Esoteric Lesson

Where did this cosmic, universal power of love first live on Earth? In the blood that pulsed through the body of Jesus of Nazareth. This blood was actually the physical field of activity of Christ — he took over the three bodies, the physical, etheric, and astral bodies, from Jesus of Nazareth, but the blood was entirely his own, pulsing entirely with his spirit, with the fire of his cosmic, universal power of love. This blood sacrificed itself for the Earth and all human beings on Earth. This blood lives on in etheric form in the Earth's atmosphere. This blood fire works on all people who are willing to receive it, who strive for it, who seek it. The body, soul, and spirit of human beings should gradually take it in. The children of human beings, their insights, should be transfigured by this fire and make them the bearers of deeds that bring about progress on Earth. The lower blood fire, saturated with desire, will die, and in this light fire the higher, the Christ in man, will rise again. On Saturn there was no light yet; it was black; on the sun light shone in, became glowing, yellow. On the moon there was no red blood yet, it could not yet be red blood; illuminated by wisdom, the wisdom light of the moon was white-silvery, as now the moonlight shimmers on a surface of water. On earth is the I, which radiates through the red blood with the fire of love, the bearer of the wise insights of man, through which he is to be led to his earthly deeds. He will recognize the influences of the sun and the moon, the correct relationship of the earth and the people of the earth to them. The fire of his I will permeate everything, he will see the path of his becoming: in a wise look back at the past, he will see how he is the work of the gods; in a loving look ahead to the future, he will recognize himself as a tool of the gods in all parts of his being, which are permeated by the Christ fire: the ego, the astral body, the etheric body, and the physical body.