The Christ - the God of the Sun - descended into a physical form once in human evolution. This event occurred during the Baptism on the River Jordan in approximately 30AD until his death in 33AD. This was the fulfillment of an ancient promise and the cosmic plan of redemption for humanity. Ater the baptism, Dr. Steiner referred to our Jesus as "Christ-Jesus." He is the archetype, leader, representative, and redeemer of humanity. Dr. Steiner also referred to Christ-Jesus as “the Lord of Karma" and the “Representative of Humanity.” He is also sometimes referred to as the “13th disciple.”

 

He is the good shepherd, defender of the human being, and the life guide for each human being on the planet. After the Event of Golgotha, the Christ, who is the God of the Sun-Sphere and Light, bonded forever with the world. From that moment on, the aura of the world, when perceived through supersensible vision, changed forever. Every human being's path was enabled to reach its maximum potential which, otherwise, would not have been achievable.

 

A transformative cosmic spiritual force was brought to the entire world by the Christ. A living and universal spiritual force of light was imbued into all things, as well as the physical and spiritual worlds, through a cosmic sacrifice that revivified and enabled all of humanity to achieve our proper path of spiritual evolution. However, our path is always at risk due to the activities of the opposing powers who seek to thwart man's evolution and make the human being a slave to their purposes brought upon by the adverse temptations of the human being which find their expression in the dragon - or dark side - of the human being; materialism, illusion, egotism, vanity, etc. The Christ brought the impulse and capability of freedom to humanity. When the Christ entered the man Jesus, as perceived by Dr. Steiner, it was the first and only time that He incarnated in human form. It will not happen again.

 

The Christ, as the Light of the World, came to humanity from the Sun-Sphere, which is the highest spiritual plane (of 7 planes or planets) in the cosmos. The Sun is the physical embodiment of light and love but its source is a spiritual one. The Sun-God was referred by different names throughout the world in the Ancient Mysteries and cultures, however, the name of the Christ in the modern era describes the same individuality. The Christ is the God of Light and the Sun.

 

There is a deeper mystery at work that Dr. Steiner revealed with regards to the Event of Golgotha. This one-time event carries within it many mysteries which Dr. Steiner investigated and revealed through his works, yet the Christ's mission can be approached from several perspectives which are understandable by all. -Refer to The Gospel of St. John, GA 112, Lecture XII https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/PLH1933/19090705p01.html

 

The being we refer to as the Christ is the fulfillment of all of the Ancient Mysteries, and human destiny, since time began. Dr. Steiner referred to this one-time event which began at the Baptism on the River Jordan and culminated at the Event of Golgotha as the "Turning Point in Time" which took place in the year 33AD (he noted actually 33 1/3 years). Dr. Steiner observed that this cosmic event occurred at the exact midpoint of human evolution.

 
Dr. Steiner provided deep insights on the complexity of the life of Jesus and the various individuals who played a vital role in this moment of destiny over vast periods of time who prepared the way and worked in support of His mission. For example, according to Steiner, when viewed spiritually through supersensible perception, today there is a golden five-pointed star that is observable in the area (aura) of Jerusalem where the Event of Golgotha occurred. This symbol reflects the five primary points of the etheric body, or energy sheath, of the huma being which, when transformed, enables the human being to reach its highest capacities. In contrast, there are an array of colors observable in the spiritual fields across the globe which differ as one observes the different peoples and cultures of the earth.

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"The Mystery of Golgotha appeared like what physical observation precedes when the astronomer directs his telescope to space and beholds something which fills him with wonder like, for example the flashing-up of new stars.  Seen spiritually, from the Universe, the Event of Golgotha was the flashing-up of a star of gold in the blue aura of the Eastern half of the Earth." -Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophical Life Gifts, GA 181, II. The Relativity of Knowledge, and Spiritual Cosmology, Berlin, 1st April, 1918, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/FB1986/19180401p01.html

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It is not the intention of this summary to provide a comprehensive study of Christ-Jesus because it is simply not feasible nor am I capable of doing so. What was observed by Dr. Steiner and religions is that the event on Golgotha, and the mystery of the Christ, is the central defining evolutionary impulse for humanity.  Modern depictions of Jesus as a "simple carpenter from Nazareth" or as a kind of holy man who heard a "calling" are - in light of initiation wisdom - materialistic and uninformed. These depictions are a product of the age in which we live which seeks to reduce aspects of cosmic significance to merely outer materialistic notions.

