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

GA 265a — 8 March 1910, Stuttgart

The Drive to Become Blessed

Notes by Alice Kinkel

The exoteric Christianity that is out there is not the real thing at all; to know this and to feel it in one's soul is important. Contemporary Christianity is only a distortion of true Christianity.

To become personally blessed is what people want today, that is what they want in exoteric Christianity, but in doing so they become highly selfish.

Watch and pray, that you do not fall into temptation. (That was the theme of the hour).

The souls who lived on earth in the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th centuries after Christ were embodied on earth at the time of Christ or directly afterwards. We were together with these souls in Devachan. We lived in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th century after Christ.

This strong egoistic drive of wanting to become personally blissful, we brought with us into this incarnation. We must practice self-knowledge.