
Christianity will speak of the external world as condensed
Christianity
Christianity of to-day will spread among great masses of men.

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THE STAGES OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION.
of Christianity and also concerning the Christian initiation.
Christianity.
of Christianity prevented that which would otherwise have
connected with the blood: This new power is Christianity.
understand the meaning of the words: the Blood of Christ.
“Christianity as Mystical Fact”
and not “The Mysticism of Christianity”!
understand the nature of Christ Jesus upon the earth, in
Christianity, we must study the preparatory stages which led
to Christianity. For they already existed in ancient times.
You may really see how an early Christian regarded this by
called the Christian religion.” St. Augustine still
knew that Christianity has a foundation: that which once
him that Christ had come to life within him.
are able to grasp the Divine humanity of Christ Jesus, which
Christ had not appeared, the development of the blood would
light is it possible to understand the words of Christ Jesus:
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which comes from the oldest Christian Mysteries, which
originates from the Christian School of the true Dionysius;
it was a teaching which was always taught in the Christian
was in fact advanced in the Christian schools. First of all
thought. Now the early Christian imagined the following: The
crystallization Word of God!” said the Christian. And
the Christian meaning, the Word or the Logos stands in the
Christian Rosenkreutz,
of the Christian. training. Let me therefore indicate right
of Christianity. The Christian path of training is more
who can connect the truths of Christianity with the truths
them to protect Christianity against every attack from
outside. Christianity is a world-conception of such
Christian-Gnostic schools therefore used the name
Christ-Jesus upon the Cross.

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Wandering Jew, who sat at the feet of Christ Jesus and
best of all by a Persian legend relating to Christ Jesus.
Christ Jesus was walking along with his disciples, they found
as Christ Jesus, turned away from this horrid sight, but
Christ Jesus thoughtfully looked upon the animal and said:
I wished to give you some idea of the Christian-Gnostic path
deepest and most genuine Christianity. If you are a
Rosicrucian, you can be a Christian in the deepest meaning of
past, one could be a good Christian by withdrawing from the
him to be a Christian. For the thoughts which have developed
difficult for us to take in Christianity in its original
“To-day I cannot connect anything real with Christianity”.

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture I
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
European civilization before the spread of Christianity, we again find
Christian times this same festival gradually became that of St. John,
the forerunner of Christ Jesus. Thus it can also be our starting-point
of humanity — upon the Deed of Christ Jesus. Indeed, the subject
Forerunner of Christ. Today we shall consider him from the standpoint
fitted to pave the way for Christ Jesus. But when we look upon Christ
Christ-Mystery. But whatever is real and true must ever and again be
Christ Jesus rested.
spiritual Christianity within the sphere of European spiritual life.
sought to reveal the deepest truths of Christianity to its followers,
whom it also called ‘Christians of St. John’. An understanding of this
expression, ‘Christians of St. John’, will enable us, if not to
appearance of Christ upon earth are at pains to explain the real
nature of Christ. The author of the Gospel of St. John definitely
appeared when, through the Baptism of Christ Jesus by John the
Thus, the Individuality who is the bearer of Christ, indeed, the whole
advent of Christ, is represented not only as one of the greatest but
words: If Christ Jesus was regarded by those who had an inkling of His
upon earth, there must be some connection between this same Christ
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The Johannine Christians.
important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
festival of the baptism by fire. Going back to the time of pre-Christian
culture in Europe and including the period before Christianity had become
with the sun. Then in Christian times this June festival gradually became
the Festival of St. John in memory of the Forerunner of Christ Jesus.
which we call the deed of Christ Jesus. This deed, its whole significance
the most important Christian document, the Gospel of St. John —
in the next few days to refer repeatedly to the Forerunner of Christ
path for Christ Jesus. But if we turn to Christ Jesus Himself, thus coming
of time into two epochs separated by the appearance of Christ Jesus
Christ Mystery. But all truth, all reality, must ever be proclaimed
the Christ Event; and it is anthroposophy's aim to be this revelation.
is concerned, the anthroposophical presentation of the Christ Mystery
concerning Christ Jesus. The Rosicrucians are a brotherhood that has
fostered a genuinely spiritual Christianity within the spiritual life
deepest truths of Christianity, always called its members “Christians
who had some understanding of this appearance of Christ on earth endeavored
to make clear what Christ really was. We see the author of the John
special manifested itself when, at the Baptism of Christ Jesus, the
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture II
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
in the time of Christ clairvoyance still prevailed to a certain
said you will gather that the Christ-event, as we have called it, is
was needed before the Christ could incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth. To
He in whom the mighty Being whom we call the Christ was to incarnate,
Christ-Individuality. The first experiences of this initiate are a
we shall see that the Christ could not have incarnated in a human
the twenty-eighth and thirty-fifth year of his age when the Christ
to become the Bearer of Christ, we have before us a great initiate who
myself up to be the bearer of the Christ! He shall dwell in me and
All four Gospels indicate the moment when the Christ incarnated
other particulars, all four agree as to the moment when the Christ
instant we recognize the birth of Christ. Christ is born in the soul
come: The Christ. Thus, the Spirit moving upon the waters is the
agreement with the other Evangelists that at that moment the Christ
for the final reception of the Christ.
event — for the birth of the Christ in him. The various
indicates the preparation undergone by the recipient of the Christ.
for the Christ to be born therein. He had made his etheric body so
perfect and his physical body so supple and beautiful that the Christ
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
clairvoyance. Even at the time when Christ lived on earth clairvoyance
is evident that what we designate the Christ event is the mightiest
indispensible before the Christ Being could incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth.
embody in Himself the mighty Being we call the Christ could naturally
into himself the Individuality of the Christ. And the first experiences
thirty-fifth year respectively. From this it is evident that the Christ
Christ Being could not embody in the initiate into whom He was born
that the Christ Being entered the individuality who walked the earth
this age we see before us in him who was called to be the Christ bearer
an independent ego, but will make of myself the bearer of the Christ:
this moment when the Christ incorporated in a personality of this earth.
event of the Christ slipping into the great initiate, as it were: the
birth of Christ: as a new and higher Ego the Christ is born in the soul
the Spirit should descend was He that was to come: the Christ. There
Christ was born in Jesus of Nazareth, and that for the consummation
body, and physical body for the eventual reception of the Christ.
the birth of Christ in him. The individual experiences that led him
upward to the Christ event will be discussed tomorrow. Today I shall
sentence that he who received the Christ into himself had indeed prepared
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture IV
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
Christian esotericism, poured out their substance and consummated a
Archai, in the sense of Christian esotericism. The Spirits of
were the Fire Spirits or Archangels, in the sense of Christian
other beings, the Spirits of Motion (Christian Dynamis). Man thereby
who had waited longest received into himself the Christ. At the
by John, Christ dwelt in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, because the
Christ-Spirit was always there; but after the separation of the Moon
resounds, as it must, from Jesus of Nazareth, in whom is the Christ:

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IV: The Hierarchical Beings of our Solar System and the Kingdoms of the Earth.
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called Thrones in the sense of Christian esotericism. Human
in Christian esotericism. These Spirits of Personality worked over,
as they are known in Christian esotericism, and the Spirits of Wisdom,
spirits, the Spirits of Motion, or Dynamis in Christian terminology.
he it was who received into himself the Christ: he was so far advanced
Ever since the Baptism the Christ had dwelt in the body of Jesus of
This Christ Spirit had
to the stage that enabled Him to receive the Christ, then he who enjoyed
sound forth from Jesus of Nazareth, when the Christ is within him, the

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture V
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
Spirits of Form (Exusiai or Powers in the language of Christian
When the great impulse, the Christ Impulse, came upon the Earth, as
Christ transformed the speech of the old initiates and said: ‘It is
In that impulse which we have called the Christ Impulse, lies the
the individuality of the Ego. Thus the power of Christ was different
find my way back to God.’ But Christ said: ‘There is another Father
which thou canst find if thou remainest within thyself.’ Hence Christ
was none other than the name Christ applied to Himself. And if a
qualities before the appearance of Christ. They separated human beings
Christ turned to good the evil which necessarily must have resulted
freedom and independence; but Christ turned that freedom into love.
And by the union with Christ men are led to spiritual love.
and to prepare the way for Christ. It is as though they had said, in
encompassing the world. In order that Christ might intervene at the

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture V: Human Evolution within the Embodiments of our Earth.
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Form — Exusiai, or Mights, in Christian esotericism — were
of the great impulse, as we characterized it yesterday — the Christ
Christ transmuted that
— What we have characterized as the Christ impulse bears within
spite of the individuality of the ego. Thus the Christ force was very
Christ said: There is another Father through Whom the ego will find
That is why Christ could
And the “I am” was nothing other than the name which Christ
good: that was the deed of Christ.
the advent of Christ. They segregated men, tried to make them independent
of each other. But Christ turned to good the evil that would inevitably
Lucifer endowed man with freedom and independence; Christ transmuted
this freedom into love. And the bond Christ brought mankind is what
the way to Christ. It is as though they had said to themselves on the
To enable the Christ to intervene in Earth evolution at the

Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture VI
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pre-Christian times were initiated into the deepest Mysteries. They
impulse of which we have spoken in our last lecture — the Christ
Impulse. We have already described how Christ, the high Sun-Spirit,
exercised any influence upon it. But the great goal of the Christ
that the Christ-Spirit Himself should be received into a human body.
Christ-Spirit. This is indicated in the Gospel of St. John, in the
We know that this Baptism by the forerunner and herald of Christ
prepared to receive Christ Jesus in the right way. We shall fail to
true preparation for Christ. If you think of a baptism of the present
afterwards called the Christ.
This gives you the keynote of the Christ-event regarded from another
point of view. Christ represents the descent to our Earth of the force
Christ-impulse; we shall see how the Egos which had been sundered, are
have had but a dim presentiment of the significance of Christ for the
still there, and the Christ principle has been at work but a short
Christianity is only at the beginning of its mission; but it will
Christ, and penetrate themselves with His force, if they would
of the great Russian philosopher Solovioff, said: ‘Christianity must
from an intense intellect for Christianity. But it also shows how
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of pre-Christian time had been initiated into the profound secrets of
mentioned in the foregoing lectures, the Christ-Impulse. We have described
how Christ, the exalted Sun Spirit, gradually approached the earth;
the Christ-Impulse is that man shall undergo a wholly self-contained
that the Christ Spirit itself might be received into a human body. We
Christ within Himself. This is indicated by the Baptism in the Jordan,
the Forerunner who told of the coming of Christ Jesus, carried it out
among those whom he had prepared to receive the Christ in the right
preparation for the coming of Christ. A modern baptism, which is but
called the Christ.
of the Christ event characterized from another aspect. Christ represents
to be the very core of the Christ impulse through which the egos that
been able to surmise but dimly what Christ had come to mean for the
the Christ principle has been active only for a short time. And though
Truly, Christianity is
feel the need of identifying themselves with the Christ force, to steep
once said: “Christianity must unite us as a nation, otherwise
A mighty utterance, emanating as from an intensive intellect for Christianity.
But that again proves the need for Christianity to penetrate into the
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the baptism by John, the forerunner of Christ Jesus, really was, and
between the baptism by Christ, as we may call it, and that other
baptism by John. The true nature of Christ's influence upon the world
by Christ and the Christ-impulse, as distinguished from the baptism by
Deity Jehovah-Christ had united Himself with it. But now I know that
which the approaching Christ reigns. He did not require the immersion
upon Earth through Christ.
the baptism by Christ with fire and spirit? To understand the
with regard to the understanding of Christ we are today still
understanding of Christ. Today even those who are prone to speak of
the Earth. The leader of these sun-beings is the Christ, and it is He
Mazdao, Moses sees Him in the outer elements, and when the Christ
appeared in Jesus of Nazareth the Christ-power was present in a human
is the Being whom we call the Christ. Rightly viewed, the
— upon Christ Himself. The teachings of reincarnation, of the
depicted; but the being of Christ is here painted from a single point,
to the central figure, the Christ, and understand all the details of
present understanding of the Christ will give way to a far higher kind
That will be the Christ-power. That is the Christ-impulse working
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
the Forerunner of Christ Jesus, so that it will now be comparatively
call the baptism by Christ; and precisely by striving to fathom this
difference will the very essence of the Christ-Impulse and its influence
times were connected with the earth before the Divinity Jahve-Christ
in which the approaching Christ reigns. He did not need the immersion
with fire and with the Holy Spirit came to our earth through Christ.
Now, what is the difference between John's baptism with water and Christ's
comprehension of the Christ. This comprehension will continue to increase,
fact; and only then will a full understanding of the Christ be reached.
Now, the Leader of these sun beings is the Christ; and as their Leader
and when this Christ force finally appeared on earth, it appeared
Weltanschauung sees the Christ Being as a sort of central point
at the Christ. I have pictured in different ways the doctrine of reincarnation,
the Being of Christ is here painted from a single point of view, and
upon the principle figure, upon the Christ, and only then do the details
more perfect in the future, and our present comprehension of Christ
will be the Christ power, the Christ-Impulse acting through the agency
abnormal condition. But among the forces Christ brought to earth is
developed to receive so strong an impulse from the Christ, even for a
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture VIII
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Our considerations yesterday taught us that the Christ-impulse, after
initiation. The Christ-impulse works as strongly upon human
learn from the Gospel itself that Christ had associated with Lazarus
him’ — that means that Christ Jesus had for a long time exerted a
powerful influence of the Christ-impulse. Lazarus was, as it were,
resurrection, was undertaken by Christ. And whoever is acquainted with
ceremony, in the words used by Christ Jesus:
the world the Gospel of the Being of Christ, as the first initiate in
the Christian sense. We may therefore presume that this Gospel, which
insight into the deepest mysteries of the Christ-impulse. For the
synoptic Gospels. The Christ-figure which they construct for
Nazareth’. It is emphasized again and again that Christ is here shown
be allowed. In truth, the representation of Christ given us by the
another being, a positively super-sensible being, the Christ whom
describing in a kind of lyrical hymn his own attitude to his Christ,
required, the Christ could indeed be described as the ‘simple man’,
They relate the last three years of the life of Christ Jesus,
confining themselves to what happened after the Christ-spirit had
Christ. The seekers for contradiction find, to begin with, that
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
enquiries we learned that the Christ-Impulse, once it had worked through
and a half days of initiation. The Christ-Impulse actually affects human
you can gather that Christ had associated with Lazarus and his sisters
This means that for a long time Christ Jesus had been exercizing a great
Christ-Impulse. So for the outer world Lazarus was as though dead, so
act, the resurrection, was undertaken by Christ.
in the words employed by Christ Jesus:
Gospel. It was he who could introduce the Gospel of the Christ Being
Christian sense. For this reason we may safely assume that this Gospel
into the profoundest mysteries of the Christ-Impulse.
synoptic Gospels. The picture of Christ that arises before them out
Again and again it is emphasized that one can gain a picture of Christ
The picture of Christ
nature: the Christ, Whom Zarathustra addressed as Ahura Mazdao. That
John Gospel had set out merely to describe his attitude to his Christ
three; but by taking the average one can compound a picture of Christ
pure vessel which at the Baptism could receive the Christ, the primordial,
with the Baptism: they describe the last three years of Christ Jesus'
activity — that is, only what occurred after the Christ Spirit
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consideration of the cardinal event within the Christ-impulse: the
the narration of the Death of Christ, which represents the culminating
understanding of the Christ-impulse on the basis of a clairvoyant
5. The sign given in the vision of Christ walking on the water.
Christ-impulse was implanted in human evolution, than at present. It
when the Christ-impulse has entered into every human heart. When love
being gifted with the power of Christ might appear among men. Those,
Christ-event take place? It took place at a certain very definite
influences. That was the chosen moment for the Christ-impulse, which
self-evident that the Christ-Being, having entered the body of Jesus
rendered it possible that Christ should dwell in such a body and that
have occurred in Galilee and nowhere else. That is to say, Christ
Christ could not have performed His first miracle within the Jewish
a medley of races. But what was the mission to which Christ felt
man's stage in evolution, it was gradually lost. Christ could not go
people Christ could inaugurate His mission, which consisted in giving
Father Abraham,’ an ancestor in the flesh, ‘are One!’ And Christ came
Those times marked the boundary between two epochs, and Christ
Christ: people are drawn together in marriage. And a marriage in
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
within the Christ impulse: the Death on the Cross and its significance.
But before turning to a delineation of the death of Christ, and thus
days we have been endeavoring to comprehend the Christ impulse and to
the vision of Christ walking on the sea.
— up to the time when the Christ impulse entered human evolution
it regain this until the Christ impulse shall have entered all human
a man imbued with the power of Christ entering our midst nowadays; but
that the Christ event entered human evolution at a very special point
That was the moment at which the Christ impulse had to enter, the impulse
natural that the Christ Being, having once entered the body of Jesus
to rise in its spiritual development. That is why the Christ could dwell
that nowhere else but in Galilee could Christ have found just those
who are appropriately fitted to receive it. Christ's first appearance
Christ, in view of His impulse, felt Himself particularly called? We
disappeared. That is why Christ could not address those who, on the
Father Abraham. Clearly, among these Christ could not find the faith
people Christ could inaugurate His new mission, which consisted in endowing
whom Christ turned, people who had arrived at the point of understanding
line; and that Christ used the last representatives of the previous
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his age, the divine Being whom we call the Christ entered into the
Christianity. In the first place, we have the life of the great
former incarnations. This is the Christ-Being, who up to that time
was that Christ descended upon him and entered his threefold bodily
sheath. In the second lecture I explained that Christ was the same
etheric, and an astral body, into which the Christ, as it were,
pre-Christian initiate could not penetrate, namely, to the fine
may sound, it is nevertheless true. Before the Baptism of Christ Jesus
structure. Through the entrance of Christ into the body of Jesus of
Nazareth, the Individuality of Christ henceforward gained dominion
Christ, Who, of His own free will and choice, penetrated with His
spiritual Power whom we call the Christ appeared. Had not Christ
else as well. When Christ united Himself with the bodily sheath of
that the Christ-Spirit might enter, appeared above the head of Jesus
The moment when the Spirit of Christ descended into the body of Jesus
before maidenly puberty. At the birth of Christ the mother of Jesus of
Christ Jesus were by no means so much astonished, for traditions of
Among the first to be led to Christ Jesus, in the sense of the Gospel
Christ said to him: ‘We have found the Master, He who dwells in Jesus
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
call the Christ. We must distinguish, then — and this is revealed
stages in the life of Christianity's founder. In the first place we
of as having passed through previous incarnations. The Christ Being
in the case of Jesus of Nazareth there occurred the event of the Christ
lectures that this Christ is the same Being of Whom the Old Testament
of these the Christ takes possession, so to say. That is indicated by
power of a pre-Christian initiation could not penetrate: the subtle
you, that is the case. Previous to the Baptism of Christ Jesus there
in the skeleton. Through the entry of the Christ into the body of Jesus
of Nazareth the egohood of Christ acquired dominion even over the skeleton.
the Christ; and the will of the Christ, His sovereign will, had the
that spiritual power we call the Christ. He would carry over into the
had not Christ established His dominion over the skeleton. It was therefore
reverse — not only numbers. Now, the event of the Christ uniting
that which was sacrificed — in this case in order that the Christ
which the Spirit of Christ descended into the body of Jesus of Nazareth
reverted to the state existing before puberty. At the birth of the Christ,
But those who lived at the time of Christ Jesus, when living traditions
Among the first to be brought to Christ Jesus, according to the Gospel
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XI
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
the Christ-event must be regarded as the most momentous of all events
evolution would have been essentially different had the Christ-event
pay some attention to the more intimate details of Christian evolution
everything connected with the Christ-event and its narration, both in
Christ-Spirit, the Christ-Individuality, into the threefold sheath of
necessary for Christ to develop, little by little, the physical,
wrought by Christ in the threefold sheath of Jesus of Nazareth we must
vehicle for the Christ. Jesus of Nazareth's Ego had left his physical
body; in its stead Christ entered and took up His abode in the
Christ. From this standpoint, the question must now be raised: What
would have become of the human race had Christ not appeared upon the
Had the Christ-event not taken place, the course of human evolution
Christ appeared.
Christ-event took place. The intermingling of the most diverse
Let us assume that Christ had not come to pour fresh power into men
principle which unites men in love would have perished. Without Christ
of some millennia before the appearance of Christ were to be compared
the intervention of the Christ-event? What images must be have used to
psychic love, Christ-love, replaced in equal measure the love
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XI: The Harmonization of the Inner Forces of Man through the Christ-Impulse.
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The Harmonization of the Inner Forces of Man through the Christ-Impulse.
important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
spiritual-scientific research reveals the Christ event as the most
evolution must needs have taken a totally different course had the Christ
gradual approach of the Christ Being itself; but naturally, even fourteen
lectures to mention everything connected with the Christ event and with
before we learned how the dwelling of the Christ Spirit, the Christ
the chapter on the Raising of Lazarus. Thus we saw that Christ's task was
exactly what Christ wrought in this threefold sheath we must first get
leaving this threefold sheath for the Christ Being; so what remained
not exclusively — the Christ Being.
all this to the Christ event; and from this point of view we must ask,
Christ event had not occurred, the course of human development would
earliest days of human evolution to the time of Christ Jesus' appearance.
— and that is the time of the Christ event — the custom of
Assuming, now, that Christ
in love would have perished in man's nature. Without the Christ the
of Christ, you would find that it had changed, had taken on a character
the intervention of the Christ event: how would the course of future
the future if love in the soul, the Christ love, failed to replace the
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XII
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
by his own work, subsisted on it up to the Christian era; and even in
Christ, the moment was then at hand in which the course of evolution
changed. The moment Christ appeared, the etheric body began to retrace
physical body than at the time of Christ's presence on Earth. The
Man might evolve without Christ. In this case his etheric body would
— it was Christ who brought it! To Christ therefore we owe it
body by the Christ-impulse, the old life having been consumed. And
my etheric body is entirely filled with Christ. Christ must live in
permeate my etheric body with Christ!’
physical body. Had not Christ descended to earth, this death-germ would
Christ-impulse not been given, the human being would perish limb by
limb as earthly evolution drew to its close. Now the Christ-impulse is
show the full significance of Christ for humanity, on to the end of
affected by the Christ-impulse; there are many things in our day which
activity has been left quite untouched by the Christ-impulse.
About the sixth or seventh century before Christ, as the pre-Christian
was on the decline. From the eighth century before the Christian era
centuries before the coming of Christ, from which the results of
of the coming of Christ. Everything proceeds by slow degrees. Then
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XII: The Decline of Primeval Wisdom and its Rejuvenation through the Christ-Impulse.
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Christ-Impulse.
important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
through his own endeavor, and subsisted on it into the Christian era
physical — ever deeper, up to the coming of Christ — the
in which Christ appeared the etheric body began to retrace its course;
the physical body as it was when Christ was present on earth. And as
develops without Christ. In this case the etheric body could bring with
it from Earth evolution. And that is what Christ brought mankind —
— all this is connected with the Christ. Life was infused into
the human etheric body by the Christ impulse — new life, after
the Christ. The Christ must live in me. In the course of my earth development
I must by degrees completely permeate my etheric body with the Christ.
the physical body. Had no Christ come, this death germ would have developed
and the physical body would continually wither. Had the Christ impulse
its termination. — At present the Christ-Impulse is but at the
Christ for humanity.
activities and interests have not all been affected alike by the Christ
influenced by the Christ impulse at all. Toward the end of the pre-Christian
or 7th Century before the appearance of Christ we see established something
etheric on the physical body had already begun to wane when Christ appeared.
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIII
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
We already know that the Being whom we name the Christ descended from
those who had experienced the Christ-event, when Christ was present in
corruption, had not the Christ-impulse come. This will give us some
up to the moment when the Christ-impulse came; let us fix our minds
the blood flowed from the wounds of Christ Jesus. Let us concentrate
the Christ-impulse not intervened, man would have ultimately lost all
divine ‘Father-principle’ of Christian esotericism. The divine
This was the mission of Christ upon earth: by His Deed to substitute
death is made insignificant; that through the influence of Christ, who
Cross, is but an external event, and that the life of Christ in the
Hence, in the blood flowing from the wounds of Christ, we see the
Had some being in pre-Christian times been able to behold the earth
first impetus — namely, the radiating of the Christ-force into
accomplished, you may conclude that at the time of Christ's coming the
the etheric bodies of those who had found access to the Christ-impulse
became radiant; having understood Christ, they absorbed into
the Christ-light. The Christ-light streams into the etheric bodies of
And now the Christ-light being always present, to some extent, in the
which has absorbed into itself the Christ-light? What is it that has
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIII: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
Being we designate the Christ Being descended to our earth from
Sinai, and finally by those who experienced the Christ event, in the
presence of the Christ in the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
Earth evolution had the Christ impulse not come. These considerations
up to the entry of the Christ impulse, and let us concentrate on a quite
was raised on Golgotha and the blood flowed from the wounds of Christ
and deceptions; and had it not been for the intervention of the Christ
we could not regard it as other than the basis of all being. In Christian
for the false one, that was Christ's mission on earth.
of Jesus of Nazareth there dwelt the Christ with Whom we can unite;
once we have realized what Christ achieved, even though we see the image
life but is, rather, itself life, then the Christ on the Cross becomes
and the blood flowed from the wounds. In the blood flowing from Christ's
If in pre-Christian time
toward what I described yesterday: the radiating of the Christ force
— you will find that at the time the Christ impulse intervened,
found a contact with the Christ impulse were irradiated: men who understood
the Christ absorbed the radiant force that has been in the earth ever
Christ into their etheric bodies. The Christ light streams into the
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Title: Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIV
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important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
Christ-impulse which has made it possible for death (which would
for the first time on Golgotha. By His union with death, Christ, the
image of the Christ-self.
Christ-light flashed upon evolution. Had not the Christ-impulse
Christ-impulse has come; a new light now shines and a new cosmic Sun
the fact that at the point of our evolutionary age, when the Christian
Christ-Spirit. He had gradually approached and since that moment is in
that the Christ-Spirit has been in the earth since that time, and is
the Christ-Spirit in things means viewing them from the standpoint of
death, while the recognition of the Christ-Spirit means cognition from
We are at the beginning of specifically Christian evolution. Its
Christ. For Christ has dwelt in the Earth since that time and has
Christ-Spirit underlying it, means seeing nothing but the corruptible,
in dissolution if we do not understand the Christ. Wherever we see
part of the Christ-Spirit which has been there since that time. Of
Christ-Spirit? To the last atom the Earth consists of Life, since
Christ permeated it, and atom is devoid of value nor can it be
encloses a spiritual part; this spiritual element is a part of Christ.
it correctly? When you said: ‘This is a part of the body of Christ!’
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XIV: The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center.
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The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center.
important chapter in the development of Steiner's Christology.
seed of eternal egoity was provided by the Christ impulse. On Golgotha
time; and as a result of Christ's having espoused death — Christ,
which will more and more be fashioned after the ego principle in Christ.
time when Christ entered evolution; and never could the remaining candles
not the Christ impulse intervened in the evolution of mankind —
the Christ impulse kindled a new light — and a cosmic sun begins
to this: at that point of time which our Christian reckoning designates
was created: ever since then the Christ Spirit has been united with
this fact: that since the Golgotha event the Christ Spirit has been
learn that failure to recognize the Christ Spirit in all things means
seeing them from the aspect of death, whereas finding the Christ Spirit
of the evolution that is specifically Christian. The form it will take
the body of Christ. For Christ has entered the earth and has therein
if today we see the earth devoid of its underlying Christ Spirit, we
it up as we may into minute particles, unless we understand the Christ,
their true light only if we discern in every atom something of the Christ
earth consisted since the Christ Spirit permeated it? Of life —
element is a part of the Christ.
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Kassel, 12-11-10
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again by taking in the Christ impulse, and filled by this, to unite
Christo morimur. And then we'll awaken consciously in

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture I. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
be born who had lived in Palestine at the time of Christ and had been
Christian Rosenkreutz. The same Individuality was born again in the
it was: in the presence of Christ Jesus the demons were ill at ease.
to describe to them the true nature of the Christ. But our conviction

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 1
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
born who had lived in Palestine at the time of Christ and had been
this individuality from whom this impulse originated was Christian
the presence of Christ Jesus the demons were ill at ease.
to describe to them the true nature of the Christ. But our conviction

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture II. The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
a follower of Christian Rosenkreutz. For this is how Christian
— has the right to say to himself: Christian Rosenkreutz has
Christian Rosenkreutz has added such an experience to my karma. —
This is the way in which Christian Rosenkreutz chooses his pupils;
contact with Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. It was then
that Christian Rosenkreutz chose us, imparting an impulse of will
the whole of Christianity is based upon an hallucination, therefore
Christianity. And if this foundation stone itself is nothing but an

Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age - Lecture 2
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
be accounted a follower of Christian Rosenkreutz. For this is how
Christian Rosenkreutz calls the souls whom he has chosen. A man who
enough — has the right to say to himself: Christian Rosenkreutz
stream. Christian Rosenkreutz has added such an experience to my
karma. This is the way in which Christian Rosenkreutz chooses his
his last death and his present birth he was in contact with Christian
Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. It was then that Christian
drawn from this is that the whole of Christianity is based upon an
whole of subsequent Christianity. And if this foundation stone itself

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Kassel, 5-9-'14
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the remaining memory of the sun leader, of Christ, of the earth
In Christo morimur,

Title: Spiritual/Physical: Lecture I:
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or fourth century after Christ, in which she had acquired certain
with the thought of the Christ Whom we have learnt to know through
really live according to the Pauline saying ‘Not I, but Christ in
Rosicrucian Christian thoughts flowed into the later poems of this

Title: Spiritual/Physical: Lecture II:
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Physical -- Bn/GA/CW 154 -- and Christ and the Human Soul --
This is what St. Paul's words mean: ‘Not I, but Christ in
Christ-Impulse has flowed into the spiritual substance of the earth,
Christ-Impulse, which is to be found in the human soul. Humanity has
without, must now spring up within. For this reason Christ came to
earth. Greater and greater must our understanding of this Christ
at the last to understand more and more the Christ-Impulse which is
ultimately realizes is a gift to him through the Christ-Impulse which
has entered earth evolution. He realizes this Christ-Impulse in such a
way that he sees the truth of Christ's words, ‘I am with you
beginning of our epoch did Christ say this; if we noisy open our souls
worlds. Christ has come into the world that humanity may be able to do
tomorrow, the anniversary of Christian Morgenstern's death, as having

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture One
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
belongs among the oldest ancient documents of Christianity, has been
explained in the most various ways during every age of Christianity.
survey the centuries of Christian development, we see, even in the earlier
Antichrist in the externalization of Christianity. For many, the Roman
church itself became the expression of this kingdom of the Antichrist;
horns an opponent of Christianity as great as Nero. When the descriptions
are told that the mystery of Jesus Christ is given to us in signs, that
Christ, the appearance of Christ. It is something similar to Paul's
the most to proclaim and spread Christianity despite his not being one of
of Jesus Christ. Through the descriptions in the Gospels we know how
Christ points to this when he says, “But if you do not believe
With these words Christ is saying that he had announced himself
the Christ who had been previously announced; for behind the mystery
was allowed to experience that the Christ would arise in the future.
of Christ. What the Old Testament initiates always experienced appeared
the Messiah, the Christ, is already here.
not Christian. They knew that in the ancient Atlantean times we come
Christ to be the first real human form that could be seen in the spiritual
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Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Two
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
it to have begun in the eighth or ninth century of the pre-Christian
epoch. Living in the Near East in the sixth century before Christ's

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Three
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
times, in the last centuries before Christ, we still find group souls.
development comes from the Christ principle. Christ even falls right
the Christ event for our ability to ascend with the achievements of
the physical world. We thank the Christ principle for our ability to
and harmony of feelings on the basis of the Christ impulse in the fourth
of the first age after Christ the Apocalypse was a favored book. The
The Christian mysteries, on the other hand, strive to direct their view

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Four
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
sensible-sensual world. Then the same power proclaimed himself as Christ
the blood flowed from the wounds of the redeemer, Christ appeared in the
possess like an old inheritance without joining company with Christ.
in perspective in order to point out that the impulse of Christ is
Through the fact that Christ revealed himself in a physical body on
unite themselves with the impulse of Christ will take what they have
principle of Christ, all the fruits of earthly existence can be carried
proclaimed the future coming of the Christ, even in their legends. Because
Here we are told that Christ is the one who brings the “I
From Jesus to Christ

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Five
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
in the seventh or eighth century before Christ and lasted until the
thirteenth or fourteenth century after Christ's birth. Only then do
Christ principle, the revelation of Golgotha would not have come. Then,
Christ who had descended into a physical man. But faith and knowledge
Christ impulse. Everywhere in Europe we see the ancient wisdom of Egypt
appearing again, but illuminated by the principle of Christ. In our time
all knowledge with the principle of Christ.
time the elemental spirit of the earth. Christ expressed this when,
earth we would have to see members of the spirit of Christ in everything
the earth as the expression of Christ.
the beginning of this development. Christ must first be understood in
the simplest way. In the future all science will find Christ, even though
and “Christened, will walk as it were etherically, no longer
which was the first polemic against Christianity. It has been lost

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Six
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
empty if, in the fourth epoch, the Yahweh-Christ-God
would have become the godless epoch if Christ had not descended into
themselves the knowledge of Christ Jesus in our age.
did Moses see on Sinai in the burning bush and in the fire? Christ!
of Christ. And just as we call sunlight that has been reflected
by the moon, moonlight, so Christ, at that time was called Yahveh.
Therefore, Yahveh is nothing other than the reflection of Christ
before he appeared on the earth. So Christ was announced to the
would he dark. Yahveh is Christ, but not seen directly, but rather

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Seven
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
an understanding for Christianity can be developed, then what was the
occult process taking place here. Christ lived, of course, for only
by the individuality of Christ through the fact that he lived in the
after the Christ event we see how Christian writers were still working
the sixth and seventh centuries onward, great proclaimers of Christianity
Christian mysticism out of himself. His writings can only be understood
in a position to spread Christianity. In this way a bridge was built
from the Christ event to succeeding times.
Christian devotion if we realize that such a mystery lived in him. Around
proclaimers of Christianity through this interweaving of astral bodies.
They received Christianity through grace.
The Christ being took possession of these three bodies but he also took
Christ.” Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler were speaking out
human I. We are told in a legend that the vessel used by Christ Jesus
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the individuality named Christian
of a seal of the I of Christ, through this, such human beings take into
their souls the principle of Christ. In this way Rosicrucianism prepares
understanding of Christ.
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture IX: Ancient Revelation and Learning How to Ask Modern Questions
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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.'
understanding for Christianity, what was the situation in the
process took place. Christ lived only three years in the
Christ-Individuality lived in the physical body, it filled
Christian writers in the first few centuries after the
Christ-Event still worked on the basis of an oral tradition
Christ-Event. However, this would not have been a sufficient
especially eminent heralds of the Christian message beginning
did he begin to become engaged in Christian mysticism of his
and were therefore in a position to spread Christianity and
built a bridge from the Christ-Event to the succeeding
Christian devotion will become especially clear to us when we
human beings became the heralds of Christianity by the very
astral body. Hence, they received Christianity by virtue of
similar to the imprint a seal leaves behind. The Christ-Being
speak of an “inner Christ.” Meister Eckhart and
relates that the chalice from which the Christ Jesus took the
Christian Rosenkreutz.
imprints of a seal, and it is in this way that the Christ-
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Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Eight
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
longer I who live, but Christ in me.”
“receiving the Yahweh-Christ being” will later show itself

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Nine
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
age, when the Yahweh-Christ principle also illuminates souls between
this fifth age? Through what a soul can assimilate through the Christ
the light of Christ. [Gap in manuscript]
up the Christ principle in the first era of Christianity suffered a
stream, the Christ impulse will be taken into selves that are increasingly

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Ten
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. \
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to the Christ being, who has been working in the central regions of
It is the power of Christ that has descended from the sun and retrieved
But he has an adversary — every such being has an adversary. Christ
the sun is the opponent of the Christ spirit and is called Sorat. Earlier,

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Eleven
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. \
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Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 2: Lecture Twelve
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
by the Yahweh-Christ principle in the next cultural epoch.
teachings, have made themselves capable of recognizing Christ will be
and will be able to recognize Christ again. Theosophical teachings have
has always been opposed to making the esoteric exoteric. Hence, Christ
Paul said, “... it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives
The I is permeated by Christ. The one who can fructify the I with his
name is the Christ: “... and he has a name inscribed which no one
and he points to him, to Christ.

Title: Mission/Volksseelen: Erster Vortrag
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nennen wir in der Terminologie der christlichen Esoterik Angeloi oder
Christus, 3000 Jahre vor Christus und 1000 Jahre nach Christus, dann
in der Christus Jesus auf der Erde erschien, bezeichnete sein

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 1
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).
Christiania (Oslo), 7th June, 1910.
Christian esotericism, Angeloi or Angels. These are one stage higher
compare the various periods, five thousand years before Christ, three
thousand years before Christ, and one thousand years after Christ, we
the time when Christ Jesus appeared upon earth, His forerunner, John

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 1. Angels, Folk Spirits, Time Spirits: their part in the Evolution of Mankind.
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stage above Man were called in Christian esoteric terminology,
Folk Souls. At the time when Christ Jesus appeared on Earth, His

Title: Mission/Volksseelen: Zweiter Vortrag
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Erscheinen des Christus Jesus das Jahve- oder Jehova-Wesen verehrt,
Christuswesen. In bezug auf die Sprachgeister müssen wir

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 2
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).
Before the appearance of Christ Jesus, Jahve or the Jehovah-Being was
worshipped by man, and afterwards he worshipped the Christ-Being as

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 2. Normal and abnormal Archangels and Time Spirits.
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Sun into the cosmic spaces. Before the advent of Christ Jesus men
the Being of Christ as the One who shed His Spirit upon them from the

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 3
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 4
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 5
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 6
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 6. The Five Root Races of Mankind.
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The East in the Light of the West. The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of Christ.

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zerfallen ist, wie der Einheitgott des Christentums zerfällt in
Christusimpulses von seiten der Menschheit bezeichnen. Der
Christusimpuls wurde aufgenommen, das Mysterium von Golgatha
mit dem Auf-die-Erde-Kommen des Christusimpulses, für diese
Geist des exoterischen Christentums, so daß sich also
hinstellt vor den Christusimpuls der
Zeit, in welcher sich das Christentum entwickelt, weil es sozusagen
des exoterischen Christentums werden konnte. Es wurde der Zeitgeist
Intuitor des sich ausbreitenden exoterischen Christentums. Da haben
ausbreitenden exoterischen Christentums, als welcher er über die
den Völkern, welche noch zur Zeit, in der das Christentum seinen
bald nachdem der christliche Impuls der Menschheit gegeben
inspirierende Geist des esoterischen Christentums, und von seinen
die dem esoterischen Christenturn, dem wahrhaften esoterischen
Christentum zugrunde liegen. Im Westen Europas war die
hatte, die Mission: Inspirator des esoterischen Christentums zu
Christentums, welche durch die verschiedensten Zeitgeister hindurch
esoterische Christentum wird ein Quell sein für alles, was sich
exoterische Christentum auszubreiten. Die spätere
und sich in seiner Wirksamkeit mit dem christlichen Zeitgeist zu
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 7
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).
Christianity is divided into Three Persons. All the other peoples
describe as the reception by humanity of the Christ-impulse. The
Christ-impulse was received, the Mystery of Golgotha took place. The
coincided with the coming to Earth of the Christ-impulse — the
guiding Spirit of exoteric Christianity; so that the Archai, the
Christ-impulse. Hence the Greek nation crumbled away so quickly at
the time when Christianity developed, because it resigned its guiding
Christianity. The Spirit of the Age of Ancient Greece became the
out-spreading exoteric Christianity. Here therefore we have before us
Spirit of the out-spreading, exoteric Christianity, and in that
peoples who, at the time when Christianity started, were still spread
were guided by an important Archangel who, soon after the Christian
inspiring Spirit of esoteric Christianity; and in particular of those
teachings and impulses which underlie esoteric Christianity; the real
true esoteric Christianity comes from his inspirations. The secret,
inspirer of esoteric Christianity, which was to work on further
able to lead the important current of esoteric Christianity, which is
how these Spirits of the Age may work, this esoteric Christianity
was at a later time occupied in spreading exoteric Christianity.
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Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity.
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity.
tri-unity, just as the one God of Christianity is divided into Three
through which mankind received the Christ Impulse. This Impulse was
descent of Christ upon Earth, the Greek Time Spirit renounced for our
Spirit of exoteric Christianity, so that the Archai-being himself,
Christ Impulse. In consequence, ancient Greece rapidly declined at
the time of the expansion of Christianity because it had surrendered
exoteric Christianity. The Greek Time Spirit then became the
expanding exoteric Christianity. Here we have a concrete example of
the guiding Spirit of the expanding exoteric Christianity, and in
Christianity, were still spread over a large area of Western Europe
important Archangel who, soon after the Christian impulse had been
became the inspirer of esoteric Christianity. All the underlying
teachings and impulses of esoteric Christianity, especially of the
real, true esoteric Christianity, have their source in his
esoteric Christianity which was destined to live on further in the
the important current of esoteric Christianity whose influence is
Christianity will remain a living source, able to be renewed and
expansion of exoteric Christianity. Later Roman history was also
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nimmt und ihn mit dem Christus vergleicht. Da vergleicht man nur die
Individualitäten sind, die im Adonis und im Christus darinnen
Zeit schon, als auf der Erde noch kein Christus Jesus war. Der kam
als der Christus Jesus auf der Erde wandelte, das noch sehen
Jahrhundert nach Christus. Er hat sich ein Verständnis
christlichen Jahrhunderten ein Verständnis für das

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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).
takes Adonis and compares him with Christ. That is comparing merely
completely different Beings are in Adonis and in Christ, then the
time of Christ in the Angels and individual Spirit, the Christ. The
Christ Jesus upon earth. He only came in the fourth post-Atlantean
recollection, but in such a way that, even at the time when Christ
after Christ. He had preserved a comprehension of how the soul-forces
Thus even in the Christian centuries he still understood

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comparative religion it is tantamount to comparing Adonis to Christ.
different Beings are present in Adonis and in Christ, then we are
evolution at a time when Christ Jesus had not yet descended upon
Christ one needed faculties belonging to a less lofty station of the
Christ Jesus walked upon Earth were aware that they were still
even in the Christian era, it was still possible for him to

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als das Christentum anfing sich auszubreiten, für die
Christentum schon anfing sich auszubreiten, das Bewußtsein
des Christentums empfing. Das enthielt für ihn aber nicht
Gebieten nicht. Drüben, wo Christus erschienen war, da konnte
Palästina, versteht die Christus-Gestalt. — Das ist das

Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 9
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Eleven lectures given in June of 1910 at Christiania (Oslo).
picture of the physical world. Thus at the time when Christianity
came so directly from clairvoyant experience, when Christianity began
Germanic-Scandinavian received the comfort of Christianity. —
Christ had appeared, one could only find old memories of the fact
ye that Figure in Palestine, understand ye the figure of Christ.’

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physical world alone. Thus, at the time when Christianity began to
Christianity began to spread abroad, this conscious awareness of the
Christianity. But Christianity did not offer him any direct vision.
Palestine where Christ was born, there existed only long-lost
Palestine, know the Figure of Christ!” Those were the profound

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Beziehung, gerade der vor- und nachchristlichen Kultur Europas
daß noch fast hundert Jahre, nachdem der christliche
fortgeschrittenerer Christus-Begriff hat zustande kommen können
fortgeschrittensten Christus-Begriff der russische Philosoph
Er hat einen solchen Christus-Begriff, daß er
Christus-Impuls erst wenig der Menschheit offenbaren konnte von dem,
Christus-Begriff hinschauen, wie er zum Beispiel bei Hegel
Christus-Begriff bei Solowjow entgegen. Da wird die
Zweigliedrigkeit im Christus-Begriffe klar, und es wird alles
Christus-Begriff in seiner zweifachen Wesenheit
werden müssen. Gerade darauf beruht der Christus-Begriff,
Eigenschaften, der Christus hineinkam. Da hat man dann zwei Naturen
zusammenfassen. So lange hat man den Christus nicht in seiner vollen
Zweigliedrigkeit trägt Solowjow in seinen Christus-Begriff hinein
und macht ausdrücklich geltend, daß der Christus-Begriff nur
von der wahren Bedeutung der Christus-Wesenheit nehmen, wie sie durch
den Christus so, daß in ihm ausgebildet ist in den drei Leibern
Ausdruck gekommen in dem, was bei Solowjow als Christus-Begriff
Christus-Begriff als ein prophetisches Voranleuchten, als die
Dadurch wird das ganze Christus-Wesen und die ganze Bedeutung
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1929): Lecture 10
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that in a certain respect it was just to the pre-Christian and
post-Christian cultures of Europe that the task, the mission was
Christ-impulse had been given to the earth, Tacitus could describe
conception of Christ has been able to come in the East than in
conception of Christ is that held by the Russian philosopher,
in Christ to-day is only the beginning, because the Christ-impulse
contains within it. But as regards the conception of Christ, if we
But in Solovioff the concept of Christ is a very
the idea of Christ in His twofold nature comprehensible; they do not
spiritual must be clearly distinguished. The concept of Christ rests
upon clearly grasping what took place when the Christ entered into
realized Christ in His complete form. This can, however, only be done
Christ and brings emphatically into notice that there can be no
to the true significance of the Christ-Being, which proceed from the
influence, you then have to think of Christ as having developed
a wonderful way in Solovioff's conception of Christ, which like
much further because this conception of Christ is felt to be a
civilization. By means of this the whole Christ-Being and the whole
significance of Christ becomes the central point of philosophy, and
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of gradually developing it, devolved upon the Christian and post
Christian cultures of Europe in particular. In primitive times, as we
hundred years after Christ, Tacitus could describe the Teutons of
conception of the Christ than Western Europe, except in those areas
of the West where the conception of the Christ has been introduced by
Spiritual Science the most advanced conception of Christ is that of
the Russian philosopher, Solovieff. His conception of Christ is such
potentialities, showing that our understanding of Christ today is
only a beginning, because the Christ Impulse has only been able to
look at the conception of Christ as presented by Hegel, for example,
conception of Christ is very different. He fully recognizes the dual
nature of Christ, and because they fail to develop in us any
clearly distinguished. The concept of Christ rests upon a clear
realization of what took place when the Christ Spirit entered into
attributes. We must first of all understand the two natures of Christ
grasped this duality, we have not understood the Christ in all His
carries this duality into his conception of Christ and emphasizes
significance of the Christ Being in their original form which
influence, you will then have to think of Christ as having developed
anticipatory conception of Christ which announces the dawn of a later
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von der Wiederoffenbarung des Christus. Da zeigt uns
Christus. Es wird eine neue Offenbarung des Christus sein, eine
entwickeln, daß der Christus von den Menschen gesehen werden
Mysterium des lebenden Christus in einer neuen Weise zeigen,
gesehen hat als den lebenden Christus, der in der Ätherwelt zu
werden die Offenbarungen des Christus liegen. Das ist das Mysterium
der Entwickelung des Christus. Da die Menschen zur Zeit, als das
physischen Plan den Christus sehen konnten, daß sie Nachricht
der glauben wollte, daß die Offenbarungen des Christus in
dadurch wird Christus zu den erhöhten menschlichen Kräften
Menschen, die als erste Pioniere der Christus-Anschauung sich
dasjenige, was die neue Christus-Offenbarung sein wird.
Pioniere der neuen Christus-Offenbarung aus ihrer eigenen
Christus-Offenbarung auf einer höheren Stufe, und daß
Erscheinen des Christus in eine materialistische Anschauung
sprechen dürfte davon, daß der Christus sich
offenbaren wird, aber gleichzeitig glaubt, daß Christus in einem
wiedererschienenen Christus ausgaben. Der letzte bedeutendere Fall
eines derartigen falschen Christus war im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, wo
wiedererschienene Christus auftrat. Er hat großes Aufsehen
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lecture on the Second Coming of Christ. Spiritual research at the
Christ’. There will be a new manifestation of Christ, a
natural course, that the Christ can be seen in that world in which He
human body, show the Mystery of the Living Christ in a new way, as it
St. Paul saw as the living Christ Who is to be found in the etheric
The manifestations of Christ will be ever higher and
higher. That is the mystery of the evolution of Christ. At the time
they should also be able to see Christ on the physical plane, to have
of Christ will be repeated in the same form which was necessary
thousand years, Christ will be able to speak more and more to the
forward as the first pioneers of the Christ-vision, will be shouted
is to be the new Christ-revelation.
Christ-revelation will announce in the twentieth century as the
higher in a manifestation of Christ at a higher stage, and then will
appearance of Christ into a materialistic view.
of Christ manifesting Himself, but will at the same time believe that
representing themselves as the re-appeared Christ. The last important
Christ. He made a great stir. Pilgrimages were made to him not only
if, under the pressure of materialism, the teaching that Christ will
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Title: Mission/Folk-Souls (1970): 11. Nerthus, Freyja and Gerda.
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Vidar and the new Revelation of Christ.
Vidar and the new Revelation of Christ.
Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny.
The Festivals and their Meaning. Vol. 1. Christmas.
the public lecture which I gave here on the Second Coming of Christ.
the ‘Mystery of the Living Christ’. There will be a new
manifestation of Christ, a manifestation which must come when human
capacities develop naturally to the point when the Christ can be seen
show the Mystery of the Living Christ in a new way — as it will
Living Christ perceived by St. Paul, the Christ who is to be found in
manifestations of the Christ will be experienced by man at
ever-higher levels. That is the mystery of the evolution of Christ.
Christ on the physical plane, to receive tidings of Him and to bear
manifestation of Christ will be repeated in the form which was valid
development of mankind. The manifestation of Christ took place on the
course of the next three thousand years Christ will be increasingly
the pioneers of the Christ-vision will be denounced as fools on
Science is a preparation for the new Christ-revelation.
the new Christ-revelation will announce in the twentieth century from
fail to recognize the higher aspects of the Christ-revelation. And
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Oslo, 6-18-10
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of the Christ-principle, a man must be there with his waking
directed towards the Christ, even if his name doesn't occur in
Christ-etheric aura, which is now our earth's aura. If we would
permeated by Christ and it experiences what Paul called “I
live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”
have the connection between the two paths in this dying into Christ
and coming to life in him in: In Christo morimur.
It's a conscious coming to life in the Christ spirit.

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Christ-force.

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture I.
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Christiania, 2nd June, 1912.
Passing on to more recent times, we find that in Christianity the
Christian churches and creeds as they have developed through the
see how with the development of Christianity develops also a theology;
theosophy, or a Zoroastrian or a Christian. Naturally, regard must be
societies in Central Europe, calling itself a “Christian”
Christian theosophy as a Buddhist theosophy or a Zoroastrian.
the standpoint of the Christian. And if theosophy takes on a Buddhist
also understand how difficult it is, in a realm where Christian forms
The Buddhist and the Christian who have become theosophists will
religious prejudice. The Christian who has become a theosophist will
body.” The Christian will reply to the Buddhist:
“Christianity has not up to the present given me any revelation
theosophist, the Christian will say to himself: “I understand
Christian who has become a theosophist understands the Buddhist who
has become a theosophist. And if the Christian were now in his turn to
Christian faith in its true occult content, as it is studied in occult
of Christ” — the name of Christ may be quite unknown to the
the whole nature of the Christ.”
Christian, he will answer him in the following way: “Just as you
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Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture II.
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Christiania, 4th June, 1912.

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture III.
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Christiania, 5th June, 1912.
not possible to find within these thought pictures the Christ Being.
a Christ. If you come across the idea of Christ in a philosophy, you
Christ. No consistent philosophy can contain the conception of Christ.
the philosophers and see whether these can find the Christ in their
approach the Christ within the system of philosophy. He has as it were
him the Christ.

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture IV.
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Christiania, 6th June, 1912.
ancient pre-Christian times, we find many great religious teachers,
communications and revelations that men received in pre-Christian
pre-Christian as well as Christian, have always done their best to
Christianity, endeavoured to rise to the divine Self with the help of
are in love with the Christ as their Bridegroom, they have for Him all
you will find described in my book Christianity as Mystical

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture V.
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Christiania, 7th June, 1912.
Christian times, is one who sets out to tread the occult path and
for the Christian tradition that worked upon them as a stimulus from

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture VI.
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Christiania, 8th June, 1912.

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture VII.
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Christiania, 9th June, 1912.

Title: Man/Light of Occultism: Lecture VIII.
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Christiania, 10th June, 1912.
can use, and that is being together with the Christ Impulse on
man has had with the Christ Impulse during his life on Earth, and in
The Christian of today has many remarkable and beautiful things to say
about the Christ Impulse. But one who consciously in the Christian
sense enters the higher worlds knows still more of the Christ Impulse.
He knows that the Christ Impulse is the one and only thing that can
evolution. How is it that in addition to all that the Christ Impulse
and culture, there is also this, — that the Christ Impulse in the
of the reasons why the Christ Impulse can give this help. The first is
even in Post-Christian times, and compare with this what you read in
the Christian records, the Gospels. If you look into the history of
the Pre-Christian founders of religion whence came their wisdom and
Nor is it any different in Post-Christian times. Take Mohammed. You
initiation-experience, Christ Jesus looked into, or had to look into,
told that Christ had to learn to hold fast to a super-sensible good
see how unique is the picture given us in the Gospels. Christ passed
We can speak of the Christ, right from the very beginning, as of an
Christianity as Mystical Fact and continually in lectures. But
one cannot in the case of the Christ speak of His
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Christiania, 11th June, 1912.
if within the Earth world he has been able to receive the Christ
Impulse. And we went on to show how the Being we call the Christ Being
but that the Christ Being brought with Him all the forces with which
that when the Christ Being became man, He was already in a position to
make that great sacrifice — for it was for the Christ Being a
It is this feature of the life of Christ that marks it as absolutely
If, however, we want to understand the Christ, we do not need all
this. The Christ can be understood by every single human being, He can
to understand the Christ. And this is because the Christ brought into
spirit, that the Christ founded a religion for the simplest of human
The relationship of Christ to the higher worlds, — that can of
make clear to you the immense service done by the Christ to the pupil
in occultism. Christ gives him the means whereby he can remember his I
when he is in the higher worlds. Without the Christ Impulse this
cannot be done. Christ thus becomes a helper in the initiations of
Christ. Christ is there for the simplest of men; on the other hand He
again still more wisdom. That is the nature of the Christ, and it is
understanding will there be for the Christ. The understanding will
Christ is there for everyone, even the simplest and humblest, and that
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Christiania, 12th June, 1912.
significance of the Christ Being; and in the course of the explanation
were considering — I had to speak of how Christ vanquished
come to the pupil of the present day from Christ. Christ brings a kind
death appears Christ Himself, giving us to understand that this I of
on the path of initiation, — the experience of Christ appearing
picture it! You have before you Christ, Who appears in the place of
through having received into your soul the impulse of the whole Christ
death. It would suffice for you that you had the Christianity of St.
Christianity of the Gospels. It is quite possible to experience,
death changes into the Christ, you have before you a picture which you
Christ and the conquest of death, the overcoming of all that Lucifer
and Christ as the Spirit of the planet of the Sun. Christ himself
Spirit of Venus. In other words, Christ appears as a brother of
Lucifer” or “Christ and Lucifer, in the Story of the
really so. We learn how Christ already on the old Moon overcame
see, as it were, a recurrence of the fact that Christ attained to
victory over Lucifer. On Earth Christ repels Lucifer from the outset.
— for Christ also undergoes evolution — He had repelled,
Already on old Moon Lucifer approached Christ. On Earth he was no
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Erster Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 1. Oktober 1913
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der Christus-Begriff, die
Christus-Vorstellung, in der Geschichtsbetrachtung der Zukunft
zu dem Christus hinrichteten unter den einfachsten wie
Christus-Vorstellung im Abnehmen ist, insbesondere im Abnehmen
darauf hinarbeitet, daß die Christus-Vorstellung in der
Stadt schon öfter über die Bedeutung und den Inhalt der Christus-Vorstellung
die Geheimnisse der Christus-Wesenheit und der
Christus-Vorstellung. Jeder muß da die Meinung bekommen,
der Christus-Wesenheit ein starkes, großes Rüstzeug
was der Christus ist und was der
Impuls ist, der als Christus-Impuls durch die
Christus.
sollte, den Christus und seine
um den Christus zu begreifen. Auch hier
hinreichend sein würden, um den Christus zu verstehen. Ist
anthroposophischem Verständnis des Christus-Begriffes dazu
beigetragen hat, den Christus zu
Jahrhunderte zu dem sich gelenkt haben, was man den Christus nennt, und man wird finden, daß
Erklärung des Christus, in der Waagschale
Menschen hingelenkt haben zur Christus-Wesenheit, zur
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture I
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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.
it — that in times to come the concept or idea of Christ
Christ with feelings of immeasurably greater fervour than is to
be found to-day, even among the most learned Christians in the
Christ Idea are on the wane, especially so in those who claim
that as this age of ours advances, the Christ Idea will play a
town about the significance and the content of the Christ
the secrets of the Christ Being and of the Christ Idea are to
will realise that any real understanding of the Christ
to reach some comprehension of Christ and of the Christ Impulse
there can be any true conception of Christ. But if we turn
at a comprehension of the Christ and His revelation. For
Christ. Here too, it might seem as if only the most highly
Christ. On the other scale let us lay all the deep feelings,
caused their souls to turn to the Being called Christ. It will
applied to explain the figure of Christ, will rapidly rise, and
impulses which have turned men towards the Christ will sink. It
greatness has gone forth from Christ and that erudite
impulse. Truly it would have boded ill for Christianity if, in
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des Christus Jesus nennt. Es ist
Menschheit da an Wissen gesammelt hat, wozu sie sich erhoben hat in der vorchristlichen Zeit,
sogenannten Himmelfahrt des Christus Jesus. Das hatten sie
Liebe. Sie sahen sich wandelnd mit demjenigen, den wir Christus
müssen, wie sie wie Nachtwandler neben dem Christus
mit dem Christus, mit dem
auferstandenen Christus gegangen. Jetzt aber
durchgemacht hatten mit dem Christus
Geistes, von dem Christus Jesus. Aber sie erkannten ihn
das sie miterlebt hatten mit dem Christus Jesus. Stellen
Bewußtseinszustand. Und der Christus, der
der Apostel mit dem Christus
dem Christus Jesus.
Geheimnisse des Christentums beziehen, aus der
wirklich christliche Erziehung erhalten zu haben. Das habe ich
Christentum fernstand, diesem um so
unbefangener gegenüber und glaube, da ich erst durch den Geist zu dem Christentum
und der Christus-Wesenheit
dem Christentum ferngestanden hat, als eines solchen, der seit der frühesten Jugend mit
dem Christentum im Zusammenhang
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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.
Apostles or Disciples of Christ Jesus. It is not easy to form
knowledge, gathered and garnered by humanity in pre-Christian
of Christ Jesus into heaven, came before their souls. They had
Mystery of Golgotha with Him whom we call the Christ. And they
they had gone about with the Christ like sleep-walkers, unable
they realise that they had gone about with Christ, with the
Risen Christ. It was only now that they recognised what had
undergone by the Apostles in the presence of Christ Jesus
felt that they were being taught by Christ Jesus about the
Last Supper — an experience they had shared with Christ
transported from our ordinary consciousness. And Christ, the
picture of an experience of the Apostles with Christ after the
physical body with Christ Jesus.
Christianity. It costs me great effort to make these pictures
enabled me to have a genuinely Christian education. I had no
justified. Just because of my remoteness from Christianity when
believe that the Spirit has led me to Christianity and to the
Christ. Especially in this domain I think I have a certain
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gewöhnlich die Apostel des Christus Jesus nennt,
christliche Entwickelung nennen,
weiter. Was in ihnen wirkte, war dasjenige, wozu der Christus geworden ist nach dem Mysterium von
Christus sprechen müssen. Es
Wenn man das Christus-Wesen verstehen will, dann
Christus-Wesenheit anwenden.
dar in bezug auf das Erdenleben des Christus wie etwas, was
gleich ist wie eine Empfängnis bei einem Erdenmenschen. Das Leben des Christus von da ab
Keimesleben der Christus-Wesenheit, das diese
Christus. Und sein eigentliches Erdenleben müssen wir suchen nach dem Mysterium
von Golgatha, da der Christus seinen
Christus-Wesenheit folgte. Und was beschrieben wird als
Ausgießung des Geistes, das müssen wir bei der Christus-Wesenheit auffassen
anzusehen gewohnt sind. Und das Weiterleben des Christus
daß wir in der Christus-Wesenheit eine solche
geistiges Leben. Vom Pfingstereignisse an erlebte die Christus-Wesenheit
die Christus-Wesenheit das Opfer, ihren Himmel gleichsam auf der Erde aufzuschlagen, auf der
Christus verließ den Himmel, um diesen seinen Wohnplatz
die Christus-Wesenheit, worin das eigentliche
Opfer der Christus-Wesenheit bestanden hat,
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Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture III
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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.
who are generally called the Apostles of Christ Jesus
the development of Christianity — what they thus bore
Power which Christ Himself had now come to be. And here we have
reached a point where we must speak about Christ's earthly
understand Christianity we must apply to the Christ Being
the Jordan. In respect of the earthly life of Christ, the Fifth
the case of a human being. And we understand the life of Christ
therefore, the Christ Being passes through a kind of embryonic
is to be understood as the earthly birth of the Christ. His
followed the real birth of the Christ Being. And with reference
to the Christ Being, we must conceive the event described as
Christ in the Earth-sphere after the Ascension or after
see, my dear friends, that Christ is a Being in respect of whom
of Pentecost onwards, the Christ Being passed through
the Spirit-Land signifies for the human being: for Christ, this
Christ Being was that He made the earth His heaven, sought His
dwelling-place for heaven. Christ left the heavens in order to
the Mystery of Golgotha, through the Christ Being — the
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Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Vierter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 5. Oktober 1913
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geschehen sind um den Christus Jesus herum.
Christentums, ein Streit ausgebrochen zwischen zwei
der Einführung des Christentums

Title: Fifth Gospel (1950): Lecture IV
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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.
took place around Christ Jesus are not by any means all
“From Jesus to Christ.”
it indicates that soon after the dawn of Christianity, respect

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Fünfter Vortrag, Kristiania (Oslo), 6. Oktober 1913
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Betrachtung des Christus Jesus-Lebens selber.
Johannestaufe im Jordan: das Christus-Wesen senkte sich
durchdrungen von dem Christus-Wesen.
Christus. Der Jesus war jetzt
durchdrungen vom Christus; die Mutter aber hatte auch ein
empfangen hatte, und die gestorben war. So wie der Christus-Geist auf Jesus von Nazareth
Christus-Wesenheit in einem Menschenleibe, eine Wesenheit,
erlebte diese Christus-Wesenheit ganz unbefangen dasjenige, was
Diese Christus-Wesenheit wurde
in dessen Leib die Christus-Wesenheit war, hatte ja dahingegeben alles, was ihn früher
hatte. Die Christus-Wesenheit war eben angekommen auf
Christus-Wesenheit zu dem hin, was durch die Eindrücke des Leibes, die wie im
sagte sich die Christus-Wesenheit: Ja, das ist der Leib, der
Christus sich hingezogen, zu Ahriman und
Christus-Wesenheit, die zum ersten Male in
Zuerst begegnete die Christus-Wesenheit im
dem Christus Jesus entgegen und sagte zu ihm
hätte. Aber die Christus-Wesenheit kam eben aus den geistigen Welten; sie
werden will. Die Christus-Wesenheit kannte zwar
beide zum Christus. Der eine wollte
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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.
to realise it by studying the actual life of Christ Jesus. And
Baptism in the Jordan the Christ Being sank into this body. At
unique Being was now living upon the Earth: the Christ Being
Christ Being sank into these three bodies, into what these
the Christ Being was led, first of all, into “the
loneliness.” Jesus of Nazareth, in whose body the Christ
connected him with the rest of the world. The Christ Being had
memory. It was as though the Christ Being said to Himself: This
delivered into the power of Ahriman and Lucifer that the Christ
have to battle. And so the Christ Being, living for the first
First of all, the Christ Being within the body of Jesus
Christ Jesus and spoke approximately as recorded in the other
Christ Being came from the spiritual worlds and knew who
temptation, the Christ Being knew how the gods are truly served
support and both addressed the Christ. The one, Lucifer,
Christ, hast entered into a human body. This body subjugates
onslaught the one held the balance against the other, Christ
Divine power! Then said the Christ Being: Men do not live by
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Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture I: Cosmic Forces in Man
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Three lectures given in Christiania, November 24th, 27th and
Eleven lectures, Christiania 7th

Title: Lecture: On the Reality of Higher Worlds
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A Public Lecture, Christiania, November 25, 1921,
Christiania, November 25, 1921
A Public Lecture, Christiania, November 25, 1921,
(Public Lecture, Christiania, Nov. 25, 1921)
students in Christiania. It was held in the largest hall — the
“Missionhaus” in Christiania, seating some 2,000 people.]
lectures here in Christiania — Anthroposophy strives to enrich
Jesus or Christ,
Verein, Christiania, 29th November, 1921.]

Title: Lecture: Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds
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Christiania, November 26, 1921
A lecture given in Christiania, 26th November, 1921.
(Christiania, Nov. 26, 1921)

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture II: The Soul Life of Man
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Three lectures given in Christiania, November 24th, 27th and

Title: Lecture: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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The lecture presented here was given at the University of Christiania on
Christiania, November 28, 1921
The lecture presented here was given at the University of Christiania
University of Christiania

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture I: Foundations of Anthroposophy
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Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture II: Man in the Light of Anthroposophy
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Title: Lecture: The World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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The lecture presented here was given at the University of Christiania
Christiania, December 1, 1921
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University of Christiana
the Christ-Being in relationship with the earth.
Now Christ's words
Paul: “NOT I, BUT CHRIST IN ME.” If a Christian
Christianity inwardly and who says, “Not I, but Christ in
me,” understands Christ's words, “Heaven and earth

Title: Foundations of Anthroposophy: Lecture III: World Development in the Light of Anthroposophy
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numbers 3, 5 and 7 of 8 lectures given at Christiania (Oslo) in the
Christ-Being within earthly existence.
Christ's words in the Gospels resound to us in a new and
are those of St. Paul: Not I, but Christ in me. If a
Christian really grasps these words, if one who really
understands Christianity inwardly and who says, “Not I,
but Christ in me,” understands Christ's words,

Title: Cosmic Forces in Man: Lecture III: The Mission of the Scandanavian Peoples
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Three lectures given in Christiania, November 24th, 27th and
see the spread of Christianity. But something else as well is to be
perceived. Christianity makes its way from the East into the Pagan
upon Christianity. Efforts are made to understand Christianity through
the Gnosis, as it is called, to interpret Christianity in the light of
not until the fourth century, just at the time when Christianity
Gnostic conceptions, the wisdom-filled conceptions of Christianity now
the old Gnostic wisdom into Christianity is branded as a heretic:
wisdom with Christianity, is ostracised. And finally Christianity is
Church. In the fourth century, that which in Christianity had once
are called upon to lay hold of Christianity in a more elementary way,
with a kind of abstract feeling. Christianity makes its way from the
to the fifteenth centuries, the Christian life which develops in the
regarded as an undesirable element in Christianity... There you have
Christianity spreads out, finds its way into the Greek world, the
centuries of the post-Christian era. External history gives no true
Christian era had long since vanished in the South. But it is a
Christianity. This stream flows towards the, South East but meets with

Title: Lecture Series: The Eternal Soul of Man From the Point of View of Anthroposophy
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Christiania, May 14, 1923

Title: Man's Being: Lecture II
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next few days, I shall discuss to what degree the Christ plays
Christ-impulse. We must embody within us this package of

Title: Ascension/Pentecost III: WORLD-PENTECOST: The Message of Anthroposophy
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is that known as the Mystery of Golgotha, whereby Christianity became
Being as He who would later be called the Christ. But before
“If you desire to know something of the Christ, you will seek in
pertaining to the Christ.”
the realm of the Christ whence they had descended to the earth. But
behold the Christ in the sun from the other side, both before their
to recall this vision of the Christ to their pupils, and to awaken in
they beheld the Christ from the other side of the sun. And now the
the sun and behold the revelation of Christ!” — for men
had been quite forsaken by the Christ-power, were no longer able to
they knew: As souls we are of the kingdom of Christ and do not die.
themselves and the Christ had been severed. This was because they were
earthly realm the Christ was nowhere to be found.
Then, at the time when men could no longer find the Christ on yonder
of infinite mercy, Christ came down to the earth in order that men
And so, since men could not longer reach Him, Christ came to them on
namely, birth and death. Christ became the soul of a man, Jesus of
Golgotha and so to find the Christ on the earth — to find Him who
apostles and disciples of Christ, a last vestige remained of an
understand the birth, life and suffering of Christ Jesus. There were,
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture III
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feels a genuine kinship to the Christ. At this point, we become
Christ. In speaking of this kinship, it is necessary to
which I have just spoken, then the counterpart of the Christ in
as the Christ approached the sleeping human being, He came as a
that the Christ had been with them in their sleep. Only they
did not call Him the Christ. They called Him the Sun-spirit.
fear of being disseminated into the universe. The Christ
pervaded by the memory that the Christ approached man every
then united and held together by the Christ.
helping Christ, Who stood at his side during sleep.
establish a conscious relationship to Christ Jesus while they
exalted Sun-spirit, Christ, descended to earth, became a human
with the Christ, and gain a living conception of what took
will be given of being helped by the Christ impulse, as it is
Golgotha, the Christ invariably appeared as Helper while the
that the Christ had been with him during his sleep. After the
Christ's help, if he were not to establish a conscious
relation with the Christ during the day while awake and
way can the Christ help him to maintain his personality while
the Christ, the human soul must now acquire gradually by
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Title: Man's Being: Lecture V
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millennium until the eighth or ninth pre-Christian
pre-Christian century until the fifteenth post-Christian
reach this stage until the eighth pre-Christian century.
the eighth pre-Christian century, did man say to himself (still
not designate the exalted Sun-Being as the Christ, but He was
the Christ, and we may therefore be permitted today to use this
name): The Christ is a Being Who shall never descend to the
communion with the Christ. And the force of the Christ
called the Christ. Now darkness encompassed those who looked at
earth the exalted Sun-Being, the Christ, in order that men, who
no longer had any knowledge of their communion with the Christ
their communion with the Christ after He had descended on earth
did the Christ come down on earth? Because human beings, having
the giver of man's immortality, with the Christ. It is a divine
event, and not merely for mankind, that the Christ was sent
followers of the Christ; many do not believe in the Christ.
centuries preceding ours that the Christ, in His infinite
Christ. At first, this deed did not touch human consciousness.
Mystery of Golgotha. Yet the Christ did die and did rise as
Christians.
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VIII
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we must reply: Can those who have never heard of Christianity understand

Title: Man's Being: Lecture VI
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Christ could be seen only in pre-earthly existence. This
disciples and pupils of the Christ, however, whom he came to
know, made the following assertion: “The Christ has dwelt
the Christ can be seen only in pre-earthly
he was an unbeliever persecuting Christianity until the vision,
the imagination of Damascus revealed this to him: The Christ
inner Christianity: “Not I, but the Christ in
and say to himself: “the Christ in me.”
the Christ, and hence with God the Father, before
Christ is on earth.” Physically,
Christ was on earth during the Mystery of Golgotha.
Such knowledge is also contained in Christianity. We are told
that the Christ revealed to man that the Kingdom of Heaven has
this respect the Christ depended on the judgment of his age.
spiritual at a certain time. Here the Christ was
is not the Christ, however, Who was mistaken. Human beings were
milk and honey. Such was not the meaning of what the Christ
said. The Christ spoke of the Kingdom of the Spirit which He
Christ told us was a mistake. Today we must think
“How can I understand what the Christ has
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Title: Background/Mark: Lecture Thirteen: The Voice of the Angelos and the Speech of the Exousiai
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Christ is proclaiming the highest wisdom in the schools, the
Exousiai teach.’ Christ spoke with the powers of these
the rank immediately above man, who spoke. In Christ it was
nature. It was their forces in the body of Christ which

Title: Lecture: The Significance of the Mass
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The Christian Mystery.
Christopher Bamford.
The Christian Mystery.
Christopher Bamford.
the appearance of Christ anyone who wished to acquire
now Christ appeared upon the
event took place in the Sacrificial Death of Christ Jesus.
memory of those Mysteries Christ
to Christ were no longer required to “see,”
thousand years after Christ was to educate man for the
Christ
man. Wine is the symbol of personal man. Christ changed the
purified. Therefore for two thousand years Christianity was
to live without the doctrine of reincarnation. Christ
appeared to sanctify personality. As a sign that Christ
transmuted in the higher nature, Christ Himself. The
God, of the Logos Who had become Flesh in Christ; and then

Title: Lecture Series: The Mystery of Golgotha
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The Christian Mystery,
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache der Evangelien.
Luzifer und Christus. Alte Esoterik und Rosenkreuzertum.
The Christian Mystery,
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache der Evangelien.
Luzifer und Christus. Alte Esoterik und Rosenkreuzertum.
Mystery of Golgotha to say that the life and work of Christ
should bear in mind that with the appearance of Christ Jesus
to the question: Who was Christ Jesus?
Christ.
bodies at the disposal of the individuality of Christ. Christ
of Christ-Jesus who lived upon the earth for three years and
order to understand the true being of Christ, we must go far
Christian esotericism they are called Angeloi = Angels. Only
Christ's deeds on earth gave man the capacity to absorb into
What Christ fulfilled upon the earth, was prepared by other
before Christ, and who were men who had already absorbed a
absorbed the spark of Christ. Also Moses belongs to them. But
Fire-Spirit is the Christ, the only divine Being who lived on
and as a result, all those who feel united with Christ Jesus
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Title: Lecture: The Mysteries (Die Geheimnisse)
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This lecture was given at Cologne, Germany on Christmas day
A Christmas and Easter Poem by Goethe
Three Holy Kings, according to the tradition of the Christian
at the birth of Christ Jesus. And from this realisation he
Christ Jesus.
towards understanding the Christ-principle, and what it is to
approach this fundamental symbolism of the Christian tradition.
understand Christianity as the religion of earthly harmony they
into the One principle, the Christian principle. When this
principles of esoteric Christianity saw in Christianity not
the Christ-principle a force that indeed represents for mankind
spiritual world. This was how the esoteric Christian of the
Christian looks on the universe as he looks on the human body.
eternal, spiritual in man, the esoteric Christian regarded the
or less unconsciously, was for the esoteric Christian the
esoteric Christian did not confine himself to such general
Christian looked up to the sun he revered in the sun the
external revelation of his Christ. In the first place the
Christ was for him the sun's soul, and the esoteric Christian
said: “From the beginning the sun was the body of the Christ,
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notion of what Christmas, Easter and Whitsun signify; it has almost

Title: Festivals/Easter VII: Spiritual Bells of Easter, part 1
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Christian Mystery. And so at Easter to-day the outer festival and its
Our Christian festival of Easter is only one of the forms of the
Western, Christian account of Easter, that there lies the possibility
the Christian account of Easter, achieve victory over death after
Those who understand the tidings of Christianity in the spiritual
Christ Jesus had been foretold by Moses,
telling of how the Power, which was later called Christ, made Himself
Christ and none other Who says of Himself to Moses: I am the I
realised that the God heralded by Moses is the Christ Who was
Christ Whom they worshipped; they recognised Christ as the One Who
fiery lightning on Sinai, was present as the Christ in the blood of
Jesus of Nazareth. Christ, descending into a human form, was manifest
human body — through the Christ Being?
hold of by a force that impels it to the spiritual. Christianity has
from spiritual heights to the earth. But the Avatar Christ has
physical body to such a degree that the Christ Impulse streams into

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VII: The Macrocosmic and the Microcosmic Fire: The Spiritualization of Breath and Blood
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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.'
external sign of the Christian Mystery, the most profound
Our Christian
in contradisctinction to the Savior in the Christian report
understands the Christian message in a spiritual sense will
Moses prophesied the Coming of Christ Jesus, and the
was later to be named “the Christ.” No godhead
other than the Christ is intended to be introduced by the
that the God proclaimed by Moses is the Christ who was
Christ is living. His divine essence makes itself known in
the Hebrew Mystery Centers knew it; they worshiped the Christ
the Christ in the blood of Jesus of Nazareth. By thinking
Christ's influence as the great model for human
received through its great model, the Christ-Being, who
Christianity has added to the ancient mysteries the mystery
Christ, however, saved mankind by means of what He Himself
Christ-Impulse can stream into it does one no longer need the

Title: Festivals/Easter VIII: Spiritual Bells of Easter, part 2
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Christ Who proclaimed Himself to Moses in the burning
Christ and no other Power than He Who declared to Moses: “I am
through the Christ Event this fire was spiritualised. Now, since the
Christ Power has penetrated the earth, by what can the flame of the
spirit that have been opened and awakened through the Christ Impulse
is spiritualised. And ever since the Christ Impulse awakened the eyes
the Mystery of Golgotha. And so both Moses and Paul beheld the Christ:
it was the Christ Who spoke with him. To the enlightened eyes of Paul,
Christ revealed Himself from the spiritualised fire. Matter
can raise and lead him upwards into the spiritual worlds. Christ
worlds. The pre-Christian saviours redeemed mankind with
Divine forces. Christ redeemed mankind with human
What would have happened on the earth if Christ had not appeared?
corpse of Christ Jesus on the Cross became the token of life, of the
earth able from its own elements to provide a raiment for the Christ.
Men will gladly tread this earth upon which Christ has walked. Union
with Christ kindles in the soul the power to find its way up into the
Christ is in reality, in the future they will learn to understand it,
Christ Impulse, into whose innermost being the Christ Power draws, can
within himself. For Christ is the great Healer of mankind. His Power
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture VIII: The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire.
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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 blood. We have seen that the Christ announced Himself to
lightning fire on Sinai. No other force but Christ spoke to
Christ-Event, and who is able to perceive the burning
spiritual fire after the Christ-Force infused itself into the
awakened through the Christ-Impulse can see this fire because
Christ-Impulse awakened the spiritual eye of human beings,
Both Saul, who became Paul, and Moses saw the Christ. Moses
being could tell him that the Christ spoke to him. On the
other hand, Christ appeared to the enlightened eye of Paul
spiritual worlds. The Christ descended much deeper than had
Although the pre-Christian saviors had used divine powers,
the Christ used human powers to save mankind. And with this
if the Christ had not appeared? This serious and deeply
hundred years each before and after the birth of Christ. We
the Christ Jesus six hundred years after the Event of
world that had the opportunity to invest the Christ with its
which Christ had walked. And through the connection with
Christ, the soul had gained the strength to find its way up
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture III: Buddhism and Pauline Christianity
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture III: Buddhism and Pauline Christianity
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
and Pauline Christianity
stream that came from Buddha and the one that arose from the Christ
future, and Christianity must be fructified by spiritual science. For
a time, Christianity had to set aside the teaching of reincarnation.
exoteric Christianity for certain universal pedagogical reasons. In
exactly what Christianity is intended to overcome. Once we have
Let us compare this conception with the Christ impulse
had brought him into this world. One speaks in a Christian sense,
This can occur when man takes the power of Christ into himself. When
“Go through incarnation, but imbue yourselves with Christ, and
years have passed since the Mystery of Golgotha, the Christ impulse
ancient wisdom that was still experienced in his time. The Christ
One must learn to declare, “Not I, but Christ in me!”
It is always said that Christ is constantly in our
Now, however, man must learn to behold Christ and to believe that
forces that now hinder him from beholding the Christ. Spiritual
“Not I, but Christ in me,” will be able to work with the
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Koeln, 1-31-11
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I'm not a Christian. These are two very fruitful sentences for

Title: Lecture Series: Christ in the 20th Century
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Christ in the 20th Century
CHRIST
on the Christ runs into quite a variety of viewpoints. These fall roughly
one that bases itself firmly on the premise that Christ is a real force in
life. This might be called the religious viewpoint, which all the Christian
use for any but its own view of the Christ. The various proponents of the
thinking about Christ is possible.
with a certain scientific trend, it maintains that a study of the Christ
of the Christian era, if pursued with the same reliable historical methods
assumptions made about the Christ.
picture of Christ Jesus from the Gospel accounts, there have come to be many
a historical Jesus or of a historical Christ Event with their scientific
historical Christ Jesus. This has given rise to the opinion that, though
Christ may still live today for religious-minded people who feel that their
Christ idea, the concept of Christ, must vanish entirely. Many people are
presently convinced that the Christ force will not continue to play any role
something in the nature of a Christ idea. Earnest, educated, truth-loving men
identified as Christ. It is characteristic that the modern American
that Christ is again “the pioneer of a new age” who will unite Europe and
person otherwise famed for his free-thinking views, speaks of Christ exactly
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Title: Lecture: Calendar of the Soul
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Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
understand. But unto you’ — so says Christ Jesus —
really mean? Which are the most important parables in which Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus is explaining processes pertaining to the Spirit. He
But when Christ Jesus is making clear to His disciples that He is one with
death, that within Him is a Christ-power, a Christ-impulse that must pass
December as the Christmas festival, the festival of the Spirit.
celebrated in the summer; Christmas, the festival of the

Title: Lecture Series: Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse
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Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse
Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Prophecies and Heralds of the Christ Impulse.
Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Prophecies and Heralds of the Christ Impulse.
Ancient Wisdom andthe Herald of theChrist Impulse
Christus (Bibl. No. 143).
Judaism and Christianity. But to apprehend the ancient wisdom of humanity in its pure,
clarity, could impart all non-Christian wisdom. This is revealed in the wonderful ‘Stanzas
was inspired by the non-Christian world-conception. Thus, The Secret Doctrine is a book
merits, knowing that it has given humanity benefits such as Christianity will be able to
Jehovah and the Christian Christ-idea. Thus, the prophet Elijah is revealed to us as a
mighty herald, an advance messenger of the Christ-Impulse, of what came to pass through the
the herald of Christ Himself; we follow his life as the forerunner of Christ, as the man
divinity can be found within the human ego, that the Christ-Ego is to enter more and more
Elijah heralded the Christ was reincarnated as John the Baptist, again heralding the Christ
for the spreading of Christianity, for the penetration of an interconfessional Christianity
who lives and weaves in everything that has life. That God is the Christ who suffered death
Christianity. In this picture Raphael has given something that seems like a heralding of
the Christianity that transcends denominations. The profound meaning of this picture has
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Koeln, 5-9-12
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The lowest things that radiated from the Christ came from the sphere
of the hierarchy of the Spirits of Movement. The Christ is above all

Title: Bhagavad Gita/Paul: Lecture I: The uniform plan of World History. The Confluence of three spiritual streams in the Bhagavad Gita.
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connected with the founding of Christianity, the Apostle Paul. We can
originated with the beginning of Christianity.
a thousand years each; one pre-Christian period of a thousand years,
of Christianity. What might such a man have said only a short time ago
only be sought for in the thousand years preceding the Christian
Christian era does one find individual men of personal importance in
sense, as the last thousand years before the Christian era. Let us
occurred what is connected with the great Being, Christ Jesus. During
Christianity as Mystical Fact, how entirely he depended
Then in the second thousand years we see the Christian impulse pouring
a way that the powerful Christ-impulse united itself with all that
organically with the Christ-impulse. Thus the second thousand years
with Christianity in the third thousand years, as it did in the
compelled to unite what flowed out from Christian philosophy with the
consciously and united with Christianity in a philosophic form; as in
lives in them, in which the Greek and Christian influences are
Greek ideas are to be found united with Christianity.
the risen Christ. That which was Yoga in Krishna, in St. Paul was
actual Being of Christ Himself now entering in a concrete, living way
“Not I, but Christ in me,” that is to say when the
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Title: Bhagavad Gita/Paul: Lecture II: The basis of knowledge of the Gita, the Veda, Sankhya, Yoga.
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eighth century of the Christian reckoning. We need not devote much
Christian Middle Ages. We turn our gaze from what the older cultures

Title: Bhagavad Gita/Paul: Lecture III: The union of the three streams in the Christ Impulse, the Teaching of Krishna.
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LECTURE IIIThe union of the three streams in the Christ Impulse,the Teaching of Krishna.30 December, 1912
connection with the Christ-Impulse, when it takes into itself the
Resurrection of Christ. When we meet with this in the Epistles, we
as to the great concepts of Christianity, as to Grace, the Law, the
difference between the law of Moses and Christianity, the Resurrection
Christianity that we feel he is personally interested; he gives the
“How have we ourselves fought for Christ Jesus! Remember that we
the original documents of Christianity — the Epistles of St. Paul

Title: Bhagavad Gita/Paul: Lecture IV: The nature of the Bhagavad Gita and the significance of the Epistles of St. Paul. How the Christ Impulse surpasses the Krishna Impulse.
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LECTURE IVThe nature of the Bhagavad Gita and the significance of the Epistles of St. Paul.How the Christ Impulse surpasses the Krishna Impulse.31 December, 1912
nevertheless true that that which relates to Christianity in the
Christianity as to the Resurrection, the significance of what is
the life of Christ in the soul or in the human consciousness, and many
presentation of Christianity must always be based on these Pauline
Epistles. Everything in them refers to Christianity, as everything in
from the depths of Christianity in the Pauline Epistles, had once to
pre-Christian times it was still dependent, it was still, as it were,
were, the impulse which we describe as the Christ-Impulse. That which
expressed in the words of St. Paul: “Not I, but Christ in
there was already an approach to the Christ-Impulse — in the last
about to take place through the introduction of the Christ-Impulse
Golgotha, a man had to look for as the Christ-Impulse in himself,
which he had to find in the Pauline sense: “Not I, but Christ in
which works in the soul as Christ-Impulse, as the spiritual sunlight,
the whole connection, symbolically. If we take this circle (Diagram 1) as representing the human soul, we may say that the spiritual light streams in from without from all sides into this human soul. Then comes the Mystery of Golgotha, after which the soul possesses the Christ-Impulse in itself and radiates Forth that which is contained in the Christ-Impulse (Diagram 2). Just as a drop which is illumined from all sides radiates and reflects this illumination, so does the soul appear before the Christ-Impulse. As a flame which is alight within and radiates forth its light, thus does the soul appear after the Mystery of Golgotha, if it has been able to receive the Christ-Impulse.
Mystery of Golgotha, is contained in the Christ-Impulse. Do we not
Christ-Impulse lives in man, as if hidden in his inmost being, like a
That is Tamas as compared with the pre-Christian state, which latter,
really prepared for the blazing up of the Christ-Impulse? How did this
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Title: Bhagavad Gita/Paul: Lecture V: The spiritual nature of Maya. Krishna -- the Light-Halo of Christ. The Risen One.
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LECTURE VThe spiritual nature of Maya.Krishna — the Light-Halo of Christ.The Risen One.1 January, 1913
the Christ-Impulse. From the beginning the Christ-Impulse was intended
Christ.” Thus through the subject itself St. Paul addresses
together form one body, so also is it with Christ. For through the
Corinthians, “are the Body of Christ, and are severally the
Christ-Power, which holds the different members together just as the
within each one, is the Christ-Impulse. The Christ-Impulse, again, is
been moved in the deepest part of their being by the Christ-Impulse.
moved by the Christ-Impulse, are each, when disembodied and in the
no matter how individualised he may be, is the Christ, Who is in the
enter the esoteric life and raise himself into esoteric Christianity.
We can go further and further in the Christian life and attain the
raise the soul individually, as a separate being; in Christianity,
connection with the Christ-Impulse-feeling in the first place that
path to Christ can be trodden by anyone, for Christ brought the
importance of the Christ-Impulse, begin by belonging to this or that
Christian denomination; on the contrary one can, just in our time,
even start from an anti-Christian standpoint, or from one of
indifference towards Christ. Yet if one goes deeply into the spiritual
materialism, perhaps one may genuinely be led to Christ, even though
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world after death through an immersion in this Christ substance.
ourselves with the feeling: We die in Christ. — For only the
Christ impulse can keep us conscious in the spiritual world after
one to understand this Mystery that was given through Christ
Christ substance is our experience of our higher I that's given to us

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substantielle Inhalt des Gebetes ist, das dem Christus Jesus von seinen Jüngern
Christus seinen Bekennern verkündet hat.

