IV. Theosophy and Christianity

GA 52/1904-01-04/p038 ·1904-01-04 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Therefore, the final sacrifice, the bloodless sacrifice, is at the same time proof of the impossibility of the external sacrifice, so that the bloodless sacrifice is instituted, so that man must seek guilt and atonement, the consciousness of the connection between his deeds, in the spiritual realm. This should be remembered. Therefore, sacrificial death should not be regarded as the most important thing, but instead of bloody sacrifice, the bloodless, spiritual sacrifice, the Lord's Supper, should take its place as a symbol that guilt and atonement for human deeds live on in the spiritual realm. This is the theosophical teaching of karma, that everything that man has caused in his actions in any way has its effects through purely spiritual laws, that karma has nothing to do with physical heredity. An outward sign of this is the bloodless sacrifice, the Lord's Supper.

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