15. On the use of the Etheric and Astral Bodies of Important Personalities. The Atlantean Mysteries

GA 246/1908-12-28/p017 ·1908-12-28 · English High

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18. Finally, the oracles of the various planetary gods became more and more shattered. Only the oracle of the Christ Spirit, the Sun Spirit, remained. The highest initiate of the solar oracle then, when the floods had extended the Atlantic Ocean over the Atlantean continent, took imprints of the etheric bodies of the most important initiates of the various planetary oracles and went with a few more followers of the sun worshippers to the Indian highlands, where he lived in complete seclusion, took seven people from among the people and incorporated into them the imprints of the etheric bodies of the Atlantean initiates. After they were thus prepared, they were in a very special way suited to absorb the influences of the spirits of the various planets, for each individual had a highly developed etheric body of an initiate of the Atlantean period from one of the various oracles of the planetary spirits.

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