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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 our [Christian] era. I will speak of the events, the forces
prayer the Christ Jesus' disciples attributed to him. Jesus of
which Christ proclaimed to his followers could

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Köln, 18. Dezember 1913
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Bevor ich in der Betrachtung des Christus
Beispiel über die Wahrheit des Christus-Impulses, wie er
allgemeinen Christus-Wahrheiten oder auch andere
der Christus-Impuls in die
diesem Christus-Impuls hervorgerufen, daß man dieses Leiden sich wieder
Christus-Wesenheit eintrat, also eine Wesenheit aus
die Hüllen des Jesus von Nazareth die Christus-Wesenheit
Christus-Wesenheit, den Christus-Impuls. — Aber man kann die
war, daß sie den Christus aufnehmen konnten, war es
sie abgeben mußten den Christus an die Erde.
empfinden, was da geschah, als die Christus-Wesenheit
Das populäre Christentum gab das, was
Nachdem der Jesus von Nazareth die Christus-Wesenheit in sich aufgenommen hatte,
jetzt die Christus-Wesenheit mit den drei
jemand vorstellen wollte, daß der Christus jetzt,
Die Christus-Wesenheit hatte alle
Erde. Aber der Christus war an sie gebunden,
der Christus sich dieser
Wesenheit trat der Christus Jesus entgegen.
Christus Jesus gestellt. Und jetzt tauchten in seiner Seele zwei Bilder auf: ein Bild, das
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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.
life of Jesus Christ, I would like to mention some indications
evolution, for example about the truth of the Christ-impulse,
the truths of the Christ-impulse, also other thoughts about the
order that the Christ-impulse could stream into the earth's
Christ-impulse is brought about in that the suffering is
spiritualized by the Zarathustra-I in them, the Christ-being
described him. He received the Christ-being, the
Christ-impulse”. But we can also consider it differently,
up Christ to the earth than it was for humanity to receive
Christ.
happened as the Christ-being descended into the body — or
Popular Christianity says what I have just
took the Christ-being into himself he had to go into the
Gospel writers. It could also be said that now the Christ-being
think that Christ, because he belonged to a higher world from
The Christ-being had all possible
capacities of all the other people on the earth. But Christ was
which now served Christ to confront a being who could arouse
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Title: On the Meaning of Life: Lecture 1
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Christ and the Human Soul.
Christus und die Menschliche Seele. Ueber den Sinn des Lebens.
Theosophische Moral. Anthroposophie und Christentum.
of a forerunner of the Christ-Impulse.
impulse is at hand (he means the Christ-Impulse). Therefore I say
spiritual element appears with the Christ-Impulse.” Through
Christ-Impulse.
way that he put Christian ideas into his pictures. He painted for the
people of Europe as Christians of the West. His pictures are
comprehensible to all Christians of the West, and will become so more
was able to demonstrate the impulses that lie in Christianity. He is
Jesus-Child to the Madonna, where this Christ-relation appears as
Christianity which will be cosmopolitan. Protestantism has long
Christianity. So it will be more and more. If we may hope for such
results as regards interdenominational Christianity, what Raphael has
Christianity. Now let us direct occult observation to these three
birth already proclaimed his exceptional position in Christianity and
with the Christian Mysteries. It was on a Good Friday that Raphael
desire to understand, and must understand, Christianity as an Impulse
through which we know how the Christ-Impulse will continue to work.
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Christ and the Human Soul.
Christus und die Menschliche Seele. Ueber den Sinn des Lebens.
Theosophische Moral. Anthroposophie und Christentum.
Let us take the whole of pre-Christian development. We know what this
pre-Christian development was like. In the beginning man came forth
life, the Christ-Impulse is developing above. Just as man develops
Christ-Impulse give what is necessary for the development of that
Christ-Impulse enters and fertilises it. And from the Mystery of
fructification received with the Christ-Impulse.
life. They are there in the earth evolution. The Christ-Impulse has
Christ-Impulse. In the seventh age the old Indian civilisation, that
reappear in a new form, fructified by the Christ-Impulse.
Fertilisation with the Christ-Impulse is active above and below.
the Mystery of Golgotha — the Christ-Impulse.
Now we can also understand the meaning of the Christ-Event. The earth has
with the earth, have evolved like two opposite poles. Christ and the
Christians may disagree with such a statement, but they should not
opinion to stand entirely on the ground of Christianity), was a very

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Copenhagen, 10-15-'13
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common to all; and that's the Christ. That's why we say:
In Christo morimur

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture VI: Speech-Formation and Poetic Form
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A Ritornello by Christian

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Christianity, emerged from the womb of oriental life, is
Christianity arises through the fact that this Magian feeling
in the western Christianity of the first centuries Magian
Christian in some important characteristics, and his closest
Christian Rome and thereby forms a concept of grace and guilt.

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the earliest Christian architecture. One thought in
Temple to the Church of Christendom. The Greek Temple stands
days of Christianity the feelings of men were no longer the
“I” arises within him, and Christendom represents
of Christendom comes into being. The land becomes
whole territory, whereas the walls of the Christian Church
forms of the Churches of Christendom and also of Roman
Christendom, man says: ‘I must leave my work and repair
are separated and the Christian Church more and more assumes
Christians afterwards felt the precincts of the Church with
of the God, the Church of Christendom the framework around
chancel and the space for the congregation in a Christian

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Christian art of building separated off the edifice from the
The Church of Christendom is no longer actually one with the
Church of Christendom, therefore, could no longer be what the
being. The Church of Christendom was in itself a duality, the
us.’ This is the thought behind Christian

Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture III: Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
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Christian Morgenstern — a real experience, needless to

Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture III
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the Byzantine influence, Eastern Christianity, Western

Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture IV
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that enabled Christianity in its earliest form to come into
become of Christianity if in the souls of the first
Christians the Christian impulses had not been all-powerful?
a different culture prevailed; we know that Christianity
pass because Christianity became part of the hearts and souls
of early Christianity in Rome!
early Christians — they heard the Word that resounded

Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture V
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shallowness that is so general today. We know that Christ

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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souls having a uniform character for Christianity, and on the other
Christ appears at the end of “Kalevala”, but because he
a preparatory stage for Christianity and took up Christianity like a

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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Christianity and Mythology, Part III,
different the farther back we go into pre-Christian ages — from

Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture One
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go in pre-Christian times, than it is later on when we go

Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Four
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that at the approach to Christmas he fell into a kind of
secrets. This is why the days around Christmas were always
tells of these experiences Olaf Åsteson had between Christmas
He laid him down on Christmas
He laid him down on Christmas
‘I laid me down on Christmas
At the side of Jesu Christ
The Lord of Judgment, Jesu Christ
days from Christmas over New Year until roughly the 6th of

Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Six
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travelling from Christiania to Bergen on my last lecture tour

Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture Seven
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understanding of spiritual science as Christian Morgenstern,

Title: Lecture: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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Christ, i.e. into the age of the origin of Christianity. A second
period lasted from the rise of Christianity to about 800 – 900 A.D. up
from Christ and hence this period of philosophy lasts up to the time
of Christ.
you will find everywhere how the Christ-Impulse rules in them. It is
what has flowed out of Christ himself, one might say, that gives man
proceeding from Christianity began to be seized by men themselves. In
the second period it was the intense belief in the Christ Impulse
The Christ-Impulse gradually faded and man became aware that the
but there is no longer the same attachment to the Christ-Impulse as
800/600 ... Birth of Christ
Birth of Christ ... 800 (900)
etheric body. Then we come into the Christian period. The Christ-
they are Sun-laws, the Christ, the Being of the Sun, could also enter
period and then the Christ, the Sun-Being, becomes active in the
together. But inasmuch as the Christ, the Sun-Being, enters in, he
age of 21 to 28; the Christ Impulse enters the development of
my dear friends, something of this was only felt by Christian
his soul, our friend Christian Morgenstern could put into writing a
gives us life. In the wonderful poem Lucifer by Christian
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Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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since the moment when the life of Christ passed through the
Earth. Had the Christ-Impulse only been able to work through
have had very little of Christ in the past centuries.
to show how the Christ works in the human soul, in that which
the Christ-Impulse when he himself, being converted, made
Christianity the State religion, was very little. But the
let the symbol of the Cross of Christ be carried before his
impulse of Christ. Truly, these men could not understand what
could reach to what the Christ-Impulse was in its reality.
Where, then, did the Christ-Impulse really appear, in an
In a peculiar kind of vision, the Christ-Impulse manifested
Christmas and did not reawaken until the day of the Three
Earth is greatest. Therefore the Christmas Festival is
Christ-Impulse. They had to be there in her soul. How should
days after Christmas and had awakened on the 6th of January.
borne by her mother, so as to pass through the Christmas

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture I
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this joyful event; the christening, and care for my wife

Title: Lecture Series: Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
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waking life — with the Christ Impulse — that this
summer, namely, the Christmas festival. On the other handy I
dreaming spirit of the earth. The Christmas festival
Christ Impulse with us into what is dying: IN CHRISTO
life: IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
has its culminating point at Christmas time, for which we
have the saying: IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
Christ Impulse, that our figure of the Christ is essentially
Christophe”, the novel by Romain Rolland.
art” as “Jean Christophe”; he would know
Christophe”, which, however, to the regret of all
our life since the Mystery of Golgotha — IN CHRISTO
the Mystery of Golgotha, is IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
of Whitsuntide. If we have felt: IN CHRISTO MORIMUR aright,
nature is witness to this We live with the Christ, and feel
earth wakes we take the Christ Impulse with us into the life
of dying Nature: IN CHRISTO MORIMUR, But by going forward

Title: Lecture Series: 'Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away'
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This lecture was given on Corpus Christi, which is the Thursday after
Dornach3rd June, 1915Corpus Christi
centre — (you may call him the Christ, if you wish), with Lucifer
the features of the Christ, Lucifer, and Ahriman. Should anyone attempt

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Christ-riddle, the riddle of Christ-Jesus. And with regard to this,
an extraordinary sense this Christ-riddle is a riddle. We must not
expect just that regarding this Christ-riddle much will be solved for
concerning the entry of the Christ-Being into humanity's evolution,
Cosmic Being ‘Christus’ in the sphere
the entry of the Impulse of Christ into earthly evolution, to have
element in which Christianity was stirring as a new impulse. We see
Christianity flow like a living impulse into his soul. Augustine is a
understanding what is flowing to him from the Christ Impulse. And so
Christmas Thought and the Mystery of the Ego. The Tree of the Cross
trinity of the gods, (although this was Christianised later, it yet

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the Christ Impulse come about.
comprehension of Christ and the Christ Impulse. Let us suppose that
this whole great cosmic event of the descent of the Christ to Earth,
with the man in Christ, with Jesus; it looks far more to what it is
strives towards a Christology. The other looks chiefly to Jesus, this
one to Christ. One can only know the truth if one conceives of
Jesus-Christ or Christ-Jesus as a unity in the way shown by Spiritual
just as clear that there is a Cosmic Being, the Christ, who was
be clear that the Christ, as He was before the Mystery of Golgotha,
that it was necessary for the Christ to go through what He did go
the Christ alone, in a one-sided way, but of Christ Jesus. What
happened on earth has not happened through the Christ, but through
the fact that Christ lived in Jesus. A Christology is just as
spiritual science of Christ-Jesus. The fact of the Mystery of
Christ-Jesus. This, too, is what is to be shown in that carved work
the triad: Christ-Lucifer-Ahriman.

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souls that the Greeks had not, of course, the Christian view of the
giving back to the cosmos of what we have received through Christ. We
This means: what Christ has to reveal to
revelation. One stands as it were ever confronting the Christ, and
the Christ event. He wished to indicate: Wait! Only wait! What all
heard the Christ, but our descendants will also hear Him, and so we
continuously, perpetually, receive the Christ revelation. To receive
the Christ revelation means: to acquire light upon the world from
Christ-revelation what we have received as Spiritual Science. He it
Christ to feel such a mood as this: that one receives the cosmos from
the Christ in an inward spiritual way, drawn together as it were, and
indicates, how it is connected with the Christ-nature and the
Jahve-nature. It is a continuous revelation of the Christ to allot
archetypal man, which one can also speak of as the Christ, and which
concentrated in the Christ we take out and distribute again in
Christus-Lucifer-Ahriman.
pre-Christian, the pre-Golgotha time.
have been told of one, Christus, who has spread certain teachings.
world-concept he had amalgamated the Christ-Event with the
understand the Christ Event. That is just the interesting thing in

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must inwardly experience :Not I, but Christ in me.
Christ-impulse to live, not only in feeling and willing, but to let
instead of merely looking to Christ Jesus, a whole cosmology is
really born for us, a Christened cosmology. We come to learn what the
cosmos was before the Mystery of Golgotha, when the Christ was united
after the Mystery of Golgotha, when the Christ is now no longer
with the Christ-impulse, regarding, as it were, this Christ-impulse
Christianity, full of content, which will then be completely one with
whole nerve- let me say -of Christology, — take
what a man must really understand to comprehend Christology. Why do
from the Moon-existence, but that the Christ is from the
studies the special connection which the Christ Being had during the
phenomena was reserved for Christ Jesus, this held back. This was in
Christ Jesus, and guided him through these three years and through
accomplished, could this Christ-Being be dependent on anything which
Christ-Being remains completely untouched by all that is in the earth
that which comes through the Christ into the spatial-temporal is
error to suppose that the Christ, as He is united now with
Christ to assert that there could be a re-embodiment of Christ at the
being raised above these laws. Never could the Christ, rightly
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Title: Community Life: Address 1: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation-1
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an anti-Christian relationship between yourself and the other members
Christianity that has turned into its exact opposite are still able
among your pupils that as Christians, individuals must put themselves
however, you apply a number of means that work counter to this Christian
humanity and Christianity in our relationships in general, and once
point in time, two thousand years after Christ, people possess certain
ever stronger impression of acting on your connection to the Christ
movement must be governed by Christian impulses; your relationships
lodge might have had to choose a person who is not yet completely Christianized
Fully Christian occultists
from person to person in the Christian sense require each one of us
however, is anti-Christian and just the opposite. Whenever possible
any other person (a person who in the Christian sense is just as necessary
spiritual teachers must renounce all the help available to them in pre-Christian
not exist for pre-Christian initiators. The individual I had not yet
reserved for karma. But as Christians, we must see modern initiates
the temptation is great to reject the difficult tasks of Christian community
than for others. Christian occultists must take up a challenge that
themselves according to the Christ impulse, they would still get these
the protection of Christian Rosenkreutz — in the ideal form I
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25, 1914 — Christmas Day of last year. I will now read this very
years, were married last Christmas. I admit that we were not at all

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the Christians” strikes him as unsuitable) “responsible

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one on “Christianity.” But that is true of almost all the

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is no end to the carry-over from Christianity to western peoples of
such actual borrowings. The migration of the real facts of the Christian
ritual and of Christian thinking may be studied in this book (cf. the
article on Christianity).”
thing only in regard to the development of Christianity as the creation
vocabulary and concerns. That is, that Christianity as a whole represents
What, then, is Christianity, according to
Mauthner? A collection of borrowings! There were words at the time Christianity
began. And if we want to find Christianity in Europe today, we'll have
Christianity is nothing but a collection of such borrowings. The whole
all of Christianity means nothing more to them than a collection of
It is true that Mauthner didn't indicate that Christianity had to be

Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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about reincarnation, and they have also learned that Christ was alive
reincarnation and Christ's incarnation — have in all seriousness
imagined that they have been chosen to give birth to the Christ and
Christ, because the consequences can be extremely unfortunate. On a

Title: Community Life: Lecture 3: Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World
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who later became the Christ, are a category of beings who had a particular
address the Christ, too, as a Sun being. We can give a lot of thought

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Two
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anchoretic original Christianity of Tolstoi are useless for
Christianity as Mystical Fact
Coming of Christ. At the time of which I am speaking, she

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Four
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subjects of Judaism and Christianity, interwoven with certain
a danger to Christianity in Europe, set themselves in
called “Christian esotericists”. Christian
certain trend of thought with the form of Christianity
Christianity customary in Europe and America. They went to

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system of wisdom from which Christ, and Jahve too, were
excluded. Therefore something whereby Christ and Jahve were
Christ and Jahve. For in the occult domain such an utterance

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Christian impulse. I myself have been at pains to show that
the significance of Christianity does not depend upon what
the Mystery of Golgotha. But the impulses of Christianity are
are entirely compatible with Christianity although insight
repeated lives on Earth were withdrawn from Christianity, and
form of Christianity from which the teaching of repeated
this view of Christianity — the view which rejected the
diverted in order that Christianity should have time to take
with the new revelation of Christ. When the etheric body is
re-vitalised, man finds Christ. But, as you see, it is
George there. He was Johann Christian August

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spirit—began to be a heresy in historical Christianity.
Christian Crusaders in the East happened upon the invincible

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which Christ Jesus Himself is regarded as a not quite normal
how it has been stressed that Christ entered into Jesus of
proper for man's physical life on Earth. Christ-Jesus
secrets of existence by placing Christ over against Lucifer

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science imagines that in future we shall see Christ in an etheric shape,
the moment when the etheric shape of Christ shall appear to us, and so
of all discover the Christ, and in His following we shall gradually
right and that is not right”, or “this is not Christian
and that is not Christian”, and so forth. But if the impulses
of the evolution of the world. “CHRIST SEES US” ... let us

Title: Significant Facts: Lecture I: A Convulsive Element in Humanity in the Nineteenth Century
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boys was necessary in order that Christ might descend into Jesus —
the figure of Christ Jesus. —
Saint-Simon, mocks at angels and teachings about God. Christ Jesus
the One — Christ Jesus — whom the despot now beholds over

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“Not I but Christ in me.” It will then be possible for
Christ in His living activity within earth-evolution not to remain
Christ within the Ego. A deep riddle is presented to us in this
another, one of whom has the Christ of tradition, of history, but
received the Christ into their inmost being in full reality, they
Christ into the Ego which has not developed into the necessary
intensity, lose the Christ. And standing in contrast to them is the
strength; without taking the Christ into the Ego, he desires to bring
not taken Christ into this Ego, there is one moment only when it is
possible for them to come into relationship with Christ: it is
because Christ came from that other world into this world in order
we permeate the Ego, as it has now unfolded, with Christ.
Life.” But Christ will forever give men to eat of the Tree of
experienced in the real sense only when the human soul takes Christ
confined themselves to purely historical Christianity was passing
did not know much about anything that differed from the Christianity
non-Christian literature, he (Petrarch) gave a very significant
Christianity of that time regarded as truly Christian. Petrarch wrote
read this non-Christian literature, and what it meant to him
writers who do not use the name of Christ simply because they have
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Title: Significant Facts: Lecture III: The Tragic Wrestling with Knowledge. The Secrets of the Future Sixth Cultural Period.
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beings, first of all the Christ in an etheric form and after that
Christ in His etheric form, and to take this event with true
go forward to a time when we find, first of all, Christ as an
is not Christian, that is not Christian — and so forth.
“Christ is seeing us” — by this we shall be

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The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
lecture is also known as, The Christmas Thought and the Mystery
The Christmas Thought and the Mystery of the Ego.
The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego.
Christmas Eve approaches, we must (this year in particular) ask
How should we think of these Christmas words at such a time?
Christmas Eve. One thought, however, arises: we think how opponents
of Death with the thought of Christ Jesus, the Divine Light-Bringer.
world on the day we commemorate at Christmas. We see how through all
ever separate mankind on earth. Thus the thought of Christ Jesus is a
sense of the words the utterance of the Christmas Eve saying, which
he who really feels himself united with Christ Jesus solemnly vows
anew at Christmas time.
a tradition in the history of Christianity which repeatedly appears
in later times and for centuries became a custom in certain Christian
regions. In olden times representations of the Christian Mysteries
were organised chiefly by the Christian Churches for believers in
was first shown just at Christmas time, how the Cosmic Word sounded
the beginning of the Old Testament at this Christmas Eve festival
thing remains, that in our calendar, before the actual Christmas Day
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
aka: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
lecture is also known as, The Christmas Thought and the Mystery
The Origin of the Christmas Plays.
The Christmas
The Origin of the Christmas Plays
year as Christmas approaches, we must think of the kind of feelings
of humanity. How do we think of these Christmas words in this time?
spoken about by the One whose birth is celebrated at Christmas. One
of death with the thought of the divine leader of light, the Christ
Him who entered the world on the day we celebrate at Christmas.
the Christ Jesus who harmonizes human beings no matter what their
the word the Christmas verse, transcending everything that separates
us: those who truly feel themselves connected with the Christ Jesus
must promise this to themselves on Christmas night again and
tradition within the history of Christianity that arose repeatedly in
later times and was a custom in certain Christian regions over many
emerging from Christian churches, there were presentations for
believers of the mystery of Christmas night. Especially in these most
ancient times, the presentation of the mystery of Christmas night
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
Die geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit durch den Christus-Impuls,
Christ problem as a whole — a fact that is no doubt surprising. A
beings to understand the coming of Christ into the world as a
very time when the Christ united with earthly evolution, humankind
understand, in a true and profound way, the nature of the Christ
the announcement of Christ's coming was not itself a new
Mysteries, the Christ had already been mentioned as the “coming
proclaimed the coming of Christ. One viewed the Christ being, of
had gradually degenerated, so that, when the Christ did come, people
were less able than ever to speak, as human beings, about the Christ.
conceive of the Christ Mystery out of a fresh, new impulse.
first centuries of the Christian era, we find great spirits arising,
are concerned with the Christ (they still knew this, of course); the
Christ can be understood only as a spiritual being connected with
spiritual and suprasensory impulses. This Christ descends from cosmic
Gnosis had been able to understand the Christ, but they knew that he
faculties. This was what they knew about the Christ.
was born; he carried the Christ, and God lived in that human being.
concerned with the Christ. How should we conceive the union of these
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
sentient body. This takes us back 6,000 years before our Christian
have passed through since the founding of Christianity, we again come
we prepare for it through the keeping of the Christmas Festival, as I
that frame of mind which is in accord with the ‘Christmas
Science, let us accept a true Christmas attitude of reverence. Let us

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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch den Christus-Impuls.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch den Christus-Impuls.
minerals, so 6000 years before our Christian ere marked the
founding of Christianity; this will bring us to a time when we
ourselves for the Christmas Festival, as explained during one
within us as a sacred Christmas feeling, we prepare ourselves

Title: Lecture: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
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Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
that Christ taught those to pray who were able to understand Him after He had
disciples of Christ could still evoke at that time and which, as I have
souls which were so intimately associated with the Christ could raise their
eyes to this power — who for them was the Christ — and pray Him
intimate disciples of Jesus Christ during the time I have indicated. They
instructed in all these matters during the time that Christ held intercourse

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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sense with the Christian impulses which weave and undulates
the reincarnated Christ appears. And being a true orthodox
Christian of his time, this priest knows that he has to put
Jesus Christ in prison. That is the first thing that he does.
Christianity of our age says to himself: “Ah, yes,
Christ has come back. You are indeed the Christ. However, you
cannot enter into Christianity as it is now with our priests
impractical in your approach. If Christianity as you know it
reincarnated Christ over to the inquisition.” In the
spiritual; you see Christ appearing externally in the
Jesus Christ Considered from the Psychiatric Standpoint.
pathological situation of Jesus Christ. A well known
Jesus Christ.

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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Christian Plunk. I do not intend to defend everything which
Karl Christian Plunk has written in a dogmatic way. However,
by Karl Christian Plunk appeared,a wonderful
to Karl Christian Plunk. Plunk actually was an Idealist; he
examples, however, I am just pointing to Karl Christian
living in a time when the second appearance of Christ will
occur shortly, the Etheric Christ Being, that second
appearance of Christ upon earth. However, it is necessary to
should be, then the Christ when He appears in His new form
he has experienced the Etheric Christ, then he must not be

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Krishna Murti the carrier of the Christ and I would be the

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Murti Alcione being the physical carrier of Christ Jesus. And
grasping of Christ in connection with the book entitled
the 2nd post-Christian Millennium and it will not be long
two occult directions, one pole carries the cosmic Christian
character, the other carries the Church Christian character.
cosmic Christian character of the symbolic brotherhoods, so

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symbolic placing of Christ Jesus in the grave. Then you have
Christ Jesus lying in the grave from Good Friday through
Resurrection is celebrated, which means that Christ is again
Resurrected Christ. When one considers the action which
spiritual science only when we see in it not just a Christmas
Hiram, or shall we say that portion of Christ which always is
dead Christ rests in the grave. Then follows the Resurrection in

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Recall that which exists in that cycle an Christian
the beginning of the first Degree of Christian Initiation.
movement, namely, Christian Morgenstern, has brought this
previous years was said in connection with Christian
Christian Morgenstern was very closely attached to our
never mentions the fact that Christian Morgenstern was really
poetry. Christian Morgenstern, if he were alive today, would
Lissour (sic) comes from, but Christian Morgenstern would say

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nothing is said about Christianity.
said about Christianity. How can we understand these things?
teachings which are not affected by Christianity. We also
not involve Christianity. These occult brotherhoods place
which is essentially the basis of the Christian world view. I
have often mentioned that Christianity rests upon the fact
Christ descended and spiritualized the body of Jesus in the
the Christ Being in the spiritual heights. Hence those people
future coming of Christ. They could prophesy it, because they
found Christ in the spiritual worlds and saw Him on His path
earth development. Therefore you would not find the Christ in
have the Christ in their earth science, because Christ was
they were able to announce the coming of the Christ upon the
find the Christ interwoven in the whole history of those
people who are permeated by Christianity; and to present a
historical thesis without speaking about Christ is actually
anything about history if you do not show how the Christ
Christ has descended in order to unite himself with the
earth, then the Christ is not directly there. One must
not understand how Christ can be found through the real
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order to understand the phenomenon of Christ Jesus, we must
year, then in the 30th year the Christ Individuality
Christ Individuality lives for three years in this body. So
which the Christ descended; that world which was there before
we have the higher worlds in which Christ lived and the world
about it. They called them unchristian ideas and said: Let us
not have those ideas, just have faith in the sort of Christ
side that we are attacked by official Christianity and also

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development of mankind through Christ, then the way that the
The Christ Being incarnates in the Nathan Jesus Child with
the Solomon Jesus Child, the Christ Being Who comes from
recognize in Christ a union of the spiritual worlds external
I follow the Christ Jesus.
The Fool in Christo Emanual Quint,
weak mind in order to represent Christ. I know very well that
Fool in Christo Emanual Quint
The Fool in Christo Emanual Quint
The Fool in Christo Emanual Quint.
for Christ Jesus, so also must the concept of Christ as it
this concept of Christ is crucified through books such as
The Fool in Christo Emanual Quint
came and announced that he was Christ. But Hauptmann in an
Christ, then the people would have thrown Christ out.
Christ, to the historical Christ, to the Zarathustra Child in
which the Christ Being entered, to the earthly Christ,
into the earth; to the Christ understanding, to that Power
Christ. When we come together again, I will be able to attach

Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture One
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Mystery of Golgotha. He was much concerned with the Christ. And he
Christ as a Jew. But, precisely because Christ was a Jew, it was
imitating Christ, by changing and becoming a Christian. At this stage
there entered into his thinking the idea of a kind of modern Christ,
but a Christ who had freed humanity from evil and from original sin.
from which Christ, out of his deeper knowledge, is to free modern
Weininger saw this as the fulfilment of Christianity which he, as a

Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Two
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reconciliation, the year in which the Christ would appear in the
appearance of Christ in the flesh. This span was that of a single
of the Christ's descent from the sphere of the Sun to the Earth. The
passage through time. Those who lived in the time of Christ's coming

Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Six
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Christ brought his message to the Earth.
predominantly a knowledge of the external world, the Christ appears
person who experiences the guidance of Christ to transform knowing
into a holy service — by connecting it with the Christ. Today,
service. But as mankind comes more and more to understand how Christ

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of the Divine, by the coming of Christ with His message to the Earth.
world—at that very moment the Christ came down from the spiritual
extent, but as human beings begin to understand the sense in which Christ

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experience (Christian von Ehrenfels).
Kosmogonie, by Christian von Ehrenfels
can observe in Christian von Ehrenfels' Kosmogonie.
book. So I wanted to speak to you here about Christian von Ehrenfel's

Title: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Ten
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read a book about the development of Christianity-everywhere you will

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The correct understanding of the Christ principle for our times is
from the Christ principle up to now has not been enough to stem the
times. But, as I have often said before, Christ did not come with the
that the Christ said, ‘Certain things have I done. Quickly write
on which they act sits falsely, very falsely. For the Christ said,
implies that it is always possible to receive Christ's revelation! In
the early days of Christianity it was the Gospels that came from this
written.’ As regards understanding the Christ, spiritual science

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have just said represents the true conception of the Christ-Principle
Christ-Principle up to our day have not been able to prevent the
Christ, as I have said more than once, did not say: ‘I am here
Christ had actually said: ‘I have done these things and now
men act to-day. For the Christ said: “I will be with you
Christendom this revelation formed the content of the Gospels; to-day
down what could be written at the beginning of the Christian era
Christ which in the present age could be unfolded by nothing else.

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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Christiania, Nov.–Dec., 1921 Anthroposophical Publishing Co.]

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us, but only because the Christ has descended from the Sun to the

Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture I
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
how Christianity pervaded Roman civilization, allowing itself to be
institutions of early Christianity were received into the structure of
expansion of Christianity, this Latin-Roman element spread over all of
As you know, after she had absorbed Greece and Christianity, a time
to the original free expansion of Christianity by having the works of
Christianity and also brought semi-occult communications into it,
the Faith,” “the most Christian of Monarchs,” etc.
Christianity and Greece so merged that today we can no longer
distinguish Christian from Greek in Renaissance art. In connection
Greek or Christian. The two elements have merged in such a way that

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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
also received Christianity, which in Rome would have assumed a form
Ahriman, as we have seen, diverted the forces of Christianity to his
being of Christ is of great significance, and so we will select
Christ that is of deep significance. It is not a life of Jesus but an
understanding of Christ that culminates in what Soloviev wrote about
hear why, and Soloviev's conception of the meaning of the Christ event
that all of his work culminates in the Christ idea.
Christianity, it was not only Christianity that was taken over from
the ability to portray the Christ remained with the East. The Jesus
find that the figure of Jesus, of the Christ, is again continually
of Renan, the Jesus of Strauss, who is no Jesus, and the Christ of
Land. Christ Jesus, who should belong to all of mankind, becomes a
investigates all that was said of Jesus insofar as He was the Christ.
concerning Christ, who lived in Jesus. Then he sets out to investigate
the extent to which what is related of the Christ has also been living
is told of a miraculous birth and the development of Jesus Christ is
Christ in all men — the Christ who has lived in and through all
the spiritual Christ force that lives in all humanity. For Strauss,
mankind itself is the Christ, and He works always before and after
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
when he speaks of Christ Jesus. He speaks only of the historic figure
criterion of knowledge regarding the figure of Christ Jesus, then
only on the Christ being. Should this impulse spread, there would be
Christ being. It is the opposite of the other impulse and it, too, is
interest only in the Christ and not for the historical Jesus.
external description, so are Soloviev's representations of the Christ

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to show how the Christian spirit identified itself with
raised by those who still had sympathy with the old Christian
the conception of heaven held by mediaeval Christianity. We
man whom I have mentioned before, Christian von Ehrenfels, who
quite curious. And this Cosmogony of Christian von

Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture IV
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
twelfth centuries of the Christian era differed more radically from
and tenth Christian centuries.

Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture V
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
up longings to discover it. It was this book that induced Christopher
as being definitely connected with what instigated Christopher
to pass in Christ Himself. Impulses for life are sought in the
more to the Christ and the West more to Jesus, there is this truth:

Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture VI
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
will: in fact, out of the Christian impulses of the European will. At
That is to say, into the progressive, good, truly Christian impulses
times and the wisdom of Solomon could work together for Christianity
of Christian evolution.
life by a Christian spirit. With respect to the immeasurable zeal that
could be accomplished for the Christianizing of the whole of European
connected with the Christian impulse. The force of this union with the
Christ was strong and intensive. He was a true Knight Templar who no
longer knew anything of himself, but when he felt, he let the Christ
feel in him; when he thought, he let the Christ think in him; when he
was filled with enthusiasm, he let the Christ in him be enthusiastic.
having known the rules of the Christian initiation other than through
the Christian impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha that consequently
many Knights experienced a Christian initiation. We have before us the
experience of a number of men, the Christian initiation, which is to
men through Christian initiation, arises from the fundamental depths
Christian symbolism as it had taken shape through the development of
symbolism. Many a one who in consequence of his Christian initiation
could look into the Christian impulses passing through the historical
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centuries, and also the wisdom in particular of pre-Christian
he cannot yet recognise the wisdom of Christianity. This is
impulse, the urge, towards Christianity is already alive in
there as the Christ, he overcomes the opposing spirit. He
poodle. But when he calls upon the figure of Christ,
Mystery of Golgotha, before the Christian reckoning of time,

Title: Lecture: Inner Impulses: Lecture VII
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Thomas Moore. Steiner shows how we must Christianize all our activities
tortured after having previously experienced a Christian initiation
Christian initiation, so that a great number of them could actually
Christian religion and the Mystery of Golgotha, an admission which,
attained a Christian initiation and beheld the secrets of the Mystery

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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number of souls who were faithful and devoted followers of Christianity
blood of the Templars belonged to Christ Jesus — each one of them knew
this — their blood belonged to nothing else on earth than to Christ
“Not I, but Christ in me!” And in bloody and severe combats, in
had gained the power actually to attain Christian initiation by means of the
historical event. Christian initiation may be attained in the manner
were accused above all of blaspheming Christianity, of blaspheming the

Title: of Utility: Lecture I: Western and Eastern Culture, H. P. Blavatsky
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kind, of the Lives written of Christ Jesus, has received its
to the Christ. You find this very strongly in Solovieff.
only the Jesus, Solovieff considers only the Christ; Ernest
considers the Christ; and he only speaks of moral, spiritual
earthly sphere. The Christ has nothing earthly, although He
Strauss Christ is not a figure cut off as with Solovieff, but
humanity — that Christ Who for thousands of years has
united with an idea of Christ. With Ernest Renan, we have a
personal and historical Jesus. With Solovieff we have a Christ
element working in Christ Jesus, — for this personal
Christ Jesus. It is a question of the birth of Jesus. With
Solovieff the question is especially: “What does Christ
signify for human evolution? And how can Christ save what is

Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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of Christianity, and the following centuries until the beginning
this epoch, when Christianity was slowly finding its way into all
into the unimaginative Roman culture that Christianity, coming
from the East, first had to spread. Nevertheless, Christianity as
connected with the early Christian conceptions.
Christianity found its way into the West, the Roman
the very earliest times of Christian Art we find the figure of
Christ Jesus and the others around Him permeated still by the
first Christian centuries. Should the Redeemer be represented in
Golgotha. Enriched by Oriental fancy, this early Christian art
impulses of Christianity had come to Earth from another world,
to feel not only man but Christ Himself. He wanted to feel what
Christ is for poor simple men. Out of the very heart of a
Christianity thus felt, he then evolved his wondrous feeling for
conceives the union of Christ with human life. Surely it cannot
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16. Giotto: The Baptism of Christ. (Capella Madonna dell'
24. Giotto: The Resurrection of Christ. (Capella Madonna
32. Giotto: Mourning for Christ.
evolution of Christianity until the time of Dante and Giotto, we
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Title: History of Art: Lecture II: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
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their creative work unless we understand the character which Christianity
century Italian Christianity witnessed the rise even among the Popes, of
name of “Christian” had been lost sight of, comparatively
a different feeling of Christianity than inspired those who lived, for
other hand, we consider the Christian traditions, the concepts and ideas
time in Christianity. So free an Art as was developed in Leonardo and
ideas of Christianity were lifted out of their context and taken by
from the moral element; and thus the Christian thought, loosed from
could never think in any other than a Christian way. He not only felt
as a Christian; he conceived the order of the World in mighty pictures,
in the Christian sense. Imagine him placed in the midst of that time,
when the Christian conceptions had, as it were, become objectified and
been known to him as Christianity. It was the beginning of Jesuitical
Christianity. And so he entered on the twilight of his life.
expression of the Christian feeling. This element is everywhere poured
of the ages a well-nigh inexpressible quality of Christian Art. This,
3. Verrocchio and Leonardo: Baptism of Christ. (Uffizi. Florence.)
impulse whereby our friend the Poet, Christian Morgenstern, went from
17. Head of Christ. (Study for the Last Supper.) (Brera. Milan)
at the Head of Christ. These reproductions are familiar.
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Title: History of Art: Lecture III: Dürer and Holbein
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spread of Christianity in the more Southern regions. These Northern
spread of Christianity. Little is left of what wls contained in the
natural. In the oldest period of Christian culture we find the
spread of Christianity and Romanism. Moreover, that which rayed out
advancing wave of Christianity, poured itself out into all this,
conception of the Christian tradition coming upwards from the
9. Christ and the Three Wise Virgins.
Christ. (Munich.)
30. Matthias Grünewald. Resurrection of Christ.
Albrecht von Brandenburg before the Christ. (Augsburg.)
being is painted here to show how he reveres the Christ. A
Christ. The whole conception shows how this very soul comes to
Brandenburg before the Crucified Christ. (Alte Pinakothek,
41. Raphael. Christ carrying the Cross
46. Dürer. Mourning for Christ. (Pinakothek.
picture of the Christian knight, or, as it is often called:
represented — the Christian knight who has revolted thoroghly
leaves them on one side, and perseveres on his way. ‘The Christian
opposite her, perhaps, St. John, a great Cross with the Christ in
‘Melancholia,’ and his ‘Christian Knight,’
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course in earlier times. Suppose that today the Christmas
Christmas time is one of the most brilliant points of this
wide awake at Christmas; then the earth's aura is

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Christmas festival did not take its course as it does to-day,
Christmas festival: ‘During the Christmas Season, our Earth as
Christmas. At this time the aura of the Earth is woven
at the time of Christmas. For then the aura of the Earth is

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Christianity from the side of Rome. Until the 12th and 13th
know of the spread of Christianity in the succeeding time. For the
whole spread of Christianity was a very different thing in those
always felt like a foreign body, still the Christian impulses found
Christianity into the soul found expression especially in the
the Christian ideas entering, above all, into the imaginative life,
infinitely rich life of Christian vision and imagination in the
believe that Christianity contains a peculiar, morally religious
13th — reveal in Art the progressive appeal of Christianity, and
especially the tragic elements of Christianity, to human heart and
countenance of Christianity itself as fair as possible — that,
Christian Feeling for all human life. And the strange thing is that
Christianity into the life of the people is also recognisable, or,
again — the Christmas and Easter Plays, and Plays of the Three
of the Christian world-conception. The Play concerning Anti-Christ,
stories and the sacred legends. Out of this life with the Christian
Passion, and notably in the head of Christ Himself as conceived by
Christ till Dürer's time, and in other things as well, we find
connected with the name of Cimabue. Here it is more the Christ
as is the Byzantine type of Christ, inwardly human is the
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of Christian evolution — say, from the third to the
its noble ancestry and Christianity will become a modern
modern China, and that is Christianity. Christianity cannot so
he finds even Christianity made flat and superficial —
600 years before the Christian Era. Ku Hung Ming clearly

Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VII
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spiritually at work in the first centuries of the Christian
in spite of its noble forefathers and its Christianity, would
becoming another China was Christianity, which is not so easily
Christianity had also become shallow, flattened out by

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are standing on the true ground of Christianity. This Spiritual
themselves are standing on the ground of Christianity.
who think themselves especially advanced in their Christian
(whom he re-christened ‘God’) the Luciferic Angel
sometimes ask, how does the human soul find its way to Christ?
And we may say, since Christ is a higher Being than all the
Archai, the way to Christ needs to be found. For by the way of
the ordinary religious faiths to-day, Christ is not found, but
the name of Christ. It is an absolute impossibility for two
the Christ. Surely there is no difficulty in seeing that,
in the sense that one merely speaks the name: ‘Christ,
Christ’ or ‘Lord, Lord’ (as Christ Himself
of the Christ. Therefore the question may arise: how can the human
soul find a way to Christ at all? To gain instruction on this question
when Christ went through the Mystery of Golgotha. To indicate
the Word. It was the Christ. But men must first find the
way to make Christ living in their souls. The Christ is there.
Angel only comes into relation to the one man, Christ can have
better how Christ may be found — or rather, how a way to
man of to-day find a way to Christ?
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IX
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Christian foundation, but without understanding it correctly,
Christianity is especially antagonistic to this view of the
be unusually advanced in their Christian conception will
human soul then really reaches Christ. It may be said that,
since Christ is, of course, a Being higher than all the archai,
the way to Christ must be found. The paths that are used today
by the ordinary religious confessions do not lead to the Christ
the name of the Christ since it is an absolute impossibility
the Christ. I think this is not difficult to see because it is
Christ, Christ, or Lord, Lord — as Christ
impossible when a person is really speaking of Christ. So the
leading to the Christ. We may approach the solution to this
Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. If we wish to
we should pass beyond the fourth century before Christ all the
Christ in the third, fourth, or fifth centuries, cause a gentle
say, “I am the Word.” This is the Christ. But men must first
find the way to make Christ live in their souls. The Christ is
Christ can have a far higher significance than even an
understand a little better how the Christ can be found in the
a way to the Christ today?”
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relationship with the Christ today, the objection is made by
mine.” But in general, humanity's relation to the Christ-Being
that a basic element in the confession of Christ must be the
the path that leads to Christ, since it is obvious that each
we seek to understand in a more profound sense what the Christ
the second millennium before Christ, the people of the Near
came from the human soul. It was necessary that the Christ
of them.” This is an important principle in Christianity
Christ. Those who wish to practice individual mysticism, as
other persons make their gods. The Christ is found in different
but when we are most of all aware that the Christ belongs to
Christ demands something more, something different. He demands
restored to him through the appearance of Christ on earth. Read
From Jesus to Christ,
that Christ was on earth.
the coming of the Christ has brought it about that we recognize
publican, the Christ who is behind him. The Christ sat down
further. If the luciferic evolution had continued, if Christ
place of Christ, and this was to be achieved by introducing
and that Christianity must be fought in every way.
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Title: History of Art: Lecture V: Rembrandt
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498. Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus, 1629.
512. The Ascension of Christ (Munich. Alto
536. Christ at Emmaus. (Louvre, Paris.)
539. Christ and the Adulteress. (Minneapolis.)
majority of Rembrandt's pictures, the Christ is by no means beautiful.
550. The Scourging of Christ. (Darmstadt.)
567. Christ of the Mount of Olives
565. Christ Healing the Sick
the Christ figure are expressed.

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laws, coercive measures. Even as long ago as the time of Christ,
love, and the legal order by voluntary imitation of Christ.
principle of power — just as, quite logically, the early Christians

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anthroposophical spiritual science we understand Christianity to be
with the fact that Christ was condemned, died, was buried, but then
right to anyone to call himself a Christian unless he recognizes this
too. What, though, had to happen so that Christ was able to undergo,
Christians owe it to Judas that your Mystery of Golgotha took place
at all. You owe it to the executioner's men, who nailed Christ

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Petrus Christus,
evolution altogether steeped in Christian ideas — the Christian
by the German Christian Masters of the period immediately preceding
it thus. Throughout the centuries of Christianity this idea had gradually
this picture shows the Christian legend transplanted into the artist's
once more by the same artist. And now a picture taken from the Christian
We now come to Petrus Christus:
23. Petrus Christus. The Annunciation (wings of an Altar-piece) (Berlin.)
24. Petrus Christi. The Birth of Christ
Annunciation) and the presentation of the Christ Child. Petrus Christus
26. John the Baptist and Christopher
on the other side the Christophorus — the Christ-Bearer. Truly,
40. Gerard David. Baptism of Christ. (Bruges.)
41. Gerard David. Madonna and Christ, with Angels. (Rouen.)
46. Hieronymus Bosch. Christ carrying the Cross.
49. Quentin Matsys. Mourning for Christ. (Antwerp.)
53. Patinir. The Baptism of Christ. (Vienna.)

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Christianity there. The A-94-Utopians proved to be most open to it
told that Christianity has been introduced and that all believe in a

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necessary to be truly Christian — that is Pauline — and

Title: Karma of Untruthfulness I: Lecture Nine
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I described how the wisdom about Christ was destroyed root and
significance of Christ. Together with Gnosis there disappeared the
possibility of comprehending the Christ-Being as a cosmic being.
the Christ-Being.
wisdom about Christ as the fact itself, the fact that Christ turned
understanding of the Christ-Being will first have to be won through
pre-Christian times — I said 3000 years BC — there was a
to developing an understanding of the Christ-Being in Gnosis, the
understanding of the Easter Mystery, the Christ Mystery. But the
out the Christ Mystery, whereas in the North it was its task to root
out the Christmas Mystery, to transform it into something innocuous.
Thus later, in the Middle Ages, the idea of Christmas came into being
together in the middle of winter, just after our present Christmas
every child was in a way a Christmas child, a child of the winter
it reached the East, where the Christ-Being was to be incarnated in
understanding was for the Luke gospel, and that the Christmas Mystery
among the secrets of the church, whereas the Christmas Mystery became
twelfth hour of the night that we now call Christmas Eve, the
which the gospels later created the life of Christ Jesus. These
until quite recently in history, right into the early Christian
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that make clear for us how Christianity had to, and indeed should,
understand what still wants to express itself in the Christmas,
Christ idea goes back to early, early times.
of the Christ idea can be traced back to the mysteries of the
spiritual worlds by the Being Who underlies the Christ idea before He
the path of Christ through the spiritual worlds in the way it is done in
Gnosis. But this ancient Gnosis also had its own image of Christ, its
Christ idea. It was capable of drawing sufficient understanding out
of its atavistic or clairvoyant knowledge to comprehend the Christ in
— follow one another; and one such aeon is the Christ. Gnosis
showed how, as aeon after aeon evolved, Christ gradually descended
It is a good thing on occasions such as the Christmas festival to
of the Christ idea; that when Gnosis was rooted out the Christ idea
Christ idea more or less disappeared. Now spiritual science has the
comprehending this Christ idea, of forming a Christ idea that is not
of Golgotha. In ancient times the Christ-child was welcomed wherever
pedantic. We then saw how, as external Christianity spread, all
done. The World Logos, Whose birth we celebrate in the Christmas
there was an important Christ idea; it disappeared in the South and,
West the Christ idea has been unable to come together with the Jesus
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an individual speaks of a mystical Christ within him, this is no more
as a whole, which means for every individual human being. Christ died
other kind of being. It is possible to speak about a Christian, about
one whose attitude of mind is Christian, but it is complete nonsense
to talk of a Christian nation. There is no reality in this. Christ
Golgotha can be a Christian, but it is not possible to speak of a
Christian nation. The true soul of a nation, its folk soul, belongs
interpreted or commented upon in a Christian sense.
the Christmas lecture were to happen, namely, if it were to be
recorded for all time that, in the Christmas season of the nineteen

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penny or a centime invested at the time of the birth of Christ at

Title: Karma of Untruthfulness II: Lecture Fourteen
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if Judas had not betrayed Christ Jesus, the Mystery of Golgotha would
since Christianity — that is, the Mystery of Golgotha — stems from him.
founder of Christianity is going too far! Wherever we strive to enter
Christiania. We must resolve to approach the spirit of a nation in this
‘But that was just it: his example made Christopher understand that
path, and would step down into the road. Christopher's blood boiled
John Christopher.

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relate especially to the birth of Christ Jesus, the Adoration by the
our souls, from another aspect, that which is living in the Old Christmas
bear in mind the general lines of development of Christian Art, which
of the early Christian centuries into the times of the Renaissance.
Christian Art evolve towards Naturalism, that is, towards a certain
pictures relating more especially to the Birth of Christ. Then we shall
of the Cosmos — the Wise Men draw near to the Christ Who
the Gnostic stream: the consciousness that the Christ-Event was a cosmic
came to life, as you know, in the Old Christmas Plays. But the appearance
the “Gnostic” Revelation concerning Jesus Christ. We cannot
of the East came to the birthplace of Christ Jesus, led by the Star which
is really the Star of Christ. But it goes on to relate that something now
of Time which was indicated as the day of Christ Jesus's Death.
approaching Christ from the physical plane — all that is connected,
of the Myth grew into the representations of the Christian theme. The
to represent the new impulse, the Christ event; and so it was with many
You will feel the connection of it with what is given in the old Christmas
to a later time, nevertheless they are from earlier Christmas Plays
Star with the incoming of the Christ Jesus Soul.

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beings on earth — in other words, not Christian ideas — which are
what matters in Christianity is not so much its doctrine. This doctrine
is seized upon by modern progressive theology as if Christ Jesus were
resurrection of Christ Jesus.

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frequently discussed this in past years. In the Christian world view this

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hollowed out. Just think what an extraordinary Christianity lived in
Christianity against which the thunderous words of Savonarola were
directed. For in isolated individuals, such as Savonarola, the Christ
official Christianity into the dust. A history telling of what happened
at the point from which Christianity rayed forth would have to say: The
power of the Roman church element rayed forth, but the Christian souls
elements. Here there was a desire not for the Christianity of the Papal
impulse. While a kind of Christianity is carried into Europe on the
developing as a more inward Christianity, parallel with that of the
as, in the Reformation, Central European Christianity emancipated
as the actual physical Christ,
good Christianity. But it will be a long time before such things are
Powers' Christmas call for peace. So this Christmas call for peace is

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outcome of the Christian world-conception. So perfectly does it express
this theme: The Birth of Christ Jesus in connection with the Madonna,
soul. One of the ideas of the Christian conception of the world has
picture for a moment as though we knew nothing of the Christian
We can regard them from a Christian aspect (and the above two points of
view are by no means the only ones), — looking at it in a Christian
10. Raphael. Sketch of the Mourning for Christ.
imagine, as it were, the Genius of Christianity itself painting in the
representatives of Christianity are being crowned with roses by Mary,
37. Dürer. Christ with the Crown of Thorns.
43. Dürer. Christ on the Cross. (Woodcut)
44. Dürer. Mourning for Christ. (Woodcut)
of the Birth of Christ. Once again there is really nothing of those
51. Multscher. Christ in Gethsemane. (Town
of the Head of Christ, which was elaborated by and by in the course
of time, had already reached. Compare this Head of Christ with the one
most originally and most truly. Here, too, Christianity was inwardly
the German heart and mind. The absorption of Christianity was a far
not accept what brought Christianity to them from the South in a form
already marred by Rome; they tried to recreate Christianity themselves
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world, saying — as it were: We do not want Christ to be our guide,
Christ, who is the guide for the normal world; we want a different
if human beings place themselves in the service of Christ. But there
— is accepted by many people. But someone who is a true Christian might
meaning of Christianity, would have said about it. They would have
called it a blasphemy! In a truly Christian sense, this would hit the
something eminently anti-Christian. This faith represents an important
occult impulse in a particular direction, away from normal Christian
post-Atlantean period. I have stressed very strongly that Christ died
prevent any influence by Christ in the sixth post-Atlantean period —

Title: History of Art: Lecture IX: Sculpture in Ancient Greece and the Renaissance
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the last century before the birth of Christ. We come to the School of
the Pisanos, that the Christian Art afterwards became able to express
a Christ that Donatello attempted, exclaimed; “That is not a Christ
thereupon himself undertook to model the Christ. Donatello — for
kind of pinafore. Just as he entered, Brunelleschi unveiled his Christ.

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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stressed — to a very deep conception of Christianity,
one-sided cultivation of the principles of Christianity leads
many bigotted Christian pastors, and people of that kind,
of the Christian middle-ages, in which is extinguished

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“CHRISTIANITY AS A MYSTICAL FACT,”

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Christianity as Mystical Fact.

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is the appearance of the Etheric Christ. This is a necessity. Mankind
make their appearance, will be paralysed. Then, not the Christ alone,
I wrote about Karl Christian Planck
to a pass such as that reached by Karl Christian Planck, who finally
‘Karl Christian Planck. More than one
I said in my lecture that Karl Christian Planck had foreseen the
as possible in Stuttgart to the the philosopher Karl Christian Planck,
clergymen. What they express about Christianity or the awareness of God,
negotiations, and the Christmas call for peace would not have been

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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here on earth, the Christ impulse is the heart of the moral
beings encounter the Christ impulse here on the physical
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz: Anno 1459
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
The age of humanity then matched the age at which Christ went

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can they gain an idea of what Jesus Christ meant when he
Jesus Christ did not want to bring a kingdom of perfection to
the gospels to show that Christ intended to reform this outer
Christian baptism for Hermann Bahr's ancestors down to the

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— the figure of Christ Jesus and above Him the figure of
where the sanctuary is found. On both sides of the Christ
central Christ figure appear Saints, the Madonna on his right
the close connection of the development of the outer Christian
the Christian ecclesiastical world would relate to. On the
centuries further back when Christianity already had power. I
we wish to experience what Christianity was before the
6th Century we need to imagine the Christian
Christian imaginations. Yet by reading Augustine today one gets
9th were permeated with Christian thoughts
permeate their Christian thinking with highly spiritual
after the Mystery of Golgotha and follow the Christian ideas
Christ, the Christ as He was in the spiritual worlds, while
supplementary. To search for The Christ amidst spiritual
9th Century Europe needed Christianity while
Kingdom of Christ in this world. As a result we see Europe had
the fate of constituting the realm of Christ outwardly as an
Christ Jesus on earth, which would be on the physical
Kingdom of Christ; but this Kingdom of Christ is from this
of Christ is of this world. However a consciousness prevailed
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 10: Disputa and The School of Athens of Raphael
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have the figure of Christ-Jesus, clearly visible, but perhaps lying
— and above the figure of the Christ-Jesus and the figure of God,
Holy Spirit. At both sides of the Christ-figure we have now, corresponding
both sides of the Christ-figure. In the middle, immediately next to
the Christ-figure are the Madonna and John the Baptist; then other saints:
of the external Christian-church world, and also with every other element
himself in still earlier centuries, even those centuries when Christianity
what developed through Christianity before the 9th, then we have to
imagine the christian ideas to be much more spiritual than one is prone
to do usually. Augustine already took out of the christian ideas only
and look for the Christian thoughts, then we find that they were so
Christ, the Christ who was in the spiritual world. And what he had become
To seek the Christ amidst
Christianity that pushes back the spiritual concepts. And a result of
realm of Christ into a realm of this world. And then we see that Europe
on the physical plane, the realm of Christ. One might say: By Rome,
constituted instead, which was to be the realm of Christ Jesus on earth,
became the one to say, “my realm is the realm of the Christ, but
this realm of the Christ is of this world, and we must constitute
it so, that it is of this world, that realm of the Christ.
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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seek to bring Christ's words to realization: ‘Where two

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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things, that Jesus Christ — that strange individual

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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the Body and blood of Christ enter into them. Everything
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz,

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and "The Dragon"
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people christen everything ‘moral impulse’‘

Title: History of Art: Lecture XI: Icons, Miniatures, German Masters
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“Birth of Christ” — we considered this image in
Miniature Birth of Christ and the annunciation to the shepherds
worlds were for them. From there the saints, the Christ figure
Miniature of Christ's birth: Proclamation to the Shepherds
Christ's birth. When you take this shepherds' proclamation of
Stephan Lochner: Christ on the Cross (Nurnberg, Germanic
through the whole of Christendom, only with a slight variation
Hans Multscher: Birth of Christ (Berlin, German Museum)
Hans Multscher: Christ on the Mount of Olives (Vipiteno

Title: History of Art: Lecture 11: Fourth and Fifth Post-Atlantean Epochs, Medieval Art in the Middle, West, and South of Europe
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of a prayer book which shows “The Birth of Christ.” We know
5. Miniature: Birth of Christ and Annunciation to
There, the Saints come, there the Christ-Figure itself comes, everything
6. Miniature: Birth of Christ — The Announcement
of the Shepherds” below, the “Birth of Christ” above.
15. Stephan Lochner. Christ
way through Christianity, varied only a little according to how things
18. Hans Multscher, The Birth of Christ
19. Hans Multscher, Christ at the Mount of Olives

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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Christ.’
the message of Jesus Christ with Jesus Christ himself. This

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
Ancient Christian sculpture
Christianity and the Christ impulse spread, it had to deal with
certain sense. Thus we see, while the Christ impulse spread
impulses of Christianity also represented death; the Greek
Hellenism was already growing in the first artistic Christian
have put together two motifs from the ancient Christian art of
Christian art; if one believes that the Jesus figure is linked
Christ on the cross, between the two thieves.
with the previous image (661). The mystery of Christianity
Christianity one finds such inadequate representations of the
central mystery of Christianity.
Christian times was focussed on the mystery of death, which had
particularly noticeable in sensitive Christians. So you see why
of the first Christian centuries depicted in reliefs and most
profound need of the first sensitive Christians. The secrets of
sarcophagus art of the first Christian centuries in particular,
means to delve into what was being done in Christianity, to a
we see for example the sarcophagus of the early Christian
central figure: the Christ. Notice how the two other figures
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Title: History of Art: Lecture 12: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs,
Christianity, the
Christ-Impulse, had to consider these factors, this playing of the
Christianity, had to reach back, in a certain sense to this impulse of the
third post-Atlantean age. Hence we see that, as the Christ-Impulse
life, Christianity, with its impulses, had to place death. The cross
first Christian artistic creations, but also how at the same time these
from the old Christian art of the first Christian centuries. They will
living; how it grows into the Christian art. For with the “Good
Christ on the Cross between
picture. What entered as the Mystery of Christianity cannot yet be mastered
Christianity.
to sensuality: The glance, the soul-view of the early Christian time
the cultus of death was especially noted by the sensitive Christians.
Christian centuries, especially also in the three dimensional works
death, that was a deep desire for the first, devout Christians.
Christian centuries means, to seek deeply for what Christianity did,
a sarcophagus of the early christian centuries.
sign, the monogram of Christ, the Chi (X) and the Rho (P), that is: Christ,
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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— which was to prepare the way for Christianity —
The Christ,
the vicar, of the Christ, of the Christ impulse to create

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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Christ and the Gospels from this point of view. Two
Christianity are said to be due to the fact that at the
about in Palestine as Jesus Christ and infected people with
Christianity.

Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
Ancient Christian paintings and mosaic
evolution of the concept of the Christ as depicted in art.
Ancient Christian paintings and mosaic;
around the concept of the Christ from various viewpoints but
Europe depicted the Christ figure, it is repeatedly shown that
the attempt to depict the Christ figure artistically actually
of Christianity experienced a conclusion to a certain extent, a
themselves Christians, they limited their imagination to a
monogram of Christ:
Christ monogram
Christ monogram
Christ monogram with two doves.
Christ monogram:
the content of the Christian development. This is very
figures which we connect to Christian representation as
we want to limit our observations to the Christ figure Himself.
Christ is represented, most frequently of all, the image of the
in the pre-Christian times. This image — chosen from one out of
we limit ourselves in particular to the Christ figure in this
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The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
The Changes in the Conception of Christ
in man's conception of the Christ. We can, in a sense, speak of an
when it was that men began in Europe to depict the figure of Christ,
when the Gospels, the literature of Christianity, reached a kind of
Christians, the representation of Christ had been confined to what could
screen — with the monogram of Christ in the centre, — the
1. Christ-Monogram
2. Another example of the Christ-Monogram
3. Christ-Monogram between doves
4. Altered form of Christ-Monogram
the representation of Christ still moved entirely in the forms of the old,
the Christian development in Art. This is exceedingly important. It may be
Gospels. We find that men portrayed the figures with which Christian ideas
to-day to the consideration of the figure of Christ. We find that in
the earliest times when men first began to portray the Christ, it is
of form in ancient pre-Christian art; that is most frequently shown.
the Christ figure, we may note that it has in this picture a quite antique
the Christian element is brought into the pagan, for everything was
as Christ became a Redeemer in regard to the unfolding of the other
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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those impulses which Christianity gave for the fifth
Helena-problem remained remote and strange. The Christians of
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Title: Lecture: The Overcoming of Evil
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age. It suffices to bear in mind the Christ-Impulse and the way
epoch, until the chief impulse, the Christ-Impulse, could become
the Christ Impulse deal with the great significant problem
discussions there have been among Christians on the birth of
Christ, how many thoughts and feelings have already been expended
the death of Christ! The birth and the death of Christ reveal

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time. We need only turn our gaze to the Christ-Impulse
founding of Rome in the year 747 before the Birth of Christ.
— the Christ-Impulsecould enter in, as indeed it did
Christ-Impulse to do with the great and important question
on Christian soil about the Birth of Christ! How infinitely
significant a part is played by the Death of Christ! In the
Birth and Death of Christ we see most pregnantly this
Christian Rosenkreuz, all consciousness originates out of

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evolution into a special relationship with the Christ, in the
Mystery Play is to come about: the Christ will appear to an
makes it possible for the Christ to be really seen in the
secret, concerning the etheric manifestation of Christ
and the resulting new relationship of the Christ to human
event, the appearance of the etheric Christ, for their own
as well as I do about the event of the Christ-appearance, but
taken by the Christ is altogether outside the wills and
actions of the Christ which in the course of the twentieth
Plays. That rests entirely with Christ alone. The Christ will
seeing to it that this Christ-Event is received in one way or
Christ should pass by unobserved in the twentieth century; that
purpose. These brotherhoods want to take over the Christ's
brotherhoods who want to dispute the impulse of the Christ and
people away from the Christ who has passed through the Mystery
being in place of the Christ-Being for the rest of the fifth
anti-Christian in the highest degree. For this other being,
called “Christ” by them; yes, they will really call
him “Christ!” And it will be essential for people
to learn to distinguish between the true Christ, who will not
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
earthly evolution. Christ appeared, for example, in the fourth
beings could grasp that they possessed something in the Christ
sufficiently clear through Pauline Christianity.
souls will recognize that they have in Christ the helper to transform
often told, how the Christianizing of Europe originated with the
Irish monks. When St. Patrick introduced Christianity into Ireland
the situation was such that Christianity led there to the highest
in which the forces of European Christianity originated in their best
lovingly initiated into Christianity. It was called this because of
the great devoutness that reigned within their Christian cloisters.
in Ireland as that glorious evolution of Christianity, the peaceful
spreading of Christianity from which streamed the Christianizing of
another being in the place of the Christ.

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example, the Christ appeared and passed through the Mystery of
could comprehend that in the Christ Impulse they had something
sufficiently clear through Pauline Christianity. The fifth
come to recognise the Christ as their helper in the task of
described: how Europe was Christianised by Irish monks.
After Patrick had introduced Christianity into Ireland, it came
about that Christianity there led to the highest spiritual
Christian monasteries there. This is connected with the fact
the peaceful interpretation of Christianity which eventually
led to the Christianising of Europe. The fellow-countrymen of
of the Christ.

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
the West, a kind of Antichrist; from the direction of the East, the
Christ impulse, as it appears in the twentieth century, is to be
paralyzed by directing the attention, the interest, away from Christ
Those concerned with introducing the Antichrist instead
of the Christ have endeavored to exploit what could work especially

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of Anti-Christ is introduced; and from the East an
manifestation of the Christ Impulse by diverting attention from
the coming etheric Christ.
Those concerned to present an Anti-Christ as the real Christ

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thought, even Christ-Jesus has become the

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19th century, Karl Christian Planck. In many places I have
seized the opportunity of drawing attention to Karl Christian
Christian Planck belongs to those spirits who saw at the
1880 of the past century. Men like Karl Christian Planck, who
who know something in the sense of Karl Christian Planck!
Christian Planck is not the only one, there are many others)
listened to Karl Christian Planck, and even now, who listens
the Christ impulse, of the Mystery of Golgotha. In earlier
not possible to speak of Christ Jesus as an historical
concerning Christ Jesus on a quarto page constitutes an
Christ Jesus if we seek him in an outward historical way; we
spiritual foundation we are free. One becomes Christian
above all, that one can be a Christian in a real sense only
Christianity shall gain the truth through which it will
gained into the fact that the evidence for Christianity must

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Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse. Published in German as,
And so on ... the Christians merely put Christ in the place
of Hercules, Dionysos and Osiris. Christ too is none other
needed the story of the Nazarene — Christ Jesus, the
Christ never was a physical personality, but a Sun. It was
theologians of the 19th century Christ gradually vanished
Christ-force entered the evolution of mankind. ‘In
on the Christ-impulse, it was not the mere word that

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Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse. Published in German as,
of our era. Revelation continues. Christ Jesus is always
present. The spirit and the outlook, recognising Christ Jesus
as ever-present, is precisely that Christian spirit which can
to speak — a Christmas character. This, as I said,
of the two outstanding festivals of Christianity —
Christmas and Easter — has been done in a very
significant way. Christmas is a so-called immovable Feast,
a movable Feast. Christmas is fixed because, as you know, it
deep meaning of the Christmas Festival. It is to remind us
recognises the Christmas Festival: he should seek for the
of the Earth, — just as the Christ-Child is found in a
Christmas is
yet deeper meaning in it, that the time between Christmas and
Christmas Festival, properly speaking, belongs to the Easter
Christmas-impulses — take place in a given year; others
the successive Christmas impulses in historic evolution are
between Christmas and Easter is longer or shorter as the case
pillars of the Christian understanding of the world, —
namely the Immaculate Conception of Christ Jesus, and the
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Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse. Published in German as,
Christian consciousness of to-day is still aware — or can,
poles to which I refer are the Christmas secret and the
Christmas secret is really the secret of birth; it represents
the birth of Christ Jesus, and therewithal attaches itself to
festival associated with the death of Christ Jesus. Now birth
festivals of Christmas and Easter, two gateways to the
invisible world are thus made the basis of the Christian
year; and inasmuch as this is so, the Christian
Christmas; it is essentially the Mystery of birth.
the Christmas Mysteries; and the ‘Mysteries of
afterwards merged into the real secret of Christmas, are the
In our time it must be possible to unite the Christmas and
were not Star-Mysteries, but rather a kind of Christmas
The Christian
development of Christian World-conceptions. The Mystery of
birth, the Christmas Mystery, the Mystery of super-sensible
most strongly in the ancient Mysteries of Christmas —
Christmas and Easter — only when this bridge is built,
undergone by the spread of Christianity; let us not, however,
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the pre-Christian ages. Neighbours to one another and much
North a hundred years after the founding of Christianity, and he

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to approach (we have pointed out in the Christmas lectures that by a

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‘Christianity as Mystical Fact’
the Gospel that Christ-Jesus went into the Temple and flattered the

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Christianity is the one and only thing that can show man how to
Christianized. And he sees the great evil to be that science has
become unchristian, States have become unchristian, and that
nowhere has what is meant by the actual Christ-Impulse penetrated in
demands that the Christ-Impulse should once more permeate the
inquire of them whether the Christian impulse is seriously anywhere
science with the principle of Christianity! Hence the cheap and
forth which would be Christianized in its life of State and Science.
what did Friedrich Schlegel understand by the Christianizing of
significance of the Christ-Impulse. And hence he also had the feeling
that the Christ-Impulse must be grasped in a new way in a new age,
existing Christianity, Christianity as it had developed
truths of Christianity lies in the words: ‘I am with you always
real Christianizing of science and the life of the State can only
Christianity. It must come quickly, he thought, a general renewal of
the world, a general re-establishing of the Christ-Impulse. And what
a Christianizing of Europe and was so bad a prophet that a
Friedrich Schlegel — a Christianizing of all science — a
Christianizing of all public life. I quote it as an example of the

Title: Ancient Myths: Lecture VI
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thought that one could simply take the old Christianity. In many
super-sensible Christ and desires to know nothing of that cosmic power
Christ-Jesus. On the other hand there is the quite delightful, really
citoyen’, as at Christmas we learnt to know him in Heinrich
Christianity, it has thrust back eastwards (as I said here a few
weeks ago) an older Christianity, originally linked with Asiatic
traditions, the Russian Christianity, the Orthodox Christianity.

Title: Ancient Myths: Lecture VII
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‘But Pulver's belief in Christ ought to grow out of depths of
our epoch which begins in about the 15th century of the Christian era
heaven — the CHRIST. The Mystery of Golgotha is indeed a cosmic
revealed to him from the earth in the Christ Impulse, and develop it,

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture One
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what belongs to the Christ and has been represented and revealed in our Group. It makes a deep

Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Two
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(Mystery Truths and the Christmas Impulse),
these things we shall never understand how Christianity and the Christ-impulse have entered human

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human evolution, go back perhaps farther than the eighth pre-Christian century (you remember that
intellectually impenetrable — after the eighth century before Christ. We are living now in
accessible to man up to the eighth century before Christ. Indeed it is not only the spiritual
far as possible from the understanding of Christ. And the endeavor in cultural development that
took on the task of obliterating the understanding of Christ, of completely eradicating all
understanding of Christ, this is Jesuitism. Jesuitism strives gradually to root out every
possibility of understanding the Christ. For what lies at the bottom of this is indeed closely
possessed by him before the seventh, eighth century of the Christian era; moreover with this
atavistic clairvoyance men perceived Christ in the cosmos. The Christ was something that could be
Christianity as Mystical Fact
ultimately centres in this. Christ was seen in
the cosmos; Christ was seen in the universe. But think now from the seventh, eighth pre-Christian
have lost had nothing else arrived but this possibility of knowing anything about a Christ spirit
at all had not the Christ come to them through the Mystery of Golgotha, had not Christ descended
longer able to see Christ in the cosmos, Christ came down to earth and united Himself with Jesus.
From then it has been man's task to apprehend the Christ within man. We have to save the
possibility of recognising the Christ by what seeps through here (see right of diagram 8). For
Christ descended to mankind; Jesus is a man in whom lived the Christ. Real knowledge of the human
future. There is deep meaning when we speak of a Christ-Jesus. For the Christ corresponds with
From Jesus to Christ)
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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the threefold Sun-mystery of the sages with the Christ
Christ; for them the Sun-wisdom was united with the
Christ-wisdom.
vanished. It was already vanishing by the eight pre-Christian
connection of Christ with the spiritual Sun has been cut off.
Thus the Christian gathers and Teachers of the Church have
the development of Christianity (as it is called) a veil was
all-embracing wisdom of Christ's connection with Sun-Mystery.
The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ
its origin to Christianity having come down into all that was
Roman, we should have to say that this Christian Church,
shrouding as far as possible the Christ-Mystery, as far as
Christ-Mystery. By this, the Church has become an institution
for holding back the mystery of Christ, an institution for
Christ-Mystery. This is something that today must become ever
behind all that, they saw the Christ who had not then
descended to earth. In those olden times Christ was seen to
There is nothing in which Christ was thus seen that will last
and also Christ in the cosmos were revealed to man before the
its seed in man alone. The Christ had to come to man out of
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
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highest degree fatal for the Christianity then arising in
consciousness, what in those ancient times even Christianity

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
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up to approximately the middle of the eighth pre-Christian
wisdom. In those olden times before the eighth pre-Christian
ancient mysteries. Since the eighth pre-Christian century
deepening of our comprehension of the Christ-Being they must
next weeks. But then after the eighth pre-Christian century,
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Title: Lecture Series: St Augustine, St Simon and Auguste Comte
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lived from the year 354 to 430 of our Christian era. We will
correctly), by uniting certain old pre-Christian basic concepts
moment of the pre-Christian era. You must hear in mind that the
to-day in their beginning. In that pre-Christian age one could
yet ripe to receive then. In that pre-Christian epoch
pre-Christian age, through those Mysteries, man turned his
the pre-Christian World-Conception, is led to his conceptions
the vision of the Corpse of Christ on the Cross is not
away from the corpse; and then comes the Christ-symbol, the
`being born' on the Earth. In those pre-Christian ages one did
those pre-Christian conceptions depended on the fact that the
honoured in those pre-Christian Mysteries, the Sun-life was
else, not so important in that pre-Christian age, but very
specially important in our post-Christian age, and that
was not so important in the pre-Christian ages, because it was
remained as an inheritance of the Moon. For our post-Christian
Christ, Who passed through the Body of Jesus of Nazareth,
Christian Initiates on the contrary said to their disciples:
Golgotha, and, whereas in pre-Christian ages the most important
substantiate Christianity, so on the other hand in Saint-Simon
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Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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Augustine, who lived from the year 354 to 430 of our Christian
correctly), by uniting certain old pre-Christian basic concepts
moment of the pre-Christian era. You must bear in mind that the
in their beginning. In that pre-Christian age one could still
yet ripe to receive them. In that pre-Christian epoch there was
man with his entire being is inserted. In that pre-Christian
of main as the conclusion of the pre-Christian
the vision of the Corpse of Christ on the Cross is not
away from the corpse; and then comes the Christ-symbol, the
the Earth. In those pre-Christian ages one did not turn in the
those pre-Christian conceptions depended on the fact that the
honoured in those pre-Christian Mysteries, the Sun-life was
else, not so important in that pre-Christian age, but very
specially important in our post-Christian age: and that is,
was not so important in the pre-Christian ages, because it was
remained as an inheritance of the Moon. For our post-Christian
Christ, Who passed through the Body of Jesus of Nazareth,
Christian Initiates on the contrary said to their disciples:
Golgotha, and, whereas in pre-Christian ages the most important
substantiate Christianity, so an the other hand in Saint-Simon
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Title: Lecture Series: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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the humanity of post-Christian tines, after the Mystery of
pre-Christian era to suppose that his soul was produced by his
physical body as the modern man does. In those pre-Christian times
development of man in pre-Christian times; he gives himself over to
effective working of Christ Jesus (and of this we shall speak
through the “Christus in mir.”
“Christ in me,” man should be brought
“Nicht ich, aber das Christus in
mich,” “Not I, Christ in me.”
Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was endeavoured to
individual Gods, — the Christians called them Angels —
of Truth simply did not exist in the first Christian
Nationalism, as was possible in the pre-Christian age; because in
the pre-Christian age it was not only a human view — that a
“Nations” are relics of the pre-Christian Age,

Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture II
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the humanity of post-Christian times, after the Mystery of
of the pre-Christian era to suppose that his soul was produced
pre-Christian times man really had a living consciousness of
took place in the development of man in pre-Christian times; he
consciousness. The reality, the effective working of Christ
to him that he is deceived; and through the “Christus in
mir,” “Christ in me,” man should be brought
“Nicht ich, aber das Christus in mich,” “Not
I, Christ in me.”
Third Hierarchy. Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was
place of the individual Gods, — the Christians called
concept of Truth simply did not exist in the First Christian
Nationalism, as was possible in the pre-Christian age; because
in the pre-Christian age it was not only a human view —
the pre-Christian Age, and modern humanity must rise above them

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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not go back so extremely far; in the 6th, 7th, 8th pre-Christian centuries
fully in existence in the 6th, 7th, 8th pre-Christian centuries. It
of time was lost still earlier than those pre-Christian centuries. It

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture III: Romanism and Freemasonry
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give a beautiful understanding of Christ-Jesus, or something like that,
in true Christianity. It is a naiveté to suppose one can win

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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power — the spiritual power of Christianity — has failed
this division between the peoples, in Christianity itself
Christian Churches has become accentuated. The historical
that they will hardly allow it the name of Christianity; not
to mention the breach among the international Christians in
communal ideal of Christianity.
that has happened Christianity has shown itself a traitor to
the Gospels — a Judas who betrayed Christ. For the true being
of Christianity points to an all-embracing human society, and
does not go so far as to ask: If Christianity has been
Christians and should be better ones, if what is meant by
this is that they should live up to the Christian example. I
for Christianity to be able to develop its international
Christianity to encourage the international impulse to prevent
this — something is not right, Christianity must have been
consideration was that Christianity has no part in what the

Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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with the Christ-Jahve impulse, so that you may see how, in reality,
the Christ-Jahve impulse flows into these streams.

Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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with the Christ-Jahve impulse, so that you may see how, in reality,
the Christ-Jahve impulse flows into these streams.

Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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manifold indications and details I have given concerning the Christ
grasping themselves as persons. The Christ Impulse brought men the
“The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ.”
now had to rise up from his own inner depths. Christ Himself had to
and deeply in earnest that Christ had descended from spiritual
Christianity as Mystical Fact;
every individual. The Christ, by uniting His destiny with that of
brilliant self-knowledge is clouded over by Ahriman. With the Christ
those cosmic insights which come into Earth-evolution through Christ,
the point that can be reached through the Christ Impulse having
the Christ Impulse with the help of our original evolution. From this
you can gather the following. There were contemporaries of Christ,
never reached an understanding of the Christ Impulse. When was it,
contemporaries of Christ, when were they ready to understand Christ?
exactitude before our souls. The contemporaries of Christ had
knowledge of Christ could dawn upon them, and they could inspire
century on, wrote about the Christ Impulse. Hence the writings about
the Christ Impulse from the third century onwards take on a special
people could be given an understanding of the Christ Impulse was to
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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manifold indications and details I have given concerning the Christ
grasping themselves as persons. The Christ Impulse brought men the
“The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ.”
now had to rise up from his own inner depths. Christ Himself had to
and deeply in earnest that Christ had descended from spiritual
Christianity as Mystical Fact;
every individual. The Christ, by uniting His destiny with that of
brilliant self-knowledge is clouded over by Ahriman. With the Christ
those cosmic insights which come into Earth-evolution through Christ,
the point that can be reached through the Christ Impulse having
the Christ Impulse with the help of our original evolution. From this
you can gather the following. There were contemporaries of Christ,
never reached an understanding of the Christ Impulse. When was it,
contemporaries of Christ, when were they ready to understand Christ?
exactitude before our souls. The contemporaries of Christ had
knowledge of Christ could dawn upon them, and they could inspire
century on, wrote about the Christ Impulse. Hence the writings about
the Christ Impulse from the third century onwards take on a special
people could be given an understanding of the Christ Impulse was to
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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I said that even the contemporaries of Christ were unable to reach such
Christianity as Mystical Fact;
they are inspired writings of Christianity. The inspired Gospels,
therefore, could give expression to the truth about Christianity only
Tertullian I should like to ask how the external course of Christian
Christ, in the sacrificial death and the resurrection, by saying,
language, he became the creator of a Christian style. And the
of apologia for the Christians he writes in such a way that one
certain passages where Tertullian is defending the Christians
torture, do not deny but testify that they are Christians —
in the case of the Christians it is the reverse; they are
developed as Christian consciousness and Christian wisdom. So
and so on. But that is the belief of the Christians: the soul —
if only unconsciously — is confessing itself to be Christian.
himself belongs: Consider the Christians' God and then reflect
true piety, or whether true piety is what the Christians desire? Into
his fellow-Romans); that is precisely what the Christians do not
merely rational. To declare that “when the Christians say what
receive the truth from these demonic beings. If an accused Christian is
whom the demon speaks, and if the Christian is allowed to
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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I said that even the contemporaries of Christ were unable to reach such
Christianity as Mystical Fact;
they are inspired writings of Christianity. The inspired Gospels,
therefore, could give expression to the truth about Christianity only
Tertullian I should like to ask how the external course of Christian
Christ, in the sacrificial death and the resurrection, by saying,
language, he became the creator of a Christian style. And the
of apologia for the Christians he writes in such a way that one
certain passages where Tertullian is defending the Christians
torture, do not deny but testify that they are Christians —
in the case of the Christians it is the reverse; they are
developed as Christian consciousness and Christian wisdom. So
and so on. But that is the belief of the Christians: the soul —
if only unconsciously — is confessing itself to be Christian.
himself belongs: Consider the Christians' God and then reflect
true piety, or whether true piety is what the Christians desire? Into
his fellow-Romans); that is precisely what the Christians do not
merely rational. To declare that “when the Christians say what
receive the truth from these demonic beings. If an accused Christian is
whom the demon speaks, and if the Christian is allowed to
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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666 years after the birth of Christ — something was due to
matter is like this: 333 years earlier, or 333 years after Christ, we
the world-evolution of man; by the fact that Christ intervened, through
about only through the Beast being put in chains by Christ Jesus, as
of early Christian documents, J. Armitage Robinson, D.D., refers to
fact of Christ holding the Beast in balance. Certain circles knew
knowledge of the Christ Mysteries was to be prevented from passing into
but Christ in me.” These things must become ever more conscious

Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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666 years after the birth of Christ — something was due to
matter is like this: 333 years earlier, or 333 years after Christ, we
the world-evolution of man; by the fact that Christ intervened, through
about only through the Beast being put in chains by Christ Jesus, as
of early Christian documents, J. Armitage Robinson, D.D., refers to
fact of Christ holding the Beast in balance. Certain circles knew
knowledge of the Christ Mysteries was to be prevented from passing into
but Christ in me.” These things must become ever more conscious

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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that no Christ decided to unite His divine destiny with that of earthly
ask the question: If we assume that the Christ through the Event of Golgotha
evolution through the appearance of Christ Jesus.
action of the Christ, he would in his own way get some feeling for
the destiny of Christ Jesus. What I mentioned yesterday is drawn
birth of Christ Jesus and the year 666. But now let us look in
had not yet been influenced by Christianity were obliged to wander
the Christ Impulse. Through the appearance of Mohammed and his
opponent of Christ Jesus, failed to achieve his purpose — the
has not developed in a direct line from anything in Christianity
— no, in reality it has nothing to do with Christianity as
angle has nothing directly to do with Christianity; it is the result
on the one hand the Christian stream, on the other hand the stream
Western Christian tradition the Schoolman is shown standing there
with his Christian doctrine and preparing to tread the Arabian men of
force of Christ. Look at this in the pictures arising from the
Christian tradition of the West, and you will understand how there
Christianity in opposition to all that sprang originally from the
Christ; all the passionate feeling about the Arabian learning
for him, among whom even Christ Jesus belongs. The thoughts of men
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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that no Christ decided to unite His divine destiny with that of earthly
ask the question: If we assume that the Christ through the Event of Golgotha
evolution through the appearance of Christ Jesus.
action of the Christ, he would in his own way get some feeling for
the destiny of Christ Jesus. What I mentioned yesterday is drawn
birth of Christ Jesus and the year 666. But now let us look in
had not yet been influenced by Christianity were obliged to wander
the Christ Impulse. Through the appearance of Mohammed and his
opponent of Christ Jesus, failed to achieve his purpose — the
has not developed in a direct line from anything in Christianity
— no, in reality it has nothing to do with Christianity as
angle has nothing directly to do with Christianity; it is the result
on the one hand the Christian stream, on the other hand the stream
Western Christian tradition the Schoolman is shown standing there
with his Christian doctrine and preparing to tread the Arabian men of
force of Christ. Look at this in the pictures arising from the
Christian tradition of the West, and you will understand how there
Christianity in opposition to all that sprang originally from the
Christ; all the passionate feeling about the Arabian learning
for him, among whom even Christ Jesus belongs. The thoughts of men
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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the external world. We may say: The year 333 after Christ represents
Mystery of Golgotha through the birth of Christ Jesus.
Athens had already come into contact with Christianity, but Justinian
out without reference to Christianity, without reference to the
may say that even the impulses which were active in non-Christian
of Christianity, seeking to find in Manichaeism an answer to the problems
that weighed on him, and only afterwards is drawn to Christianity.
speaking, outside the narrow circle of Christ's activity, this would
was defeated by the Christian impulse —
feel at one with. And if the Christian impulse had not come at
reappearance of Christ Jesus.
But Christ Jesus will not appear in external life, as at
Lucifer, Ahriman and Christ, but to have this trinity before us in
of our Building, the wood-carving of Christ-Lucifer-Ahriman; out of
given the necessary point of time in this age for finding the Christ
anew, for finding the Christ on a higher level, so opposition to the
Christ must also occur. These opposing forces were there in the past.
We know that Christianity prevented the aims of the Academy of
Christ Impulse. The persecution of the Christians by Nero, by
Diocletian, even the rejection of Christianity by Apollonius of
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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the external world. We may say: The year 333 after Christ represents
Mystery of Golgotha through the birth of Christ Jesus.
Athens had already come into contact with Christianity, but Justinian
out without reference to Christianity, without reference to the
may say that even the impulses which were active in non-Christian
of Christianity, seeking to find in Manichaeism an answer to the problems
that weighed on him, and only afterwards is drawn to Christianity.
speaking, outside the narrow circle of Christ's activity, this would
was defeated by the Christian impulse —
feel at one with. And if the Christian impulse had not come at
reappearance of Christ Jesus.
But Christ Jesus will not appear in external life, as at
Lucifer, Ahriman and Christ, but to have this trinity before us in
of our Building, the wood-carving of Christ-Lucifer-Ahriman; out of
given the necessary point of time in this age for finding the Christ
anew, for finding the Christ on a higher level, so opposition to the
Christ must also occur. These opposing forces were there in the past.
We know that Christianity prevented the aims of the Academy of
Christ Impulse. The persecution of the Christians by Nero, by
Diocletian, even the rejection of Christianity by Apollonius of
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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Christianity had assumed under the impact of various impulses
characterized by the form of Christianity which was
Christian church of Roman Catholic persuasion.
to Christianity was totally different. The Order was
the impulse of Christianity which in every man must spring
inner life. In the evolution of the earth Christianity is the

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
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connected with the Christian element and completely alien to
Christianity by showing how, at the beginning of our era, the
ideological superstructure — Christianity had been
superstructure which is characterized as Christianity. This

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who also have the right to be led to the Christ. I realize
Christ impulse one way or another. That is a reality. And

Title: Symptom to Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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death of Christ Jesus because birth and death were of vital
Christ is destined to appear again in the etheric body, when
Christ impulse was born out of the forces of death for the
the Christ to appear again, just as He appeared in the fourth

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there was something symptomatic in the Christian name of the
Society. He rejoiced in the Christian name of Kreuzwendedich

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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Christians. He was a Catholic priest and that he was hardly
perhaps symptomatically, the Christian name ‘Kreuzwendedich’

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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of the Christ impulse manifested itself in the civilized
world in a very special way. This Christ impulse, as we know,
that the Christ impulse is a continuous process — says
the Christ’ to emerge in a certain territory within the
inborn capacity to become the vehicle of the Christ
events to become the People of the Christ.
operate as the Christ impulse acquired, to some extent, a
receiving directly the revelation of the Christ impulse
(i.e. this particular form of the Christ impulse),
and Pope Nicholas I was that the Christ impulse in its
metamorphosis of the Christ impulse which is characterized by
receptive to the continual influx of the Christ impulse, to
the continuous presence of the ‘breath’ of Christ. This
particular form (or metamorphosis) of the Christ impulse was
of European civilization, the People of the Christ.
led to the birth of the People of the Christ.
by saying that the People of the Christ arose in the East? We
united with the Christ impulse. The Christ is ever present as
directly what could be called the Christ inspiration. This
ordained by Christ the King, the Invisible Christ as
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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mentioned, the People of the Christ was diverted eastwards
through the fact that the Christ impulse to some extent no
relationship between Christianity and the politically
Russian church was the way in which the Christ impulse, in
dragging down of the Christ impulse into purely worldly
akin to Russian Christianity. It seeks to spiritualize that
Christ up to the Last Supper. And it was explained to him
the story of Christ Jesus from the time of the Last Supper until
day, namely, that the representation of the Passion of Christ Jesus
shows quite clearly that he wishes the Christ impulse to penetrate
the Christ impulse. This is extremely important for an understanding
generalissimo Jesus Christ, is deeply rooted in the very
in its triumphal march from East to West, Christianity
maintained that Christ is a God, like God the Father, that a
Father-God therefore exists and that Christ is of the same
and that the Divine Son, i.e. Christ, was begotten of the
modern man. In the first centuries of Christianity it had
deeper implications, for Arian Christianity, based on the
was converted to Christianity did the Franks accept
Christianity. They adopted somewhat superficially the
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Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture I: East and West from a Spiritual Point of View
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nature of human thought. Christianity is really only at its
beginning. Christianity has not yet progressed sufficiently
hindering the introduction of the image of Christ into human
purpose of comprehending the Christ are all taken from the
unpermeated by the Christ must be found in its true origin
Golgotha and everything permeated by the Christ, must be
the great distinction between what is permeated by the Christ
the Christ is mastered by a kind of thinking inherited in the
by the Christ spirit is mastered by the kind of thinking that
through the personality of Christ, and they will continue to
always told you that Christianity is really still in its

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture II: The Present from the Viewpoint of the Present
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Christian way; that is, by acquiring money only by means of
Christian consciousness has not yet taken its place in the

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture III: The Mechanistic, Eugenic and Hygienic Aspects of the Future
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up to the fifteenth century of our Christian era. They will
this appeared first in the fifteenth century of the Christian
Christian era, in which the demand was first made to see the

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
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Christ impulse flows into mankind. We may thus say that, as
in their totality together with the seventh Elohim the Christ
that the Christ impulse, which had previously been only in a
crisis. It was necessary that the Christ impulse should be
Christ impulse, no social demand takes the direction leading
twenty centuries during which Christianity has previously
understanding of the Christ impulse because the Christ
those who will not become adherents of the Christ wisdom that
Christ impulse: In the fifth epoch, one; in the sixth epoch,
true Christ impulse, and what is related to the mere Jehovah
the first true activation of the Christ impulse: healing.
This is the special mission of Christ in the fifth
heals. The other forms of the Christ impulse must remain in
Christ impulse must work in the direction of seership. There
Christ Being will do their work in the following periods.
Thus must the Christ impulse find its way into humanity, as
Christ impulse. This will interpenetrate other things
the whole folk stood in a relationship. With Christ each

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try to explain the appearance of Christianity from this point
which was then christened by the name of Christ Jesus. The
of our era. Christianity is an ideology, a super-structure, a

Title: Fundamental Social Demand: Lecture 3
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tenth. An earlier form of Christianity was driven back
spread over the whole of Christendom in early centuries, has
Meanwhile the West has continued to evolve its Christianity.

