Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924

GA 265a — 25 December 1908

Christmas, the Physical Body and Christ Consciousness

Record A by Unknown

The four elements correspond to the four bodies of man in the manner described above. With the high sun spirits, the order is reversed. The blaze of desire, the highest of the four lower bodies of the sun spirits, is not the same as the state that man undergoes in Kamaloka, but their blaze of desire is directed towards the highest and purest.

These sun spirits emerged from the earth (plus moon) with the sun because human development would otherwise have become

so fast in 1908 that man would have been consumed; he could not yet endure fire and air at that time.

The etheric body of the human being corresponds to water; it has built up the glandular system, the reproductive organs, and the digestive organs of the human being. The astral body of the human being created the nervous system within him.

During the Atlantean times, the sun spirits did not work in the human being at night as they do today. When a person sleeps today, the sun spirits work in his physical body through the embers of desire.

The highest of the sun spirits is the Christ. He prepared the disciples he needed to prepare humanity for his coming. The seven Rishis, mighty entities who, so to speak, sat around the table of the Christ, guided humanity from the Atlantean into the Aryan basic race and the Indian sub-race. Outwardly, they were simple men. Each of them was initiated into the mysteries of one of the seven planets.

One disciple whom the Christ himself had trained was Zarathustra in the Persian race. He saw in the mighty aura of the Christ what he had experienced. He could not reach the Christ himself. He called it Auramazdao, Ormuzd. He saw the mighty battle of the evil beings against the power of the Christ and their defeat.

He had two main disciples who carried his knowledge forward for the benefit of human development. One was Hermes, who founded Egyptian wisdom, and the other was Moses, to whom the Christ, the “I am,” appeared in the burning bush. They were all forerunners of the Christ. Buddha was also one of them and, so to speak, sat at the Round Table of the Christ. He also foretold us of Him until He could appear in the flesh.

When the sun went out the earth, not all its power was lost to mankind. It continued to work from outside and through the moon, which gets its light from the sun. When Yahweh appeared in the burning bush, he appeared as the bearer of the power of Christ.

The forces of the Christ-Sun have been active throughout the ages, most strongly around the time we call Christmas time. On the night of the winter solstice, those who were intensively engaged with these things could ascend to these forces, to union with the Christ. Since the event at Golgotha, it is also possible to do this by completely surrendering to the impression of this event. Then one has mystical moments when one can penetrate and the Christ comes to meet one in the night. It does not have to be Christmas Eve, but any of the nights around then.

Record B by Camilla Wandrey

When the sun and the earth separated, a downward development began for man to the physical body, but for the exalted sun beings it was an upward development. And that which corresponds to what our physical body is for them is light for them: light is their garment, that is, their body. We write “I” for the human being.

It is written in reverse. Why, that emerges from meditation on it. The high beings of the sun did not separate from our earth at that time, they always influenced everything that happened on earth. They work in light and warmth. Their ruler, the highest being of the sun, the Christ, has always been working.

In ancient Indian culture: the seven holy Rishis were simple people, but when they were in an inspired state, the planetary spirits spoke through them, each through one of the Rishis. Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus and also the high sun spirit, the Christ. Zarathustra spoke of Ahura Mazdao or the [illegible], that was the Christ, and he taught his disciples. He had two disciples: Hermes and Moses, and to the latter the Christ later appeared in the elements of the earth, in the burning bush and lightning fire of Sinai, for the Yahweh deity is none other than the reflected Christ deity.

Then the Christ-God Himself appeared on Earth and dwelt in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and a new impulse came into the development of the Earth.

During sleep, the I and the astral body leave the physical body. During sleep, the physical and etheric bodies are nourished by the higher beings of the sun, and in such a way that what is the burning desire of the higher beings of the sun is absorbed. In Atlantean times, this covering of the physical body with the beings of the sun could only take place on one single night during the year; and this night was Christmas night. This gradually disappeared. Through the impulse of Christ, and in accordance with the Mystery of Golgotha, this covering can again take place during the nights around Christmas time and on Christmas Eve itself, but only if the person has prepared for it through meditation. Dating Lessons