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103. The Gospel of St. John: The Raising of Lazarus 22 May 1908, Hamburg
Translated by Maud B. Monges

For the law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus-Christ. Hitherto hath no one beheld God with his eyes. The once-born Son, who was in the bosom of the Universal-Father, has become the leader in this beholding.
In earlier ages, those who were initiated developed higher spiritual organs of perception; previously no one ever saw God with physical eyes. The once-born Son who rests in the bosom of the Father is the first who made it possible for us to behold a God in the way we see a human being upon earth with the physical earthly senses.
The once-born Son who dwelt in the bosom of the Universal Father became the guide to this perceiving.” He brought mankind to the point where it could behold God with earthly senses.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class II: Fourteenth Hour 31 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

If so, he can be plagued by earthly arrogance and say to himself: In life on earth I breathed, inhaled that breath from which the Father-God once created the human soul, human life. I can also do that if only I am freed from earthly limitations.
But after a certain time after death they always say “my I”, for they see the I with the eyes of the gods. They become completely objective. It is characteristic. Therefore, an enunciation from a dead person who has been dead a long time can never be true if he says “I” and not “my I”.
Where is fire's cleansing, which ignited your I? My I blazes in God's fire, as long as the spirit ignites me. My I has the force of flame through the spirit's solar power.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Principle of Correlation 12 Jun 1904, Berlin

“Whoever says there is an evil in itself blasphemes God,” says the Bible. ‘Why do you call me perfect, only the Father is perfect.’ So there is no such thing as an evil in itself, evil is only the misplaced good.
343. Lectures on Christian Religious Work II: Twenty-fifth Lecture 08 Oct 1921, Dornach

The next question: The word of Jesus: Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. This saying should be considered in connection with another Bible saying, namely, “Be ye good, as your heavenly Father is good.”
While Christ actually wants to awaken the mood of striving for the good with such words, He presents it in such a way that one should not call Him good, but that one should call the origin of the world good as united in God, thus in Father, Son and Spirit, but not Him as He walks around on earth, even if He lives and is inspired by Christ.
So let us understand this connection of the two sayings: Man should strive for a perfection as the Father in heaven is, but never imagine that he can be good. Only the Almighty God is good. So it is a practical instruction for the practice of good deeds.
8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1961): Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
Translated by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, Peter Kändler

This drama consisted of nothing less than the release of the spellbound God. Where is God? This was the question the mystic put before his soul. God is not, but nature is. He must be found in nature.
It is the released spirit in man, the offspring of the spellbound divinity. It is not the great God, who was, is and will be, but it can be taken as His revelation in a certain sense. The Father rests in concealment, the Son is born to man out of his own soul.
All its other offspring are conceived by the material world. In their case the father can be seen and touched. He has material life. The divine offspring alone is conceived of the eternal, hidden FatherGod Himself.
32. Collected Essays on Literature 1884-1902: Loki

Things never seen before are happening in the sky. Odin, the father of the gods, is awakened from his sleep. He sees his wife Frigg's bed unoccupied. Black mist rises from the bed.
The mother is an Aesir, but Urd does not know who. Nor does she know who the father is. The Aesir women should take turns in nursing the child. It should be called “Loki”. Thus a being is placed in the world of the gods, sprung from it itself, but as a child of sin, the sin of the gods.
The power of the gods over the children of earth is shattered by Loki's cleverness. He brings shame to the realm of the gods itself.
292. The History of Art I: Dürer and Holbein 08 Nov 1916, Dornach
Translator Unknown

It does not come natural to him to make these studied forms his min, so as to re-create the human figure, as it were, after the pattern first created by God. That is not Dürer's way. His way is rather this: to trace in all existing things the inner movement, the impulse of Will; to follow up uhat brings the human nature into direct connection with all things moving in the outer world,—with light and shade and all that lives therein.
See the mobility that comes into the picture by the spread veil, out of which God the Father looks down on the Madonna and the Child. See how every angel does his task,—what movement this brings into the whole picture.
[IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] Dürer: Portrait of Himself (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) Study once more the hand; observe how the very hair is arranged to bring out the effects of light and darkness. Here you have Dürer's Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Spirit. The conception is truly born out of the whole spirit of the age—a conception reaching far beyond all thought, and yet in some way it was mastered by that time.
270. Esoteric Instructions: First Recapitulation Lesson 06 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

This we must first come to recognize before we can become aware of our god-implanted true self in true, genuine self-awareness. As the three beasts, one after another, are drawn out of the abyss, they appear to us as seen by the eternal godlike healing powers, the will of a person, the feeling of a person, the thinking of a person.
[IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] Blackboard (right side) Then Michael leads us into the true Rosicrucian School that would reveal the secrets of man's own true being in the past, in the present, and in the future through the Father God, the Son God and the Spirit God. And then, impressing the seal on the words “rosae et crucis” the words may be spoken Ex Deo Nascimur In Christo Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus accompanied by the signs of Michael's seal, which are, for the first words, “Ex Deo Nascimur” [The lower seal gesture was drawn on the blackboard.], for the second words, “In Christo Morimur” [The middle seal gesture was drawn on the blackboard.], and for the third words, “Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus” [The upper seal gesture was drawn on the blackboard.], whereby, as we speak the words “Ex Deo Nascimur,” confirming them through the seal and signs of Michael, we feel, “I honor the Father” [Overlying the drawn lower seal gesture was written the words:] I honor the Father As we speak “In Christo Morimur” we feel with this sign, “I love the Son.”
Ex Deo Nascimur In Christo Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus I honor the Father I love the Son I unite with the Spirit 1.
343. The Foundation Course: Prayer and Symbolism 30 Sep 1921, Dornach
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

The heaven is basically the entire cosmos and we make it perceptible when we say "Our Father in Heaven" or "Our Father who art in the Heavens" or "Our Father, You are in the Heavens," so that in saying these words they are permeated with the spirit; we are turning towards the spirit.
We are so to speak outside of ourselves when we speak such sentences as "Our Father who art in the Heavens" or "Let Your kingdom come." We forget ourselves the moment we really make these sentences audible and alive within us.
At the start of St John's Gospel, you read the words: "All things came into being through the Word and nothing of all that has come into being was made except through the Word." By ascribing the creation of the world to the Father God, you go against St John's Gospel. In the St John's Gospel you hold on to what you take as sure, that everything which exists as the world had been created through the word, thus in the Christian sense through the Christ, through the Son which the Father had substantially created, had subsisted, and that the Father has no name but that His name is actually that which lives in Christ.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whitsun Festival. Its Place in the Study of Karma 04 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

When you look out on the Earth and the surrounding Cosmos, it is the Father whose life permeates this Universe.3 The Father-God is the God of Space. But I make known to you that I have come to you from the Sun, from Time—Time that receives man only when he dies.
Enter into all this, my dear friends! I have told you of the Father, the Bearer of the Christmas thought, who sends the Son that through him the Easter thought may be fulfilled; I have told you further how the Son brings the message of the Spirit, so that in the thought of Whitsun man's life on Earth may be completed in its threefold being.
Error brought to our attention by to Lucas Dreier3. Cp. Paul: “God that made the world and all things therein, being Lord of heaven and earth, giveth to all life and breath and all things, and is not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move and have our being.”

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