Lecture Four

GA 184/1918-10-11/p023 ·1918-10-11 · 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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As a consequence of all that goes with these streams, human evolution as a whole came to an important crossroads in a certain definite year. During this year the three streams flowed together into a critical conjunction which was concealed only by a confusion in outer conditions, so that only the confusion was seen but not what was actually happening. This critical point occurred about 666 years after the Mystery of Golgotha. At that time—666 years after the birth of Christ—something was due to happen and could have happened, but did not happen. The reason why it did not happen you will now hear.

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