Esoteric Lesson
That was the purpose of the Mystery of Golgotha, to offer human beings this opportunity. What is it that we take in with this spiritual substance within us? It is Christ Himself. Before the Mystery of Golgotha, this was not so. People could say, “Ex Deo nascimur” (We are born from God). Those who were to be initiated at that time were prepared to return to what had been handed down by the ancient gods. But we know that with the mystery of Golgotha, the aura of our earth changed because Christ became the spirit of the earth. He poured himself substantially into this earth aura and has been contained within it ever since. And now the time has come again when this poured-out Christ substance has become condensed so that it can be taken up by human beings. In Christo morimur therefore means nothing other than to immerse oneself in this spiritual substance and take Christ completely into oneself, so that one can say: “Not I, but Christ in me.”
Cite:
GA 266b/1911-06-12/p012 · edition English