{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here we come to a significant concept of esoteric Christianity, which can show us how this Christianity is permeated with the highest truths. We come to the remainder of what confronts us in the baptism. Through the fact that the Christ-being took possession of the three bodies in which the ego-being of Jesus formerly abode, a Being was bound up with the earth that had earlier had its dwelling-place on the sun. It had formerly been bound up with the earth until the moment when the sun departed from the earth. At that time the Christ also departed, and from then on he could exercise his power upon the earth only from outside, in the moment of the baptism, the high Christ-spirit again united himself in the full sense with the earth. Formerly he worked from outside, overshadowing the prophets and working in the mysteries. Now he was actually incarnated in a physical human body on the earth. If a being had been able to look down for thousands of years from a remote point in the universe, such a being as could see not only the physical earth but also its spiritual streams, its astral and etheric bodies, it would have seen significant events in the moment of the baptism by John, and in the moment when the blood flowed from Christ's wounds on Golgotha. The earth's astral body was profoundly changed thereby. At this moment it took up something different; it took on different colors. A new force was implanted in the earth. What earlier had worked from without, again became united with the earth, and thereby the attractive power between sun and earth will grow so strong that sun and earth will again unite, and man will unite with the sun-spirits. It was the Christ who gave the possibility that the earth can again unite with the sun and be in the bosom of the Godhead.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Tenth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiation, Christ, and Humanity's Spiritual Redemption","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Im Momente der Taufe vereinigte sich der hohe Christus-Geist im vollen Sinne wieder mit der Erde. Vorher wirkte er von außen, überschattete die Propheten und wirkte in den Mysterien. Jetzt war er in einem physischen Menschenleibe auf der Erde selbst verkörpert. Und wenn ein Wesen von einem fernen Punkte des Weltenalls durch Jahrtausende hätte heruntersehen können, dann würde ein solches Wesen, das nicht nur die physische Erde gesehen hätte, sondern auch ihre geistigen Strömungen, ihren Astralleib und Ätherleib, bedeutungsvolle Vorgänge gesehen haben in dem Moment der Johannestaufe und in dem Momente, wo das Blut aus den Wunden Christi floß auf Golgatha. Der Astralleib der Erde wurde dadurch gründlich verändert. Er nahm in diesem Momente etwas anderes auf, nahm andere Farben an. Es wurde der Erde eine neue Kraft einverleibt. Das, was früher von außen wirkte, wurde mit der Erde wieder verbunden, und dadurch wird die Anziehungskraft zwischen Sonne und Erde so stark werden, daß sich Sonne und Erde wieder vereinigen werden, und der Mensch mit den Sonnengeistern. 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