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the so-called Christian doctrines, that have held sway about
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
the new conceptions. The Christian conceptions too will have
mankind. For Christianity would otherwise remain a collection
or in the pre-Christian centuries. That in man
Christianity of the twentieth century. Against it —
one thing: the old Christianity has had nearly 2000 years to
Christianity shall now become — that again must be
not of Christianity itself but of a certain Christian
Christ in me,” after the words of St. Paul. For Christ

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progress of Christianity itself in our time consists in this.
pre-Christian times — the farther we go back, the more
present in the old pre-Christian times — whose relics
yet, it is the language which Christ Himself is guiding us to
Christianity to grasp the Christian truths in a new way. This
through misfortune that mankind found the Christ, we too
shall have to seek through our misfortune for the Christ
Christianity which freed men from slavery and led them to
Christianity will solve. In recent lectures I have told you
Christianity: “Slaves there must always be.” Even
Christ. Christ is no concern of one nation or another. He
spirit of the true Christmas peace in placing the following
of Christianity has only entered to a slight extent as yet.
Christ-conception if we turn in this intellectualistic age
service of Jahve to that of Christ. Such predestination only
appeared on the Earth — Jesus Christ. They killed Him.
Death, my dear friends, is the very content of Christianity;
Christianity. This Death is the good fortune of men; this
we may say: how infamous it was of men to nail Christ to the

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
The Entrance of Christianity into theCourse of
Christmas Holy Nights, when the soul that is prepared for it is able to
Many similar things point to Christmas time in the same way.
in the external world the general spirit of our time, that a Christmas
mood, a Christmas impulse, must now be sought anew by mankind. What
lives in the celebration of Christmas, in the thought of Christmas,
at this time to contemplate the Christ as such, to direct the eyes of
are speaking about the Christ, and yet you will find they have made
hardly any distinction between Christ and God the Father except in name.
While it is true that for many believers the Christ still stands at
time now the rise of a theology that has really lost the Christ, that
speaks of a God in general even when Christ is meant. The specific quality
that is essential when the human heart looks up to Christ needs to be
found again. And perhaps the most worthy celebration of the Christmas
can find the Christ again. Many historical facts of the evolution of
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
last Sunday for a renewal of our Christmas thinking, I spoke of the
sense, to offer upon the altar of Christ what nature has bestowed upon
evolution: that the age of Christ Jesus when he passed through death
to Christmas? The state of our development since the Mystery of Golgotha
something of brotherliness, simply are too little permeated by the Christ.
himself thoughts that come directly from the Christ Impulse. When we
turn to the Christ Impulse, it enkindles brotherliness in us directly.
he is permeated by Christ.
flowed forth at the death of Christ Jesus to unite Itself with the earthly
evolution of humanity. Therefore Christ is the One who also leads present-day
mankind to freedom. We become free in Christ when we are able to grasp
the fact that the Christ could really not have become older, could not
present earth evolution this body is destined for death. The Christ
as the Christ He enkindled brotherliness. Then He caused the spirit
the end of his life. Thus is the Christ Impulse integrated into the
inner being by the Christ Principle must be incorporated into human
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
The Evolution of Christianity from the Mysteries of Prechristian Times
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
The Evolution of Christianity from the
Mysteries of Prechristian Times,
point to the impulses from which Christianity developed. We could see
how the real Ego of Christianity, the essence of Christianity, embodied
of Christianity.
development of Christianity, we must show to what extent it has evolved
from the Mysteries of pre-Christian times. (You will have found this
Christianity as Mystical Fact.)
play the role they had played at the time when Christianity was evolving
of pre-Christian times, let us say to begin with, of pre-Christian Greek
and pre-Christian Egypto-Chaldean epochs. What impelled people to seek
Christianity. Therefore, do not regard what I shall say as an exhaustive
upon the development of the being of Christianity.
am speaking now always of the pre-Christian Mystery knowledge.) The
pre-Christian initiation, that the human being turned inward in order
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
ancient times, particularly the pre-Christian, man's consciousness of
to the consciousness of pre-Christian ancient times than it is today.
Christian Church, wherever this has dogmas and rituals. These are two
of the secret-society view. What the Christian Church offers reckons
is the reason also for the curious development of the Christian churches,
who knows how the followers of almost all Christian views constantly
many not even in Christ — but the mode of thought from the age
that were active in the ancient religions and even in Christianity up
Christian era, for example, it was not yet true even of Christianity
attention to the fact that those who first wrote about Christianity
of Christ Jesus. The whole Apocalypse rests on astrology. The latter
with living insight: when, for instance, the birth-year of Christ Jesus

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 6
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
in relation to the evolution of Christianity. In our external daily
reflection, for example, in the development of the Christ concept during
external history — that when the Christ Impulse entered the world,
centuries an effort was made to understand the Christ Impulse and its
had much to say of the evolution of the world, of the place of Christ
with the human being. Much was said also about the return of Christ
really nothing more than a suggestion that the Christ
Word; that the Christ as such is the Creator of all that surrounds man,
that Being called Christ Jesus Who lived here on earth, but about Whose
one wishes to speak of the real Christ.
toward it. The consequence was that a true relation to the Christ Impulse,
later Protestantism, in fact, for all thinking Christendom. The Christ
was limited to a human narrative of the earthly destiny of Christ Jesus.
The possibility completely vanished of having any concept of the Christ
that people knew very little when the concept “Christ Jesus”
was brought up. Christ was placed on one side, so to speak, and Jesus
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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
to what Judaism and Christianity point, namely, a Providence —
are our brothers, who have European blood, who acknowledge God and Christ

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How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?
Steiner examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining
of the mysteries in a modern form. Today's road to Christ must
involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
only one. In old pre-Christian times, but gradually fading as the Mystery
you that it was the task of Christianity to hold back for a while this
we are always placing such great emphasis on the Christ Impulse. For
the Christ Impulse stands in the direct line of formative thinking.
of articles about Christmas have appeared in print again. One can hardly
in a very strange light. They write of human love, of Christianity,
sweetmeats. One can dream so deliciously when one says: Christ preached
love for one's neighbor; Christianity must blossom again; and so on.

Title: Lecture I: The Difference Between Man and Animal
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help saying that fundamentally it comes from the way in which Christianity
has been preached during these 1900 years by the various Christian
doctrine would have been impossible without the preceding Christianity
because centuries of Christianity have brought about materialism; this

Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture II: St. John of the Cross
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Catholic Christian would not dare take such a path as the one recommended
he is an ordinary Catholic Christian, that the Holy Ghost often intervenes
they are standing on the firm ground of Christian belief dictated by
should be for orthodox Catholic Christians who through this vision my
in the sense of pure positivist Christianityas did St. John of the Cross,

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basis of Christianity but of the church—a thinker of this ilk

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true: “And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and
Christianity, true, real Christianity, to have the possibility of understanding
that Christ Jesus went through death and overcame this death after a
like to clear away—the Christ was put to death. The most guiltless
had Christ not been crucified, had He not passed through death, it would
not have been possible for Christianity to arise. This means, the greatest
described and was then permeated by the spirit of the Christ; as Christ-Jesus
This impulse was the Christ,
more or less grasped. The essential for Christianity is that this happened,
and took place as an objective fact. Christianity is not a doctrine.
Christianity is the perception of this objective event being played
remarkable way in which this perception of Christianity was spread abroad.
Today we will observe only how the conception of the Christ impulse,
the historical development we cannot help saying—Christianity
neither did Christianity take deep root in Greece, and when we come
only take what is left of the Christianity out of the Roman Empire,
a peculiar significance underlies this very spreading of the Christian
The Christ impulse had to be clothed in the form of the old pagan mysteries
can reed in my book Christianity as Mystical Fact how what
has been experienced in the conception of Christ-Jesus was represented
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content, of the Christ impulse that has come into the world through
a Christianity up to now. During the whole of the future, ever more
and more of the content of the Christ impulse will be imparted to mankind;
in fact there is deep truth in the saying of Christ Jesus; “For,
lo, I am with you away even unto the end of the world.” And Christ
connection with the Christ and feel themselves strong for their earthly
belongs to the revelation of the Christ impulse. To come to a right
Christ impulse. Man would have been too weak to make any progress by
beyond the the earth, the Christ impulse, a man had triumphed over death:
their primitive souls received the Christ Who came to them just as He
with you yesterday it may be said: The Christ came first to the man
Christ came once again, united Himself with the men who peopled the
regard to mankind's evolution, with regard to understanding the Christ
not by all that was derived from the traditional Christianity of the
sense embraced the faith of the Christian Church in comfort, or even
wished within this Christian Church to carry through all manner of purely
when, travelling with the two apparently good Christians Lavater and
old ecclesiastical Christianity, he said: “Prophets to right,
to; as opposed to the Christians around him he was always the definite
non-Christian for the very reason that he was to prepare mankind for
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Christ-permeated conception of the world and of life must, in
Christianity through the way it has developed in the
might say that it has created the feeling in man that Christ
did once exist. And even this feeling that Christ once
the nineteenth century. What Christ brought into the world,
Christ's connection with the striving of the human soul, into
to an active Christianity. Just think how, for many people in
the past, Christ has been nothing more than a helper in
afterwards; he was forgiven. In short, Christ was there to
belief in Christ, by a passive feeling of being united with
Christ, he will be saved. This twofold passive relation to
Christ belongs, and must belong, to the past. And what is to
take its place must be a relation to Christ that is an active
force, a going to meet Him, so that Christ does not do for a
through His being to do it himself. An active Christianity
— or rather a Christianity that comes to activity
— is what must take the place of passive Christianity
Christianity that is passive to one that is active, that it

Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 1: The Social Homunculus
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Christianity arose, as you know, in an unknown province of the Roman
Christianity first arose this highest wisdom existed within the Roman
highest wisdom to absorb the historically powerful impulse of Christianity.
The strong impulse of Christianity (I have spoken of this recently) was
the strong wave of Christianity, then Christianity began to exercise the
the stream of Christianity, when they migrated from the East to the
South-West. Imagine that this stream of Christianity had not come; think
they encountered the stream of Christianity.
Christianity and do not wish to become acquainted with the new revelation
of Christ Who passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, those people lose
West had not encountered the spreading current of Christianity.
cultured men of Greece and of Rome stood between the current of Christianity

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needed by those who are Christians in the good old meaning. We also

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which Christian Morgenstern drew out of spiritual science and to which

Title: Die Soziale Frage als Bewusstseinsfrage: Lecture II
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Christus glauben, sondern es ist heute notwendig, daß die
Menschen den Christus in ihrem Handeln, in ihrem Wirken
oder jenes christlichen Bekenntnisses redet von dem
Christus. Ich habe diese Tatsache von anderen Gesichtspunkten
reden von dem Christus, wenn man sie aber fragt: warum ist das
der Christus, was sie als den Christus bezeichnen, da
redet von dem Christus — allein, wenn man sie fragen
Ihren Begriffen haben als das Christus-Wesen von dem
«Das Wesen des Christentums», aber das,
was er da als das Wesen des Christus schildert, das ist der
den Jahve als den Christus zu bezeichnen. Und so ist es bei
heute das Christentum predigen, daß sie eigentlich nur den
«Ex deo nascimur». Den Christus hat man
dem Christus kann man nur reden, wenn man eine Art Wiedergeburt
der Christus hat nicht nur in der Zeit gesprochen zu den
Menschen, als das Christentum entstanden ist, der Christus hat
dem Christus zu kommen: daß der Christus einzieht,
daß wir nicht nur Gedanken über den Christus
haben, sondern daß der Christus in unseren Gedanken lebt.
dadurch, daß wir geboren werden. Der Weg zu Christus
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just to believe in the Christ; it is essential that men should now manifest
the Christ in their deeds, in their work. This is the important thing.
one or other of the Christian faiths speak today of Christ. But if asked:
Why is He whom you call Christ, the Christ? they can give only a fictitious
Christ, but were you to ask them: How does your concept of the Christ-being
The Being of Christianity.
What he describes as the Being of Christianity is the Jehovah of the
lie to describe Jehovah as Christ, And it is thus with hundreds, nay
thousands, of those preaching Christianity today; they are simply preaching
Christ is discovered only when one has experienced a kind of new birth.
to be ill. But one can speak of the Christ only when in the life of
this the least of my brethren, you have understood of me. For Christ
did not speak to men in this way only at the time when Christianity
is one thing; that, in regard to thinking, is the way to come to Christ.
Then Christ can so permeate us that we not only have thoughts about
Him but Christ can live in our thoughts. This, however, is only achieved
to Christ is found on the one hand through supersensible thought, on
to the Christ. Not the God of Whom we say Ex Deo nascimur may we
describe as Christ, for that is inwardly untrue. That God was known in
us. For this God is the Christ.
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Vorstellungen von dem Christus-Mysterium. Man hatte sich
in dem Jesus der Christus drinnen lebte. Im Laufe des 19.
machen konnte, wie in dem Jesus der Christus gelebt hat. So
Sinneswelt abgespielt hat im Beginne der christlichen
betrachtet. Der Christus, der der
keinen Weg zu dem Christus, begnügte sich mit dem
studieren in der Zeit, als das Christentum begonnen hat; und

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there was at least a dim atavistic conception of the Christ-Mystery;
of conceiving how the Christ had lived in Jesus. Thus men's ideas became
limited to what, in the early days of Christianity, had happened in
Jesus. The Christ was looked upon more and more as mere man, whereas
the Christ belonging to the supersensible world vanished ever further
no way to the Christ, contented itself with Jesus. What did the proletariat
of the founding of Christianity, and the way in which a simple worker
of pre-Kantian days — Christian Wolf. This book is called

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ermahnt, sie sollen wieder gut christlich werden, sie
Geiste des Christentums, zu dem Geiste der Bergpredigt; der
sei der christliche Geist bisher nur im Privatleben geltend
durchchristet werden. Da kommen dann die Menschen und sagen:
Geist, solche Sprache, solche Christen zu finden, die nicht
erzählen, ihr sollt gut christlich sein und so weiter, und

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they should once more become good Christians, learn to love their fellow
to the pure spirit of Christianity, to the spirit of the Sermon on the
the speaker went on — The Christian spirit prevails only in private
public, life must be christianised. — Then people get up and say:
No, today it is a matter of finding such spirit, such speech, such Christianity,
people to be good Christians, and uphold all manner of virtues having

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Erkenntnis hinzuführen, was der Christus Jesus sei.
Da stand: Der Christus Jesus war entweder ein Heuchler oder ein
Christus ein Heuchler gewesen sei, da man auch nicht annehmen
— «den Christus einen Narren oder einen
— wie man es damals meinte, im rechten christlichen Sinne
christliches Gefühl war, indem es nunmehr das Organ
in dem Bekenntnis zu Christus, dem Sohn des lebendigen Gottes.
Christus, dem Sohn des lebendigen Gottes zu bekennen,
wenn man diesen Christus nur erfaßt mit einem toten
zu berufen auf Christus, den Sohn des lebendigen Gottes,
Christus, den lebendigen Sohn des Gottes. Das heißt auf
den Christus, der jetzt lebendig wirkt, indem er neue

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knowledge of Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ was either a hypocrite, a lunatic,
living God. “And as we dare not call Christ” — this
placed on earth that in the way they thought, in a truly Christian sense,
incarnation as an exalted Christian feeling, being now reincarnated
too never tire in their professions of faith in the Christ, the Son
of the Living God. But of what use is it to believe in the Christ, the
is not to call on the Christ, the Son of the living God, but to call on
Christ, the living Son of God, which means to call on the Christ

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possibility of a wise paganism alongside Christianity then

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Christianity must be widened through a permeation, as I said

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of how Christianity endeavored for centuries to imbue humanity with a

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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Christianity.

Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Erster Vortrag
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das Christentum an Impulsen und Kräften in die Menschheit

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture I: Historical Requirements of the Present Time
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flowed through the Christian world into humanity as impulses

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Christentums, seit jener Zeit, da das Mysterium von Golgatha
Zeiten. Das Christentum mußte zunächst anderes im
Weisheit geschaut hat. Welcher Mittel hat sich das Christentum
des Christentums «verlegt» das Hinaufschauen: da
das Christentum zuerst die Präexistenzlehre, die Lehre von
Bedürfnis vorhanden, die christliche Weltanschauung, wie

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ancient times. Christianity had to arouse in man concepts
all, has Christianity accomplished this? It directed human
development of Christianity the experience of repeated earth
that Christianity first eradicated from human feeling the
most intense longing to enlarge the Christian world-view of the

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Christentums. Nach und nach wurde da die Intelligenz etwas
vorchristlichen Jahrhundert der Fall war, das Begreifen des
oder weniger atavistisch insbesondere in der vorchristlichen
ein tiefes Geheimnis gerade der christlich-esoterischen
Christus. Dadurch, daß der Christus in dem Jesus von
das Christus -Wesen übergegangen in die irdische
Entwickelung, da ist das Christus-Wesen darinnen. Wir
Ethos, um dieses unseres Ethos willen. Aber der Christus ist
Christus-Begriff, Den allgemeinen Gottes-Begriff kann man
Christus-Wesenheit ist so, daß man ihr nur nahekommt, wenn
Dasein gekommen, Den Christus-Begriff muß man finden in
Christus nicht zu erkennen, ist nicht eine Krankheit, sondern
Wiedergeburt, kann man zum Christus-Begriff kommen. Die Geburt
führt zu Gott, die Wiedergeburt zu Christus. Zu dieser
Wiedergeburt, durch welche der Christus als Wesenheit im
Christus noch nicht ausgeflossen war mit seiner Wesenheit in
nicht erkennen konnte, daß in ihm der Christus lebt. Nach
Funken des Christus in sich selber finden, wenn er sich
in dieser Wiedergeburt, in diesem Finden des Christus-Funkens
Sich-sagen-Können: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus
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still existed atavistically in the pre-Christian era. Through
confront a deep secret of Christian-esoteric development. If
Christ. Through the fact that the Christ dwelt in Jesus of
Nazareth, when Jesus died the Christ-being passed over into
the sake of our morality. The Christ-being has flowed into
God is not the Christ concept. We can arrive at a general
observe physical man, externally. The Christ-being is of such a
existence out of the forces of the world. The Christ concept we
be unable to recognize the Christ is not an illness but a
of Christ. Birth leads to God; re-birth to Christ. This
re-birth, through which Christ as a Being may be found in man,
this re-birth, could not yet recognize that Christ lives in
him, because the Christ being had not yet flowed into mankind.
find the spark of Christ in himself if he exerts himself in the
this re-birth, this finding of the Christ-spark in oneself, in
I but the Christ in me,” lies the possibility of
evil. And this, in the esoteric Christian sense, is the higher
is already so, that man in his consciousness of Christ, in his
union with Christ, can find the possibility of escaping evil
in Christ because he still felt his relationship with the
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vorchristliche Jahrhundert, mit dem, wie Sie wissen, der vierte
griechisch-lateinische Zeitraum vom 8. vorchristlichen
Jahrhundert bis in die Mitte des 15. nachchristlichen
den Christus-Impuls in sich aufnimmt.
schlichten christlichen Bekenntnisse, daß Christus die
Seele erlöst hat, daß man in Christus selig werden
Christus», davon können sie nicht lassen. Die

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take up the divine impulse, the Christ Impulse, through his own
the “simple”, “plain Christian faith” of the
soul's salvation through Christ, of eternal life attained
through Christ, without having to do anything for it. “Faith in
the salvation through Christ” is something which they cannot

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture VI: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time, Conquering Egotism
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Christ-impulse.
thing, but it contradicts the simple Christian faith; that
Christ has redeemed the soul, that one can attain salvation in
Christ without any effort on one's part. People cannot let go
through Christ.” They believe themselves to be especially

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Christ, or a spiritual power of some kind, to do what he
little stress on men being redeemed by Christ, not by
not God, why does not Christ, come to the help of this or
will put it as follows. The old pre-Christian civilisations

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consciously yearn to yield themselves up, for Christ, or a
being redeemed by Christ and not by themselves. People prefer
doesn't Christ, come to the help of this or that set of people?
pre-Christian civilisations of the East produced, as you

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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Christian, — what it would have been without the
Christian impulse, which sprang from the p lap of the East,

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Christ must be sought, etc, etc. Whilst deeper down, less
the 8th century before Christ, from which point the
before Christ — were the sort of people who, in the
Christ. Then began the age when, if one actually divests it of
pre-Christian century down to the middle of the 15th century
Christ, — roughly speaking, with the foundation of Rome.
even down into the early times of Christianity, knew this quite
the 4th century after Christ. It was in the 4th century after
Christ that men first really ceased to believe that the power
look back at the first, second and third Christian centuries,
the middle of the 8th pre-Christian century, — beginning
4th century after Christ; for from that time on, intellectual
instance, before the fourth century after Christ, or what it

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different from that of a later time. The origin of Christianity
of humanity through the birth of Christianity we shall understand
rise of Christianity — not to mention Jewish history — is
preparation for Christianity. This whole extent of pagan
culture is essentially different from our modern Christian culture.
the eight centuries preceding the rise of Christianity. We may even
was the Christ Impulse which has arisen from the Mystery of Golgotha
after Christ. Try to read the description of Occidental wisdom up to
centuries the moral impulse was borne by the Christian impulse.
that which is really contained in the Christian faith. In our time it

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for Christianity. But disregarding for the moment this Jewish
pre-Christian civilized life, let us turn our attention to
stream then making preparation for Christianity had to be introduced
Judaism and then further developed in Christianity.
Christian era, we should find that together with the promptings of
such as came with Christianity was not an integral part of paganism.
Christianity, this pagan wisdom was inspired from a place far away in
distant East in the third millennium before Christ — namely,
Golgotha, the incarnation of Christ in the man Jesus of
flesh and blood. Even Christianity, even the Mystery of Golgotha as
the incarnation of Christ and with it the impulse for the education
the flesh and an incarnation of Christ in the flesh, so, before only
a part of the third millennium of the post-Christian era has elapsed,
Christ can be reached by the simple, easy going perusal of the
afterward, a conception of the real Christ was still possible,
Gospels does not lead people to the real Christ for whom we seek
sublimated hallucination of Christ.
the real Christ unless they are illumined by spiritual science.
what is no more than hallucination of Christ's appearance in
Nazareth” and to identify the Christ with Jesus of Nazareth
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arises in its midst as a preparation for Christianity. But
pre-Christian civilised life, let us turn our attention to
preparation for Christianity, had to be introduced as a kind
further developed in Christianity.
years before the Christian era, we should find that together
came with Christianity was not an integral part of Paganism.
directly preceding Christianity, this Pagan wisdom was
in the third millennium before Christ — namely,
Christ in the man Jesus of Nazareth, there was an actual
Christianity, even the Mystery of Golgotha as enacted among
one-sidedness, there came the incarnation of Christ and with
of Christ in the flesh, so, before only a part of the third
millennium of the post-Christian era has elapsed, there will
namely that no true understanding of Christ can be reached by
conception of the real Christ was still possible, because
Gospels does not lead men to the real Christ for Whom we seek
most to a sublimated hallucination of Christ.
cannot lead to the real Christ unless they are illumined by
of Christ's appearance in world-history. This becomes very
and to identify the Christ with Jesus of Nazareth —
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two
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Christ, and of Ahriman.
intervene in the evolution of humankind side by side with the Christ
acquired through the gnosis in the early centuries of Christendom.
the civil power has been Christian. Even in countries separated from
young, that ‘Christianity was the law of the land.’ Now,
Christianity, is throwing off Christianity. The dictum to which

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture II
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Christ, and of Ahriman.
Christ Impulse — these things must be taken in all
early centuries of Christendom. Understanding of the Mystery
civil power has been Christian. Even in countries
‘Christianity was the law of the land’. Now,
creation of Christianity, is throwing off Christianity.

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a course given in Christiania. So this inherited Wisdom was a
pre-Christian centuries. And if we wish to establish an
pre-Christian Rome again appeared, and as if everything which
has happened since then, including Christianity itself, (even
if these gentlemen externally speak of Christ, and so on),

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pre-Christian times, and that the original pagan wisdom to which many
Christ.
what was accomplished through the pre-Christian Mysteries. If
myself from the devil, if I give myself to Christ with the
issue is whether this wisdom is in the hands of Ahriman or of Christ.
It cannot come into the hands of Christ unless people fight for it.
Christ, just as the ancient Rishis and initiates pledged themselves
luciferic and the ahrimanic powers, and that the Christ has become a
some indeed until the sixth and seventh centuries of the Christian
science in Aristotle-that is to say in the pre-Christian era. These

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture IV
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Asia in a certain epoch of pre-Christian times, and that the
win mankind for a kingdom alien to the kingdom of Christ.
accomplished through the pre-Christian Mysteries. If it be
protect myself from the devil, if I give myself to Christ
wisdom is in the hands of Ahriman or of Christ. It cannot
come into the hands of Christ unless men fight for it. And
Christ, just as the ancient Rishis and Initiates pledged
Ahrimanic powers, and that the Christ has become a companion
sixth and seventh centuries of the Christian era. Up to that
in the pre-Christian era. These ideas are treasures of the

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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the balance, and the state of equilibrium which represents the Christ
was then established that the Christian does not have to believe in
the protection of any power, be it ever so Christian in appearance.
You must realize that the Christ impulse can only be comprehended if
people in regard to the true Christ impulse? One must divert their
other Christ does not mean that it is the Christ. If one wishes to
prevent another human being from acquiring a true concept of Christ,
wishes to point to the Christ impulse in its true meaning, it is
Christ at all but originate from the delusion that everything that is

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of spirit, a true concept of Christ, as long as he imagines that the
Divine and a pure concept of the Christ impulse in human and world
Thus we must say: The human beings of the pre-Christian age directed
regard to man's knowledge in pre-Christian times.
Death on Golgotha the Being Whom we call the Christ has united Himself
existence. Through the fact that the Christ Being has lived in a human
Christ Being passed through the death of Jesus of Nazareth and united
united itself with the earth through the Christ impulse and which must
the spiritual. Only the Christ impulse can help us with this, the
Christ impulse in the interpretation of the Michael impulse. Then to
interpreted according to the words of the Christ Jesus — I have
you seek the way to Me. Through the continuous Christ revelation you

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture III. Michaelic Thinking.
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Christ impulse. But the Christ impulse is something
gain any relation to the Christ impulse other than a personal one.
the Christ. This is an entirely personal matter. But through the fact
that the Christ has passed through the Mystery of Golgotha and has
from one another, make the Christ impulse their personal affair: the
Christ impulse, through its very nature, will become the same for
through the Christ impulse itself the relationship of every human
being to the Christ forms itself in such a way — if it forms
Christ impulse. The Christ impulse may be the same for all mankind and
Now, what was the situation into which the Christ impulse entered? We
lead man to his goal. Through the Christ principle Lucifer must be
We say that through the Mystery of Golgotha the Christ impulse has
the faculty of perceiving the Christ impulse in our midst, everywhere,
If we look back into pre-Christian times we shall find that God's
of God Who came down to the earth, the Christ, was at the same time
Christ-Impulse in the true sense of the word. But we must go to meet
is impossible to prove historically the existence of the Christ Jesus
ourselves recognize as super-sensible, the Christ impulse.
continuation in the Christ Path.

Title: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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such great importance precisely for the Christian evolution of the
Christian theologians who acquired this Greek thinking in order to
of our human nature? The Christ impulse, that which passed over
lies between the two. That man permeates himself with the Christ
by permeating ourselves more and more with the Christ impulse which
From this you will see that we may say: In the pre-Christian four and
the Divine but may have no possibility to sense the Christ. In this
agree with Christian precepts, they believe in the freedom of the
speak of Christ, of freedom, and so forth. In reality, my dear
many Christians are Turks. They call themselves “Christians”
the Christ.
Wesen des Christentums.
(Essence of Christianity.) Please, make the
following test: scratch out in this book the name of Christ wherever
states should refer to the Christ. What he states refers to the
no need at all that he should refer to the Christ with what he states.
for connecting them with the Christ. We must acquire the possibility
of conceiving of the Christ in such a way that we do not identify Him
the concept of the Christ. To be unable to find the Christ in life is
Christ. It is a matter of clear differentiation, in the sphere of the
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simplest, most primitive, of the ninth and tenth post-Christian
post-Christian century up to the sixteenth post-Christian century. We
see how Christianity bears the character of which I spoke yesterday
that henceforth the orthodox Christian was to think of man as
for human beings prior to the fourth post-Christian century to speak
that has not become Christ-permeated. This they can reach: this they
thorough grasp of the necessity of the Christ impulse. One must
recognize where the Christ impulse is lacking. Yesterday we showed
that in the middle stratum of consciousness the Christ impulse takes
himself with the Christ, then these Ahrimanic powers cannot penetrate
the human soul of the Christ impulse in its present form.
real triad Christ-Lucifer-Ahriman, or do not wish to know anything

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eighth millennium before the Christian era, we shall find a soul mood
fourth age begins in the eighth pre-Christian century. At that time
the Christ Event, breaks in upon the evolution of the earth, yet
Christ relationship to outer nature. This Christ relationship to outer
pre-Christian millennium to think of the air as ensouled —
made possible through the fact that the Christ has united Himself with
more ancient than Christianity for the Holy Mass is a ritual of the
ancient Mystery culture, transformed in the Christian sense. And

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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‘After Christ had passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, He
of life wherein the Christ is to be found. The influence of the Christ
elemental beings; but this sphere is interwoven for us with the Christ
feelings — we dive down into the realm with which the Christ has
united Himself. There we come to the place where the Christ is truly
you will find no mention of the continued working of the Christ
just as though the Christ Impulse had been simply struck out. It is
a Christian and had a true appreciation of the Christ Impulse from a
subjective aspect, simply cannot bring the Christ Event into his
the spirit, as manifested in history, Christianity is not yet there.
of the Christ Event as a cosmic event. Strange to say, while the
so-called historians can find no possible way of including the Christ
spiritual science has entered the field and speaks of the Christ Event
that the Christ Event should be brought into connection with the great
It must be said that even theologians today often speak of the Christ
The Essence of Christianity, and substitute for the name of
Christ, wherever he uses it, the general name of God, and this without
nature of Christianity. His book is page for page a description of the
very opposite of the essence of Christianity. It does not treat of
Christianity at all; it treats of a general Jahve teaching.
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consisting of the Luciferic, of what pertains to the Christ, and of
is to strive toward what is called Christian — by which,
Kingdom of Christ is spoken of, and so on? What relation is there

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture II: The Development of Architecture
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Christian century, we come to the forms of Gothic architecture, which
disciples of Christ spread out in all directions and implanted in
souls the spirit which was to flow together in the Mystery of Christ:
disciples had implanted the Christ Spirit, in the rays which come
the rays which tend from all humanity toward the Mystery of Christ.
orientated to Christ flowed together — just as in the
Christ-Form as the central figure — the Christ-Form which we
really thus that the Christ went about in Palestine at the beginning
the bearded Christ are actually only creations of the fifth or sixth
portrait of Christ, Who is to be at the same time the Representative
Christ-Being. But this is to be felt in an artistic way. It
must not be merely reasoned about speculatively as being the Christ,
a god is enclosed, for it is true for Christians also that they are

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gentlemen who are the official representatives of Christianity are
discussion: “Here Christ is mistaken!” Of course
agree with the revealed text of the Bible, then Christ is wrong, not
openly, “There the Christ is mistaken” yet the logic of
Christ is mistaken, surely from his common sense a man can say
a man is a true Christian, he must not think that he consists of
Testament. Christianity was an episode which was at first
human culture, so to speak. In reality, Christianity does not
exist; for with the people who frequently speak of Christ you can
Christianity. Wherever Harnack writes “Christ” in
this book, you can strike out the word “Christ”, and

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture IV: The Old Mysteries of Light, Space, and Earth
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them from the oriental wisdom. The West did not produce Christianity.
Catholic Christianity, that is, Roman Catholic ecclesiasticism.
spreading Christianity possessed a strange kind of
before the spread of Christianity in ancient times, undoubtedly had a

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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to promulgate something true and right about Christianity, about the
spiritual science holding a different view of Christianity. In

Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture I: The Goetheanum
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what the Old Helm wanted to make of themselves and that Christianity,

Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture III: Lecture 3
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conception of the Christ. The essential is that we feel what is here
art representation, to the Christ. That is, we shall discover the central
being of all earth's existence, the Christ, when we experience that
which is to be felt in this form. The Christ may to-day discovered purely
Christ. And he will then be able to find again in the Gospels, in all
historical documents, the Christ he has discovered. We cannot to-day
of the Christ.
we shall come to the understanding of the Christ. It is just the task
of the Christ. Hence there could not be a visionary Christ-figure, concerning
our Building, but the Representative of Humanity, in which the Christ
of the art of occult investigation. You see, that figure of Christ which
is the traditional one arose only in the 6th century after Christ. For
on the point, it is for me a fact, that the Christ Jesus who walked
was travelling on a lecture tour from Christiania to Bergen, I saw on

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centuries before the Christian era. We find imperialistic empires in
Christian era because it is difficult nowadays to take account of how
pre-Christian times and extended into the late Middle Ages. But this
claimed that the catholic priest is more powerful than Jesus Christ
transubstantiation at the altar, Jesus Christ must be present in the
performed by the priest forces the Christ Jesus to be present on
the altar. Therefore the more powerful is not the Christ Jesus, but
the gods, whereas the Christ Jesus is only the son of God. What was
Only then can there be a kingdom of Christ
the kingdom of Christ will propagate, there will exist much that has

Title: Lecture 3
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priest to feel greater than Christ, because he can force him to be
a kingdom which is not of this world in which the Christ-impulse can
himself a Christian who has not grasped the saying: “My kingdom
Christ must become an invisible kingdom, a truly invisible empire, an

Title: Lecture I ....... Spiritual Science and Medicine
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Greece of the fifth and fourth centuries before the Christian era,

Title: Festivals/Easter I: Easter: The Festival of Warning
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Ever since the early days of Christianity it has been the custom to
draw a distinction between the festivals of Christmas and of Easter in
that the Christmas festival has been made immovable, having been fixed
The rigid point of time fixed for the Christmas festival indicates
purpose is to remind us of the birth of the Man into whom the Christ
through the Christ Impulse man is to be set free from the forces of
Christ Impulse, to become free of earthly conditions.
of the beginnings of Christianity, to some of those early mysteries
Christ Impulse within the whole history of mankind.
event in the evolution of Christianity was the appearance of the
Christianity. He became the Apostle of the Christians only after the
Christ in an extra-earthly, super-sensible manner. Thus Paul was a man
who could not be persuaded of the meaning of the Christ Impulse by
experience of Christ Jesus, we discover a strange and astounding fact
detect even for so long as that. Now the Christ Impulse entered into
as into the thirtieth year. And Christ Jesus lived His days of
As physical man, Paul was of about the same age as Christ Jesus
Himself. The time that Christ Jesus spent in His work on earth, Paul
spent as an anti-Christian. And the second half of his life was
happened for mankind through the working of the Christ Impulse.
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Title: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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Ever since the early days of Christianity it has been the custom
to draw a distinction between the festivals of Christmas and of Easter in
that the Christmas festival has been made immovable, having been fixed at
time fixed for the Christmas festival indicates how closely that festival
birth of the man into whom the Christ Being afterwards entered.
indicates how through the Christ Impulse man is to be set free from the
Christ Impulse, to become free of earthly conditions.
Christianity, to some of those early mysteries which during a certain
in the evolution of the Christ Impulse within the whole history of mankind.
Christianity was the appearance of the figure of St. Paul
Christianity. He became the Apostle of the Christians only after the event at
very Being of the Christ in an extra-earthly, super-sensible manner. Thus
Paul was a man who could not be persuaded of the meaning of the Christ
experience of Christ Jesus, we discover a strange and astounding fact
is not easy to detect even for so long as that. Now the Christ Impulse
late as into the thirtieth year. And Christ Jesus lived His days of
was of about the same age as Christ Jesus Himself. The time that Christ
Jesus spent in His work on earth, Paul spent as an anti-Christian. And
mankind through the working of the Christ Impulse.
about the same length of time that Christ had walked the earth, did
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Title: Festivals/Easter II: The Blood-relationship and the Christ-relationship
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IITHE BLOOD-RELATIONSHIP AND THE CHRIST-RELATIONSHIP
the beginning of Christianity. Easter is an appropriate occasion for
from any real understanding of the Christ Impulse and how closely this
interpretation of Christianity there was a fundamental break, with the
determined in pre-Christian times, could remain, but that man himself
designated as Christians, a community to which man allies himself in
Christians was not to be dependent on the blood; for of this
birth. But Christianity summons men not to rely upon what is brought
transformation, to allow the soul to develop, to be reborn in Christ,
forsaken God, had become unchristian, because a situation which had
Until the rise of Protestantism a Christian tradition was still
Christians to-day is no longer Christianity. Thus in the
anti-Christian impulse, which was of course there under the surface
To this cause alone are to be attributed the utterly unchristian
have persisted into the 20th. Two of the most unchristian
blood-principle. The Christian impulse towards universal humanity was
been found. The anti-Christian impulse makes its appearance first and
revolt against Christianity in the nationalism of the 19th
theology, in the sphere of modern Christian consciousness — all
anti-Christianity, and that which culminated in the tenets of Lenin
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Last Supper lies in this: not that Christ gave something special to

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Four
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times. Many thousands of years before the Christian era, the Egyptians
Testament — knew: The Messiah, the Christ will come, and He will be the
Christ entered into human evolution, He who had been present
Jehovah. And there arose the necessity to think of the Christ, who
is the Christ. His place must be prepared for Him by our recognition

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Nine
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started from Christianity, they took great care that the essence of
Christianity should not be understood. For the nature and essence of
Christianity must be grasped by the Spirit. The Western creeds

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Eleven
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Christian era, the ancient primeval wisdom began gradually to

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Twelve
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Christ Event, the appearance of Christ on Earth, and Cosmic events
the historians describe the influence of Christianity in the
successive post-Christian centuries, but the actual intervention of
many others. Pastor Kalthoff tried to explain Christianity from the
preceding the appearance of Christ. But what did this explanation
conditions, and eventually the idea of Christ arose, the dream of
Christ, as it were, the ideology of Christ; and from these arose
Christology. It arose in humanity only as an idea. People like Paul,
explanations mean a doing-away with Christianity. It is a noteworthy
that Christian pastors should set themselves the task of saving
Christianity, by eliminating Christ. People were ashamed to admit the
facts of the rise of Christianity outright. They found it more
satisfactory to explain the rise of Christology, to explain it simply
Marxist Pastor who tries to explain Christology out of a sort of pious
explanation for the phenomenon of Christianity; why then should not
each explain Christianity or explain Christ Jesus, according to his
own fancy? A psychiatrist explains Christ according to psychiatry,
simply by saying that the way in which Christ appeared in His time can
of our era. One is the Christian stream, which was added to the
Christology into harmony; for where has Christology any place if
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oriental sources. Traditional Christianity too contains much which has
come from oriental sources; and especially into Roman Christianity a
the worst heresy to describe Christ as the Sun-Spirit, as we
aware that the matter with which the Christ Mystery deals is also
order in its structure. It could not embrace the Christ-Event, for it
and at the same time a Christian; that is an inner lie, it is
entrance of Christ from the non-earthly world into the Man Jesus of
is no Christian astronomy but a heathen astronomy. Therefore every
from the Christian stand-point be rejected. If you follow my book,
is itself a child of the materialistic comprehension of Christianity.
We owe materialism to the materialisation of the Christian view of the
Universe. The teaching of the cosmic Christ must be re-established in
opposition to the materialised form of Christianity we have today.

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streams of the world's history, the heathen stream and the Christian
world-conception differs from the Christian, which has only in a very
centuries actually has no Christology. I have often remarked on the
The Nature of Christianity,
Christ should be mentioned; for what appears therein as
‘Christ’ is no other than the Deity met with in the Old
between Harnack's ‘Christ’ and the God Jehovah — that
is, there is no difference between what is said of the Christ-Being
their Jehovah. If we take the idea of Christ held today by many
life, there is no reason whatever why they should speak of Christ and
Christianity, for to speak of Christ and Christianity — and
Christianity; and the most important task of our time is to build a
Nature-Principle; all that has taken place through Christianity, for
awaiting Christianity — as I have described in the book,
Christianity as Mystical Fact

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for that which Christianity wishes to be for the world. It might
demand did Christianity bring when it first came into the world? In
characteristics of Christianity. Christianity first appeared in such a
Jesus Christ — and the Spirit. In the sense in which Christianity
Christian movement has ever demanded less understanding, less
Science — and demanded by it in order to regain Christianity. The
most important and basic facts have been cast out of Christianity, and
fundamental ideas of Christ Himself? How does modern man discriminate
between Christ and the Universal Cosmic God who can be met with in the
Christianity, as the materialists of the middle of the nineteenth
Thus it comes about that modern humanity still talks of Christ,
Universal God underlying all nature. If the Christ-Concept has been
Golgotha. In order to understand Christianity rightly it is necessary
century before Christ. Man did not then perceive himself as an
has the right to call himself a Christian who believes only in a
Universe is to be brought into relation to the Christ-Event. Think
Christ-concept and the Cosmos-concept must be united, while against
Christ is only to be understood in an ethical sense, as something
transmutation of forces, then the Christ-concept inserted only into

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primary consideration in a right view of the Christ-Force. To
recognise the full significance of the Christ-Force in human evolution
Christ within. It represents an instinctive striving to
understand that which lives as the Christ in the evolution of
word ‘Christ’ and believe that they thus possess Christ,
upwards to the form of Christ. If we reflect on this we receive the
pre-Christian evolution, out of which came all that men were
Christianity will not be understood until it has penetrated even
physical things, the Christian substance works in the world-existence.
We have not grasped Christianity until we can say to ourselves:
of the human soul with the Christ-substance this picture-existence is
only devote ourselves with our free-will, to the Christ-Being. For He
Christ cannot find His Kingdom, he can rise only to the Universal
understanding of Christianity. It might at first appear very strange
desire a science leading towards Christianity, but desire a science as
Christianity are very closely related, for the latter has driven
for the Christ-Impulse will live therein. What today is simply
the Christ-Substance, the Christ-Nature is. Let us try to find that

Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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Christianity had been to a certain extent dictated by the deep
face of the main current of mediaeval Christian philosophy
Christian mediaeval philosophy, that is, to Thomism. I have
father is a Pagan, his mother a pious Christian; and she takes
the utmost pains to win him for Christianity. At first the son
Neoplatonism to Christianity. For one can really say: in a
Christ-Jesus. And this is really not a big jump but a natural
Christianity. How this Christianity lives in Augustine —
destination the Christ-being then appeared and through its
can now say, that Manichaeism is nothing but a post-Christian
Christianity, and later the sermons of Ambrosius and the
Christ-Jesus.” That leapt at him as a conviction out of
tradition of Christ-Jesus interprets. There is the One come
comprehend that which had through Christianity been opened to
knowledge he had through Plotinism to understand Christianity
above men a spiritual world, out of which the Christ descends.
still find a similar Trinity: Christianity interprets its
soul, could understand the mystery of Christ-Jesus. Such

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Christianity was fixed as it were by the underlying
disappears, compared with the main current of Christian
the Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages, in particular of
pagan; the mother is a devout Christ. The mother did her best
to win the son over to Christianity. At first, the son attains
when Augustine turned from Neoplatonism to Christianity. Since
know Christianity. It is, actually, not at all a big leap, but
it is a natural development from Neoplatonism to Christianity.
One cannot judge the Christianity of Augustine if one does not
spiritual fight. The Christ Being appeared to lead the human
that one may say, Manichaeism is only a post-Christian
loneliness in which he got to know the Bible and Christianity,
soul states this appeared on earth in the person of Christ
historical tradition of Christ Jesus. There the One descended
Christianity. He really applied that which he had received from
Plotinism to understand Christianity and its contents. Thus, he
spiritual world from which Christ Jesus had come with
spiritual world above the human beings from which Christ comes.
Christianity interprets its contents with the help of
Christ Jesus with that which shone from Plotinism in his soul.

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few centuries before Christianity was founded, and continued in
between the foundation of Christianity and the higher
the spread of Christianity throughout these centuries is the
dispute with Christianity on the one side and philosophy on the
individual man as Christian with his Church. But these ideas,
development of the spirit within the Christian movement. And
and that these writings throughout have a Christian tinge and
particularly important for the Christian thinkers of the
Christianity was born can understand it quite well. If one
Christian centuries as the materialists of to-day do, anything
the leading spiritual personalities in the first Christian
Christian-philosophical movement of the West to the time of
the Christ, one has to pass over to faith; the
real truth? If Christ enters our reason, or something else
through Christ seriously. But they had not the thinking power
put the question to themselves: How does Christ redeem in us
revealed spiritual truth? How do we become Christians
Christology. And the question Scholasticism could not answer
was: How does Christ enter into human
thought? How is human thought permeated with Christ? How
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before Christianity was founded until the time of scholasticism
foundation of Christianity until High Scholasticism. In that
of Christianity in these centuries is the fact that the
human beings who wanted to deal with Christianity on one side
Christian held together with his church
spiritual development within the Christian current.
but absolutely with a Christian nuance. That became significant
for the Christian thinkers up to High Scholasticism how the
periods from which Christianity is born can cope with it quite
development during the first Christian centuries in such a way
leaders during the first Christian centuries, then it lived on
traditionally in the Christian-philosophical current of the
If one wants to get to Christ, one has to pass over to the
take up Christ in our intellect, if we take up something in our
themselves: how does Christ redeem the truth of the intellect
How do we become Christians to the core? Since the original sin
intellect must not be sinful. The question of Christology is
thinking be Christianised? How does Christ lead the human
so far with Christology that one could pursue the redemption
Scholasticism is a question: how does one bring Christology
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faith of the Christian Church in the West? The militant
has not yet felt the Christ-problem. The Christ-problem occurs
Christ begins to dawn in the human soul, to dawn, I might say,
on the Christian Mystics of the Middle Ages; but he does not
that it rejects precisely what ought to have been the Christian
Christ. In Christ intuition has become Theophany, the
incarnation of God, and the voice of Christ is therefore in
penetrate into the spiritual realm. The Christ-principle
Christ-impulse in man, though this is not expressed in the
installation of the Christ-impulse into it, even in the
idea-world which contains the transformed Christ-principle, in
order again to find the spiritual world through the Christ in
thirteenth century the Christian principle of redemption could
which has the real relationship with Christ, this forces itself
Christianity of the twentieth century, — a Christianity
Christianity, and perhaps you can see from this study of Thomas
we may find again the ideas that are permeated with Christ, the
Christianity which leads to the spiritual Being, from whom man

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feel the Christ problem in intellectualism. The Christ problem
whole humanity. Christ dawns, I would like to say, in the
Christian mystics of the Middle Ages; but He does not dawn with
soul that it rejects that which should just be the Christian or
revelation of the divine substance is given in Christ.
Christ the intuition has become theophany, the
incarnation of God, hence, Christ's voice is God's voice and
Christ principle seriously as one would have taken the Christ
. This individualism is based on the Christ impulse,
human soul with the Christ impulse also in the intellectual
transforming Christ principle to find again our world of ideas,
the spiritual world with Christ in us. Should the world of
yet find the Christian principle of redemption in the world of
intellect that has the real relationship to Christ penetrates
From this viewpoint, Christianity of the
life. This is no pantheism, this is Christianity taken
Christianity again by Christianising the ideas that penetrate

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Christ is none other than the reincarnated Buddha, or Buddha
of Christ are based upon the will. Christ Himself says: ‘I have
true Christian impulse, and proves that to him Christ cannot be the
Christ Jesus merely the wise man of Nazareth. Think of all that has

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childlike consciousness of his connection with Christ Jesus.”
connection with Christ Jesus is always emphasized. It is brought
man is led to believe that he can be most Christian when he least
clear with what he calls his Christ consciousness. This Christ
they like to be told that Christ has taken all the sins of mankind on
belief that through the sacrificial death of Christ, immortality is
but Christ in me.” When we look upon ourselves as something
different, Christ will also become different within us. If we look
Christ can only be in what has come into existence with this present
we have had a prenatal life, we can know also that it is the Christ
the Christ must inevitably come to light. But what the Church worked
understanding of his real relationship to Christ. We may say, my dear
Christ.
whole farce of Krishnamurti as the reborn Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
“From Jesus to Christ,”

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or, How the Christian Church Promotes Materialism, and the second is,
passively to their belief in Christ, then Christ will save them.
believers, that Christ is really contained in the sanctissimum,
that Christ actually goes the way that otherwise the metabolism

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universe. It enables him to understand the words of Christ:
saying of St. Paul, “Not I but Christ in me,” is
fulfilled, then the words of Christ will live in the
human skin and is received into Christ, this will not pass
order to receive the Christ Impulse, the Divine Spiritual,

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lecture is entitled, Materialism and Religion, or, How the Christian Church
as the Christ word: “Heaven and earth shall pass
single human being: “Not I, but the Christ in me,”
then again the words of Christ live in the single human being:
taken up by Christ, “will not pass away.”
Christ impulse, that is to take up the creative-divine into his

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acknowledge Jesus, the Christ,” but in the spiritual
the concepts and images of this Jesus, of Christ, fill such a
the Christ, that he has in mind. Actually he is a follower of
name of Jesus or Christ.
Church and to Christianity. You know by now that Reverend Kully

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From Jesus to Christ,

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also demonstrate that the well-being of Christianity, a true
advanced representatives of Christianity. Materialism has,
indicated by the name, Christ, is united with the human
“It is the Father, not the Christ, Who belongs in the
speak of Christ, because theologians such as Harnack are no
longer familiar with the Christ; they know only the teacher
world, belong in the Gospel, but not a teaching about Christ
Christianity would continue on this path of naturalization,
Christ Jesus can be derived by humanity from what has been
Christianity has all been produced by these traditional

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Even as late as in the early days of Christianity, but

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this in Mrs. Eddy's Christian Science
David Hume or John Stuart Mill. Christian Science as a
Eddy's Christian Science, this spirit which has come to
an in-depth cure, one can even effect cures with Christian
Christian Science. We must not, however, look at matters
make no effort to secure the immortality of my soul. Christ
It is mine once and for all; Christ makes me immortal.”

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Christian Science. Despite the fact that this is as yet a

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the eastern end a kind of Christ figure, with Lucifer rising

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science. We have comprehended the Christ according to the
Michelangelo's painting in the Sistine Chapel where Christ
way he must experience Christ's words, “Heaven and
Christian saying. For Christianity starts from the
recent natural scientific world outlook mocks Christianity by
future. That is Christianity.
understood Christianity must eradicate the anti-Christian
tenets of Christianity, namely, eternity of the spirit and
that we lie when we still allege to be Christians, while we
lend a hand to the dissemination of an anti-Christian world
Christianity. Above all, in reality, representatives of
Christian confessions, ministers and pastors, who make their
certainly the worst enemies of Christianity. There is no

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man.” So this Catholic-Christian church father of the
ramifications, as an aspect of the Christian Catholic Church.
denies Christianity; it even denies its last teachers who

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Christianity confronts human beings in such a way that they
something super-sensible. For one must envisage that Christ, a
Christology to understand the Mystery of Golgotha in a
developed in such a way that it opposed Christology with
theology felt called upon altogether to deny Christ as such,
theologians should really not call ourselves Christians any
longer, for we no longer have Christ. If the name
traditional, historical description of Christianity, we need

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views concerning the man, Jesus, and the nature of Christ, because at

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wisdom. The Christ event is a different matter. For that is an actual
of Golgotha were drawn during the first Christian centuries entirely
event of Christianity was originally understood. Everything progresses,

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is said and done they stem from Eastern wisdom. The Christ
During the first Christian centuries, however, the ways and
this wisdom that the fundamental event of Christendom was first

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– choosing a poem by Christian Morgenstern.
Und sie schickten, gute Christen,
Nicht von Juden, nicht von Christen
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914).

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To Christ our Lord

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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
he had inherited, had wanted to reach a discerning judgement of the principles of Christianity
through Christ Jesus, was the ransom actually paid? He, the Greek thinker, came to the solution
becoming acquainted with Christianity. The ransom was paid to Death by the cosmic powers.
we see looming towards us, Christ as judge giving judgment on the good and the evil.
way who wrote books like, for example, Christian Wolff's
The useful statements, for example, of Christian theology — indeed, the useful statements
Charlemagne's court, who had expressed the opinion to the emperor that Christ had paid the
it to be inadmissible, for Christ was not — death's debtor and could not become so
— the price of our redemption was paid by Christ to our divine Father, to whom, in
On the contrary, in the person of Christ, death itself, which God did not create, became the
Christianity Began as a Religion and
13. Baron Christian von Wolff, philosopher and mathematician,

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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century - 1
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century

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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century - 2
which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
from the traditions of Christianity. One comprehends the Christian Scholasticism of the Middle

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
spirit did not arise, like a new comprehension of Christianity, then everything must go into

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
a kind of renewed manifestation of the Christ-Event is to take place. This will need a certain
birth certificate or the christening certificate that had to exist; that was the important thing.
see, is in fact an introduction to a study of the Christ-experience in the twentieth century.
Das Ereignis der Christus-Erscheinung in der atherischen Welt
(The Event of the Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric World),

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
reappearance of Christ is to find its place in the soul in the right way it is necessary to
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development. We remember that human development
remnants above all in these peoples. And Christ Jesus, too, did, after all, walk on the earth
remnants of old clairvoyance — this was Christian Gnosis. And the presentation of the
Christianity as mystical Fact.
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Golgotha became clothed in dialectics. Out of what was Christian Gnosis, which still relied on
all that the Christian could experience in the Church. In the Last Supper he had directly
present, according to his comprehension, the entry of the Christ-force into the world. The fact
that this Christ-force was able to stream into the physical world for the believers was subject
authority, who wished to comprehend Christ out of their inner being — for which, however,
grasped Christ out of one's own inner being.
mystics in the Middle Ages also spoke of the Christ, but they did not yet have the
Christ-experience. But they did have the old accounts concerning the Christ. And this rebellion
has nothing more of the Christ. Jesuitism already contains in itself a complete rebellion against
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the
Die Neue Geistigkeit und Das Christus-erlebnis des Zwangzigsten
COMING EXPERIENCE OF CHRIST
called the Christ-Experience yet to come. We learnt yesterday
how little experience of the Christ there really is at the present
all that can properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen
hindrance to the development of a Christ-Experience. And we have
Christ, just as at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha remnants of
Christ-Experience of the first half of the twentieth century will
as the physical Christ appeared at the time of the Mystery of
Golgotha, so the spiritual Christ will appear to mankind. He alone
will prepare man to recognise how the Christ-Being will reveal
Christ will not come in the spiritual sense if men are not prepared
manifestation of the Christ in the first half of the twentieth
the Christ will appear only to those who renounce all that spreads
the Christ-Impulse in their souls. All other solutions will lead only
a purely earthly, physical being. The new experience of the Christ

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
and the Christ Expereience of the Twentieth Century
called the Christ-experience soon to come.
Christ there really is at the present time. The course of human evolution has brought it about
properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence. We saw, too, that
demand to be able to receive and read the Gospels — an experience of Christ has not been
becoming prevalent in modern civilization will again lead to experience of the Christ, just as
the Christ-experience of the first half of the twentieth century will come in an unexpected way.
will create a mood to which the cosmos responds. Just as the physical Christ appeared at the time
of the Mystery of Golgotha so the spiritual Christ will appear to humanity. He alone can give the
the Christ-Being will reveal Himself to him and will speak to him spiritually, just as, at the
The Christ will not come in the spirit if human
be developed which will direct mankind towards the new manifestation of the Christ in the first
for spirituality a true one. And the Christ will appear only to those who renounce everything
be found to the degree in which human beings are able to feel the Christ-impulse in their souls.
physical being. The new experience of the Christ will arise out of the attunement
everything that hinders the approach of this new Christ-experience.
profession it is to speak about Christology, who gains his daily bread by educating youth in
Christology. This man says, about the methods used to gain knowledge in anthroposophical science,
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wanted to explain Christianity from this thoughtless element
and said: Christianity cannot be understood through the thought
dog is the best Christian, because it has the best knowledge of

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Christian decades. The world is however complicated and by
the first Christian decades, in the manner we imagine the
common history of the first Christian decades to have been.
the so-called Christian development. What European Christianity
experienced the Christ impulse but in essence carried a kind of
these people outwardly adopt Christianity and then from outside
to those who had spread Christianity from the south to the
Christianizing impulse. These souls who accepted Christianity
quite different to those living with Christianity today —
now. However, these souls who incarnated in the first Christian
of Christianity from the south to the north, these incarnated
Japanese population; that the kind of Christianising a soul had
undergone through Europe's Christianizing, who now hear no
sound of Christianity from infancy, who only through the
result of the then Christianising impulse which they still
Christian impulses, how they originated when Christianity in
Christian centuries more towards the south. These are now right
before the founding of Christianity in Asia, in the near East,
way one may not identify the teachings of the first Christians
with the reality of Christianity. These teachings of the first
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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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to communicate the Christ-Secret to the world. But in our age it is
desired that the connection of Christ, the spiritual Sun, with the
rage most violently of all when we speak of the Christ Mystery in

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
Christ-Secret to the world. But in our age it is desired that
the connection of Christ, the spiritual Sun, with the
Christ Mystery in connection with the Sun Mystery. All kinds

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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Lecture I: A Christmas Lecture
A Christmas Lecture
Christianity commemorates in three yearly festivals that
Being Who, for the Christian, gives earth-life its meaning, and from
Of these three festivals Christmas makes the greatest
Christmas Mystery through inwardising and deepening of that feeling
able rightly to appreciate the mood of Christmas. Only when we can
Christ Jesus is related to the Father principle of the
world, and this is represented for us by the Christmas festival.
Christ Jesus is related to what we call the Son principle, and this
is represented by the Easter Mystery; while the relation of Christ to
religions and also in the sense of a rightly understood Christianity
experienced in the commemoration of the Christmas Mystery — in
bring all beings including man into existence. This holy Christmas
Mystery tells us, as we look at the childhood of Christ, that the
childhood which entered into earth evolution at Christmas time.
For many men of the early Christian centuries it was a
great experience to gaze on the entrance of the Christ Being into
the Christian looks when he thinks of Jesus in the world's Holy
forces of nature, the second time reborn through the forces of Christ
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IN THE FESTIVAL of Christmas something is given to Christendom that
directs the thoughts of all circles of Christian people straight to the
of Christmas.
since the Mystery of Golgotha when we remember that the Christ who went
that Christ went through the Mystery of Golgotha. It is appropriate for us
to study this Mystery of Golgotha — and the mystery of Christmas belongs to
Christ Jesus to that being whose outer reflection appears in the sun. The
followers and representatives of the Christian impulse were not always so
the sun and the mystery of Christ as the decadent present-day
representatives of Christianity so often are. Dionysius the Areopagite,
However, we must understand the mystery of Christmas in a far wider
mystery of Isis and that which also lives in Christianity, we need only
entirely Christian spirit, this picture is, after all, nothing more than a
right up to our own days — namely, to see the story of Christ Jesus and all
Christianity As Mystical Fact
congruence between what appears in Christianity and the old pagan mysteries.
in a Christian sense. For the Egyptians, Osiris was a kind of
representative of the Christ who had not yet arrived on earth. In their own
imagine that our being of the sun, the Christ, who has passed through the
Christmas carol proclaims each year anew: “Unto us a Saviour is born.”
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In the festival of Christmas we have something given to
us that directs the thoughts of all circles of Christian people
in the Christian festival.
remember that the Christ who went through the Mystery of Golgotha has
Christ has passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. It is good if we
study the Mystery of Golgotha — the Christmas Mystery is
namely, the relationship of the Christ to that Being whose outer
the Christian impulse were not always so hostile as they often are
Sun-Mystery and the Christ-Mystery. Dionysius, the Areopagite, who
Christmas Mystery in a far wider connection than is usually done, if
and that which lives in Christianity, we need only cast our eyes upon
out of an entirely Christian spirit is, after all, a kind of
namely, to consider the story of Christ Jesus and all that belongs to
Mysteries. From my book Christianity as Mystical Fact you
between that which arises in Christianity and the old pagan
a form which is suited to our own age, in the light of Christianity.
For the Egyptians, Osiris was a kind of representative of the Christ
the Christ, Who has now passed through the Mystery of Golgotha; for
present, He exists, as the Christmas carol proclaims each year anew:
in other words, He remains with the life of the earth. The Christ,
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Golgotha in the sense of the Christmas Mystery we may look in two
the East recognised, from the starry heavens, the Coming of Christ
to speak about this evening, holds good. The pre-Christian attitude
Among individual peoples of pre-Christian times it had
world a Being, the Christ, is coming down to the earth. The approach
of Christ was revealed to the Magi out of their knowledge of the
The Earth became something different when the Christ was
drawing near. The Earth felt this approach of Christ, bore in herself
new forces because of Christ's approach. The pure-hearted shepherds
of Christ. Thus the cosmic expanses proclaimed to the Magi from the
united in their will with the Christ Being Who was approaching the
pictorial, naive, instinctive imagination in pre-Christian times
Christ was revealed to the Magi as a Being of the Heavens. What today
on the earth, the power with which the Christ would work in the
earth, what the Christ was to be for the earth.
East recognised the approach of Christ. The Imaginations are the
faculties men will have to seek for the understanding of the Christ
the spiritual realisation to the living Christ. Men must learn to
Christ Power that is his since the Mystery of Golgotha is to become
threshold in our present day that can give the Christ-form to this
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exist in Christian tradition as in the vision of the shepherds, who,
Christmas festival. Let others go on, if they so will, along the old,
to a Jewish family for many years. Every year, when Christmas was
near, all the relatives, distant and near, set about buying Christmas
presents and a Christmas tree — and all of them were members of
themselves Christians, in honour of Him of whom it is said: “The
under the Christmas tree or whether this is done by someone who
This is what I wanted to voice at this Christmas
The year we are beginning with this Christmas festival
with Christmas.
form they do, even among the leaders of Christianity. For example
told him of a statue of Christ being made with Luciferic traits above

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Christianity reminds him of the well-known fact that it

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former religious founders, such as Christ and Buddha, none of

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most modern sense he really grasps the Christ-Mystery, grasps
of the Christ as a cosmic Being Who has descended to earth out
do only through Anthroposophy, otherwise the Christ-concept too
is empty for us. The Christ-concept becomes phrase unless it
modern Physics — feel how from such a universe the Christ
no meaning at all to any true, real Christ-Being. Such a Christ
know and to feel the Christ today as Cosmic Being one needs the
the Christ to come forth from the cosmos. And if one learns to
incarnating of the Cosmic Christ in the individual man. Such a
imagine that the Christ had in any way incorporated in him. In
There is no Christianity today which can be accepted by the

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‘ideal’ side of that European explanation, which was the Christian
a gigantic civilisation, and then as a Christian leaven,

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Jesuitism; not Christ-ism — Jesuitism. It has developed that
certain spiritual qualities or attributes. Christ has in
man. Christ, as a super-earthly supersensible Being, must be
not treat of the Christ, it only treats of Jesus; and the modern
Catholicism. A Christology, a real Christology, has not yet arisen
Christology depends on man finding the spirit in spite of

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Christianity,” and only stems from a particularly
of the holy Magdalene or Christ, or whatever. If it doesn't
“Christianity as Mystical Fact” which had been
rank, Rittelmeyer, will contrast his own serious Christ
Michel's article: “Anthroposophy and Christianity”
and Christianity.” I have often indicated, also in the
entitled “Anthroposophy and Christianity” is
Roman Catholic Christianity is here puffed out to its readers
Ernst Michel noticed a basic truth of Christianity: “It
is a basic Christian truth that a person with original sin
the same with the description of the Christ experience and so
Anthroposophy has to say about Christ will not enter into such
covers the Christ problem in relation to what Anthroposophy has
“Speech is the mystery, the Son of Man Jesus Christ is

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Christ-stream. You know indeed that the central Group of our
Ahrimanic, and that of the Christ.
That is what Spiritual Science must seek, the Christ-principle,

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the pre-Christian age — and especially pre-Christian
pre-Christian age, and is very cleverly indicated in the story
pre-Christian Jewish initiation, it was known as an
Christianity up to the beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean
receive the Christ Impulse, because the old Jahve or
deep significance, that in the Christian tradition we are told
experienced the certainty that Christ had been present in Jesus
Divine Providence or, as many said, the Christ, was helping
guidance of Christ against every other. But because one utters
the Name of `Christ', that does not mean that one has met, has
contacted, the Christ; for the Christ is only contacted
Christ Nature. One may say a thousand times over: “We
will fight in the Name of Christ”; but as long as one is
the Being of Whom one speaks; one calls the Being Christ, but
character of a Jehovah; Christ completely disappeared from the
events how utterly Christ had disappeared out of the
Christ-element, it developed entirely within that physical
of Christ to Jehovah during the War. But science has turned
press forward to an understanding of the Christ. At most the
the world with spirit if we can perceive the Christ-Being, if
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JEHOVAH CHRIST
beings which the pre-Christian age and especially the
pre-Christian Judaism imagined as standing under the guidance
pre-Christian age, and is even Spiritually indicated in the
clearly. As I have said, in the pre-Christian Jewish Initiation
make itself felt, from the founding of Christianity up to the
essential, that it should receive the Christ Impulse; because
deep significance, that in the Christian tradition we are told
that Christ had been present in Jesus through the Mystery
or, as many said, the Christ, was helping them! Each Nation
wanted so to say, to go forth under the guidance of Christ,
`Christ,' that does not mean that one has met, contacted the
Christ; for the Christ is only contacted when in one's whole
feeling one turns to that Being Who has the Christ Nature. One
of Christ;” but as long as one is fighting for one Nation
speaks, one may call him Christ, but it is a false name. In
calling that being Christ, one only means the Jehovah-God. In
of a Jehovah; Christ completely disappeared from the
events how utterly Christ had disappeared out of the
the Christ-element, it developed into that physical mineral
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THERE is a significant contrast between the Christmas thought and
The Christmas thought points to birth. Through birth, the eternal
constitution is derived. The Christmas thought, therefore, links us
thought. Hence at the time when Pauline Christianity was beginning to
the Death but to the Resurrection of Christ Jesus that men's minds
were directed by words of power such as those of Paul: “If Christ
of early Christianity that was still an echo of Eastern wisdom. On the
other hand, there are pictures in which Christ Jesus is portrayed as
sleeps through his mortal existence. In early Christianity, man is
of Christendom men were still endeavouring to understand the Mystery
the fourth century A.D., Christianity became a
State religion — in other words, there crept into Christianity
Julian the Apostate, who was no Christian, but for all that a
deeply religious man, could not accept what Christianity had become
under Constantine. And so we see how in the fusion of Christianity
a picture of Christ Jesus which at the beginning simply was not there,
was not part of Christianity in its original form: the picture of
Christ Jesus as the crucified One, the Man of Sorrows, brought to His
This made a breach in the whole outlook of the Christian world. For the
the picture of Christ agonising on the Cross — is of the Christ
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is an important difference between thoughts on Christmas
Christmas thoughts speak to us of birth; we know that through
thought of Christmas from this standpoint, we feel it as
enter into the thought of Easter. At the time when Christianity
death of Christ Jesus, but to His resurrection, and declared in
the powerful words of Paul: “If the Christ be not risen,
thought in early Christianity, that form of Christianity which
side, however, we see pictures rise which represent Christ
all, we see how early Christianity is directed to the words of
great and comprehensive wisdom which in the early Christian
century Christianity became the state religion, which means
that something entered Christianity which no longer was
Julian, the Apostate, who though no Christian was a religious
man, could in no way accept what Christianity had become
through Constantine. In the blending of Christianity with
of Christ Jesus appeared which was not seen anywhere at first,
and, indeed, did not exist in original Christianity: the
representation of Christ Jesus as the crucified suffering Man
Christian world; for this presentation of the crucified,
pain-filled Christ, which since then has continued through the
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teaching of Gnosticism; Logos and Christianity; Gospel of John.
the fourth century before Christ, there emerged what
in the age when Christendom was established. Certainly, if
certain sects of the first Christian centuries to the point
Christianity. One point, where almost everything remains yet
question here, approximately from the fourth pre-Christian
picture that what came with Christ into the man Jesus was to
given to the world in the story of Christ Jesus. the concept,
Christianity; thus, the most sublime wisdom was used to see
Christianity became a state religion, something from which
first Christian centuries, where much was still pervaded by
Christian era, it is an extraordinarily interesting fact to
concept as it had held sway within pre-Christian humanity in
which Christendom emerged must be studied also by means of

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the Mithras cult; Christianity. Dionysius the Areopagite; further
the word; it cuts off any comprehension of Christianity based on
pre-Christian wisdom.
something attempting during those first Christian centuries
to establish Christianity on the basis of a certain ancient
itself to comprehending Christianity in a more external,
material way, not to penetrate Christianity with ideas of
say, between the direction of a wisdom-filled Christianity
and a Christianity seemingly tending toward a more or less
areas. Though cloaked in a certain Christian coloring, this
first Christian centuries in both the stream of wisdom and
It is a worship we find even as late as the first Christian
sense, Christianity viewed from one side, viewed from the
everywhere when we look back at the first Christian
Golgotha, definitely contained Christian views and Christian
of the Mystery of Golgotha, of Christ. The further east we go
supersensory perception: The true Mithras is the Christ;
Mithras is his predecessor. The Christ force must be poured
Mithras worship into a worship of Christ was something that
was intensely alive in the first Christian centuries up until
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depths of Christianity in a wisdom-imbued way. The time of
recognized in Christ Jesus the victor over all the human
the actual mysteries of Christendom in a wise manner were
comprehension of Christianity gradually withdrew back into
which the Christ Triumphant would have appeared rather than
Christian mystery, the full significance of which is so great
had caught the blood flowing down from Christ Jesus. This was
have been broken by Christ Jesus in the same chalice in which
abstract intellectual wisdom prevailed. Among the Christians,
had to be grounded in the human being through the Christ
super-sensible mysteries of Christianity, the mysteries of
be able to seek for the origin of Christ in these cosmic
naturally cannot be conceived of as the home of Christ. From
telescope, the Christ could not have descended to earth in
pervaded by a spirituality and from where the Christ could
possible for the Christ to descend from these cosmic spheres
Christians flocked to Jerusalem, so now large numbers of

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comprehend Christ in Jesus. Suspension of this struggle due to
nationalized Roman Christianity. "Humanization" of Christianity
fifteenth century. Soloviev's call for Christianized state. Forces
Christian century. It was also necessary to point out how
about, and how a comprehension of Christianity developed
Christianity
worlds, the Christ, could have found His way into a human
corporeality. The permeation of Jesus by the Christ was the
living union of the super-sensible Christ with the
element were saturated with a form assumed by Christianity in
Christianity
political concepts spread out over Christianity. Christianity
Christian capital city of Rome. We see how this Christian
gains ground because Christianity is poured into the Roman
polity. For the first time, Christianity and external
political science were forged together and Christianity
dwell in Christianity that they could, of course, be
special way for Christianity. This preparation consisted in
the way Christianity had passed, as it were, through the
Christianity that then turned into the actually political
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life and nature of Christianity cannot be grasped any longer even by
return of the same" and the "Antichrist."
fourth Christian century.
what could have disclosed itself to him through Christianity
Palestine at the beginning of the Christian era. Yet,
the world by the opponents of Christianity, by the likes of
Antichrist.
Antichrist,
Antichrist,
able to study quite a bit concerning the Christian nature of
that this modern theology is not Christian is in the main
the unchristian elements pervading modern Christianity had
sameness. The Christian impulse had been taken from him by
what calls itself the Christian spirit in the modern age, and
theology and present-day Christian demeanor. All this broke
Christian.”
Christian in the sense of the good citizens of Wuppertal!
Mystery of Golgotha and Christianity as the right impulse in

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But the Christian stream that increasingly flowed into the
gained, this Christian stream eradicated everything that once
Christ dogmas determined by council decisions had been
fourth Christian century passed over into the solidly
Christian church stream, we see that the nature of the
Christ and Jesus in one man. There were dogmas concerning the
birth, the nature of Christ Jesus, the death, the
of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ,
The various metamorphoses of the Christian festivals lived on
impulse of Christianity, this content lived on throughout the
one that counted less on Christianity as such but frequently
Christianity but proceeded more from older cults. This other
relationship to Christianity. As you know, the element that
Christian century that, in a sense, sank all the ancient
it then disappeared in the fourth Christian century. From
Christian century; beginning in the first third of the
question with their isolated intellect how the Christ could

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We know that the time from the eighth pre-Christian century
pre-Christian century in southern Europe and Asia Minor. We
attained a kind of high point in the fourth Christian century
the eighth pre-Christian century up until the fifteenth
the eighth pre-Christian to the fifteenth century
the eighth pre-Christian century to the fifteenth century
those who are serious about the fundamental Christian

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Christ. Since the year 1413, we are faced with the

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comes from the Roman Church. The forms Christianity assumed
Catholicity of Christianity — appears as a shadow of an
Christianity was in regard to its metaphysical view prior to
Catholic, Christianity as a real power, but in a certain
sort of power that Christianity possessed; a power, so he
the fourth Christian century. He did not wish to acknowledge
the Christ Who works on continuously. Above all, he tried to
particular view of the Christ, a view that possessed
England's mental condition that dated back to pre-Christian
be incarnated in an earthly sense, a Christ-being believed to

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it was until the epoch of the fourth century after Christ. It was then for the
proceed only up to a certain age in life. At the time of the death of Christ,

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death of the Christ when the event of Golgotha took place,

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early centuries of Christendom in Europe.
centuries of Christendom.
of things. We see the gradual spread of Christianity, but no trace of
Christian era. This is the decisive time in the process of the decline
of the Roman Empire. The headway made by Christianity was such that
Christians and to place Christianity on an equal footing with the old
reigned supreme for centuries, had been absorbed by Christianity but in
we find the Roman priesthood spreading Christianity among this peasant
Christianity. Augustine writes these Confessions in the year
to offer, and, to begin with, he cannot accept Christianity. He stands
Christianity as opposed to the Athanasian Christianity of Augustine.
the pagan thought of antiquity is permeated with Arian Christianity.

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were now permeated with the new conceptions Christianity brought. They
became, so to say, christianised. The lower classes of the Roman people
these nomadic peoples Christianity was absorbed into the ancestral cults
of Arian Christianity. The dogmatic conflict in the background is not so
important. The important thing for this Arian Christianity, which traveled
by a path which did not lead through Rome, is that in it Christianity
Christianity that Augustine experienced had passed through the culture of
ideas and had turned from them towards Christianity in the way I have
through the adoption of Christianity, the culture of the Catholic clergy.
culture of Catholic Christianity.
they believe themselves to be entirely Christian, stress the point that
about forgiveness of sins. We see objections made against the Christianity
rejects the view that a relation to the spiritual world or to Christ can
Christianity lived, in contrast to the other background that originated
A.D. onward Christianity is propagated in the Latin
only the outer form of what went on in the souls of men. Christianity was
mixed with the Christ and His deeds, and what comes from the human being
the Christian element is received. We see it in ‘Der Heliand’
and other poems which arose out of Christianity but always we see
Christianity much of oriental culture, of the earlier spiritual life. And
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of intellect at that time to comprehend Christianity and future
transition in the fourth Christian century; I outlined the
representative of the more intimate Christian mode of
the first Christian centuries. John Scotus Erigena apparently
Christianity was cultivated in a certain esoteric manner. The
personalities to their courts. The Christian knowledge
the substance of what had been left from the early Christian
end of the first Christian century into the second one. This
that these pre-Christian insights were spiritual insights.
Christian century had more of an Augustine character and
over in Ireland, still dwelled in the first Christian
different from the Christian view, that is from what appeared
later as the Christian view. Origen definitely still holds
and insights of the first Christian centuries, we must
knowledge that had existed in the first Christian centuries
Christian Trinity. Inwardly, proceeding from the
first Christian centuries, was declared to be heretical. This
in the eighth pre-Christian century, approximately in the year
was frozen into dogmas and incorporated into Christology. It
spoke of the Christ being's rule among human beings; one
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Gospel of John as testimony that Christ, the Logos, is creator of earthly
Early Christian knowledge concerning the nature of Father forces and
Christ force. The Gospel of John. Transition from pre-Christian blood
first centuries of Christianity that throws its light into
occurred in the fourth Christian century. From the middle of
centuries after Christ. Only with the help of spiritual
of those who profess Christianity. Consider that this Gospel
actual creator of all things. In the Christian thinking after
Christ in the sense of the Gospel of John, was certainly not
Christ is contrasted with the Creator as the Father, as God
You cannot take this Gospel seriously and not regard Christ
little this Gospel was taken seriously in later Christian
the first Christian centuries, which, as I have said,
Christian Sacrifice of the Mass. We have to understand the
Communion was truly comprehended during the first Christian
Christ in the Sacrament of Communion. But what did people
eschatology. It presents the history of Christ Jesus, the
only the fourth chapter is really Christian. The first three
chapters are permeated with a number of Christian concepts
Fathers of the first Christian centuries. We can say that
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which shines over from the first centuries of Christendom
thought and idea in those first centuries of Christendom was
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
Christian times.
altogether by adherents of the Christian Faith throughout
world. In the Christian mind after the 4th century, the
Logos — rightly identified with the Christ in the sense
things visible is the Father God and not the Christ.
Christian centuries, thought was based upon the knowledge of the
centuries of Christendom to teachings such as those now living
Christ. What did such a mystery really signify to these men?
9th century after Christ. None the less his books contain
speaks of the history of the Christ Jesus, of the Resurrection,
Christian only when we reach the fourth. The first three
sections contain (Christian thoughts, but are derived, in
Fathers of the first centuries of Christendom. Their
in the first centuries of Christendom there was added to this
centuries of Christendom were imbued with the idea that the
pre-Christian era men believed in the Father God but could not
Christian Church were fighting. So difficult was it for the
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Christianity. Julian the Apostate. Constantine. Justinian. Displacement
burst the beginning of Christianity. But by then all this
establish the dominion of Christianity, everything became

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in their own language, so the word of Christ Jesus also point

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Christ-Jesus points to these things: Heaven and earth shall

Title: Lecture: Denken, Fühlen, Wollen - Das Muspilhgedicht
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Christliches vor: es wird uns der Kampf des Elias mit dem Antichrist
Antichrist, erinnert an die alten Kämpfe der Sagen, der Bewohner
Antichrist.
heutige Christ unter dem Reiche seines Gottes versteht, sondern diese
nicht vorgestellt: Der Christus läßt oben sein Blut
Christus hineinstellen wollte in Mittelgard, in dasjenige, was in der
Christus-Reich ist. Ohne daß wir dazu vorrücken, kommen wir
wirklich finden kann: Christus ist da zum Ausgleich des Luzifer und

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contained a purely Christian element. It describes the battle of
Elias with Antichrist. But the manner in which this battle of Elias
with Antichrist is described, the whole way in which the story is
Kingdom of the Antichrist.
they did not see the same as that which the Christian of
not said: Christ allows His Blood to stream down from above, but:
Realm, — because it was felt that Christ must be placed
mid-way between, to the Kingdom of Christ. Until we reach this
and balance. Christ stands there as the Balance between Lucifer and

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those three pre-Christian and three post-Christian centuries.
Christianity in the first Christian centuries through the fusing of
the fusing of Christianity with the Aristotelianism that arose in the
Christian; it is Aristotelian. It first became a dogmatic fetter
through the introduction of Aristotelianism into Christian theology.
But traditional Christianity does look only at this life between birth

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world-conception, because the spreading of Christianity did its
continued to exist even in the post-Christian centuries, had an
traditionally from a Christian direction and had gradually acquired
conceptual matters, the Christian philosophers have reached the very
revelation and was preserved within the Christian dogmas, and the
epoch to the other, and that the Christian development of philosophy
Christian dogmatism, produced the tendency to use the intellectual
a soul-habit which has risen out of Christian dogmatism.
fact is unquestionably a result of the Christian dogmatic
connection is the development of theology, especially of Christology,
for it shows us how the super-sensible contents of the Christ-idea
were made to uphold Christianity even in the face of the enlightened
deny that in their structure they originate from the Christian

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characteristic way in the outwardly pious Christians, particularly in
observance of this commandment is, in a Christian meaning, far more

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of Christ are true, that a cosmos originates from morality,
ideally orientated Christians with pathological traits strongly

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these worlds. He must do so, if Christianity is again to become a
clearly when we look at the modern conception of Christ — if
indeed modern times may be said to have any idea of Christ at all.
cannot possibly come to an idea of Christ as long as he makes use
of forming a true idea of Christ.
Harnack says that Christ the Son does not really belong in the
Christ Jesus has place in the Gospels only in so far as He brought
of the Father God. Thus in the sense of this theology Christ is of
Christian times, up to about the third or fourth century, when there was
still a good deal of the Oriental wisdom in Christianity, men were
engaged attention in the early Christian centuries have long ceased
Christ, he wants to acknowledge Him — but through inner
Christ God. Modern theology has not the Christ at all; it has only
the Father — but it calls the Father “Christ,”
because it has received the tradition of the Christ Being in history
and, quite naturally, wants to be Christian. If we were honest, we
should simply be unable to call ourselves Christians in modern times.
so speaking because for him both the Father and the Christ are
Father and Christ. If you are inwardly honest with yourselves, you
Father God and the Christ, the two ideas become confused and
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consciousness of these worlds if Christianity is again to be
able to become a truth for him, for Christianity actually is
we look at the modern development of the idea of Christ
idea of Christ as long as he makes use only of the concepts
a true idea of Christ.
says that Christ the
are the message of the Father, and that Christ Jesus actually
theology, Christ has worth only insofar as He appeared in the
Christian times until about the third or fourth century A.D.,
Christianity, human beings occupied themselves intently with
people's attention in the early Christian centuries, under
speak of Him, tradition speaks of Him. Man has the Christ; he
longer actually has the Christ. He therefore takes what he
transfers it to the Christ God. Modern theology does not
actually have the Christ at all; it has only the Father, but
it calls the Father “Christ,” because at one time
it received the tradition of the Christ being in history, and
one wants to be Christian, of course. If one were honest, one
would be unable to call oneself a Christian in modern
Christ are experiences. The human being of the West makes no
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indwelling of Christ, however, is the balance. In short, in
Christ, and this brought him to this peculiar
culture, he became not a worshipper of Christ but a
worshipper of the Antichrist, a reverer, a glorifier of
Antichrist. In Nietzsche, in a form amounting to a genius,
Antichristianity appeared. This Antichristianity, however, if
the Mystery of Golgotha gives us the forces that make Christ

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of Golgotha, with the Christ experience, in order to show how
in death and resurrection the Christ experience can now pour

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sagte: Liebe Christen! Da gibt es von Gott Abtrünnige, die
sondern sie stamme vom römischen Papst. Liebe Christen, wer das
Stellt euch vor, meine lieben Christen, hier stehe eine Kanone. An
von euch, liebe Christen, wird das sagen! Seht ihr, ein solcher

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between Christianity and the ancient teachings of the gods.
If the human being wishes to fmd Christ, he must find Him in
only in a pagan way, not in a Christian way; for the human
being must come to Christ in inner freedom. Particularly the
active knowledge, is able to lead us to Christ, to the
Christ must be able to be sensed, felt, known through one's
regarding Christianity Spiritual science seeks to explain the
Christ. When speaking of Christ, the ancients pointed to the
Christ. It must search for the sun in the Man of
end of the earth. The conception of Jesus, in whom Christ
Christ of the outer world. The true knowledge of the Mystery
the earth the sun of this earthly evolution through Christ.
Christianity about which anthroposophy must speak will not be
a looking to Christ but a being filled with Christ.
when so-called Christian theologians again and again lump
that they do not really understand much about Christianity.
Christianity of modern theology, in which he tried to prove
that modern theology — including Christian theology
— is no longer Christian. One may therefore say that
fact that modern Christian theology does not understand or
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way. This constitutes the great difference between Christianity
and the ancient teachings of the Gods. If we wish to find Christ,
grasp the world only in a pagan way, not in a Christian way; for
Christ must be reached in inner freedom. Particularly the way in
inner activity, is able to lead us to Christ, to the Mystery of
the essence of the Mystery of Golgotha. Christ should be felt and
spiritual science strives for in regard to Christianity.
which the eye is able to perceive the Sun. In Christ an older
When speaking of Christ, it pointed to the Sun.
conception of Jesus, who was Christ's abode, renders possible a
In ancient times, the Christ was felt to be outside in the
shining through Christ. The Sun shines outside in the world and
experienced in feeling. The Christianity which Anthroposophy will
have to teach, will not only imply looking at Christ, but being
filled by Christ.
so-called Christian theologians again and again put together
not really understand much about Christianity. For it is deeply
conspicuous theologian of Basle, wrote a book on the Christianity
theology; i.e., the Christian theology, is no longer Christian.
Christian theology does not understand anything about
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said: "Dear Christians! There are apostates from God who
rather from the Roman Pope. Dear Christians! Whoever would
Imagine in front of you, dear Christians, there stands a
superior, invented the powder? None of you, dear Christians,

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said: "Dear Christians! There are apostates from God who
rather from the Roman Pope. Dear Christians! Whoever would
Imagine in front of you, dear Christians, there stands a
superior, invented the powder? None of you, dear Christians,

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Emperor Constantine. It was under him that Christianity assumed the
ancient memorials which Christianity, assuming a material form for the
Indeed during the first centuries of Christendom, Christ was still a
whose task it was to bring Christianity to the world. And out of the
knowledge that the Palladium was guarded in Rome, the early Christians
But when, under Constantine, Christianity was secularized, the
its further development Roman Christianity was deprived of the
Christianity in Rome in its rigid, mechanical forms. In the
secularization of Christianity brought about by Constantine, the
cosmic wisdom was lost to Christianity — and this comes to expression
Constantinople when Roman Christianity was secularized; they tell of
Constantine, in giving an externalized form of Christianity to the
Romans, took from them the light, the wisdom, and sent Christianity

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Since then Christian consciousness still preserves this primeval

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Steiner at Oslo, Berlin, and Dornach during the Christmas Season of 1921.
Das Fest der Erscheinung Christi. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem
Steiner at Oslo, Berlin, and Dornach during the Christmas Season of 1921. It is from
Christi. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band IX.

