{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266b/1912-04-24/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Two thoughts can help the esotericist beyond the last exercise or in conjunction with it: This is the thought of the motherless Adam, who was created by the divine Father principle, by Yahweh. For the forces that are the ascending forces, the forces that work in the physical body from the forces of the earth, are received by man indirectly through the paternal share in his physicality; they work until the middle of his life, building up his body, approximately until the age of thirty-five. If man had only these forces, he would never leave the earth in death. The other forces that man receives through his mother come from the spiritual-soul world, from the cosmos, and are the destructive forces; if they were to act alone, they would not allow man to come to earth through birth at all. This is the fatherless Christ. These forces did not flow into human beings before our era; they only acted on human beings in the period between death and new birth and were only present on earth in the three lower realms of nature. The Egyptians knew that the Isis forces could be found in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms; there they could be found, but not in humans between birth and death. Hence the deep meaning of the animal deities of the Egyptians. For the first time, these forces flowed into Jesus of Nazareth through the Virgin Sophia-Mary. That is why Jesus Christ had to die when he was thirty-three years old, because the destructive forces began to work, since the Adam forces were so weak in him and the Christ forces so strong that he could no longer remain on earth. 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