 
Christ-Jesus represents the balance between the polarities that influence the world. The conditions of the world evolve from age to age and so does the battle between Christ forces and the influences of the opposing powers - expressed through the names Ahriman and Lucifer - who seek to pull humanity away, and corrupt us, from our rightful path of evolution. While other planets consist of an array of divine beings, who work in unique ways, the Christ is the "God" of the Sun. Thus, He is referred to as the "Light of the World". This light is not a conceptual reference. He brings a living light of transformation to the world and so do those who support His mission. It is the raising one's consciousness and the transformation of the inner self.

 
But there is another dimension to the Event of Golgotha. The human being, by the time of the Event of Golgotha, was reaching a stage of evolution whereby we would no longer be able to incarnate in the physical world and thus be unable to fulfill the purpose of human evolution. When Christ-Jesus died on the Cross, he imbued the world and humanity with forces that enabled us to fulfill our destinies in the world.

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"When the age drew near in which the Mystery of Golgotha took place, the evolution of the human physical body was such that all humanity was faced with the prospect of not being able any longer to incorporate on the earth. This meant that they could no longer have a share in the declining evolution of the earth.

 

A fact well known in the schools of initiation, and that can naturally be known also to-day, was that about the time of the Mystery of Golgotha the human physical body had reached such a state of decline that the men incorporated at that time or who were about to be incorporated shortly afterward, and until about the fourth century, were confronted with the danger of having the earth become barren and empty and of finding it impossible in the future to descend from spiritual worlds or to form bodies for themselves out of physical earthly substances. This danger existed, and men would have actually been obliged to fail in their earthly destiny.

 

The co-operation of Lucifer and Ahriman had brought things to such a pass at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha that man would have died out on the earth, but by what was accomplished through this great Mystery he was saved from the forces of destruction. The invigorating forces of which the physical body had need were imparted to it once more, so that man was enabled to continue his further evolution on earth, to come down from the realms of the soul and spirit and again enter into and dwell in physical bodies. This was the result, the entirely real result, of the Mystery of Golgotha." -Rudolf Steiner, Three Lectures on Easter and Pentecost, GA 224, II. The Mystery of Pentecost and the Ascension, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/19230507p02.html

 

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Throughout all of human history, the Christ perpetually brings His influences into the world to properly transform humanity and guide human progress in accordance with the divine plan of evolution. This plan is perpetually influenced by opposing powers who seek to thwart human progress. The opposing powers have a rightful place in human evolution. Thus, divine intervention, and perpetual activity, are required by great spiritual leaders, angelic beings, and their supporters across time who support the Christ mission as the divine struggle of the human soul evolves.

 
This mission occurred only because of great efforts and sacrifices over a long period of time by leaders, human beings, and higher beings, who do not incarnate in the physical world, who set the stage to fulfill this pivotal cosmic mission. The journey began with human involution; when humanity first came into existence. Before Golgotha, the Christ spirit slowly approached humanity over long periods of time, in anticipation of His incarnation and mission in the physical world, from the spiritual Sun Sphere. He worked, and works, directly through heralds, and messengers, including the Archangel Michael who has been known by different names over time. 

 
The spiritual initiates of old, including the "Magi" of the Christian Bible, perceived the coming of the Christ and the one-time cosmic event as being of the most vital and redemptive significance. They perceived this reality through training in the Mysteries by way of matured supersensible perception; an expanded spiritual faculty that is attained by those who reach the highest stages of consciousness and attainment.