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East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
Christi. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band IX,
typescript series entitled: Christmas and Christ.
Fest der Erscheinung Christi. Der Mensch in seinem
Christmas and Christ. The translator is unknown.
THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS IDEA
arranging a study course for the Christmas holidays (Christmas
festivals of the year work should stop and that Christmas in
conceal the fact that this Christmas above all calls for other
other at Christmas, they adorn the tree and do other things out
Christianity consists in their calling out “Lord,
Lord,” or in uttering the name of Christ as often as
Christianization of our whole life, in which it does not suffice
to utter the name of Christ, but entails that we should deeply
and intimately unite ourselves with the Spirit of Christ. We see
years before Christ, and by going back still further into a
of reverence in accordance with early Christianity.
the living Christ on his way to Damascus, the Christ that can
believed in the risen Christ, not in the living Jesus, and he
risen Christ. Out of this special insight into the connections of
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The Revelation of the Cosmic Christ
of remembrance in the whole of Christendom. And when we think of it as
Christianity until the fourth century A.D. It was in the fourth
Christian world as a great and memorable contribution to the times. It
was out of the very deepest instincts of Christian evolution that such
Christian thought and Christian feeling were gradually beginning to
spread. But by its very nature Christianity was not intended to be a
against its original purpose, Christianity was, as a matter of course,
And so into the thought of the Christmas Festival man laid all that
solstice was closely connected with the Christian impulse and it was
Christianity should share in its most precious experience, namely, an
most cherished experience of Christianity lay in the remembrance of
In the course of the first four centuries of Christendom this longing
centre around which Christendom coheres. The feeling that lived in the
And so, when it established the Christmas Festival in the fourth
century, Christianity brought its contribution towards the union of
up with the Christmas Festival. And if we think of the way in which
this Christmas Festival was celebrated through the centuries, we find
evidence everywhere that at the time of the approach of Christmas, the
souls of men within Christianity were filled with loving devotion for
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and after Christmas, about the Being of Christ. Our angle of approach
to the question of Christ will be to relate it in a brief sketch
be hard put to it to find clearer proof of the fact that Christianity
is today not realized in the world. Christianity is not realized, for
fully to understand Christ means: to find man as man within oneself.
Christ is no folk god, no god of any race. Christ is not the god of
we can understand the Christ-being, through all the means available
to us, as the God of mankind, only then will Christ come to have what
understanding of the question of Christ. I have often drawn the
bring forth true unity in Christ. It can certainly be said that in
nature are divine and spiritual. And if Christianity is to be
attempt to describe Christianity, or indeed anything divine and
to describe Christianity in a manner befitting the West we need
thought forms. But to describe Christianity with the forces of the
Son God, the Christ. The middle region stands between these two
the Christ. Endeavours to find such an understanding are taken
world conception tends in the direction of the Christ. Because he has
the Father God as well as the Christ. Thus we discover in him
Christ, the Son God. In a spirit such as Vladimir Soloviev we find a
enough to address Christ as: Lord, Lord! Christ must become something
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understand that these people also spoke about the Christ-being,
though they used other names. Using the name of Christ is not the
only way of speaking about the Christ-being. We naturally use the
name of Christ when we want to speak about the Christ-being, for
Christ to us actually means that Being who underwent the Mystery of
that the Christ-being lived outside the earth and also had an
the earth; the forces of the Christ-being had always been seen to
Christ-being. They could only do so by turning to what the Mystery
supremacy with the Christ who descended to the earth through the
Christ to be a rival in his mastery of the earth. He would have
world’ towards the Christ. Among those with knowledge about
prince of this world’ and of the Christ took it into account.
man has had to be shared with the other, with the Christ. For now
Christ no longer influences only man's soul element, that is, his
and with man's own capacities in the widest sense. Christ should live
‘Christians’. In the Mysteries they became
Christians.
fathers knew that human beings had been made Christians through the
Christians, even though they were called atheists in their own time.
left this human being to Christ. But he did not want Christ to come
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over to our time. Science has not yet become Christian. The science
that is heathen, has made various attempts to become Christian but
Art will have to lead to a Christian element. What we have today is
consciousness is not yet fully Christian. This is what we must

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contemporary of Christ Jesus, Philo of Alexandria.
human evolution with Christianity. The abstract thinker — and
Christianity spreads externally, the best spirits wrestle to
said to have rebelled when Christ came amongst mankind, because they
Christ, but the demons recognized him. They knew that he would now
which now sought in all earthly things the substance of Christ that
the early Christian struggles — right on into the fifteenth,
guiding the soul upwards to the spiritual world out of which Christ
Jesus had descended, was an immense struggle. Christianity came over
strong that although Christianity passed through Greek culture and
there. Only Gnosis, the spiritual view of Christianity, was able to
Christianity had to pass through the most prosaic element of world
what is later alive in Christianity. A truly living struggle then
whole human being revealed to him by Christ Jesus. How can man be
filled with Christ? This question lived most strongly in Spain, and
being with Christ lived — if I may put it like this —
have the deep tragedy of the Christian conflict. What approaches
Christian development. This justice is to be brought to Cyprianus,
Christian justice. He can only turn instead to Satan, the leader of
— let me say — winning over Christian justice in order to
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Christian impulse.
enter with these mere thoughts into the living realm of the Christ
becomes spiritual. Finally the drama flows over into a Christian
element. But, as I said yesterday, this Christian element is not
tacked this Christianizing element on to the end of
and the way in which the drama finally leads into this Christian
Christ-being came from the expanses of the cosmos and descended into
Christ-impulse in earthly life.
Christ-impulse. In a way this may be felt to be a tragedy. But it
that salvation which you can find through Christ. They were still far
from understanding the Mystery of Golgotha through which Christ had
for him to have a fully developed sense for Christianity.
but Christ in me’?
Christ in one's soul leading the human being in earthly life to the
that at last a way may be found of finding Christ within earthly
strongest battle against real Christian truth is being fought today
mention of the cosmic Christ. It is necessary to be reminded again
— about modern Christian theology. Overbeck
considered at that time that theology was the most un-Christian
who set out to prove that theology is un-Christian!

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— that of Christianity itself.
the course of almost two thousand years, Christianity has wrought

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Faust to be redeemed in the midst of a Christianizing tableau.
the salvation of his soul. This is Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's
— what was going on in human evolution. And Christoffel von
who were pure in heart and Christian in the true sense went to the
waking. The Grail was seen as the place where all truly Christian
comedy. You have to tell your story as Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

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sagen wir im 3., 2. Jahrhunderte der christlichen Zeitrechung.

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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum,
appearance of Christ on Earth, human beings — we
Christ on Earth we must have died in this third condition of
it. Since the appearance of Christ, the Christ-force has been
this third state of sleep, the Christ-force which came to be
the crystal but cannot emerge again without the Christ-Force.
significance of the Christ Impulse for the earthly life. Once
appearance of Christ on Earth, after the Mystery of Golgotha,
pagan consciousness but where, nevertheless, the Christ
need not have died had Christ come to their aid. This was felt,
into the mountain, and there it must wait until Christ should
Christ Impulse with the Earth since the Mystery of Golgotha has
This is connected with the Christ-force itself, not with belief
in the Christ-force. No matter whether a man belongs to this or
that religious confession, what Christ accomplished on Earth
transformation. Christ, Who until the time of the Mystery of
have passed into it. When we speak of Christ we are speaking of
but, just as Christ descended into the world of men and took
Christ is a God Who has lawfully become man, we must seek His
has unlawfully assumed the god-nature. Just as in the Christian
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Title: Lecture: Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity
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The mystery of death taught by Jesus Christ to his disciples after his resurrection. Saul and the event at Damascus when he became the apostle Paul. The role of Ahriman, Satan, the World Prince, in the course of human evolution.
Exoteric Christianity is to be found in the Gospels and as they have
been interpreted through history; esoteric, inner Christianity is the
living teaching of the Risen Christ: resurrection. Today it lies in the
Auferstehung. Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity (pub. 1948).
EXOTERIC and ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY
Christianity, too, especially as far as its central point, the
contemplation of Christianity, accessible to all the world, is
contemplation, there has always been an esoteric Christianity for
of an esoteric Christianity.
gathered of the intercourse of the Christ who had passed through
esoteric Christianity. You know already that the Gospels contain very
little about the intercourse of the risen Christ with his disciples.
Christ with his disciples, can indeed give us an inkling and a
the earth through the Christ who rose from the dead. But we cannot go
us that he was able to believe in Christ only from the moment in
which the Christ appeared to him through the event at Damascus. This
gave him the sure knowledge that Christ had passed through death and
earth as the living Christ. The event at Damascus gave Paul a
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Title: Lecture: Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity
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The mystery of death taught by Jesus Christ to his disciples after his resurrection. Saul and the event at Damascus when he became the apostle Paul. The role of Ahriman, Satan, the World Prince, in the course of human evolution.
Exoteric Christianity is to be found in the Gospels and as they have
been interpreted through history; esoteric, inner Christianity is the
living teaching of the Risen Christ: resurrection. Today it lies in the
Auferstehung. Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity (pub. 1985).
Christianity
CHRISTIANITY
Christianity itself, especially in respect of the spiritual
kernel of Christianity — the Mystery of Golgotha — a
teaching there has always been an esoteric Christianity,
Christianity the teaching of greatest moment is that concerning
the communion between the Risen Christ — the Christ Who has
between Christ after His Resurrection and His disciples does
testifies that he was only able to believe in Christ after He had
conviction: Christ had passed through death and in His life now,
through the event at Damascus, the reality of the Living Christ
could not be convinced of the reality of the Christ?
learn that Christ Jesus had been condemned to a death of shame by
that were still extant during the first centuries of Christendom
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture V: The Human Soul in Relation Sun and Moon
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Christ would come down, and that on earth he would know death.
the God who has come to know death and birth — the Christ.
the Pauline saying, “Not I, but the Christ in me.”
world with his Christianized thinking, to transform from
disintegrating, are being opposed by the Christ, Who through an
it is the most Christian of philosophies. Thus, one must place
other side of the scales a true recognition of Christ, a real
Christianity as Mystical Fact and Mysticism at the
provided one also stands fully on the ground of the Christ
soul; it is also what Christ taught his intimate
tell man nothing about death. They were to teach that Christ
death. Teachings about the birth and death of Christ have
original Christian mysteries, Christ Himself imparted to His
earthly death. In their true form the Christian mysteries
diluted. What Christ imparted to His intimate disciples after
Thus, the most fundamental revelation after the death of Christ

Title: Lecture Series: Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West
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last two or three thousand years before Christ, this powerful

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 1
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
Christian centuries has been completely buried, that
Christian centuries. In this sense I have recently attempted
during the time from the fourth and fifth centuries after Christ
[St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354–430). Early Latin church father. Exerted tremendous influence on later ChristNote 3]
Christian centuries, a way altogether different from that
theology of the first Christian centuries, which has been
theologians. For this reason the entire Christology of the first
Christian centuries was actually viewed from within.
descent of Christ into the earthly world, was essentially seen not
side. One first sought out Christ in spiritual worlds and then
world, which the Christian impulse followed in its greatest
decaying and falling apart while Christianity gradually spread
Christianity — it would have been entirely rigidified —
see, the northern peoples took Christ into this way of perceiving.
than themselves. They did not seek Christ here on the earth among
people walking in the physical world; they sought Christ there
You will understand the Heliand's concrete description of Christ
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 2
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
first four Christian centuries, in any case, still at the time
characterized the Christ? Perhaps they had seen him outwardly as a
imagery, even to express Christ. “Behold the Lamb of
to us as a dove and even as Christ, the Lamb. In ancient times Christ

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 3
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
picture as that of Christ as the Lamb of God, inspired Imaginations
your attention to the fact that in the first four Christian
centuries what we could call the Christian teaching still
perception of the spiritual, that even the secrets of Christianity
devotion at those imaginations from earlier times in which Christian
the Lamb of God for Christ himself. But how are we to understand
place. You see, in earlier times, say, in the very first Christian
centuries, if someone had struggled through to Christianity and
Christ, he would have said: This is difficult to understand, but
someone so confronted in the earliest Christian centuries.
However, in these early Christian centuries that person would not
someone living in the first centuries of Christendom have
Christ, he would have said: I don't understand that but if I were
of Christ after the transubstantiation. But when we are
[John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810–877), Neoplatonizing Celtic ChristNote 1]
theologian wrote about the body and blood of Christ in
Christ. This writing, too, was laid before Charles the Bald. Scotus
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 4
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
confronted Christianity. Out of their perceptions they formulated
as the Christ resolved to pour himself into Jesus of Nazareth just as
principle, the Christ principle, now entered into just such a human
being, into Jesus of Nazareth. The Christ principle now entered into
physical body, etheric body, and astral body, now the Christ
entering into Jesus of Nazareth, Christ nullified, through his entrance,
that time. So that in Jesus Christ there dwelt the higher Christ
Christ event was something that the old
Christ event, of the approaching event of Golgotha, came to the
see a being in Christ in whom still more was contained, in whom not
these initiates saw more in Christ Jesus than a mere man, how
human, beyond humanity. These initiates saw Christ Jesus in a special
radiated forth from Christ Jesus in a special way, because not only
other specially gifted people were able to see Christ Jesus as an
acquired only in the mysteries, could recognize in Christ Jesus this
with, the Christ mystery was proclaimed in its clearest and most pure
precisely this proclamation of the mystery of Christ was lost to
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language.
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Christianity.

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture II: Exercises of Thought, Feeling and Volition
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture III: Methods of Imaginative, Inspired and Intuitive Knowledge or Cognition
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture III: The Imaginative, Inspirative, and Intuitive Method of Cognition
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IV: Exercises of Cognition and Will
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IV: Cognition and Will Exercises
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
Pedagogical Course that I gave here in Dornach at Christmas a

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture V: Experiences of the Soul in Sleep
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to
self surrender to Christ. It was different, of course, before the
Christ. He overcomes his fears through the working of this into his
prevents it in the waking state. The leadership of Christ overcomes

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture V: The Soul's Experiences in Sleep
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha. The attention man gives to
it, all reverence and worship that he develops for the Christ
the Mystery of Golgotha his inner bond with Christ, his feeling
of belonging to Him, the religious rituals directed to Christ
developed a relation to the Christ, we actually meet His
guiding power of Christ through which we overcome the anxiety

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Chapter VI: Transference from the Psycho-Spiritual to the Physical Sense-life in man's Development
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VI: The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Chapter VII: The Relationship of Christ with Humanity
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Chapter VII: The Relationship of Christ with Humanity
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to
THE RELATIONSHIP OF CHRIST WITH HUMANITY
one will also never know how the Christ spirit coming from spirit
lived as Christ only in those worlds, and who through this mystery and
The Christ came down to earthly existence from those worlds in which
Christ, man can find, since Golgotha, what he formerly found through a
life, had descended as the Christ upon the physical earth and taken
the early days of Christianity, spoke of the Christ-Being as one who
mankind of that time stressed particularly this aspect of the Christ
Christ a Being of the spiritual world before his descent to earth.
leads to an aspect of Christ's nature within the spiritual world.
Thus it was only possible for the Christian community to direct the
It is again possible to-day to have a direct knowledge of the Christ.
consciousness, and the Christ who lived in him, had become an object
consciousness. The sense of Christ was gradually lost; and so
only with the man Jesus, and which lacks a living sense of the Christ.
But a mere Jesus-Faith is really no longer Christianity.
In later times his union with the Christ was to give him in another
The Christ was so to permeate him, in the words of St. Paul, ‘Not
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
VII - Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
real intervention of the Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha in
must be able to follow this Being, the Christ, Who belongs to
man wants to arrive at such an understanding of the Christ and
evolution the Christ appeared, descending out of the same world
secret of the Christ to those who were willing to accept it and
how the Christ had entered an earthly body, so that not through
people that the Christ had come in order to solve the riddle of
spoke above all else about the spiritual being of Christ as He
the Christ, Who never before had descended to earth existence,
Christ descended into the man Jesus and Himself became man in
what earlier he had experienced from within. From the Christ on
experienced from the spiritual world through Christ.
descent of the Christ and the path He took until His
on the path taken by the Christ from the spiritual worlds
Christian centuries, even though that had been but a vestige,
or by teachings of initiation, the picture of the Christ Who
about in the first Christian centuries, nothing could now be
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Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture VIII: The Event of Death and Its Relationship with the Christ
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Lecture VIII: The Event of Death and Its Relationship with the Christ
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to
THE EVENT OF DEATH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHRIST
Christ-problem. Therefore that study will again lead us back to a
consideration of the mysteries of Christianity.

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VIII: Ordinary and Higher Consciousness
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
soul's immortality in relation to the Christ and
Christianity's development, it will be necessary today
with the questions concerning the Christ.
body, unites with the Christ Who holds and supports it when it
would leave the soul, if it were not bound up with the Christ
Being in the sense of Paul's words, “Not I but the Christ
in me,” — for the Christ takes our ego and carries
place and I will show how the Christ is that Being Who makes it
significance that the Christ event has for human life. After
the Christ in the next few days. I will show that for man today
Christ Being enters man's consciousness in His complete,
of a spiritual Christianity.

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IX: The Destination of the Ego-Consciousness in Conjunction with the Christ-problem
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with the Christ-problem
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to
CHRIST-PROBLEM
At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and during the first Christian
Christ and has consummated the Mystery of Golgotha. If therefore
Christ-guide through this result. After the Fourth Century this old
renewed Christian Religious knowledge should introduce once more from
inspiration into cosmological science Christ's deed for humanity even

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IX: The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
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The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
IX - The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
death relates to Christian evolution and the Mystery of
cosmology, however, also requires Christianity.
consciousness, can also become aware of the Christ Being
earth events and Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha also
him from the soul world into the spirit land, Christ did
earthly life. Through the Deed of Christ, the human soul is
of death is connected with the Christian evolution of earthly
between men and Christ Jesus. This new initiation science must
renewed Christianity. For, without this impulse, physical
that would be pathological. Through a renewed Christianity, we
after death and the Christ Being. In a true cosmology,
Christ stands as a World Power, a Cosmic Force. His Power can
significant relationship between man and the Christ
Being, the Mystery of Golgotha and the whole of Christian
we have placed Christ into cosmological evolution, into true
lecture to place Christ into a renewed Christian

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture X: On Experiencing the Will-Part of the Soul
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to
The Initiation-science of Christianity finds something else. In the
contemplative and active sympathy with the earthly life of Christ and
activity of the Christ in human existence. It adds to a living
a religious knowledge which recognizes the Christ as the mediator of a

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture X: The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
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rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
metamorphosis has taken place in man's inner life. The Christ
spirit land appears since the beginning of Christian
Christ descended to earth and accomplished the Mystery of
Christ Event, the soul shapes its future physical organism with
that the human soul has received from the Christ Impulse
following to this: “Indeed, it is the Christ Impulse
turned on earth to the Christ Being and the Mystery of
Christ within him, modern man can experience freedom; and in
Christ Impulse.
now, ever since the Christ passed through the Mystery of
With the entrance of Christianity into human evolution,
Christology. Therefore, we can speak of a renewal of religious
which only then will become a fully conscious Christian
development of Christianity; this is meant in the sense that it
development of the Christian religion that came into the world
through the Mystery of Golgotha. This Christian religion has in

Title: Supersensible Influences: Lecture I
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with the Christ Mystery was not yet in existence. There was an
second and first millennia before Christ we could come down to the

Title: Supersensible Influences: Lecture II
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permeated with Christ that they are able to impart to the out-breathed
air the moral impulses quickened within the soul by Christ's words
Christian can draw near to God with real knowledge. Being quite sincere

Title: Supersensible Influences: Lecture III
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pre-Christian cults. And particularly since the fourteenth and

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five thousand years before Christ, a man with true perception of the
Christ entered into the body of Jesus of Nazareth and in his whole
from those other words of Christ: “Heaven and earth will pass
In the word there is much that is spiritual. Christ indicates that the
the Word ...” The Logos is the Christ. What, then, are the Bread

Title: Supersensible Influences: Lecture V
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rites of the Christian Churches after the time of Christ. But up to now
Christianity as Mystical Fact. All research

Title: Supersensible Influences: Lecture VI
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Needs of the soul led adherents of Christianity in the West to believe
that pilgrimages to Palestine would imbue their Christian impulses with
Places of Christendom, from Turkish oppression.
the liberation of Jerusalem from the Turks, in order that Christians in
vestiges of the ancient, pre-Christian Initiation-knowledge survived.
of the secrets of the stars they foresee the approaching Christ Event
Being had descended from worlds of spirit-and-soul, that Christ had
which to convey how Christ had come down from super-sensible worlds, had
words to convey what had actually come to pass through Christ and
which Christ Jesus had partaken of the Last Supper with His Apostles,
Christianity derived from actual vision. Later on, nothing remained of
Christian era to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and who grasp
off the holy place around which the acts of the Christian cult must be
mean Rosicrucianism in its genuine form — which sought for Christ

Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture I: Concerning the World Situation
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protecting the Christians, but the sincerity of their motives

Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture II
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into the post-Christian time. It has been so, — as grotesque as

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in about the 5th pre-Christian millennium — spoke about such Dark
light. But on the rays of the dead light Christ has come and has achieved
make us blessed — yet on this dead light's rays has Christ entered
we have around us the dead light we can bring the Christ in us to life.
And with Christ in us in the right way we will enliven all of the light
enter the new age with the right Christ impulse. The denial of the Christ-impulse
the strength of Christ in the living perception of the Mystery of Golgotha.

Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture II: Moral Qualities and the Life After Death. Windows of the Earth
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through; they still remain. And at Christmastime the Gods look
resort to words such as I have just now used: at Christmastime
Beings; the Angels who look in through the Christmas windows
Divine-Spiritual Beings at the time of Christmas, but simply
them when they look in through the Christmas windows. They are

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endeavoring to make Christ into a myth. The Christ descended to
of Christ. Christ is a myth! You can discover in the literature
that Christ is a mythological figure, a mere picture which has
this case, Christ is denied and validity allowed only to the
Making Christ into a myth — a purely Luciferic activity.
theology which on the one hand denies Christ, and on the other
hand makes Christ a myth. Such phenomena will become more and

Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture V: The Eye; Colour of the Hair
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Christ. The original inhabitants were black; they were quite

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the Christmas holidays you could confer among yourselves and
something new. It is Christmastime now, and people could say to
celebrate Christmas anew, because we would observe this holiday
in Christmas. None at all! They do it merely from an old
one can say that if Christianity is to have any meaning at all,
conceive of as Christmas. Christmas should remind us that
in need of a Christmas festival. Otherwise, it does away
with the living Christ and retains only the cross of Christ.

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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Christmas festival can be the
evolution of humanity. The Christmas Mystery — when it is
the founding of Christianity and in which many sublime cosmic
thoughts were given expression, or when we compare the Christmas
festival with Mysteries that were celebrated also in pre-Christian
power of the Christ, the power of the new wisdom which permeates the
in other words, with the Christ Impulse. This he can do at the time
the Christmas festival with the time when the earth is shut off from
twilight, the man of today who rightly understands the Christmas
Mystery should feel strengthened when at Christmas he steeps himself
course of the earth's evolution the Being who in pre-Christian ages
that a man should pass out of himself into the cosmos, the Christmas
The Christmas festival has a
the Christmas Mystery is only truly celebrated when the one does not
who came down to the Earth. And in the early period of Christian
Christianity. It was not until then that the old forms of the
Western Europe, overlaying the original Christianity and shrouding it
in traditions which will have to be superseded if Christianity is to
be rightly understood. For the character with which Christianity was
accordance with true Christianity, this finding of the
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture I: Midsummer and Midwinter Mysteries
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THE Christmas festival can be the occasion for comparing
The Christmas Mystery — when it is conceived as a Mystery
certain parts of Asia long before the founding of Christianity
expression, or when we compare the Christmas festival with
Mysteries that were celebrated also in pre-Christian times, in
the Christ, the power of the new wisdom which permeates the
with the Divine, in other words, with the Christ Impulse. This
is a beautiful thought to connect the Christmas festival with
today who rightly understands the Christmas Mystery should feel
strengthened when at Christmas he steeps himself in truths such
pre-Christian ages could only be thought of as united with the
out of himself into the cosmos, the Christmas festival should
Christmas festival has a ‘democratic’ character. What modern
store of thoughts. And the Christmas Mystery is only truly
the Earth. And in the early period of Christian evolution
Christianity. It was not until then that the old forms of the
Rome to Western Europe, overlaying the original Christianity
if Christianity is to be rightly understood. For the character
with which Christianity was invested by Rome was essentially
Christianity, this finding of the spiritual-supersensible
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friends! You have come together this Christmas, some of you from
come from afar — our heartiest Christmas greetings. What I
Christmas, yet inwardly, I believe, they are so related. In all that
and, in a very real way, symbolizes the Christmas thought, the birth
with the character of a Christmas study.
papistical Christianity of the West against the impending danger of a
writes a treatise on how Christians and Jews, pagans and Moslems
universal God; how in Christians, Jews, Moslems and heathens there
medieval Christian theology sought as an ascent to the divine, to the

Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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point of salient importance in the Christmas thought is that in
the night just beginning the Light of Christ shone into the
present vapid Christmas thoughts something is still left of
light of the Spirit, he celebrates Christmas in the stillness
Christmas thoughts played a part even in the times when among
importance, but in the pre-Christian era the meaning of the
Christmas thought was not the same as it is today. At that time
Christmas. This was the time when those who were inspired and
of inner joy through the appearance of Christ upon Earth. And
Today, when we speak of the Christmas Mystery, we must think of
him to the Earth. We must be able to formulate the Christmas
surround himself with pictures of Christ Jesus entering into
will to follow the Christ as He reveals Himself through all the
Christmas night: “Lo, I am with you always, even to the
inspirations of this God of mankind, who is Christ Himself, as
Earth of Christ Jesus, but will understand that ever since
then, Christ has united Himself with man in earthly life, and
just as the Christmas festival once followed the Michael
should be followed by a sacred Christmas festival through which
Christmas festival, but when we should understand in the depths
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fifteenth century.) This man of pre-Christian times was accepted into

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existed in the first centuries of Christianity, as can be
mystic of the first Christian centuries, mysticism was something that

Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture III: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult
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before Christmas was to indicate man's connection with the
it as we did in the lecture before Christmas, we find a whole

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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Movement was the beginning of The Christian Community as it
has since been called.] for the renewal of Christianity. The
receives with a really devoted Christian heart the theology offered
Golgotha, from the consciousness that the Christ Being Who formerly
if Christianity is to be kept alive, a renewal of the entire
otherwise Christianity cannot be the really vital force for our whole
their hearts a strong religious impulse, a specifically Christian
renewal of religion, that is to say towards a renewal of Christian

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Christian Community as it has since been called.]
for the renewal of Christianity. The position of this Movement
devoted Christian heart the theology offered to him at the
Golgotha, from the consciousness that the Christ Being Who
there was the feeling that if Christianity is to be kept alive,
religious impulse is necessary; otherwise Christianity cannot
impulse, a specifically Christian impulse, which, in view of
Christian religion, and who, simply through being in certain

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us go back to a scientist of the first Christian centuries, the

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finally, going back to the second and third millennia before Christ,
Christian centuries, described the following fluids in man: black
Christian centuries; hence Galen could speak of the four components

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Published in Anthroposophy, Christmas, 1930.] I would remind

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have so often, discussed, the time of the 4th Post-Christian
century. Now this 4th Post-Christian century lies right in the
often pointed out that the spreading of Christianity, —
the whole mood by which Christianity was grasped in the
early years of the first three or four centuries of Christian
age, — from the 4th Post-Christian century onwards
history. One should not forget how, in the 4th Post-Christian
and middle of the 5th centuries after Christ, countless temples
of the 4th and the middle of the 5th century after Christ,
2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ was
Stickl. (A reference to the Christmas Play just performed).
Christmas Congress — this real Being (Wesen) which one

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really understanding Christ. Those who still understood something
Christ completely, said of Christ that he came to earth, that he
They took up what was proclaimed about Christ in written
when Christ must be understood. But we resist this
understanding of Christ, and the form this resistance takes is
Christ really is still lived in those who say that they understand
Christ, what would happen? They would have to be clear about the fact
that Christ, as a heavenly being, descended to earth; he therefore
the earth was in fact a new land for Christ. We must extend our
Then we draw near to the language that Christ spoke.
must in fact first learn the language of Christ, the language
relearn this language in order to make sense out of what Christ
spoken about Christianity and described the history of Christianity,
the point now is to understand Christ, to understand him as an
[From the Oberufer Christmas plays.] One simply

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only be redeemed through the Christ. Christianity must first be
thinking must be saved by the Christ, he would probably put his hands to
his head and say: “The deed of Christ may have an influence on a great
the need of taking a true Christology seriously. This means that
which can be misunderstood so easily, must place the Christ in
Christianity, too, will remain a matter of faith, not of knowledge.
allow itself to have anything to do with the Christ. Thus we have our
knowledge in the spirit of the Christ-impulse he will attain

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the ancient Mystery wisdom of God the Father, looked upon the Christ
divine creative Father-principle lives in Nature, and Christ is the
the Christ otherwise than by saying that he was the Son of the
see the Christ in his own being. They did not base themselves on the
old theology which considered the Christ only as the Son of the
Gospels in order to know the Christ as an independent Being, from the
Christ. Really, this is what lies at the foundation of the Wycliffe
the Christ as an independent Being.
divine spiritual being of the Christ. Modern theology lost this
looked upon the Christ as the “meek man of Nazareth”.
Christianity”, you will find that it contains a relapse; for in
this book a modern theologian again describes the Christ very much
Christianity”, we could substitute the word
“Christ” wherever we read the word “God-Father”
of the Father” considered the Christ as the Son of God, people
Christ himself, in his divine spiritual being, the spiritual
conception was already lost. They did not approach the Christ at all.
Christ — but only a universal God. This is what Geyer said,
because he honestly confessed that people indeed spoke of the Christ,
by the description of the Christ, as being merely the Son of God, and wish
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Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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KNOWLEDGE AND THE CHRISTEXPERIENCE
principally to the Father God, and in Christ he had the Son of God. In God
‘Not I, but Christ in me’. Now man can so direct his inner life as
to let the Christ-impulse come to flower in him; he can let Christ's life
and feels there the flowing, living presence of the Christ, he will receive
Christ-impulse are intimately bound up with the attainment of human
time, and is still in force today. But the experience of Christ in man is

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before the birth of Christ, extraordinarily clever people lived
these things. This dates back to the age when Christianity was
first beginning to spread. Yes, gentlemen, if Christianity had

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture II
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and the significance of the Christian impulse.
Birth of Christ, the sun rose, not in Pisces, but in the

Title: Lecture: Knowledge Pervaded with the Experience of Love
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imagined in a purely spiritual form. Christ, the Son of God, was
naïve love for Christ, which is in itself fully justified
leads to life in Christ, or to the presence of Christ, the Son of
the spiritual sphere, so that I may find Christ through the Holy
Ghost, and through Christ, God the Father.”
Christianity which grows quite naturally out of

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Christentums. Vortraege fuer Arbeiter am Goetheanumbau. Band 3.

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a renewal of Christianity. It was their belief that such a renewal
could be achieved only by making the Christ impulse very much alive
was of first concern to bring the Christ impulse to life in a way
the fact I have so often stressed: that the Christ not only spoke to
human souls at the beginning of the Christian era but has carried out
always be heard whenever a soul desires it, that a continuing Christ
the written Gospels to immediately living revelation of the Christ

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Christentums. Vortraege fuer Arbeiter am Goetheanumbau. Band 3.

Title: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VII
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of time. It had been prepared already in pre-Christian times and was

Title: Driving Force: Lecture III
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began in pre-Christian times and the change was not completed

Title: Driving Force: Lecture IV
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Christian century the Spirits of Form held sway, not only in
of Christendom, certain Spirits of Form remained stationary

Title: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
called the Christ had to say to earthly man. They sought to interpret
occurrence which we now call Christmas. They said to themselves:
its forces. At Christmas time it has breathed them in; its breath is
the force of the Christ Impulse has been intimately bound up with the
Christ Impulse, together with the outward-streaming soul element, is
as Christ-permeated Earth-soul is flowing out into spiritual cosmic
mental picture arises: While in December the Christ withdrew the
the Sun force (yellow) as uniting with the Christ force
radiating from the Earth. The Christ begins to work together with the
the Easter time: “If I have united myself with the Christ force,
which the Christ now brings to human souls from the Earth,
itself with the forces of the Sun and the stars. The Christ, Who is
itself with our soul force through the Christ Impulse — this we
time, impermeable by the Christ Impulse. (See drawing). At this
time the Christ Impulse has to live in the exhaled breath. The
which has become impervious to the Christ Impulse. And when the human
of the Christ — he plunges into an Earth which has been
the birth of the Christ Impulse in the ensouled Earth, the Earth must
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Title: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture II
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These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
as Christmas is to the winter solstice, Easter to the spring equinox,
able to link with this thought a mental image showing the Christ Being
Christianity was in its inception it had been so living that Paul's
Christ be not risen, then is... your faith vain!”
Paul has here linked Christianity directly with the Easter thought,
the rest of the Christian festivals. In the course of the years we
But in the first three centuries of the Christian era, the last
something other than itself out of itself. In the early Christian
Christendom, the “Gemuets”* of men were still sensitive
pictured the grave of Christ and, rising out of the grave, that Being
Christ. They felt that by this sight their souls were transformed,
contemplation of the Easter thought the early Christians felt
we must say to ourselves: The time of the Christmas festival
her deeps at Christmas time. Man of course does not dwell in the
the Earth at the time of the winter solstice, at Christmas time, as
something comparable to our present Christmas festival existed, it was
recognized that what goes on in connection with the Earth at Christmas
if I may express myself in the modern sense — as the Christmas
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Title: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture III
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These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
Christmas. Then men's souls were filled with feelings which found
vision of the descending Christ, Who lives for a time in man on Earth
the Christmas thought.
Christmastide.
man through the Resurrection of Christ would find the force to die in
Christ. This means, taking the risen Christ into one's soul during

Title: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
our Christmas, were celebrated in connection with the old Mystery
which has now become our Christmas festival. But while at St. John's
winter solstice, in the depth of winter, at Christmas time.
terms what the people did from our September/October to our Christmas
Christmas time an intensive urge arose to knead, to mould, to create,
are fashioned entirely out of the earthly element. At Christmas man
But this was only at Christmas time, not otherwise; at other times he
race. At Christmas time he advanced to the experience of the human
conveyed out of the Earth. At Christmas time man learned to know the
rested there. And at Christmas time the Mystery teachers caused the

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These lectures focus on the four Christian festival seasons, elaborating
on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
about such matters during the past Christmas season, in the Goetheanum
diagram), which includes our Christmas time. Just as the human
Christmas, they said: “Beware of the Evil,” so for the time
Just as the other thought that lies in the Christ-Impulse must work on

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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Christ passes through the Mystery of Golgotha — passes, that
worlds of the Gods themselves. Christ's passing through death
Christ Impulse, they receive again through the Christ Impulse the
the Christ Impulse as a living Impulse. Then the Christ Impulse can
the Christ Impulse in the whole evolution of mankind, this must also
Christ first made Himself known to men, during all this time while He
in the Gospels, the knowledge of Christ has not come in its
the Gospel is quickened to life by an understanding of the Christ, an
understanding that derives from the Christ Himself as He still works
and only then — will proceed from the Christ Impulse, from the
living Christ Impulse, the speech-forming power.
more of the Christ Impulse, on the other hand they move further and
of the Christ Impulse, on the other hand they move further and
Archangels gradually receive more and more of the Christ, Who has
of man's “becoming” and the passage of Christ
Golgotha came a time when Christ was present in a human body —
institution of the Christmas Festival or of the Easter Festival gave

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[Johann Christoph Friedrich von
main figure of this sculpture shows the features of Christ in

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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will know that this statement is true. A Christian element

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VI
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ambitions are concerned — negate myself. And Christ make
true in me the Pauline words, “Not I, but the Christ in
This prayer, addressed to God in general and to Christ in

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constantly on one's lips or to call on the name of Christ all
a fundamental religious impulse, with an intensely Christian
deeply rooted in human evolution, in the Christian development
religious or Christian. For instance, the main theme during a
power of the words: Not I, but the Christ in me. When
because one realizes that the divine forces of Christ are

Title: Ascension/Pentecost I: The WHITSUN Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension
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The first picture is that of the disciples of Christ Jesus on the day
of the Ascension. Gazing upwards, they see Christ vanishing in the
clouds. The usual conception of this scene is that Christ went up into
humanity, for whose sake Christ fulfilled the Mystery of Golgotha, was
deed on Golgotha Christ resolved to unite His own Being with the
of the Mystery of Golgotha reveals concerning Christ's union with the
given in Carlsruhe under the title From Jesus to Christ.
independence in sleep the influence of the Christ-Force takes effect
Christ-Force, therefore, takes place mainly during the state of sleep.
actually signifies that at this moment Christ's disciples were able to
Until the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ's dwelling-place was the sun.
is striving towards the Christ. Now picture to yourselves the scene on
the day of the Ascension. In spiritual vision the disciples see Christ
the power, the impulse of Christ unites itself with the etheric nature
held together by Christ. This picture must be understood, for in truth
it is a warning. Christ is akin to those forces in man which naturally
But Christ remains in union with the earth. Thus the Christ
But now, by carrying to its fulfilment the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ
thereby is manifest the fact that Christ remains united with mankind
through the Mystery of Golgotha Christ brought to pass within
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Title: Easter/Pentecost: Lecture II: The Mystery of Pentecost and the Ascension
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the Disciples of Christ Jesus present to us as the Ascension,
telling how looking upwards they saw the Christ floating in the
clouds. This picture is usually accepted so that the Christ is
humanity for whom the Christ passed through the Mystery of
indeed that through this Mystery the Christ decided actually to
Mystery of Golgotha, as regards the union of the Christ with
cycle entitled, “From Jesus to Christ.” This
penetration by the Christ-force occurs in those men who,
that penetration by the Christ-force mainly occurs.
the Disciples of Christ became capable at that moment of
was the dwelling place of the Christ up to the time of the
towards the sun strives therefore towards the Christ.
Before the eyes of the Disciples the Christ rises heavenwards.
Impulse of Christ. Therefore, the Disciples saw how at the time
sun, but also how the Christ held that which then strove
aright. It is really a warning. The Christ was already united
the earth. It is the Christ Who holds men firmly to the
now, the Mystery of Golgotha had taken place; the Christ had
sunward tendency which was restrained by the Christ, the fact
is clearly demonstrated that the Christ has remained united
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture I
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concerning the evolution of humanity since the time of Christ.
after Christ; the one preceding it occurred during the eighth pre-Christian
period prior to the eighth century before Christ; more different still
seventh or eighth millennium of the pre-Christian era, we find that
the last millennium of the pre-Christian age, a vivid consciousness
pre-Christian centuries the Greek felt how cosmic thought was disappearing
of the sixth pre-Christian century would have considered it comical

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture IV
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recognizes that the Mystery of Golgotha, the earth-life of Christ Jesus,

Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Two: The Unveiling of Spiritual Truths
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the past, Christianity is a thing of the past, because these are
Christ” to a group which called itself Die Kommenden.
from Buddha to Christ and to present Christ as the culmination of
Christianity As Mystical Fact,
“From Buddha to Christ”.
addressed the lectures “From Buddha to Christ”.
Christianity. Nevertheless, his is not really the appropriate way to

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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be regarded as superseded, which is accepted as Christianity;
lectures had for title From Buddha to Christ, and in
Christ, and to sum up in Christ the total of all that lay in
it is found later in my Christianity as Mystical Fact,
to Christ.
Buddha, to Christ.
comprehension of Christianity. And again, when he launches into

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what might well be called an anti-christian one. In her
Christianity, and that she had a deep antipathy towards Judaism and
Christianity. Blavatsky depicts everything which comes from the
religions: in other words, an expressly anti-christian perspective,
salvation of mankind in this anti-christian perspective. And second,
exerted by such an anti-christian perspective specifically on people
with a Christian outlook — less so perhaps on those with a
In respect of Blavatsky's anti-christian perspective, I want only
anti-christian perspective. That was Nietzsche.
It is difficult to be more anti-christian than the author of
The Anti-Christ.
for the anti-christian outlook of these two personalities. But to
Try to imagine for a moment what it was like in Christian countries
speak through what was accessible to the senses. Christianity and its
something pictorial. And this Christian teaching remained
religious life through Christianity but alongside that to modern
learning also. As a consequence, the two — Christianity and
education cannot be used to prove Christian truths. So from childhood
Christianity.
Christ, are no longer able to speak to the broad spectrum of people
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture IV: Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
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Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
BLAVATSKY'S ORIENTATION: SPIRITUAL, BUT ANTI-CHRISTIAN
say, anti-christian in mind, — absolutely anti-christian
religion in the world, excepting Judaism and Christianity, and,
Christianity. Everything that comes from Judaism and
Christianity is everywhere, quite sharply, represented by
quite pronounced anti-christian orientation, namely: but a
anti-christian orientation.
pronounced a degree anti-christian, and who looks to this
anti-christian orientation for the salvation of mankind. And
the outside, have mostly a Jewish or Christian orientation,
nevertheless, despite their Jewish and Christian orientation, a
these people (especially on those of a Christian orientation,
Now, as regards Blavatsky's own anti-christianism, I would only
— who was at the least quite as anti-christian in his
well be more anti-christian in one's orientation, than the
author of the Antichrist was. And unlike as Nietzsche is
is eminently anti-christian. And it would be nothing short of
enquiry into the reason of this anti-christian orientation in
in the fifteenth centuries, in Christian countries for example.
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Five: The Decline of the Theosophical Society
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anthroposophical movement for Christianity to be asserted,
guidance of H.P. Blavatsky had adopted an expressly anti-christian
anti-christian attitude, a perspective which I also mentioned in
Christianity As Mystical Fact,
is impossible, above all, to discover the nature of Christ on this
Christ ever more closely, has scattered and lost it.
education provide a direct link to an explanation of Jesus Christ
explanations of Christ, it is necessary to lie. And so he chose
knew about Christianity.
No one has been more cutting about Christianity than Nietzsche,
he formulates his tremendous indictment of Christianity, which is of
events which happened in anticipation of Christ. Those who were
familiar with the impulses of the ancient Mysteries when Christianity
saying about Christ Jesus. She could not, of course, understand the
the Christian god stands on a lower level than the content of the
That was not the fault of the Christian god, but it was the result
of interpretations of the Christian god. Blavatsky simply did not
century AD, Rome took possession of Christianity. The empirical
path to the spirit. Rome forced Christianity to adopt its outer
trappings. It is this romanized Christianity alone which was known to
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture V: Anti-Christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf.
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Anti-christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf. - The Mysteries
ANTI-CHRISTIANITY. — THE HEALING OF THE GULF. — THE
Christianity. For the theosophic movement, in its association
from an anti-christian orientation.
This anti-christian orientation, which I mentioned in
Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the treatment of the
the fourth century after Christ, all those impulses vanish,
Christ. Ever more and more, as modern science attempted to
approach the nature of the Christ, it has scattered it to dust,
account of the Christ-Jesus, without jumping a gap on the road.
Christianity, and which talks in words that no longer bear any
the Christ, — then one will need to be a liar. He puts
Christianity.
More scathing words were never uttered about Christianity than
his tremendous denunciation of Christianity, which is of
appalling denunciation of Christianity.
preparation for the Christ. The people, who, at the time
when Christianity began, were still in a way con-versant with
and the modern creeds say about Christ-Jesus.
transmitted by the ancient Mysteries. And so the Christian God
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement: Lecture Six: The Emergence of the Anthroposophic Movement
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Christianity
Gospels, over Genesis, the Christian tradition as a whole,
Christianity as such.
Christianity As Mystical Fact,
anthroposophical understanding of Christianity was essentially the
gave lecture cycles on the various parts of the Christian tradition
the time in which the Christian side of anthroposophy was worked out,
following on from the historical tradition of Christianity.
discovery of the boy who was to be brought up as Christ, or to become
Christ, and so on. And when people who did not want to be involved in

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VI: The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
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— Exposition of relations to the Christian tradition: the
of the anthroposophical understanding of Christianity.
Esoteric Christianity, there did flow something which,
relations with the Gospels with Genesis and the Christian
tradition generally: with Christianity, as such.
line was already sketched out in my book Christianity as
anthroposophical understanding of Christianity, the building up
Christian tradition. — For instance, at that time, too,
was the time, therefore, when in the main the Christian side of
Anthroposophy was worked out with reference to the Christian
to be educated, you know, as the Christ, or to become the
Christ, and all the rest of it. And when that couldn't be

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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poem by Christian Morgenstern, frequently performed in

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Christianity As Mystical Fact
science. Everything else is invalid. Christianity teaches that Christ
consequence there is no justification for Christianity. Therefore,
The Anti-Christ.
Anti-Christ;
penetrating the Mystery of Golgotha and Christianity. The other
which would once again enable the presentation of true Christianity

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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Christianity as Mystical Fact, Mysticism at the Dawn of the
rest is nothing. Christianity taught that Christ is not
Therefore, there is no justification for Christianity.
Anti-Christ.’
proposed, as the next book to his Anti-Christ, which was
Values; first book, The Anti-Christ; —
penetration of Christianity; and so, on the other side, the
Christianity could be restored to its place before the eyes of

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Course for Priests of the Christian Community

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Course for Priests of the Christian Community
relationship of this Christian-religious Movement to
corresponding rituals of ancient times, deepened in a Christian
However, at specific times in the development of Christianity
Christ — this is the one side of the cult. The other side
anthroposophic understanding (of Christ) if you do not come via

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Course for Priests of the Christian Community
Christ in those who we feel are under the influence of the
under the leadership of Christ Jesus out of the heavenly
an image of it. I sense Christ-God in all my weaving and
feel the Spirit God carry into the future that which Christ
as “Deus,” “Christus,”
Consecration into the Christian Movement for Religious Renewal
Christian Community as ever new at each fulfilment of the
to the entire development of the Christian Community. Thus you

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Course for Priests of the Christian Community
themselves with Christ, thus with the Son of God.
by Christ and people who have not been enriched by Christ? Upon
have no more, later on. The Christ-blessed humanity acquired it
this way the Christ-blessed people were able to take their own
Thus the Christ brought the same as what the Father God had
being born within. Thus the Christ could say to humanity: ‘I
only true God and Jesus Christ as your emissary. I have revealed
Christ had to be sent to humanity. ‘This now is everlasting
Christ your emissary. I have revealed Your Being
Christ Jesus has made it possible to stop the Word from dying
the necessity to return again to original Christendom! It fails

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centuries of Christendom. It was said that Jehovah united with matter
so, among those in whom these ideas lived during the early Christian
Christendom. Men's minds were now directed to the physical

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der Christus gewesen sei, dann wird man wiederum — was
wissen, daß der Christus der menschliche Träger
irdische Dasein. Denn zum Begreifen des Christus ist
soll das Christentum wiederum tief verankert werden in der

Title: Gegenwärtiges Geistesleben und Erziehung: Fünfter Vortrag
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heraufkommende Christentum in dem Johannes-Evangelium.

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vorchristlichen Jahrhundert. Man kann dann in eine Epoche der
dasjenige, was durch den Christus Jesus als ein ewiger,
Geist der Sternenwelt, den eine spätere Zeit den Christus
hindurchschritt. Denn der Tod Christi, die Auferstehung
Christi, war zunächst für die Christen, die das
Christentum verstanden, die Hauptsache.
überwunden hat. Jetzt wurde der Christus wieder Extrakt
Initiationswissenschaft, jetzt aus der durchchristeten
glaubte, so sah jetzt die durchchristete Menschheit zu der
Christus im Jesus besiegt hat.
ersten Christen, die noch den Impuls des initiierten
Christentums hatten, ihre Toten begraben, aber über
Christus vereinigte Seele den Tod besiegt — den
wenn er verbunden ist mit dem Christus, der als der
Christus selber als Mensch den Tod besiegen.
des Lebens. So antwortete der Inhalt des Christus auf das
von Golgatha, in der Gewißheit: der Christus ist zur Erde
erhaltene Gnosis — die Initiierten des Christentums die
sterblichen Menschen auf Erden mit dem Christus, durch den der
Tod und Auferstehung des Christus. Indem ihr das Erdenleben
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Vorfahren erreicht, der zur Zeit von Christi Geburt gelebt

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christlicher ist, so schicken diejenigen Eltern, die ihre
Kinder christlich erzogen, aber nach dem Schulprinzip,
christlicher ist, der sogar so christlich wirkt, daß die
ganze Schule in eine Atmosphäre von Christlichkeit
bei uns von den Kindern aus dem freien christlichen
im tiefsten Sinne des Wortes das Kind im christlichen Sinne
Gotteswesenhaftigkeit des Christus Jesus geknüpft ist,
schönsten Maße vor, die Glorie des Christus Jesus in
christlichen Religionsunterricht in der Waldorfschule erteilen
nach einem blind rationalistischen Christentum hinarbeiten
Christus-Impulses in der ganzen Erdenentwickelung der

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of Christianity long before missionaries from Rome reached these islands.
The death of Baldur and the Christ-Impulse. Transition to abstract
the Christ-figure who could rise from death was placed over against
Christ-impulse was prepared. In Baldur, the God who falls into death
and cannot rise again, we see the forerunner, in the North, of Christ,

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture III
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and the significance of the Christian impulse.

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture I: The Michael Imagination
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winter at Christmas, Raphael in spring at Easter, and Uriel in summer
as at Christmas we
at Christmas and experience Easter with deep inner response

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture II: The Christmas Imagination
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winter at Christmas, Raphael in spring at Easter, and Uriel in summer
CHRISTMAS IMAGINATION
culmination at Christmas is prepared in advance from Michaelmas
just below its surface — becomes Moon when Christmas
order to bring the essence of Christmas rightly before our souls, let
us transpose ourselves into the being of man. In the Christmas
ordained to receive the Christ into himself. Let us look closely at
the same way, everything we feel at Christmas-time flows together
the first Christian centuries, and of which the last echoes have
inner vision into the secrets of Christmas in such a way that they
blended with it, so out of all that we can feel at Christmas time,
Imagination at Christmas-time — a picture we can live

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture III: The Easter Imagination
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winter at Christmas, Raphael in spring at Easter, and Uriel in summer
Christmas at a Time of Grievous Destiny,
The Festivals and their Meaning, Vol. I: Christmas.
the figure of Christ; the Christ who, freeing Himself from the
also how the Christ overcomes the force that seeks to draw the upper
part of man away from the Earth. The head of the Christ-figure, the
— such is the form of the Christ as He appears every year in
of the countenance of Christ.
forms, the Risen Christ in his Resurrection form as the Easter picture;
the Risen Christ, with Luciferic powers hovering above and the Ahrimanic
Christmas Imagination in deep winter, and the Michael Imagination for
Christ in the form you see here — a form born out of cosmic
fold in the garment should be thought of as placing the Christ-figure
precisely in the figure of Christ we
that rays out from the Christ. But a living feeling for all this will
Christ-principle. If all this could be done — and the
Imaginations which come before man at Michaelmas and Christmas, I was
can develop in the neighbourhood of the Christ, I could show how the
in Christian terminology and in Christian usage should carry the

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winter at Christmas, Raphael in spring at Easter, and Uriel in summer
thinking of the Christmas season, we had to start from the way in
— enters into the time of Christmas, we shall have more to say.
there, just as we have the Michael Imagination, the Christmas
fact that the Christ, though the working together of the

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winter at Christmas, Raphael in spring at Easter, and Uriel in summer
the Autumn Imagination of Michael, the Christmas Imagination of
Christmas Archangel. He is then the cosmic Spirit; we have to look up

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and the significance of the Christian impulse.

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and the significance of the Christian impulse.

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Christian era, in order to see what was done in this sanctuary so

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gift, for Christmas or at other times, indeed we had so much given us

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Initiator pointed out — the Form of Christ.
priest who had directed him to the Christ-picture said to him:
Christianity.

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last lecture, something like a vision of the Christ appeared before

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the great Mysteries, that in these great Mysteries the Christ was
Christ as of Him who had gone through events in the past. And
Temple was led before the image of the Christ, they wished to show
Christian Mysteries before the Mystery of Golgotha, in which in the
describe as the experience of Christ Jesus on Golgotha and its
centuries after the rise of Christianity and approximately to the
ninth or tenth post-Christian centuries. Examine historical works
place in the physical-sense World through the God Christ.
Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz
Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz,
Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz.
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the end of our last consideration. We pointed to the Being of Christ
in the first centuries of Christian development, we find here and
knowledge, in order to find in the first Christian centuries those
Mystery of Christ in a pre-Christian period; again it was in a
spiritual way that the Christ was placed before those to be initiated
of the Christ only as a future Appearance, as One Who was still a
found — that Christ must really be recognized and known.
put before the world by the Christian painters; the Mother with the
humanity, and which will be given to the delegates at Christmas I

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of the ancients in the fourth pre-Christian century, that in spite of

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during the first few centuries after the foundation of Christianity.

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Christmas tree, they remind themselves that all that is outside in
from which the Christmas tree is made should become for us a symbol
of love. It is commonly thought that the Christmas tree is a very old
made use of at Christmas time. When the Christmas plays, for example,
kind of Christmas tree in his hand. This was a branch of the juniper
that has such wonderful berries; the juniper was the Christmas tree.
of the earth through Christ.
Christmas tree. To them the juniper tree was a kind of Christmas tree
Christmas tree.
as a kind of Christmas tree, and which is the same for the birds as
I should like to wish you a happy, cheerful Christmas Festival, and one

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Christianity.
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
of Christianity this ancient Astrology, that means, intercourse with
epoch, a few centuries after the rise of Christianity Astrology

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epoch from the 10th to the 15th century after Christ. The medieval
illuminated more in detail in the Christmas lectures which I want to

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The Christmas
The Christmas

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The Opening of the Christmas Foundation Conference, by Rudolf Steiner
The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General
Opening of the Christmas Foundation Conference
our Christmas Conference for the Founding of the General
Christmas Foundation Conference. Of course he will speak here

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The Christmas Conference
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Christmas Conference for the founding of the Anthroposophical
establish a mood of soul appropriate for this our Christmas
Christmas Conference. Let us during this our Christmas
universe — let us make this flaming Christmas light,
this universal light of Christmas into a symbol for what is
Christmas Conference, and what lessons have we learnt from
if this Christmas Conference were not to agree that I should
gathered at the Goetheanum in Dornach at Christmas, 1923,
two performances of one of the Christmas Plays, the Paradise

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
our Christmas Gathering
where we are told that Christ wrote something in the Earth.

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The Christmas Conference
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head; the force of Christ working in the circumference,
the force of Christ in the circumference, out of the working
being who had become the Christ, the spirit being who had
Light of Christ in the darkness of the universe. In our
that original consecrated night of Christmas which took place
consecrated night of Christmas in ancient Palestine.
Light Divine Christ-Sun !
Christmas can give us the strength for the warming of our
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round
In Christo morimur.

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written a letter just before Christmas, having heard about

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
Christianity as Mystical Fact,

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The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General
telegram to read to you: ‘Christmas greetings, best
would please ask that spectators at the Christmas Plays

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
that I gave in Stuttgart between Christmas and New Year, I spoke
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity

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founded here at Christmas. These national Societies have
gathered at the Goetheanum in Dornach at Christmas, 1923,
here and now during this present Christmas Conference. I

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
foundation of Christianity. And they are the Mysteries that in
the Christian Era. It was a cosmic experience —
as it is into the Christian language of his time, this
Alexander, living in pre-Christian time, could not yet have
that. Only Christianity could bring to mankind the true
broad-minded way, we shall see how Lamprecht, the Christian

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at Christmas, 1923, in Dornach, Switzerland.
at Christmas, 1923, in Dornach, Switzerland.
Denn es waltet der Christus-Wille im Umkreis
In Christus morimur.
Christus-Sonne,

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at Christmas, 1923, in Dornach, Switzerland.
at Christmas, 1923, in Dornach, Switzerland.
For the will of Christ reigns in the earthly sphere
In Christo morimur.
Sun of Christ,
Steiner on the last day (January 1, 1924) of the Christmas Conference

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For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds
Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway
attach great value to the meeting taking place at Christmas
time when this Christmas Conference itself is taking
Christmas 1923 the constitution of the Founding Vorstand

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 10: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution During The Meeting of the Swiss School Association
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Title: World History: Lecture V: Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
centuries after the birth of Christianity. These Mysteries of
name of Christianity, and so on. And we only understand the

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 11: Meeting of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society
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The Christmas Conference
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Geering-Christ explains his point of view.
HERR GEERING-CHRIST: Could we now proceed

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The Christmas Conference
The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds
In Christo morimur.
‘Anthroposophy, a Leader towards Christ’. May I
‘Anthroposophy, a Leader to Christ’. This will be

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
by the Christians, was Roman Emperor from 361–363.].
from the 3rd or 4th century after Christ and continuing down to
they would have had quite different ideas of the Christ Who
centuries after Christ, but even there too the time came when
who have come here for this Christmas Meeting, — I

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 13: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 30 December, 10 a.m.
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The Christmas Conference
The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General
Schubert on Christ and the spiritual world:
‘Anthroposophy, a Leader to Christ.’
Christ-Sun
School after the Christmas holidays. So I should like to ask

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 14: Meeting of practising doctors, 31 December 1923 at 8.30 in the morning
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The Christmas Conference
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Light Divine Christ-Sun
Christ-Sun,
Sun of Christ shine forth so that like shining suns they can
and this Sun of Christ we relate especially the closing words

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The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General
We wanted to make this particular Christmas Conference as
HERR GEERING-CHRIST: That is a misunderstanding on the
HERR GEERING-CHRIST: Will nothing be made public?

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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
Christ Jesus. In Him, identifying ourselves in all humility

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 17: The Envy of the Gods - The Envy of Human Beings
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representative of man, Christ Jesus, into whom, identifying

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 18: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 1 January, 10 a.m.
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For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds
In Christo morimur.
Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 19: The Rebuilding of the Goetheanum
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
decisive act of establishing the new mysteries during the Christmas
together for the last time during this Christmas Meeting which
Christmas Meeting, I spoke of manifold impulses at work in the
said at this Christmas Meeting is sincerely applied in the life
that should have been generated in him by this solemn Christmas
any pessimism as a result of what took place here at Christmas.
the Christmas Meeting and with which I want to end it. May it
For the Christ-Will in the encircling Round holds sway
In Christ, Death becomes Life.
O Sun of Christ!
O Sun of Christ!

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The Christmas Conference
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the evening lectures during this Christmas Conference I have
Conference, then this Christmas Conference will send a strong
be the right mood to bear away from this solemn Christmas
taken place here this Christmas. Every day we have had to
Christmas Conference, this Christmas Conference which is to
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds
In Christo morimur.
Christ-Sun
Christ-Sun,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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These lectures, given just after the Christmas Foundation Meeting,
given at our Christmas Foundation Meeting, I should like, in the
which I was able to speak during the Christmas Foundation Meeting, I

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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These lectures, given just after the Christmas Foundation Meeting,
of the ninth or tenth century after Christ. We learnt how such strivings
the Christmas Foundation how the human being who was an Initiate or
taught how Gods made and fashioned the world, and how the Christ
Christ becoming Man. Under the guidance of the teacher and because of

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
Christmas Foundation Meeting, a kind of change must take
the General Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas

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start from all that took place at the Christmas Foundation Meeting, I

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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These lectures, given just after the Christmas Foundation Meeting,
friends, how infinitely the Christ Impulse was deepened through such
conceptions. The Christ became, for these mediaeval men, the Spirit
man, the Christ is the one Being Who in the Cosmos saved the task of
pupil: “O Man, thou art not what thou art; the Christ had to
conversion to Christianity in the Middle Ages show such extraordinary
leave it to the Christ to fulfil the task of the Earth.
relation to true manhood as well as his relation to the Christ was
over the leadership of the Earth — even as the Christ left the
in the Christmas Meeting and since, about the evolution of

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I described to you in the lectures given at the Christmas Meeting,

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the name of Christian Rosenkreutz. This individuality is, in a sense,
To Christian
the Christian Church, and notably the old Greek Fathers, there were
Christian Rosenkreutz knew that the Initiates of olden times had
that Christian Rosenkreutz, by inspiration of a higher Spirit, found
of men. In this sense I have held the lectures this Christmas-time,

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These lectures, given just after the Christmas Foundation Meeting,
Christian Rosenkreutz. This individuality is, in a sense, the type
To Christian
the Christian Church, and notably the old Greek Fathers, there were
go out into cosmic distances. Such a man as Christian Rosenkreutz
that Christian Rosenkreutz, by inspiration of a higher Spirit, found
men. In this sense I have held the lectures this Christmas-time, so

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often enough, and it is time it stopped. Our Christmas meeting should

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and the significance of the Christian impulse.

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and the significance of the Christian impulse.

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christmas Conference [1923] was to be the beginning of true
beautiful during the Christmas Conference and in my thoughts
were the same as it was before the Christmas Conference. And if
This cosmic age began in the year 333 after Christianity began,

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christmas Conference [1923] was to be the beginning of true
beautiful during the Christmas Conference and in my thoughts
were the same as it was before the Christmas Conference. And if
This cosmic age began in the year 333 after Christianity began,

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founding of Christianity. (After all, the men to whom we there go

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millennium before the founding of Christianity — and,
before the Christian era t lit* difference between the life on

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
to show that the intentions indicated during the Christmas
say here again that what was meant in the Christmas Meeting has

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
to show that the intentions indicated during the Christmas
say here again that what was meant in the Christmas Meeting has

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differs from that of others, he sees fit to rechristen the great

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quite uninfluenced by Christianity. What I am now saying will seem
say “anti-Christian” but “non-Christian,”
it were of enabling a phase of culture not yet Christian to continue
on into the Christian centuries — fell to a number of
course, directly Christian, but neither had it remained as backward
separated from Christianity, can know, feel and experience. They were
to encounter Christianity only later, in later epochs of earthly
the spiritual world removed from the development of Christianity,
experience of Christianity.
less near to Christianity but whose views of the world and conceptual
intrinsically Christian.
bearers of non-Christian culture, particularly, too, of Cabbalistic
the relation of Frau Christine von Goethe's chilblains to the

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The Birth of Christianity,
Christianity and the Mysteries of Antiquity.]
course, that Palestine was the birth place of Christianity. Jesus of
brought by Christ Jesus was that during earthly life man is not like
Jesus of Nazareth was known among the initiated as Christ Jesus. It
— as CHRIST.
Monstrance tells us that Christianity originates from a religious
that of the Moon, so the influence working in Christ Jesus is that of
case of Christ Jesus was that the influence streamed directly to the
is influenced by the Moon. But in Christ, the Sun influence poured
This could no longer be said in the epoch when Christ Jesus lived,
By whom, then, was the Sun replaced? By Christ Jesus Himself!
Before the founding of Christianity there had been a Sun
Religion in which the Sun itself was the object of veneration. Christ
could do no other than point to Christ, saying: There, within Him, is
be able to say: Christ Jesus brought down upon the Earth that which was
formerly in the Sun. In the first Christian centuries, Christ was
“the Sun, the Christ.” Later on, the meaning was entirely
Christian Church has always considered it dangerous to proclaim
Christianity. You know that the Mysteries were not open to everyone.
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peoples at the time of the migrations, at the time when Christianity
Christian centuries knew what it was to live in union with the

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you follow the development of Christianity from its foundation,
tracing the various paths taken by the Christian Impulse on its way
rather more than 500 years after the founding of Christianity,
Christianity,
by Charles the Great to further Christianity must be considered in
promote Christianity in Middle Europe, at the same time there was
and are beaten back by the representatives of European Christianity,
against them by the warlike Christian population of Europe. Towards
if it had secretly poured into Christianity, had been secretly
is Christian about them and such a strong Arabic timbre. We discover

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Bernus, I wrote an article on The Chymical Wedding of Christian
Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. Life itself proves to us that
of Christian Rosenkreutz consciously.
Christ. And out of these he made a sort of halo for the statue, which

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture I
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Cosmic Christianity
the Irish initiation, for the purpose of bringing Christianity to
Christianity to the East. On the way, somewhere in the neighbourhood
spreading Christianity. He had come into these parts while his duty
Christianity, but where, instead, the old Germanic religion and

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum. Previously there were
gradually absorbed into this School, because with the Christmas
the Christmas Conference and the one we now have since
Christmas. Previously the Anthroposophical Society was a kind
was, so to speak, cultivated. Since Christmas anthroposophy is
Renewal [Christian Community].

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum. Previously there were
gradually absorbed into this School, because with the Christmas
the Christmas Conference and the one we now have since
Christmas. Previously the Anthroposophical Society was a kind
was, so to speak, cultivated. Since Christmas anthroposophy is
Renewal [Christian Community].

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Anthroposophical Movement since the Christmas Foundation Meeting at
would have been if already at that time (as at our Christmas
Christmas Foundation Meeting, an entirely new element must come into
tenor of the Anthroposophical Movement as it has been since Christmas
come to an incarnation in Italy in the early Christian centuries
England on a Roman Catholic, Christian Mission.
on a Roman Catholic Christian Mission to the Anglo-Saxons. One of his

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Festival did not begin in the Christian era before the rise of Christianity
centuries of the Christian era itself, the Easter Festival was not celebrated
Moon. By the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era,
attempts were being made by the Christians to sweep away the ancient
had not the remotest inkling that Christ's Coming was in any way
the Cross of Christ, and caused a wreath to be carved, with rays
anything about cosmic secrets, about the fact that Christ is
wanted; Christianity was their bitter enemy. Julian the Emperor,
The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ.
Christianity men should be taught: Christ came from the Sun and then,
not want the real facts about Christ Jesus to come to light, but only
connection between Christianity and the ancient truths should be
maintained, for he thought: It will be easier for Christianity to
again to find the way to the Spirit. We must not celebrate Christmas
image; Christians have the actual, historical event. But in the
image, came to pass as an actual happening. The Christ was in Jesus.
image. But when Christ had passed through the Mystery of Golgotha
— and Mysteries still existed in the days of Christ Jesus
the same tendency has remained in Christianity, for the Monstrance
as the Real Christ. It is said that the Bread and the Wine are
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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum a new element has
is true that before the Christmas Conference it was always
That has changed since the Christmas Conference at the
Goetheanum. Since the Christmas Conference the opposite is the
(Vorstand) which was formed during the Christmas Conference and
which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
Christmas the Anthroposophical Society must occupy itself with
emphasized during the Christmas Conference. Of course, there
be based on the strictly human. Therefore, at the Christmas
do here since the Christmas Conference. But it will all be
the Christmas Conference something real has happened and for

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Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum a new element has
is true that before the Christmas Conference it was always
That has changed since the Christmas Conference at the
Goetheanum. Since the Christmas Conference the opposite is the
(Vorstand) which was formed during the Christmas Conference and
which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
Christmas the Anthroposophical Society must occupy itself with
emphasized during the Christmas Conference. Of course, there
be based on the strictly human. Therefore, at the Christmas
do here since the Christmas Conference. But it will all be
the Christmas Conference something real has happened and for

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In the first centuries of Christianity — not at its immediate
thought and impulse of Christianity, I mean, with that impulse which
arises for the true Christian from the fact of the Resurrection of
Christ.
leads us back into pre-Christian times. It leads us to the festivals
Easter as a Christian festival is a festival of Resurrection. The
that the Christian Easter is by no means coincident as to its inner
must connect the Christian Easter with certain festivals which,
its essence? It is this: Christ Jesus, the Being who stands at the
centre of the Christian consciousness, passes through death. Good
Friday is held in memory of this fact. Christ Jesus lies in the grave.
union of Christ with Earth-existence. This time is celebrated in
Christendom as a festival of mourning — the time between Good
Being of Christianity rises out of the grave; it is the day of
Christ Jesus.
Easter-content of Christianity.
pre-Christian antiquity this festival was celebrated among certain
Christ Jesus. For how does the Mystery of Golgotha appear to one who
What the soul of every candidate for Initiation underwent, Christ
different level. For Christ was no earthly man. He was a Sun-Being
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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
Easter became an important Christian festival — not
coincident with the founding of Christianity, but during the first
centuries; a Christian festival linked with the fundamental idea, the
basic impulse, of Christianity: the impulse to be a Christian,
provided by the Resurrection of Christ.
antedating Christianity, to festivals connected with the spring
As a Christian
essence the Christian Easter in no sense corresponds to the pagan
ancient pagan times, Easter, as a Christian festival, would
evolution. Nothing less occurred, in the early Christian centuries,
Christian consciousness, Christ Jesus, experiences death, as
celebrated in Christendom as a festival of mourning. Finally, Easter
Sunday is the day on which the central being of Christianity arises
and the Resurrection of Christ Jesus.
resembles the form of what is comprised in the Christian
for a long period of time during pre-Christian Antiquity. An effigy
event took place: in the case of Christ Jesus, the transformation
aspirant for initiation experienced in his soul only, Christ Jesus
different level. Because Christ was not an Earth-man but a Sun-being
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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
Christianity, Easter was not important initially, but it became
Christianity's basic tenet, the Resurrection of Christ, and to
the fundamental impulse to become a Christian provided by that
Christianity.
Christians Easter commemorates the Resurrection. The
to its inner meaning, the Christian Easter festival in no sense
Easter, in the Christian sense, is related to festivals that
development. In the early Christian centuries, nothing
Christian consciousness, Christ Jesus, experiences death,
existence. Christians observe this interval, the one
Christianity arises from the grave. In essence, then,
Easter involves Christ's death, lying in the grave, and
enact a content strongly resembling that of the Christian
long spans of pre-Christian antiquity. At the center of this
being, Christ Jesus, carried down into bodily nature the
Christ Jesus passed through in the body, that is, on a
different level. Because Christ was not of the Earth, but
of Christ's bodily death, in spite of his dissolution
because Christ ascended higher in soul and spirit than was
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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
From early Christian centuries — not indeed from the
immediate foundation of Christianity, but from its early
fundamental impulse of Christianity, as revealed to
Christian consciousness in the fact of the resurrection of
Christ.
to times even before Christianity. It points to festivals
dealt with in words. As a Christian festival Easter is a
the winter. Here I must explain that the Christian festival of
think of it as a Christian festival, it coincides absolutely
the early Christian centuries, with an entirely different
the centre of Christian consciousness, Christ Jesus, passed
through death; of this Good Friday reminds us. Christ Jesus
represents the union of Christ with earthly existence. The time
between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is held by Christians as
which the central figure for all Christendom rose from the
and resurrection of Christ Jesus.
resemble absolutely the main features of those of the Christian
was consummated by Christ Jesus down to the physical body
initiation was experienced by Christ Jesus as far as to the
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near to the sanctuaries of Initiation in pre-Christian times, or even
in the first centuries of Christianity, could learn to know the
Christian conception as the First Person of the Godhead — the
the founding of Christianity. These are the epochs which I called in my
different eight or nine thousand years before the Christian era. In
first Christian centuries which intended that all knowledge of such
knew that in the spiritual rays of the Sun, the power of Christ the
radiates the power of the Christ, this Eye of the World brings it
these forces of the Christ, looking down upon me through the cosmic
forces, the forces of the Christ, are also working in many different
But the Sun forces were still known to the bearer of the Christ, Jesus
I described it yesterday. At the time of the founding of Christianity
— the Christ — descended into human evolution and took up
Christos. Hence he who had passed beyond the three Degrees
was called a Christopher, or Christophorus. For he felt himself
Mysteries Christophorus was the name for those who attained
But he learned something else besides when he became a Christophorus.
Mysteries ascended when they became Christophorus, descended
that man might henceforward be united with this Power through Christ
of the Christ. These are the forces I must kindle in my inner being if
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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
Mysteries in the pre-Christian or early Christian centuries could
divinity. It is the divinity we speak of in our Christian conception
documents exist, a period antedating the foundation of Christianity
in the early Christian centuries. It is therefore not surprising that
were permeated with the Christ force, the force of the Son, the
he knew that this world-eye, from which the power of the Christ
throughout life. He knew that these Sun forces, these Christ forces
Sun forces, the Christ forces — are also found in certain
able to be guided by them was the Christ Bearer, Jesus of Nazareth.
Sun, the Christ Himself, Who descended to enter human evolution and
Sun forces was called in all the Mysteries christos.
be a cabbage carrier — was called a christophor,
a Christ bearer. In the majority of the old Mysteries that was the
christophor, namely, that even in the
which the initiate attained in becoming a christophor,
so that man could be united with this power through Christ Jesus.
and master myself, this is due to the Sun forces, the Christ forces.
becoming a christophor.
the Christmas Conference was held, for there is urgent need of a

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
scarcely be otherwise. However, if in pre-Christian times or
even in the early centuries of Christianity someone who was
our Christian conception as the First Person of the Godhead, as
that antedates the foundation of Christianity by many thousands
nine thousand years before Christ. At that time a person's
exterminate such knowledge in the early Christian centuries
orientalist. From 1922 on priest in the Christian Community.
Christ's power, the power of the Son, is active, and that it
celestial eye from which the power of Christ streamed forth.
sun forces, the Christ forces looking down upon them through
the Christ forces — are also found in certain plants and
himself be guided by them was the Christ-bearer, Jesus of
sun being himself, the Christ, descended into human evolution
called Christos. Hence the candidate who had gone
was called a christophor, a Christ-bearer. This was the
christophor, the initiate realized that spiritual forces
had raised themselves in becoming christophors descended
enabling people to unite themselves with it through Christ
due to the sun forces, to the Christ forces. These I must
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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
in pre-Christian times, or even in the first Christian
Godhead of whom, in accordance with Christian acceptance, we
Christianity. In order to provide this age with a name I have
foundation of Christianity. The development of individuals was
Persia; so powerful in the early Christian centuries were the
spiritual Sunlight the power of Christ, the Son, was active,
eye of the world, from which the power of Christ streams forth,
compulsion. It is the Christ-force looking down on me through
Christ-forces — live also under various conditions in
Christ, who lived His life in accordance with them. He
the Christ himself, came down into human evolution and took up
the Mysteries, Christos. Therefore, he who had surmounted the
Christophoros. In nearly all the Ancient Mysteries this was the
Christophoroi had not entered into One Jesus of Nazareth
and men, through Jesus Christ, have been able to unite
Sun-forces, upon the Christ-forces. These I must stimulate, if
world: when he was a Christophoros.
of this consciousness the “Christmas Session”

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
Christmas Course we turned our attention to things that can

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was the degree of Initiation whereby man became a Christ-Bearer, that
Moon is a bearer of Sunlight, so man became a bearer of the Christ, a
Christophoros.
This initiation whereby a man became Christophoros was an absolutely
the Moon-Sun Initiation and become Christophoros. For then, as it
it. As in former times the Christophoros from his Moon standpoint

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
initiate became a Christ bearer — that is, a Sun-being bearer,
a sunlight bearer, so man became a Christ bearer, a
christophoros. This initiation leading to the stage of
christophoros was thus an absolutely real experience.
to the Moon-Sun initiation and become a christophoros
succeeding Sunday. Just as once a christophoros,

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
this directly, achieving thereby the level of a Christ-bearer.
sunlight-bearer, the initiate became a Christ-bearer, a
christophor. His initiation into this was a
lunar and solar initiation and become christophors when
christophor looking at the sun from his newly-gained

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
and by which a man became a Bearer of the Christ, which means a
Christ — a Christophoros. Initiation to this degree was
Sun-moon initiation and become a Christophoros; for he then
times the Christophoros looked up to the Sun-being from the

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
be done, ought those given at Christmas to be done at the
When the meditations were given here at Christmas it was also
instruction given at Christmas, one has in mind the goal that
Christmas Foundation Meeting) really should not be. It is not
for you, I will say it here too. It was said at the Christmas
Christmas.
from the side of knowledge. Up till Christmas the will to
with the course given at Christmas, where I spoke of what the
Christiania once brought a man of sixty to me. He had all

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forth from here, from the Goetheanum through the Christmas Foundation
madman; but as I told you during the Christmas Foundation Meeting,
“Anthroposophy is a Christmas experience” — so we may
the Christmas impulse which was given to us at Dornach. For the
Christmas impulse must not remain a merely intellectual, theoretic and
Christmas and New Year, the very time in which our misfortune came
say: Since the Christmas Foundation impulse anthroposophical work

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
the time of the Christmas Meeting, really takes root in the
criminal or a lunatic. But as I mentioned during the Christmas
could be said on other occasions that anthroposophy is a Christmas
world and which must be correlated with the Christmas impulse given
memorial service in the Christmas-New Year time, the time in which
expressed: the Christmas impulse calls for the permeation of

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
from the Christmas Conference that was held here at the
founded at the Christmas Conference in 1923, was divided into
Christmas Conference.
anthroposophy is a Christmas experience, but in all its
connected with the Christmas impulse given at Dornach,
was in keeping with this, my dear friends, that at Christmas
since the impulse at Christmas all anthroposophical

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by tracing its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows it
impulse which went forth from the Christmas session here at the
Christmas meeting, in Aristotle and Alexander the Great. These
Anthroposophy is a Christmas event, and in all its acts it is
associated with the Christmas Impulse given at Dornach. This
Christmas time, the time in which this misfortune overtook us,
since the time of the Christmas impulse, 1923. This esoteric

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Christianity. — I am relating to you what can be discovered
first century before the founding of Christianity, when they had
hundred years after the founding of Christianity, we have an
that time — a hundred years after the founding of Christianity
— makes no more than a passing allusion to Christ, mentioning
take effect in the Anthroposophical Society through the Christmas
Christmas Meeting, of what should be done in the members'
revitalising of the Christmas Meeting; for if the Christmas Meeting
grow out of the Christmas Meeting, in constant renewal! May many

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
Christmas Foundation. You will realize this from other
evolution of Western Christianity became more superficial,
at the essence of what Christianity had to offer them. A
of Christianity which was quite externalized. Such a man will
general stream of a Christianity that was being externalized,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
time, as you will notice, when Christianity had already been
Christianity
deeper sides of Christianity have, in reality, not been
fathomed at all by human beings. Christianity came into the
that Christianity is everywhere living in the
Christianity through their intellect. As well as this there
sent out by Christ to proclaim Christianity: Matthew, the
no truly Christian will-to-healing in modern thought. There
culture through Arabism which has gripped Christianity like a
pair of forceps. It is very interesting that Christianity,
which Christianity was excluded. Such conceptions did not
constitute an evolution of Christianity, but Christianity was
Arabism. Medicine will be Christianized when once again we
dealing with Raphael, for Raphael is the Christian Mercury.

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,

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consists of eight lectures given at Christmas, 1923,
receives it into the pictures of thought. I said at Christmas

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lived in the early Christian centuries as an Initiate, with a soul
institutions in that part of the world in the early Christian
Christian centuries these very Mysteries of Asia Minor were occupied
Christianity as Mystical Fact
Impulse which, proceeding from a sublime Sun-Being, from the Christ,
Asia Minor in the early Christian centuries. It is a shattering
soul by this burning question concerning the destiny of Christianity,
unite Christianity with the wisdom of the Mysteries. He knew that
that whoever knows the Spiritual Sun, knows Christ. But this,
Christmas Foundations Meeting
shadowed by the question: What will become of Christianity? And
realisation: A time will come when Christianity will be
know anything of the glory and sublimity of Christ, the Sun-Spirit
evolution of Christianity. He experienced the consternation and
Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz

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Christ's death?
of Christ's death there was an eclipse of the sun, or at all events
the miracles of healing performed by Christ, about the way in which
the body. But it was not always so. At the time when Christ lived on
Christ's acts of healing, we find the words: When the sun had set He
of nature. We see the life of Christ Jesus unfolding from the birth
— even at the time of Christ's birth — what lives in the
connection between happenings in nature and the life of Christ. And
it may be said that just as Christ consciously chose twilight
important preparation for the subsequent rise of Christianity. Before
Christianity came into the world, the Jews had a deeply spiritual
Himself been defeated. If Turks and Christians have the one God and
you very briefly that Christianity thinks of three Divinities: God the Father,
Christianity could not do otherwise than picture the spiritual
different from that of Christian or oriental artists. The actual
in evidence. Christianity, on the other hand, tends easily in the
revered in Christianity. I have told you that the Monstrance
centuries Christianity has developed many pagan characteristics,
obvious of all in one particular field. Fundamentally speaking, Christians
“exile.” The Jewish people among whom Christ died were

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the Christmas Foundation, is intended to be a complete expression of

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
I want to feel the being of Christ

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after the founding of Christianity, up to about the 8th or 9th
of Christianity.
founding of Christianity. In these centuries the feeling in the human
consciousness that was alive in man until the early Christian
grew stronger and stronger during the first Christian centuries. The
incarnation during the first Christian centuries, were not strong

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
It can be motivated from the Christ and his power. Then it
The Human heart must answer. If it is motivated by Christ, it
Christ: I leave its foundation as long as the spirit
Christ:
Christ: My life extinguishes it (“it” is the
He who is motivated in his heart by Christ answers:
The heart motivated by Christ speaks:
Christ: My soul breathes the air of heaven, as long as
The heart motivated by Christ answers:
Christ: My I blazes in God's fire, as long as the
innerly ensouled by Christ, the second answer as the voice of

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Christmas Festival.
On Christmas Night, man,
Cosmos into this world of Space. And now he may gaze upon the Christmas
world of Space. In the fullness and majesty of this Christmas thought,
as he gazes on the Child that is born on Christmas Night, he exclaims:
life of this Child and His permeation by the Spirit of the Christ-Being,
we come to realise that this Being, this Christ-Being, comes from the
the Time that weaves and works within the Sun, Christ came forth, came
Christ on Earth? In Christ on Earth we have That, which coming from
Space, Christ came to men. At the time when Christianity was founded by
Christ on Earth, man had been all too long restricted to the mere Ex
Christ came to bring the
the human spirit, unite themselves with Christ, then man receives once
Space that Time was lost to him. Christ brought Time back again to
their bodies, they must die in Christ, We can still be human beings of
comes forth from Time into Space, that he may unite Christ with
in Christ.” Otherwise we shall pay for our loss of Time with the
loss of Christ Himself, and, banished from Him, remain held spell-bound.
Ex Deo Nascimur, we must find the In Christo Morimur. We
must bring forth the Easter thought in addition to the Christmas
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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
activate in us, can come from Christ: then it will be the
Christ's council will always be shaped in conjunction
Christ will always speak to us, counseling: as long
each question a threefold answer comes from us: Christ's
Christ in us answers:
Christ in us answers:
Christ in us:
Christ in us:
I-bearing force of fire in us. And Christ answers in us to
the voice of Christ, but also to those of Lucifer and
directions: Lucifer and Ahriman; the voice of Christ in us,

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connected with our Christmas Foundation Meeting. We must be deeply
conscious of the fact that this Christmas Meeting constituted an
lectures given here since Christmas should not really be passed on to
Christmas Foundation, the same habits persist — jealousies,

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The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers.
cult which has found its place in the Christian Community, and with
Christian Community.

