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100. Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: The Rosicrucian Training 28 Jun 1907, Kassel
Translator Unknown

“Whatever I see before me, is the crystallization Word of God!” said the Christian. And on a certain wy he made a distinction between the “Father in Concealment”, Who had not yet expressed Himself, the “Word” or the Son, Who resounds through space, and the crystallized Word, the “Revelation”.
John:—“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the very beginning with God. Everything was made by Him, and except through Him was nothing made that was made.”
Men are now beginners in an activity which was once carried out by their ancestors, the Gods, who stood above them. Once upon a time, the Gods created the world by uttering their words into the cosmic spaces, and this creative activity gave rise to the created world round about us.
33. Biographies and Biographical Sketches: Ludwig Jacobowski's Life and Character

[ 13 ] Wolff suffers from his father's ethical views and the prejudices directed against the young Jew. His father's money speculation deprives his son's teacher, to whom he is truly devoted, of his fortune.
One could expand on it and say: if man wants to represent the deepest processes of his inner being, then he must transform the life of his soul into the life of the gods; the primal battles in the depths of his chest are embodied in the battles of the gods. Because Jacobowski wanted to depict such primal battles, his novel became that of a god.
Jacobowski has always assured us in conversation that we can only fully understand him when we know how to interpret this trait in the nature of his hero of the gods. Loki, the god born far from Valhalla, the child of the gods' sin, who grows up in pain and deprivation, who does not know his mother or his father: he has something over all the other gods.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Further Development of our Planet 10 Jul 1904, Berlin

90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Summary of the Previous Discourses on the Apocalypse 01 Nov 1904, Berlin

Not everyone could speak of the revelations of the highest regions. The church father had the strength, the power of the [gap in the text] A destiny seen in mystery is described to us in the apocalypse.
Thus man came to the race where he understood what it means: in man himself, the god has come to life. The first race could fall away most easily. The feeling is not yet strong enough for the thought to really internalize.
“There are three that begat it on earth, and three in heaven.” Atma, Buddhi, Manas. Father, Son and Spirit. To speak of the Father would have been rejected by the early Christian. He believed he could only recognize the Father through the Son, through the Word: “No one comes to the Father except through me.”
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Apocalypse III 17 Oct 1904, Berlin

The Christian calls the principles that underlie the world: Father, Word and Holy Ghost. To speak about the Father would have been rejected by the Christian of the first centuries, because No one comes to the Father except through me.
And if the Christian says anything at all about the Father, it is solely that the Father is the world-creative universal will. When man wants to express the highest that lives in him, the Devachanic, the thought, through the will, that is, through the world-creative principle, it happens first through language.
Those who do not understand it this way, who want to quibble about the incarnate God, about this Word of the incarnate God, who do not see it as the incarnation of God in Jesus, cannot put themselves in the shoes of the first Christians.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Where Does Evil Come From? 12 Aug 1904, Berlin

Christian esotericism calls this perfect origin of all beings the “Father”. “Call me not good, for no one is good except the Father.” Be perfect, as your Father is perfect, strive to seek your ideal in the Father, that is, in the spaceless and timeless.
The freedom of their being / gap in the transcript] In the love of God lies the complete divestment of God. First we have the guiding deity, then the mirror images and the life within them – sat; still in abundance, not yet divested; devotion – ananda – and merging with the creature – chit.
A being that has a predetermined path could not do good out of itself, freely out of love. A free being does it out of love. Thus God created beings in self-sacrificing love and gave them the opportunity to return life in free love.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Yoga and Unio Mystica 27 Apr 1905, Cologne

143. The Three Paths of the Soul to Christ: The Path of Initiation 17 Apr 1912, Stockholm
Translated by Norman MacBeth

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. 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 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.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On the Significance of the Oldest Parts of the Old Testament 28 May 1904, Berlin

So in cuneiform writing we have the story of the Fall of Man, the salvation of humanity in a similar way to Noah and so on, so that it became clear that the view that the Old Testament was based on divine revelation, given directly to Moses by God, could no longer be maintained. It is self-evident that secular scholarship has concluded from this that the Jews did not receive these legends by revelation, but that they brought them down with them from their ancestral homeland at the time when they came down, and that they were then influenced from outside.
Read it and listen to my suggestions for how you might teach it. Joseph's father, Israel, made him a colorful coat. Among the Persians, those initiated at the fifth degree were called “Persians,” while among the Israelites they were called “Israeb.”
Egypt was the place of those temples where the most highly initiated were. The seventh degree is the degree of the “fathers.” Abraham belonged to the fathers only in Chaldea. Moses could then also be initiated into the Egyptian mysteries through Joseph, and from this emerged what Moses spoke to his people.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: On Atlantis 27 Jun 1904, Berlin

It was taken for granted that a son had a shared memory with his father, grandfather, and so on, so that they mastered the knowledge and arts of their fathers through intuition.
Satyr – eastward = faun: bringing the memory of peoples living to the west. - Hermes: god of merchants, bearing everything that set the tone for the Atlanteans: the snake as a symbol of the healing vril force, god of doctors.
Hence the relationship between the esoteric Hermes and the god of trade. Now the time came, similar to the Lemurian one. The continents condensed, the Turanians used the vril force to draw water, so that the continents were shaken by its own power.

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