Esoteric Lesson

GA 266b/1911-06-12/p012 ·1911-06-12 · English LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.
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: «Gedächtnisaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmern» (Participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

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.”

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