21. Gnosis and the Apocalypse
GA 87/1902-03-29/p028
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At the opening of the seventh seal, the day of wrath breaks out, the day on which the wrath of God is poured out on all material things, where the higher is born out of the lower, the Budhi powers, the wisdom. Man becomes mature enough to sense what is actually divine. He becomes mature enough to sound the actual trumpets. This proclamation happened in the Gospel, and there we see how this maturity is expressed in the new message: Christ has come into the world and resounds through nature.
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