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In the music of the spheres he first senses the triple harmony of the higher nature, and in becoming one with this music of the spheres he has the first glimpse of the rejuvenation of man when he enters into union with the spiritual world. He sees, as in a dream, rejuvenated mankind float through the garden in the form of the three youths bearing three torches. This is the moment when Mark's soul has awakened in the morning from darkness, and when some darkness still remains; his soul has not yet penetrated it. But precisely at such a time the soul can gradually look into the spiritual world. It can look into the spiritual worlds as it can look when the summer noon is past, when the sun is losing in power and winter has come, and then at midnight the Christ-principle shines through the earth in the night of Christmas. Through the Christ-principle man is exalted to the higher trinity, represented for Brother Mark by the three youths who are the rejuvenated soul of man. 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Und indem wir zur höheren Welt hinaufkommen, wandelt sich des Menschen niedere Natur um in die höhere Dreiheit: es wandelt sich unser Astralleib in das Geistselbst, der Ätherleib in den Lebensgeist, der physische Leib in den Geistesmenschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/98/1907-12-25/p051"},{"locus":"GA 98/1907-12-25/p052","passage_number":52,"text":"Bruder Markus ahnt zunächst in der Sphärenmusik den Dreiklang der höheren Natur, und indem er eins wird mit dieser Sphärenmusik, geht ihm die erste Ahnung auf von der Verjüngung des Menschen, der mit den geistigen Welten in Verbindung tritt. Er sieht wie im Traum durch den Garten schweben die verjüngte Menschheit in der Form der drei Jünglinge, die drei Fackeln tragen. Das ist der Moment, wo die Seele des Markus am Morgen aufgewacht ist aus der Finsternis, und wo die Finsternis noch etwas da ist; das Licht hat sie noch nicht durchdrungen. 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