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Society received during the Christmas Conference. Since then

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XVI
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Christianity in the East of Europe! Information — not entirely

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I: Introduction to these Studies on Karma
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necessary, since the entry of our Christmas impulse, that

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since the our Christmas Conference impulse, that we in the

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
I will to feel the presence of Christ.
opening of these Class Lessons, and also during the Christmas

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over the Anthroposophical Society since the Christmas
from the Christmas Foundation Meeting — that we must
intensity that Christianity had reached a definite
Christianity was to pass over into a more or less
instinctive human feeling. It was an age when Christianity
occur to the souls of men: Why am I a Christian? Such souls
11th, 10th, 9th, and 8th centuries after Christ. There we
find Christ-permeated souls, who were growing and evolving
still receiving Christianity into the pure Mind-Soul. On
Christianity lived in a way unconsciously. It was in many
respects a deeply pious Christianity, but it lived, if I
in the next life on earth: and so this Christianity which
‘Why are we Christians?’
who took the consequences of the Christianity they had
preceding Christian life on earth. The very thing that I
inclined towards the living experience of Christianity.
for all Christians, telling of the sacred and solemn
happenings in Palestine at the beginning of the Christian
learned how Christ had descended from cosmic heights, as a
to the earth, in order to have the Christ before our
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that below the earth there could be pagan temples and above Christian
churches — you will see that the Christian churches are related
one will not understand how the Christian element evolved if one does

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channels that have been provided in accordance with the Christmas

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distinguish the one group, who are related to Christianity
attachment to Christianity nearest and dearest to their
anthroposophists, to be able to call themselves Christians
is one that recognises and bears the Christ Impulse within
Christian. And yet, they come to Christianity from rather a
naturally to Christianity. But they do not feel in the same
measure an inward need of the heart, to place Christ in the
Christian stream. We must remember, after all, that less
Christians to this day. Thus only a certain number of the
tendency, the impulse, to evolve towards the Christian
Christian incarnation and maybe to yet another Christian
incarnation. Then we come to the pre-Christian
Christianity, it is different. We can go very far back; we
pre-Christian and Atlantean too, that these other souls
dived down at length into the Christian stream.
of what I said at the Christmas Foundation Meeting, when I
5th century after Christ. (We find it nearly always, spread
into the experiences of these souls in that early Christian
may describe as the first Christian incarnation.
were they to relate themselves to Christianity? You see, my
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Christianity. As I said, there may have been other
first Christian centuries, we find ourselves in an age when
human beings who lived in those early Christian centuries
Christ I only did not notice it, but in reality every night
Christ.” Now man knew, that for as long as he would
have to go thus backward through his earthly life Christ
would not desert him, for Christ was with his astral
Christianity in those first Christian centuries, whether it
Christ who had been the ruling Being of the Sun, had united
Christianity in the first centuries of Christian evolution.
first Christian centuries, and afterwards. Now all this had
Christ appeared on earth, stood verily in need of
something. It was the need that Christ should be received
man still had the feeling of a living principle of Christ.
guiltlessness of Nature. Wherever such Christians lived as
called themselves Christians in that time, or who were in
any way near to Christianity, were in this state of soul.
another. In the very first centuries of Christianity, such
Christian centuries of the first half of the Middle Ages
Christians, who became more and more attached to Rome, they
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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
through the teachings of Christ men should protect themselves
I will to feel the being of Christ.

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preceding Christianity, individuals like Lao Tse

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Christianity, people like Lao Tse and Confucius made the first

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in the first Christian centuries, partaking in that former
the first Christian centuries. Nay more, it was possible
pre-Christian Initiation — Christianity was taught in
Christianity, speaking still of Natura the handmaid of
Christ, and describing still how when great Nature has
as had existed in the first centuries of Christendom could
connection with Christianity. I mean Alain de Lille, Alanus
since received Christianity into itself.
centuries of Christianity. Such was the vision of Brunetto
of Christianity he turned against the heretics, writing
unison with Christianity — had found a refuge.
Christology. I only indicate this fact, seeing that it
conversation on the Christ Being with a Priest of the
from the first Christian centuries towards the School of
Aristotelian defence of Christianity. It was out of these
spiritual Christianity, and yet withal the transition to

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture VII: The New Age of Michael
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Michael preceded the founding of Christianity, preceded the
evolution. Christ, the lofty Spirit of the Sun, is arriving
that Christ, the great Spirit of the Sun, arrives among
the Sun. Christ who had hitherto worked within the realm of
they ascended to the Sun-existence — Christ now
Sun. They had to take their leave of Christ, who until then
we make use of our Christian terminology, call the
Christian terminology, but it is not the terminology that
connected with the descent of Christ to the earth: Michael
and his hosts witnessed not only the departure of Christ
fulfilled especially in the first Christian centuries. In
the earliest Christian centuries we still see those human
the works that arose out of Christian Scholasticism —
upon the earth in this Christian Scholasticism. In all that

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culmination in the Alexandrian epoch of pre-Christian time,
Mystery of Golgotha? Christ at that time was taking His
Golgotha quite differently. For Christ was coming down to
since the old Hebrew time and in the Christian era. It
pre-Christian century had been well-nigh extinguished. They

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experience of that Christian development which took its course during
Christianity which is to be a cosmic Christianity once more. They are
growing into Christianity. The others are souls who are a little
Movement on account of its Christian character, but they do

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had little experience of that Christian development which
into the Christianity which is to be a cosmic Christianity
in reality are only now growing into Christianity. The
its Christian character, but they do not enter so deeply

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about 1200 years before the founding of Christianity. Now when we

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Christianity. Now when we hear about wars like this which didn't take

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who afterwards, in Christian terminology, were designated
if, being asked, they had answered in our Christian
the departure of Christ from the Sun and His passage to the
founding of Christianity and the age of the Spiritual Soul,
Christmas Foundation Meeting, we will not be silent on
two works Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo. These
Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo, —
Anti-Christ. We need only consider how Ahrimanic are
the remarks that occur in the Anti-Christ. I do not
the concluding words of the Anti-Christ? They are
far and wide; I would fain write what Christianity is. It
in London, in the volume entitle, Cosmic Christianity:

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Scharen der Christus nachfolgenden Mächte sind. Sie
tiefsten christlichen Sinne heraus religiös, theologisch,
Johannes, der durch Christus selbst Eingeweihte, der
christlichen Nachwelt hat geben wollen mit der Apokalypse. Es
einmal die Apokalypse des Johannes für den Christen hat.
Christus. Immer war, indem man gestrebt hat nach einer
die neue Priesterschaft der Bewegung für eine christliche

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have come here to-day for the first time since the Christmas Foundation
of introduction. Through this Christmas Foundation the Anthroposophical
must find embodiment in human civilisation. Since the Christmas
Society at the time of the Christmas Meeting.
Christmas Foundation, the concrete working of karma in historical
connected with it has taken shape. Since the Christmas Foundation these
Christmas Foundation, also, our printed Lecture-Courses have been
since the Christmas Foundation, I shall be speaking to you in the coming

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that have come to us through the Christmas Foundation
know, are the multitudes of powers who follow Christ. May they
ceremonially in the deepest Christian sense. This is the sense
the true content of what John, initiated by Christ himself,
wanted to give to Christian posterity through his Book of
Apocalypse or revelation given to Christians in John's Book of
that is attuned to the Christ. Whenever apocalypse or
inaugurated a new priesthood in the movement for it Christian

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initiated by Christ, wanted to give to the later Christian
Apocalypse has for Christians, and let's call all the occult
Apocalypse, which is attuned to the Christ. People who have
inaugurated the new priesthood and a Christian renewal here at

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
haben: Es muß eine christliche Erneuerung eintreten. - Sie
so: Der Christus ist zunächst in einer kosmisch realen,
tiefstes Inneres verbindet mit dem Christus und anfängt,
Christus Jesus selber, der Verfasser der Apokalypse, die uns
Christus Jesus selber sich gesalbt fühlenden Priester, den
Gott-hingegebene Iche aus den einzelnen Priestern zu Christus
sprechen, der durch diese Bewegung für christliche
Apokalypse, eines ist es, was von Christus selbst dem
Jesu Christi, empfangen von seinem Diener Johannes» (Apk.
Christus hat uns zu Priestern geweiht. - Ihr habt gefühlt,
Christus selber zum Priester gesalbt. Die Salbung zum Priester

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had who came one day and said: There must be a Christian
that the Christ first entered into earthly life through a
Christ in full consciousness, and for them to begin to
through Christ Jesus himself, the writer of the Book of
Christ Jesus. He felt himself to be within a continuous
speaking from individual priests to Christ, who is to be found
anew through this movement for Christian renewal.
thing that was revealed to John by Christ himself. For this is
Christ’ received by his servant John.
that the Christ has consecrated us and thus made us priests.
Christ himself has anointed him a priest. Becoming anointed as

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came one day and said: A Christian renewal must occur. You felt
that Christ came into earth life in a real cosmic and tellurian
core with the Christ so that each human being can begin to
one who felt that he had been made into a priest, by Christ
anointed by Christ Jesus himself, was inspired by the afterglow
speak to the Christ who is to be found again through this
Christian renewal.
and what Christ revealed to John is a single thing. For this is
“The revelation of Jesus Christ” which was received
of the words: Christ has ordained us to be priests. You have
felt how the Apocalypticer says that Christ Jesus anointed him

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
the impulse of the Christmas Conference with the spiritual
Society since Christmas. The nucleus of this esoteric activity
formed together with me as the Christmas impulse was that the
the esoteric during the Christmas Conference, its esoteric
property of the Christmas impulse of the Anthroposophical
In Christo morimur
secondly by the words “In Christo morimur”:
“In Christo morimur” by this sign:

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
die Christengemeinschaft zum Träger eines wesentlichen
dasselbe, wie wenn der Christus sagt: Ich bin das Wort -, oder
wollen, die zu Recht von Christus so sprechen, daß sie aus
Johannes will den Christus vor die Menschheit hinstellen. Er
macht aufmerksam darauf, daß der Christus da ist. Er
beginnt die Apokalypse damit, daß der Christus da ist.
Christi! Sieh hin, ich will sie dir zeigen, diese Erscheinung
Jesu Christi, die Gott gegeben hat!
der Christus vor der Menschheit erscheinen will. Aber er macht
Erscheinung, von der Imagination Jesu Christi, die
Interpretation der Erscheinung Jesu Christi und Gott hat sie
Rede von einem Imaginativen, von einem Bilde des Christus, und
von dem, was die Botschaft des Christus ist. Und das,
Erscheinung des Christus und die Interpretation dieser
Erscheinung: Der Christus im Bilde und der Christus im Worte.
Den Christus im Bilde und den Christus im Worte will der
Erscheinung des Christus hin. So daß wir sagen
Sieh die Erscheinung Jesu Christi, gegeben von Gott, dessen
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set forth since the Christmas Foundation Meeting are to be regarded in a

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the priest. We have characterized what can make The Christian
as when Christ says ‘I am the
those also want who rightly speak about Christ from genuine
John wants to present the Christ to humanity. He draws
attention to the fact that the Christ is here. He begins the
Book of Revelation by saying that the Christ is here.
Jesus Christ! Look, I want to show you this appearance of Jesus
Christ which God has given!
apocalyptic way, is to point out that the Christ wishes to
appearance, the Imagination of Jesus Christ, which to some
interpretation of the appearance of Jesus Christ, and God has
matter of an Imagination, an image of Christ, and secondly
there is the matter of Christ's message.
of Christ and the interpretation of his appearance: Christ in
an image and Christ described in words. The
human beings Christ in an image and Christ in words.
The apocalyptist presents the appearance of the Christ to us as
See the appearance of Jesus Christ, given
Word and to the appearance of Jesus Christ, which he has seen.
Christianity in this concrete way. And it is your task as
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the Christian Community a bearer of an important part of the
beginning was the word. And when Christ says “I am alpha
those who speak out of a true knowledge of the Christ want to
do. He wants to place the Christ before mankind. He draws
of Christ Jesus: Look over there; I want to show you the vision
of Jesus Christ which God has given.
the Apocalypse wants to let Christ appear to humanity in an
Christ, which presupposes vision, but he also wants to indicate
they are like an interpretation of the vision of Jesus Christ.
Christ is mentioned, and something is said about what Christ's
second sentence is the vision of Christ and the interpretation
of this vision. The Christ in a picture and the Christ in
words. The author of the Apocalypse wants to place the Christ
Apocalypticer places there as the manifestation of Christ. So
Christ which is given by God, for this is how God must be shown
affirmed God's words and the manifestation of Jesus Christ in
must approach Christian writings in this concrete way again. If
Christ, which God gave unto him to show his servants, and he
Apocalypse, which conjures up a vision of Jesus Christ before
manifestation of Jesus Christ is presented.
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Christi, das der Vatergott gegeben hat, und bemerken durfte
Übergang ist von der Erscheinung Jesu Christi in den
noch in der Denkweise des ersten Christentums lag, einfach ganz
- christlich gebildete Menschen würde man heute zu den in
«Engel» sagte. Man hatte die Vorstellung: Christliche
denen Christus hervorgegangen ist. Für Konkreta war in
die künftige Erscheinung Christi hingewiesen worden war.
auch mit dem kommenden Christus. Die alte heidnische Gemeinde
künftigen Christentums und mit ihrem heidnischen Kult
diesem Christentum ganz besonders nahegestanden hat.
Christentum aufgenommen hat, die mit der ersten Liebe dem
Christentum zugetan war. Denn es wird ja gesagt, sie habe sich
dieser Gemeinden hat sich das Christentum auf besondere Art aus
ersten Zeiten der christlichen Entwickelung noch eine
der ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte noch ganz, ganz fremd,
wirklich ganz fremd. Da sagte man sich etwa: Der Christus ist
Gemeinde war die christliche Fortsetzung eines alten, sehr
christlichen Gemeinde reden konnte, mußte man gerade von
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Christ's appearance, given by the Father
appearance of Jesus Christ in the first few verses of the Book
in the way the early Christians thought.
educated in the Christian tradition we would say today of
picture people had was this: Christian congregations have been
nuances out of which Christianity has been born. Concrete facts
to the future appearance of Christ. The cultus at Ephesus was
and also with the coming Christ. With its prophecy of the
coming Christianity and with its pagan cultus, the ancient
particularly close to Christianity.
took up Christianity most intensely, devoting its first love to
Christianity. For it is said that it did not keep its first
that shows how in each congregation Christianity has developed
One must understand that in the early days of Christianity
foreign to the ancient Mystery pictures of the early Christian
centuries. In those days people saw the Christ as an appearance
Sardis. This congregation was the Christian continuation of an
to speak of the congregation at Sardis as a Christian one, it
In these earliest Christian times the old pagan cultus lived
on in Ephesus, but with a slant towards Christianity, while in
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vision of Christ which was given by God. Then I pointed out
Christianity.
to point when the angel of the Christian community in Ephesus
that time, whom we would call educated Christians, who
“angel.” They knew that Christian communities had
and Judaism from which Christ proceeded. One had a much greater
appearance of Christ in a way that was customary and necessary.
powers, including the coming Christ. The heathen community and
cult in Ephesus foretold the coming of Christianity and
Christianity than the other churches, and that this was its
Christianity in each of the communities developed out of
the early days of Christianity was quite different from that of
of thinking in the first Christian centuries, very foreign
indeed. They told themselves: the Christ is one of the
Sardis. This church was the Christian continuation, of an
a Christian one, one had to speak of it as the one which clung
Thus in these first Christian times an old heathen cult which
was only oriented towards Christian principles lived on in the
which Christ came.
document and not a Christian one. However, one has to
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
innerhalb dieser einen Gemeinde das Christentum entwickelt
man in dem, was zu Ephesus sich als Christentum entwickelte, in
gewissem Sinne die christliche Fortsetzung der Weltauffassung
in das Christentum.
Entwickelung des Christentums noch von einer anderen Seite her
Zeit und die Entwickelung des Christentums. Auch da haben wir
vorchristlichen Jahrhundert an bis in das 15.Jahrhundert nach
dritten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert entwickelt hatte. Es war
einsehen: Der Christus ist ein Sonnenwesen. - Das wird aber am
mit einer wirklichen Priesterschaft im Sinne der christlichen

Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture X
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years ago, that is to say, 23,991 years before the birth of Christ

Title: Book of Revelation: Lecture Five
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this particular congregation Christianity developed out of
a sense regard the Christianity that developed at Ephesus as a
Christian continuation of the world view and view of life of
transition to Christianity.
same time the inner development of Christianity, is hinted at
with the development of Christianity. In the seven seals, too,
eighth pre-Christian century to the fifteenth century after the
help people understand anew that the Christ is a Sun Being.
Christian renewal. Such a person must understand the Book of

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find that the Christianity there developed out of certain
in a way one can look upon the Christianity which developed in
Ephesus as a Christian continuation of the first world view and
Smyrna — and passed over into Christianity.
hidden in the developing Christian churches, and the same thing
developed from about the eighth century before Christ up to the
then, and this corresponds to about the third pre-Christian
the present People will have to begin to see that the Christ is
in the sense of a Christian renewal seriously today has to keep

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
In Christo Morimur [the middle seal is drawn on the
And while making this seal and sign we think of Christian
In Christo morimur

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continuous stream of Christian evolution passing through the civilised
world. I have often described the directions taken by this Christian
many other influences entered into this stream of Christian evolution.
Christian creeds and confessions themselves have contributed not a
Christian impulses but out of other impulses which entered the stream of
Christian evolution from altogether different
instance, carrying Christianity in all directions among the non-Christian
Now among the non-Christian people of that time those especially are
unchristian shape. We see all this spread out of Asia by powerful and
Charlemagne was spreading Christianity — if we may say so, in a
which were little inclined to enter into Christianity. Thus yonder in
Christianity, which took on a spiritual form (above all a kind of
with Christianity.
Christianity, Haroun al Raschid and his counsellor went through the gate
historically into Christianity. In the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and even
Aristotelianism spread in Christian Europe even into scholasticism. We
Europe, in a Christian. The “Song of Alexander” is permeated
through and through by a Christian spirit, and Aristotelianism too was
cultivated in Europe in an essentially Christian form.
find this extraordinary process: the Christian doctors of the Church,
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag VI
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Nun, sehen Sie, wenn man in die ersten christlichen
wichtigste Diener des Christus-Geistes in der Sonne war, der
Mysterium von Golgatha so erlebt, daß sie den Christus
mußten von dem Christus.
des Christus auf der Erde, und den Abschied von den.Scharen des
Dem-Christus-Nachziehen auf die Erde herunter und wird in der
Zukunft bedeuten ein Voranschreiten vor den Taten des Christus
lernen von Michael zu sprechen als von dem Antlitz Christi.
Zeitraum nehmen, der dem Christus-Ereignis und der Entstehung
des Christentums parallel ging und der noch andauerte, als die
Christentum verbunden war. Das alles ist aber aus dem Geheimnis
Christentums geschahen, unzählige Liebestaten, namentlich
leben, die das Christentum verbreiteten in Europa. Aber wir
finden auch im übrigen Leben des Christentums die Liebe
furchtbare Krankheitsstoffe, die dem Christentum
in das Christentum; und weil ja die Periode der Jupiterweisheit
Materialismus innerhalb der christlichen Kultur sich geltend
Form, durchdrungen von dem christlichen Prinzip, vom Orient
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seen in the Book of Revelation. In the early Christian
important servant of the Christ-Spirit in the sun,
way that they saw Christ approaching. Michael and his hosts,
having to take leave of Christ.
arrival of Christ on earth, and the leave-taking from
following after Christ in coming down to the earth, whereas in
Christ's deeds on earth. One will learn to
as the Countenance of Christ. But we are now in a different
we take the first age, which paralleled the Christ-Event and
the beginning of Christianity and which was still going on when
Christianity with its first love. All this can be comprehended
that were accomplished for the spread of Christianity,
the traces of the Irish monks who spread Christianity across
Europe. In the other aspects of Christian life, too, we find
terrible substances of disease that endangered Christianity
that pushed its way into Christianity. Because the age of
to make itself felt within Christian culture.
the Christian principle. Behind the
towards the Orient in order to find the Mystery of Christ there
impulses of Christ, how a spiritual atmosphere floated above

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the first Christian centuries one finds that a few people have
sun and who was the most important servant of the Christ spirit
way that it saw the Christ approaching, whereas Michael and his
such a way that they had to say farewell to the Christ.
— the hosanna on earth when Christ arrived there, and his
beginning of his reign signifies a following of Christ down to
Christ's deeds upon earth. And then one will begin to
learn to speak of Michael as the countenance of Christ, but
we can do to the period which went parallel with the Christ
event and the beginnings of Christianity, which was still
Christianity around the time the Apocalypse was written and
Christianity during this age, countless deeds of love, namely
monks as they spread Christianity in Europe. And we find that
love is also the predominant thing in the rest of Christian
Christianity, because the period of Jupiter wisdom has ended.
this which pressed into Christianity, and it thereby took hold
of the whole Christian culture.
permeated by the Christian principle and which had to come from
implements Christ's impulses as he inspires people to go on the
find Christ's mystery there, and we see that a kind of

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
ersten Jahrhunderte des Christentums, und bringen wir sie in
nach Christus. Dieses Jahr 333 stellt ja denjenigen Zeitpunkt
zwischen dem Jahr 747 vor Christi Geburt und dem Beginn des
die Natur Christi. Er will sich die Frage beantworten: Wie
steckt in Christus selber die menschliche und wie die
göttliche Natur? Hat man in Christus wirklich ein
Zeit der ersten christlichen Entwickelung, die im Grunde nichts
Katholizismus das Christentum in die Dekadenz gekommen ist.
des Athanasius zu entscheiden, der in dem Christus eben ein
unmittelbar göttliches Wesen sah, der in dem Christus den
späterer Zeit wegen der Abneigung, den Christus
Christus wirklich als einen dem Vatergott gleichen Gott
beginnt dann auch die Dekadenz des kirchlichen Christentums,
eigentlich im Grunde genommen das Christentum nicht aufnehmen
dem römischen Cäsar, der das Christentum sich
aneignen will, das Christentum von Rom aus weiter nach Osten.
geflüchtet werden muß, als in Rom das Christentum
das Christentum, als es in seiner äußeren Gestaltung
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Let us now look at that time of the early Christian
of the nature of Christ. He wanted to find an answer to the
contained in Christ himself? Should we really regard Christ as
early Christianity which in the main has nothing in common with
later Roman Catholicism, for as time went on Christianity
Athanasius, who saw Christ as a directly divine being, who saw
in Christ the truly divine Sun Spirit. Later, though, this view
imagining Christ as a cosmic being. Athanasius in his whole
turn of mind was predisposed to seeing in Christ a God who was
decadence in ecclesiastical Christianity; it meant that for subsequent
unable to accept Christianity. A grand vista unfolds before us
eastwards from Rome. Christianity fled eastwards from Rome
Christianity.
Christianity entered Rome. This is immensely significant. Seen
that Christianity had to flee at the moment when, in its
under Constantine, Christianity did flourish on the soil of
turns his prophetic vision towards Christianity preparing
Christianity, Christianity takes on the ancient Roman forms.
ancient Rome converting to Christianity. But in travelling
eastwards, Christianity takes on the form that has been left
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Let's connect this time of the first Christian centuries with
understand the Mystery of Golgotha and the nature of Christ. He
nature contained in Christ? Should one look upon the Christ as
must go back to the time of the first Christian developments in
things that happened later when Christianity became decadent
who sees a directly divine being in the Christ and who sees a
really divine sun-spirit in Christ, even though this later
think of the Christ in a cosmological way. But it lay in
Athanasius' whole mentality to look upon the Christ as a god
absorb Christianity, because öf what it had become. It is
who wants to appropriate Christianity flees from Rome and goes
fact that when Christianity hit Rome one had to flee from west
Christianity or its outer form was touched by Romanism, it had
from which Constantine fled towards the east with Christianity
which forces Christianity into outer, worldly forms when it
Apocalypticer's prophetic eye sees that Christianity begins to
make Christianity its official religion. This is really the
converts to Christianity but moves towards the east, while the
development of Christianity then sets in. Christian Romanism is
uprooted and goes over to the east, and Roman Christianity
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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Father-principle, from the Christ-principle, from the principle
In Christo morimur
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unchristian. I told you how he appeared again as Bacon, Lord Bacon of
of Christian development, but which brings a foreign element, foreign to
Christianity, into the spiritual and intellectual evolution of Europe.
they who continued through the Middle Ages a Christian teaching regarded
as heretical by official Christianity, official Catholicism, but which
was nevertheless the truer Christian teaching. Meanwhile the
individualities who continued the stream of Christian Aristotelianism
Catholic kind of Christianity which asserted itself more and more
Christianity from these ancient sources. And there was one place where
life of the Christian Monastic Orders.
future of the Anthroposophical Movement since the Christmas Foundation

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Christenheit - die er dabei als die wirkliche Christenheit
Abfall vom Christus-Prinzip und sie zurücklenken will zu
christliche Offenbarung eigentlich eine Sonnenoffenbarung ist,
daß Christus das Wesen ist, das aus der Sonne kommt, und
daß der Christus gewissermaßen vor sich hersendet
dem Christus-Impuls als Sonnenmysterium, in einer ganz tiefen
daß bei der Bekämpfung des Christentums es darauf
Geistige des Christentums mit der Sonne zusammenhängt. Es
könnte ja sozusagen den Gegnern des Christentums nichts
Geheimnis der Sonne als das Geheimnis des Christus selber zu
Christus-Evolution vorzubereiten hat für das menschliche
Wenn wir nun in dem Christentum vorzugsweise eine Evolution im
müssen wir in dem, was der Evolution des Christentums
geschah, indem das Christentum aus Rom nach dem Osten
flüchtete, und er sah das Christentum andere Formen des
Seiten hin vom Schein bedrohte Christentum das mächtige
was gegen das christliche Prinzip im Menschen so wirkt und
Göttlichkeit Christi, sondern im Untermenschlichen bleiben
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Christianity — that which he felt to be the
true Christianity — something that would turn
it away from the Christ-Principle and lead it back to the
consider that the Christian revelation as a whole is actually a
Sun revelation, that Christ is the Being who comes from the Sun
shall find that the Christ-Impulse as a Sun Mystery appears
fight against Christianity what is being fought against is the
fact that the real spiritual element of Christianity is
Christianity more than if human beings entirely lost their
forgetting the Mystery of the Sun as the Mystery of Christ. The
preparing the Christ-Evolution in a way that would make it
If we regard Christianity primarily as an evolution that
to see that which is opposing this evolution of Christianity as
happening behind the scenes when Christianity fled eastwards
from Rome, and he saw Christianity taking on different ways of
bursting in on a Christianity that was threatened from two
and living counter to the Christian principle in the human
divinity of Christ but wanted instead to remain in the
everything that works against Christianity in this
instance at the time when Arabism was flowing into Christianity
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Christianity, something which wants to make Christians renounce
Christianity and lead them back to the Father principle that
should consider that the entire Christian revelation is really
a sun revelation, and that Christ is a being who comes from the
sun. Christ sends Michael and his hosts before him, as Jehova
Christ impulse before our souls in a very profound way.
combatting Christianity will always be to oppose the idea that
the really spiritual part of Christianity is connected with the
sun. The opponents of Christianity would like nothing better
that the secret of the sun as the secret of Christ himself
always only as it were prepare for men's Christ-evolution and
if we mainly have to look upon Christianity as an evolution
the evolution of Christianity. And this is what the
Arabism breaking in behind the scenes of the Christianity which
was threatened by maya in two directions as Christianity fled
from Rome towards the east and as Christianity had taken on
something which works against the actual Christian principle in
make the connection with the divinity of Christ, but he will
which works against Christianity in the way that Arabism does
Christianity in order to press the seal of materialism upon
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Fortgang der christlichen Entwickelung dazugehöriges
Ausgangspunkt der christlichen Entwickelung auf Erden, auf den
geschehen müssen, damit die christliche Entwickelung von
Unterscheidung des Christentums von anderen religiösen
zu tun hat mit Lehren, während in der christlichen
Mysterium von Golgatha durch das Christentum gesucht wird.
Christentum ja in neuerer Zeit selbst intellektualistische
wesentlichen nur darauf ankäme, daß der Christus
daß der Christus Jesus auf der Erde gelebt hat und die Tat
Christentum wieder durchringen, dies anzuerkennen, aber auch es
Impressionen von Christus und seiner Wesenheit erhalten
Christus haben; sie würden am Morgen wieder in dieses
sich gegangen ist - sogleich einen Eindruck von dem Christus
haben, denn der Christus ist da in der Erdenaura. Aber dieser
Christus innewohnt, nur so wahrgenommen werden können, wie
es würde kein deutliches, klares Erlebnis des Christus
übertragen konnten. Christus hat ja auch seine Jünger
Lehren über das Christentum, die von der Kirche dann
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Christianity.
The great starting point of Christian development on the
Christianity is to go on developing from the Mystery of
The important aspect that distinguishes Christianity from
teachings, whereas the essential aspect of Christianity is the
What is essential is that Christianity should seek a real and
influence of intellectualism in recent times, Christianity has
Christ Jesus appeared and gave teachings about the Father. But
is that the Deed was done on Golgotha, that Christ Jesus lived
inessential. Christianity must fight its way back to a
direct impressions of Christ and his whole being. If there were
direct contact with Christ. But because the Mystery of Golgotha
immediately have an impression of Christ, for Christ is present
for the day, so would this impression of Christ existing within
Christ.
immediate experiences they had had of it. Christ himself also
esoteric teachings about Christianity. These were rooted out
now the presence of Christ working on in the
physical and ether body, this Christ-Impulse influences
not capable of finding what there is of the Christ-Impulse in
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belongs to the continuation of Christian evolution.
starting point of Christian evolution upon earth which towers
occur in order that Christian evolution continues from the
see, the important, difference between Christianity and other
important thing in Christian evolution, and more deeds must be
Christianity to do is to look for a real connection with the
times Christianity has taken on intellectualistic forms
Golgotha was that Christ. Jesus has appeared and has given a
that Christ Jesus lived on earth and did the deed on Golgotha.
The teaching is an incidental, accessory thing. Christianity
Christ and his real nature.
night and would have no direct connection with the Christ,
earth evolution, they would have an impression of Christ, for
the Christ is in the earth's aura, but this impression would
for day consciousness, so this impression that the Christ
the Mystery of Golgotha to others. And in fact Christ gave his
esoteric teachings about Christianity in the writings which
aura. So that one can say: the presence of Christ gives the
This Christ impulse has a strong influence upon man's etheric
is usually not able to find the Christ impulse which is
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since the Christmas feeling came over our Anthroposophical Society. For
understanding of the Christ-Impulse.
currents which were, so to speak, the officially Christian ones in the
Christianity, notably in the times of Constantine, and immediately after
him. Many of those who approached Christianity with the very deepest
deep impulse towards an understanding of Christianity. I do not mean so
much the Christians who followed such movements as that of Constantine
himself; I rather mean those Christians who claimed to be the true
Christians, who were distributed in different Christian sects. In those
Christian sects we find many of the souls who to-day approach the
who did not partake directly in that development of Christianity. They
either partook in Christianity at a later stage of its
of what was experienced in pre-Christian time as the ancient wisdom of
the heathen Mysteries. They too often partook in Christianity; but it
we find many who are seeking for the Christ in an abstract sense. The
other souls above described are happy, so to speak, to find Christianity
now mean grasp with real inner understanding the Cosmic Christianity
which Anthroposophy contains. Christ as the Cosmic Spirit of the Sun is
Christianity is wrapped in the atmosphere of a strange mystery. We see
inner life he was little fitted to take hold of Christianity or to make
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Christi enthält, was schon eine bedeutsame symbolische
Christus in uns.
Einsicht der Christus-Wesenheit in uns selbst. Sie wird eine
empfangen. Die Christen müssen das Wort Gottes, das
Christus in sich aufnehmen. Die Zeit wird kommen, wo durch den
Fortgang der Ereignisse alle Menschen, die das Christentum
Wort Gottes bei Christus ist, und daß dieses Wort Gottes
in der Sprache des Apokalyptikers den Christus eingeschlossen
Aber noch ein drittes tritt auf: Christus in drei Gestalten:
dem aber entgegengehen muß die christliche Entwickelung.
zu dem Zeitpunkt, wo der Christus mit dem Namen, den er nur
auch dem Christus in seinem eigenen Wesen, in seiner eigenen
möglich diese Christus-Innewohnung verleugnen, auf allen
Erscheinen des Christus, der ja ein aus der göttlichen
wo die Menschen in sich die Essenz tragen, den Christus so weit
für christliche Erneuerung hinauswachsen. Sie muß das
neuen Jerusalem, das Herannahen des innewohnenden Christus, des
Christus, der der König der Könige, der Herr der

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Christ, which is an important symbolic fact.
shall always be conscious of ‘Christ in
insight of the Christ-Being in our own self. It becomes an
revelations. Christians must receive the creative Word of God
by taking Christ into themselves. A time will come when events
honestly take Christianity into their souls will know that the
Word of God is with Christ and that this Word of God has its
apocalyptist, Christ is embedded within the Mystery of
But there is a third aspect as well. Christ in three guises:
will happen; but it is something towards which Christian
needed only until the moment when Christ, with the name none
every human being will be able to follow Christ in his own
Christ now dwells in them. It has to be said that there is much
for the etheric appearance of Christ, who is of course a being
enables them to take Christ into themselves to an extent that
community for Christian renewal must grow beyond this
New Jerusalem, the approach of the indwelling Christ, of Christ

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Jesus Christ. But now let's think of an enhancement of this
we will continually have the awareness of Christ in
the Christ-insight of the Christ being in us gives the light
receive it through outer manifestations. Christians must
Christ into themselves. The time will come when all human
beings who take Christianity into their souls in an honest way
is with Christ, and that this word of God has its seed in the
which is sprinkled with blood. Thus we have the Christ,
However, a third thing appears. Christ in three forms: firstly,
particular year but Christian development must move in that
Christ lives in men with the name which only he understands.
Then everyone will be able to follow Christ in his own being
Christ as much as possible, denying it as much as possible,
etheric appearance of the Christ, who is a being that came down
time where men have the potential to take in the Christ to such
how dependent the confessions are. The community for Christian
new Jerusalem, the approach of the indwelling Christ, the
Christ who becomes the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
der Zeit der ersten Erscheinung des Christus auf Erden im
des Christus auf Erden. Die Menschheit hat sich darauf
des Christus-Impulses ungefährdet für die
Widersachermächte Christi an, zunächst dasjenige, was
Stimme Luzifers. Das Christus-Prinzip ist immer der Ausgleich
christlichen Verkündigung liegt, die zwar den Christus in
ätherischen Leibe nicht bis zur Höhe des Christus
Zeiten, in denen er den «Antichrist» und «Ecce
Und es wird eine Zeit kommen, in welcher ernsthaft die Christen
Widersacher Christi, der nicht nur den einzelnen Menschen
kommen kann zu demjenigen, der in christlichem Sinne wirken
Bundesgenosse. Er ist ja eng verbunden mit dem Christus Jesus,
er ist ja von Christus Jesus selber initiiert, er ist ein
Initiierter des Christus Jesus. Er ist daher ein bedeutsamer
Bundesgenosse, und durch ihn zu dem Christus zu kommen, ist von
dann mit dem Christus selber kommen kann. Das ist von einer

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upon us in a particular form after the time when Christ appears
words actually after Christ's second
threefold downfall of the adversaries of the Christ-Impulse
Christ's adversaries, beginning with the one
above as a rejoicing of angels. The Christ-Principle always
about in the world who cannot tolerate what Christianity
teaches, who take Christ into their souls but who cannot reach
up to the exaltedness of Christ with their physical and etheric
he was writing The Antichrist and Ecce Homo
actions. A time will come when Christians, on encountering some
confronted with an adversary of Christ, one who wants not
give those who want to work in a Christian way will be
ally. He is, as we know, closely linked to Christ Jesus; he was
initiated by Christ Jesus himself, he is an initiate of Christ
Jesus. He is therefore an important ally, and to come to Christ
Christ himself. This is profoundly true, true in a way that we

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Christ on earth in his etheric body, which is really his second
threefold fall of the adversaries of the Christ impulse without
Christ.
the actual Christ principle is the balance between the two.
stand what really, lay in the Christian annunciation who took
the Christ into their souls, but who didn't get to the level of
the Christ with their etheric and physical bodies, and
individuality was not in him when he wrote the AntiChrist and
will come when Christians will have to ask themselves seriously
dealing with an adversary of Christ who not only wants to
work in a Christian way that this help is an extremely
closely connected with Christ Jesus, he was initiated by Christ
Jesus himself, he is an initiate of Christ Jesus. Therefore, he
the Christ through him.
imaginable prospects of meeting John and then the Christ

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Christ-path. The Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us that
In Christo morimur
In Christo morimur

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16th century; we find arising in him once more, in a Christianised form,
Christianity. He had entered Christianity when he lived as the soul of
Herzeleide. Now it was his striving to introduce into the Christian
to feel the Christ as He is felt in the various Confessions, but to feel
Him and behold Him as the Cosmic Christ in His universal majesty and
he evolves ideas of Christianity which do contain, in
vision, on many points of Christianity.
first Christian centres, in order to facilitate matters may lay the writings

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
objektiv mit der Wesenheit des Christus zusammenhängt. Es
Apokalypse trägt so sehr an ihrer Stirne den christlichen
damit nichts aus der christlichen Betrachtung irgendwie
nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts den Morgenhimmel ansah, wie die
ätherischen Christus, In den Gedanken der Menschen werden
ChristusGebärerin mit dem Christus-Kind; diese Dinge haben
erfaßten, der Christus als das Sonnenwesen angesehen, das
Mysterienpriester der vorchristlichen Zeit sahen zur Sonne
hinauf, wenn sie sich mit dem Christus verbinden wollten.
Christus ist seit dem Mysterium von Golgatha Erdengeist
suchen: Christus, den Sonnengeist. Die ihn schauen wollten, die
hinauf zur Sonne sahen, in der Sonne den Christus sich
Christus als männliches Wesen in der Sonne sahen, sie
des Christus, das ist für uns die Geburt unseres Ich -
zugleich ein ätherisches Schauen der Christus-Wesenheit
hängt zusammen mit der Wesenheit des Christus.
zusammenhängt mit der Wesenheit des Christus. Da wird man
Christus, den in unserem Zeitalter ätherisch auf Erden
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the Being of Christ. One can indeed only speak properly about
bears so clearly the fundamental stamp of Christianity that we
a Christian consideration by looking at what is
eighth or ninth post-Christian century, when people looked at
appearance of the Etheric Christ. Something like an inner
the child Horus, the mother of Christ with the Christ child;
understood cosmic secrets have regarded Christ as a Sun Being
Golgotha. Mystery priests in pre-Christian times looked up to
the sun when they wanted to be united with Christ. But since
the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ has been the Spirit of the
Earth. We must now look for Christ the Sun Being in earthly
Mysteries saw, when they looked up to the sun, how Christ was
Before seeing the birth of Christ as a male being in the sun
the heavens that is the birth of Christ, for us it is the birth
etheric vision of the Christ-Being, for during the age of
Being of Christ.
connected with the Being of Christ. Then one will understand
the clouds of the Greco-Latin age, of the Christ who walks on
Christ who walks on the earth etherically in our time and can
Christ is present in the Transubstantiation and he will be more
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the being of Christ. It is really only possible to speak about
Apocalypse bears the fundamental Christian character on its
Apocalypse in a natural way which deviates from the Christian
and this will begin after the appearance of the etheric Christ.
metamorphoses of this as the Christ-bearer with the Christ
science will look upon the Christ as the sun being who was
Christ in pre-Christian times they looked up to the sun. Christ
must look for Christ the sun spirit in earthly life and in
in the mysteries looked up to the sun, and they saw the Christ
the priests who saw the Christ as a male being in the sun after
heavens this is the birth of Christ, and for us it is the birth
of the Christ being will soon arise in this Michael age. For
the being of Christ.
Christ. One will understand how the kind of metamorphosis which
Christ who shone down from the heavens and really descended
men through visions and Imaginations. The Christ is present in
and more. The ways in which the Christ will gradually live in

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
auch in der Ausbreitung des Christentums vorhanden. Wir haben
da das erste still-sieghafte Vordringen des Christentums, wobei
die Ausbreitung des Christentums eigentlich in der Kraft des
Christentum ausgebreitet, ich möchte sagen, in den
eine zweite Epoche, in welcher die Ausbreitung des Christentums
nimmt das Christentum an dem Streit in der zweiten Epoche ganz
nach ein Ersterben des inneren Impulses des Christentums
eintritt, wo das Christentum zur Staatsreligion wird, was
christlichen Impulses ist. Wir haben dann aber die Epoche, die
Verbreitung des Christentums, ich möchte sagen, im Guten
äußeren Sinne Schlimme, ist ja, als das Christentum
verbreitet worden vom Sinne eines kosmischen Christentums, und
daß in der Zeit, in der das Christentum sich durch die
sich verbreiteten im Christentum, die wir heute kabbalistische
ich den ätherischen Christus genannt habe, innerhalb der

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until Christmas, until December 21, when the balance shifts again. So

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until Christmas, until December 21, when the balance shifts again. So

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present in the spread of Christianity. First there is the quiet
yet triumphant progress of Christianity through the victorious
spirit, the victorious Word. You could describe Christianity as
that time. In the second stage the spread of Christianity
Christianity participated thoroughly in the conflicts of this
Christianity gradually dies; Christianity becomes a state
original Christian impulse. Then comes the stage that must be
Before the Crusades Christianity was disseminated in what I
would term a good way. As Christianity spread up to the time of
those writings. Instead far more about cosmic Christianity was
Christianity was coming into contact with Orientalism through
the Crusades truths about Christianity were disseminated that
have called the Etheric Christ will become visible amongst

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out of Christianity depends on the victorious spirit and word,
where Christianity spreads out in the sub-depths of the social
spread of, Christianity takes away a lot of what one could call
peace from the world. Christianity participates quite a bit in
Christianity occurs, where Christianity becomes the state
religion, which of course is a dying of the real Christian
till the Crusades the spread of Christianity in a good sense
However, the cosmic Christianity which they contained was
Thus it's not too surprising that the Christianity that was
explain Christianity were spread by the Crusades. What we would
Christ will make himself visible within humanity. Therefore, it

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
In Christo morimur
feel this while saying “In Christo morimur”, thus
In Christo morimur
In Christo morimur

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Since the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ has been the mediator for both
of nature, from the Father to Christ. For Christ is the spiritual
back to Christ, after the Father has given the leadership over to
Christ the Son. That puts into modern speech what mystery wisdom
would express. After initiates have attained a Christ-consciousness
from the Father to Christ, they will find all the healing processes
of Golgotha, up to the moment when Christ went through the gate of
death. You will understand the passage of Christ from the Father to
between the Spirit and the Son, the Christ, of developing theology so
it will find the way from Christ to the Spirit, from the Spirit to
Christ. A great sum of knowledge and life experience can be acquired
Spirit to Christ, from Christ to the Spirit. Its highest service must
meaning of Christ's path after the death on Golgotha. For his going
happening to the Christ individuality since He went through the death
Christ's path to
Christ's path after Golgotha: the peak of the priest's path.
risen Spirit and the further activity of the Christ. But if we speak
the activity of Christ on both paths.
The Christ leads downward and upward,
Christus führt nach unten und nach oben

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Since the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ has been the mediator for both
of nature, from the Father to Christ. For Christ is the spiritual
back to Christ, after the Father has given the leadership over to
Christ the Son. That puts into modern speech what mystery wisdom
would express. After initiates have attained a Christ-consciousness
from the Father to Christ, they will find all the healing processes
of Golgotha, up to the moment when Christ went through the gate of
death. You will understand the passage of Christ from the Father to
between the Spirit and the Son, the Christ, of developing theology so
it will find the way from Christ to the Spirit, from the Spirit to
Christ. A great sum of knowledge and life experience can be acquired
Spirit to Christ, from Christ to the Spirit. Its highest service must
meaning of Christ's path after the death on Golgotha. For his going
happening to the Christ individuality since He went through the death
Christ's path to
Christ's path after Golgotha: the peak of the priest's path.
risen Spirit and the further activity of the Christ. But if we speak
the activity of Christ on both paths.
The Christ leads downward and upward,
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Christianity. After an extremely difficult period of youth (as is
come into an inner conflict with official Christianity, he then wanted
to found a sort of rationalistic Christianity on a basis of reason and
his desire to take hold of Christianity in a very penetrating, in a very
of Christianity, we see again and again how the thread of rationalism,
enter a spiritual conception of Christianity. He builds up a religion of
worlds: “What shall I do with Christianity?” It was
in earthly life in his conception of Christianity. This too shines
Transubstantiation, the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the
Wolfram (though indeed he has a star-less Christianity, a Christianity
the Holy Grail, even in his time, knows only that Christianity which has
eliminated the Cosmic Christianity. Klingsor himself, on the other hand,
at the very time when Christianity, just where it was greatest, had
estranged from Christianity, as was the case with Klingsor of Hungary.
therefore, had allied himself with an unchristian wisdom of the stars. And
life in the super-sensible) but with the unchristian cosmology of the
Christianity.
those demonic powers which were connected with the unchristian cosmology
Order, unable to come near to real Christianity. He could not come to it
because he bore within him the antagonism to Christianity which he had
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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Christentums, neben dem anderen, das exoterisch war.
christliche Erneuerung. Dann haben wir im September 1922 die
vom Christus-Impuls durchdrungenen Bewegung fließt,

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who lived at the end of the first Christian century. Already at that
though it already saw the dawn of Christianity, stood altogether on the
world. In that life Christianity passed him by, leaving no trace. But a
Now in this Christian time in his
the Christ had been expected (you must remember what I said,
that in his life on earth he had not been touched by Christianity).
in a Christianised metamorphosis of course, to Roman Christianity. Please
first Christian centuries and passing over into the clearly defined
and splendour and with the external conception of Christianity into
He absorbs of Christianity all the external
institutions, the Christian cult, the Christian pomp and grandeur. For
remained with him the ideas he had absorbed about Christianity and all
scepticism, followed by his intense life in a Christianity with all its
Christianity, and entered into it, came forth again in his Christian
Christian centuries, and brought it forth. They did indeed dispute with
Christ was the Son, of the same essence with the Father, or only of like
spiritual substance of Christianity during that age. Indeed he was
probably one of the best informed of Christians in his time, but he was
Christianity if the view for which he stood won its way through.
she gave herself up mystically to the Christ. Her soul was penetrated,
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the esoteric content of Christianity, side by side with the
thought that they were interested in the movement for Christian
movement filled with the Christ-Impulse help me, to what extent

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esoteric part of Christianity in addition to the other part

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
ganzen Art der Entwickelung, die die Christengemeinschaft
Christengemeinschaft im eminentesten Sinne in derjenigen
Menschheit entspricht. Die Christengemeinschaft ist auf

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
Christus von den Menschen in der richtigen Weise erfaßt

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meant by the apocalyptist is: Before the Etheric Christ can be

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the etheric Christ in the right way, mankind must first meet

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During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923,
Since the Christmas Conference an esoteric breath flows through
And everything connected with the Christmas
In Christo morimur
It lives mutely as we say: “In Christo morimur”.
In Christo morimur

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
vorchristlichen Zeit durch die Berührung der Juden mit den

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Christian centuries at a time when the spiritual substance of
Christianity was gradually becoming informed with a certain scholarship
Anthroposophy, partook in the Christianity of those early Christian
centuries. But at that time they could experience Christianity in a far
personality who in the pre-Christian centuries had been a woman
and a man during the early Christian centuries, who on the first
karma. He was born with a truly remarkable receptivity for the Christian
conception in the pre-Christian times and in the early Christian
antipathy to his pre-Christian incarnation as a woman and withal an
wonderful in him in the first Christian centuries. True, these things

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pre-Christian times through the contact of the Jews with the

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Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken
Christengemeinschaft schließt die Vorträge, Kurse und
lassen von jener ahrimanischen Macht, die in der christlichen
Nun, diese ahrimanische Macht, die in der christlichen
christlichen Tradition Satan genannte Macht die Gabe hat, sich
Individualität, dem eigentlichen christlichen Zeitalter,
Jahrhundert der nachchristlichen Entwickelung, seit dem Jahre
gegeben - das war in den ersten Jahrhunderten der christlichen
in Rom, und die dann in Europa vorbereitete das Christentum,
aber der Vater kann in ihm gesucht werden. Christus weist den
Throne. Christus führt den Menschen auf den Weg, so

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ahrimanic powers known as Satan in Christian tradition to
This ahrimanic power known as Satan in Christian tradition
the power called Satan in the Christian tradition has the
Christian age — everything that is individual
the early centuries of Christian development and experienced
prepared the way for Christianity in Europe, recognized this
bread is bread, but the Father can be sought in it. Christ
Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones are hidden. Christ leads the

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the Ahrimanic power who is called Satan in Christian tradition
and Christ's activity.
this Ahrimanic power who is called Satan in Christian tradition
with the fact that the power who is called Satan in Christian
really a Christian age, groups will form, but these group
beginning of Christian evolution will someday have to be torn
There was an individual in the early Christian centuries who
which then made preparations in Europe for the Christianity
also be shown for the wine. Christ shows the way; the
that conceals the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. Christ leads

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for a long time in the development of Christianity. And in a certain
often been regarded as a kind of precursor of Christianity. But to
imagine Plato as a precursor of Christianity is to misunderstand the
latter, for Christianity is not a doctrine, it is a stream of life which
Mystery of Golgotha that we can speak of a real Christianity. We can
however say that there were Christians before the Mystery of Golgotha in
Being the sublime Figure who was subsequently recognised as the Christ
of Christianity in this sense we must apply the term to many pupils of
the Christian epoch into which, after all, he had to enter. Thus
forerunner of Christianity, nevertheless the whole orientation of his
again with a Christian colouring.
Christian.
was also a certain difficulty for his nature to receive Christianity,
pre-Christian conception of the world. Moreover even the external facts
Christian element. For what was it that dived down into Christianity
possibility of taking over into Christianity the immediate essence of
century, who did indeed receive Christianity in a truly Platonic sense
Christianity into itself in that age. But the Roman element too was
century, a truly intensive Christian and Platonic spiritual

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moment of human evolution, appeared again so that Christ Jesus Himself could
“Christianity as Mystical Fact.”
how the deeply Christian impulse that lives in Raphael, as it were impelling
into colour and form the very nature and being of Christianity itself —
companion of Christ Jesus — he is able to live over again what he
underwent when, through the Initiation of Christ Jesus, he, Lazarus, became
And all that he has painted in shining light for the followers of Christ
than the Christ Will and the Christ Power, going before in order to implant
in the right way into the Earth the Power of the Christ. If this Michael
He, the Christ-messenger, revealeth in you —
Bear the Christ-Word to Man.
Thus shall the Heralds of Christ appear

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He, the Christ-messenger, revealeth in you —
Bear the Christ-Word to Man.
Thus shall the Herald of Christ appear

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to the 4th century after Christ, and from the 15th century

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Christianity with the Mysteries of the Druids. The prevailing
Apocalypse tells of a future in which Christianity will be
northern Gods through Christianity. This is the key, in four
root-race. In Central Europe Christianity was spread abroad
that they perceived how Christianity would, in the fifth
overcome, and harmony established through the Christ
experience. In Christ a new Baldur must arise.
the Descent of the Dove into Christ Jesus.) — the
Runes. (foreshadowing of the Christ deed.) Then came his
Christian Initiates, — the Pope.

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Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
Esoteric Christianity: The Gospel of St. John and Ancient Mysteries
CHRISTIANITYLecture by Rudolf SteinerDusseldorf, 27th
other religions so with Christianity too we find its foundations in
objection is raised, that Christianity is for simple hearts and
Christ Jesus, to the Mysteries of the Spirit were added the Mysteries
of the Son, and these have been ever since the time of Christ.
is also Christian, for those who require a Christianity that is armed
mighty step forward has been taken by the coming of Christianity, we
the very foundation of Christianity.
Christianity does exist. This is not admitted in certain circles,
spiritual sight stands John the Baptist, as he baptises the Christ;
with the Christ. He sees how Christ cleanses the Temple, he has
and thank them.” He who would become a Christian Initiate must
Christ in the Washing of the Feet. Christ means to say: “Without
through this, the Christian Mystic could experience the next stage of
certainty. Then the pupil experienced two symptoms of Christian
meditation stigmata appeared at the places of the wounds of Christ —
since Christ came to earth. The outward Christ who walked in
Palestine is related to the inward Christ whom the mystic
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Title: Lecture: Adept-School of the Past
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The Christian Mystery,
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache
der Evangelien. Luzifer und Christus. Alte
the appearance of Christ-Jesus.
the testamentary executor of Christianity. And so it will be. When the
The coming of Christ-Jesus was
element is not found in what Christ said; the new element in the
appearance and teaching of Christ-Jesus is the force that lay in Him
Christianity has brought men the
Christ-Jesus, whilst maintaining the greatest possible individualisation,
MYSTERIES OF THE SON, Christ Himself appeared as a teacher in the

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 1
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Persia, Chaldea, Egypt, and in the Christian Mysteries, all the
with the appearance of the Christ upon earth. It then became so deep,
Christianity, the primeval world wisdom has penetrated but slowly and
are there, they are to be found in the Gospels and in other Christian
Christianity had been created? Through the Gospels it was least of
Christian revelation have been preserved, treasures no other than
Europe since the Christian rejuvenation. For the stanzas of Dzyan do
humanity through the Christ Impulse. When one speaks of Western
the fountain-head of the Christ Impulse. All the great treasures of
with the new capabilities which have been kindled in us by the Christ
the times after Christ, really understood the Christ Impulse; for all
their full importance; something has been created by the Christ
Christ would answer that through birth we enter into a life shared
with the Christ, and through the Christ's share in it the pain
through the healing power of the Christ Impulse, and there is no more
pain in illness for one who understands Christ, and death also has no
more pain for him who understands Christ. Yet someone might reply to
Christianity, the old truths of Buddhism would not be true any more.’
of this, the Christ Impulse is such a powerful and important saving
beyond and above it through that great Impulse. Why could the Christ
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Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 2
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and more religious mood appropriate to the season as Christmas comes
on, who learns to know the significance of Christmas and to know also

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 3
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Christianity as Mystical Fact
immediately above man, are called Angels in Christian esotericism,

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 5
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Christian Esotericism calls them Thrones, Cherubim, Seraphim. They
Himself, who, as is beautifully expressed in Christian Western

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 6
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called in Christian Esotericism: Angels, Archangels, Primeval
The conclusion to be drawn is approximately the same. We know Christ

Title: Spiritual Hierarchies: Lecture 10
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completely to themselves. In the Christ there appeared a Being of a
manner in which Christianity was propagated, you will find a living
proof that the Christ during His life did nothing of what was done
later for the propagation of Christianity. Look at the founders of
Christ! Does He, fundamentally speaking, work through His teaching?
not understand the Christ. The Christ did not in the first place act
greatest deed of the Christ was that which ended with death, was His
Death. This is the essential point, that the Christ acted
the Christ and the other great founders of religions. This difference
the teachings of Christianity, all that is preached as Christianity,
denied. You can say: ‘All the essential part of Christian
teaching is included in other teachings.’ But has Christianity
Christianity, did he rely on its teaching? Look at the Apostle Paul!
Gospels? He persecuted the followers of Christ Jesus. He persecuted
that Christ lived. It was the effect of that death, the result of
teachings are the same as in Christianity, but the essential thing in
Christianity is not the teaching, but what happened, the deed. And
sufficient that the Christ should be present in the man's
voluntarily, to receive the Christ. This it is with which we are
when it unites with the Christ, receives into itself a reality, a
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Title: Lecture: Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
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Sermon on the Mount and the Return of Christ
The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
Das Ereignis der Christus-erscheinung in der Aetherischen Welt.
The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World,
Das Ereignis der Christus-erscheinung in der Aetherischen
The Sermon on the Mountand the Return of Christ
upon his human nature. But it was only through the Christ
its purpose. The Christ Impulse was revealed, first of all,
the Sun. Jehovah is in very truth the reflection of Christ.
The first revelation of Christ is in reflection. We cannot
Christ Impulse is the essential, all-important factor in the
Christ at the time of the day when Christ could work most
brought to Christ. We must picture to ourselves how the
healing actually took place. The people who came to Christ
external means, the Christ would not have been working
through the Ego. A man can only know Christ by
developing inner strength. And Christ can work only
call of John the Baptist and through Christ Himself:
when They receive the Christ Impulse. Through seeing in their
Christ. Those who receive Christ in the Ego, can be calmed,
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the Buddhists and the Christians, how little do they understand and
Christianity itself will lead more and more Christians to
When a professed Christian, knowing nothing beyond the external
that of Christianity through the methods leading to the development of
central nerve of Buddhism. And the Christian, too, hears of a
of Buddha in the twenty-ninth year of his life. A Christian who is an
But as anthroposophical Christians, our attitude to the Bodhisattva
Christian who is an anthroposophist says to the Buddhist: I understand
spiritual science from the ground of Christianity would ever dream, as
a Christian, of saying that the Buddha returns in the flesh. He knows
Bodhisattva to that of Buddha. Christianity itself has brought him
Christianity. He will realise that as in the case of the other
religions, Christianity has a Founder — Jesus of Nazareth —
of Nazareth through the centuries. But the Christian's view of the
significant fact is that Christianity differs from all other religions
Teacher. But to believe that the same is true of Christianity
Christianity is not that it looks back to Jesus of Nazareth as a great
Teacher. Christianity originates in a Deed, takes
— we call Christ. But a name cannot encompass the Divine Spirit
we recognise in Christ. No human name, no human word, can define a
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Who has given the mightiest impulse to earth evolution, the Christ
The Christ had to descend to the earth in order to experience death.
Christ is the only being among all the super-sensible beings above man
experience in connection with the Christ, it is found to be deeply
become essential, and the correct understanding of Christianity is a
essential being of Christianity in other religious creeds. It is not
correct to place Christianity next to other religious creeds. Indeed,
perhaps certain Christian confessions are narrow-minded.
Nevertheless, Christianity rightly understood bears within it the
How has the Westerner grasped Christianity? Consider Hinduism. Only
Christ impulse cannot be sucked up into a racial or folk religion.
Actually, the folk among whom the Christ appeared did not acknowledge
Him. That is the remarkable fact about Christianity. It contains the
mission of Christianity does not consist in bringing dogma to people.
him as erroneous. Christianity rightly understood, however,
presupposes that every man is a Christian in his inner being. If you
Christian,” it will be seen that you have not understood
Christianity. Christianity has been truly understood only if you say
of the Hindu, “Inwardly this Hindu is as good a Christian as I
Christians to teach Hinduism to the Hindus and then attempt to take
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Title: Lecture: Preparing for the Sixth Epoch.
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that the Christianity of Western Europe has not succeeded in
over him. We should never believe Christ to be God if He did not prove
his identity. But Christ did so, inasmuch as He has risen, inasmuch as
solely upon the actual, historical resurrection of Christ, Who, as
realize that a God exists. If Christ had not risen, all our belief
Christ had not risen, the world would be meaningless, therefore Christ
of the greatest thinkers of Eastern Europe: “If Christ had not
risen the world would be senseless, therefore Christ has risen.”
when I say, if Christ had not risen the world would be senseless;
therefore Christ has risen — but this is far better logic than
realization we try to prepare for actual experience of the Christ. We
desire to comprehend the living Christ, accepting all these things, of
accept all that the Christ unceasingly promises us. For He speaks not
end of the world.” Always He can be found as the living Christ.
“Not I but the Christ in me!” Of all St. Paul's
Christ in me.” For thereby we realize: Wherever we may turn,
another. In seeking the living Christ we also follow Him through death
take the Resurrection as our starting point. We follow the Christ,
imaginations. We follow the Christ until death. We follow Him not only
saying: In Christo Morimur, In Christ we die.
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIII: Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
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Common Ground above Us; Christ in Us
Christ in Us
why it says, the West-European Christianity did not manage to
death can do no harm to Him. Never would we believe that Christ
based on a real, historical Resurrection of Christ, which
Resurrection reveals to us that there is God. If Christ did not
world. If Christ did not rise again, the world would be
pointless. So Christ rose again. — Notice this sentence
greatest spirits of the East. If Christ did not rise again, the
world would be pointless. So Christ rose again! —
logical if I say: if Christ did not rise again, the world would
ourselves for experiencing Christ while we understand that the
world has a sense. We want to grasp the living Christ. Indeed,
as a gift, as a mercy of Christ we want to accept all this. We
everything that Christ promises to us perpetually. Since He
the end of time. He can always be found as living Christ. We
want to live in Him, take up Him in us: not I, but Christ in me
[“not I, but Christ in me or the life I
now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in
live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me. So
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XIV: Post-mortal Experiences of the Human Being
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described so often as the Christ Impulse which lives in us, and
to follow Christ to us at every moment of our life, then we are

Title: Lecture: The Etheric Body as a Reflexion of the Universe
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him the Christ, then we may also see the Christ in this central
with the thought: “That is meant to be the Christ”, for
influence of Christ's hand pointing downward, the hand of the
through what we can see in them, the relation of man, or of Christ,
may think that Christ raises His left hand and sends out forces with
We might also think that the right hand of Christ pointing downwards
Rome. There we see Christ sending the righteous men to heaven and the
sinful ones to hell. We see Christ sending one part of mankind to a
good world and the other part to an evil world. The Christ that is
portrayed on Michelangelo's picture is not the Christ whose
spiritual science. The true Christ never condemns in wrath, nor does
of Christ. And Ahriman fetters himself, as a result of what takes
of Christ. When Christ raises his left hand and points downwards with
of Christ's hand. And what he thus experiences within him induces him
to break his wings. It is not Christ who breaks them, it is Lucifer
Michelangelo was not as yet able to portray the real Christ. Christ
time. Only in [the] future shall we be able to grasp the Christ Who
simply through the fact that He is there. The Christ on
sculpture, Christ is mute impersonal, and the Beings that approach
artistic achievement — the Christ, portrayed in
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XII: Spiritual Science as an Attitude
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Christ being for three years of his life on earth, you may also
see Christ in this central figure. But this must not happen in
consciousness that this should be Christ, but everything must
downward showing hand of the human representative, Christ. This
Christ, to Lucifer and Ahriman artistically. That is why this
could have the idea at first that Christ lifts the left hand up
Sistine Chapel in Rome. There one sees Christ pointing the good
to the heaven, the bad to the hell. One sees in Christ that he
This Christ, as he is shown there, is not from now on the
Christ whose true being we should only understand by spiritual
science. The Christ who is the true Christ does not condemn,
them because of his attitude while approaching Christ. Ahriman
Christ. Hence, the downward and upward lifted hands must not
Lucifer cannot endure on his part that the hand of Christ
wings, Christ does not break them.
how to form Christ as He is in reality. The Christ Being is so
significant, the understanding of the Christ Being is so
The Christ Who persuades the beings by His nature, so that they
condemn or release themselves, is understood in future. Christ
His passions. In our sculptural group, Christ stands as
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Title: Lecture Series: On the Relationship with the Dead
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the Christ. This is the profound significance of the Mystery of Golgotha,
see Christ as the only being that learned to know death.
with the Christ-filled individuality of the Baptist, what came to

Title: Lecture: The Renewal of Culture
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number 8 of 8 lectures given at Christiania (Oslo) in
number 8 of 8 lectures given at Christiania (Oslo) in
Christianity.
the place of Christianity in the evolution of the earth. It points to the
modern external Christianity more and more considers this man Jesus merely as
Jesus and Who had become Christ Jesus.
does not only draw attention to the man Jesus, but also to the Christ Who
that feeling of genuine religious devotion gained by looking upon Christ
also rediscover in the man Jesus the super-earthly Christ, thus penetrating
to the real essence of Christ Jesus. Anthroposophy does not in any way
sphere has led people to retort that Anthroposophy is not Christian, that it
cannot be Christianity because it sets a super-earthly, cosmic Being in
Christ Jesus in place of the purely human being. They even think that it is
an offence to say that Christ came down from cosmic spaces and penetrated
mechanised if Christ were to be sought in the cosmic spaces before the time
religion, nor does it deprive Christianity of its Christian element; instead
it fills external life with Christianity by showing: out there in the cosmos
often believe that Anthroposophy speaks of a Christ coming down from the sun,
upon Christian life, but will shed light upon it, so that one can find in the
Christ Jesus, and His entrance into the earthly development of humanity.

Title: Life Between ... XI: The Mission of Earthly Life as a Transitional Stage for the Beyond
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Christ impulse and permeates himself with it, he can nevertheless
the Mystery of Golgotha occurred. As the Christ appeared on earth
Mars did not take the same course as the Christ Mystery on earth, but
The human souls who have received the Christ impulse into themselves
up our next earthly life. He who has received the Christ impulse on
the earth through the gate of death without having taken the Christ

Title: Lecture: Woman and Society (Die Frauenfrage)
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It is the same thing which, in the Christian religion, we find

Title: Riddles of the World: Lecture V: The Question of Women's Rights
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in the Christian religion with Paul, who called it spiritual

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Hamburg, 10-26-1907
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Oriphiel who brings the wrath of the Gods. In the Oriphiel age Christ

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture I: The Doctrine of the Logos
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Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights
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mankind concerning the being of Christ Jesus and His
Christianity, it would never have entered the mind of any one
Christianity had already become wide-spread in a very
For hostility against Christianity arose from various sources
vindication of Christianity in the face of those streams of
own position in relation to his Christ. Thus many see nothing
for his Christ, for the purpose of inspiring others also and
the beginning of our Christian era, a being of a very high
disturbs people that any such exalted being as the Christ of
Therefore they speak of the Christ as the Apotheosis of
early Christian conception when there was still far more
thought flowing through the Christian minds of Europe, for it

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture II: Esoteric Christianity
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Esoteric Christianity
Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights
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ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY
Christianity from the beginning. This Esoteric Christianity
has always been fostered alongside the outer Christian
great apostle of Christianity, used his powerful, fiery gift
of eloquence to teach Christianity to the people, but that at
the Apostles. In this Christian Esoteric School at Athens
Esoteric Christianity makes it entirely intelligible to us.
that Esoteric Christianity has good reason for stating that
to remain within him ever since. Thus Esoteric Christianity
from it. When, therefore, the esoteric Christian, looking at
Christianity, deep mysteries of existence familiar to those

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture III: The Mission of the Earth
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Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights
to pave for the world the way to Christ.'
Christianity, everything leads back to the Word or the Logos.
understand Esoteric Christianity when it says: — Just as
standpoint of Esoteric Christianity, what is it that is
called in Esoteric Christianity, the “Logos” or
This was fulfilled in Christ-Jesus, and the historical
appearance of Christ Jesus means that the forces of the six
at the beginning of our Christian era and were actually
as Christ-Jesus? It was the incarnation of the Logos, of the
the Christ or the Logos was incarnated, brought into human
appearance of a few initiated Christian pupils who understood
appeared in the early Christian centuries called the
Christianity on this point. The writer of the Gospel of St.
“No, you should not look upon the Christ as a
Esoteric Christianity and the primal Gnosis. The Gnosis, as
well as Esoteric Christianity recognizes the Christ, but the
spiritual being. It holds firmly to an ever invisible Christ.
On the contrary, Esoteric Christianity has always held the
the Christ, who dwelt within the body of Jesus of Nazareth,
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IV: The Raising of Lazarus
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Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights
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that the testimony given of Christ Jesus by John is true. He
everything that is maintained and affirmed concerning Christ
picture the whole situation: — Christ Jesus performs
been referred to in my book Christianity as Mystical Fact),
Christ Jesus to rise up against Him. Why should just the
persecution of Christ Jesus begin just at this stage? One who
through the appearance of Christ-Jesus. This three and a half
proceeding from the Christ. For we shall soon see that in the
But for this to take place, Christ-Jesus must first be
Through Christ-Jesus a new initiation had to arise to replace
initiated in the old way, but initiated into Christian
Esotericism. This only Christ-Jesus Himself could perform
attribute the characterization of Christ-Jesus, which we find
the word, been initiated through Christ-Jesus Himself.
listened to profound words about Christ-Jesus as the
Christ-Jesus were spoken even in the very first Chapters, for
in the ancient Mysteries, Christ-Jesus, who was to appear in
the world at a future time, in other words, the Christ, was
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture V: The Seven Degrees of Initiation
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Disciple,” initiated by Christ-Jesus Himself. One might
a higher order of knowledge about the Christ through the
was one of the first disciples of Christ-Jesus. He was
brought before the Christ. He is not so highly developed that
he is able to comprehend the Christ. The Christ is, of
the Christ could fathom Nathaniel. This was shown by two
How did Christ
called an Israelite. Therefore Christ calls Nathaniel an
fig-tree.” And Christ answered, “Thou believest
by those who were able to recognize the Christ. Again, one
necessary impulse from the Christ-principle before the
only after having received the Impulse of the Christ into
you will know through the impulse which the Christ gives to
first sign” which Christ-Jesus made. Now in order that
if we call to mind once more the whole mission of the Christ.
Christ-Principle there should come into the earth-mission a
The Christ
Christ Jesus
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Title: Esoteric Lesson: Hamburg, 5-24-'08
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feeling, he then develops Buddhi, the Christ principle. Thus he lets

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VI: The "I AM"
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Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights
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Christ-Jesus to Nicodemus, we must recognize a conversation
between Christ and a personality who is able to perceive what
Nicodemus came to Christ-Jesus “in the night,”
rebirth which the Christ speaks to Nicodemus in the 4th verse
The Christ is
question, for what purpose did Christ Jesus come to earth;
of the spirit through the force of the Christ Who appeared
him. Through the force of the Christ Who came upon the earth,
forerunners of the deed of Christ Jesus. Moses showed his
through the force of the Christ present upon the earth. This
the Christ expresses in his further conversation with
be lifted up.” Throughout, Christ Jesus made use of the
Jesus-Christ had been slowly matured in the followers of the
enough to give birth to the Christ Principle. Then we shall
prophesied that the Christ would come; in other words, that
appeared incarnate in Christ-Jesus.
“I AM” appears incarnate in the Christ of the
Christ-Jesus. We hear the name of the Logos, we hear Him at
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VII: The Mystery of Golgotha
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before our souls: Christ-Jesus upon the Cross, the blood
observed the pre-Christian periods of the earth pass by and
from the wounds of Christ-Jesus upon Golgotha. All spiritual
spirit, this earth spirit is the Christ. Christ is the spirit
of the earth. When the Christ spoke to His most trusted
Blood!” — These were the very words that Christ-
Christian Initiation, He uttered those extraordinary words
body of the Earth-Spirit, that is, of the Christ, then men
learn about the Christ, the Earth-Spirit, and about the bread
which is taken from the body of the earth. Christ points to
the Christ. And the sap that flows through the plants, which
through the human body. Pointing to this, the Christ says:
which is the Christ Himself, and then he will feel how the
Christ, as the Spirit of the Earth, flows through his body.
which have to do with Christ-Jesus? He beheld the forces,
the impulses which are present in Christ-Jesus, and he
the Christ Personality, to the Christ Impulse, by energizing
and strengthening himself through this Christ Impulse, he
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture VIII: Human Evolution in its Relation to the Christ Principle
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Human Evolution in its Relation to the Christ Principle
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CHRIST PRINCIPLE
Christ-Jesus in our postAtlantean period. We have gathered
Christ Principle. Today we shall try to understand why, just
at this point of time in our evolution, the Christ appeared
way it was always done even up to the time of Christ-Jesus.
and during this middle period, Christ-Jesus came
the reason for the appearance of Christ-Jesus just at this

Title: Gospel of John: Lecture IX: The Prophetical Documents and the Origin of Christianity
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The Prophetical Documents and the Origin of Christianity
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THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY
Christianity, a teaching which we can also call the teaching
grasped this profound meaning of the Christian teaching, can
we understand why the Christ had to enter into human
the Christ. Here for the first time, for those who could
Christ-Jesus points to the fulfilment of the words of the
fact that the Jews would not believe in Christ-Jesus. Jesus
John. He saw the Christ! He was always to be seen in the
same Being who then appeared upon the earth as the Christ.
Christ. We are now at a point in this religious record which
become clear to us that in a certain sense the Christ was
soil for Christianity emerged out of the third epoch like a
comprehensible that the appearance of the Christ had to take
Christ, the idea that spirit was to appear in the flesh. For
the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, the Christ Event had to
Christian consciousness, the whole of human existence falls
into a pre-Christian and a post-Christian period. The God-Man
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture X: The Effect of the Christ Impulse Within Mankind
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The Effect of the Christ Impulse Within Mankind
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CHRIST IMPULSE WITHIN MANKIND
Christianity should have taken place just at a particular
Christianity depends upon our keeping well in mind this
evolutionary law in its esoteric, Christian sense. Only in
ourselves: — Christianity entered into human evolution
Christianity was prepared in the 3rd epoch. The Egyptian
of Hebrew culture in such a way that Christianity was born,
the person of Christ Jesus. We may say that humanity
concentrating in the person of Christ Jesus, then continued
always so called in Esoteric Christianity. However, things of
appearance of the prophesied Messiah in the Christ. From this
division in the history of Christianity — the real
Why did Christianity have to come to the world as a direct
materialistic age without Christianity. It would then have
through the Christ, then the whole of humanity would have had
the Christ Impulse. Had the Christ Impulse been active
spiritual element of Christianity, but it would never have
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XI: Christian Initiation
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Christian Initiation
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CHRISTIAN INITIATION
Christianity in general according to the Gospel of St. John,
the heart of the community. It is the task of Christianity to
clearly in mind that most profound idea of Christianity, that
the Christ is the Spirit of the earth and that the earth is
garment worn by the Christ, the Spirit of the earth, has, in
Christianity most profoundly in the Gospel of St. John has
garment, and the coat of the Christ. The garments of the
Christ were divided into continents and regions; but not the
other connections, Christianity must bring mankind to an
specific Christian initiation, and that initiation which is
Christian-Rosicrucian initiation. We intend now to describe
many gatherings of very good Christians, one can hear it
Christian teaching, but Christianity needs no esoteric
properly not acknowledged in such Christian assemblies, but
widest circles even by the Christians. Anthroposophy is
Christian course. 3. Again one can work through a combination
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Title: Gospel of John: Lecture XII: The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit
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body. In the pre-Christian initiation, it was done in the
specifically Christian initiation in which it was necessary
This kind of initiation which is specifically Christian could
Christian initiation. We only wish to become acquainted with
Christian pupil is actually in a condition to reach
Rosicrucian initiation, although resting upon a Christian
world is called in esoteric Christianity the “pure,
Christianity — is also so called today — the
Christianity, it is correct to say that through his processes
of initiation the Christian esotericist attains the
words, according to esoteric Christianity has received the
proceeds from esoteric Christianity, one should not speak of
to esoteric Christianity, whoever speaks with the right
Christ Jesus could give to the earth what was necessary to
happen at all which has been described in the Christian
what was called in esoteric Christianity, the Virgin Sophia,
esoteric places where esoteric Christianity was taught.
to penetrate further into the nature of Christianity and its
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Title: Lecture: The Bible and Wisdom.
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profound writing of Christendom — was divested of all worth as an
acts performed by the Christ, with the way in which this unique Personality
Christianity as Mystical Fact
But something else is evident as well, namely, that from a Christian point
form in which Christianity was promulgated, from which all its later forms
the Christ? Simply and solely as a consequence of the event of Damascus,
is at the basis of the teaching of Paul? It is the knowledge that the Christ
Christ as a Living Being who can appear to men who ascend to him; — it
makes a parallel between Christ's appearance to him and His appearance to
knowledge: the Christ lives and is here. He shows that he bases his
Christianity upon this super-sensible truth and that it is conviction
The earliest form of Christianity as it spread abroad is based upon
for Christianity to win belief on the basis of super-sensible experiences of

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Hamburg, 3-14-'09
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tells us that when Christ hung on the cross, bees came and drew honey

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picture we all know well. The Founder and Inaugurator of Christianity,
the will to understand it. The disciples of Christ are gathered
Christ Impulse is to be. For gathered together, and beholding in
understand the Christ, feel as if they were not speaking to people
hearts of all men. In this mighty vision of the future of Christianity
was born out of the first Christian Pentecostal festival as the inner
content of soul and feeling of these earliest disciples of Christ.
deepest esoteric Christian meaning. — The Spirit, also rightly
to the earth in the first descent to the earth of Christ Jesus. He
individual of the first Christian believers.
In the ancient times which preceded Christianity, little as yet was
hearts only since Christianity was proclaimed, and which says to us:
held by the old Hebrew people before the coming of Christ. According
was also the view of the old Hebrew people in pre-Christian times
Through the Christ Impulse, however, a new conception had come —
individualities of those who first accepted Christianity. In the
the individualities of the first disciples of Christianity.
Christ, the bearer of the universal-human Spirit, had completed His
first understood the Christ Impulse there should arise the power of
speaking about the Christ Impulse, of working in the significance of
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precisely in those countries where Christianity has spread, the idea
may even say that the dawn of Christianity took place in such a way
only a consequence of this materialistic conception of Christianity,

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approach the Christ Spirit more intensively and to connect himself
exoteric Christianity. The entry of the Christ principle into our earth
couldn't reflect it. Since the Christ became the spirit of the
Christ-spirit in us. In our last esoteric class, we saw that a red
radiant sunlight of Christ in us, and the red roses stimulate a force
so that green life can sprout out of the Christ-force's bright
our earth spirit, of the Christ-spirit.
working of the Christ-spirit in the earth. The earth is permeated
are walking on Christ's body. And the green is his etheric body.
it also becomes light in us, and the Christ-force will awaken the

Title: Manifestations of Karma: Lecture 4: The Curability and Incurability of Diseases in Relation to Karma
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breaking loose again from this world. We know that the Christ

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his own Ego, but that Christ with Whom he is fully permeated, will act
themselves, but Christ within them should think, feel, and will, so
Christ. That is why St. Paul says ‘Not I, but Christ in me.’

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capable of receiving the Christ Impulse and of transplanting it into

Title: Lecture: Jesus and Christ
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This lecture. Von Jesus zu Christus, was given by Rudolf
From Jesus to Christ.
humanity pertains to the subject of today's lecture, that is, Christ
the Christ Jesus Event. Statements of religious creeds concerning this
What the spiritual investigator thereby learns of Christ Jesus calls
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Mysticism of Christianity because I did not intend to deal with this
topic, nor was it entitled Christian Mysticism because I did not
intend to write on that theme, the mystical life of the Christian,
either. What I sought to show was that the Christ impulse, the
entrance of Christianity into mankind's development, can be
The origin and development of Christianity can be understood only when
Gospels, we now see Christ Jesus entering the evolution of the world.
Spiritual science thus regards Christ Jesus as one who inherently
expression in immediate form and as historical fact in Christ Jesus.
was in this year that he received the Christ. Into his fully
the life of Christ Jesus from the Baptism in the Jordan to His
cosmos happened in such a way that within the man Jesus, Christ
Christ passed while living in the body of Jesus brought about the
resurrection of Christ. Ever since the Mystery of Golgotha man lives
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schon einiges zusammengestellt über das Christus
Erneuerung des Christus Jesus-Verständnisses, ein
wo sich das Christus Jesus-Wort
Christus Jesus in einer bestimmten Weise. Sie wußten jetzt: Wir waren zusammen, wir waren
Christus Jesus all das, was als Geißelung,
als Verleugnung geschildert wird. Er verleugnet Christus,
der Zusammenhang mit Christus nicht da. Er
Christus Jesus? — Er weiß es in diesem Momente
Christus Jesus spricht, anders in
berieten, war auch Christus Jesus, ohne daß sie es
Kreuze der Christus-Impuls, durch diese Finsternis hindurchgehend, sich mit der Erdenaura
kosmischen Christus-Impulses mit der Erdenaura
Golgatha, und den Christus durch die
Christus im Grabe lag, kam ein gewaltiges
eigenen Begegnungen mit Christus nach der Auferstehung, als Mysterium von Golgatha erlebt. Am
Christus Jesus war, als er das Mysterium
erlebten sie diese Zusammenkunft mit Christus nach
Erlebnisse mit Christus so wieder, wie es
Christus zusammen waren, für das physische
einem anderen Bewußtseinszustande mit Christus
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Christ
life becomes real life for us, becomes Christ's life in us. We can't
become pure and holy by ourselves, but only through this Christ-life.
with his life. This then is the union of Christ and Sophia, the union
of Christ's life with the human soul that has been purified by his

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
unrecognized. As the Christ had to have a forerunner, so spiritual
centuries; at the time of Christ the vernal equinox was in the
Christ in His etheric body. Without books and documents this great
event — the second coming of Christ — will take place for
made capable of uniting themselves with Christ. Whether these souls
Christ's appearance in the etheric thus has significance for all the

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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Hanover, too, about the mysteries of Christianity. You will
means of penetrating to the core of the Christian message. It
Christianity, we must make a certain basic assumption.
is not filled with Christ it will be restricted to perception
Christ will come, bringing consolation, and human souls will
be permeated more and more with the Christ Impulse so that
Sun. Christ is the supreme Spirit of the Sun Beings. There
That is why the sign for Christ Jesus in the earliest
Christian times was the fish or two fishes still to be seen
had to undergo if the Christ was to descend into him. The
Christ Jesus did was connected with macrocosmic events. Think
Christ performed His acts of healing after the Sun had set or
by Christ in the body of Jesus of Nazareth here on Earth. If
Earth through the deeds of Christ Jesus and the Mystery of
what came to pass through Christ Jesus after the Sun had set.

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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Lucifer and Ahriman are tempters; and Christ in human form
recognise Jesus is an indication that the Risen Christ cannot
Magdalene only when Christ spoke her name. Much of what
the Gospels confirm it. The Risen Christ could be recognised
previously in existence. Hebraism and Christianity added the
relation between Christ and Lucifer?
Christ all this acquired a new meaning. We are only at the
beginning of Christian evolution. If the Gospels are
understood they make it clear that Christ was obliged to deal
Christ in his soul. The spheres of Lucifer and Ahriman will
gradually be reversed. Men will take the Christ Impulse into
Can Christ

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the Hierarchies. The embodied Ideal was Christ Jesus. And as
understand the Christ that we say: In Him were working, in
This Christ-“I,” filled with the full forces of
Christ-“I” dwelt in a human body for three years,
men realise that this Christ-“I” is the
Christ Himself were to fill the human soul, and then, in such
“Not I, but Christ in me.”
Christ-“I” was to be received. We realise that in
order to understand the Christ we must understand the nature
to man when he permeates his being with the power of Christ.
When this Christ Power has become reality in the soul, when
the Christ has become a living experience in the soul, when
Christ in him.
The Christ in
Way through the Christ within you, become seekers after the
Christ-“I” that we shall then be living. In order
Ideal. The Christ had resolved to descend to the earth, to
responsible for the death of Christ on Golgotha? At a certain
and Ahriman in us, so did we bring death to Christ Jesus on
Christian experiences is the knowledge that upon man lies the
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thought that we killed Christ. We're murderers, yes,
Christ in me.” We shouldn't kill the divine in us through
egoism, through our life of desires, etc., we should let Christ live
and patiently with the thought that we killed Christ; we should devote
ourselves to him completely and die in him: In Christo

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture III: The Birth of the Sun-Spirit as the Spirit of the Earth
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WHEN the candles are lit on the Christmas Tree, the human soul feels
that this must always have been the symbol of the Christmas Festival,
spiritual Light. The lights on the Christmas Tree stand there before
Christmas Night must have been shining ever since our earthly
the Christmas Tree became a symbol of the thoughts and feelings which
arise in man at the Christmas season. The Christmas Tree is a recent
remote past. It is as if from the Christmas Tree itself there
good-will. And thus, according to the Christmas Legend, did the
the Child whose festival we celebrate on Christmas Day. To the
that the symbol presented to the world in the Christmas Festival ever
had a beginning. They felt in it the hallmark of eternity. Christian
takes place symbolically on Christmas Night, in the words: ‘To us
Christ is born anew!’ It is as though every year the soul is called
of the symbol itself. Yet as late as 353 A.D., 353 years after Christ
Epiphany was celebrated as a kind of Birth-Festival of the Christ
the Christ Spirit into the body of Jesus of Nazareth at the Baptism by
6th of January as the Festival of Christ's birth. For during the first
centuries of Christendom an inkling still survived of the mystery that
the descent of the Christ Being into the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
Christianity during those early centuries? They said to themselves:
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(From Jesus to Christ)

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Hannover, 1-1-12
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through the Christ spirit in the words: Ex Deo nascimur,
In … morimur, because Christ's name was too sacred to

Title: Life Between ... III: Mans Journey Through the Planetary Spheres
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and the Significance of a Knowledge of Christ
Conditions in pre-Christian times were such that as a man rose by
acknowledged the Christ, and Christ was not a Westerner, but an alien
with respect to His lineage. The attitude to Christ that the West has
The supremacy of the Christ Principle is shown in another way, too.
different sides?” This is actually what occurs in Christianity.
Christ Jesus speaks profound words in the Gospel when He says to
Christ Jesus means by these words
utterances have become an integral part of Christianity shows clearly
Christianity is working to achieve the fulfillment of the principle
all epochs of time. Christianity is so intimately connected with the
Hindu need not reject Christ. Just think what it would mean if some
Christ ought not to maintain that all denominations and creeds can
preference to Christ, and you are not justified in making such a
Christ because nothing is said to this effect in His scriptures? Is
the Christ-being, namely, that because He has nothing to do with any
particular denomination, the Christ can be accepted by a Hindu or an
science has to say about the Christ impulse in relation to the
what we have to say about the nature of the Christ impulse and its
things that can lead to the true understanding of the Christ impulse
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become united with the spirituality, the Christ, that flows through
our cosmos. We die into the Christ, I C M — and
forces into our being; we come to the Father through the Christ:
works me: die into Christ's etheric body that embraces the
weaves me: receive the new thing that's given to us by Christ from the

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exercise we pour ourselves into the spiritual world, into the Christ.
For the Christ is in the earth's aura, in the earth's atmosphere now;
In Christo morimur

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture II: The Path of the Human Being through the Gate of Death - A Transformation of Life
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the sense and meaning of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ
this reason? If the effectiveness of Christ had depended in the
of it, the effectiveness of the Christ Impulse on earth could
that was they understood of Christianity. But Christ has had an
Europe was decided at that time. Thus Christianity was only
bearing the monogram of Christ in front of your army, you will
accomplish these achievements. The Christ Impulse had an effect
the Christ Impulse with the Maid of Orleans
however, the Christ Impulse worked in the Maid of Orleans,
inspired by the Christ Impulse. Exactly in the same way as in
Maxentius the Christ Impulse worked, without people knowing
about it in their upper consciousness. The Christ Impulse also
through whom the Christ Impulse could work, by his Michaelic

Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture I: The Principle of Spiritual Economy in Connection with Questions of Reincarnation: An Aspect of the Spiritual Guidance of Mankind
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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.'
great Being who was to be called the Christ united with the
call the Sun Oracle the Christ Oracle. The unification of the
Christ-Being with the earth took place when the blood flowed
from the wounds of Jesus Christ at Golgotha. That is when His
how the Christ-Being came down from the Sun to earth. When
Damascus, Paul beheld the Christ that was united with the
of Christ, of the Sun-God. To be sure, he was named the
Christ only much later, but we can still say that the Sun
Oracle is the Christ Oracle. These oracles had many
Only the etheric body of the Great Initiate of the Christ
with the exception of the Sun, or Christ, Oracle which could

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
at the time when Christ was walking about on earth, you will find the
before Christ Jesus walked on earth. Thus we see an age beginning
about 3,000 years before the Christ event, an age that has gradually
took place — the deed of Christ — we can then appreciate
Yuga as Christ descended to the earth? They had already been for more
one that was important not only for those who were with Christ —
call the age when Christ lived and taught in Palestine an age of
passage in one of his works, described the Christians as a secret and
Christianity had spread over the southern regions of Europe, strange
knew nothing about Christianity except that it was a disturbing sect
Christianity was already in existence. It shows us how the most
of that age of transition in which Christ Jesus appeared? It is
the Baptist, quoted later by Christ: “Change the disposition of
It was for this reason that Christ had to descend and to
spiritual worlds within the physical world. Christ thus became the
Christ, you can find the path leading into the spiritual worlds. Only
This expression says to us that Christianity is not merely what books
words tell us that Christianity is not merely what is embraced today
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People believe themselves Christians but have not even understood the
“Christian” or “Christ” or
speaking in a Christian sense, even if what one is saying may be very
unchristian. But if we hold we are making known what the Christ is
carried over into Christianity — people find it unchristian.
specially Christian in consequence. So, too, one is not
State” proposals, are the Christianity of to-day; they are,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Helsinki, 4-5-12
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over the abyss if we're filled and permeated by the Christ principle.

