First Lecture

GA 117a/1910-01-03/p014 ·1910-01-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Now the question arises: How can there be four different records? What does each gospel want to say about the great Christ event? Each gospel starts from the premise that this event cannot be grasped with external knowledge, and that it is necessary to look at it from the point of view of an initiate, of one who has been initiated. Each gospel is written from the point of view of the seer.

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