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By thinking in terms of the father principle – that is, in terms of that which is always the source from which the spirit principle comes through the son principle: the natural, the externally created, the externally revealed; in terms of the son principle, that which permeates the penetrates the externally revealed; and with the spirit principle, that which is brought about for earthly development by both together, he formed a doctrine for himself, but which was basically only a single symptomatic expression of what was developing in general in these first centuries of Christianity among people who, on the one hand, still had something of Gnosticism in them, and at the same time were suffering all the pains and afflictions because Gnosticism was bound to be lost. These people were now trying to come to terms with what Christ Jesus was, and what He had to be in order to fulfill the goal of the Mystery of Golgotha. 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Dadurch, daß er bei dem Vaterprinzip — also bei dem, was immer dasjenige ist, aus dem durch das Sohnesprinzip das Geistprinzip kommt -, daß er bei dem Vaterprinzip dachte: das Natürliche, das äußerlich Geschaffene, das äußerlich Offenbare; bei dem Sohnesprinzip dasjenige, was das äußerlich Offenbare durchdringt; und bei dem Geistprinzip dasjenige, was dann durch beides zusammen für die Erdenentwickelung gebracht wird, dadurch bildete sich ihm eine Lehre aus, die aber im Grunde genommen nur ein einzelner symptomatischer Ausdruck für das war, was in diesen ersten Jahrhunderten des Christentums sich überhaupt ausbildete bei den Leuten, die auf der einen Seite noch etwas von der Gnosis in sich hatten, zu gleicher Zeit all die Schmerzen und Leiden durchmachten, weil die Gnosis verlorengehen mußte, und die nun zugleich mit dem zurechtzukommen suchten, was der Christus Jesus war, was er sein mußte zu dem Ziele des Mysteriums von Golgatha. 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