Christmas, the Physical Body and Christ Consciousness

GA 265a/1908-12-25/p016 ·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.

It is written in reverse. Why, that emerges from meditation on it. The high beings of the sun did not separate from our earth at that time, they always influenced everything that happened on earth. They work in light and warmth. Their ruler, the highest being of the sun, the Christ, has always been working.

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