Christmas, the Physical Body and Christ Consciousness

GA 265a/1908-12-25/p009 ·1908-12-25 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach Erinnerungsaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmenden» (From participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

The highest of the sun spirits is the Christ. He prepared the disciples he needed to prepare humanity for his coming. The seven Rishis, mighty entities who, so to speak, sat around the table of the Christ, guided humanity from the Atlantean into the Aryan basic race and the Indian sub-race. Outwardly, they were simple men. Each of them was initiated into the mysteries of one of the seven planets.

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