Title: Lecture 5: Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature
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above individual man. Christianity endeavored in the succession of

Title: Lecture: The National Epics With Especial Attention to the Kalevala
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and her son, this entry as it were, of a very remarkable Christianity
into the epic — I say expressly a very remarkable form of Christianity
that to my idea, such a delicate, impersonal representation of Christianity
is nowhere to be found as in the ending of the Kalevala. The Christian
Indeed one might say, one is not once reminded of the historical Christ
our souls, that at the moment when Christianity enters, when the Son
when Christianity found admittance into Finland; and this primeval force
relates itself tom Christianity in such a way-that everything which
and seventh centuries before Christ. The collective configuration of
finely and so delicately at the end of Kalevala, when the Christ is
expression — un-Palestine-like description of the Christ-impulse,
human development, and at the same time in co-operation with the Christian
idea, the Christian impulse. That is the infinite delicacy at the end
preceded this conclusion belongs to pre-Christian times. But as truly
is indicated at the end of Kalev as pertaining to the Christ, always be
to us which is immortal, which can be permeated by the Christian conception,

Title: Lecture 9: Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature
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arise. More details are to be found in my Christiania lectures as to
civilisation designate by the word “Christ,” is that which
Christ. He was the portal through which occult vision could be
with the Christ.
which the spirit of Buddha was never mistaken for the Christ-Spirit
Christ. In the solar system we cannot, in the ordinary sense, speak of
speak of the Christ, who passes through the spheres of the different
climax, we must distinguish this Christ-Spirit from the spirits of the
occultists has already been accomplished. Did the Christ-Impulse arise
in the West? Has any western nation brought forth the Christ-Impulse
from its own people, its own races? No; the Christ-Impulse, as an
Christ-Impulse, in relation to its external presentation, was foreign
direct Inspirer, when it exchanged that Inspirer for the Christ-Spirit
claimed for the Christ, but only that to which Theosophy also lays
be said that this representation of the Christ-Impulse arises from any
relation of the Buddha to Christ is recognized in occult spheres; just
called it Christ. In how far the one differs from the other can

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Zarathustra, Osiris by the ancient Egyptians, or as the Christ, as He
the esoteric comprehension of Jehovah. He is Christ reflected by the
moon-principle and because reflected in time, Christ announced
Moses spoke of Christ. Actually, he spoke of Jehovah, but it is
Christ, prophetically announced. This passage, in which Jehovah is
mentioned is referred to because the bearer of the Christ wishes to
point out that in antiquity Jehovah is but Christ foretold.
Christ just as in that of the physical we speak of the Sun; that in
not correct because she shows a certain antipathy towards Christ and
former times. “Christ is the true Lucifer,” “Christus
“Christus verus Luciferus” — I think, in spite of the

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Christ brought to humanity.
centuries before the founding of Christianity to a soul whom one of

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Christ brought to humanity.

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Christ brought to humanity.

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Christ brought to humanity.
call the Christ, Who remained on earth altogether for three years.
definite feelings and ideas or perhaps views about the Christ —
a little neutral about the Christ event one is well prepared for such
to talk sense about Buddha, just as those with a Christian bias will
least easily be able to talk sense about Christ. This is always true.

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ones, the Christ-force with which

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Christ brought to humanity.

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Christ brought to humanity.
as the teaching of Christ Jesus is to be found in some earlier work
inherent in the Christ Impulse, is something altogether different,
Christianity.
Christ.
and more were met by the Christ Impulse, leading them once more
Christ and Krishna. I have tried to show how closely the two impulses
that happened between the tenth century before Christ and the tenth
the Christ Impulse came for all mankind.

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Christ brought to humanity.
know that at the time when Christianity was founded two children were
Christ now comes toward the physical body from the other side. In the
majesty of the Christ-Idea. On the contrary, by shedding the light of

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Christ brought to humanity.
tenth century before the foundation of Christianity, cannot be
Christianity. All this we can realize, but we must think of it in

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Christ brought to humanity.
evolution down to the time of Christ. Then he came who was once
Luciferic influence was one-sided. Hence the all-embracing Christ
the St. Luke Jesus child Himself the Christ Impulse lived for three
years; the Christ who came to mankind to bring together these two
Christ took the sin upon Himself. He gave to men what reconciles the
in the centuries following the foundation of Christianity was only
related to Jesus, not to the Christ Who lived in Jesus for the three
understanding of the Christ Impulse must break in upon us. The
Christ-path must be added to the Jesus-path. The path of one-sided
seek the understanding of the Christ Impulse that is opened up by
progress of humanity. To understand the Christ means not merely to
expressed by St. Paul, “Not I, but Christ in me.” “I”
is the Krishna word. “Not I, but Christ in me,” is the
Christian word.
had to find their higher unity in the mission of the Christ.
found in the stream of Christianity. Only when we regard the matter
and Christian faiths in this abstract way, saying, “Look,
religions, it is one and the same whether what lived in the Christ is
which the name Christ has been preserved — to associate that

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before the birth of Christ, we find the heliocentric system
anti-Christian. Anyone who looks into the Science of the Spirit
meaning of Christianity. For what has become of the Christ
super-sensible knowledge in order to understand Christianity in
attain an understanding of Christianity which can satisfy the
being opposed to Christianity —
Christianity — seem to me to
understanding of Christianity. Whenever I hear such
faint-hearted advocates of Christianity I am always
friend of mine who said in a speech about Galileo: Christianity
Christianity in a large way and say: its foundation is such
it will not belittle this Christianity, but will enhance
We therefore need a Christianity that takes hold of life,
practical Christianity that is intended in the threefold
the wonderful words of Christ: Heaven and earth will pass away,

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of Anthroposophy were with us at a Conference held at Christmas,
intellectual discussion about the nature of Christ will cease, for
through Inspiration it will be known in truth that the Christ was the
can be no understanding of the Christ. If Christianity is again to be

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for the newly arising Christianity. The first line runs: ‘In

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the light of the Mystery of Golgotha, when through Christ Jesus an
stars — He Whom a later age called “Christ” and an
resurrection of Christ were, in the first place, the most essential
features for those who truly understood Christianity.
human body. The Christ has now become an “extract” of the
Christ impulse gazed at the dead figure on the Cross, at the
beyond death — for death had been conquered by Christ in the
Nascimur. The early Christians, in whom the impulse of esoteric
Christianity was still living, buried their dead but held divine
by the soul that is united with Christ; the tomb became an altar.
united with Christ, Who as the spiritual essence of the stars
was the answer to the riddle of Nature. Christ was the answer
preserved — proves that as the Christian Initiates contemplated
the Mystery of Golgotha, in the certainty that Christ had descended
union of mortal man on Earth with Christ. Through Christ, man redeems
death and resurrection of Christ. If your earthly life is more than a
mere natural existence, if it is such that. Christ's Kingdom is
communion with Christ Himself. Christ, the Divine Being, becomes your
brother; in death and in life you die in Christ.” The truth of
life in God the Son, in Christ, could now be added to the primeval
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back leads into the epoch of the birth of Christ. In a large room it

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this free religious teaching, which is Christian in the deepest
sense, parents who wish their children to be educated in a Christian
to us. As I say, the teaching is Christian through and through, and
Christian atmosphere. Our religious instruction makes the children
realize the significance of all the great Christian Festivals, of the
Christmas and Easter Festivals, for instance, much more deeply than
educate in the sense of true Christianity must realize that before the age
Christ Jesus. The child is exposed to great dangers if we have failed
tenth years onwards the glory of Christ Jesus if before this age he
blind rationalistic Christianity, but towards promoting a true
understanding of the Christ Impulse in the evolution of

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Kassel, 2-26-'09
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great symbol of Christ Jesus — dying, perishing life that has

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thoughts. The greatest man of sorrows or soter was Christ, and
point to Christ so that He can make our physical body healthy and

Title: Lecture: Parsifal
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Christian Mystery.
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache der Evangelien.
Luzifer und Christus. Alte Esoterik und Rosenkreuzertum.
Christian Mystery.
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache der Evangelien.
Luzifer und Christus. Alte Esoterik und Rosenkreuzertum.
all the budding new life of nature and the death of Christ
his work entitled Heathendom and Christianity). What
Christianity, a migration took place from West to East.
Christianity
Christianity” we read these words: “Having
true Christianity as distinguished from Church
Christianity. In the Middle Ages remnants were still left
noblest and purest form of Christianity which manifests in
man's understanding of Christianity. Wagner knew that
Christianity can be shown forth to the world, best of all in
of Christianity.

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the great truths come to expression, especially in Christianity and

Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 8: The Evolution of Man and of the Solar System; the Atlantic Evolution
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oriental and the occidental initiation. Then with the Christian initiation,

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the middle of this epoch falls the deed of Christ; the Mystery of Golgotha.
Christian Initiation. All three kinds of Initiation are in reality the

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The Christian Mystery.
Die Christliche Mysterium. Die Wahrheitsprache der Evangelien.
Luzifer und Christus. Alte Esoterik und Rosenkreuzertum.
one hundred years after Christ, gives us a picture of the different

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 1: Spiritual Connections between the Culture-streams of Ancient and Modern Times.
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this period. The epoch begins in the eighth pre-Christian century,

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earth, living in its environs, beings whom Christian esotericism calls
Christian esotericism, Powers or Exusiai or Spirits of Form. Thus
bursting-in of the Christ-force, which worked so powerfully that it
look forward. The Christ must for the first time be fully grasped in

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period and whom we now designate as Christ. No longer does he transmit

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 8: The Stages of Evolution of the Human Form The Expulsion of the Animal Beings. The Four Human Types.
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guiding Sun Spirits, was the Christ. We feel a deep reverence when we
through the Christ himself. Earlier, man on earth was united with the
the sun spirits were no longer with him. The Christ departed from the
Christian period preserved this form. In the Roman catacombs the fish
appeared as the symbol of Christ, to remind men of the great cosmic
event in evolution when the Christ was still united with them in the
the first Christians felt a reference to the Man-Christ-form in the
“mean” something to the early Christians. Such a symbol is

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even into the post-Atlantean cultures. At the time when Christianity
the “dom” in Christendom and similar words, which
was given through the appearance of Christ Jesus on earth. The
divine-spiritual Christ had to come to men in a physical human body,
spiritual impulse occurred through the Christ at the lowest point. Now
man must rise again, transfigured by the Christ principle. We shall go
permeated by the Christ principle.

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there when they died a thousand years before Christ, is exactly the
initiates before Christ and, above all, of the Being whom we call
Christ. All other initiates were in a certain sense forerunners of the
Christ; they were harbingers who pointed to the coming of the Christ.
The advent of the Christ-figure will now be described. Let us imagine
a man who has never heard anything of the Christ, who has never been
able to say, “I will imitate the life and work of the Christ; I
the Christ had never approached this man, he would not be able to take
consciousness. What man takes with him as a picture of Christ is a
from the fate that all men would have had if Christ had not appeared.
If Christ had not appeared, the human essence would have been
Christ, that something was embodied into the core of man's being that
exclusive dogma for Christianity. That would be an offense against
true Christianity, for anyone acquainted with the facts knows that
Christianity was also taught in the ancient mysteries. Such words as
Christian religion today existed already among the ancients and was
present with the beginnings of the human race. But when Christ
existence, received the name of Christian.” What is important is
Christ impulse. Christ was the figure that appeared at the lowest
Christ would come, that he lived in them.
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Christ appeared upon the earth and the Mystery of Golgotha took place.
today we shall consider the mighty event of the Christ's appearance on
significance has the advent of the Christ on our earth? What
significance has the Christ's appearance for the dead souls, for the
time after Christ, for through his advent initiation was fundamentally
initiations before and after Christ, although the conclusion is
through the appearance of Christ on earth. In the old initiations the
been our fate had not the Christ-impulse entered into human evolution
the things we have already discussed. But the three years of Christ's
the spiritual world. Those who take up Christ in their innermost parts
experiences here of the Christ, the brighter it becomes over there in
Christianity — the Christ-spirit descended to the dead. This is one of
the deepest mysteries of mankind. Christ descended to the dead and
that Christ brought to the dead in the three and a half days. He
That these fruits could be produced came to pass through Christ, who

Title: Egyptian Myths: Lecture 12: The Christ Impulse as Conqueror of Matter.
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The Christ Impulse as Conqueror of Matter.
Christianity. We have seen how, after the Atlantean catastrophe, there
Christ-impulse, that gave the stimulus to a new ascent. The entry of
the Christ-impulse into human evolution forms the other side of
Christ Jesus, who was foretold by the prophets, gave the most powerful
Christ-being. But we cannot yet understand this if we do not penetrate
We must point out that what we call the advent of the Christ on earth
conditions of the Germanic regions in the first century after Christ
Christ-impulse. This was not the case in pre-Christian times; then a
mysteries of Christianity, the upward impulse, his works are saturated
with spiritual wisdom, they are filled with Christ. This is the path
then this is properly understood Christianity. It is a slander of the
in ancient Rome, primitive Christianity spread among a despised class
can see how they sat in the Circus and watched while the Christians
in underground passages. There the spreading Christianity had to hide.
There they erected the first Christian altars on the graves of their
through that despised underground Rome. The Christians knew what
awaited them. That first germ of the Christ-impulse on earth, confined
Christians. The representatives of the science of the spirit may be

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 1
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
CHRIST IMPULSE
During this epoch Christ worked on earth in a physical body. Since the
the forces existing in the physical world, Christ had to appear on the
refer to philosophers of the pre-Christian era; at most, to a
Whereas at an earlier period, when Christ came down to the earth in a
through which we will see the Christ, not in His physical body, but in
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
thus. This is what is meant by the saying that Christ will appear in
the etheric body. Anyone who believes that Christ will appear again in
is a mistake to suppose that such an event as the appearance of Christ
The next event, then, is that human beings will see Christ on the
except that the appearance of the Christ will be a rebuke and a
beings. This will be the epoch when the Christ will manifest Himself
beings who have passed through the other stages will behold the Christ
Thus the succession is as follows: in the Greco-Roman epoch Christ
impulses to develop a right relationship with the Christ.
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Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture I
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one's way upward to the Christ. Jeshu ben Pandira.
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz:Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 1.
this epoch Christ worked on earth in a physical body. Since the human
forces existing in the physical world, Christ had to appear on the
philosophers of the pre-Christian era; at most, to a preparatory
period, when Christ came down to the earth in a physical body, human
they shall see the Christ, not in His physical body, but in a form
the century, a great number of human beings will behold the Christ as
thus. This is what is meant by the saying that Christ will appear in
who should believe that Christ will appear again in a physical body
suppose that such an event as the appearance of Christ can recur in
that human beings will see Christ on the astral plane in etheric
Christ will be a rebuke and a torment to these, whereas those who
epoch when the Christ will manifest Himself in still loftier manner;
Christ in His glory, as the form of the greatest "Ego," as the
follows: In the Graeco-Latin epoch Christ appeared on the
relationship with the Christ.
will be devoted to making the appearance of the Christ in the etheric
believe that humanity is doomed to the necessity of beholding Christ
pass before our minds, we may say that Christ is the true moral
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 2
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
upward to Christ, Who will appear even in this century on the astral
that human beings gradually work their way upward to Christ, so must
lived as Jeshu ben Pandira, herald of the Christ, a hundred years
before Christ. Five thousand years are needed for his ascent to the
entered: the Ego of the Christ, the Leader of the Sun Beings.
differently. The Bodhisattva patterns his life on that of Christ, and
in the case of Christ. The ‘ego’ which has until then given life to
another, as was true of the Christ.
which, in the case of Christ, the Mystery of Golgotha occurred. And
who will prepare the true teaching of Christ and the true wisdom of
Christ in a manner entirely different from what is possible today.
human beings, individualities, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Christ. I must

Title: Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture II
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz:Jeshu ben Pandira - Lecture 2.
Masters have taught about our working our way upward to Christ, Who
beings gradually work their way upward to Christ, so must we
Jeshu ben Pandira, herald of the Christ, a hundred years before
Christ. Five thousand years are needed for his ascent to the rank of
the Christ, the Leader of the Sun Beings.
patterns his life on the life of Christ, and those who are initiated
though not in so mighty a manner as in the case of Christ. The "ego"
of the Christ.
occurred in the case of Christ the Mystery of Golgotha. And
Teacher who will prepare the true teaching of Christ and the true
wisdom of Christ in a manner entirely different from that which is
Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Christ. I must say to myself: ‘To feel

Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture One
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail
that which includes Christmas and the New Year. When we take these
knowledge of the Christ; knowledge of the fundamentally important
impulse — we have called it the Christ Impulse — which
evolution, in order to understand the Christ Impulse, than those who
question for persons who want to seek an understanding of Christ in

Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture Two
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail
Gnostics pictured the manifestation of the Christ in Jesus of
Gnostics who said: “Yes, the Christ is a Being who transcends
Christ Being dwelt for three years only in the body of Jesus of
Christ Being dwelt in the body of Jesus. First of all, the mystery of
flesh on Earth. The whole relation of the Christ to the two Jesus-boys
the Christ.
manner of the birth of Christ, the most tremendous mystery in human
appearance of Christ on Earth is connected with the passage through
the mother of Jesus into relation with the birth of Christ. And those
difficulties denied entirely that the Christ had appeared on Earth in
of conceiving how the Christ could have been united with a physical
For example, we can ask: If the epoch of Christ Jesus
that if it had been possible for the Christ Being to have appeared on
Christ. Then there would have been no difficulties; they would have
that works in the realms of humanity. But the Christ Being could find
culture-epoch, we find that the possibility of understanding Christ
the Christ manifestation by way of these three Wise Men? This must be
say of it: Now there is present a body in which the Christ can
is actually this: the Christ appeared on Earth in an epoch that was
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Leipzig, 12-30-'13
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In ... morimur. If we've died in Christ

Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture Three
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail
understanding the Being of Christ Jesus. Then we came to the
emerge. Today I would like to say something about the Christ Being as
such. We shall then see how in Paul the Christ Being is reflected in
From earlier lectures we know that the Christ Being can
in the Christ Being we have to do with a high spiritual Being —
further into that just now. We will simply look up to the Christ
Christ were powerless to do so.
Christianity, this question came up — How was the nature of
Christ related to the nature of Jesus? Now we already know that we
Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ.]
for a time by the Christ Being. Thus we have to do not with a man but
Christ.
later became the Nathan Jesus-child was permeated by the Christ
the Sun and was there permeated by the Christ Being, the sublime
Spirit of Christ permeated him again. And through what was now
brought about by the permeation of this Being by the Christ Spirit,
the Nathan Jesus-child by the Christ Being, the high Sun-Spirit.
Through the two Christ deeds in the super-sensible world, the human
Christ.
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Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture Four
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail
the higher Hierarchies by the Christ, and in the wonderful emergence
after effects, of the threefold Christ-event, for this, as we have
threefold Christ-event in the souls of post-Atlantean mankind. From
effect of the threefold Christ-event was that which arose from the
Christ-event before the Atlantean catastrophe.
still echoing the threefold Christ-event — take in the fourth
Christ-event, but it came from quite another side. And this fourth
with the Earth-spirit is a result of the pre-earthly Christ-event,
for he indicates that it was the Christ who led the Jews through the
into the early days of Christianity, since people expected not only
Christ-event which took place in Lemurian and Atlantean times. We saw
Jesus-child was permeated by the Christ, but in such a way that he
threefold Christ-event lives on. In his soul is the knowledge: “As
there lives the Christ who will later on fulfil the Mystery of
Golgotha; the Christ who poured His enduring influence into the
time.” Elijah proclaimed the Christ-filled Jahve. For the
Christ was indeed living in Jahve, the Jahve-god, but as a reflection
the Being who then lived as Christ. Christ caused his Being to be
worked in the after-effects of the threefold Christ-event; we might
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Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture Five
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the right path of evolution — came about through the Christ
Impulse. When the Christ Impulse entered into the evolution of
indeed to reappear in another form, a form purified by the Christ
Impulse, after the Christ Impulse had entered into the aura of the
the Christ Impulse, but then they sank below the surface of the soul.
unaware that the Christ continued to work on these forces; but so it
drama to watch this impact of the Christ Impulse; to see how, from
important for Christianity takes its course in the subconscious
depths of the soul. The Christ Impulse does not work where there is
Christ Impulse working below the surface. Then we shall understand
Christianity in the West could not come about through the quarrels of
dreams, the activity which the Christ was undertaking in the depths
highest importance for the configuration of Christianity throughout
“Carry in front of your troops the monogram of Christ!”
the Christ Impulse works on below the surface — works, at
reappeared. I could suppose that the stream of the Christ Impulse had
further occult development of Christianity in the West — then
(Christ is often called the Bridegroom), the picture had a meaning,
Mystery of Golgotha! Raise your eyes to the Christ hanging on the
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Leipzig, 1-2-'14
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rotting dog's beautiful teeth like Christ Jesus did then we don't see

Title: Christ and the Spiritual World: Lecture Six
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail
relation to the Christ, then in what the moon does physically an
as having arisen from the working of the Christ Impulse in the depths
our symbol for the Christ — reaches the first Sunday after the
Sibyls had to be moderated; it had to be permeated by the Christ
able to perceive in himself something of the Christ Impulse at work
the Christ Impulse having poured itself out into the Earth's
will perhaps indicate how, under the influence of the Christ Impulse,
the transformation of a Sibyl under the influence of the Christ
Christ Impulse, beginning in the autumn of 1428. From external
post-Atlantean epoch begins; a time when the Christ Impulse had to
Christ-filled Sibyl.
form, a Christ-filled form, and then, if one can practise it
properly, so that it will be permeated with the Christ Impulse, one
Spiritual Science of today was not then available): ‘The Christ
Christ Impulse, may again look up to what is written in the stars.’
harmonise with certain mysteries of the Christian religion. Thus for
pulsed, as the new age came in, the Christ-filled Astrology which
Christian teaching, they certainly deserve to be: they prefer to fly
Christ came to destroy the work of the Devil, and imposed silence on
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Title: Mission of Spiritual Science and Its Building at Dornach
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first Christian centuries. But one who really learns what our spiritual
of Christ? It is just of spiritual science that it may be said that it
makes every effort to understand the being of Christ, and that in doing
certain conception or feeling about Christ, about Jesus, and we say to
only spiritual science leads to thinking many other things about Christ
to whom the Christian looks up as his Christ, the one who walked this
which results from it takes anything away from the knowledge of Christ,
only something is added to what the religious man, the really Christian
religious man, has to say about the Christ. And when some one attacks
the conception of Christ Jesus held by spiritual science, it always
“I have this or that to say about the Christ; do you believe
to declare something still greater and grander about the Christ than he
evolution of the earth unless Christ had lived, died, and risen again
spiritual research, you would see that reverence for Christ and
asserted that I thought that when the Christ says, “When thou
all know; but now every true Christian sees that through the discovery
Christian, indeed, it was perhaps said for the first time in a really
Christian way. And the fine recognition of Galileo was Christian, which
Christianity is, and of what Christ is to the world, as to say,
breathes towards us from the revelation of Christ can be
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Title: Lecture: Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science
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Christian philosopher absolutely recognized as such by the Catholic Church,
redemption; the doctrine of the incarnation of Christ in Jesus of Nazareth
that such a mode of thinking cannot be called non-Christian.
of the Roman Empire at the beginning of our Christian Era, and observe the
rise of Christianity from that time on. How far removed was this
Christianity at that time in Rome from any of the subjects considered
in the catacombs; let us look at the Christian life beginning to burst into
this place some centuries later. Christianity had ascended from the caverns,

Title: Life Between ... IX: Life After Death
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science, which seeks to clarify ever more the Christ mystery for the
soul of man. The actual words of Christ are indicated in many of his
In the early phase of the Christian proclamation one still found it
know the Christ who recognize Him by way of spiritual science.

Title: Lecture: Christ In Relation To Lucifer and Ahriman
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Rudolf Steiner had begun a scaled-down model of the Christ sculpture
that the Christ figure in the sculptured group would have to be
relates the significance of the Lucifer-Christ-Ahriman configuration
Christ's central, but equalizing position and Central Europe's mission
perception of life and by striving for an encounter with the Christ.
it was not the Christ, but Adolf Hitler who, under the guise of
As it stands today, Rudolf Steiner's call to instate the Christ in His
CHRIST IN RELATION TOLUCIFER AND AHRIMAN
highest human principle in the evolution of the earth-the Christ, who
of Nazareth. A special task in the portrayal of this Christ figure
of spiritual refinement, which descended with the Christ from cosmic
the other to the right of the Christ figure, if that is the proper
name for the figure that I have just sketched. This Christ figure is
abyss. One feature in the Christ figure that must be worked out with
wings. It must not appear, however, as if the Christ Himself were
figures must be portrayed artistically to show how the Christ, by the
When this being comes into proximity with the Christ being, he feels
Imagine, for example, an artistic portrayal of the Christ suggesting
abyss. In that case it would be the Christ Himself who irradiated this
the Christ figure. There, the rock will have a ledge and, therefore,
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture XI: Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
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Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
Christ's Relationship to Lucifer and Ahriman
highest human in the earth development as Christ, Who lived in
development. It is the particular task to form this Christ
that is in it by Christ Who entered from cosmic, from spiritual
the other on the right side of the Christ figure, if I am
allowed to call this figure the Christ figure. This Christ
particular on the left side of Christ, so that its peak is
above the head of the Christ figure. On top of the rock is
how this Christ figure raises the left arm. Because the Christ
possibly Christ broke the wings of this being, but the whole
must be artistically arranged so that, while Christ raises the
being feels in itself, because it comes near to the Christ
task. You notice what could be missed if Christ stood there
falls into the chasm. Then it would be Christ who would shine
the other side, toward the right side of the Christ figure
Christ figure in the middle turns his right hand downwards.
show this in such a way, as if Christ wanted to put this figure
which is Ahriman in chains, but that Christ Himself has an
this; he writhes in pains by that which the hand of Christ
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Title: Esoteric Christianity: The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 2
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 2
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE CHRIST IMPULSE IN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
Gospel, which came to significant expression in the Christmas message:
the great Christian truths. And if you investigate all this you find
human beings, in the case of the Christ Being we have a cosmic
here on earth, who belong to the earth. The Christ Individuality comes
only three years. The uniqueness of the Christ Individuality was that
just as the Christ Being descended through the baptism into the
The etheric Christ will be perceived through the development of the
being weaves into himself. Why was Christ here in a physical body? It
to perceive the Christ more and more in the etheric.
who have always been able to find the Christ, but human beings through
their natural development — will be able to see the Christ as an
around the future Christ event. And if we look at the whole of
that there will be a kind of chemistry pervaded by the Christ Impulse,
and a kind of botany pervaded by the Christ Impulse, and so on. The
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Title: Occult Science and Occult Development
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These lectures reveal the Christocentric nature of Steiner's teachings
and show the Incarnation of Christ as the pivot of cosmic and human

Title: Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the Twentieth Century
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Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the
These lectures reveal the Christocentric nature of Steiner's teachings
and show the Incarnation of Christ as the pivot of cosmic and human
CHRIST AT THE TIME OF THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHA AND
CHRIST IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
name of Christ. Even in the New Testament you will find — and in my
books I have often referred to it — that in Jehovah the Christ
it is desired to make a comparison between Jehovah and Christ it is well
by the moon. In the same sense Christ and Jehovah are one and the
same. Christ is like the sunlight, Jehovah is like the reflected
Christ-light in so far as it could reveal itself to the earth under
When contemplating a Being as sublime as Jehovah-Christ we must seek
prejudices of Christians’; another will have nothing to do with
Christian era, we find that throughout this whole period revelation
actually took place, we can say that Christ-Jehovah is the Being who has
the successive epochs Christ-Jehovah always reveals Himself through
to be the mediator between Christ-Jehovah and humanity, widely
bears the name of Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha and
Golgotha without considering the fact that the Christ passed through
the one exception of Christ. But in order that a super-sensible Being such
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Title: Lecture: Knowledge and Initiation
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Knowledge and Initiation - Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy
'Not I, but Christ in me.'

Title: Lecture: Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy
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Knowledge and Initiation - Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy
Lecture: Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy
'Not I, but Christ in me.'
COGNITION OF THE CHRIST THROUGH ANTHROPOSOPHY
period of evolution, were ‘Not I, but Christ in me.’ When we look upon
Christ Who descended to earth from the spiritual worlds and Who since
century after Christianity that gradually developed in humanity dead
rooted in Christianity to regard the Mystery through the simple study
sees that through the passing of that Divine Being, the CHRIST —
the Cross on Golgotha and of the dying and the risen Christ. Through
pre-Christian science of initiation. Hence we see why St. Paul out of
his experience was able to say, “Were it not for the risen Christ
was not the case before, the forces of Christ are working especially
It is thus that anthroposophy can show the path, not away from Christ,
pre-Christian mysteries and understandings and teachings of humanity
The first initiates of the Christian era, looking upon the Mystery of
but Christ in me Who makes me live again in the spiritual life of the
received, not only by those who adhere to the older Christian
all religions, the religion that is already there — Christianity.
Not only is it able to call Christianity into fresh life, but for
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Title: Mans Life on Earth: Lecture I
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Cardinal Newman, -or- The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ
Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Christianity brought seemed small in comparison. For he still knew of
so mighty, that he found himself unable to accept Christianity. The
And so when Roman influences began to permeate the Christianity that
the world, there was no possibility for Christianity to receive,
these later times, we designate as Christ. So that we are adhering
beheld the Christ outside the Earth in the Cosmos, in the Cosmos that
of the Christ. The initiates of olden times also knew and taught of
Christ Being. Christ was spoken of continually before the Mystery of
it as unchristian. But why should such a statement be regarded
as unchristian, seeing that the Early Church Fathers undoubtedly held
often described as heathen are, in a deeper sense, Christian. The
Christians before the Mystery of Golgotha.”
then this same Christ — after His death, after His resurrection
know today what Christ taught at that time to His initiate pupils; it
Christ, in order that they may be able to participate in the forces
have spoken of how Zarathustra came to a knowledge of Christ as a
were thus in olden time[s] divine teachers. And the Christ, — He
death was an external knowledge merely. But Christ learned to know
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Title: Planetary Spheres: Lecture I
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Cardinal Newman, -or- The Threefold Sun and the Risen Christ
Christianity brought seemed small in comparison. For he still knew of
so mighty, that he found himself unable to accept Christianity. The
And so when Roman influences began to permeate the Christianity that
the world, there was no possibility for Christianity to receive,
these later times, we designate as Christ. So that we are adhering
beheld the Christ outside the Earth in the Cosmos, in the Cosmos that
of the Christ. The initiates of olden times also knew and taught of
Christ Being. Christ was spoken of continually before the Mystery of
it as unchristian. But why should such a statement be regarded
as unchristian, seeing that the Early Church Fathers undoubtedly held
often described as heathen are, in a deeper sense, Christian. The
Christians before the Mystery of Golgotha.”
then this same Christ — after His death, after His resurrection
know today what Christ taught at that time to His initiate pupils; it
Christ, in order that they may be able to participate in the forces
have spoken of how Zarathustra came to a knowledge of Christ as a
were thus in olden time[s] divine teachers. And the Christ, — He
death was an external knowledge merely. But Christ learned to know
with the divine being teachers of long ago. Christ learned to know
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Title: Mans Life on Earth: Lecture III
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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
understanding of the heart, knowledge of the Christ and of all that
the Christ willed to become for the Earth in that He passed through
life of the Earth that Christ has gone through the Mystery of
Christ, then our astral body is able to receive via the physical and
that Christ becomes our Guide and Leader through the Zodiac during
directed in waking life to the Christ, then Christ becomes for him a
full significance of the Christ for the life of Earth, as it has been
up till now; and as for what the Christ has yet to become for
the Christ Event bring these experiences of the night into the waking
us. Here it is that the Christ appears before us as a spiritual Sun
be so, that we should have in the time of sleep the Christ for our
sleep, where the Christ came forward as his Guide and led him in the
man in this sphere, None other than the Christ Himself becomes his
it cannot understand the Christ in His spiritual significance. That,
understanding of the Christ. We need an Initiation Science that can
the Christ becomes our Guide, as I have described to you. It is
however our task to bring the Christ more and more into our
world with Christ; IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
inasmuch as we go down with Christ into the grave of Earth life, so

Title: Planetary Spheres: Lecture III
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understanding of the heart, knowledge of the Christ and of all that
the Christ willed to become for the Earth in that He passed through
life of the Earth that Christ has gone through the Mystery of
Christ, then our astral body is able to receive via the physical and
that Christ becomes our Guide and Leader through the Zodiac during
directed in waking life to the Christ, then Christ becomes for him a
full significance of the Christ for the life of Earth, as it has been
up till now; and as for what the Christ has yet to become for
the Christ Event bring these experiences of the night into the waking
us. Here it is that the Christ appears before us as a spiritual Sun
be so, that we should have in the time of sleep the Christ for our
sleep, where the Christ came forward as his Guide and led him in the
man in this sphere, None other than the Christ Himself becomes his
it cannot understand the Christ in His spiritual significance. That,
understanding of the Christ. We need an Initiation Science that can
the Christ becomes our Guide, as I have described to you. It is
however our task to bring the Christ more and more into our
world with Christ; IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
inasmuch as we go down with Christ into the grave of Earth life, so

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 2, Lecture IV
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
night unless we take into our hearts and minds what Christ wanted to
felt what it means for the life of the earth that Christ went through
the mystery of Golgotha, simply thinking about Christ in our ordinary
that Christ can become our leader through the zodiac from falling
Christ during our daytime waking state, then Christ becomes a leader
do we realize the full significance of Christ for the earth life of
Christ must still become for the life of earth. All these things,
touched by the Christ event bring their nightly experiences while
stand before a complicated and confusing world. Only when Christ
Christ appeared as the leader and led them from Aries through Taurus,
this: Christ becomes our leader through the complex and confusing
spiritual significance of Christ. You see, modern initiation science
unconsciously allowed Christ to become our leader. But we must bring
Christ. Then we can recognize that we live into the dead world with
Christ: In Christo morimur.
grave of the earth and its life we experience with Christ the

Title: Mans Life on Earth: Lecture IV
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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Knowledge of the Christ through Anthroposophy. Two lectures, London,
Golgotha, Christ then appears, to be his Guide through the otherwise

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Knowledge of the Christ through Anthroposophy. Two lectures, London,
Golgotha, Christ then appears, to be his Guide through the otherwise

Title: Mans Life on Earth: Lecture V
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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Godhead who is called in the Christian religion the Father God,
Christ, Christ stands before us, the Spirit Being who, through the
near to Christ, and then the Sun does not, it is true, become bright
make audible for us what Christ is saying to us. And this experience
reveals to us the relationship of Christ with the Sun. Yes, the Sun,
to the Christ, if we are duly prepared and approach Him in the right
it is the Christ who provides now for man the means of reconciliation
disappointed. Through the power of Christ and through the power
as for man, if he can find the right relation to the Christ, then it
Earth. At the centre of these sublime God Beings is the Christ Being,
therefore we speak of Christ to-day, we are speaking of One who can

Title: Planetary Spheres: Lecture V
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Godhead who is called in the Christian religion the Father God,
Christ. Christ stands before us, the Spirit Being who, through the
near to Christ, and then the Sun does not, it is true, become bright
make audible for us what Christ is saying to us. And this experience
reveals to us the relationship of Christ with the Sun. Yes, the Sun,
to the Christ, if we are duly prepared and approach Him in the right
it is the Christ who provides now for man the means of reconciliation
disappointed. Through the power of Christ and through the power
as for man, if he can find the right relation to the Christ, then it
Earth. At the centre of these sublime God Beings is the Christ Being,
therefore we speak of Christ to-day, we are speaking of One who can

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brought into human life on earth by the Event of Christ, by the
really took place when Christ entered the earthly life of
importance also for mankind's life on earth. The Christ Event
Anthroposophy and Christianity.

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First Steps in Supersensible Perception and The Relation of Anthroposophy to Christianity
Knowledge of Christ Through Anthroposophy,
by the Christ Event, the Event of Golgotha. It will then be my task to show
race on Earth and can therefore also reveal what the entry of Christ into
Mightiest of all Events in the life of mankind on Earth — the Christ
Science to Christianity.

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First Steps in Supersensible Perception and The Relation of Anthroposophy to Christianity
The Relation of Anthroposophy to Christianity
inward connection with Christ. In their own way, such people are usually very
devout Christians and it is from their very piety that the antagonism is
born. They feel that man's relation to Christ should be the outcome of
confused when intellectual knowledge is brought to bear upon the Christ
hearts shall be left undisturbed by any attempt to speak of Christ in terms
that Anthroposophy helps them to tread the Path to Christ; they would find
that all the longings which draw them to Christ in simplicity and devoutness
true piety and true veneration of Christ, I should like to speak briefly about
Earth itself to make direct connection with the Christ Being Who descended to
Christendom. Historical records have little help to offer because all real
Christian centuries, this was the attitude and feeling prevailing in men who
then this truly Christian feeling died away and must in our time be called to
the first Teachers of Christianity no longer to a Guru in the old sense but
to the Christ Who had descended from spiritual worlds and in Jesus of
of Christianity.
Christianity proclaimed that He had passed through the Death on Golgotha in
Christ Mystery, this Mystery of Golgotha, with true understanding.
Medieval Christianity was, it is
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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Christ and to the Mystery of Golgotha, already here upon the Earth,
can undergo it by virtue of the power of Christ which he has
that the word shall presently come true: the leadership of Christ
the Christ, calling man to universal, all-embracing love. Now this
Earth. Now however, since the Christ-Michael-leadership has begun,
working, and the love of Christ. And we shall then be enabled to
word of Christ: “My Kingdom is not of this world”. How
more and more, into a spiritual state. Christ's Kingdom is not as the
illumination and of human, Christ-filled love.

Title: Planetary Spheres: Lecture VI
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Christ and to the Mystery of Golgotha, already here upon the Earth,
can undergo it by virtue of the power of Christ which he has
that the word shall presently come true: the leadership of Christ
the Christ, calling man to universal, all-embracing love. Now this
Earth. Now however, since the Christ-Michael-leadership has begun,
working, and the love of Christ. And we shall then be enabled to
word of Christ: “My Kingdom is not of this world”. How
more and more, into a spiritual state. Christ's Kingdom is not as the
illumination and of human, Christ-filled love.

Title: Lecture: Man As A Picture of The Living Spirit
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too then faded out; during the fourth century after Christ it vanished
Christ remained. Man can now call this force to life within him, if he
in effect: Since the Middle Ages your knowledge of the Christ has died
out. No longer have you any real knowledge of the Christ, for he alone
the Christ. Hence you must first let teachers come to you from India,
from Asia, to teach you Christianity again. You can actually read it
come to you from Asia; they will be able to tell you what Christ
of the Middle Ages you have lost your knowledge of the Christ.
knowledge of the Christ, the wisdom of the Christ can be regained.
Christ is the Being who came down from spiritual worlds into the

Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture IV
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Christian epoch, a vision of the super-sensible world still came about
Christian era there was still an intense consciousness of the
simply not there for humanity in general when the Christian era

Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture IV
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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
Christian epoch, a vision of the super-sensible world still came about
Christian era there was still an intense consciousness of the
simply not there for humanity in general when the Christian era

Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture V
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Christianity from the spread of Evangelicalism. And thanks to the
than anything else to bring Christianity right down into the earthly,

Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture V
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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
Christianity from the spread of Evangelicalism. And thanks to the
than anything else to bring Christianity right down into the earthly,

Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture VI
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The growth and development of Christianity in connection with the
Christ as a Sun-Hero — the Arthur Stream. The Grail Stream
— Christianity in the hearts of men. The Impulse of Michael.
Golgotha, we get the impression that Christianity, the Christ
growth and gradual development of Christianity reveals many
Christianity in connection with what ought to live within the
of Christianity itself as St. Augustine, have said:
“Christianity did not begin with Christ; there were Christians
before Christ, only they were not so called.” This is what St.
which through the Mystery of Golgotha became the historical Christ
can speak of this earlier form of Christianity by starting from
“piety” — piety in the pagan sense. Christian piety
What was it that happened then? Up to that time Christ had been a Sun
etheric bodies. Therewith they received into themselves the Christ
into themselves the Sun-Spirit, that is to say, the Christ as He was
in pre-Christian times. And they sent their messengers out into all
the sublime Sun Being, Who was later known as the Christ, left the
Sun. This betokened a kind of death for the Christ Being. He went
visible to the seer, so Christ left behind Him in the Sun that which
Christ
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture VI
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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
The growth and development of Christianity in connection with the
Christ as a Sun-Hero — the Arthur Stream. The Grail Stream
— Christianity in the hearts of men. The Impulse of Michael.
Golgotha, we get the impression that Christianity, the Christ
growth and gradual development of Christianity reveals many
Christianity in connection with what ought to live within the
of Christianity itself as St. Augustine, have said:
“Christianity did not begin with Christ; there were Christians
before Christ, only they were not so called.” This is what St.
which through the Mystery of Golgotha became the historical Christ
can speak of this earlier form of Christianity by starting from
“piety” — piety in the pagan sense. Christian piety
What was it that happened then? Up to that time Christ had been a Sun
etheric bodies. Therewith they received into themselves the Christ
into themselves the Sun-Spirit, that is to say, the Christ as He was
in pre-Christian times. And they sent their messengers out into all
the sublime Sun Being, Who was later known as the Christ, left the
Sun. This betokened a kind of death for the Christ Being. He went
visible to the seer, so Christ left behind Him in the Sun that which
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Christ Impulse in Historical Development - Lecture 1
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE CHRIST IMPULSE IN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
time after the Christ Event people did not think as intellectually as
the perception of the Christ in the etheric body. Just as the Christ
that in this twentieth century a beholding of the Christ will occur
be able to see the Christ in the etheric, which means that we shall
can see the Christ. The next three millennia on earth will be devoted
trained clairvoyant experienced the Christ by means of certain
possible to see the Christ clairvoyantly. But to meet Him, now that He
This places the exalted Being that we call the Christ altogether in a
help the world forward. But those events are different from the Christ
Event. Christ did not come from another human individuality, He came
or Buddhas we do not come near to the Christ. For Christ is a
Being whom we call by the name of Christ or by other names will also
must learn to understand the Christ Being who lived for three years on
you will find details about the two Jesus boys. The Christ Event was prepared
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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.'
became capable of yielding the material into which the Christ
Christ on earth possible, so the anthroposophical movement
must facilitate a comprehensive understanding of Christ.
Christ descended to earth in the fourth major era, and those
spiritual fact of our age — the Christ Impulse —
us? They want us to tell them who Christ was and what He
Christ-name today cannot tell them who Christ was, whereas
Christ to oppose the external tradition emanating from
what the Great Christ is, those who deny His spirituality
Christ-name, the movements who know how to express the true
essence of the Christ even to those who wish to hear the
that humanity understand the Christ-Impulse and that we can
say who the Christ was. Such an understanding is now only in
understand how the Christ-Impulse has penetrated this worldly
When Christ
Nazareth and lived three years in this sheath as Christ, the
Sun-Spirit. With the event of the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ
that Christ indwelled the three bodies of Jesus of Nazareth,
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Christ entered the body of Jesus of Nazareth in order from then on to
brought about by the entering-in of the Christ. You know also that in
of Christianity the understanding of the super-sensible significance
of the Mystery of Golgotha was such that the leading Christian
teachers knew about the entering-in of Christ, the Sun Spirit, into
one, or only one? Yet in the early Christian centuries this was a
vivid awareness of how, coming from the cosmos, the Christ Spirit had
between the human being and the Christ was drawn more and more into
the nineteenth century the Christ was entirely lost, and the most
enlightened view was taken to be that of Christ as nothing more than
its gravity, we cannot but develop a yearning to find the Christ
Being once again. And this yearning to find Christ once more is what
as a feeling. Soloviev still bears something of true Christian wisdom.
Christ, the Son, has no place in the Gospels. Consciousness of the
something of the Christ-consciousness, and when he speaks it can

Title: Lecture: Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas
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Das esoterische Christentum and die geistige Führung der Menschheit
(Esoteric Christianity and the Spiritual Guidance of Mankind).
It is also known as: Moses and Christ, or The Coming of Christ.
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Das esoterische Christentum and die geistige Führung
(Esoteric Christianity and the Spiritual Guidance of Mankind).
Moses and Christ, or
The Coming of Christ.
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
BUDDHA AND CHRIST
different from those undergone in later pre-Christian epochs and in
Christ on the physical plane in a physical body. In our own, fifth
experience the Christ Being in an etheric form on the astral plane,
just as in the fourth epoch Christ was visible on the physical plane
responsibility towards the pre-Christian powers for having allowed
centuries before the beginning of the Christian era has not since
by the Christ Impulse. Consciousness of this truth was demonstrated
Christ Impulse. The legend, which was subsequently forgotten, tells
by Barlaam and his soul was fired by the Christian Impulse. This was
work in the evolution of humanity. It is the Christ Impulse and is
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considered. In pre-Christian times men could not acquire on earth
pre-Christian times all the various peoples of the world received the
advent of the great Buddha in pre-Christian times. A careful
this event, and so the Christ event had to occur because of the
stage of Christian evolution it was the understanding of the Mystery
again necessary, both to the Mystery of Golgotha and to the Christ
is spoken of. In pre-Christian times, when man attempted to gain
through the Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ gave mankind the
physical sense, but who has become flesh in a Christian sense, and
recognizing the divine in a human individuality, namely, the Christ,
intensified to the point that the divinity of Christ was denied. The
historical Christ, but instead acknowledge the divine nature that
I, but the Christ in me.” But modern man says, “I in me,
and the Christ as far as I can admit Him. The Christ is only valid
Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha and have established a
words, “Not I, but the Christ in me,” then our
preconceived opinion in favor of the Christian way of life. If this
nothing whatever to do with any form of denominational Christianity.
of a marked preference for Christianity as compared with other
Christianity. We are concerned with objective facts, and if you
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occultism such stress is laid upon understanding how Christ came to
earth from the Sun sphere. It is essential to grasp how Christ leads
Christ is a Sun Being who can lead us back to the Sun. Now comes what
relationship to the Christ. We must grasp something further. The time
further course of the life after death, to recognize Christ and
the equal importance of Christ and Lucifer may appear, this insight
point are carried forward only by the Christ. Christ accompanies us,
and as a result we are capable of remembering. If Christ were not to
it is the experience of uniting ourselves with Christ that beyond
fact, for this phase it appears as if Christ had given us everything
undergo an important experience of a moral nature. If Christ has
From this time onward neither the Christ principle nor Lucifer can

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The regent of fire spirits is Christ. Luciferic spirits fell behind on
us. Just as the Word became flesh in Christ Jesus, so the flesh must
become word when Christendom becomes perfected. That's the mystery of
Christ was born in the Oriphiel age. When Oriphiel rules again the
spiritual light that was brought by Christian Rosenkreutz and is now
divine good, and evil into a terrible Antichrist. Then every one of us

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture One
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
elements; then a new world arises. In the first Christian centuries
it. There were wars after the appearance of Christianity. John could
adversary of the good powers of the sun is called Sorat. Christ was
Sun. Sorat is, then, the adversary of Christ Jesus. The sign for Sorat
earth. These have an influence on human life. The lamb, Christ, contains
all seven. Christ is the alpha and the omega; the seven planets are
Christ is the regent of all these world spheres; their actions constitute
Eight hundred years before Christ the sun stood in the sign of Aries.
Christ was originally worshiped under the sign of the cross, with a
lamb lying at the foot of the cross. The cross with Christ upon it appeared

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Part 1: Lecture Two
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
Christianity as Mystical Fact.
The Gospels are not records of the biography of Christ Jesus, but rather
record. Augustine said: What is now called the “Christian
now is called the Christian religion.
Christianity: “Blessed are those who do not see and yet
those who understood who “Christ” is the main emphasis was
content in records from earlier times. What is important with Christ is
Until the time of Christ
experienced only in secret became historical fact in Christianity. What
In Christianity, for the
that otherwise only took place in the mystery centers. The course Christ's
Everything that Christ Jesus experienced physically, on the physical
had experienced earlier in the etheric body what Christ experienced
fulfilled. This one time only experience of Christ represents the greatest
biography of Christ Jesus. They had to take the building blocks for
mysteries were transformed into Christian mysteries. When we look back
than this only another can bring you — this other one is Christ Jesus
alluded to Christ Jesus.
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
of Christ is contained in the sixth epoch — be it in the sixth
be human beings who are Christ filled, who have been sealed; in the
to look at the seven stars. We know that the development of Christianity
are pagan Christians

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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
will find a description of how Christian mysticism describes the devachanic
something in Christian esotericism called the melting of human beings with
we call Christ Jesus, the one who points to the passage in the Apocalypse
extent have you worked manas into it. In Christian esotericism the word
into decline. In Christian esotericism the degeneration of the astral
For a Christian esotericist, “Satan” is a being who seduces
who was necessary for the growth of the I. In Christian esotericism
name of Christ Jesus. Here, in almost every sentence, the word I appears
Christian ideal of brotherhood will have appeared. This sixth territory
in Christian esotericism this is designated by the word “amen”
in Christian esotericism. In terms of Christian esotericism one says:
which has played an especially large role in Christian esotericism.
over. Finally, the wood was used to make the cross on which Christ Jesus
Christian esotericism
sees the earth as the body of Christ. When Christian esotericism speaks
of the body of Christ, it is speaking of the planetary body of the earth.
“All eyes will see Christ Jesus, also those who have pierced
things that Christ Jesus could not speak about in those days because the
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human personality who bears in the world the name of Christian
spiritual Brotherhood, the Fraternitas Roseae Crucis, Christian
on the physical plane in the personality of Christian Rosenkreuz
of Christian-Gnostic wisdom. We must touch briefly upon two facts
place since the appearance of Christianity down to the present day,
and then try to picture Christian Rosicrucianism as it was in the

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture III: The Elemental World and the Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep and Death.
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Kingdom of Heaven in the Christian sense.)

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first century after Christ; what he thought, felt and willed in those
before the Christian era and long before Christianity made its way

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture V: Mans Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. Birth into the Physical World.
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years before Christ; before that epoch it rose in the adjacent
era, the Redeemer Himself, Christ Jesus, was depicted by the symbol of

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture VI: The Law of Destiny
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abstraction but is to be taken literally. Christ Jesus healed those
their very eyes; it is materialism which speaks of Christ Jesus as an

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Christianity. Theologians maintain that Christianity cannot
Mankind was verily in need of help when the Christ was sent to this
men. There is no variance between Christian Esotericism and Spiritual

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all those whom Christian esotericism has called Divine Messengers,
Then come the eighth, ninth and tenth members, that which Christian
named in Christian Esotericism “Holy Spirit,” and finally
consciousness. One calls them in Christian Esotericism Archangels. And
consciousness, this Sun or Fire Spirit is the Christ. In the
Christian Esotericism knows that there was incarnated in the body of
flesh and blood of Christ-Jesus precisely such a Sun-Fire Spirit, and
Regent of the Sun, the most highly evolved, the Christ. While the
Christ. And when men who eat bread, taken from the body of the earth,
walk upon the earth, then they tread under foot the Body of Christ.
Father God, the highest God of the Sun, the Sun-God, as Christ, so
Holy Spirit with His Hosts, which in Christian esotericism are called
Dies Solis Sun-Day or Sun-God and mean by both the Christ Spirit.

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time the same degree of evolution as man today possesses. Christian
Leader the Christ, or in the sense of St. John's Gospel, the Logos. On
the Moon the Leader was the same Spirit as is known in Christianity as

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Christian designation is Angel, and which are called in Theosophy
“Christ,” that of Saturn as the “Father God.”
in Christianity “the Holy Spirit,” the Regent of the
Christian terminology. Therefore in the purified air, in the air which

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Christianity and all movements imbued with genuine religious life have
Christianity has made a radical statement in the words, “He who

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esoteric stream, known to the outer world as Christian Rosenkreuz. It
is not an unchristian way, rather is it a Christian path adapted to
modern conditions, and lies between the actual Christian path and the
Christianity. It took on a special form through that great initiate,
through the Christian and through the Rosicrucian training. The purely
Christian way is somewhat difficult for modern man, hence the
present age. If someone would take the old purely Christian path in
We will describe the purely Christian way. It is prescribed as to
method in the most profound Christian book least understood by the
representatives of Christian theology, the Gospel of St. John, and as
right way. The Christian path demands of its disciple that he
Christ Jesus. The pupil must at least find it possible to believe that
Christ Jesus was not merely the “Simple Man of Nazareth,”
Christian training one must be sure that in him lived a God-man of a
Christian training needs, aroused through the awakening of quite
definite feelings. The Christian path is more an inner one, whereas in
The Christian path is pursued by an awakening of the feelings. There
without the lower, to which it must feel gratitude. So even Christ,
in an inner vision one sees oneself as the Christ washing the feet of
his ego. One who would go through the Christian initiation must
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shines. Oriphiel has ruled before. That was the time when Christ
The story in the Bible where Christ swings a scourge to chase the
were darkest on earth, Christ appeared as the savior of mankind.
Oriphiel's reign ended 109 years after Christ's appearance, and he was
radiantly. Christ will appear again on earth, although in a different

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Munich, 3-17-'08
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also remains in the soul element. Christ Jesus comes down to earth. He

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 1-7-1909
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why? Because Christ through his death, at the moment when his blood

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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.'
their knowledge. Vishva-Karman is none other than the Christ
avatar on earth was Christ Himself, who lived for three years
in the three bodies of Jesus of Nazareth. Because Christ
evolution of Christendom, strange developments take place
Christianity spread? We can say that in the first few
centuries the dissemination of the idea of Christianity
we see that Christianity is decidedly propagated through
stressed the fact that the propagation of Christianity was
the Christ had walked on earth in a human body. In other
Christianity. Time and again during those first few
continuing propagation of Christianity, and it was emphasized
to the tenth, Christianity was propagated in a different way.
his readers with his version of the Christ idea and with his
perception of the Christ-Being. The Heliand, the Savior,
of Christianity is clothed in Central European imagery. Why
clairvoyant faculties, so that he was able to see Christ in a
way similar to Paul's perception of Christ at Damascus.
Through the event at Golgotha the Christ-Being had united
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Christ. Evil powers must withdraw from anyone who places this black

Title: Metaporphoses/Soul One: Lecture 5: Human Character
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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a

Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture I
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comprehension of the Christ principle. If we have come to know the
reality of the Christ principle, we understand that this Christ
however, we understand the Christ principle in this way, and know it
transitory existence we grasp the Christ principle, there will mature
faltering, though we believe that the Christ-force is working in the
the Christ principle, the Christ.
which Christ Jesus took the holy Supper with His disciples; the same
vessel received the Christ's blood when it flowed on the Cross, and
those who wish to come to a true understanding of the Christ
means of the Christ principle, it had to ripen by the aid of the
Then we understand the cross of the Christ in the star of Lucifer. It
revere as the wisdom of pre-Christian times. To this we must indeed
pre-Christian wisdom, of the light of the East, must be lost to us.
the whole of the deep, inner meaning of the Christ; but side by side
with Phosphoros we see Christophoros, the Christ-bearer, and we try
luminous spiritual life, and the Christ will guide us to the inner

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knowledge of the Christ impulse and all that the course of the
centuries has gradually evolved from this Christ impulse in the form
of the Christ upon the wisdom of pre-Christian times.

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the Christ, a being previously united to the Sun, descended from the
to the earth. The Christ being entered into the body of Jesus of
fallen a prey to death if the Christ event had not come to pass.
yet it was the Christ's descent from the sun which gave this inner
a spiritual seer looks back to the time preceding the Christ event, a
seer: the Christ died on the cross, and thereupon the earth, which
the Christ principle into the earth had something in common with the
that they all lead up to the Christ event. Just as men of today look
back to the Christ as a being Who at a certain point of time entered
into human evolution, so pre-Christian initiates all pointed to the
coming of the Christ as fore-shown by events. Nothing could have been
a surer herald of the Christ than the mighty phenomenon, visible
life by the Christ principle. And inasmuch as those ancient sages
pointed to the most important prophecy of the Christ event, they were
saying: the Christ will come because that which points to Him is in
is to take place in the future. Indications of the Christ event were
cross of the world's body, waiting to receive the life of the Christ

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importance of the Christ impulse in human evolution has already been
thousands of years before the coming of the Christ, full wisdom could
anything could be withheld from pre-Christian men? They seem to
the old; for if it were otherwise, men living in post-Christian days
pre-Christian times. Now it is understandable that such things should
Because the men who incarnate during the post-Christian epoch are
could not possibly learn before the appearance of Christ on earth
found in the soul world at a time when the Christ was not yet
perceptible to Earth evolution, although the Christ light shone upon
first the Christ light did not ray back from him. Since the point of
evolution of the earth, but has reflected the light of Christ, just
cannot actually recognise Christ, was proclaimed by Moses to his
people. Moses gave the name of Jahve or Jehovah to this Christ light
aspect of this matter. The Christ is heralded, and Jahve or Jehovah
is the name of the Christ light rayed back by an ancient deity. It is
a prophetic heralding of Christ. Indra himself passed to a higher
stage of evolution through this contact with the Christ light. He did

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take in the Christ light in the course of incarnations and
physical plane. Thus, while the Christ light shone in the Orient,
Christ event in its whole importance flow into mankind. We're told
himself, just as the Christ had gone through death on the same, and
In Christo morimur

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The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of Christ
Lucifer’ and the ‘Brothers of Christ’ can only be
future of the Christian impulse depends upon the development of
that Dr. Steiner has ever identified Christ with Zarathustra. This he
has never done, any more than he has declared Christ to be the same
Lucifer had entered into humanity in the southern peoples, and Christ
Christ who was drawn from outside as an objective Being into the
tells us that the sacrificial blood of the Christ flowing from the
the incarnation of Christ had been made in a very definite way by
within the union of the two streams, the mighty Christ Being, guiding
the Christ with Lucifer. A careful study of Dr. Steiner's lectures
will show there is no reason for the inference.] Christ

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Lucifer and Christ
actually to incarnate within it. The incarnation of the Christ, the
perfect form, in its Christ form. Zarathustra was reborn as Jesus,
may now ask: What is the relation of Apollo to the Christ? When a
later was revealed as the Christ, but he could only conceive of it in
garment of the Christ, resembling in its form the being within it.
as Apollo before the Christ could become visible and intelligible to
the intuition of men. Apollo is an intimation of the Christ, but not
the Christ Himself.
what is the most essentially characteristic quality of the Christ so
higher power than Apollo possessed, namely, the Christ power. And in
the Christ all the qualities of the other beings out in the universe
ability was possessed by the Christ alone. Thus one being, and one
living as man among other men. This is the great and mighty Christ
and beyond the physical world, the Christ is to be found within the
found in the external universe: the Christ is He who was born within
the Christ event it — had been necessary to descend to the
inner god was sought; the Christ is a God Who may be found without as
unity, became a living life through the Christ event. Formerly men
divinity to be found on the inward path were one. After the Christ
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shown that the mystical Christ-experience — such an experience as a
experiences with what we have called the Christ substance — was
historical descent into incarnation of the Christ was a necessary in
preparation for the presence of the mystical Christ in the soul. It
is not correct to say that in pre-Christian times the mystical Christ
experiences are only possible in the Christian epoch; such
beings and the Christ can only be comprehensible if we assume that a
last thousand years before the appearance of Christ and during the
beings, and that the Christ-Being Who was formerly a cosmic being
very time when Christ appeared, could perceive nothing of them unless
had to come to pass before those who surrounded the Christ could say
cognition.’ Understanding of Christ therefore had gradually to
been his without the coming of Christ; he would then have experienced
Christ event. All association with the Christ principle and the
experiences we may have in connection with the appearance of Christ,
Therefore the Christ event had to take place; to permeate the human
physical experiences of the Christ, will take up these forces, in
experiences of Christ through the reversal of the principles has its
this alone would not suffice. By passing through the Christ
the Christ, and by letting Him grow more and more into our soul
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Christ. In this feeling of shame he was reminded of Christ's words:
being when he let a second word of Christ live in his soul:
in this occult script. The whole Christian wisdom and mystery that
religions. The Christian wisdom of the Grail is a mystery that was

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are either to be taken as belonging to the Kingdom of Christ or to
those cosmic beings which in pre-Christian times had the Christ as
Christ on the earth, this has altered in such a way that there has
to an age wherein Christ must be sought within and Lucifer without.
Christ Event. Our culture epoch will be followed by another and this
civilisation with the Christ Event. The other epochs of civilisation
intervening Christ impulse. This is not a simple repetition of the
is steeped in what the Christ brought to the earth. It is in one
and saw behind the physical sunlight the Christ spirit whom he called
Ahura Mazdao, and drew men's attention to Him. This Christ
Being has now descended to earth; Christ must penetrate so deeply
Christ to regain a way of feeling, of looking at things, which
inward soul-life pervaded and filled with the Christ in the Gospel of
highly than anything else but it is also natural that a Christian
heralding the Christ who unites the two paths. Jahve or Jehovah is a
Jehovah reflects the light of Christ. Here we can clearly see the two
tribes in Israel, also twelve apostles at the moment when Christ, Who
being to the brothers of Christ, a transition of which we shall speak

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The Bodhisattvas and the Christ
advent of the Christ-impulse, it is a fact that when a man looked
the Christ comes under a different category altogether. The Christ
did not descend to earth by the path of time. The Christ came to the
time sequence. The approach through space, this advent of the Christ
not a temporary value. With this is connected the fact that Christ's
individual relation to each other. But the Christ as the Spirit of
What Christ brings is the co-existence of men in space, a condition
them in time. Through Christ there came the love of soul to soul, so
seven Sages. But Christ is surrounded by twelve Apostles in whom we
life on earth through the Christ principle. To love what is around us
with brother love, that is to follow Christ. If, therefore, we speak
in the olden times of the children of Lucifer, the Christ principle
is the impulse, which causes us to say: ‘Christ is the
to Christ, the feeling oneself drawn not as to a father, but as to a
assume in consequence of the descent of the Christ principle upon the
and twelve. The more, therefore, that the Christ influence shines
Christ principle. We might speak at great length about the relation
everything else indicates how profoundly momentous the Christ event
Christ
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that that Being Whom we call Christ Jesus could incarnate in the
e.g., for the greater significance of, let us say, the Christ,
inclines to the Christ through one's Occidental education or one's
the Christ related to the Orient?” when from a personal
standpoint the Christian is as indifferent to one as the Oriental. As
“I,” the Christ Jesus, is characterised by the saying: When
has attained the Christ nature in himself. That is the meaning of a

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tenth centuries after Christ; we are now actually in the middle of
possible for the being whom we call Christ Jesus to incarnate
not decide that Christ, let us say, is more significant than what is
the question how Christ is related to the orient until, from a
personal standpoint, we can accept Christian and oriental teachings
ideal of the evolution of the I, Christ Jesus, is described as
outer becomes like the inner, then human beings have attained Christ

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asceticism and illness, human egoism, Buddha and Christ, and a
will be succeeded by Christ Jesus, and the individual Ego will itself be

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Muenchen, 12-7-'09
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the death of Christ on the cross of Golgotha, and the symbol for this
in Christ as we let the force of our meditation become a light in us
In Christo morimur

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— of Christ Jesus. The attitude to the Gospels in the first
Christian centuries, and for a long time through the middle ages, was
those people, who endeavoured to grasp the gigantic Christ Event in
reverence, unthinkable today, for the great Christ Event through the
That which we call the Christ Event is a mighty happening in the
Christianity as a main stream.
Christianity.
teachings have flowed into Christianity. You are not shown what
within Christianity, as well as Buddhism, and the old Hebrew stream.
Christianity.
able to stream into Christianity in a new form, but other spiritual
to Christianity. A suitable physical body had to be created out of it
as we have seen the mission of Zarathustra within Christianity, so we
blood, and what flows through the blood, to Christ Jesus. That is the
into Christianity.
stream flowed into Christianity, in order to flow on farther into it.
contribution in order to stream further into Christianity at a
spirit of the origin of Christianity, to show how our knowledge of the

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ever to intervene in human evolution, Christ Jesus. The attitude
toward the Gospels in the first Christian centuries and even
for the great Christ event. Indeed they felt that precisely because
they had four Gospels they should revere and appreciate the Christ
People back then felt they had to look up to the Christ event with
we call the Christ event is a tremendous, mighty event in the
Zarathustra. This, too, entered into Christianity, which then
Christianity. You do not learn what Buddhism is nowadays from people
Those teachings have flowed into Christianity. Likewise, you do not learn
humanity flow into Christianity, and we will have to look for it
flowed into Christianity. To understand how Zarathustrianism flowed
form flow on in Christianity. Many different things had to come
Christianity. A suitable physical body for Zarathustra, a body with
Christianity, so we will now find out about the mission of the
flows through the blood up to the time of Christ Jesus. The entire
Christ who would incarnate in it. If the Hebrews could no longer
the ancient Hebrew stream flow into Christianity. Remember our
initiation, how the stream of the Buddha flowed into Christianity.
Christianity to show how our knowledge of the world and of humanity

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reflect about this relation of the good Gods, of Christ, to the

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this and flow into them. It's not for nothing that Christ says:

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1910. It is included in Das Ereignis der Christus-Erscheinung in der
1910. It is included in Das Ereignis der Christus-Erscheinung in der
Christ event approached was, “Change the disposition of your souls,
as the Christ.
Jesus Christ, but the most significant sign was given in advance
the descended Christ. The times have been fulfilled.”
Christ Jesus Himself expressed, in the most penetrating thoughts, the
Christ saw the multitudes of people, He withdrew from them and
forces. But now — so said Christ Jesus to His disciples — a man can
and Christ impulse, and can unite himself as an ego with this impulse.
body, which was thus formed in a special way. Christ Jesus therefore
egos, through the in-dwelling Christ, to purify the astral body on
will become permeated with the Christ. In his heart he will thirst for
heart, as expression of the purified ego. Christ said, therefore,
him with its warmth. Only through the deed of Christ is it brought
down to earth as the power of love and harmony. Therefore, Christ
Christ Himself, in the sentence that reads, “Christ's intimate
able with his purified physical forces to receive the Christ impulse
directly into himself. So it came to pass that the God-man Christ
Christ will not incarnate again in a physical body as he did in Jesus;
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
Christ event approached was, “Change the disposition of your
Christ.
this was indicated in a similar way by Christ Jesus, but the most
which you will enter a relationship to the descended Christ. The
Christ Jesus Himself expressed the fulfillment of the
Gospels read, “When Christ saw the multitudes of people, He
Christ Jesus to His disciples — a man can become filled with
God by permeating himself with the God and Christ impulse and uniting
which was thus formed in a special way. Christ Jesus therefore said
Christ, to purify their astral bodies. The place in which the astral
higher development will receive in his I a hint of the Christ. He
here dealing with an occult document. Christ has promised everything,
as expression of the purified I. Christ said, therefore, “Blessed
warmth. Only through the deed of Christ is it brought down to earth
as the power of love and harmony. Therefore, Christ says, “Blessed
we find references also to the special mission of Christ Himself, in
the sentence that reads, “Christ's intimate disciples may
receive the Christ impulse directly into himself So it came to pass
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Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Erster Vortrag
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die neue Erscheinung der Christus-Gestalt, vorauszusehen in der

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niederste Dreiheit nehmen und die christlichen Ausdrücke
haben, die ich vor kurzem in Christiania gehalten habe, werden

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV: The Forming and Creating of Beings by the Elohim.
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trinity, we usually make use of Christian designations, and speak of
recently in Christiania

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trinity, we usually make use of Christian designations, and speak of
recently in Christiania

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Diejenigen, die an dem Vortragszyklus in Christiania
das charakterisiert in meinen Christiania-Vorträgen

Title: Genesis: Lecture V: Light and Darkness. Yom and Lay'lah
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present at the course of lectures I gave in Christiania will remember
described that in my Christiania lectures

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present at the course of lectures I gave in Christiania will remember
described that in my Christiania lectures

Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Siebenter Vortrag
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in der christlichen Esoterik auch die Throne nennen, sie haben
der christlichen Esoterik zu sagen. Und wenn wir heraufdringen

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI: Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it.
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Spirits of Will, whom in Christian esotericism we also call the
we are accustomed to call them in Christian esotericism — are

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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Spirits of Will, whom in Christian esotericism we also call the
we are accustomed to call them in Christian esotericism — are

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-24-10
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spiritual world. This is like a feeling that Christ is in one, and

Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Zehnter Vortrag
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Christiania-Vorträgen, die wissen, daß in dieser

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX: The Moon Nature in Man
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with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this

Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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with the lectures I gave recently in Christiania know that this

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 8-26-10
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Christ there in accordance with the ideas that he's made of
him, and thereby doesn't recognize the real Christ, for
Christ who will become perceptible in the etheric. We must prepare
Christ. And if this mood lives in our soul rightly, we can have Ex
Deo nascimur and next to it: In Christo morimur — in
Christ we die. And the third sentence of this Rosicrucian saying

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klar sein, daß bis in die christlichen Jahrhunderte herein
durch die Verkörperung des Christus in dem Leibe des Jesus
göttliches Prinzip der Christus im Erdenwerden. Und der
Christus immer mehr und mehr in unser eigenes Wesen
Christus-Prinzip durchdringen, nur dadurch auf der Erde immer

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centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
the Christ in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Since that time the
Christ has worked in the earth as another divine principle. And
of the Christ; for only by permeating ourselves with the Christ

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centuries of the Christian era, there was nothing in the first
the Christ in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Since that time the
Christ has worked in the earth as another divine principle. And
of the Christ; for only by permeating ourselves with the Christ

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Nazareth is replaced by the Christ.
Christ-Principle should incarnate for three years.
into the highest summits of the anthroposophical, Christian method of
method of expression among men at the time when Christ Jesus walked on
this Ego, the Christ-Impulse had to be the most intense impulse. If,
now, the Christ is taken up into the Ego so that the phrase of Paul is
true, “Not I, but the Christ in me,” then the Ego has the
astral body. And the more one approached the Christ Event, that stage
world. That was the age when the Christ drew near.
case with the Christ-Impulse. But a transition had to exist. Things
was kindled through the Christ-Impulse. Things could not take this
earth-man the Christ lived in order to inspire the Ego — so for
really should become through the reception of the Christ-Impulse
Christ, which is an ancient symbol. For just as in John through quite
Mark. Yet such things can only be indicated in image form. Christ
time of Christ should have well understood when one pointed to John
expression was applied to Christ Jesus Himself. How must one have
spoken of Christ Jesus if one understood such things? No man at that
the earth, this wandering body in flesh, the Christ Jesus; but
expression was so used, that Christ Jesus was in his home in the
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up to the moment when his inspiration through the Christ took place.
later — this gospel shows how the physical body in which Christ
of the spiritual-scientific, Christian world view. It gives us the
that prevailed at the time when Christ Jesus walked the earth. Do not
to the use of the I. In regard to the I, the Christ impulse was the
most intense impulse. If Christ is taken into the I in the sense of
St. Paul's words, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
the time of the Christ event, it entered an evolutionary
That was the time when Christ drew near.
with the Christ impulse, but there had to be a transition. The
kindled later through the Christ impulse. Things were not to
Therefore, just as Christ lived in earthly human beings in order to
through receiving the Christ impulse. Angels proclaim beforehand what
Christ. Through special spiritual influences, John had an Aquarian
shown in images. Christ Jesus draws together all those who are
the Holy Spirit.” When Christ walked along the Sea of Galilee
clear about this. We can say that at the time of Christ people would
us assume people had spoken about Christ Jesus in the same way. How
walking around among them Christ Jesus. Rather, the name was the sign
around alone, and at times it was said that Christ Jesus was in his
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on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to
Jesus, until the moment when the Christ descends into
in which the Christ was to incarnate for three years was
in our study of Christianity and give us insight into many
expressed themselves at the time when Christ Jesus was on the
‘I’. The Christ Impulse was to be the most
the words of St. Paul: ‘Not I but Christ in me’
able to serve that purpose. When the time of Christ's
when the time of Christ's coming was approaching.
so in the case of the Christ Impulse too; but there was
activity through the Christ Impulse. What happened was that
stage in the astral body. And just as the Christ lived in
proclaim what man will become if he takes the Christ Impulse
the Christ. Just as John, through very special influences,
be presented in pictures. Christ Jesus draws to Himself those
Spirit.’ And as Christ passes along the shore of the
at the time of Christ would have understood very well what
mode of expression had been used in connection with Christ
of giving the appellation Christ Jesus to the body of flesh
independently of a physical body. Occasionally, Christ Jesus
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Title: Lecture: The Son of God and the Son of Man
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Das Christus-Ereignis als Mittelpunktsgeschehen
Das Christus-Ereignis als Mittelpunktsgeschehen
may say: In ancient, pre-Christian times, the possibility of working
living four or five thousand years before the Christian era, we
This Ideal is the Christ-Ideal;
Christ-Being Who lived for three years on earth in the body of Jesus.
Egohood, that Christhood, of which St. Paul is speaking when he calls
upon men to fulfil the “Not I, but Christ in me”. —

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 2-12-11
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also use the saying In Christo morimur in the form: In
Christ we live.

Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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outstanding significance in the Christian view of life.
recognizing the deeper aspects of Christianity, for example, and of
Christ on the earth, and the phase of ascent which begins with the
appearance of Christ on the earth and continues into the farthest
future. Thus we regard the Coming of Christ as the event of supreme
Why must the Christ Event be given this place at the very centre of
been brought by the Christ Impulse. And the more his soul is filled
with the Christ Impulse, the higher he will ascend again into the
Christ! One who speaks in the sense contrary to St. Paul may say:
‘Not I, but Christ in me’ — indicating that when Christ
Herein lies the significance of the Christ Impulse. Without the Christ Impulse
unfold a higher Personality. This is the Christ-Personality Whom he
influence of the Christ Impulse. In no other way can abstract ideals be
invested with the force of personality than by allowing the Christ
the Christ to ourselves. Our ego plays a part in what we do or
endeavour to do in order to come near to Christ, and there we can
truly speak of merit. But the fact that Christ is present, that we are
Therefore what flows from the Living Christ in order to bring us
without ourselves being guilty. Through Christ's existence on earth we
Sin, so he heals it again through the Christ Impulse. An inflowing
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

Title: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
coming of the Christ Being, who will become ever better understood by
said that this clairvoyant vision of the Christ, who has been united
Christ will certainly not be in a physical body, but will come about
The power of the Christ provides all the impulses to
see with their etheric souls the reappearing Christ, and within the
mediate the Christ-nature to man. That is the secret guarded by
cannot be proclaimed publicly: the vision of the Christ in the
of the physical plane, that the Christ too should appear once in a
Christ even when He no longer walks among men in a physical body,
Christ is here, He is united with the ether body of the Earth. What
time the soul were obliged to see the Christ in the same physical
believes in this Second Coming of the Christ, who will be visible to
stationary, and still today need to see the Christ in the same form
Coming of Christ in a physical body.

Title: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
coming of the Christ Being, who will become ever better understood by
said that this clairvoyant vision of the Christ, who has been united
Christ will certainly not be in a physical body, but will come about
The power of the Christ provides all the impulses to
see with their etheric souls the reappearing Christ, and within the
mediate the Christ-nature to man. That is the secret guarded by
cannot be proclaimed publicly: the vision of the Christ in the
of the physical plane, that the Christ too should appear once in a
Christ even when He no longer walks among men in a physical body,
Christ is here, He is united with the ether body of the Earth. What
time the soul were obliged to see the Christ in the same physical
believes in this Second Coming of the Christ, who will be visible to
stationary, and still today need to see the Christ in the same form
Coming of Christ in a physical body.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

Title: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

Title: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
find those who in eastern mysticism are called Dhyani, in Christian
the name of Christ, the Christ who is so very closely bound up with
as concerns Earth-development on the physical plane Christ was
the Christ did by dwelling for three years in a human body was
earthly beings of sense to have the Christ also among them once as an
earthly being of sense. But in His essential nature the Christ is not
events took place. That means that as time went on Christ brought
the Egypto-Chaldean epoch, became pupils of Christ in the spiritual,
super-sensible world. During the Egypto-Chaldean epoch Christ was the
permeated by Christ that they now appear at a higher stage of
into themselves the Christ Impulse, which formerly they did not have,
and that as Christ-filled Beings they now influence mankind from the
‘Christ-ened’, have meanwhile absorbed the Christ
sixth epoch they will appear as Christ-filled Beings. The Archai, the
the Indian epoch, have also meanwhile absorbed the Christ Impulse,
will all be illuminated, inflamed, set on fire by the Christ Impulse.
The Holy Rishis will rise again in the splendour of the Christ Sun in
also for Angels, Archangels and Archai — the Christ-event
certain Beings lagged behind? It was because they rejected the Christ
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
find those who in eastern mysticism are called Dhyani, in Christian
the name of Christ, the Christ who is so very closely bound up with
as concerns Earth-development on the physical plane Christ was
the Christ did by dwelling for three years in a human body was
earthly beings of sense to have the Christ also among them once as an
earthly being of sense. But in His essential nature the Christ is not
events took place. That means that as time went on Christ brought
the Egypto-Chaldean epoch, became pupils of Christ in the spiritual,
super-sensible world. During the Egypto-Chaldean epoch Christ was the
permeated by Christ that they now appear at a higher stage of
into themselves the Christ Impulse, which formerly they did not have,
and that as Christ-filled Beings they now influence mankind from the
‘Christ-ened’, have meanwhile absorbed the Christ
sixth epoch they will appear as Christ-filled Beings. The Archai, the
the Indian epoch, have also meanwhile absorbed the Christ Impulse,
will all be illuminated, inflamed, set on fire by the Christ Impulse.
The Holy Rishis will rise again in the splendour of the Christ Sun in
also for Angels, Archangels and Archai — the Christ-event
certain Beings lagged behind? It was because they rejected the Christ
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
for him to conceive of the Being of Christ Jesus Himself. For if we
contemplate the soul which was in Christ Jesus after the baptism in
was then able to absorb the Christ Impulse, the Christ principle. For
within Christianity these two influences are to be found, merged

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
for him to conceive of the Being of Christ Jesus Himself. For if we
contemplate the soul which was in Christ Jesus after the baptism in
was then able to absorb the Christ Impulse, the Christ principle. For
within Christianity these two influences are to be found, merged

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
these peripheral gods at a certain moment was in fact the Christ, who
Jesus of Nazareth. In Christ a divine Being entered into physical
of Christ; he is really the same as Christ, only seen in a mirror, so
humanity prepared for the Christ through the ancient Hebrew
in a representation. Jahve or Jehovah is related to the real Christ
representation of the real Christ, and to those who see through
of Jehovah-Christ, and in doing so light upon the true sense of the
Gospels, which relate that the Christ Himself said: ‘If you
have spoken of Me.’ Christ knew well that when, of old, people

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
these peripheral gods at a certain moment was in fact the Christ, who
Jesus of Nazareth. In Christ a divine Being entered into physical
of Christ; he is really the same as Christ, only seen in a mirror, so
humanity prepared for the Christ through the ancient Hebrew
in a representation. Jahve or Jehovah is related to the real Christ
representation of the real Christ, and to those who see through
of Jehovah-Christ, and in doing so light upon the true sense of the
Gospels, which relate that the Christ Himself said: ‘If you
have spoken of Me.’ Christ knew well that when, of old, people

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like spirits, as Christ sacrificed himself for world
statement: we die in Christ.
Deo nascimur, In Christo morimur, Per Spiritum Sanctum
esoteric says this verse, he doesn't say the word Christ, but

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
itself into that Christpower, that Christ Impulse which, as it
Christ in me!’ As contrasted with the other three currents
is actually the body of Christ.’
there outside in the heavens is the pristine body of Christ, who was
when he expressed the Mystery of the Christ in the sun by the word
From Jesus to Christ,

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
itself into that Christpower, that Christ Impulse which, as it
Christ in me!’ As contrasted with the other three currents
is actually the body of Christ.’
there outside in the heavens is the pristine body of Christ, who was
when he expressed the Mystery of the Christ in the sun by the word
From Jesus to Christ,

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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
contexts named the Christ Impulse. We then learn to understand in its
deepest significance the saying of St. Paul, Not I but Christ in
Christ-substance.’ When we permeate ourselves with this
carry with us the Substantiality of the Christ, and thereby something
truth is the Christ Impulse; and when I speak of the Christ Impulse
look to; I am referring to the great macrocosmic Christ Impulse. We
Christ Impulse. And here we experience something very strange. Just
as when we press outwards with a consciousness devoid of the Christ
the cosmic void ... so, as soon as we have received the Christ
reached the stage of clairvoyance, then is the Christ-filled soul
super-sensible realities. Whereas without Christ our consciousness
brings us to the void, the Christ-filled consciousness brings us to
and a biology permeated by the Christ Impulse, and that true science,
to an extent not today dreamt of, will become permeated by the Christ
may seem to the humanity of the present day to think of a Christian
carry the Christ with us into our outlook upon the world, He will
in the Pauline sense with the Christ Impulse, and then plunge into
ourselves, what then happens? The Christ Impulse has the quality of
notice that the deeper we descend with the Christ Impulse into
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due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.
contexts named the Christ Impulse. We then learn to understand in its
deepest significance the saying of St. Paul, Not I but Christ in
Christ-substance.’ When we permeate ourselves with this
carry with us the Substantiality of the Christ, and thereby something
truth is the Christ Impulse; and when I speak of the Christ Impulse
look to; I am referring to the great macrocosmic Christ Impulse. We
Christ Impulse. And here we experience something very strange. Just
as when we press outwards with a consciousness devoid of the Christ
the cosmic void ... so, as soon as we have received the Christ
reached the stage of clairvoyance, then is the Christ-filled soul
super-sensible realities. Whereas without Christ our consciousness
brings us to the void, the Christ-filled consciousness brings us to
and a biology permeated by the Christ Impulse, and that true science,
to an extent not today dreamt of, will become permeated by the Christ
may seem to the humanity of the present day to think of a Christian
carry the Christ with us into our outlook upon the world, He will
in the Pauline sense with the Christ Impulse, and then plunge into
ourselves, what then happens? The Christ Impulse has the quality of
notice that the deeper we descend with the Christ Impulse into
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
V. THE CHRIST IMPULSE AS LIVING REALITY
As a supplement to the lectures given in the year 1912 on the mission of Christian Rosenkreutz, we publish certain material from the year 1911. It will help us find the thread between the work of Jeshu ben Pandira, [footnote: See Jeshu ben Pandira by Rudolf Steiner, also lectures 5 and 6 of the “Gospel of St. Matthew.’] the teacher of the Essenes, and that of Christian Rosenkreutz.
Christ works as a macrocosmic Power and is not a teacher like the
who already in the pre-Christian era pointed to Christ in His full
reality of being; again in the post-Christian era they point to Him as
both before and after Christ's physical life on Earth. He who was born
as the son of a King in India, 550 years before Christ, lived and
to an understanding of the Christ Impulse. All these things had come
to pass before the appearance of Christ on the Earth. About the year
reached the age of 30, he became the bearer of Christ, at the Baptism
contained in the ancient Mystery-scripts. In the life of Christ Jesus,
the Christ Mystery had already been known prophetically, had indeed
Western spiritual life connected with Christian Rosenkreutz.
nature of the Christ Impulse and in that age the Buddha stream and the
Christ stream will flow into one. Only so can the Christ Mystery be
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 1
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE CHRIST IMPULSE AS LIVING REALITY
etherically visible Christ more and more clearly in the course of the
mainly connected with the physical plane, Christ could only appear in
our intellectual age the Christ will be seen clairvoyantly in His
conscious way. Christ will appear as a form of light to a number of
Christ revealing Himself from higher Devachan in His true Ego that
necessary above all that man learns to understand what this Christ
Christ Impulse is a living reality that is streaming into mankind, and
that Christ did not give the world a doctrine or a theory but the
then develop further under the nurturing influence of the Christ
Impulse because Christ is macrocosmically what our ego is to us
beyond man himself. On the other hand Christ is a macrocosmic being at
through their teaching, whereas Christ, working as a macrocosmic
Bodhisattvas who already in the pre-Christian era pointed to Christ in
His full reality of being; again in the Christian era they point to
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Christ Impulse as Living Reality - Lecture 2
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE CHRIST IMPULSE AS LIVING REALITY
of mankind by the Christ that its waves surge onwards into future
impulse was manifested in the incarnation of Christ in a human,
will manifest in such a way that human beings will behold the Christ
way of the Christ Impulse we are concerned with ideas which will be
resolutely opposed above all by the churches of Christendom. Great and
Christ Impulse. Hitherto, indeed, such understanding has been lacking.
futility of the attitude maintained by the opponents of Christianity,
understanding for Christianity in the modern age, but such endeavours
It is important to understand the real sources of Christianity, but
Christian Rosenkreutz has been an integral part of the spiritual life
rosicrucian Christianity lived in the twelve men.
give the name Christian Rosenkreutz to this individuality. But it was
influencing the development of Christianity in its true form as the
a pupil chosen by Christian Rosenkreutz. Already today it is possible
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THE NATURE OF CHRIST
THE POSITION OF THE ANTICHRIST TO CHRIST
CHRIST THE RESURRECTED
The Nature of Christ the Resurrected
the nature of Christ Jesus. This necessity arises from the fact that
Christian century; and then we speak of our own, the present, the
traditional Christianity to see in the Luciferic being only the wicked
fitting for the narrow, traditionally-formed Christianity to call
Christianity which calls Lucifer only a devil worthy of hatred. We
as Luciferic, and consider the nature of Christ.
The Christ is quite radically different from other beings who share in
from its beginning. The Christ was not directly connected with the
special sort; they were such that this macrocosmic Christ Being
Christ evolution it was normal to bring to ego-perfection, outside the
so for the evolution of the Christ Being it was normal, when He
its evolution. It was normal for the Christ to have the macrocosmic
Christ Being is a Being Who in a certain sense is like the human being,
as earth-ego — but the Christ as Cosmic Ego. His evolution was such
The Christ, then, is a four-membered Being, including His macrocosmic
ego, in order to be able to receive, so the Christ had to develop His
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of our Rosicrucian verse: In Christo morimur; we die in Christ
so that we can say; In Christo morimur. We turn away from all

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Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Blavatsky. She observed the field where the Christ may be
contained antipathy, indeed hatred for everything Christian
the Christian and the Hebrew, and because she had never
faced by an entirely false idea of the Christ. This is quite
temptation which even the Christ could not escape. The

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attention upon the realm where Christ may be found, in
everything Christian or Hebrew, and a preference for all other
Christ in an entirely false way. That was quite natural. It
objective world.” That is the temptation that even Christ

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Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
call a kind of spiritual return of the Christ; and that there will be
a number of people who will experience the influence of the Christ
foreboding of the approaching Christ. These people will not

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called a sort of spiritual return of Christ, and that there
Christ from the astral plane into our world in an etheric form.
Christ. Perhaps such people might not have accurate

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
various forms of Christianity have accomplished during the last
as originating in specifically Christian prejudice. In reality it is
not any kind of Christian prejudice, but should be stated as the
to speak as having gone through initiation like others, is Christ
is no hindrance. But it is quite different in the case of Christ. I
any of his incarnations established a relation with the Christ Being.
That is a hindrance to him when, in order to find Christ in higher
world, for Christ cannot then appear to him in His true form. It is on
of the Christ Being in higher worlds. This is the occult difference in
the relation of man to other initiates. The Christ event is such that
higher worlds I want to know the Christ, to learn to understand His
to be, “If you would know the Being Who is for us the Christ,
Christ Being.”
The Christ Mystery had to take place on earth in accordance with
Christ. The understanding of the Christ that man gains on earth is a
higher worlds. Therefore, in the Christ Being the principle of
bodies has to be made. In the Christ Jesus we have the distinctive
to give to mankind through their super-physical bodies. In Christ we
sense of it can be summed up by saying that in Christ we have a
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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
particularly necessary for an actual description of the Christ event,
nature.” Christian tradition expresses this in the words:
yet deeper understanding of the Christ Being and of the Christ

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
spirit-land one sees the whole being of Christ Jesus! So that, looking
remembrance, you have a memory of Christ Jesus and of all the events
described. It is only Christ Jesus that he may and should see at the
as a kind of central point, is the Christ Being, fulfilling the
from any of the world conceptions of existing Christian religions. I
and precisely into the matter, because up to the present, Christianity
Christianity who have a mortal dread of what is known as occultism,
point out to them that the Christian saints have always experienced
only be this memory of the Christ when a man has rightly understood
have this memory of the Christ in the very next world you enter, where
worlds, has become acquainted or not with this image of the Christ.
Christ in the higher worlds does indeed depend on how you relate
completely miss this image of the Christ. If, then, anyone when still
relationship to Christ, he might even become a great occultist and
of the Christ; he would not find Him there, nor be able to learn
conception of the Christ. That is the significant thing.
relation to Christ, and therefore ought not to be led beyond the
men do not know the way to Christ, and if they then enter higher
worlds, Christ is lost to them. This feeling among certain priestly
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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the

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Christ, who gave the earth its meaning by working from within the
that he had never taken into account the Christ, nor the facts
without making Christ take part in it. In his old age it caused him
has been so written that Christ has been entirely omitted, that Christ
that such an Individuality as the Christ should have brought something
after Christ have had some special advantage over their
But the souls living after Christ's appearance on earth are the same
pre-Christian times, and therefore took no share in any way in what
its central point, by Him Whom we call the Cosmic Christ. In primeval
occurrence, will find the risen Christ. So much we were able to point
out. But this reappearing Christ will not sail the sea in ships, nor
the manner in which the risen Christ will be revealed seems feeble as

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worlds — only Christ can do this because he went through the
great initiates gather round the Christ and let themselves be

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Christianity. Because of it human beings in the present cycle of
Christ, had to come down to earth. Since His coming, it has been
the Christ Mystery when it is rightly understood. Much has been said
in the course of years, but the Christ Mystery can ever and again be
of the Christ Mystery creates prejudices against other creeds, and
unintelligible. The true meaning of the Christ Mystery has only been
to say, “You place Christianity above Buddhism because you
attribute a special position to the Christ that is not indicated in
compared with what Christianity has become as a creed, but with the
essence that is contained in Christianity itself.
flesh and blood. Insofar as the West is concerned, Christianity is
Christianity in yet another respect if Christianity truly places the
Christianity has not yet made great progress in its development
Who, in the true sense of the Mystery of Golgotha, is a Christian? He
Golgotha, that the Sun Spirit lived in the Christ, that Christ poured
His Being over the earth, that Christ died for all men. Although Paul
declared that Christ died not only for the Jews but also for the
until it is realized that Christ fulfilled the Deed of Golgotha for
all human beings will Christianity be understood. For the real power
is another. Knowledge of who the Christ really is should be striven
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text, no Christian one either, points to this in such a way. Krishna
at death to get a consciousness — and that is the Christ.
Spirit; in Christo morumur — at the portal of death we must
dive into the Christ-Spirit; Per Spiritum Sanctum

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in the words of St. Paul, “Not I but the Christ in me.”
If we experience the Christ within us, then we have the possibility
picture-world the Christ in His most wondrous form, in His manifested

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feeling relationship to the Christ impulse even though the earth has
reached a stage of development when the human soul needs the Christ
connection with the Christ impulse are in danger because the leaders

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then the Buddha impulse is to be found on Mars, as the Christ impulse
little as the whole earth today is already Christianized, as little
followed him in pre-Christian times. The development of natures such
is possible in a public lecture when I said that the true Christian
taken to imply that Raphael brought with him some definite Christian
delicate, wonderful figures of Christianity in his paintings came
a “born Christian.” Most of you know that Raphael had
Christian impulses had penetrated into his soul.
except those of Judas and Christ. For them I have no models, although
prior. But for the Christ I have no prototype.” That, however,
and the Christ he wanted to portray everything through light and
shadows. In the figure of Christ the impression was to be that the

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and other writings of Christian Rosenkreuz. Many of our friends and
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz.

