21. Gnosis and the Apocalypse
GA 87/1902-03-29/p018
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We see this view again in the Apocalypse, only now it interprets the matter in the following way - I would like to present it in the following manner: The person who is on the path of perfection goes back step by step the elemental forces. One by one, the seven seals are unsealed. In this way he follows the initiatory path of the ancients. This path is there at the turn of the Christian world age. But there is also something higher, the gospel of Christ, which consists in the fact that through the long preparatory study man has become mature in his entirety to receive the gospel within himself. Thus what used to be a place of worship is now to be replaced. It is now to be replaced by the entirety of humanity. It is to be the temple of God.
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