44. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity IV

All this was necessary so that the sanctified body could come into being, which then received the baptism of John at the Jordan. At that time the individuality of Zarathustra left the threefold body - physical body, etheric body, astral body - of that Jesus who had grown up in such a complicated way so that the spirit of Zarathustra could be in him, but for which two physical bodies were necessary. In other words, the reborn Zarathustra had to go through two developmental possibilities.