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Erster Vortrag, München, 8. Dezember 1913
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zu erforschen in bezug auf das Leben des Christus
Christus Jesus beziehen. Es werden sich,
mitzuteilen. Es ist wie das umgekehrte christliche Vaterunser,
mußte in jenen Impuls, den wir den Christus-Impuls

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to have his sins expiated by the Christ hasn't pressed to the depth
“good Christian” but who thinks that the matter is very

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Harnacks «Wesen des Christentums».
Christentums», von einem der berühmtesten Theologen
Auferstehung des Christus Jesus, die
Christentums» genau gelesen, aber er habe diese Stelle in
Titel: «Können wir noch Christen
zur Zeit als Christus auf der Erde wandelte. An
ist: Die Christus-Wesenheit stieg aus kosmischen Höhen
die Christus-Wesenheit drei Jahre verbleiben sollte.
Nachdem Christus Jesus — jetzt war ja
der Christus in Jesus — in die Einsamkeit sich zurückgezogen hatte, trat zuerst
des Christus und dem Ätherleib und Astralleib des Jesus von Nazareth, wie Luzifer und
So stand also Luzifer vor dem Christus
So etwa sprach Luzifer zu Christus Jesus,
Wesenheit des Christus war, der den Luzifer verstehen
dazumal der Christus-Wesenheit
gleichstand, so daß also die Christus-Wesenheit,
wie dazumal der Christus Jesus entkommen ist: wenn man das durchschaut. Denn in
gelähmt. Aber dieser Versuchung entging Christus Jesus und stieß Luzifer von
Christus Jesus wiederum die Empfindungen, die ihn
beiden Versucher konnte Christus
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In Christo morimur,
embraced and illumined by spiritual light — Christ —
In Christo morimur.

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were, the great procedure of the Christ Jesus Himself, to take his
interesting publications concerning the Christ Jesus. Very interesting
one: The picture which the Gospels sketch of the Christ Jesus is a
pathological one. We can only conceive of the Christ Jesus as a person
Christ Jesus. It cannot be done. One is dishonest if one does not
or take the standpoint that the Christ Jesus was a mental case. —
epileptic in the Christ Jesus, and even the acknowledgment of the
Christ Jesus. Anyone who is at all capable of raising these things
present time, would paint “Christ, seen from the point of view of

Title: Lecture Series: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and
The Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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sphere of commonplace intercourse. Christian Morgenstern is

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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 1
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
ROSICRUCIAN CHRISTIANITY
founded group bearing the great name of Christian Rosenkreutz,
about Christian Rosenkreutz at greater length. What is contained in
the mystery of Christian Rosenkreutz? I cannot tell you all about this
personality in one evening, so we shall speak about Christian
To speak about Christian Rosenkreutz presupposes great confidence in
Christian Rosenkreutz is an individual who is active both when he is
Great forces emanating from the etheric body of Christian Rosenkreutz
and a Christian Rosenkreutz stream has been active in spiritual life
seen now in the theosophical movement. Christian Rosenkreutz gave an
with Christianity, were conscious that the external Christianity of
the Church was only a caricature of the real Christianity. They were
permeated with the greatness of Christianity, although in the outside
way into just one aspect of Christianity. Their endeavour was to unite
twelve, but in a new form. This new form was as though given by Christ
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Rosicrucian Christianity - Lecture 2
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
ROSICRUCIAN CHRISTIANITY
Christian Rosenkreutz. This work began in the thirteenth century, is
Christian Rosenkreutz, and all that took place between the council of
the twelve and the thirteenth. When Christian Rosenkreutz was born
At that time hardly anyone else came to know Christian Rosenkreutz
apart from these twelve. This is not to be understood as if Christian
the same until today. However, the etheric body of Christian
Christian Rosenkreutz selects those whom he wants to have as his
kind: Christian Rosenkreutz chooses people so that, for instance,
a follower of Christian Rosenkreutz. For that is his way of calling
experience can tell himself: Christian Rosenkreutz has given me a sign
from the spiritual world that I belong to his stream. Christian
karma. That is the way in which Christian Rosenkreutz makes his choice
having met Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world between his
last death and his last birth. Christian Rosenkreutz chose us then,
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz took place in very special
shall hear still more of Christian Rosenkreutz as we study the great
A being like Christian Rosenkreutz, who is present in the world as a
And so Christian Rosenkreutz, confronted by a world conception which
connection with the Initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz himself in the
Chapter VI, etc.] Christian Rosenkreutz was associated with certain
the Individuality who in the sixth century before Christ had been
an integral part of Buddha's contribution to Christianity. But later
called together by Christian Rosenkreutz. His most intimate pupil and
by Christ on the Earth in the Mystery of Golgotha. Christian
high importance for the soul between death and a new birth. Christian
the teachings of Buddha were pre-eminently suitable. The Christ Being,
the service of Christian Rosenkreutz. Thus do the great Beings who
Spiritual Science meditates in the sense indicated by Christian
Christian Rosenkreutz is thus revealed to us as the great Servant of
Christ Jesus; but what Buddha, as the emissary of Christian
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
THE MISSION OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ ITS CHARACTER AND PURPOSE THE
initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz took place in very special
we shall hear more about the character and the person of Christian
Christian Rosenkreutz, has to reckon with the conditions peculiar to
And so Christian Rosenkreutz, confronted by a world conception which
is itself a maya, an illusion, had to come to grips with it. Christian
initiation of Christian Rosenkreutz himself in the thirteenth century.
and Anthroposophic Press, N.Y., 1940.] united Christian Rosenkreutz
individuality who in the sixth century before Christ had been
an integral part of Buddha's contribution to Christianity. But later
It was a significant moment, therefore, when Christian Rosenkreutz, in
present them with this weighty fact. Christian Rosenkreutz held this
develop an inner life only. Christian Rosenkreutz made it clear to his
into the depths of materialism, and the Christ Impulse had signified
significant question facing Christian Rosenkreutz and his pupils; how
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Europe. Let us consider the peoples of Europe before Christianity had
in the West. You all know that Christianity spreading into Europe
introduction of Christianity into Central Europe and also here in the
Christian impulse and what was brought to meet it from Northern and
brought to Christianity as a moral possession, a moral heritage, by
Europeans to Christianity; and the whole of the personal human
difficult for Christianity to bring a feeling of devotion to the
early pre-Christian times. Both these qualities had to co-operate,
represented the true form of Christianity. And many other
Christianity.
West Christianity has received so much are so little
and the Christ, and from this there came to him the forces through

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Christianity had affected European culture very much, when it
Christianity spreading into Europe from the East and South was
Christianity into Central Europe and also here in the North,
Christian impulse and what was brought to meet it from Northern
characteristic moral forces brought to Christianity as a moral
by the Europeans to Christianity; and the whole of the
Europeans. For, this reason it was difficult for Christianity
the European peoples of early pre-Christian times. Both these
the true form of Christianity. And many other persons
true Christianity.
the West Christianity has received so much are so little
Christ, and from this there came to him the forces through

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since the fifth century before Christ.
occult school which lasted far into the Christian era. This school
Christian impulse along with it, were able in the early centuries of
Christianity to throw new light upon what Buddha had given to
impulses which came into the world through Christianity. Then, after
they could receive the Christ-impulse in an advanced degree precisely
received the Christ-impulse directly in life.
second group which, in addition, received the Christ-impulse. Now the
who had not received the Christ-impulse but who had only gained the
Christ-impulse, in the next incarnation were such that this
Christ-impulse worked up further so that not only could they teach
strengthened by the Christ-impulse.
this Christ-impulse work further in his next incarnation? It acted in
especially active — this Christ-impulse approached the evil
Christ-impulse incorporated itself in this substance in such a way
the burden of poverty. The Christ-impulse had here revived in
which as the Christ-impulse had worked directly in him in the
his astral life the Christ power became particularly active within
permeated by the external power of Christ, owing to his having sought
for the Christ power, in his previous incarnation, in that
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spiritual heights since the fifth century before Christ.
Christian era. This school was guided by certain human beings
their having taken into themselves the Christian impulse along
with it, were able in the early centuries of Christianity to
through Christianity. Then, after the pupils had been
they could receive the Christ-impulse in an advanced degree
followers of Saint Paul and received the Christ-impulse
received the Christ-impulse. Now the difference between these
not received the Christ-impulse but who had only gained the
received the Christ-impulse, in the next incarnation were such
that this Christ-impulse worked up further so that not only
was permeated and strengthened by the Christ-impulse.
Now how did this Christ-impulse work further in his next
this Christ-impulse approached the evil substance of the
Christ-impulse incorporated itself in this substance in such a
Christ-impulse had here revived in him and streamed forth
Christ-impulse had worked directly in him in the mysteries on
astral life the Christ power became particularly active within
personality who was permeated by the external power of Christ,
owing to his having sought for the Christ power, in his
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reverence. Two forces: angels demons Christ. How esoteric development

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fourth age, met the expansion of Christianity to the north. They
among the peoples whose work it became to spread Christianity.
Christ-impulse; the transformation of valour and bravery into
Love. It is that which, through the Christ-impulse, has become the
social life, and, in one who rightly understands the Christ-impulse,
anthroposophical understanding of the Christ-impulse that it
the Mystery of Golgotha Christ descended into earthly
right way. Now that the Christ-impulse is in the world, if through
the world into which the Christ-impulse has flowed. Thus because
the Christ-impulse is now here, we directly destroy something of it.
It is not without reason that it has often been said, that Christ was
through the deeds, of man. Since Christ has entered into the Earth
Christ is crucified anew as long as unmorality, unkindness and lack
of interest exist. Since the Christ-impulse has permeated the world,
we withdraw something from the Christ-impulse and continue the
the Christ-impulse, we help to bring it to life. “Inasmuch as
towards our fellow-men is our attitude towards the Christ-impulse
you meet them and do this or that to them, you do it to Christ.
Christ.” This statement: “What ye have done to one of My
Whereas the gods of pre-Christian times gave instinctive wisdom
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Christus und die Menschliche Seele. Ueber den Sinn
des Lebens. Theosophische Moral. Anthroposophie und Christentum,
age, met the expansion of Christianity to the north. They
Christianity. This instinctive valour was lost later than
the Christ-impulse; the transformation of valour and bravery
Christ-impulse, has become the special virtue of the
in one who rightly understands the Christ-impulse, this
anthroposophical understanding of the Christ-impulse that it
will become feeling. Through the Mystery of Golgotha Christ
Now that the Christ-impulse is in the world, if through what
into which the Christ-impulse has flowed. Thus, because the
Christ-impulse is now here, we directly destroy something of
been said, that Christ was first crucified on Golgotha, but
man. Since Christ has entered into the Earth development
again: Christ is crucified anew as long as immorality,
Christ-impulse has permeated the world, it is this which is
something from the Christ-impulse and continue the
Christ-impulse, we help to bring it to life. “Inasmuch
towards the Christ-impulse itself.
this or that to them, you do it to Christ. Whatever you do to
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expansion of Christianity to the north. They showed that among
became to spread Christianity. This instinctive valour
force of the Christ-impulse; the transformation of valour
virtue: Love. It is that which, through the Christ-impulse, has
and, in one who rightly understands the Christ-impulse, this
anthroposophical understanding of the Christ-impulse that
Through the Mystery of Golgotha Christ descended into earthly
forward in the right way. Now that the Christ-impulse is in the
the Christ-impulse has flowed. Thus because the Christ-impulse
Christ was first crucified on Golgotha, but that He is
Christ has entered into the Earth development through the deed
again and again: Christ is crucified anew as long as
interest exist. Since the Christ-impulse has permeated the
Christ-impulse and continue the crucifixion upon
cases where we use love, we add to the Christ-impulse, we help
fellow-men is our attitude towards the Christ-impulse
you do it to Christ. Whatever you do to men, in the present
condition of the earth's evolution, you do to Christ.’ This
Whereas the gods of pre-Christian times gave instinctive
Thereby the Christ-impulse will work powerfully in the world.
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Christ and the Human Soul
In these lectures Steiner shows how the influence of Christ has been
of the Christian religion. The ancient mysteries brought about will and
wisdom; Christ brings love and individuality. The lectures impress on us
the Christ Spirit.
of spiritual science is above all else near to us — the Christ
the coming to life of the Christ Being in the human soul and the
speak of the most human and intimate significance of Christianity
we have in Christ Jesus that Being of whom we have often spoken in
the course of our lectures. Let us assume that in Christ Jesus we
above all things necessary to question Christ Jesus as to His
to be the greatest blasphemy that Christ Jesus could have uttered.
in which the people cry out and clamor for the death of Christ Jesus.
have recognized in Christ Jesus? They ought to have recognized that
Christ Event. Now let it come home to us that this multitude
and guilt — in the sense of Pauline Christianity —
cleansed of sin and debt, Christ had to come to the Earth. That is
of the human soul for the Christ Being. Through what it is able to
Christian attitude or mood of preparation. And when the soul finds
finds the Christ. The soul then develops its connection with the
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above all else near to us-the Christ Being. I have endeavored to comply
the meaning, of the Christ Being in the human soul. We shall thereby
significance of Christianity from the standpoint of Spiritual
that we have in Christ Jesus, that Being of Whom we have again and
assume that in Christ Jesus we have before our spiritual eyes That
held it above all things necessary to question Christ Jesus as to His
claim to be the greatest blasphemy that Christ Jesus could have
the people cry out and clamor for the death of Christ Jesus. And now
people to have recognized in the Christ Jesus?’ They ought to
the Christ event. Now let us set before our minds that this multitude
of Pauline Christianity, assumes a different aspect. Man, in the course
be possible for man to be cleansed of sin and debt, Christ had to come
preparation of the human soul for the Christ Being. This attitude of
the Christian attitude or mood of preparation. And when the soul finds
— it finds Christ. The soul then develops. its connection with
the Christ, saying to itself: ‘At the very beginning of the Earth
fulfillment, but I turn my spiritual gaze upon the Christ Who gives me
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containing the German texts is entitled, Christus und die menschliche
und Christentum (Vol. 155 in the Bibliographic Survey). The lecture
ANTHROPOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY
— or anthroposophy, as it may also be called — to Christianity. In
accused of not being a Christian. And now it is easy in certain
respects to accuse spiritual science of being unchristian. When this
Spiritual science does not want to usurp the place of Christianity; on
the contrary it would like to be instrumental in making Christianity
the being whom we call Christ is to be recognized as the center of
life on earth, that the Christian religion is the ultimate religion
that the pre-Christian religions outgrow their one-sidedness and come
together in the Christian faith. It is not the desire of spiritual
science to set something else in the place of Christianity; rather it
Christianity.
liberty of calling a book on Christianity that I wrote many years ago
Christianity as Mystical Fact. No one used to mulling over what he
Christianity is not a mere doctrine to be interpreted this way or
truth of Christianity change when spiritual science is used as a tool
draw your attention to one concrete aspect of Christian spiritual
research. Studying ancient pre-Christian cultures from the viewpoint
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Christ and the Human Soul
In these lectures Steiner shows how the influence of Christ has been
of the Christian religion. The ancient mysteries brought about will and
wisdom; Christ brings love and individuality. The lectures impress on us
the Christ Spirit.
us [Christian Morgenstern]. Coming from a life that was dedicated to
fact, as it presents itself in Christian Morgenstern, shows me
with us, he absorbed into his being our teaching about the Christ. He
Christ. The Christ Being flowed into him in the teaching. The Christ,
the teaching, steeped through and spiritualized by the Christ-Being,
by the conception of the Christ-Being that we can make our own. All
Christ, who is there for everyone, it works back again upon all
of death — that Christ-enfilled soul-tableau is for me an
world will, through the love of Christ, radiate into souls who will
our friend carry forward the Christ-enfilled anthroposophical
pour the rays of that which is Christ-enfilled. Our souls cannot take
in for themselves alone the Christ-filled spiritual science which is
of civilization yet to come. If you enfill this teaching with Christ,
Christ Being belongs to all mankind. Where Christ is, the treasures
filled with Christ and wisdom that is illuminated by the light of
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years, a man of poetic nature joined us [Christian
the Christ. He absorbed this anthroposophical teaching, binding it to
heart-blood of his soul; it contained the Christ as substance. The
Christ Being flowed into him in the teaching. The Christ, as He lives
Christ Being, by the conception of the Christ Being which we can make
through Christ Who is there for all mankind, it is a treasure which
this spring passed through the portal of death-that Christ enfilled
out of the spiritual worlds will, through the love of Christ radiate
it. Not only will our friend carry forward our Christ-enfilled teaching
the rays of that which is Christ-enfilled. Your souls cannot take in
come. If you will enfill this teaching with Christ, it will stream
forth as a seed into the whole of humanity because the Christ Being
belongs to the whole of humanity. Where Christ is, the treasures of
difference there is between Wisdom that is not filled with Christ, and
Wisdom that is illuminated by the Light of Christ. When we come
that that article too is Christ-enfilled. The lifeblood of Christianity
purport of what it is to be ‘Christ-enfilled,’ what she had
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have a consolation, a support in the fact that Christ has entered
an understanding for the true Christ can become alive again.
surprising that one understands the Christ being so little now. To
Lucifer and Ahriman so that they get to the Christ there. If one
doesn't place Christ at the centre of esoteric life one leads them to
should be called Christian. For Occult Science and our whole work was
inspired by the Christ being himself. We should always keep this in
We unite ourselves with Christ on earth and die into him:

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Christ and the Human Soul
In these lectures Steiner shows how the influence of Christ has been
of the Christian religion. The ancient mysteries brought about will and
wisdom; Christ brings love and individuality. The lectures impress on us
the Christ Spirit.
of the relation of Christ to the human soul is undoubtedly that of
Christianity of St. Paul. Our present age, however, is not well
can this be reconciled with the Christian acceptance of the
forgiveness of sins through Christ?” and yet the idea of the
forgiveness of sins is intimately bound up with true Christianity. We
need think of one example: Christ on the Cross between the two
malefactors. The malefactor on the left hand mocks at Christ: “If
thou art in thy kingdom.” And Christ answered him: “Verily
what does it mean when Christ, as though pardoning and forgiving him,
difference made by Christ between the malefactor on the right and the
deeply into Christianity by means of spiritual science. And now I
again be emphasized, is that the Christ, as Christ, does not belong
entered into the corporeality of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus in Christ we
Being who, as Christ, entered the Jesus body? That Being who passed
Christ merely an earthly being is present, not a Being whose realm is
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Christ to the human soul is that of sin and its debt. We know what the
significance of the concepts of guilt and sin has in the Christianity
then say: ‘How can this be reconcilable with the Christian
Christ?’ And yet again the idea of the forgiveness of sins is
intimately bound up with true Christianity. It is only necessary to
think of this one example: Christ on the Cross between two malefactors.
The malefactor on the left hand mocks at Christ: ‘If Thou wilt be
Kingdom.’ And Christ answered him: ‘Verily, I say unto
brought about in his Karma, what does it mean when Christ, as it were,
Why is there a difference made by Christ between the malefactor on the
Christianity by means of Spiritual Science. And now I shall approach
Christ, as Christ, does not belong to the order of the other entities
of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus, in Christ, we are concerned with a Being
be also the judgment of that Cosmic Being Who, as Christ, entered the
malefactor on the left believes that in the Christ merely an earthly
malefactor on the right, ‘Thy kingdom, O Christ, is another;
Christ belongs to another kingdom, where a power of judgment other than
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Christ and the Human Soul
In these lectures Steiner shows how the influence of Christ has been
of the Christian religion. The ancient mysteries brought about will and
wisdom; Christ brings love and individuality. The lectures impress on us
the Christ Spirit.
Christ to the human soul.
question often asked: Why did Christ die in a human body? Here indeed
Christ die, why did the God die, in a human body?
the Earth-evolution. For this reason Christ had to become related to
see the Christ in advance. Hence it is that the old philosophers
time those regions from which the Christ came to us at the time of
the Baptism by John in the Jordan. Whence did Christ come? He came
of Earth-evolution. At the baptism by John in the Jordan, Christ
What was it that the Christ had to undertake in order
Christ in me”, might be made possible? It had to be possible
that Christ should permeate the nature of man; but the nature of man
that Christ might dwell in us, He had therefore to become related to
the light down to the depths of materiality. Christ had to be able to
Luciferic temptation, so that we might be able to say: “Christ
Jesus to Christ, I once spoke of the human “phantom”.
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of Christ to the human soul.
‘Why did Christ die in a human body?’ In reality this
did Christ die, why did the Godhead die, in a human body?’
earth-evolution. Christ had to become akin to death. Akin to death! One
initiated when it was given them, outside the body, to see the Christ
which the Christ came to us at the time of the baptism by John in
Jordan. Whence did Christ come? He came from those spheres which had
Cosmic Life. At the baptism by John in Jordan, Christ entered into a
that the Christ had to undertake in order that the fulfillment of St.
Paul's saying: ‘Not I, but the Christ in me,’ might be made
possible? It had to be possible that Christ should permeate the nature
nature might not be filled with their death. But in order that Christ
of materiality. Christ had to be able to pass into that which we bear
‘Christ in us.’
of lectures in Carlsruhe ‘From Jesus to Christ,’ I once
child, because man imparts his death to them. If Christ had not come
suppose that Christ had not come. What would have happened in the
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would discover that it coincides with Christ's death on Golgotha.
When the blood streamed out of the wounds of Christ-Jesus, the whole
revealing the significance of Christ's death.
out of the wounds of Christ-Jesus upon the Cross.
these, whom we designate as the Spirit of Christ, united his astral
transformation, because it has become united with the body of Christ.
The Christ-principle descended from heavenly
heights; until the death of Christ Jesus upon the Cross it lived in
the body of the sun. Through Christ's death it became united with the
body of Christ. He became one with the earth.
body of Christ!
through the body of Christ, through the body of the earth!
when we feel that the astral body of Christ first unites itself with
not correspond with the great truths, such as the union of Christ's
In the past, the early Christians could feel what we have now tried
opinions expressed on the Bible by critical Christians. Goethe longed

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connected with the figure of Christ, with the outer
historical figure. And it is the greatness of the Christian
deepest penetration. The Christian religion is comprehensible
Christian faith, the message of the Gospel, can be understood
the religious documents of Christianity). Anthroposophy is
who approaches the records of Christianity equipped with
Christian religion we must penetrate far into spiritual life.
the greatest Being who has trodden upon the earth, Christ
bestowed on mankind through Christ Jesus, we must realize
that in all pre-Christian initiation the candidate was
about through the appearing of Christ Jesus on earth. Through
the fact that the Christ-principle has entered humanity, the
humanity's evolution with Christ Jesus. One who
all religious proclamation before the coming of Christ Jesus
most diverse names it was of Christ Jesus that they spoke. We
Christ-principle of man — the Being of whom man feels
Christian Church, did not feel themselves to be
brought through Christ Jesus then a lightning-flash illumines
the whole advance that has come about through Christian
were round Christ Jesus with full understanding as his
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about in the future, namely, the appearance of Christ Jesus.
Cross shall cover, there the Cross of Christ Jesus shall
thought of as harmonizing with the Christian Mysteries. The
the most profound document of Christianity, the Apocalypse of
John. The deepest truths of Christianity can be considered in
than a great part of the Mysteries of Christianity, the
Christianity. It is therefore not to be wondered at that of
all Christian documents this one has been most misunderstood.
Christianity it has been misunderstood by all who were not
really Christian initiates. And it has always been
early days of Christianity, and witnessed by those who were
Apocalypse. But even in the first ages of Christianity
spiritual truths contained in esoteric Christianity. Thus in
the very first ages of Christianity the idea came into
Christian initiation, others only understood it exoterically;
speedy return of Christ Jesus, a descent from the physical
period and said, “With the advent of Christ Jesus a new
the coming of some power hostile to Christianity, for an
Antichrist who should appear in the sense world. As this
mysterious record of Christianity. It was his opinion that
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is described what may be called a Christian initiation. To-day it
further we go back into pre-Christian schools of initiation,
Christian times the more are these exercises directed to
are at first similar to those of pre-Christian schools, there
now. The early Christians were told that “Adam fell
first thing. Then, however, in the pre-Christian Mysteries
describing the pre-Christian initiation, in which the
important stages in Christian initiation — he
represented by the first seal. The Christian initiation
Christianity, which, however, has to receive then and change
plant experience of the world. Through the Christian

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Christian and the later Christian-Rosicrucian initiation first
important things a candidate for the Christian initiation has
the imaginative world, where in the Christian sense he comes
come to the earth. This was the appearance of Christ Jesus,
mighty impulse which came through Christ Jesus such upward
descent into matter. Christian life is only now gradually
Ephesus there was a community which accepted Christianity in
Christian teaching is there coloured in such a way that we
Christianity in such a way that it was still determined by the
is in accordance with Christianity, but the rest must become
Christianity but colours it with the tone of the first
describes himself as the forerunner of Christ Jesus, as the
leader of the first cultural epoch. Christ Jesus speaks as if
into the Christian principle. There we read that man gives
then the Saviour appears, Christ Jesus himself.
had to receive the impulse of Christ Jesus. That which

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the Christ principle in himself.
personality confronting Christ Jesus himself, for example;
and again because he rejected Christ Jesus. Great truths
heard the call which from age to age the Christian principle
be made manifest in the countenance, is to be found in Christ
book of the generation of Christ Jesus, the son of David, the
fourth age of our epoch through Christ Jesus and his
carried over and unsealed. And in the fourth age Christ Jesus

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John represents an initiation, the Christian initiation,

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Christ principle united with the earth at that time and the
earth has become the body of this Christ principle. So that
earth-spirit which, as the Christ-Spirit, since the event on
said, “I must use it in order to understand Christ and His

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Christ into our world. We must keep in mind that man has
again, is the point of time of the appearance of Christ Jesus
which he has fellowship with Christ Jesus. Humanity will
this Christ impulse becomes the innermost impulse of their
work; but Christ works in me.
and all the souls who find this union with the Christ
consequence to a man who makes no connection with the Christ
turned away from the impulse of Christ Jesus, and from the
have received the Christ principle, announce what they have
to say regarding their union with the name, Christ
Christ-impulse; why should not these have partaken in the
impulse of Christ Jesus? This is objected from the
Christ Jesus? If persons who are not Anthroposophists say
of Christ, so that there are none who could not participate
in the event of Christ Jesus. The above objection can only be
bear the name of Christ on their forehead because they
in his heart. One who inwardly bears Christ in his soul will
after the unsealing bear in his face the sign of Christ; his
external form will be like Christ Jesus; but those who remain
in the civilizations before the appearance of Christ Jesus
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Ego-consciousness to man, Christ Jesus, is, as we have seen,
Christianity he has been able to ascend to this concept of the
free “I.” Christ Jesus brought the “I” in all its
expression of Christ Jesus in their countenances, whose words
will manifest Christ Jesus, for they will ring out as
gained through the Christ-principle. Beings become capable of
the message of Christ Jesus on the earth; the highest that
can be given to us is the message of Christ Jesus. We must

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of maturity, who have taken the Christ-principle into
Christ Jesus. Then only did we really become capable of
astral body. Really only since the advent of the Christ
and again the words of Paul, “Not I, but Christ in me does
the expression of his capacity for receiving the Christ. It
capacity for receiving the Christ. Hence Christ is called by
Christ into itself. Such a man will survive and implant in
Christine way, so that the etheric body which will be an
follow Christian tradition we shall see in Elias and Moses
lecture in the two pillars. In Christian esotericism Elias
Transfiguration of Christian tradition Christ appeared between
and what is above, as the veritable Christ-principle.
Christ-principle will be the means of bringing evolution to
been impregnated by the principle of Christ, have passed
the Christ-principle and thereby conquers his animal nature
Christ-principle, he does not over-come the animal nature.
himself the Christ-principle? He will appear in materiality;

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in Initiation, or rather, the experience of a Christian during
absorbs the Christ-principle. If we regard present-day man,
reception of the Christ-principle so that they shall be
the Christ-principle and were to come to the time of the
Christ-experience, suppose he were to come to this time and
had thrust the Christ away from him, then when the earth
Christ-principle, sex will again be overcome. The hardened
Christ-impulse, but if Christ is rejected they will remain
two parts, one in which the Christ-men appear with white

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the Christ-principle; this refusal we have to understand as a
acquired through not having accepted the Christ-principle
principle of Christ must fall back again into the condition
Christ-principle. Man was formerly a non-individual being
Christ-principle during our epoch, he will then again appear
three ages those who later received the Christ-principle had
Christ-principle, will appear with seven heads, because there
reality. Those who fail to take up the Christ-principle into
the man who does not receive the Christ-principle will
does not incline towards the Christ-principle it takes on the
was the servant of the Christ-principle or the servant of the
Christ-principle. If it was the servant of the
Christ-principle it loses the form adapted to the present
take up the Christ-principle he is unable to draw out of
darkness, and the Christ-principle has come in this age in
excluding themselves from the Christ-principle, will have
then to receive the Christ-principle. But the first
Christ-principle will then be ripe to rise into the forces of
that they can unite with the sun as the Christ, and — as
Christ-Being as the genius of the sun who unites himself with
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received the Christ-spirit and is thereby able to keep pace
Christianity the “Redeemed,” and, not quite
position to receive the Christ-spirit, which remained in
Christ-principle. They will be able to receive the spiritual
Christ-principle descended to the earth. If the
Christ-principle had then been strangled in the germ, if
Christ had been overcome by the adversary, it would have been
inclined towards the Christ-principle, who have remained
following incarnations to come to the Christ-principle just
none other than Christ, while we designate the Being who
through the Christ-principle. However, when he has reached
Christ-principle on the earth. Had Christ not united him-self
Christ-principle deprives himself of the possibility of
Christ-principle and thus transformed their astral body, and
who have gained the help of Christ to transform the etheric
Christ-principle; who also were unable to change anything in
the etheric body, for they could not find the helper, Christ.
will have progressed so far through the Christ-principle
death, and those who have received the Christ-principle see
help of Christ, it has become so organized that it is for the
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proclaimed the Christ Who was to come in the future.
the coming of Christ, for the Mystery of Golgotha.
CHRIST. This name derives from the epoch when it was
necessary that Christ should appear. At the moment when the
at that same moment Christ appeared in the other world among
rebirth. And this appearance of Christ was like a
Christ to the Dead were that in the world between birth and
which the Christian truths are expressed, you carry much of
Christ appeared in the world of the Shades. For the first
through everything that Christianity has brought into the
spiritual world. And now, with the appearance of Christ in
other world. Christianity is only at its beginning today.

Title: Lecture: Morality and Karma
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Christ was given at Nuremberg on the 13th of November 1910. The text
THE EVENT OF THE CHRIST.”
I shall speak on the appearance of Christ and reveal a few facts

Title: Lecture: The Wisdom Contained in Ancient Documents and in the Gospels
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The Event of the Christ.
event of the Christ, and if we wish to understand what has been given
Christ. He disregards the event of the Christ and proceeds to
time of Christ Jesus, an occult investigator who has reached such a
directions that he is able, even before the Christian era, to survey
the Christ, he would have passed through the Christ event in his
Let us suppose that he lived five or six centuries before Christ and
passing through the Christ event. And we may then ask ourselves:
that even five or six centuries before Christ he can go back into the
earlier events of human evolution by passing through the Christ
that it would really be necessary for him to pass through the Christ
event ... This Christ event, however, has not yet taken place at the
during the 5th and 6th century before Christ, a personality who would
have been mature enough to discover Christ Jesus in a retrospective
survey, but he could not discover him because Christ Jesus had not as
yet appeared upon the earth. He could not discover Christ Jesus as an
in Sicily during the fifth century before Christ, and even external
necessarily have found the Christ in his retrospective survey. But
the Christ had not yet appeared. It was not possible as yet to find
discover in them etherically the Christ. Empedocles could not find
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Title: Lecture: Faith, Love, Hope: The Third Revelation
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Christ” was given in Karlsruhe; here he gave the fundamental
Christ. With the exception of the course on St. Mark's Gospel, which
of the Christ in the twentieth century; in the Karlsruhe course he
described in detail the work of Christ as lord of human destiny —
friend and biographer of the poet, Christian Morgenstern. Not long
of the Christian Community. For example, Rudolf Steiner describes in
these lectures the meaning of the altar in early Christianity.
years before the Christian era.
yesterday in the public lecture, “From Jesus to Christ”. It
risen Christ — the spiritual Adam who enters the souls of those
Christ which rose from the grave of Golgotha have remained with the
of the Mystery of Golgotha we may say: Christ then became the Spirit
a change in relation of the Christ to men is coming, an important
about — the new revelation to men of the Christ.
which can be described in this way. Christ is becoming Lord of Karma
discussed. Christ is entering upon His judgeship. Let us look more
way to Christ, our karmic account will be balanced — inserted in
concern of the Christ.
This taking over by Christ of the judging of a man's deeds is a result
and there the figure of the etheric Christ will be directly visible to
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Title: Lecture: Faith, Love, Hope: Towards the Sixth Epoch
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centuries before the Christian era to realise what a countless number
early Christians who felt most vividly the loss of direct psychical
which the ego descended among men. The Christ-event had also to happen
Christian love. Slowly we draw nearer to that epoch; and by making
about only through the individuality who before Christ-Jesus came to
personality living about a hundred years before Christ under the name
how the Christ will gradually reveal Himself to ever-higher powers in
the great Christ-event for all who are willing to listen. And we can

Title: Spiritual Science, a Necessity for the Present Time
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the soul can develop of its own accord will serve to grasp Christ
fully, the Christ who passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, so that
St. Paul's words, “Not I, but Christ in me”, will become
Christ with all the soul's inner forces of knowledge. This is a
in which the Christ-Impulse has influenced mankind since the Mystery
the centuries which have elapsed since that time, the Christ-Impulse
Christ-Impulse does not only appeal in an intellectual way to human
impulse. The Christ-Impulse streams with living strength into the
event in order to understand how the Christ-Impulse worked in
Christ-Impulse; but this Impulse already worked as a living force in
might say, the Christ-Impulse and brought about through it important
the Christ-Impulse lived in the Maid of Orleans that a living Impulse
understanding could not the Christ-Impulse, this impulse worked through the
influence of the Christ-Impulse does not depend on the comprehension
we have for it. I might say that the Christ-Impulse penetrated into
and days between Christmas Eve and January 6th, the festival of
Christ's appearance. Olaf Asteson's very name indicates that he
and which go from the day of Christ's birth to the day of Epiphany on
the legend describes the forces of the Christ-Impulse which strongly
illuminated by the physical forces of the sun. And because Christ is
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture V: The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events
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The Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical Events
Intervention of the Christ Impulse in the Historical
It has to comprehend Christ, Who went through Death and
Christ in me.” Every effort we make in spiritual science
of the soul in the end what is, actually, this Christ. This is
souls the way how the Christ Impulse has worked since the
Mystery of Golgotha in humankind. If the Christ Impulse could
this Christ Impulse in the course of the centuries, since the
Mystery of Golgotha has taken place, then the Christ Impulse
event in which way this Christ Impulse has worked, without
conscious the whole internal nature and being of the Christ
humankind. One of those figures the Christ Impulse selected to
that the Christ Impulse as a living impulse with the help of
the Christ Impulse, this impulse worked through the simple
Because the effect of the Christ Impulse is just not dependent
Michaelic representative the Christ Impulse worked in the Maid
thirteen nights and days — the interval between Christ's
the first Christmas Day up to the 6th January, to Epiphany.
At the end of the legend, we see the forces of the Christ
physical sun force. Because Christ is united with the earth's
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Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture VI: Moral Impulses and Their Results
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of a Christ re-embodied in the flesh. It had to come out among
us that the return of Christ will really be the return of the
etheric Christ. It has often been said that and could also be
other side, that the depths of the Christ Impulse combine with
prejudice of St Paul that he said, if Christ did not rise, then

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture I
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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.
Namely the concept of Christ will play a different and a
directed their feelings to Christ in a much more intensive
the enthusiasm, the emotion and feelings for the Christ
already emphasized, the Christ idea will play a much more
Christ idea. And in books and lecture cycles we find
secrets of the Christ Being and the Christ concept. Each
Christ Being; that one must depend on the profoundest
concepts and ideas for a full understanding of what Christ
centuries as the Christ-Impulse. One could even come to the
correct concept of Christ.
understanding Christ and his appearance on earth. For
ideas in order to understand Christ. Here also it would
activity would be sufficient to understand Christ. Has it
to the understanding of Christ by scholarship, science,
Christ, and we will find that all the science, all the
to explain Christ, surprisingly springs up, and all the
the Christ Being push the other scale far down. It is no
Christ and that the knowledge of Christ has contributed
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture II
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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.
called the apostles or disciples of Christ Jesus. It is not
gathered as knowledge in pre-Christian times comes under
Mystery of Golgotha and the Ascension of Christ Jesus
Golgotha with him whom we call Christ. And they saw how he
Christ during those forty days and couldn't
And now they realized that they had been with the Christ,
had walked with the resurrected Christ. Now they realized
apostles had really been with Christ Jesus before the
instructed in the secrets of the spirit by Christ Jesus.
Christ Jesus. Just imagine that the apostle had before him
consciousness was taken away. And Christ, the resurrected
apostle's experience with the Christ after the
which have to with Christianity. It takes much effort to
effort if in my early youth I had received a real Christian
hand, due to my lack of contact with Christianity during my
youth I feel more objective about Christianity and believe
that I have been led to Christianity and to Christ by the
Christianity, than one who had a relationship with
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture III
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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.
call the apostles of Christ Jesus experienced a certain
impulse for what we call Christian development, that which
point where we must speak of the earthly life of Christ in
Christ-being, we must use the concepts we already have
Christ, with the act of conception in a human being. The
life of Christ from then until the Mystery of Golgotha is
life of the Christ-Being which this being lived through
birth of Christ. And we must look for his actual earth-life
after the Mystery of Golgotha, when Christ was in contact
followed the actual birth of the Christ-being, and what is
outpouring of spirit, which in respect to the Christ-Being
upon human death. And the life of Christ in the earthly
see, my dear friends, that in the Christ-Being we have a
Pentecost on, the Christ-being experiences immersion in the
the Christ-Being made the sacrifice to seek the earth as
of residence to heaven. Christ left heaven in order to
Christ into the earthly being of Christ.
with the words: Since the Pentecost event the Christ-being
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Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture IV
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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.
that Christ Jesus did told, for if one wanted to tell of
introduction of Christianity Bath Kol was still held in a
Jesus to Christ

Title: The Fifth Gospel: Lecture V
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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.
consideration of Christ Jesus' life. Therefore we
Christ-Being descended into that body at the baptism in the
the earth: the Christ-Being in a human body, a Being who
Therefore the Christ-Being was unbiased in respect to his
Christ-Being was led at first into solitude. This is also
of Nazareth, in whose body the Christ-Being now dwelled,
Christ-Being had come to the earth. At first he was drawn
Therefore the Christ-Being, who had never existed in a
the Christ-Being in Jesus of Nazareth's body
Lucifer wants to do! Lucifer approached Christ Jesus and
of pride. But the Christ-Being came from the spiritual
both spoke to Christ. One tried to goad his pride: Lucifer.
have entered into a human body as Christ. That body
you claim to have divine powers. And the Christ-Being said:
comes from the spiritual world. The Christ-Being knew that
spirit alone. That was the moment when Ahriman told Christ
As Christ
twelfth year on; he felt the Christ-spirit to be more
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Title: Easter/Pentecost: Lecture III: The Pentecost of the World
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Christianity entered the evolution of man.
Being of whom men would speak at a later day as the Christ.
they desired knowledge of the Christ that they must not seek
only beyond the earth were the Mysteries of the Christ to be
kingdom of Christ from which they had descended to earth.
the Mystery of Golgotha had taken place men beheld the Christ
the Christ to their pupils; they were able to arouse in them
sun, behold in it the manifestation of Christ! Men would no
the power of Christ. It was then that there first arose in man
the kingdom of Christ, and were immortal.
body uniting them with the Christ were severed. This was
— they could nowhere find the Christ.
find the Christ in super-sensible regions beyond the sun that
men were no longer able to reach up to the Christ, the Christ
never experienced before — birth and death. Christ in the
— the Christ.
— the Disciples and Apostles of Christ, still retained a
Jesus Christ.
were aware: He Who dwells in Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ is
to the fourth century after Christ it was always known that the
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Title: Spiritual Ground: Lecture II: Spiritual Disciplines of Yesterday: Yoga
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Christianity. But we shall be helped in our understanding of spirit

Title: Esoteric Development: Lecture IV: The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge
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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 2, Lecture I
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given

Title: Mans Life on Earth: Lecture II
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Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
idea did not prevail that Christ Jesus was, first and foremost, the

Title: Planetary Spheres: Lecture II
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idea did not prevail that Christ Jesus was, first and foremost, the

Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 2, Lecture II
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
time people never thought of Christ Jesus as merely the being whom
they saw developing on the earth. They thought that Christ Jesus was

Title: Spiritual Ground: Lecture VIII: Boys and Girls at the Waldorf School
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Christian character.
Christian character pervades all the teaching, how religion is alive

Title: Lecture: The Mystery of Golgoltha
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can never do justice to the full World-impulse of Christianity. For
must derive the sources of our Will (and these for Christianity are
meaning Christ the Saviour] the healing Saviour.
To us the conception of Christ as the Healer is no longer living. But
was afterwards called and which we now call the Christ. For this
reason the earliest Christian authors said that the most ancient
souls of humanity had been true Christians, for they too had looked
up to the Christ and worshipped Him. In the spiritual worlds in which
they dwelt before their descent to Earth, Christ had been the centre
with the vision of the soul. It was this communion with Christ in the
learned to know the Christ, with whom indeed all human beings lived
before their descent to Earth. For by this time Christ was already a
in super-sensible worlds who was afterwards called the Christ,
Christ-Being in the spiritual worlds had been the great Teacher of
called Christ appeared to the initiates as One who had lost His
called Christ, as of Him who would in future time come down to Earth
of Christ as the Coming One. And in the beautiful picture of the Wise
of Initiation that Christ would come to Earth when the time should be
forgotten Christ. They saw the world of Nature around them, and there
the initiates knew that the Being who afterwards was called Christ,
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 2, Lecture III
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
“gnostic” understanding of the Christ event from within,
of the Michael age in a Christian context. The last four lectures, given
knowledge in a position to do justice to Christianity and the impulse
Christianity) within our instincts; we cannot sense them within the
of humanity, the healing savior, to come. Christ is no longer alive
the following centuries before Christ's appearance on earth. If
fourth, third, second, and first centuries before Christ without
Christ. For this reason the earliest
Christian writers maintained that the most ancient souls had been
Christian; they also had known how to worship Christ. In the
earth Christ was the center of their attention. He was the central
people on earth remembered being together with Christ in their
the Christ, the one with whom all human beings lived before their
Christ once again in his full stature. But they knew him as a being
later called the Christ. In looking at him they said: We see this
descended to the earth. The being who was later called Christ
known as Christ as the one who in the future would come down to earth
of Nazareth. Speaking of the Christ as the one who is to come formed
initiation had learned: the Christ will come when the time has been
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture VII: The Return of Christ
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture VII: The Return of Christ
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
Return of Christ
3101 before Christ's appearance on earth. Until that time, there
incarnation of Christ that this possibility arose. All other great
to the astral body. In Christ alone do we find a divine-spiritual
the Christ incarnated Himself as the I within those sheaths so that
the I of every human being can have a connection with the Christ.
however, in contrast, the whole biography of Christ consists of facts
the Christ event can be grasped with our intellect, with our physical
it in Christ Himself through the medium of the senses. In order that
dark age of Kali Yuga, Christ had to descend to the physical plane.
be convinced that the Christ lived in the man from Nazareth. At the
clairvoyant consciousness: Christ exists! The people who will
receive direct knowledge of Christ. They will not require documentary
evidence in order to recognize Christ, but they will have direct
coming of Christ.” Christ will not be incarnated again in a
Christ incarnated on the physical plane when humanity
Human beings with etheric clairvoyance will thus behold the Christ
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Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture I: The Birth of the Intellect and the Mission of Christianity
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THE BIRTH OF THE INTELLECT AND THE MISSION OF CHRISTIANITY
glance at the centuries preceding the advent of Christianity and
difference between a man of pre-Christian times and a man of today.
a thousand years before the Christian era. It is the epoch of Thales,
before the Christian era has been to develop the human Ego in the
the world by the Christ and by true Christianity.
Let us now turn to Christianity. The brotherhood of man and the cult
new, mysterious and transcendental element in Christianity is that it
leaven by which the whole world is raised. Christ came to say:
(pre-Christian), through intellectualism (the present age), to
In the Rosicrucian sense, Christianity is at once the highest
In this sense, Christ is the centre of the esoteric evolution of the
have tried to represent Christ as a simple, naive human being. This is

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture II: The Mission of Manicheism
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Christianity is that before the advent of Christianity their
Christian occultism is derived from the Manicheans whose founder,
Manes, lived on the Earth three hundred years after Jesus the Christ.
Christ washes the feet of the Apostles. That is a symbol of the

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture V: Yoga In East and West
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The advent of Christianity wrought a great change in the manner of
Initiation. Initiation since the time of Christ Jesus has not been the

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture VI: Yoga In East and West (Conclusion)
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element of good. A Persian legend says that Christ once passed by the
the Christ said: ‘Lo! the teeth are beautiful.’

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture VII: The Gospel of St. John
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The rôle of Christianity in human history is unique. The coming of
Christianity represents, in a sense, the central moment, the turning
second century after Christ has made certain theologians of the school
essential source of Christian truth. Such Brotherhoods were the
possess the secret. They were the precursors of a Christianity which
Thus in spiritual vision the Rosicrucians saw the life of Christ — nay
indeed the Christ Himself being born in the depths of the soul. They
Christ, for to know the inner Christ is also to recognise the outer
Christ.
Christ. To this the occultist will reply: ‘If there were no eye
but if there were no living Christ, He could not live within
The mission accomplished by Christ Jesus cannot be understood in all
Mysteries and the Christian Mystery.
This ancient initiation has its crowning-point ‘in Christ.’
Christ represents the crystallised initiation of the life of sense.
Christ, historic fact on the physical plane. The death
etheric world. The death of Christ was a full and complete death in
the ancient initiation to the Christian initiation. In the fourth
who was called to new life by the voice of Christ Himself. John is
through the death undergone by Christ. Such is the mystic path
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Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture VIII: The Christian Mystery
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THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
Christian initiation has existed since the founding of Christianity.
In certain respects the Christian initiation is more difficult of
the essence and mission of Christianity which came into the world at a
renders initiation more difficult. That is why the Christian masters
The Christian initiation has always consisted of seven stages, four of
character, relating to the scene where Christ washes the feet of the
Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, could not exist without
Then he is ready to pass to the second stage of the Christian
Scourging. In another vision he sees himself in the Christ Who is
and love. It corresponds to the second stage of Christian initiation
In the course of the stage in the Christian initiation known as the
be despised. It must be borne as some exterior object, even as Christ
sanctuary. The last stage of Christian initiation transcends all

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture IX: The Astral World
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Christian Heaven).
import of Christ's words to His disciples: “Verily, verily I say

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture X: The Astral World (continued)
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Buddha and the Eight Beatitudes of Christ. The same underlying truth
Christ.

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XI: The Devachanic World (Heaven)
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the Zodiac. Eight centuries before Jesus the Christ, the vernal
God — the Christ. 2,160 years before that, the vernal equinox

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XII: The Devachanic World (Continued)
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Christians, the spiritual world of the occultists.
during the first centuries, Christianity contained esoteric teaching
esoteric Christianity. Later on, at the Court of Charles the Bald in
doctrines. Esoteric Christianity was then gradually obscured by dogma.

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XIV: The Logos and Man
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Christ Jesus brought a new state of life and was in very truth the
Word made Flesh. With the coming of the Christ, a new force entered

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XV: The Evolution of Planets and Earth
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our own, this power of the Logos, is Christ. He came at the central
The conscious Ego is the realisation in man of the Christ Principle.

Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XVII: Redemption and Liberation
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man, a being independent of the Gods. Christ, or the Logos made
Before the Coming of Christ, man embodied the principle of Jehovah
But the principle of Christ came to establish equilibrium between the
two. Christ taught man how to find the Law which was originally laid
principles of Christianity. The ancient world was ruled by Law; Love
— Jehovah, Lucifer, Christ. Christ Jesus is not only a Universal
Principle; Christ is a Being who appeared once, and once only, at a
ultimately to acquire by their own free-will. Christ came to the Earth
Christ-Principle might awaken in man, the life of Christ Himself on
represents the spiral process of evolution. The Christ Impulse
He came to Earth the Christ has lived in the depths of every human
Christ as the Redeemer. In reality, karma is a redemption of man by
man is able to draw near to Christ.
The Christ-Impulse transforms implacable Law into Freedom, and the
source of this Impulse is the person and example of Christ Jesus.
Christ — a freedom attained not by defying the world-order but by
them. Karma and Christ — the means of salvation and the Saviour.
Through karma, the Act of Christ becomes cosmic law, and through the
Christ-Principle karma achieves its aim — the liberation of
redemption, Christ is the Redeemer.
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Title: Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture XVIII: The Apocalypse
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Christianity marks the turning point of human evolution. All the
as Christianity. — Those who ‘have not seen’ are those
who have not known the Mysteries. Through Christianity, certain
Before Christianity, super-sensible truth was revealed in the rites and
as it was revealed in the Divine Personality of Christ. But in every
Christianity. What is written in the Gospels is the message, the good
Esoteric Christianity is not based upon vague and sentimental
first germs of Christianity were laid down in this epoch among the
Graeco-Roman civilisation, the era of the birth of Christianity.
Christianity mingled with the leaven of the East which was brought
and creative power. What will Christianity be in the sixth epoch? To
the priest in the Mysteries before Christ, there was harmony between
Person of Christ, of the God-Man on Earth has temporarily replaced
end of earthly existence will be that the Christ-Principle permeates
all humanity. Having become like unto Christ, men will gather around

Title: Reading Pictures of the Apocalypse: Appendix: Cosmogony
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Second Coming of Christ; and the true nature of the I and the possible
represents the occult sign for the Intelligence of the Sun, the Christ,
we have said repeatedly that Christianity constitutes the decisive
as Christianity. One can feel this influence in the words of John's
of the ancient mysteries is made public through Christianity, for example,
Before Christianity, one
super-sensible thanks to the divine person of Christ. There had always
for Christianity. What is found in the Gospels is the new good tidings,
Esoteric Christianity
sketched the future of humankind in Christian perspective.
cultures. The first seeds of Christianity were sown during this age
epoch that experienced the birth of Christianity; and fifth, a new epoch
of Christianity. This impulse has also been mixed with the leaven of the
How will Christianity appear in the sixth epoch? There was a harmonious
union of science and faith for the ancient priests of the pre-Christian
separated. The faithful reverence of the person of Christ, the god of
of earthly evolution will stand in the sign of the Christ principle
similar to Christ; they will gather around Christ like a multitude around

Title: Lecture: Macrocosm and Microcosm
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Occult Science and Occult Develoment. Christ at the Time of
the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the 20th Century,
Occult Science and Occult Develoment. Christ at the Time of
the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the 20th Century,
outside our bodies we feel the Christ-experience as an inner
Christ-Impulse in the Macrocosm.
descending development of man, the point when Christ
incarnated. We then recognise Christ as He is, in His very
the freeing of our thought we unite ourselves with the Christ

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Four: The Presence of the Dead in our Life
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.
of a friend and poet (Christian Morgenstern) after death. The
the progress in our understanding of Christ through the ages and
about the position of our movement concerning the Christ.

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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.
Christian centuries, the friend whom we knew in her short life here
had taken in much of that Christian culture. However, she had not

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture V
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referred briefly to the importance and consequences of the Christmas

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture VI
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accordance with ancient Christian usage — the Hierarchy of

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture VII
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the Mystery of Golgotha had taken place the Christ Being was not
their Initiation, to reach Christ in the Sun-sphere where He was to
Christ has no longer been in the Sun-sphere. He has united Himself
with Earth-existence. First, Christ is present in the Sun-sphere;
reverse: to begin with, Christ is not there; after the Mystery of
Golgotha He is. But just as the Christ Impulse penetrates radically
Christ, that we may be inwardly filled, permeated by the Christ;
Before the Mystery of Golgotha it was the Christ who gave to man in
of Christ. In this way, during our earthly existence, we can
Sun-sphere. Before the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ gave to human
man in the Sun-existence; since the Mystery of Golgotha Christ
we can learn truly to understand the essence of Christianity. And, as
Christian point of view and mingled the Arabian concepts he had
previously imbibed with the Christian teachings he was now receiving.
Ireland, during the first Christian century when those great

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture VIII: During Sleep and after Death
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relation with the Mystery of Golgotha that Christ can become his
guide. For the Christ gathers into Himself all those powers of

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture IX: Experiences between Death and Rebirth
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of Golgotha; if, that is, he has created a bond with the Christ, who,
Christ were not to be his Guide.
of the Christ as Guide — who in this sphere must be conceived of as
with the words: In Christo morimur. For the feeling is that
the soul must perish should it not die in Christ, thereby dying into

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture X: Man's Life after Death in the Spiritual Cosmos
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has become impossible, and how the Christ Being had to descend from the
Christ, came in. This work of the Christ was surrounded by the
the Christ, incorporated in the body of Jesus, is the power who,
the Christ, who passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. Through as

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture XI: Experience of the World's Past
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into it as impulse by Christ Jesus; and under this impulse the
Christ. Gnosis was essentially an endeavour to grasp His whole
Christianity — particularly the first four centuries, for
had come to Earth — said, that is, to the Christ. Anyone aware
universal consciousness which must flow essentially from the Christ
this genuine Christ impulse, and will never be able to understand

Title: Evolution of Consciousness: Lecture XIII: The Entry of Man into the Era of Freedom
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proceeded in such a way that up to about 3,000 years before Christ
before Christ the lower part of the astral body was becoming larger
after the coming of Christ, and since then the upper part of a man's
Christ, there to go through something that the divine Beings
resolved to send down to Earth the Christ, as a Being who had not yet
Christ was sent down to Earth and went through birth and death —
that through the Mystery of Golgotha, through the fact of Christ's death,
sickness. Thus Christ became for mankind, in very truth, the great
other the saving forces of Christ, can find his way to freedom.
with the Christ. That is what the Mystery of Golgotha means for
coming of Christ, to certain men who still had some knowledge of the
evolution, the coming of Christ, and what was to take place in
personalities of the first four Christian centuries it is possible to
those who in these first centuries were still initiated in Christian
of Christ to Earth, but it also gave in impressive dramatic form —
Sun — in the way I mentioned — and the descent of Christ
poet-priests, as I might call them, of the first four Christian centuries,
into being in those early centuries of Christianity. And among those
known about Christ becoming man, about the sending of the Spirit, and
and they received the Christ Impulse in the Latinised form through which
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Title: Lecture: The Way of Knowledge
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words, through the passage of Christ on earth, the spiritual
division of earthly time into pre-Christian and post-Christian
through the appearance of Christ on earth. What was previously
Christ-Soul felt itself uniting with the body of the earth.
reported story of Christianity in the correct light. We can ask
reference to the spreading of Christianity? When one looks at
the propagation of Christianity one can say: firstly more had
companions of Christ Jesus in Palestine; Paul who was no
physical companion of Christ Jesus, who had even persecuted the
Christ. Paul didn't become a believer through sharing the life
and suffering of the Christ, but he became a warrior for Christ
saw the living Christ, who since the Event of Golgotha had
first learnt to know the Christ from the time Christ united
become a worthy body for the Christ-Spirit and while the earth
was preparing for the uniting of itself and the Christ-Spirit,
during this time the Christ-Spirit worked into it. Christ said
the body of Christ! How meaningful this becomes with reference
the acceptance of the Christ-soul.
appearance of Christ on earth. Through Christ alone are the
with this Christ-Spirit, that which spreads out on earth as the
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Title: Lecture: Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
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Pre-Earthly Deeds of Christ
Christ-Being with the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and that thereby a
Being moving on the physical plane the Cosmic Christ was present in
himself ready to receive the Christ-Being. This event is indicated
the Christ-Being. At His death the Christ-Being poured Himself out
Christ-Being. This is the essential fact in the Mystery of Golgotha
the Christ-Being. He who was later the Nathan-Jesus had been present
he was permeated by the Christ-Being.
permeation by the Christ-Impulse. As in Christ Jesus we have a Man
permeated with the Christ-Impulse, so it may be said that three times
Christ Jesus; there are no means whereby we can make him understand
first begins to lisp, accustom him to pronounce the name of Christ,
and we can surround him with ideas about Christ, but we find that the
glimmerings of a feeling for Christ. Nor during the first few years
ideas about Christ without dogma, and all we can convey by means of
words and ideas containing something of the Christ-Impulse, will be of
Christ in quite a different way from before. For just as the Mystery
If, during the old Lemurian epoch, the first Christ-Event had not
Christ-Being.
Christ he then assumed etheric human form. Thereby something new
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Nicht er allein, der Christus in ihm.
ist in seiner Erinnerung der Christus,
wird der Christus leuchten
aus aer durchchristlichten, durchgöttlichten

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture III: How Does One Defend Spiritual Science?
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of Paul: not I — but Christ in me. One has to say,

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Prague, 3-29-11
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so that the Christ principle can enter us in the way that Paul says:
Not I, but Christ I me. This filling of oneself with the Christ
perception of the highest. The name “Christ” isn't

Title: Presence of the Dead: Lecture Six: Faith and Knowledge
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Christian Morgenstern, and Oda Waller - is unusually warm and moving.

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture IX: The Relation of the Human Being to the Realms of Nature and the Hierarchies
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divine or — because in Central Europe Christ is working
— to the Christ Impulse. So that the Central European
human being learns to feel Christ in such a way as He speaks to
Central Europe. Still during the Roman time of the Christian
development one understood, for example, Christ as a being who
Christ in me.” However, it is a difference compared with
Were Christ born a thousand times in Bethlehem
as something divine or as something Christian was prepared for
“I-Ch,” is Jesus Christ. It lies in Jesus Christ.
Because in “ICH” Christ Jesus is expressed in His
“Jesus Christ.” If one turned the spiritual eyes
withdrawn mostly from the year, the time from Christmas up to
Åsteson goes to the church before Christmas; that
time in which Christmas was rightly put. This makes it clear to
best of all during these thirteen nights from Christmas till
armies carry the monogram of Christ. Dreams and Sibylline
under the threshold of consciousness? It was the Christ
Impulse, but the Christ Impulse, as it was real, not as human
do not get to know the Christ Impulse listening to the
squabbling of the theologians. The Christ Impulse did not work

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture X: Central Europe between East and West
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may call this central figure Christ; one may also call it the
an earthly personality as Christ was expressed in the earthly
human being, who stands in the middle, the Christ-human being,
Christ-principle of our universe in the middle figure, the
Christ does not want to overcome Lucifer and Ahriman because He
shown by the Christ-principle. This principle makes Lucifer
in Christianity, and manifests itself in the element of
progress of Christianity. It is exceptionally valuable to our
human idol, a physically reincarnated Christ. This was the
Self to the world: in Christo morimur.
entered in the world as a result of the Christ Impulse.
Christian development, it will go on. What one would best
strongly with the spiritual Christ Impulse which is developing

Title: Lecture: Goethe's Personal Relationship to his 'Faust'
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places Faust into the traditional form of the Christian church,

Title: Waking/Soul I: Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny
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spiritual Beings and the presence of Christ among us now and in

Title: Waking/Soul II: The Need for Understanding The Christ
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The Need for Understanding The Christ
spiritual Beings and the presence of Christ among us now and in
The Need for Understanding The Christ
thinking occurred in the fourth Christian century. I mean that in the
fourth Post-Christian century there began the first trace becoming
their appearance for the first time in the fourth Christian century.
fourth Post-Christian century occurred the beginning of an
than that the Mystery of Golgotha, the appearance of Christ upon the
When Christ appeared upon the earth he was received by a certain
during the fourth Post-Christian century.
them of the Christ, their answer was that Jesus Christ had been at
very early times; there they went away from the Christ in order to
mysteries of the Christ — indeed, mention was constantly made of
the Christ in the ancient mysteries, although He was not called by the
name “Christ” — then thought had to be directed to the
to know something of the Christ, you must not hold fast to your
humanity before the Mystery of Golgotha was the Christ. Thus one may
also make the following statement: when in the pre-Christian time
in the pre-earthly existence and became aware of the Christ; that,
side, but the Christ was concealed from him: only through mystery
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Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture III
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to have followed. And now that we have tried through the Christmas
actually undertaken. Such indeed was the aim of our Christmas
Christianity to humanity will — if men prove worthy to receive
Christianity spread across the North of Africa into European
of Christianity through the Mystery of Golgotha, a different
across from Asia. In contrast to Christianity, the spiritual life
abstractions. In Christianity there are many more direct descriptions
and spreads in the wake of Christianity. It is an interesting
spectacle. We see the stream of Christianity flowing towards the
as it were around this Christian stream — across North Africa,
is quite easy to realise that had Christianity alone been at work,
assumed had Christianity alone been at work. In our modern science
there is verily more Arabism than Christianity!
civilisation, above the stratum of Christianity, lie those elements
inaugurated by the Christmas Foundation Meeting: to make into a

Title: Karmic Relationships, V: Lecture IV
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since the Christmas Foundation Meeting it is not only a matter of
Christian era. Even to-day there is still much living spirituality in
Christianity. And there one finds an Initiate whose path in the 8th
to 9th centuries after the founding of Christianity led him from
much for the cause of true Christianity, for which, if the truth be
himself. He caused wood to be brought from the Cross on which Christ
centuries of Christendom there was extant in the more southerly
the nature of advancing culture immediately after Christianity had
since the recent revelation of Christianity man cannot draw near to
the true Being of Christ unless he undergoes a definite preparation
us. To His intimate disciples Christ had made it abundantly clear
in His words, Christ wished to bring to men through morality, through
bring. It was Christ Who taught: “When you learn to feel as I
the early period of Christianity knew with certainty that the
Therefore these wise men of the old Christian Mysteries instituted
Christian Mysteries, who by the sacrifice of intellect at a certain
point in his youth was to be led to true Christianity when the
realisation had dawned in him that Christ is a Sun Being Who came to
seeking the inmost truth of Christianity makes the sacrifice of
to know Christianity not as mere history or tradition but in its
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture IV: Results of Spiritual Scientific Investigations of the Evolution of Humanity: I
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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.'
existed some clairvoyant people up to the time of Christ. We
the Christ-Principle, which entered Jesus of Nazareth and
the Christ-Principle, the Ahrimanic and Luciferic powers will
evolution will be reversed. Christ would not have been able
humanity has always been led by Christ; we can deduce this
after the mystery of Golgotha when Christ's blood ran from
incarnation of Christ brought about a remarkable change in
Christ's etheric and astral bodies multiplied like a grain of
Christ-Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth. St. Augustine is the
Christ is most clearly evident, and the great significance of
Christ's astral body was incorporated into human beings from
astral qualities of Christ. These individuals were imbued
astral body of Christ was manifest to a high degree, as we shall
Christ-Ego begin to weave themselves into the egos of a few
individualities, one of them being Christian Rosenkreutz,
of a more intimate relationship with Christ, as is revealed by
Christ will make human beings more perfect, spiritualize
power of Christ will enable human beings to learn on this
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Title: Principle/Economy: Lecture V: Results of Spiritual Scientific Investigations of the Evolution of Humanity: II
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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 way for Christianity: St. Augustine and St. Thomas
and were not Christian or Rosicrucian in nature. This is how
Christ, the leading Spirit in our evolution, would be lying
Christ as spiritual essence.
ether body. The Christ has liberated us from this three and a
perceive the Christ, as would have been necessary for other
initiates of the pre-Christian era. After all, Christ did
years before Christ, and initiations no longer took place
using one's mind. However, when Christ left the material
of human beings suited to disseminate Christianity. One of
body of Christ was woven into his own etheric body, and this
sources of his doctrine about the true form of Christian
of Christ, his ego was subjected to error, and it was
went through all stages of doubt in regard to Christ's
Christianity in the words of John and Paul, the etheric body
of Christ began to work in him, for he speaks not of the
look at another great representative of Christianity: Thomas
reside in the astral body, and Christ's astral body was woven
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Title: Lecture: The Supersensible in the Human Being and in the Universe
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opinions and exercises that lie far back in pre-Christian times;
Nazareth, lived the divine-spiritual being of Christ.
this divine-spiritual being of Christ had come down to them on
Christians accepted so unconditionally the wisdom contained in
Christ, who had appeared on earth in the human being, Jesus of
soul-spiritual worlds, as a human soul. The first Christians knew
that Christ had come down to the earth in order to give man on
is to say, upon the Christ who overcomes death.
wisdom enabled the first Christians to grasp — in the form
the Christ as that Being who came down to the earth. Modern
Nazareth, but also to the divine-spiritual Christ, who came down
strength that the Christ unfolds within us, in accordance with
St. Paul's words — “Not I, but Christ in me”
us to pass through death with Christ as living souls, so that we
eyes, through the Light that Christ brought down to the
spiritual science can thus kindle the religious-Christian life;
the religious and Christian life can thus be deepened. The past

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture VI. The Starry Heaven Above Me - The Moral Law Within Me
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
the Christ Impulse, the way to all other human beings is open for him.
Since the Mystery of Golgotha, union can be achieved with the Christ
the Christ Impulse remains a hermit, even in the Sun-sphere.
culture, conditions were such that the Throne of Christ was to be seen
found their way to the Christ on the plane of Sun-existence. In the
age of Zarathustra, the Christ was already on His way to the Earth and
could not be found on the Sun. Since the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ
received the Christ Impulse, they cannot find Christ between death and
Christ Impulse into himself, a multitude of facts, known as the Akasha
not found Christ, he cannot read the Akasha Chronicle on the Sun. We
Sun, we are able to perceive the Deeds of Christ on the Sun through
Christ. From the Sun-existence onwards we need a Leader whose task it
understood the Christ Impulse, then we are strong enough on the Sun to
Christ has had charge of our ascent. If on the Earth we have received
the Christ Impulse, Christ is the Keeper of the soul on the path to
If during the Sun-period we have been armed with the Christ Impulse,
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Title: Geographic Medicine: Lecture II
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Golgotha not occurred, had Christ not passed through the Mystery of
Christ passing through the Mystery of Golgotha and these beings who
Christian-Esoteric teaching developed in Ireland, worked in such a
arising in Ireland should spread Christianity over Europe in such a
that sought its success in Christianizing Europe by surrounding
all that the tender plant of Christianity could be spread in Europe
to spread Christianity in Europe until the twelfth century, the Roman
Christian centuries? What exists, however, does not really cease to
Christianity was spreading. The difference is that at that time the
Christians had to be physically down below in catacombs; up above
as the only right, while the dreaming Christians were down below. In
Christians in the Roman catacombs. Despite the fact that it was

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture X: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 1
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
humanity a special relationship to the Christ. This relationship to
Christ will come about in the course of the twentieth century, and
large number of people Christ in the etheric will be an actual,
human evolution that leads to truly beholding Christ in the etheric.
Christ, of this new relationship with humanity into which Christ will
the etheric Christ, who wished to use it for their own purposes and
event of the appearance of Christ as well as I do, but they deal with
materialization of the soul. The way taken by Christ Himself is
initiate — has influence over what Christ does, which will
Mystery Dramas. This depends completely upon Christ Himself. Christ
appearance of Christ Himself, therefore, no one, no initiate however
to this. Arrangements can be made, however, for receiving this Christ
sphere, strive for the Christ to pass unnoticed through the twentieth
through Christ in the twentieth century and to continue further, to
the Christ impulse. They wish to place another individuality who has
who is of a strong Ahrimanic nature, in place of Christ.
human beings away from Christ, Who passed through the Mystery of
the Christ being in the course of human evolution for the rest of the
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Title: Three Paths: Lecture I: The Path through the Gospels and The Path of Inner Experience
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The Three Paths of the Soul to Christ
Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
Christ question is such that, for two thousand years now, not only has
impossible had not the Christ impulse taken hold of a large part of
interest the Christ question must offer if we approach it with
souls with the name of Christ, and ever more do they come to the
(which will steadily increase with regard to Christ) are to be
enlightenment about Christ, we find on the other side, among numerous
relation to Christ, will be needed by those men who follow after our
enlightenment. Thus in speaking of Christ today we speak of something
the soul, in accordance with human evolution, can attain to Christ. If
the path through the so-called Christian documents, through the
which the human soul may seek the Christ is that which can be called
are three paths to Christ: First, the path through the Gospels;
relation to this Christ, because it is maintained today that external
woman at the well, or of Christ imparting the Sermon on the Mount to
human evolution in connection with the Christ-impulse, and then we
But when we speak of the inner way to Christ, we encounter more and
shall try to speak of the inner Christ-experience in such a way
inner experience of the Christ. Then the soul can
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Title: Three Paths: Lecture II: The Path of Initiation
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The Three Paths of the Soul to Christ
Erfahrungen des Uebersinnlichen. Die wege der Seele zu Christus.
inner experience, has lived through the personal Christ-experience
today we start by considering the third path to Christ, the path of
experience, we have the two paths to Christ which are accessible to
Christianity, leading back to Jesus of Nazareth. The religions having
that an Occidental has grown up within Christianity. He will perhaps
have learned to know Christianity through having taken into himself
to what is called the path to Christ Jesus through inner experience;
perhaps in his inner experience he has already experienced the Christ.
knowledge of Christianity or out of the principle of initiation, he
period named Christ. But that is not the point: The point is to
recognize in Christ that which lived as an impulse for three years in
Christ-impulse is a once-appearing impulse for the earth and is not
thus once present as Christ and can never return in any man,
This is a Christian avowal.
must pay attention to and respect this Christian avowal just as the
Christian must respect his. The Buddhist who has risen to theosophy
and takes it seriously will say: “Just as you as a Christian
Buddhist acknowledge that what you call Christ cannot return in a
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Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stockholm, 6-8-'13
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In Christo morimur

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Strassburg, 2-19-11
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Christ impulse is love. But love without wisdom would be very bad.
is redeemed by Christ. Men who take Lucifer in on Jupiter will be

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Strassburg, 5-14-'13
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correctly it's true. Christ says: “Ye are Gods” —
In Christo morimur,
as a spiritual-divine being through Christ, the spirit who is connected
deep lap of the Gods when he said: God is good. Christ Jesus said: No

Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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into the “kingdom of Heaven”. As Christ says, “Unless

Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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was incarnated a few centuries after Christ, compared with the conditions
time Christ called Himself the “Lamb of God”, and the first
Christian symbol was not the Cross with the Saviour hanging on it, but

Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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of life. All forms of spiritual life, for example that of Christian

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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Christian clergymen often
raise the objection: “Your Theosophy is not Christian, for it
Christ Jesus, who suffered for all mankind? The Theosophist says he
karma and the central fact of Christianity will not be hard to find.
to esoteric Christianity.
as powerful as Christianity represents Christ to be, he may help the
Christ's deed on Earth is effective precisely because the law of karma
to act upon him. Christ's deed is conceivable only because of the law
of karma; the testament of Christ is in fact the teaching of karma and
the unique deed of Christ having been accomplished once only for all
redemption. The reason why Christianity has hitherto failed to emphasise

Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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— old myths and legends and even the life of Christ — as a

Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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of that time: these were the gods who in Christian tradition are called

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Development
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occult development: the Eastern, the Christian-Gnostic and the
Christian-Rosicrucian, or simply the Rosicrucian. They are distinguished
Persian legend told of Christ Jesus. One day Christ Jesus saw a dead dog
2. The Christian way.
Here, in place of individual Gurus, there is one great Guru, Christ
Jesus Himself, for everyone. The feeling of belonging to Christ Jesus,
Guru. But the pupil has first to be led to Christ by an earthly Guru,
Christian way is best suited to those whose feelings are most strongly

Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
AND CHRISTIAN TRAINING
Christian and the Rosicrucian. Today we will begin by going more closely
occult training. You can, for instance, be a very good Christian and
fulfil everything that the Christian religion prescribes for the laity
without undergoing a Christian occult training. It goes without saying
The Christian religion
Eastern Yoga training. Christian training pays almost no attention to
the Christian way of occult training, as far as this is possible, and
we shall see how it differs from the Eastern way. This Christian way
done and can rectify mistakes at every step. But in Christian training
the great Guru is Christ Jesus Himself. Hence it is essential to have
a firm belief in the presence and the life on Earth of the Christ. Without
will no longer need to prove the reality of Christ Jesus, for he will
In Christian training
this is; how he is led into the events in Palestine when Christ Jesus
chapter, he has to experience the separate stages of Christian
scene. Christ Jesus bends down before those who are lower than himself.
all stages of human existence up to Christ Jesus Himself, who bows down
of Christian Initiation. He will know by two signs, an outer and an
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Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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the various stages by which pupils of the Eastern and the Christian
the Rosicrucian path that those who have been led away from Christian
belief by what they take to be science can learn to understand Christianity
grasp of the truth of Christianity. Truth is one, but it can be reached
This healing method calls itself Christian, but in fact it is
anti-Christian.
Christianity is an outlook

Title: Lecture II: Occult Signs and Symbols
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movement called Christian Mysticism. It is linked up with such
picture of the fish, which tradition tells us signifies the Christian
or the Christ. If someone were to reflect on these symbols, he could,
The Christos is the
esoteric Christianity conceived of the fish form, because it
Christ. To be sure, the fish is outwardly an incomplete being but it

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Christ — I. C. M., In Christo Morimur.

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture I: The Egyptian period, and the present time
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pre-Christian civilization — the Egyptian — and our own, we
terminated in the eighth century before Christ. We know that this
Christ Jesus. Then followed the age in which we are now living.
results — the rise of Christianity — and then our present
the Greek age, the Roman, the Christian, down into our own age. All
descend into human evolution and incarnate in Jesus Christ.
an individual God who worked and ruled at that time as the Christ
flesh as the Christ: only afterwards He was visible to those around
appearance; and how by degrees out of the stream of Christianity a
may become aware of a mysterious connection between the Christian
and reminds us of the spiritual victory of Christ over death.
words “kingdom,” “Christendom,” for example. It

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 8-5-'08
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When an esoteric pupil wanted to know the essence of Christian

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture II: Ancient Wisdom and the new Apocalyptic Wisdom
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the earth; this seed is what we describe as the Christ-Principle. The
conjunction with this Christ Principle, which does not point back only

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture III: The Kingdoms of Nature
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three kingdoms which interest us. In accordance with Christian

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture IV: The Outer Manifestations of Spiritual Beings in the Elements
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beyond death, from one incarnation to another. In Christian
Christian esotericism gives the name of Exusiai, or Powers, or Spirits
of Form on the earth, and these are called, according to Christian
principle is named in Christian esotericism the hierarchy of the

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VI: The Spirits of Form as regents of earthly existence
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of Form, or Exusiai as they are called in Christian esotericism, are
which we call the Christ Principle; the Christ would have appeared
to receive the Christ Principle. We must clearly understand that the
descent of Christ and his work was retarded by the intervention of the
mature when the Christ ultimately did descend.
Christ Principle. The Luciferic beings might have said If we leave man
Atlantean epoch he will receive the Christ Principle also
Christ.
Atlantean epoch as Christ appeared after it.
They always wished, up to the time of the coming of Christ, to centre
relationship. Then the Christ appears and centres man entirely within
periods of time. Only at the time of Christ's coming was man ready for
“Christus verus Luciferus,” Christ the true Lucifer, knew
those olden times we call pre-Christian; there was a binding principle

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VII: Animal forms - the physiognomical expression of human passions
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The Light of Christ.
Animal forms — the physiognomical expression of human passions. The religion of Egypt — a remembrance of Lemurian times. Fish and serpent symbols. The remembrance of Atlantis in Europe. The Light of Christ.
consciousness. This was the moment of Christ's coming to the earth.
higher forces whose leader is Christ — the great Sun-Spirit
Of what was it the duty of Initiates to remind man when Christ
This symbol did not appear suddenly. Long before the coming of Christ
that they prepared man for freedom, prepared him to receive the Christ
when the Christ brought an essentially new Impulse into evolution. We
preparing mankind, making him capable of receiving the Christ Impulse,
coming of Christ only the first impulse was given for the inwardly
Spiritual Sunlight, or Christ-light, will irradiate mankind from
dwelt on earth as the Being whom we call Christ Jesus. Only slowly and
as in pre-Christian times he had to understand the pronouncements of
comprehend this Christ power — this Spiritual power which imparts
Christ. One cannot say that Anthroposophy is Christianity, but one can
say that what has been given to man and to the earth by the Christ

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture VIII: Mans connection with the various planetary bodies
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beings who in Christian esotericism are described as Angels,
Sun-Forces. Then through the advent of Christ the spiritual forces of
the sun found again a place upon the earth. Now, if the Christ is
receiving into him the Christ-Principle; the material form of a planet
If man fills himself ever more and more with the Christ-Principle, if
with the Christ, he will himself grow ever more Christ-like, and will
irradiate the whole heart with the Christ-Principle.
What is this Christ-Principle? Before we can know what it is we must
receive the highest potency of love — the Christ Principle, which
Christ Principle the ancient blood brotherhood had to assume a new
man to man. The Christ-Principle has given the impulse by which man
can love man, and that through being Christened human love may become
sun. Christ as Spiritual Sun has given the impulse by which the earth
the mighty Christ Impulse descended, and how the impulse was thereby

Title: Esoteric Lesson: Stuttgart, 8-13-'08
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was brought through the coming of Christ to the earth. That's why
Christ Jesus says: I am the true vine.
See the beautiful and true elements in all things. Christ Jesus

Title: Universe/Earth/Man: Lecture XI: The progress of Man
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Christ.
Christ has not only come once, but only once in personal form; His
last coming was in Jesus Christ. In ancient times He worked also
through the Prophets. Christ Himself indicates this in the Gospel of
foretold. In this sense Christ has a certain story in earthly
the story of Christ and His descent. Let us for a few minutes consider
Christ.”
They always spoke of Christ in the northern Mysteries as “He who
approaching Christ. “One day,” they said, “He will
feature regarding the ancient Gods and the waiting for the Christ has
of Christ.
Through Christ's coming to the earth man has become able to absorb
case of the Christ, Who lived as the spiritual part of the sunlight,
and with Jehovah, who reflected the true Christ-light until such time
Christ down to humanity as from a mirror.
was the name later applied to the Christ. He would not as yet turn His
image of Christ before Christ Himself descended, for man had to learn
to comprehend the complete descent of Christ into the physical world
coming of Christ, held most firmly to the conception of a formless
fact those who prepared for the coming of the Christ.
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the ancient Gods and their way of the Cross. The Christ-Mystery.
The reflection in the fourth epoch of man's experiences with the ancient Gods and their way of the Cross. The Christ-Mystery.
earth as the Christ. It was not possible in the Lemurian period for
man to behold Christ in a physical body, but he did behold Him midway
first he was not able to expand to the vision of the Christ; he only
clairvoyance; these were Angels also in the Christian sense, and are
life by what he felt to be good deeds, was the vision of Christ, under
beings. Man still knew the Christ, however, through the deeds and the
though tinted by passing through coloured glass, so the Christ-form
Christianity as Mystical Fact,
Before this could come to pass a Being like the Christ was needed. In
The Christ-principle could not assume a human body in the same way as
being the vehicle of the Christ-individuality. Only after preparing
physical, etheric, and astral bodies — that the Christ
individuality took place at this time, when the Christ took
Then followed three years, during which Christ walked the earth in the
mighty impulse through the Christ, something of profound importance
directly intuited by the Christ. On that occasion something shot
Christ — the great Sun-Spirit — the effect reached even into
through its having been intuited by the Christ, is the only body on
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The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
The reversing of Egyptian remembrance into material forms by way of Arabism. The harmonizing of Egyptian remembrance. The Christian impulse of power in Rosicrucianism.
Christ-Impulse.
understanding what was to come to earth through the Christ; but an
Initiate, one who, as we have seen, knew the Christ aforetime, could
described yesterday as the Christ-Impulse. For a time mankind had to
Consider the Scholastics. They said: Faith was given to man by Christ,
had not yet been given. If the Christ had appeared a few centuries
and would not have been able to understand Christ. Christ had to come
spiritual guidance that spiritual life was saved in Christendom;
Europeanism which had already accepted Christianity. The ancient
Christian impulse of power is found in Rosicrucian spiritual teaching.
reached, that Christ has brought nothing new since Buddha; but only in
that in Christ there is something which goes beyond Buddha. The
greater than Christ that does not decide anything, for this depends on
literally. It is rightly objected from the standpoint of Christian

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post-Aristotelian period of antiquity, up to the founding of Christianity,
but he was regarded most especially in the first Christian period and
revelation by means of divine Grace, as through Christ Jesus, these things
enemy to Christianity sprang up in another quarter.
of Christianity.
refutation of Christianity. Now let us imagine what the Scholastics felt in
Christianity, yet upon the other they were bound by all their traditions to
the very instrument by means of which Christianity would be really
Christianity. This was the task Scholasticism set itself, to the

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Christ. The meaning of the events of Golgotha we considered in
Christ appeared before them. For the first time something could
Christ appeared during the fourth Cultural Epoch, hence the
Greek name Christos. In order for the appearance of Christ not

Title: Lecture: The Ten Commandments
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the Christ, descended into the physical world - not like Osiris
to the astral plane, but like Christ, who came right down to
as the freedom of mercy in Christianity, shows itself in this
the proclamation in Christendom, it had to be made clear that
Christ was not pronounced, yet lay within the words here, that

Title: Lecture: The Tasks and Aims of Spiritual Science
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the Christ was at variance with the tendencies which had come to

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
the imbedding of the Christ impulse in the earth. Since that time the

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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
Lecture V: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World,
last millennia before the founding of Christianity in a certain
connection with the millennia following Christ, in which we ourselves
Christianity, recur in a certain way after the founding of
Christianity.
founding of Christianity, it is seen that these three millennia
of Christianity. All that we at the present time designate as the
3,000 years before the founding of Christianity, therefore, man
millennium prior to the founding of Christianity, in the age of
founding of Christianity in this way: we call the first millennium
distinguish Christ from Jahve other than as we distinguish the direct
Spirit Sun, in Christ, manifested itself beforehand as though
reflected. Jahve is the reflection that precedes Christ in time. Just
as moonlight is reflected sunlight, so did the Christ being reflect
being. Then He Himself appeared as the Christ Sun with the founding
of Christianity. We thus have the preparation for this great event in
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The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World
Second Coming of Christ
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric,
The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
study the last millennia prior to the founding of Christianity in a
founding of Christianity come to pass again afterwards in a certain
millennia prior to the founding of Christianity belong to an epoch in
the three millennia prior to the founding of Christianity man was losing
advance was made in the last millennium before the founding of Christianity,
Christianity can be distinguished by calling the first millennium by
realised that in this respect the Gospels are right: Christ may not
Christ as a Spirit-Sun was revealed beforehand in reflection. Jahve
is the reflection which precedes Christ in time. Just as the
moonlight reflects the sunlight, so was the Christ Being
Then He Himself appeared as the Christ-Sun at the time of the
founding of Christianity. The preparation for this great event was
of these three pre-Christian ages takes place in the Christian era, but
Solomon-epoch is repeated in the first thousand years after Christ,
the most outstanding minds of the first Christian millennium. And
endeavoured to grasp the nature and essence of the Christ Event.
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Title: Lecture: Yuletide and the Christmas Festival
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Yuletide and theChristmas Festival
we can feel that the emblems of Christmas around us are
the houses to celebrate the Christmas Festival, our aesthetic
sense must be pained by displays of so-called Christmas
goods, while inventions out of keeping with Christmas trees
and Christmas symbols whiz past — motor cars, electric
more deeply when we realise what the Christmas Festival has
revitalised. There was an epoch when Christmas was a festival
Festival of Christ's birth and the modern anthroposophical
the Christmas Festival and could be felt again if there were
to experience the Christmas Festival in the truly
Christmas Festival was once upon a time or is now. Wherever
feelings connected with the Christmas Festival has existed
introduction of Christianity at the time of the year when our
own Christmas Festival is drawing near. We will think briefly
of epochs prior to the introduction of Christianity into
their further evolution through the power of the Christ
in Europe the warmest, most intimate feelings for the Christ
Impulse were to be kindled by the thought of the Christ
Child, by the birth of the Christ Child. And if we believe
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 1
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different epochs. In the Christmas lecture to-day
of the millennium which ended with the birth of Christ Jesus, and those of
the first and the second Christian millennia in which we ourselves are
before the thousand. years preceding the Christian era we must reckon
but his conduct is very different from that of Christ Jesus. He upbraids
beginnings of Christianity. Indeed it was in Alexandria that the factors
Christianity was already in existence. There the great scholars were
the ancient Pagan-Grecian stream, the Christian stream and the
when Christianity was already in existence. Nothing is to be found of
And it is there that to begin with, Christianity appears, shall we say,
in a distorted, debased state of infancy. Christianity, whose real function
made its appearance in Alexandria in a very ruthless form. Christian
We can judge them only an the basis of their human failings. Christianity,
Christianity, had therewith attained the highest experience within reach
in pre-Christian times.
enabled men at that time to see beyond the shadow-sides of Christianity
to be received from that other Light, the new Christ Event. What arose
round about as Christianity, represented by men of the type of Theophilus
in wisdom to say and to give than those who represented Christianity
both filled with the deepest hatred of everything that was not Christian
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Title: Occult History: Lecture 3
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her Christian conceptions — interposed themselves between her

Title: Occult History: Lecture 4
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research to look back five and six thousand years before the Christian
in this Greek epoch there came the impulse of Christianity which is
in the first phase of its development this Christianity did not at once
of the failings and the shadow-sides with which Christianity was fraught
yet to come when Christianity will be understood in all its profundity,
that there are still infinite and unfathomed depths in Christianity,
let alone to the past. We see how in Christianity something still in
— especially in view of what had resulted from the Christian impulse
coming of Christianity as equal in value to all that had been transmitted
Christian development. This, however, was a hotchpotch of what took
should become a good Christian.
any deep feeling for Christianity. Wherever the boy was taken, and wherever
crept into Julian's writings against the Christians, we know what greatness
old Gods again into a civilisation already penetrated by Christianity.
and in his attitude towards Christianity. And so it came about that
by the hand of a Christian. For not only did this news spread abroad
very soon afterwards and has never been disavowed by any of the Christian
Julian had fallen by the hand of a Christian. It was really something

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 12-31-10
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most is: I am a Christian. An esoteric should realize that being a
Christian is a distant ideal that he must constantly try to attain.
To live like a Christian mainly means to accept whatever destiny may
we express this through, In Christo morimur — with the

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it if struggling Christianity alone had been left to handle such treasures.
to the fact that in the seventh millennium before Christ there was a
six to eight thousand years before the Christian era — the least
Christ, and how all human knowledge is to be applied to the unveiling
of the mystery of Christ Jesus. That was a point of time especially
vision once again into the etheric world and the revelation of Christ

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 1-1-11
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Christians' talismans and amulets. It's also found on

Title: Occult History: Lecture 6
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When they looked back to the great figures of history in pre-Christian
was to be an instrument for preparing understanding of the Christ Impulse.
paintings what is to work in all ages of time as the Christian impulse,

Title: Reincarnation and Karma: Lecture IV
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concerning, let us say, the nature of the Buddha or of Christ —
thought out by a Christian dignitary and that Copernicus's own
Christianity.
earnestly and as profoundly as Christianity was taken by the first
Christians, who also arrayed themselves against the conditions then
into the Christian era. But in the final stages of this ancient
Gospels to demonic natures around Christ Jesus. Human souls had lost
beings. And then Christ came to mankind. Human beings who are living
Christianity until now could only have been what it is, because the
souls of men were feeble, drained of force. Christianity could not
When Christianity was
strong and powerful. They absorbed Christianity, but, to begin with,
deepen their experience of the Christ Impulse, so that this Christ
begin with, Christianity was an external support. But now the epoch

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Stuttgart, 2-22-12
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Christianity is now. But that's because Europeans since
Atlantis, it's superior to present Christianity. What just
give an esoteric food for thought. He says that Christian
missionaries came to China to bring their Christianity into an

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 2-17 (20)-'13
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different through the Christ event. By taking Christ into ourselves
consciously after death, that means to die in Christ:
In Christo morimur.

