18. The Christ

GA 91/1905-08-15/p005 ·1905-08-15 · 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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Grace, in the original Christian sense, is exactly the same as what in theosophical language is called the Budhi. Budhi can therefore be called grace: Man is born in ever succeeding incarnations. When he has balanced the karma, his manas is pure and free, so that one can say: Man attains manas through righteousness. Through justice, the balancing of karma is there. The Budhi he receives as a new thing by flowing in from above. Budhi was called Caritas. The ancient prophets and initiates depended on acquiring manas first. Christianity, as it were, drops a ray of Budhi upon men, before which karma is removed, so that men feel it as a grace. And such as Paul especially feel the grace because they have received a great stream of Budhi.

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