56. Theosophy and the Bible

GA 68a/1910-11-29/p013 ·1910-11-29 · 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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All the documents, except the New Testament, can be traced back to the original revelation. In the days when the spiritual leaders walked the earth, people could look back on their previous incarnations at the initiation. But the further development progressed, the darker it became around people at these initiations. At the time when the New Testament begins, the disciple no longer really understood what he saw; it remained dark within him. The great pain that lives in such people, who can no longer connect with the spirit, becomes clear to us when we consider the fate of a personality who lived at the boundary between the Middle Ages and modern times in his last incarnation.

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