 
In ancient Persia, Michael was recognized by the name of “Marduk.” During the Persian period, the Christ worked through the great initiate Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, who founded the Zoroastrian religion and is remembered today as a mighty Persian prophet (Dr. Steiner also commented that the first Zarathustra lived much earlier than modern academics and theologians presume and that all priests in the line of Zarathustra were referred to by the same name). The Greeks referred to the Christ as Apollo; Master of the Sun (refer to "On the Fifth Gospel" by Dr. Rudolf Steiner which can be read for free at: https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/LAL1969/19140210p01.html). 

 
The name of the being whom Dr. Steiner referred to as "Ahriman" was referred to by Zarathustra during as the dark being, and opposer, of the Sun-God. Steiner observed that the Christ, through Christ-Jesus, brings His profound transformative influences into the world eternally and gradually as a living force and substance in the human soul and the world. Christ-Jesus, as the Redeemer of the planet, is the balancer between the opposing forces of Ahriman and Lucifer and brings the path, and force, of spiritual transformation, growth, and redemption to humanity.

 
The battle for the human being is a struggle of the soul; it is an inner battle - which must be viewed in light of one's karma, decisions, and environment - to attain balance by seeing beyond the veil of materialism and by overcoming our lower aspects. It is only through the Light of the Christ, and His mission, that the path of human destiny is enabled and allows us to meet our destiny on the long journey of individual, global, and cosmic transformation...

 

 

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Selected Quotes from Dr. Rudolf Steiner's Lectures:

 

 

(1) “We know that as far as concerns Earth-development on the physical plane Christ was incarnated for three years in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. We know that that incarnation took place once for all, that there had been no previous incarnation, and that there will be no other like it. What the Christ did by dwelling for three years in a human body was necessary for human beings on the Earth, it was necessary for men as earthly beings of sense to have the Christ also among them once as an earthly being of sense. 

 

But in His essential nature the Christ is not restricted to His life for three years in the sheaths of Jesus of Nazareth; He is also the leader of all the Beings of the higher hierarchies. He is an all-embracing, cosmic, universal Being."  -Steiner, Rudolf, Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit. GA 129. Lecture 4. Dionysos as the representative of the ego-forces. The entry of the Christ Impulse into human evolution and the activity of the planetary gods. August 21, 1911, Munich. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA129/English/RSP1963/19110821p02.html

 

 

(2) “From the universal rule that the real, guiding individualities do not incarnate during Earth evolution in human bodies, the Christ in a certain respect forms an exception, since He was incarnated for three years in a human body. What is the reason for this? It is because the Christ Being in all His forces, in all His impulses, is an essentially higher Being than any of the individualities of the hierarchies we have described — an Individuality even higher than the Archangels and the Archai, a Being of whose full greatness we can only be dimly aware. 

 

These stronger forces and impulses enabled this Individuality to fulfill a purpose that we shall come to understand more closely; they enabled Him to assume a human fleshly sheath as a sacrifice for three years.”-Steiner, Rudolf, Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit. GA 129. Lecture 4. Dionysos as the representative of the ego-forces. The entry of the Christ Impulse into human evolution and the activity of the planetary gods. August 21, 1911, Munich. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA129/English/RSP1963/19110821p02.html

 

 

(3)  “What then is the consequence of the event which culminated on the physical plane in the Mystery of Golgotha? The consequence was that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became substantially permeated by the Christ Being. Whereas previously the Being whom we know as Christ was not there, now the etheric and astral spheres have become permeated through and through by Him.”-Steiner, Rudolf, Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit. GA 129. Lecture 4. Dionysos as the representative of the ego-forces. The entry of the Christ Impulse into human evolution and the activity of the planetary gods. August 21, 1911, Munich. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA129/English/RSP1963/19110821p02.html

 

 

(4) “Thus through the Christ-Impulse the consciousness came to man that in his ego he had something of Divine substance and of Divine nature. The thought that man can take in the Divine in his Ego-being and that this Divine part can be active therein and distinguish between good and evil, underlies all the deeper sayings of the New Testament. We may therefore say that with the reception into the inner nature of man of the Christ-Impulse, it was made possible for man to say: ‘I must be my own guide for the knowledge of my existence and the distinction between good and evil.’” -Steiner, Rudolf. The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness, GA 116 Lecture III. The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA129/English/RSP1963/19110820p02.html

 

 

(5) “The more individualized a man becomes the more he can become a bearer of Love. Where the blood links men together they love because they are led to what they should love. When man is granted individuality, when he tends and nurtures the divine spark within him then the impulses of love, the waves of love, pass from man to man out of the free heart. And thus with this new impulse man has enriched the old bond of love that is bound to the blood-tie. Love passes over gradually into spiritual love which flows from soul to soul and which will ultimately encompass all humanity in a common bond of brother-love. 

