13. The Mysticism of Philo of Alexandria
GA 87/1902-02-01/p023
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And that is also the meaning of mysticism: Not to recognize in the spiritual, but to live in the spiritual, to set oneself a task in the spiritual, to be aware that God has lost himself in infinite love in the material and must be reborn, but can only be reborn by man transforming the world process from a material into a spiritual process, so that man actually submerges himself into the material by simultaneously taking on the mission of sinking the primordial Logos into the material world and thereby developing it back up into the spiritual world.
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