Esoteric Lesson

However, human beings cannot act solely under the influence of the wise impulses they owe to the spirits of form; another impulse is necessary to enable them to develop the life spirit or Buddhi. Like the others, this impulse also comes from the environment. From the world space, cosmic love, whose bearer is the Christ spirit, flows into the aura, into the atmosphere of the earth, through the mystery of Golgotha. Yahweh, the summary of the spirits of wisdom, and Christ, the sublime spirit of love, now divide themselves between the earthly mission. Yahweh gives the spirit of love the special earthly mission, the development of love. What had been love on earth up to that point is only a preliminary stage for the purely spiritual love to which human beings are to rise. This love will be the creative element for Jupiter, and Jupiter can only come into being when human beings recognize and experience the deed on Golgotha and let it flow into their deeds. Thus the spirits of wisdom (Yahweh and his hosts) withdrew and continued to work from outside, from the periphery. They became spirits of the cycles, working down from the other stars. Through them, the true earthly experience, the active power of love that forms and creates (Goethe's fairy tales), could not be gained. The secret that a being must have in order to bear the fruits of love was hidden from them. That is why occultism says that they veiled their faces before the mystery of the being who was to accomplish this cosmic deed, the mystical Lamb. The secret of the Lamb is to redeem the bodies from the earth through the active power of the I that permeates it. The great sacrifice, the mystery of the Lamb, became the center of earth's development, the axis around which everything revolves.