 

But Christ-Jesus is the Force, the living Force, once historically and externally present, through whom for the first time mankind has been brought to the bond of brother-love. Men will learn to understand this bond of brother-love as the perfected spiritualized Christianity.” -Steiner, Rudolf. The Apocalypse of St. John, GA 104, Introductory Lecture, June 17, 1908, Nuremberg. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA104/English/APC1958/ApoJon_index.html

 

 

(6)  “The souls that imbue themselves with the Christ-Force know that love can forge indestructible spiritual bonds beyond all material hindrances. And there is nothing in life between birth and death and between death and rebirth to which we cannot spiritually find the way through the Christ-Impulse. If we imbue ourselves with the Christ-Impulse, it is unthinkable that we could possibly be separated from what we love in the long run. The Christ brings us together with what we love.” -Steiner, Rudolf. The Principle of Spiritual Economy. GA 109, Lecture VIII. The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1986/19090411p02.html 

 

 

(7) “A strong heavenly force had to radiate into physical matter and sacrifice itself into this matter. What was required was more than just a God wearing the mask of human appearance; what was needed was a true human being with human powers who was carrying the God within himself. The Event of Golgotha had to happen so that the matter into which the human being was placed could be readied, cleansed, and ennobled. When components of matter are cleansed and sanctified, this will make the comprehension of primordial wisdom possible again in future incarnations. Mankind must be led to a true understanding of how the Event of Golgotha has really worked in this sense.”-Steiner, Rudolf. The Principle of Spiritual Economy. GA 109, Lecture VIII. The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1986/19090411p02.html

 

 

(8) "In the Easter bells, we encounter a symbol for the resurrection of the Earth Spirit itself and for the salvation of mankind. In the past, there has been no one with a proper understanding of this symbol who did not know how to elevate himself or herself to spiritual heights through the Easter mystery. It is not without significance that Faust, when he is near death, is tolled back into a new life by the Easter bells. This leads to the great moment in his old age when he ultimately becomes blind in the face of death and is able to say, “Yet inside me there shines a brilliant light." Now he is ready to penetrate the spiritual worlds above where all noble members of mankind's salvation." -Steiner, Rudolf. The Principle of Spiritual Economy. GA 109, Lecture VIII. The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1986/19090411p02.html

 

 

(9)  "The Easter symbol opens a perspective not only on the future of the entire earth but also on that of human evolution. Easter is our assurance that some day the human beings inspired by Christ will increasingly change from Saul to Paul individuals and become more and more capable of seeing a spiritual fire. To be sure, just as Christ appeared to Moses and to those who had declared their faith in Him in the physical fire of the bramblebush and in the lightning on Sinai as a prophecy of His own coming, so will He appear to us in the spiritualized fire of the future. 

 

“He is with us every day to the end of the world,” and to those who allowed their perception to be illuminated by the Event of Golgotha, to those He will appear in the spiritual fire even if at first they had seen Him in a different form."-Steiner, Rudolf. The Principle of Spiritual Economy. GA 109, Lecture VIII. The Event of Golgotha. The Brotherhood of the Holy Grail. The Spiritualized Fire. https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1986/19090411p02.html

 

 

(10) "It is the duty of the investigator into the spiritual world to draw the attention of humanity to the spiritual fact that Michael has taken over the spiritual guidance of human affairs. Michael does what he has to do in such a way that he does not thereby wield an influence over human beings; but they may follow him in freedom, in order with the Christ power to find the way out of that sphere of Ahriman which they were obliged to enter." -Rudolf Steiner,  

Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts, GA 26, 4. Michael's Task in the Sphere of Ahriman  https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c04.html

 

 

(11)  "The Christ has come. His impulse is working. For a long time he could act only in the unconscious; then he had to act through what was understood until that time. But it will be ever more necessary for man to learn to understand him, the Christ, who through the bodies of Jesus of Nazareth has entered the earth's aura and humanity's development."  -Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel, Volume II, Lecture II, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/SCR2013/19131218p01.html

 

 

(12) "Only when the great suffering — the Mystery of Golgotha — was before him was the total union of the Christ-being with the bodies of Jesus of Nazareth accomplished. What happened then is beautifully described in the other Gospels. For the seer who reads in the Akasha Chronicle about what happened, it is a fact that while Christ was hanging on the cross something like an eclipse of the sun took place in the area around Golgotha. I can't say if it was an eclipse of the sun or a powerful darkening of the clouds, but a darkening like what can be observed during an eclipse of the sun took place in the area around the event of the Mystery of Golgotha.

 

...While this transformation of the earth was taking place, also in the physical sense, he whom we call the Christ-being went over into the earth's living aura. Through the death of Christ Jesus the earth received the Christ impulse.

 

The greatest event to occur on earth must be described in such simple, stammering words, because it is impossible to even approximate this greatness with human words." -Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel, Volume II, Lecture II, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/SCR2013/19131218p01.html This is an abridged quote.

 

 

(13) "The Event which, together with the “Crucifixion” and the “Resurrection” we call the Mystery of Golgotha, followed three other Events as a kind of culmination. One of these other Events had taken place in very ancient Lemurian times; the second in the early period of the Atlantean epoch, and the third towards its end. 

 

These first three Events, however, transpired in the spiritual worlds, not on the physical plane. We have therefore to turn our eyes to four Events, of which the last only — the Mystery of Golgotha itself — took place on the physical plane. The three others were Events in the spiritual world, as it were in preparation for the fourth." -Rudolf Steiner, On the Fifth Gospel, Lecture IX,  https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/LAL1969/19140210p01.html

 

 

(14) "Let us imagine that there is a man who knows nothing of the name of Christ Jesus, nothing of what is communicated in the Gospels, but that he understands the radical difference between the nature of wisdom and might and that of love. Such a man, even though he knows nothing of the Mystery of Golgotha, is a Christian in the truest sense. A man who knows that love is there for the paying of debts and brings no profit for the future, is a true Christian. 

 

To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian! Theosophy (Footnote 1) alone, Spiritual Science alone, with its teachings of Karma and reincarnation, can make us into great egoists unless the impulse of love, the Christ Impulse, is added; only so can we acquire the power to overcome the egoism that may be generated by Spiritual Science.

 

Even if all the wisdom of this world is ours, the Deed of Christ may still be beyond our comprehension. Love is essential for any understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. Only when love streams into wisdom and then again wisdom flows into love will it be possible to grasp the nature and meaning of the Mystery of Golgotha — only when, as he lives on towards death, man unfolds love of wisdom". -Rudolf Steiner, Love and Its Meaning In The World, GA 143, 17 December 1912, Zurich https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/LovWld_index.html 

 

 

(15)  "For the divine spiritual beings who may be designated the creators of men, birth and death do not come into consideration. Lucifer also does not incarnate himself as a human being in the physical world. He works in man through man; uses men as his vehicle, as it were. Thus we have to do with the gods and with the Luciferic beings, who look down, so to speak, upon their creations. 

