# Christ, the I-Consciousness, and Human Evolution to the Sixth Sub-Race

## GA 266I — 12 February 1906, Cologne

### Esoteric Lesson

John the Baptist heralded Christ Jesus in the middle of the fourth sub-race. Now, however, the individuality of the Master Jesus is leading humanity from the fifth to the sixth sub-race—back to John the Baptist, the Aquarius.

Christ Jesus is the living Word. All beings in nature flow together in man and form the Word in him. This is the I in man—Jesus Christ. Man becomes Christ when he experiences inwardly that the whole world flows together in him and is one with him. The time when Christ first appeared among humans was when he was the first human being to embody the I. That was the seed from which all self-awareness, I-consciousness, and everything personal sprouted.

But he gave his I back to the world. In doing so, he showed humans the path to self-dispossession.

On the last day, when all will be resurrected, it will become clear whether human beings have led their ego only to selfishness or to self-denial. Then the separation between human beings will take place. Those who have developed themselves toward selflessness, whose resurrection, awakening in the ego, contains the seeds of humanity's future. This is the sixth sub-race, from which the sixth root race will descend. Those who have led the ego only to egoism will not experience a real resurrection; they have the germ of death within them—this will be the seventh sub-race, which will develop into the realm of evil and become dross. This is the chaff that will be thrown into the fire; the sixth subrace is the wheat from which something new can sprout.

This separation is now being prepared. Through the principle of brotherly love, which has its representative in the Master

Jesus, the union of humanity into the sixth sub-race will be brought about, which, based on this principle of brotherly love, will grow into the future.

When the sixth sub-race reaches completion, the Word, Christ will be present not only in one individual, but in all, and individual human beings will then together form the letters of this Word, the new Christ, who will then be the risen one in a completely different sense. As *I*, his life was already immersed in humanity in the third root race. In full development, He then arises in the sixth root race, in the entirety of humanity.