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8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1947): The Wisdom of the Mysteries and the Myth
Translated by Henry B. Monges

And that is the attitude the initiates: took toward that which the people had created beyond nature; that is, toward the world of popular gods and myths. They wanted to penetrate the laws of this world of gods and myths. Where the people beheld the form of a god, or conceived a myth, they looked for a higher truth.
The Titans are the offspring of the oldest generation of gods, Uranus (Heaven) and Gæ (Earth). Kronos, the youngest of the Titans, dethroned his father and seized control of the world.
She brought him a casket as a present from the gods. Epimetheus accepted the present although Prometheus had warned him against receiving any gift from the gods.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Birth of Light: a Christmas Reflection 19 Dec 1904, Berlin

All those whom you find in the books as solar heroes are none other than such initiates of the sixth degree. Then came the “Father”; he was connected with the evolution of the future of humanity. What does the name Sunrunner mean?
But if you understand it that way, then you will also understand why from this moment on God is to be imagined as a personality, and that the Trinity, which had been imagined differently before, is to be imagined in the form of three divine persons.
In our fifth sub-race, however, the moment that must still come is already approaching, and it must bring us faith in the new initiates, in the 'Fathers'. Those initiated in the seventh degree are called the Fathers, and in the spiritual scientific world view we speak of the realization of the Masters, because it is not just one, but because it will be the Masters to whom man will look in gratitude and adoration as the great leaders of humanity.
184. Three Streams in Human Evolution: Lecture III 06 Oct 1918, Dornach
Translated by Charles Davy

The words spoken by Tertullian concerning the Mystery of Golgotha are approximately these: The Son of God is crucified. Because this is shameful, we are not ashamed. The Son of God has died; this is easy to believe because it is foolish.
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, signified the continued working of inherited characteristics.
Then someone might call Tertullian as witness for the Crown and might say: “Now see here, my dear Jesuit, the demon says himself that your God is a false God—and Tertullian, whom you have to recognise as a bona fide Church Father, says that demons tell the truth about themselves and about the Christ, just as the Bible states.”
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Genesis II 29 Apr 1904, Berlin

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
This divine Being, who was, so to speak, the pinnacle of the lunar epoch, is addressed in Genesis as God - Yahweh or Jehovah. Here, God is nothing other than the pinnacle of the development of the Moon.
But when the spirit enters the aura, it intensifies the light. And God said, “Let there be light!” [Genesis 1:3] This means: Let the reflection of the spirit arise in the waters.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: The Transient and the Eternal 10 Jan 1906, Lugano

It has come to fruition in the last four decades. “Theosophy literally means 'wisdom of God'. However, today's movement does not mean that we want to receive wisdom from God; the divinity we are looking for is also for the theosophist that which he wants to approach continuously, but which he cannot grasp with concepts; because there will come a time when we will have completely different, much higher insights into the concept of God, into that which we look up to.
That is why the Jews called the unpronounceable name of God, Yahweh, I. I cannot grasp my I from the outside, only from the deepest inside. In my inner being, God announces himself in my soul.
In the etheric spirit lives the spirit, which is called Budhi or, in Christian terms, 'son'; in the physical body lives the 'father spirit'. Through the astral body, through the etheric body and the physical body we come to God.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Subjective-Objective Dharma In Karma 20 Aug 1905, Berlin

90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Cosmic Epochs and Conditions and their Correspondence in Human Development. The Eighth Sphere 10 Nov 1903, Berlin

139. The Gospel of St. Mark: Lecture I 15 Sep 1912, Basel
Translated by Conrad Mainzer, Stewart C. Easton

He said something along these lines, “I live in the midst of Hinduism, where a number of different gods are worshipped. If the people of my country are asked why they worship these gods, they say, ‘it is our custom, we know nothing else. It was done by our fathers and their fathers before them.’ And because the people were influenced in this way,” Ram Mohun Roy continued, “the crassest idolatry became the rule, an appalling idolatry which disgraces the original greatness of the religion of my fatherland.
He thought he recognized behind all that comes to expression in the various gods and all that is worshipped in the different idols a pure teaching of a primal divine unity, the spiritual God who lives in all things but can no longer be recognized in the idols.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Modern Biblical Research 11 Jul 1904, Berlin

It gives the picture that he portrayed Jesus as the one who feels within himself that he is God, that he is the God who came into the world to hold people fast to this belief in God. The gospel of John also differs from the other gospels in its external appearance.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
But those who accepted him [it] could reveal themselves as children of God through him. Those who trusted in his name were not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of human will, but of God.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Ways of Coming to Knowledge and Will 22 Jun 1904, Berlin

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