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Had evolution continued in this way, had nothing happened in the world of the gods, then the intention of the gods for men would never have been fulfilled; Lucifer would have thwarted the plan of the gods. The gods had to make a sacrifice — that was their concern — they had to experience something which was related to their sphere in such a way that it really could not be experienced by gods if they remained in their own sphere: 

 

They had to send from their own ranks down to the physical plane a being who experienced something which otherwise gods in the spiritual worlds cannot experience. The gods had to send the Christ down to earth to do battle with the Luciferic principle. In the course of time, when the time was fulfilled, the gods, whom we group together under the name of the divine Father-world, sent down the Christ in order that he should learn to know the unending pains of men, which mean something entirely different for a god from what they mean for a man. Therewith the gods entered the earth-sphere to do battle with the Luciferic spirits. A god had to suffer death on the cross, the most disgraceful human death, as Paul especially emphasizes."  -Rudolf Steiner,  The Three Paths of the Soul to Christ, GA 143, II. The Path of Initiation 17 April 1912, Stockholm https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA143/English/AP1942/19120417p01.html

 

 

(16)  "Those who compare Christ to the ancient religious teachers do not understand anything about him. In the first place, Christ worked through a deed, the ancient religious leaders through their teachings. To describe him merely as a teacher of humanity means not knowing at all who Christ is. The essential thing about him is the deed he performed, which began as a consequence of his baptism by John and ended with the crucifixion on Golgotha. 

 

What was done there for humanity is spiritually all-important. What happened there is what can permeate human souls ever since then, namely, the experience St. Paul described as “Not I, but Christ in me.” Indeed, Christ has become the path into the spiritual world because he brought it into this world." -Rudolf Steiner, The Presence of the Dead, GA 154, 3. Awakening Spiritual Thoughts, 5 May 1914, Basel  https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA154/English/AP1990/19140505p01.html

 

 

(17)  "I believe we can inscribe deeply in our souls that progress in the knowledge of Christ is a real gain for the human soul, and that when we consider the relationship of the human soul to Christ, it again becomes clear to us how before the Mystery of Golgotha there was a veil, as it were, between the human soul and Christ; how this veil was broken by the Mystery of Golgotha, and how we can say with truth: “Through the Mystery of Golgotha a cosmic Being flowed into Earth-life, a super-earthly Being united Himself with the Earth.”  -Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Human Soul, GA 155, Lecture I,Norrköping, 12th July, 1914 https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/English/RSP1972/19140712p01.html

 

 

(18) "For the welfare of humanity Christ has united His being with the dead part of divine-spiritual existence in Ahriman's kingdom. Thus two things are possible for man, and through this possibility his freedom is guaranteed: — to turn to Christ consciously in the spiritual frame of mind which he possessed subconsciously during the descent from the vision of supersensible spirit-existence to the use of intellect; or to wish to feel his severance from spirit-existence and thus fall in the direction taken by the Ahrimanic powers.

 

Humanity has been in this situation since the beginning of the fifteenth century. It was prepared — for everything takes place gradually in evolution — after the Mystery of Golgotha, which, as it is the greatest event that has happened on the Earth, is destined to rescue man from the destruction to which he must be exposed because he is to become a free being...

 

...It is the duty of the investigator into the spiritual world to draw the attention of humanity to the spiritual fact that Michael has taken over the spiritual guidance of human affairs. Michael does what he has to do in such a way that he does not thereby wield an influence over human beings; but they may follow him in freedom, in order with the Christ power to find the way out of that sphere of Ahriman which they were obliged to enter." -Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts, GA 26, 4. Michaels Task in the Sphere of Ahriman, https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c04.html, *This is an abridged quote.

 

 

(19) "If the divine-spiritual powers, which are found in the way, as I have described it in the public lecture yesterday, also wanted to know nothing about Lucifer and Ahriman, the world would just not be able to exist. You do not position yourselves in the correct relationship saying: Lucifer, I avoid him! Ahriman, I avoid him! You rather have to look at that which the human being has to strive for as a result of the Christ Impulse like the equilibrium position of a pendulum. 

 

The pendulum is in the middle in balance; however, it must swing to and fro. That is similar also in the earth development of the human being. The human being must tend on one side to the luciferic principle, on the other side to the ahrimanic principle, but he must learn and stand firmly on that which Paul said: “not I, but Christ in me.” - Rudolf Steiner, 18 May 1915, Linz (GA 159), https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/UNK2013/19150518p02.html

 

 

(20) "...every physical event has its spiritual counterpart, and as the blood flowed from the wounds on Golgotha there occurred a corresponding spiritual event: at this moment it happened for the first time that rays streamed forth from the earth into cosmic space, where formerly there had been none. We must visualize, then, as created at this moment, rays streaming from the earth into cosmic space. Darker and darker had the earth become with the passing of time — up to the event on Golgotha. Now the blood flows on Golgotha — and the earth begins to radiate light.