Title: Esoteric Studies: Lecture I: Cosmic Aspect of Life Between Death and New Birth
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since the Mystery of Golgotha, the exoteric Christian faith has
been more or less sufficient, for this Christian faith contains
Primitive Christianity from the beginning has not been attuned
the Occident, of the Christ Jesus. Unegotistically, the
Christianity there lies a true tolerance for every religious
understood by occidental Christians.
fact, for the Christian, everyone is a Christian, no matter
narrow-mindedness, if one wants to spread Christian dogma
everywhere the beginnings of Christianity and will stress in
Christianity, without having to mention the name of the
Christ. But this more narrow Christianity, as it is given
Mystery of Golgotha, of the Christ impulse, is necessary
Christ once sat within the Sun sphere. He expanded into the
understanding of the Christ impulse, and must keep this impulse
between death and a new birth the memory of the Christ Impulse,
Christ. And we must take so much strength with us from
one hand in the presence of Christ, on the other in the
presence of Lucifer. If we had not received the Christ impulse,
received the Christ impulse, then we are, on the far voyage
the Christ impulse, on the other of Lucifer; for we also need
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Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VI: Errors of Spiritual Research - 2
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community, in the ecclesiastical development just the Christ
distinguished view if one did not acknowledge Christ Jesus as

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture VIII: The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death - 2
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for Protestant Christians (edited by a Protestant
instead of the redemption by Christ; one can equal it to

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 5-18-'13
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the third is the high bearer of the Christ principle, the Christ, who
Golgotha. It's the sun of which Paul said: “Not I, but Christ
in me,” the Christ whom every man since then can receive. This
third sun became manifest to Christian neophytes through initiation,
the Christ.
divided into two parts by the Christ circle, into a lower one with
holds for the lower part and Christ makes the connection between the two.

Title: Va: THE MICHAEL IMPULSE AND THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHA
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If you will look at the lecture cycle I held in Christiania on the
world in a particular part of the earth in the first Christian
then from the Christian era onwards one can point to different Beings

Title: Vb: THE MICHAEL IMPULSE AND THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHA
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the Christ Event as the great centre of gravity of human evolution.
through death; that is, the Christ. To that end He had to come down to
accomplish what was necessary for Earth evolution, the Christ had to
described. The Christ descended from the super-sensible worlds into the
understanding of the Christ Impulse has grown less and less.
in driving the Christ out of the spiritual world. The Christ has had
Event, — that Christ, through a conspiracy of materialistic
world of the senses a new understanding for the Christ can begin.
Hence, too, Christ is still more nearly and intimately united with the
to prepare the way for the transition from the Jahve Age to the Christ
is now the Christ who sends us Michael.
the age, so now we can speak the Christ-Michael. Michael has been
Messenger of Christ. And so when we speak of a right understanding of
understanding of the Christ Impulse.
now he is the Messenger of Christ. We speak of the Christ in the right
of the Mission of the Christ.
are brought also against our understanding of the Christ
our representation of the Christ Impulse. We turn our gaze to
what is now happening as a result of the mission entrusted by Christ
Bearer of the Christ for the West.

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 11-23-'13
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Christ's name on our lips when we mean Ahriman. We have to make all
In Christo morimur.

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag (Notizen), Stuttgart, 23. November 1913
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verdorre: die Christus-Wesenheit. Dieser Christus-Impuls zog ein
Christus, aber von den Weisheiten und Kräften der
vorhanden. So wirkte Christus zunächst nur als Kraft, nicht als Lehrer. Aber
Christus-Impulses.
Die Wirksamkeit des Christus hing
in den Jesus von Nazareth die Christus-Wesenheit.
Erst war die Christus-Wesenheit nur lose
mit physischen Sinnen war Christus zu suchen. Wie eine
rechten Weise eine Verbindung mit Christus
suchten. Christus wirkte auch da, wo
Nach der Taufe am Jordan war der Christus
dich hinab» bei Christus
Gewalt über Christus Jesus. Das
es nur in der Finsternis möglich war, daß der Christus-Impuls sich

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part III: Stuttgart, 3-5-'14
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In Christo morimur,

Title: Man/Being/Spirit/Soul: Lecture I: Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul
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in Christliche Welt how in a quite

Title: Reincarnation and Immortality: Lecture II: The Historical Evolution of Humanity
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excellently for the first Christian centuries, all the forces
of Christianity were entering into historical evolution. These
that can provide a really Christian view of life. But you
does not talk about Christianity. These are the
Christianity, or whatever it may be.
lived here, Karl Christian Planck. I referred to him at that

Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 2: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question I
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entitled “Christianity” is awful. A frightful

Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 3: Esoteric Prelude to an Exoteric Consideration of the Social Question II
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read the article on “Christianity” in this

Title: Spiritual-Scientific Consideration: Lecture 4: Pedagogy, from the Standpoint of the History of Culture
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ordinarily spoken of, it would be unchristian —
although such unchristian performances are quite the
“German” and the word “Christian”
or “Christ” are never mentioned in the course
Christian!
Christian saying of Paul that reads as follows:
men have become unchristian. But it is a saying of which
Christian spirit: to take out of the State — which
Christian spirit, and therefore they want to make
themselves feel comfortable by using “Christ”
and “Christian” as often as possible as
as the “modern” Christian spirit (and that
means unchristian spirit) has been always to
require the words “Christ” and
“Christian”, and to disregard this other
Christian, and not be constantly wanting to have one's
ears filled with chatter about Christianity.
Not Christ in me, Who arouses my strength, Who liberates
profess; but the Christ Who is external to me, and Who
this Christ-Jesus creed held up to me, in contract to
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soul development. For the founding of Christianity
the Event of Golgotha, the Incarnation of Christ as Man, met
that the Being of Christ had united Himself with human evolution. But
Christ Impulse was at work in human souls, men's consciousness was of
speak. Jesus the Christ Bearer became the ‘simple man of
into Christianity. And nowadays there is not only a materialistic
super-sensible fact of all human evolution. The narrow view of Christ
Christianity arose, the teachings about Christ Jesus came out

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“Jesus Christ” after every fifth sentence, or speak
“Jesus Christ” and “God” in every
does about Christianity.” This attitude, even in

Title: Necessity for Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture 1
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Christ in the way He was perceived by Luther. But modern man
wanting to find the Christ must do so by direct perception.
Christ through inner perception. What for many years
religious faith seriously. Even for Christians the
people immediately say: He is not speaking of Christ at all,
what he says is not Christian! — Certainly nothing
becomes Christian because in every third line Christ's name
convinced of its being spoken out of the mood in which Christ
is not talking of the Christ. He should be speaking with more

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Christ in the same way in which Luther regarded Him! But men
Lutheran view of Christ has no reality nowadays and becomes
day is to find Christ, he must find Him by direct
Christ. It is quite possible for that which spiritual science
seriously. The Christians have a precept that the name of God
the Christ, therefore what he says is not Christian! But I
assure you that a man is not necessarily Christian just
because he utters the name of Christ in every third line he
by what is said in a sense that is according to Christ's Will
man does not speak about the Christ. He ought to speak in a

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Address at the Christmas Assembly
at the Christmas Assembly,December 21, 1919
the festive Christmas season, I have had the privilege of being able
to you, “That is an especially nice Christmas gift for me!”
And it is a nice Christmas gift for
the holy Christ Child. It was beautiful and grand that you could speak about
the Christ with such love, and that you could listen with such love.
They get it from the Christ, whom we think about at Christmas. We
we remember at Christmas time, the Christ spirit, will take joy in you.
of the great festival that reminds us that the Christ entered our
Christ is helping you, you will become what you write in your souls
very glad. My warmest Christmas wish for you today is that this love
Christmas greeting from them. When I came into the school, what
You see, in these days a Christmas
and it was deeply satisfying to perceive this Christmas mood, into
which the revelation of Christ speaks, if I may put it like that, in
spirit of Christ. Here, in accordance with the wishes of the divine
spirit, we do not speak the name of Christ after every sentence
of Christ is with us in all our individual subjects and in every
feel it in what came to meet you out of this Christmas assembly.
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Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture I: The Three Streams in the Life of Civilization. The Mysteries of Light, of Man, and of the Earth.
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Five lectures given in Stuttgart, at Christmas and New Years,
The Michael Path to Christ. A Christmas Lecture,
point out paths taken by Christianity.
When Christianity sought to enter the world, where had Christ Jesus to
Church we find there is still something of this Christianity.
Christianity, which spread in the West on Roman lines, took on a form
the East or in the Greek philosophy of life. In this Christianity the
Sistine Chapel, is only a glorious expression of Christianity
saturated by legalism. It is just this Christianity saturated by
“Here Christ is wrong!” Have I repeated that correctly?
man who is infallible, and the Christ who is wrong! We have come as

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Lecture II: The Michael Path to Christ: A Christmas Lecture
Five lectures given in Stuttgart, at Christmas and New Years,
The Michael Path to Christ. A Christmas Lecture,
THE MICHAEL PATH TO CHRIST: A CHRISTMAS LECTURE
yearly festivals, Christmas, Easter or Whitsuntide, I have felt bound
that this realization permeates our thoughts even round the Christmas
tree. It is clearly our duty so to receive the birth of Christ Jesus
“Has not the thought of Christmas also suffered the fate of being
seized by the forces of general deterioration?” When Christmas is
contemplation of the festival of Christ? Are men in general conscious
We light up our Christmas trees, we repeat the customary words and
phrases associated with the Christmas festival, but all too often we
decline. Where art Thou, O Christ-Power, Thou who canst actively bring
only by the power of Christ will it be possible to permeate declining
“Can we still be Christians?” He answers this question, and
question “can we still be Christians?” with an emphatic
not be Christians.
they but see that though they use the name of Christ they are really
active opponents of Christianity.
associated with Christmas, though it does indeed seem so to me, when I
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THE MICHAEL PATH TO THE CHRIST
Christ Jesus would not have been able to come forth from among them.
the countenance of Jahve, but the countenance of Christ Jesus. To-day
we must approach the Christ-impulse through Michael. In many respects
Michael, but with the force of the old, the pre-Christian time, with
To-day it is Christ Jesus whom we must strive to find through Michael,
Christ Jesus the divine leader of the whole human race. This means
the real Christ upon the path of Spiritual Science: — that is,
truth is the real Christ to be sought and found; otherwise it would be
better to extinguish the lights of Christmas, to destroy all
Christmas trees, and to acknowledge at least with truth, that we want
nothing that will recall what Christ Jesus has brought into human

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Five lectures given in Stuttgart, at Christmas and New Years,
The Michael Path to Christ. A Christmas Lecture,
our Christmas Festival this year. I will now only briefly
the eighth pre-Christian century. We see, about two hundred years
also impressed its stamp upon Christianity, for the theology of the
from ourselves that Lucifer once lived in a physical body, as Christ
It was through Luciferic wisdom that Christianity was first grasped in
victory for Christianity at that time. But when this Luciferic
Lucifer has incarnated and that Christ has incarnated. This fact is
fighting to the uttermost against that new Christ knowledge which is
forward only to glorify Christ Jesus. And so there follow a limited
number of now-famous points unfavourable to the Christ. These, he
Christ Jesus, so as finally to save for the Gospels a little label of
have through the Gospels historical knowledge of the Christ Mystery,

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture IV: The Breaking-in of Spiritual Revelations Since the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century. Thoughts on New Years Eve.
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Five lectures given in Stuttgart, at Christmas and New Years,
The Michael Path to Christ. A Christmas Lecture,
hear the message that, according to tradition, Christ lived and died
experience in our souls the Christ-experience.” In many quarters
something of the Christ-experience has arisen in the depths of their
the last page of Gogarten's Spiritual Science and Christianity,

Title: Cosmic New Year: Lecture V: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience. The Spiritual Mark of the Present Time. A New Year Contemplation.
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Five lectures given in Stuttgart, at Christmas and New Years,
The Michael Path to Christ. A Christmas Lecture,

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Christianity. This in a certain sense, hindered the process of

Title: Threefold Order II: Lecture 2: On Propaganda of the Threefold Social Order
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the first centuries of our present, Christian era, all over

Title: Dear Children: Lecture II: Address at a Monthly Assembly
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all of their souls. The spirit of Christ prevails throughout our
we do, we do it with the attitude that the Christ awakened in us:

Title: Dear Children: Lecture III: Address at the Assembly at the End of the First School Year
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again. Basically, it is the spirit of Christianity that wafts through
spirit of Christ that comes from the teacher and is to enter the

Title: Festivals: Christmas: Lecture V: The Proclamations to the Magi and the Shepherds
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The Two Christmas Annunciations
There are three such main Festivals in Christendom: at Christmas,
The Christmas Festival is connected more directly with man's life of
the Easter Festival can never be as widespread as that of Christmas.
the will and the super-sensible world to which the Christ Being
And so the great Christian Mystery is illustrated in a threefold way
by these Festivals. There are many aspects of the Christmas Mystery
The Gospels tell of two proclamations of the birth of Christ Jesus.
living near the birthplace of Christ Jesus. And the Gospels tell of
East who follow the voice of a star announcing to them that Christ
birth of Christ Jesus. On the other hand, the knowledge possessed by
book Christianity as Mystical Fact I have indicated the special nature
they recognised the signs of the coming of Christ.
Whence came the Christ Being? He came from the world in which we
through this knowledge that the Mystery of Golgotha, the Christmas
Christ became the ‘wise man of Nazareth’ — in the naturalistic sense.
claim to be official ministers of Christianity to-day.
It is only by striving for a new understanding of Christ that we can
truly celebrate the Christmas Festival to-day. Can it be said that
It has become a beautiful custom to take the Christmas Tree as the
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We really have three such times of festival in Christian tradition:
the Christmas, the Easter and the Whitsuntide festivals. And we may
into connection, into relationship, with that in which the Christian
festivals also differ as regards the human soul-forces. Christmas
popular in the same sense as the Christmas festival.
world to which the Christ-Being as such belongs. The carrying over of
Thus what we may call the secret of Christianity is given form in
these yearly celebrations. The way in which the Christmas mystery
manifold ways; and with the recurrence of the Christmas festival
Christmas-Thought from the most varied standpoints. This time let us
the Christmas mystery in the light of the Gospels.
In the Gospels we find a twofold announcement of the birth of Christ
fields. An Angel announces the birth of Christ Jesus to them
where Christ Jesus was born, were in a special condition. And a second
they followed a star which announced to them the advent of Christ
dream-experience, in inward perception, by the event of Christ Jesus'
of Mystery-schooling in my book “Christianity as a Mystical
and by its means they knew of the advent of the Christ-Being.
Whence came this Christ-Being? He came out of that time which we live
Golgotha, the Christmas Mystery.
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Christendom, in regions more to the South of Europe. Many of these
were souls who had had no contact with Christianity in former
Christianity before their present birth. Christianity is something
which Christianity lives in the souls of Europeans today we must
realize that, broadly speaking, it was not a Christian impulse at all
first centuries of Christendom were in the more Southerly regions of
Europe and who received Christianity in a form altogether different
from that of today. In those times Christianity was still imbued with
and received Christianity in this form, are, speaking broadly,
character of the impulse they received in their early Christian
who were permeated by the Christian Impulse at that time are
Christian impulse in their earlier incarnation. They have carried
over these Christian sentiments into Eastern bodies and have been
civilized life in the East. Certain elements of the true Christian
in a previous earthly life imbibed from early European Christianity a
the Mystery of Golgotha and in the earliest centuries of Christendom.
which can be awakened in one who has allowed the Christ Impulse to

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years before the Christian era, and we should find the same
millennium before the origin of Christianity, will show

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before the Christian era. We must therefore assume that among

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Christ figure: “In Dornach can be found a `Statue of the

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Christ's death. I have never seen it. Naturally, this is not

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christlichen Jahrhunderten und dann überwunden, ich

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einem andern Christus sprechen als von demjenigen Christus, der
Jahrhundert, auch gegenüber dem Christus-Ereignis.
Bekenner des Christentums, der bei jeder Gelegenheit
Furcht hat, daß die Wahrheiten des. Christentums
Christentums dadurch nur um so glänzender vor die
Christen brauchen, wenn wir in unserer Zeit des Niedergangs

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will not be speaking of a Christ other than the Christ who has gone
in the 20th century, also where the Christ event is concerned. People
that the truths of Christianity may be diminished really someone who
truly professes Christianity? Or is it the person who knows that however
the soul or the spirit, these can only make the genuine truths of Christianity
enthusiasm will come which we need if we are to make progress as Christians
6. Christoph Schrempf wrote a letter

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gradual process. In the first centuries of Christendom we find that
have become of the earth without the Christ Event. — Suppose
there had been no Christ Event. The earth as it lives in man's
life of soul and spirit would gradually have withered. The Christ
gone, in order that the Christ Event could at least be experienced
would have been like if the Christ Event at the beginning of our era
The Christ Event came during the first third of the fourth
first third of which there fell the Christ Event, the old era came to
In this epoch, as regards the Christ Event, as regards the deeper,
understand the Christ Event. Try to get from contemporary theology an
intelligible conception of the Christ Event. Those who argue the
Christ away from Jesus pass as the greatest theologians today. Quite
What must be sought for is a new experience of Christ. We are
standing inevitably before a new experience of the Christ Event. In

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anyone during the first centuries of Christianity spoken about proofs
still less! For in the second or third century before Christ, to

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Golgotha will have Christ for his strong guide in the moment when his
Christ-experience what an older humanity had from the Mysteries.

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have Christ for his strong guide in the moment when his soul comes
Christ-experience what an older humanity had from the Mysteries.

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the fourth post-Christian century. A date indicating some important
previous incarnation had taken place during the first three Christian
[or] ninth post-Christian centuries, at least those who were teachers
before the fourth post-Christian century, there lived the feeling:

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earth-catastrophe, to the seventh or eighth millennium before Christ,

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understand in a new and living way the words of Christ: “My
into a living content of this world. The Christ Himself came down to

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the same to say about the Christ as you, only somewhat more. He is,

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The Christian Community with its center at Stuttgart. The next to

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Christ came to live on earth enables him to hallow elements of
freedom and pure concepts, must be permeated by the Christ impulse.
Christianity has not reached its ultimate perfection. It is great
gradually be saturated by the Christ impulse. Man must learn to think
pure thoughts with Christ, to achieve freedom with Christ, because he
descent of Christ, the spiritual sun enters from spiritual heights
the earth today only if they are irradiated by the Christ, who

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the Mystery of Golgotha and the Christ impulse. The Gospels were
reincarnated Christ. Certainly no serious person could have tolerated
with what modern man can grasp with the help of the Christ who lives
that period, one held in Christiania in 1910 on the European folk
cycle of lectures on science given by me last Christmastide in

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on a renewal permeated through and through by the true Christ force,

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In the “Terzinen” of Christian
Christ’s progress, and his
wie einst den tiefen Christ.
Christian Morgenstern
enclose me like the depth that in Christ

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metre in this play which Hermann Grimm has aptly christened the

Title: Lecture: The Cosmic Word and Individual Man
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Appearance. Only because Christ united this appearance, and

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begründeten «Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart

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begründeten «Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart
Über den Fortgang der Arbeit der Christengemeinschaft seit
über christlich-religiöses Wirken» ist in zwei
«Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart gehalten hat.
christlich-religiösen Bewegung zur Anthroposophie. Diese
vertieft im christlichen Sinne. Das ist gerade das Wunderbare,
christlichen Entwickelung diese Zeiten begannen eigentlich
die Pforte des Todes hindurchfindet durch den Christus, diese
anthroposophischem Verständnis [des Christus] kommen, wenn

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begründeten «Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart
Christus in dem, was wir als heutige Menschen unter dem
Anleitung des Christus Jesus durch die Himmelshöhen
Christus-Gott in allem meinem Webenden und Lebenden, in dem,
Vergangenheit durch den Christus Jesus in uns geworden ist.
«Christus», «Geist»? Irdische Klänge
Menschenweihehandlung in die christlichreligiöse
wird und innerhalb der Christengemeinde immerfort so neu belebt
denn es gehört zur ganzen Entwickelung der christlichen

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begründeten «Christengemeinschaft» in Stuttgart
nachchristliche Jahrhundert hinein stammen, nicht allein
möglich, wenn sich der einzelne Mensch mit dem Christus
Christusbegnadeten Menschheit zu der noch nicht mit Christus
begnadeten Menschheit? Wenn die noch nicht mit dem Christus
Christus-begnadete Menschheit bekam das so, daß jeder aus
brachte der Christus den Menschen auf Erden dasselbe, was der
konnte der Christus der Menschheit sagen: Ich bringe euch, was
Gott erkennen und Jesus Christus als den Abgesandten. Ich habe
dauerndes Leben verleiht. Darum ist der Christus der Menschheit
sie Dich als den einzig wahren Gott erkennen und Jesus Christus
Christus Jesus hat bewirkt, daß das Wort nicht erstorben
zu dem ursprünglichen Christentum zurückkehren. Das

Title: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future: Lecture I
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of Christianity long before missionaries from Rome reached these islands.
Christian centuries, unless you realize that the inner activity of men

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of Christianity long before missionaries from Rome reached these islands.
world which he had once seen in the wide spaces of the Cosmos. Christ,
divine-spiritual Being of Christ was to descend and live in a human

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of Christianity long before missionaries from Rome reached these islands.
Christ. Man was to take a step upwards in evolution and to experience
unique world-event, as an event in world-history, by the Christ Being
was brought about for earthly humanity by Christ in the Mystery of
Christianity what had previously come to him naturally. The Mystery of
even come to be regarded as something specifically Christian, though
even five or six hundred years ago no genuine Christianity, and
certainly not original Christianity, would have admitted the

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the Easter and Christmas festivals and that of St. John, it must truly
significant. The festival of Christmas has not arisen through any
of Christ Jesus; the Easter Festival is linked with the Mystery of

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture IV
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purpose of the Christmas Foundation Meeting. That Meeting made it
Therefore at the Christmas Meeting the Society was declared to be a
done at the Christmas Meeting. There was no mention of abstract
at Christmas is based upon a hypothetical assumption. If the
attempt was made through the Christmas Meeting to bring a new
concerned, the Christmas Meeting was either everything or nothing.
Anthroposophical Society. The Christmas Meeting becomes a reality
Christmas Meeting — the responsibility to make it a reality;
a certain sense the impulse of the Christmas Foundation Meeting was
Such was the aim of the Christmas Meeting. It could be felt then and
make a beginning, for in fact I regard the Christmas Meeting as a
hope that the significance of the Christmas Meeting will be realised.
on the occasion of my first visit here since the Christmas Meeting. I
in the spirit of the Christmas Meeting in such a way that the impulse

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture V
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intentions expressed at the Christmas Foundation Meeting at the
connection the Christmas Meeting at the Goetheanum was not only of
with, not to Christian but to non-Christian incarnations. It is
millennium after the founding of Christianity. Starting from Asia,
Christianity spread across to Spain and thence to all Western Europe,
in the Christian era, this personality had
Constantine had caused to be brought from the Cross of Christ.
conditions prevailing in the twentieth century. Before the Christmas
about under the influence of the Christmas Foundation Meeting, the

Title: Karmic Relationships, VI: Lecture VI
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frankness, of many spiritual facts. The Christmas Foundation Meeting
witnessed the willing martyrdom suffered by the Christians in their
Christianity. There is something extremely moving about this
Christianity, and so much that was evil and bad in Roman life at that

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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Zweiter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Effects of Occult Development: Lecture II
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festivals, birthday festivals, christenings, especially in

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Dritter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Vierter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Fuenfter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als
Profanation, die auch da schon eingetreten ist, bei Christian

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ytre, esoterisk måte fremstillet hos Christian av Troyes tross

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Siebenter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als
herrschende König: der Christus Jesus. Hingedeutet wird
Interesse der allgemeinen Menschheit bei dem Christus Jesus.
die im traditionellen Christentum dazumal in seiner Umgebung

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them — this One was Christ Jesus.
interest in all humanity shown by Christ Jesus. In the case of
traditional Christianity as weird, sinister. The monks looked

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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Welche Bedeutung: Neunter Vortrag
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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als
Christus in der Erdenentwicklung. Daß der Christus im
Christus-Impulses gegen den notwendigen Einfluß, der von
des Christus im Ätherleib, von der auch öfters schon
wird. Wie der Christus einmal erschienen ist im physischen
der Christus in ätherischer Gestalt merkbar werden schon
Gegenüberstehen des Christus dem Luzifer und dem Ahriman,
daß der Mensch durch den Christus-Impuls, durch den Impuls
Luzifer, wie es mit dem Christus in der Menschheitsevolution
Christus wiedergeboren in einem physischen Leib; seine Adresse

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beginning of our era in the physical appearance of Christ in
the earth-development. Christ once appeared in the physical
be armed, through receiving the Christ-impulse, against the
be armed against this by the appearance of Christ in the
drawing near. Just as Christ appeared once in a physical body
twentieth century onward Christ will be seen in an etheric
the confronting of Lucifer and Ahriman by Christ, portrayed in
the Christ-Impulse, through the Mystery of Golgotha, man will
Ahriman, Lucifer, and Christ in the development of humanity,
Christ was reborn in a physical body, and his address is

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Die Erscheinung des Christus im Ätherischen / Der Ätherleib als

Title: Lecture: It is a Necessity of Our Earnest Times to Find Again the Path Leading to the Spirit
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power, the Christ, had connected Himself with an earthly man, Jesus
body, soul and spirit, but that it is instead a Christian's duty to
according to which a Christian who truly believes must acknowledge
traditions remained of the old Christological knowledge —
of theology through this? Christ-Jesus, the incarnation of a Being
human being, the less they feel induced to pursue Christological
not wish to rise to an understanding of Christ as a super-earthly
of reverence for the spirituality of Christ. The theology which
of Christianity, the denial of Christianity; it signifies the setting
anything to do with the spirituality of Christ. It is significant to
they do not die as men die. What did Christ take upon Himself, Christ
the evolution of humanity upon the earth, Christ died in a human
The Christ descended
from worlds where death is unknown. What Beings serve the Christ? —
the evolution of the earth, are Christ's servants. We cannot perceive
seek that which leads us to Christ. Spiritual science is needed above
all in order to attain a new knowledge of Christ. For Christ is here,
right, nevertheless the spiritual Beings that serve Christ live
behind the forces of Nature, thinking and directing them. Christ
of Christianity.
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Title: Festivals/Easter V: The Teachings of the Risen Christ
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VTHE TEACHINGS OF THE RISEN CHRIST
The Teachings of Christ, the Resurrected
Being we call the Christ to enter the realm of earthly life, the
Christ Who indeed belongs to those worlds whence the ancient Teachers
in the first Christian centuries looked back to the Mystery of
from the earliest Church Fathers and other Christian teachers —
Christ Jesus from direct eye-witnesses, or from those who had been
first four centuries of Christendom thanks to the remaining vestiges
everything that was known in those days about the Risen Christ, the
Christ Who had passed through the Mystery of Golgotha and then, in a
Christ meeting the disciples who had gone out to seek Him there are
Christ to His disciples.
experience at Damascus as a teaching which, given by the Risen Christ,
In those early times there was full realisation that Christ Jesus,
of the teachings which could be given by the Risen Christ to His
Christ taught His initiated disciples, — “you can receive
“Christ came down from spheres beyond the earth to the
by the Risen Christ to His disciples. And it worked with stupendous
That this secret should have been entrusted to Christ's first
But in the Mysteries into which Christ sent His message, it was
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The Teachings of Christ, the Resurrected
Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity, Lecture V
TEACHINGS OF CHRIST
THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST, THE RESURRECTED
being whom we call the Christ had to descend by degrees into
earth-life. The Christ belongs to the worlds from which the
fathers and Christian teachers — that the teachers who
the life of Christ Jesus from teachers who have seen Him face
resurrected Christ has been lost for external tradition. This
knowledge is that of the Christ who went through the Mystery of
resurrected Christ gave to His disciples when He met with them.
himself as a teaching which the resurrected Christ gave
people were conscious of the fact that the resurrected Christ
which the resurrected Christ was able to give His chosen
Golgotha — the Christ spoke thus to His initiated pupils
knowledge that the Christ has descended to the earth from
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Title: Lecture: Concealed Aspects of Human Existence
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The Concealed Aspects of Human Existence and the Christ Impulse
and the Christ Impulse
Christ Being through the Mystery of Golgotha here on earth. The
individual who truly feels his unity with the Christ and the Mystery
Paul: “Not I, but the Christ in me”, he has, through this
unity with the Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha, developed something
All that history relates to us in regard to the first three Christian
falsification; for in those centuries Christianity was quite different
to the higher spheres, had the Christ not descended and passed through
St. Paul: “Not I, but the Christ in me”. In this way the
him by the Christ here on this earth, which enables him to leave
beings. But the reason we have become such is that the Christ force we
have described, if we have become true Christians on earth.
the Christ Impulse means to mankind of the present time; for we will
cannot be a whole human being, unless we find the way to this Christ
science shed light more and more upon the Christ Impulse in the right
way. For the manner in which light was shed on the Christ Impulse in
of embracing Christianity. But that Christianity which is rooted

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Knowledge: A Way of Life
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literature of how Christianity is deepened, and can stand forth in
personal experiences of the Christ Who appeared in a personal form.

Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture I
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been with us; ever since then the Christ Impulse has been working in
which the Christ Impulse has passed, warming the hearts and
things are permeated by the Christ Impulse. They are there
side-by-side with the Christ Impulse. Indeed many men are at pains to
prevent the influence of the Christ Impulse finding its way into the
understand how the Christ Impulse can flow through modern
whatever in common with Christianity. How can this be? We shall,
well known. We see him working in the sphere of Christian
civilisation. Yet there is no trace whatever of the Christian Impulse
non-Christian civilisation. What he actually says about Christianity
Christian, but there was no connection whatever between his
Christianity and his ideas about the evolution of animals and man.
of the Christian Impulse.
into the matter we find that both of them introduce into Christian
the Christmas Foundation Meeting and above all because of the

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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
been with us; ever since then the Christ Impulse has been working in
which the Christ Impulse has passed, warming the hearts and
things are permeated by the Christ Impulse. They are there
side-by-side with the Christ Impulse. Indeed many men are at pains to
prevent the influence of the Christ Impulse finding its way into the
understand how the Christ Impulse can flow through modern
whatever in common with Christianity. How can this be? We shall,
well known. We see him working in the sphere of Christian
civilisation. Yet there is no trace whatever of the Christian Impulse
non-Christian civilisation. What he actually says about Christianity
Christian, but there was no connection whatever between his
Christianity and his ideas about the evolution of animals and man.
of the Christian Impulse.
into the matter we find that both of them introduce into Christian
the Christmas Foundation Meeting and above all because of the

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civilisation. For well nigh two thousand years Christianity has been
course, that really close study may reveal the working of the Christ
Christianity. Certain views and customs of life which seem to be
utterly at variance with Christianity take root in our
of Christianity. Nor must it be forgotten that many learned sages had
which knew nothing of Christ nor wished to have anything to do with
Christianity; it preserved and cultivated the best elements of
existence of Christianity was known to the learned men at the Court
heretical. It was decreed that true Christians must speak of man as a
inclination to spirituality is to be discerned in Christian
and Aristotelianism. Christianity was born. The Mystery of Golgotha
a new and mighty impulse whereby a particular form of Christianity
the earth; they did not witness the arrival of Christ on the earth,
pledged their troth, would bring a Christianity not only firmly
be led over into Christianity.
outwardly a Christian and who introduced the abstract trend of
Christianity. Although Amos Comenius worked among the Moravian
lives as men on earth in the pre-Christian era had played no part in
development of Christianity an element that will not merge with
Christianity but inclines strongly towards Arabism. Thus in our own
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture II
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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
civilisation. For well nigh two thousand years Christianity has been
course, that really close study may reveal the working of the Christ
Christianity. Certain views and customs of life which seem to be
utterly at variance with Christianity take root in our
of Christianity. Nor must it be forgotten that many learned sages had
which knew nothing of Christ nor wished to have anything to do with
Christianity; it preserved and cultivated the best elements of
existence of Christianity was known to the learned men at the Court
heretical. It was decreed that true Christians must speak of man as a
inclination to spirituality is to be discerned in Christian
and Aristotelianism. Christianity was born. The Mystery of Golgotha
a new and mighty impulse whereby a particular form of Christianity
the earth; they did not witness the arrival of Christ on the earth,
pledged their troth, would bring a Christianity not only firmly
be led over into Christianity.
outwardly a Christian and who introduced the abstract trend of
Christianity. Although Amos Comenius worked among the Moravian
lives as men on earth in the pre-Christian era had played no part in
development of Christianity an element that will not merge with
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Henry: “Divide the bread, but you must divide it in a Christian
a Christian way?” “Well,” said his mother,
“Oh well, in that case let Anna divide it in a Christian

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christlich-heidnischen, christlich-jüdischen Benennung
kann also nach der christlich-jüdischen Sitte diese

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Being who, in accordance with ancient Christian-Pagan or
Christian-Judaic terminology, may be designated as the Michael
keep to the name Gabriel, in accordance with the Christian-Judaic

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Being who, in accordance with ancient Christian-Pagan or
Christian-Judaic terminology, may be designated as the Michael
keep to the name Gabriel, in accordance with the Christian-Judaic

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aufgetreten sind, wo man die geistige Gestalt des Christus in

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this path. They were looking for the spiritual figure of Christ in a

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this path. They were looking for the spiritual figure of Christ in a

Title: Kingdom of Childhood: Questions and Answers
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fundamental aim is an understanding of Christianity. The Sunday Services.
Christmas takes a very special place, and is prepared for all through
Advent wreath hung in the classroom. At the end of the Christmas term
Christmas mood. Later, in the Religion lessons, on the basis of this
Christianity And there is real Christianity in the Waldorf School,
children are gradually led to an understanding of the Christ Mystery,

Title: Karmic Relationships, VIII: Lecture III
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Michael and the Cosmic Intelligence. The deepening of Christianity.
Aristotelianism and Christianity. On the karma of the
the Being known in Christian terminology as the Archangel Michael is
the truths of Christianity. Christ came from the Sun. Christ, the
before the whole Mystery connected with Christ can reveal itself to
Christian philosophy Thomas Aquinas still speaks of Beings, of
Christian doctrine is continuing a tradition which at that time was
pre-Christian times it would never have occurred to men to believe
Christ from the Sun; they did not, as those who were below, witness
departure of Christ from the Sun and at the same time they saw that
Christ comes to the earth and lives henceforward in union with the
earth. This is to begin in our present age. Christianity is to be
Christ as a Sun Being is to arise within humanity through Michael,
“piety” — not Christian but pagan piety, which is
performed in the service of the Power known in Christian-Hebraic
See Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Spiritual World,
where a more inward form of Christianity had taken refuge. In the
a deeper understanding of Christianity? Overwhelmingly this problem
Christianity?
battling for Christ and the real Christ Impulse. It was simply that
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Title: Cosmic Christianity: Lecture III
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Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael
Michael and the Cosmic Intelligence. The deepening of Christianity.
Aristotelianism and Christianity. On the karma of the
the Being known in Christian terminology as the Archangel Michael is
the truths of Christianity. Christ came from the Sun. Christ, the
before the whole Mystery connected with Christ can reveal itself to
Christian philosophy Thomas Aquinas still speaks of Beings, of
Christian doctrine is continuing a tradition which at that time was
pre-Christian times it would never have occurred to men to believe
Christ from the Sun; they did not, as those who were below, witness
departure of Christ from the Sun and at the same time they saw that
Christ comes to the earth and lives henceforward in union with the
earth. This is to begin in our present age. Christianity is to be
Christ as a Sun Being is to arise within humanity through Michael,
“piety” — not Christian but pagan piety, which is
performed in the service of the Power known in Christian-Hebraic
See Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Spiritual World,
where a more inward form of Christianity had taken refuge. In the
a deeper understanding of Christianity? Overwhelmingly this problem
Christianity?
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als kosmischer Mensch kam Christus von der Sonne. Er war bis
Menschen überhaupt zu ergreifen! Gerade eine Christologie
führen zum Erkennen des kosmischen Menschen: Christus.
Christus gewissermaßen in diesem Zurückkehren
Christus, ja, der lebensvollen, geist-lebensvollen Gestalt des
Christus, das ist etwas, was in gewissem Sinne ja wunderbar der
Christus-Impulses in die physisch-sinnliche Welt, wo er am
christlichsten sein will, doch sozusagen nur in eine
und im Irdischen den Christus-Impuls eigentlich ausmacht. Das
Musikalische ist aber befähigt, diesen Christus-Impuls in
Kosmisch-Tellurischen als der Christus-Impuls lebt.
Inkarnation, und zwar gerade der Inkarnation Christi.
diesem Gebiete, da das «Halleluja» des Christus aus
Christus-Impuls kann im Musikalischen gefunden werden. Und jene
Christus-Impuls in wahrer Gestalt auch vor die äußere
Lösung wäre des christologischen Rätsels.

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organology. For it was as Cosmic Man that Christ came from the Sun.
Christology can grow.
Cosmos, to the recognition of evil and to knowledge of Christ, the
of Christ when all that is disclosed to occult investigation and
of the figure of Christ, the spiritually-living figure, which I
give a musical expression of the Christ Impulse already existed. It
the introduction of the Christ Impulse into the phenomenal world where
it seeks to give expression to the purest Christian spirit, has been
fails to portray the real significance of the Christ Impulse in the Cosmos
able to portray this Christ Impulse musically, in tones that are
by Spiritual Science, it will find ways of expressing the Christ
the Christ Impulse in the Cosmos and the Earth can be awakened
Christ.
the “Hallelujah” of the Christ can ring out from
The Christ
depend entirely upon mankind — the true nature of the Christ
Anthroposophy and the Christian enigma shall be solved through

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organology. For it was as Cosmic Man that Christ came from the Sun.
Christology can grow.
Cosmos, to the recognition of evil and to knowledge of Christ, the
of Christ when all that is disclosed to occult investigation and
of the figure of Christ, the spiritually-living figure, which I
give a musical expression of the Christ Impulse already existed. It
the introduction of the Christ Impulse into the phenomenal world where
it seeks to give expression to the purest Christian spirit, has been
fails to portray the real significance of the Christ Impulse in the Cosmos
able to portray this Christ Impulse musically, in tones that are
by Spiritual Science, it will find ways of expressing the Christ
the Christ Impulse in the Cosmos and the Earth can be awakened
Christ.
the “Hallelujah” of the Christ can ring out from
The Christ
depend entirely upon mankind — the true nature of the Christ
Anthroposophy and the Christian enigma shall be solved through

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
konnten sich die Menschen der vorchristlichen Zeit nichts von
Daß die Menschen in dieser vorchristlichen Zeit dennoch
festhalten, daß in den vorchristlichen Zeiten alle
großen Buddha in der vorchristlichen Zeit. Sie finden,
wieder gegeben. So wurde das Eintreten des ChristusEreignisses
der ersten Zeit der christlichen Entwickelung war es im
Golgatha und zu dem Christus notwendig.
vorchristlichen Zeit der Mensch versuchte, die Welt zu
Der Christus gab den Menschen die Gewißheit, daß in
christlichen Sinne. Und das bedeutet: ein Ich geworden sein.
Christus, die wird dem Menschen von heute auf dem physischen
Fähigkeit, den Christus zu schauen, dadurch verdunkelt,
die Christus-Gestalt entgottet worden ist und das
auf einen einzelnen historischen Christus, sondern auf
Wort gesprochen: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in
Christus so weit, als ich ihn zugeben kann. — Der
Christus soll nur so weit gelten, als er durch die
Christus und dem Mysterium von Golgatha, so pflanzt das in uns
dem Christus und dem Mysterium von Golgatha erworben haben,
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Wert darauf gelegt, daß verstanden werde, wie Christus als
daß der Christus ein Sonnenwesen ist, das uns wieder
Christus zu verstehen, so muß nun aber auch ein anderes
Luzifer und das Christuswesen wie zwei nebeneinander
Gleichbedeutendheit von Christus und Luzifer klingen mag, man
weiterträgt als der Christus: der Christus begleitet
Würde einen der Christus nicht begleiten, so würde
dem Christus verbunden haben. Durch unser neues Leben dann in
in der Tat so, daß Christus uns alles Vergangene gegeben
Christus die Erinnerung an unsere früheren
Christus-Prinzip noch das Luzifer-Prinzip, unser

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Hauptsonnengeistes, des Christus, wirklich kennen, daß wir
von Golgatha die Menschen sich mehr naiv zum Christus
wieder erobert, was durch den hohen Sonnengeist, den Christus,
christlichen Religion, so ist das ein ganz ungerechter Vorwurf.
wir mit jahvisch-christlicher Stimmung erfüllt sind. Da
leben wir uns durchchristet in die Sonnensphäre hinein.
des Christus gewesen ist. Denn daß er anders geworden ist,
Christus, von Luzifer in Empfang genommen, in der richtigen
durchgemacht sechshundert Jahre vor Christus. Wenn Sie meine
Anhänger Buddhas, die anderen Christen waren. Das ist eine
hat? Er ist für den Mars dasselbe geworden, was Christus

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
CHRISTUS-ERKENNTNIS
den vorchristlichen Zeiten, da war es so, daß der Mensch,
zum Christus bekannt, der kein Abendländer ist, der ein
die Art, wie das Abendland sich zum Christus gestellt hat. Wir
ChristusPrinzipes. Rufen Sie zusammen einen ernsten
wie im Christentum. Es ist eine tiefe Bemerkung im Evangelium,
die da der Christus Jesus macht, indem er sagt zu denen, die er
Götter» (Joh. 10, 34). Damit meint der Christus
gesagt worden sind. Warum hat das Christentum diese wichtige
welcher Wesenheit er herkommt. Warum? Weil das Christentum
ist das Christentum zugleich so intim verwandt mit der
menschlichen Seele, weil das, was das Christentum geben kann,
den Christus abzulehnen braucht. Denken Sie doch einmal, was es
ist unrecht von euch Christus-Bekennern, wenn ihr besonders von
dem Christus sagt: alle Bekenntnisse können sich in ihm
höchstes Ziel anerkennen. Damit gebt ihr dem Christus den
Vorzug. Ihr dürft besonders nicht über den Christus
irgendein Hindu. Darf der Buddhist sagen: Ich darf den Christus
die Christus-Wesenheit etwas, was von einem Hindu oder Bekenner
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
von Golgatha, des Christentums, liegt, daß es für die
mußte der Sonnengeist, der Christus, herniedersteigen auf
Universelle des wirklich verstandenen Christus-Mysteriums. Wir
kann aber dieses ChristusMysterium immer wieder und wiederum
eine besondere Hervorhebung des Christus-Mysteriums etwa
Christus-Mysterium besonders betont würde und dadurch
dieses Christus-Mysterium ist seiner eigentlichen Bedeutung
stellst das Christentum über das Buddha-Bekenntnis, weil
du den Christus als irgend etwas Besonderes hinstellst, das
besonderes Privileg eines christlichen Bekenntnisses ist,
Religionsbekenntnisse nicht mit dem, was das Christentum
seines seelischen Gehaltes. Das Christentum ist für das
muß. Und das macht das Universelle des Christentums in
einer anderen Beziehung aus, wenn dieses Christentum wirklich
Dieses Christentum ist ja noch nicht sehr weit fortgeschritten
Christentum noch immer nicht ordentlich unterscheiden. Man wird
Golgatha, wer ist da ein Christ? Der ist ein Christ, der
geschehen ist, dass der Sonnengeist im Christus gelebt hat,
Christus für alle Menschen gestorben ist. Obwohl Paulus
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
erworben haben: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in
mir», wenn wir den Christus in uns erleben, dann haben wir
Christus in seiner schönsten, großartigsten Gestalt,

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
das Christentum unbedingt anders ist als die ändern
So ist in vieler Beziehung das abendländische Christentum
des ChristusImpulses auch dasjenige, was den Menschen in ein
Verhältnis zu kommen, weil dieses Christentum niemals,
schönsten Worte des Neuen Testamentes, das der Christus
Götter.» Christus weist die Menschen darauf hin,
gleich. — Eine hohe Lehre des Christus ist es, den
Christus! Ein anderes Wesen hat dieselben Worte vorgetragen,
und es gehört zum Christus-Bekenntnis, daß ein
Paradies, und wiederum sagt es der Christus Jesus, ganz
bedeutungsvollsten Punkte des Christus-Bekenntnisses, den
wenn Christus sie sagt. Da berühren wir ein tiefes
Christus, das andere Mal aus dem Munde des Luzifer
Christus-Impulses nötig haben. Dieses müssen wir von
der Erde mitbringen; denn der Christus ist einmal auf der Sonne
und dann können wir mit dem Christus-Impuls ein geselliges
jetzt nur durch die Anthroposophie, zwischen Christus und
unserm Christus-Verständnis, das führt uns allerdings
zwischen Christus und Luzifer, denn Luzifer muß uns nun
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
die Christus-Substanz der Erde. Wir haben den Christus
dieses Untertauchen in die Christus-Substanz, wenn er durch die
daß der Christus sich mit der Erde vereinigt hat, wirkt er
Tode vor der Geburt Christi wenig entwickelt. Wir dagegen
Tat allmählich einem Niedergang entgegen. Seit Christus

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Geisteswissenschaft, die das Christus-Geheimnis für die
Menschenseele klarer und klarer machen soll. Was Christus
spirituelle Sprache lernt. Im Anfange der christlichen
in der Zukunft werden nur jene Menschen den Christus erkennen,

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Mysterium von Golgatha das äußere christliche
christliche Religionsbekenntnis enthält in gewisser Weise
sie keine redlichen Theosophen seien. Das Urchristentum ist von
der außerhalb des Abendlandes gelebt hat, des Christus
jedem Religionssystem im Wesen des Christentums, wenn auch
dieses Wesen vielleicht von abendländischen Christen
Eigentlich ist für den Christen jeder ein Christ, wie er
Engherzigkeit, wenn man christliche Dogmen überall
man überall die Anfänge des Christentums finden, wird
Ansätze des Christentums sind, ohne daß man den Namen
des Christus zu nennen braucht. Aber dieses engere Christentum
Mysterium von Golgatha, für den ChristusImpuls,
Christus gesessen. Er hat sich verbreitet bis in die
sich ein Verständnis für den Christus-Impuls aneignen
neuer Geburt von dem ChristusImpuls und werden innerhalb der
Sonnensphäre ist — von dem Christus. Und wir
einen Seite dem Christus, auf der ändern Seite dem Luzifer
gegenüber. Würden wir den ChristusImpuls nicht in uns
ChristusImpuls, so stehen wir auf der weiten Reise durch das
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Erdenmensch, der hier den ChristusImpuls empfangen hat, sich
diesem Erdendasein aus höheren Regionen der Christus
ChristusMysterium auf Erden verlief, aber der
die Menschen, die hier auf der Erde den Christus-Impuls in der
auf Erden den ChristusImpuls aufgenommen hat, kann dann bei
durch die Pforte des Todes und hier keinen Christus-Impuls

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Christus-Impuls nichts ist, wofür sie so recht tief eine
Entwickelungsstadium, wo die Menschenseele den Christus-Impuls
ohne irgendeine Verbindung mit dem Christus-Impuls durch die

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Christus-Mysterium hin und eine aufsteigende Entwickelung vom
Mysterium von Golgatha auf der Erde der Christus-Impuls.
Erde heute etwa schon verchristet ist, der ganze Mars zu einem
Bekenner gehabt hat in der vorchristlichen Zeit.
christlichen Impulse wie selbstverständlich schon in sich
daß Raffael irgendwelche christlichen Begriffe — ich
Raffael christliche Begriffe oder Vorstellungen sich
christlichen Gestalten zu schaffen, von Raffaels früheren
läßt als eine Art geborenen Christen. Die meisten
vorhandene christliche Impulse. Es muß immer gesagt
aber zu Judas und zu dem Christus habe ich keine Modelle,
anderes ergibt, den Prior nehmen. Aber zu dem Christus habe ich
Und beim Christus sollte es so sein, daß das Licht auf

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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
waren von dem ChristusImpuls, konnte wenigstens ein Teil der
von Golgatha verstehen. In dem Christus-Impuls liegt die
Das Christentum ist schon eine allgemeine Religion; das
Christentum ist nicht eine Stammes-, Rassenoder
Bekenntnis des Christentums angenommen. Man ist aber im
richtigen Sinne Christ nicht dadurch, daß man dieses oder
jenes christliche Dogma vertritt, sondern daß man
weiß, daß Christus für alle Menschen gestorben
Christen zu verhalten. Wenn heute ein Europäer nach Indien
Menschenseele trifft, kann man finden den Christus-Impuls. Der
lebt. Der Christ weiß, daß Christus in allen Menschen
verstandene Christentum den Wahrheitskern aller Religionen
versteht den Christus nicht wirklich, der nicht klar sieht,
daß der Christus auf Erden nicht durch irgendwelche
klarer, was der Buddha war. Mit dem Christusleben ist es nicht
so. Das Christusleben ist so, daß man schon hier auf der
wird, wohl alles mögliche sehen, aber den Christus kann
Es macht den Christus zu einer Wesenheit, welche
eine Beziehung zu Christus haben, und der Eingeweihte muß
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Planetensphären und die Bedeutung der Christus-Erkenntnis /
Christus-Wesenheit, die sollte als einzige Wesenheit in den
Form in die andere. Dazu mußte der Christus auf die Erde
der Christus das einzige Wesen ist, das mit dem Tode
Christus betrachtet, da wirkt es besonders
Christentums. Denn das, was das Wesen des Christentums
Christentum hinzustellen neben andere religiöse
Bekenntnisse. Gewiß, einzelne christliche Bekenntnisse
Christentum hat schon den Impuls in sich zum Verständnis
Abendländer das Christentum aufgenommen? Nehmen Sie den
konnte den Christus-Impuls aufsaugen. Das Volk, das den
Christus zwischen sich sah, hat sich nicht dazu bekannt. Das
ist das Eigentümliche im Christentum: Der Keim liegt in
christliche Mission besteht nicht darin, Dogmen beizubringen
recht verstandene Christentum setzt voraus, daß jeder
Mensch ein Christ ist in seinem inneren Wesen. Wenn Sie zu
Christ — so hat man das Christentum nicht verstanden.
Wesen ist dieser Hindu ein so guter Christ wie ich selbst; er
hat man das Christentum verstanden. Das beste wäre, die
Christen lehrten den Hindu Hinduismus und versuchten dann, den
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war. Wenn der Christ des Mittelalters oder auch der Christ noch
machen, wie eigentlich das Christusgesicht und das Judasgesicht

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des Christus-Impulses kam in die
beanspruchen, die da sagen, daß die meisten Lehren des Christus Jesus schon in
Herabsteigen des Christus zu verstehen, wirklich mit
wäre der Christus herabgekommen in einen
Grab des Christus Jesus kamen und
den Christus suchten, aber ihnendie Antwort kam: Der, den ihr
was den Frauen am Grabe des Christus Jesus
Wir müssen suchen, was uns teuer ist, am Grabe des Christus Jesus! — Und
Plane, daß aber der Christus gesucht werden muß auf dem geistigen Plan, auch insofern
Wo war denn der Christus, als die Frauen
Golgatha herumwandelnden Christus zu schauen.
Wo war denn der Christus, als die
diese Christus-Kraft, da ist der Christus-Impuls! Während die Kreuzfahrer nach dem
Osten ziehen, um den Christus auf
Christus — so, wie er in Europa nach
den Christus-Impuls. Die Menschen fühlten den
Christus-Impuls sich einwohnend; sie
fühlten sich innerlich, seelisch mit dem Christus-Impuls verbunden, auch wenn sie seine
verstehen konnten. Es war der Christus für sie da.
Christus-Impuls aufnehmen konnte, ihn aber nicht geistig wirklich erfassen konnte. Aber
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einschneidenden Bedeutung des Christus-Impulses für die Menschheitsentwickelung
dieses Christus-Impulses, das wir gewöhnlich
das Christus Jesus-Leben.
gewissermaßen neue Daten über das Christus Jesus-Leben heranzubringen. Nur
Christus Jesus-Leben und was nicht

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Nature. The Christian Middle Ages must appear to us in this
works of Christian Art came into existence. Philosophy, which

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the central experience connected with the mood of Christmas. [* See

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Like nearly all medieval Christian mystics who had no actual Guru
within you. Let your whole self be filled with Christ! — Eckhart
made the saying of Paul a reality: ‘Not I, but Christ in
Christian mystics put in the place of an external Guru, an inner
leader: the Christ.

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beginning of the Christian era there was an esoteric School which

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consider Christianity, not Mohammedanism, the true faith in Europe.

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Christentum (Vol. 130 in the Bibliographic Survey 1961).
The True Attitude to Karma, lecture III in The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
The True Attitude To Karma, from Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
The True Attitude To Karma, from Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
The True Attitude to Karma, lecture III in The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture IV. Intimate Workings of Karma
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The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
details of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Intimate Workings of Karma, from Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
I have been describing to you the first School of Christian
the Rosicrucian stream of spiritual life. And Christian Rosenkreutz
ether-body of Christian Rosenkreutz, too, works far and wide into the
Christian Rosenkreutz has always made use of the short intervals of
what means Christian Rosenkreutz gives them a sign that they may count
indication that between death and a new birth Christian Rosenkreutz
Christian Rosenkreutz on the physical plane. This event may be called
the mark of Christian Rosenkreutz. Let us suppose that a man is lying
accidental. A beckoning call has come from Christian Rosenkreutz. The
karma of the one called in this way always indicates that Christian
actual incarnation; we may have contacted Christian Rosenkreutz in the
in life and understand the beckoning call of Christian Rosenkreutz. To
beckoning or other sign may be understood and obeyed. Christian

Title: Esoteric Christianity: Intimate Workings of Karma
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Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
of the tasks and deeds of Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian
Christianity, such as his influence on G.E. Lessing and Madame Blavatsky.
and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Intimate Workings of Karma, lecture IV in The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
I have been describing to you the first school of Christian
the rosicrucian stream of spiritual life. And Christian Rosenkreutz
the ether body of Christian Rosenkreutz works far and wide in the
Christian Rosenkreutz has always made use of the short intervals of
Christian Rosenkreutz gives them a sign showing them that they may
regarded as an indication that between death and a new birth Christian
Christian Rosenkreutz on the physical plane, however. This event may
be called the mark of Christian Rosenkreutz. Let us suppose a man is
— are not accidental. A beckoning call has come from Christian
that Christian Rosenkreutz bestows the life he may claim. I say
we may have met Christian Rosenkreutz in the spiritual world. I have
understand the beckoning call of Christian Rosenkreutz. To make this
Christian Rosenkreutz has created this sign in order to rouse the

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all, the ruling Sun Spirit, the Christ, and that we made a connection
Christ connection, was established by living into the divine grace of
endeavored to draw towards the Christ. Today this no longer suffices.
what was brought by the lofty Sun Spirit, by the Christ, the Christ
of giving a preference to the Christian religion. Yet this accusation
permeated by a Jehovah-Christian mood of soul. The outer spiritual
So, Christ-filled, we live into the Sun sphere. As we proceed we
brother of Christ. Lucifer changed only in the course of time because
rightly with the Mystery of Golgotha, we journey onward led by Christ
but only worked spiritually at the birth of the Luke Christ-child.
Christian. This was due to the fact that in his previous incarnation
Mars what Christ has become for the earth. He accomplished a kind of

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man must always penetrate into the Christ-substance of the earth that
Christ as the Sun Spirit. The ego has emancipated itself from the light
experiences this plunging into the Christ-substance when he has gone
This does in fact occur, not physically but spiritually. Because the Christ
with the Christ is able to experience after death the repercussions of
birth of Christ life after death was little developed. We, on the
on the downgrade since the time of Christ. The vegetative forces were

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flow into the Christ Being - IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
that now came into being was the Christ. Christ the child of the
Being had felt to be darkened. To accomplish this the Christ had to
new consciousness, if we could not let it flow into the Christ-Being.
our own being is received by the Christ Who comes to meet us with
life-giving power. Christ gives life to that which dies in us, which
death-content which streams into us we pour into the Christ-Being,
Christianity, and we also realise that what remains unborn in us, our
feeling and will, is received by the Christ-substance into Whom it
will sink after death. For within us dwells the Christ ever since He
passed through the Mystery of Golgotha. Into Christ we let sink the
into the spiritual sunlight of Christ we send our darkened thoughts,
sinks within the substance of Christ and so too does our unborn will.
Christ we die —

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Father - Monotheism. Christ cannot be found by any philosophy
free act and is not forced.' Christ the Son is not the result
of Christ the Father, but is a free and independent matter. In the
be done by a right realisation of Christ. We prove Him not by logic
but by Himself. God the Father we find in life and nature. Christ is
know oneself in the soul, outside the body - IN CHRISTO MORIMUR.
Christian religion ‘God the Father’. Thus far do the
philosophers, such as Hegel and others, Christ is mentioned; it does
religion possesses the Christ and therefore they can speak of Him.
philosophy, but Christ cannot be found by any philosophy, by any
Christian religion in a very beautiful, symbolic and pictorial
manner; namely, that the relation of this other God, Christ, to the
Father and God the Son: this important fact, that the Christ is added
Christ is therefore not given to the world because the Father had to
Son, the Christ, through the same kind of truth by which the
philosophers arrive at God the Father. In order to arrive at Christ
effects that there is a Christ. Christ exists and can pass by human
Christ! An active up-rousing of the impulse for truth is required in
order to recognise Christ in that which was there as Christ. We can
recognise Christ merely through philosophy; this must be our own free
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Since Golgotha it is the permeation with the Christ Impulse that
gives the power to maintain the remembrance of the Ego. The Christ
Christ having entered into the earth aura, remains connected with
the physical body. This is the permeation with the Christ-substance,
far does the impulse proceeding from the power of Christ extend, that
into the physical world. There is the Christ-impulse which is present
live. When the Christ-impulse has brought us as far as to the
come upon us, when Christ has led us thus far, then in the Midnight
In Christ we have died; through

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Ego. It is due to Christ that we can keep this memory up to the
sufficient of this Christ Impulse. The surplus strengthens the
Mystery Plays. More people must see the etheric Christ. The Spirit
able to do this in our age depends upon the fact that Christ brought
from our earthly life. If the Christ-impulse had not entered the
die in Christ. For this the Christ-impulse is necessary. It preserves
Christ-impulse supplies us with more than barely sufficient force
the Spirit should not come to us, the Christ-impulse would be able to
with our memory, but the Christ-impulse would carry us over. This is
merely a bare amount of the Christ-impulse. Even at the present time,
not merely what is absolutely necessary regarding Christ, but that
the Christ-impulse should enter into his soul as a mightier impulse,
impulse of Christ, and we feel the force of the Spirit more strongly
than would be the case if the Christ-impulse were not there.
The surplus of the Christ-impulse
Christ-impulse it strengthens the impulse of the Holy Ghost, and
gain in this way through the Christ-impulse strengthening the impulse
they are filled with the Christ-impulse and the impulse of the
Christ-impulse, so that more and more Spirit shall enter into
namely, the etheric form of Christ. The power of the Spirit which

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Esoteric Foundation of Christmas
Spirit of Christ was united with the spirit of the earth by the
Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ Spirit lives in the spirit of
want to commit a festival which should express that the Christ
in the winter, in the midwinter. This is Christmas. For this
reason one sets Christmas and that which develops from it in
once arranged the Christian year. Out of esoteric truth
Christmas was determined, not account of historical facts. For
It is the summer festival in contrast to Christmas which is
materialism. This is the Christ Impulse. When the Christ
into materialism. The Christ Impulse was there as an objective
What do we see, hence? We see a strange course of the Christ
Impulse in the previous development. We see that this Christ
following centuries, after the Christ Impulse had entered, we
understand the Christ Impulse today from this theological
squabbling how the Christ Impulse has worked during these
Christ Impulse stands in the evolution.
Rome, and triumphed over him. That is why Christianity also was
declared Christianity the state religion et cetera. However,
Christ. On account of this dream he made his armies carry the
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Effects of the Christ-Impulse Upon the Historical Course of Human Evolution
EFFECTS OF THE CHRIST-IMPULSE UPON THE HISTORICAL
OCCULT BACKGROUND OF THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
the Christian Spirit, as the Spirit of Christ, united Himself
Golgotha, the Spirit of Christ lives in the Spirit of the
expressing the fact that the Spirit of Christ lives in the
Christmas Festival.
this reason, the Christmas Festival and everything that
fixed the Christian festivals of the year. The Christmas
MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL, in contrast to the Christmas Festival
is the Christ Impulse. The preparation began when the Christ
Christ Impulse approached humanity was already preparing itself
for its dive into materialism. The Christ Impulse existed in
by the Christ Impulse in the historical development up to the
present time. We see that when the Christ Impulse entered the
first Christian centuries which immediately followed the Christ
the Christ impulse by studying these theological disputes
disputing over the Christ Impulse did not understand
anything of the way in which the Christ Impulse stands at the
us try to understand how the Christ Impulse really worked. Let
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find the way to Christ, he wants to bear Him in his own soul.
once to look for the idea to experience the Christ or a God
much inclined to behold the resurrection of Christ in the
ego with its God, or also, if it concerns Christ, with Christ,
this desire that Christ is born in the soul is to be found only
the “little spark in the soul,” that Christ is to
Christ Himself must come to life in the human ego efficiently.
Christ. Christ Jesus and at the same time the human ego! The

Title: Lecture Series: The Subconscious Forces
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to find the path to Christ, must give birth to Him within his
Europe) that Christ or God should be experienced within the
to look for the resurrection of Christ in the spiritual world,
with its God, or if Christ is thought of, with Christ, this
desire that Christ should be born within one's own soul, can
“sparklet within the soul,” how Christ should be
Christ himself must become active within the HUMAN EGO. For

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that prevails in the discussions of the early Christian
fathers; and in those early centuries of Christianity there

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 4: Spiritual Geography
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before the establishment of Christianity. Six hundred years
later, Christianity was founded, and henceforward we have a

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 7: The Individual Spirit and the Social Structure
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which Christ appears as judge over all the world. His status as

Title: Tension Between East and West: Lecture 8: The Problem (Asia-Europe)
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itself in Europe, combined with Christianity, passed over into

Title: Lecture: The End of the Dark Age
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Auferstehung. Exoterisches und esoterisches Christentum, Bibliographic
a Striving for Spiritual Understanding of Nature Permeated by Christ.
Christentum,
Permeated by Christ. The translator is unknown.

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Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

Title: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture II
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Did the Christmas or Easter Festival come into being because a few
is not the case. For something like the Christmas Festival to find its
way into the life of mankind, Christ Jesus had to be born; this event
seriousness of the Christmas and Easter Festivals is no longer felt,
through a more profound comprehension of the birth of Christ Jesus and
must be able to arise. But just as the Christmas and Easter Festivals
of Christ Jesus, in the Mystery of Golgotha. As was said, this may be

Title: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture III
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festivals like Christmas or Easter exerted a far-reaching influence on

Title: Michaelmas-Soul: Lecture IV
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celebrate the Christmas Festival during the winter solstice. Then the
hold the mystery of the Christmas Festival. The Redeemer could unite only
Christmas Festival linked with phenomena pertaining to the earth, with
have: the festivals of Christmas, Easter and St. John, that have
Mystery of Golgotha through the descent of Christ, the Sun-Spirit,
his Gemüt with Christ, the victor over death, in order to
find resurrection in death. But Christianity does not end with the
Death and Resurrection of Christ, man needs that other one which
Festival. Easter commemorates for us the Resurrection of Christ from

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture I: Spiritual Science and the Future of Humanity
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Christ impulse that will once induce humanity to take up
to Buddha, to Christ, to Zarathustra, to Pythagoras and so on
things. Neither Pythagoras, nor Christ, nor Zarathustra would

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also bump into something after death, into Christ-substance. We must
Christ-substance.
imagine how we dive down into the Christ-substance to die, then this
Christo morimur.

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des Übersinnlichen. Die Wege der Seele zu Christus. (Bibl.
Therefore anyone who knows the mystery of love can be a Christian.
must learn to understand the Christ Impulse, the thought may well
Christ Impulse, may perhaps never even have heard the name of Christ?
Will such a man be deprived of the Christ Impulse because he has not
heard the name of Christ? Is it necessary to have some theoretical
knowledge of the Christ Impulse in order that Christ's power may flow
there is progressive evolution and then the Christ Impulse which once
Christ Jesus, nothing of what is communicated in the Gospels, but that
the Mystery of Golgotha, is a Christian in the truest sense. A man who
for the future, is a true Christian. To understand the nature of love
— that is to be a Christian! Theosophy
great egoists unless the impulse of love, the Christ Impulse, is
understanding of the Christ Impulse.
great danger that — if it is cultivated without the Christ
Christ lived for three years in the body of Jesus of Nazareth and
that Christ performs the Deed by which men are drawn back to the Gods.
Lucifer's deed was enacted in the super-sensible world; Christ's Deed,
deed was a deed belonging to the super-sensible world. But Christ came
Deed of Christ. The Deed of Christ is a Deed of the Gods, a Deed which
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year last year, [Christ and the Spiritual
Steiner Press.] you will find how the Christ Impulse worked
through the Mystery of Golgotha, and how Christ lives in the most
quarrelling, the Christ Impulse lived on and brought about the
human beings, but the Christ Impulse works in this personality,
became a kind of representative of the Christ Impulse itself for her
time. This she was only able to do, because the Christ Impulse could
that we celebrate the Christmas Festival in the time when the sun has
legends tell us that over Christmas, up to 6th January, people have
ended during the Christmas time of the year 1411. She was born,

Title: Mystery of Death: Lecture I: The Four Platonic Virtues and Their Relation with the Human Members
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Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail,
last year in Leipzig, you will find how the Christ Impulse was
working on account of the Mystery of Golgotha, how Christ lives
about dogmas. While they quarrelled, however, the Christ
Christ Impulse works and invigorates and bears her by His
Christ Impulse for her time. She was only able to do that,
while the Christ Impulse had made hold of her.
know that we celebrate Christmas in the time when the solar
legends tell us that from Christmas up to the 6th January
Christmas time in 1411. She was born, after she had spent the
has gone through the Mystery of Golgotha; the Spirit of Christ

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America because it cannot be found in the Bible or in Christian
world — Christianity — could be endangered because
When I hear of how objections can be made by Christians,
a teacher of Christian philosophy, member of a Catholic faculty
really genuinely Christian and Catholic priest, who up to the
that a really perceptive Christianity turns against the
Galileo. It is with injustice that Christianity declares
Christianity, to be irreconcilable with natural science. For
with the Christian view, for this Christian view, properly
the Godhead and the glory of the Christian view; it is bound to
contradiction between it and Christianity, properly understood.
that unjustly purports to originate from Christianity. The only
not with a broadly based Christian view. And the discoveries of
Christianity teaches us about, but on the contrary will confirm
Laurenz Mueller, also a genuinely Christian theologian and
professor, speaks in a similar vein: Christianity does not
science of spirit does not clash with Christianity, because it
those today who still believe that their Christianity would be
not only of Christian teaching, but also of Christian deeds and
Christianity.
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out of the group to teach people about Christ. But in the fifth
period Christ is already actually entering the individual soul.
Already, unconsciously or subconsciously, we all carry Christ within
from doing all we can to further what will make Christ universally
centuries of the Christian era this or that may have been adapted to
Christ-conception. In this way we bring to every soul what it
The various forms assumed by Christianity were established in the
Christ entered earth-life, and He has remained in earth-life since
earth-life that Christ should have entered it. But now let us
the reverse of ours. Christ left the sphere of the Angels to come to
say: Christ left our world to go through the Mystery of Golgotha. And
rejoice that Christ in His healing power should have come to us in as
bodies should live with the Christ-thought in such a way that it can
Golgotha — shine up to the Angels as a light. Men say: Christ
able to dwell in us — “not I, but Christ in me.”
The Angels say: Christ has gone from the sphere of our inner life,
and He shines up to us now like so many stars in the Christ-thought
receive Christ in a new way. For we forge a real link with the
the central impulse of earth evolution, to the Christ impulse. The
Christ impulse will become our real link with the spiritual worlds
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understood. For people keep on imagining that they are Christian
are Christians. For such a passage as this one by St. Paul, though it
St. Paul expressed in the words ‘Not I, but Christ in me’,
of God we are born; into Christ we die’.
come to us in Spiritual Science, that Christ is for the Earth, then
feeling: ‘Into Christ we die’, and gazing in from the
have died into Christ’. This union with Christ gives us the
possibility to behold, as it were with the eye of the soul of Christ
show how the death in Christ can place us rightly into the spiritual

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calls his God; if he is a Christian he calls him Christ; he confuses
his Angelos with Christ. This may be difficult to understand, but it
the one Being, Christ — whatever they may preach concerning
Christ, the truth is that what they say has only to do with the
Mystery of Golgotha, of the Coming of Christ, for the whole evolution
of humanity. Many there are who speak of Christ Jesus. Modern
— in order that this might be, Christ Jesus fulfilled the Mystery
of Golgotha. And when man understands Christ Jesus in the light of

Title: Lecture: The Work of the Angels In Mans Astral Body
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in addition to everything else, the Christ Impulse postulates complete
freedom in matters of religious life, that the only true Christianity
is the Christianity which makes possible absolute freedom in the
reappearance of the etheric Christ, or other matters as well, then the

Title: Lecture: How Do I Find the Christ?
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To know Christ in His relation to men.
sickness. The denial of Christ is a soul-calamity. The
today is to find the Christ. The present Fifth epoch in
of the Mystery of Golgotha, the Deed of Christ, in the
approach to Christian theology and the Bible. But the
Mystery of Golgotha. Even Christ's disciples could only
understood. Then they inspired Christian thinkers on earth,
real knowledge of Christ, as the Healer of man in the
in the first centuries of Christianity, both on earth and
can find the Christ. It depends upon two experiences: that
the experience of victory through the Christ. This leads to
The remedy is the Christianising of the word.
HOW CAN I FIND THE CHRIST?
matters connected with the direct experience of the Christ
— is to know the Christ.
many who deny the Christ. Spiritual Science regards the
denial of the Christ as something that is essentially a
is a sickness; to deny the Christ is a calamity. This must
find Christ is a matter of destiny, a factor that must
relationship with Christ is a calamity.
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universe. Christian Morgenstern, the poet, has crystalised in
Christian Morgenstern: We Found a Path. The Washing of
particularly to Christianity, we stand at a turning-point. Certainly
willingness to accept Christianity — but only as much of
Christianity as serves to remind us of our own social ideals. But
understood about Christianity, so far, is only a beginning. It
Christ was once present in the man Jesus and passed through the
Mystery of Golgotha. All that Christianity has been able to teach men
in nearly 2,000 years is the simple fact that the Christ descended to
Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, but the real
Christ Jesus: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the
believe that the entire substance of Christianity is contained once
for all in the Gospels, but to recognise that the Christ is in truth
Spiritual Science is concerned not merely to talk about the Christ,
but to utter what the Christ wishes to say to men in our time,

Title: Die Soziale Frage: Dritter Vortrag: Schwarmgeisterei und reale Lebensauffassung im sozialen Denken und Wollen
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bezug auf diese Dinge, das christliche «Ändert

Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing.
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to these things, to actualize the Christian “change your

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture II
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fellowship belongs in a sense to the Christ Impulse. That is the
essential thing — the Christ Impulse belongs not to single men
Christ Himself, it is a great mistake to suppose that the solitary
individual can establish a direct relation with Christ. The essential
thing is that Christ lived and died, and rose from the dead, for
Christ Event is immediately relevant (we shall return to this point)
and gifts, leads to the Christ Event.
first truth was conveyed by Christ Jesus when in the old phraseology
Christ-Knowledge for our time and the immediate future. That is what
we shall learn if we are willing, today, to listen to the Christ. He
always, even unto the end of the world.” This means: Christ did
absolutely true to say: The Christ died and rose again for the whole
knowledge of the Christ. And the reason for this is that the true
can we find our way again to the Christ Impulse?
show that the way is not always found. Before the Christ Impulse
people from whom Christ Jesus was born looked on themselves as the
Hebrew people Christ Jesus was to emerge. But with the enactment of
Jehovah should have come the recognition of Christ — the
quite contrary to the spirit of Christ Jesus, who lived and stood for
will suffice: to draw near once more to the Christ by the path of the
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Seiten — von christlich-sozialer Seite, von

Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance Does Work Have for the Modern Proletarian?
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Christian-social side, from the bourgeois-socialist aspirants

Title: Inner Aspect of the Social Question: Lecture III
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made to hear what the Christ is saying for our present age, then it
inwardly” ... or, “The Christ used to be the concern of a

Title: Lecture: The Ahrimanic Deception
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literature you are aware how the Christian element then arose out of
the Jewish element out of which Christianity evolved partially, at all
form, a transformation, through Judaism and Christianity? This
the beginning of the third millennium of the pre-Christian era.
the Event of Golgotha an incarnation of the super-sensible Christ Being
beginning of the third pre-Christian millennium. It is revealed to the
the Christ. We have often spoken of what this Christ Impulse signifies
within civilized humanity. The Christ-Impulse — I will only touch on
to man from Lucifer. And in the first Christian centuries, men
understood the Christ through what they had received from Lucifer.
really possible to understand the particular way in which the Christ
increasingly unable to absorb the Christ Impulse in the right way.
Christian theology. For it is simply the starkest materialism to which
a great part of modern Christian theology succumbs when it no longer
sees the Christ in the man Jesus of Nazareth. It sees only the human
super-sensible Being different from the Being of Christ or of Lucifer.
third pre-Christian millennium, as there was the Christ Incarnation at
earthly existence, in fact, in the third post-Christian millennium. To
Luciferic incarnation, in the center, the incarnation of Christ, and
Lucifer and Ahriman; the Christ Impulse helps present humanity to
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especially in the conception of the Christ Himself. This conception
super-sensible nature of the Christ, who lived in the man Jesus! How
to the Christ-Being was lost. Many who now believe that they are in
communion with the Christ, only believe this. They do not
dream how little their thought of Christ and their words concerning

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views of international Christianity, for this is what it claimed to

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Christianity as Mystical Fact
aim of the Christmas Meeting, when the Anthroposophical Society was
word must be a living power among us. The Christmas Meeting was not
was the aim of the Christmas Meeting. Moreover it is only because
Christmas Meeting the foundation stone of anthroposophical life shall

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the nature of Mysticism. In the first centuries of Christendom the
cup from which Christ Jesus drank with His disciples at the Last
of Christendom these two streams were present: the stream expressed in
principle of independence. Christianity was to bring into the
world a love that is independent of blood-kinship. The words of Christ
wherein the Christ-Principle is united with the Lucifer-Principle.

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Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
go back through the Middle Ages to the first Christian centuries we
strained every nerve to understand how a Being like the Christ, Who
all costs by true Christians. Moreover, efforts were made to
regarded as one with whom true Christians could have no dealings.
evolution of Christendom people tried to cast into oblivion.
in regard to the outstanding figures of the early Christian centuries
four centuries of Christendom — for example, of the way in which
coming of Christ.
also tried to understand the descent of the Christ into Jesus of
Nazareth and the place of Christ in the realms of the spiritual
point of time, is Christ.
ancient times had reached their climax in Christianity and that the
crown of wisdom was to understand how the Christ Being had entered
Christian centuries in regard to the super-sensible worlds. But
Beings. As Christianity began to find its way into Roman culture, the
Initiation-knowledge in regard to the presence of Christ in the
in the Person of Christ was substituted for the teaching of Ammonius
develop to a point where he will understand how the Christ took up His
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should be permeated by the true power of the Christ, a

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 1: Evolution and Consciousness, Lucifer, Ahriman
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
Christian faith, have gradually come to look more like
on the wisdom taught in the Christian faith. [
lecture. If the wisdom taught within the Christian faith
spoke about the wisdom taught within the Christian faith
the wisdom taught in Christianity.’ That is how we

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
in the Near East at the beginning of Christian era and
beginning of our Christian era could not be directly
oriental tradition. Christianity was understood in the
Golgotha, and the way Christ related to the whole of
to understand the presence of the Christ in huMan
countries is far removed from Christianity; otherwise the
caricatured the Christian faith and presented a purely
oriental, pre-Christian Indian wisdom as something new.
and that is to be in communion with Christ, who can truly
brothers who has come among men, with the living Christ
walking among us. If we are in a communion with Christ
pre-Christian initiation, we need not be afraid to share
being in communion with Christ. There is no other way. A
look for such communion with Christ.

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
more powerful than Christ Jesus himself. Acting as the
celebrant, the priest coerced Christ Jesus, the god of
Christianity, to enter into the physical world as the
when Christ Jesus appeared among men people first had to
unthinkable for a present-day protestant Christian to

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
Christ Mystery to the world. The more we do this, the
of the Christ Mystery. It is not in their interest that
the true Mystery of Christ comes to be known; all they
of strange and peculiar creed concerning Christ they
know that our aim is to speak of the Christ Mystery out
Christian faith. They would find that during the Middle
tenet in Christian beliefs in fact has nothing to do with
Christianity but is an Aristotelian principle. [
Aristotelian thoughts presented as Christian dogma, the
masquerading as Christian dogma would be scared out of
teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
Aristotelian ideas that had crept into Christian
Christian
Christianity and the Catholic and Protestant
priest as ranking higher than God and Christ, for each
Christ is forced to be present by that altar, to be

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 6: Materialism and Mysticism, Knowledge as a Deed of the Soul
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
element is above and the ahrimanic below. The Christ is

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
spirits: the Christ, Ahriman and Lucifer. It is of course
choose Christ's party, or Ahriman's or Lucifer's Party.
badly Prepared, and choose Ahriman but call him Christ.
it is to defend the things Christ is about. There are

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 8: The Opposition of Knowledge and Faith, Its Overcoming
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
for Christ’, yet after all the word used need not
point is not that something or other is called the Christ
and that people have ideas about this Christ. The point
image of this Christ, if one even undergoes militaristic
Christ, if one is shown the image of Jesus the King,
of Christ one then gives the name of Christ to quite a
called Christ. This happens a great deal nowadays and it
way the real idea of the Christ has gradually disappeared
bring Christ down and make Him a physical Jesus even in
certain theologians see Christ only as the ‘simple
really no longer have the Christ, they really should no
longer called themselves Christians or followers of
Christ; they really ought to call themselves Jesuits,

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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
Christ appearing before the middle of the 20th century.
This reappearance of the Christ is something I hinted at
that this reappearance of the Christ is closely bound up

Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 10: Transition from the Luciferic to the Ahrimanic Age and the Christ Event to Come
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
few words at the end of my last talk, to the specific Christ event that
And now the Christ event,
this Christ event will be such that more people will be having objective
experiences and will then know that the etheric Christ is walking on
earth, the Christ who will represent the power that once walked on earth
in the physical form of Christ Jesus, but now at the etheric level. If
people come to know this Christ power, if they let it enter into them,
without having the support of the Christ force.
[play] I referred to this as the reappearance of the Christ. I would also
they meet this Christ event in a living way.
forth, but there cannot be a state in which Christian attitudes play an
as a Christian state.’ Those were the words of Pierre Bayle, a
themselves that states were Christian. The truth is that they were not.
Consider the Christian beliefs of the Middle Ages, for those were
Christian state’, Pierre Bayle said, and that in fact was the
gradually evolved had the Christ spirit in them. They cannot be
Christian. Something else emerged from this, however. Whether they stood
utterly convinced that they were true Christians. In the same way people
be Christian. They were not in fact Christians, for they held those very
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Title: Polarities in Evolution: Lecture 11: Modern Science and Christianity, Threefold Social Order, Goetheanism
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poignancy how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution.
be stressed that the Christ is definitely not of the
earth and that the Christ entered into an earthly body
exactly the right moment, as it were. In the Christ
Christ we are able to join our own essential nature to
not itself originated in that realm; because the Christ
Christ and say to ourselves: The Christ has brought to
use this to help us recognize the Christ as the One who
we thus come to see Christ as the One who will redeem our
power of Christ within us. And we really must come to
these things unless we appeal to the Christ, for the
Christ is the principle that can take our evolution
The Christ
Christ spirit. If you take an honest, unbiased look at
relationship to the Christ spirit. The best demonstration
Christianity first entered into Earth evolution at a time
ancient clairvoyance. Christianity then continued as a
penetration, the Christ element in the Gospels has
Christ they are not being entirely honest, not entirely
thinking has destroyed the spirit of Christianity that
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Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture II
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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

Title: Problems of Our Time: Lecture III
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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

Title: Problems of Our Time: Main Features of the Social Question and the Threefold Order of the Social Organism
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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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