The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of MankindSteiner, Rudolf
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The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind
Steiner, Rudolf
Anthroposophy; Jesus Christ -- Anthroposophical interpretations; Theosophy
Therewith the points of view have been specified which enable us to
discern how the guidance of humanity has come under the influence of
the Christ. The other forces, however, which had remained behind in the
Egypto-Chaldæic times worked further side by side with those that are
permeated by the Christ. This is evident even in the attitude frequently
adopted to-day towards the Gospels. Literary works appear in which great
pains are taken to show that the Gospels can be understood through an
astrological interpretation. The greatest opponents of the Gospels
employ this astrological interpretation in such a manner that, the way,
for example, taken by the Archangel Gabriel from Elizabeth to Mary is
supposed to signify nothing more than the progress of the sun from the
constellation of Virgo to another. This, in a certain sense, is correct,
except that these thoughts were poured in this manner into our age by the
beings who had remained behind during the Egypto-Chaldæic Period. Under
such an influence people are induced to a make-belief that the Gospels
present only allegories in the place of definite cosmic relations. The
truth really is, that in the Christ the whole cosmos finds expression
and therefore one can express the life of the Christ by connecting its
separate events with the cosmic relations which work into Earth existence
unceasingly _through the Christ_. A right understanding of this matter
will thus lead to a full recognition of the Christ, as having lived on
earth, whereas the above mentioned error, if it were true, would mean
that the Christ life in the Gospels is expressed by cosmic constellation
and shows that it was only a matter of constellations being treated
allegorically, and that there was no real earthly Christ at all.
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