 

...The earth began to shine — for the time being astrally, visible only to the seer; but in the future the astral light will become physical light and the earth will be a luminous body, a sun body."  -Rudolf Steiner, The Gospel of St. John in Relation to the Other Three Gospels, GA 112, 13. The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha, 6 July 1909, Kassel, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090706p02.html

 

 

(21) " God is supreme love, not supreme might, not supreme wisdom.  

 

...The Mystery of Golgotha is  a Deed of the Gods and a concern of the Gods. This Deed cannot be  understood out of wisdom but only out of love. Together with  selfishness, evil came into the world. It had to be so, because without the evil, man could not lay hold of the good. But through man's conquest of himself the unfolding of love has been made possible. The darkness  has enabled the light to come into our ken." -Rudolf Steiner, Love and  Its Meaning in the World, GA 143, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/LovWld_index.html *This is an abridged quote.

 

 

(22) "The Being of whom we have said that he had not chosen the path down from the planets to the Earth, but had remained behind, the Being who later appeared as the Nathan Jesus-child and who had dwelt from primal ages in the spiritual worlds — this Being resolved (if we may use this expression, for of course all these expressions are taken from human speech and cannot fully convey what one wants to say) while still in the world of the higher Hierarchies to go through a development which would enable him to be permeated for a time by the Christ Being. 

 

Thus we have to do not with a man but with a superhuman Being who (if we may speak in this way) lived in the spiritual world and as it were heard the distress of the human sense system crying out to the spiritual world for help, and in response to this cry made himself fitted to be permeated by the Christ." -Rudolf Steiner, Christ and the Spiritual World - The Search for the Holy Grail, GA 149, Lecture III, 30 December 1913, Leipzig https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA149/English/RSP1963/19131230p01.html

 

 

(23) "We can search through the entire evolution of the world without finding a deeper understanding of selflessness than that offered by Christ's appearance upon earth. To know Christ is to go through the school of unselfishness, and to become acquainted with all those incentives to human development that fall gently into our souls, warming and animating every unselfish inclination within us, arousing it from passive to active soul life."  

-Rudolf Steiner, The Four Sacrifices of Christ, GA 152, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/ForSac_index.html

 

 

(24) " “Saturn” is the name of the soul of Saturn. The names of the planets come from the spirits of the seven planets found around the earth. These have an influence on human life. The lamb, Christ, contains all seven. Christ is the alpha and the omega; the seven planets are related to him like members to an entire body... 

 

From Saturn one rises to the Sun, from there down to the Moon, then on to Mars, Mercury, and so forth. The same thing is expressed in the names of the seven days of the week: Saturday, Saturn; Sunday, the Sun; Monday, the Moon; Tuesday, Mardi, Mars; Wednesday, Mercredi, Mercury; Thursday, Jeudi, Jupiter; Friday, Vendredi, Venus. Christ is the regent of all these world spheres; their actions constitute only part of his being; he unites them all." -Rudolf Steiner, Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse, GA 104a, Part One, Lecture I, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070422p01.html *This is an abridged quote.

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"At the turning-point of time,

The Spirit-Light of the World

Entered the stream of Earthly Evolution.

Darkness of Night had held its sway;

Day-radiant Light poured into the souls of men,

Light that gave warmth to simple shepherds' hearts,

Light that enlightened the wise heads of kings.

 

O Light Divine! O Sun of Christ!
Warm Thou our hearts,
Enlighten Thou our heads (minds),
That good may become
What from our hearts we would found
And from our heads (minds) direct
With single purpose." 

-Steiner, Rudolf. The Festivals and Their Meaning: Christmas, Christmas Meditation, 1923.  https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/Christmas/ChrMas_meditation.html