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93. The Temple Legend: Concerning the Lost Temple and How it is to be Restored III 29 May 1905, Berlin
Translated by John M. Wood

The descendants of the line of Abel/Seth are the so-called Sons of God, who cultivate the true spiritual part of man's nature. These two currents were always somewhat in antithesis.
It was first given to the Sons of God. What did they do with it? What is the deeper meaning of the wood of the Cross? In this holy legend about the wood of the Cross lies a very deep meaning.
Only when the lowest Kingdom has [become] the Human Kingdom, when there are no more lower beings, when all beings have been redeemed by man through the force of his own life, then he will have arrived in the seventh Round, where God rests, because man himself creates. Then will have come the seventh Day of Creation, in which man will have taken on the likeness of God.
8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1961): Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
Translated by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, Peter Kändler

(Heraclitus, Fragment No. 81)15 “But Hades is the same as Dionysus,” states another of the Fragments of Heraclitus.16 Dionysus, the god of lust for life, of germination and growth, to whom the Dionysian festivals were dedicated, is for Heraclitus the same as Hades, the god of annihilation and destruction.
It consists in taking with the utmost seriousness those things to which this seriousness should not be attached. God has descended into the world of things. Whoever receives these things without God receives them seriously as the “Tombs of God.”
It is the peculiarity of the human soul that something temporal works like something eternal, that it leavens and strengthens like an eternal quality. This makes the human soul similar to a god and a worm at the same time. Because of this man stands midway between God and animal. This leavening and strengthening force in him is his daemonic element.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Ten Commandments 26 Feb 1909, Kassel

It has often been said that spiritual science makes the world a god with this, but just as a drop of water does not become the sea, this reproach is also not justified.
Then there came a moment in human evolution when the God in man spoke: “I, the God, speak to you by giving myself the name you utter when you want to describe the center of your being.
And only an individuality such as Moses's could receive that inspiration, which, like a lightning bolt, struck the world with a new knowledge of God. But it was necessary that Moses should also be able to make this impact effective. The people to whom such a God was to be proclaimed must have no other divinity than this, which arose out of the I.
88. On the Astral World and Devachan: Cosmology According to Genesis 08 Dec 1903, Berlin

And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then God separated the light from the darkness and called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called the Sea. And God saw that it was good.
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; (Genesis 1, 26-27) And God created him male and female, that is, asexual.
148. On the Fifth Gospel: Lecture X 13 Jan 1914, Berlin
Translator Unknown

But the ancient Hebrews said: We worship the one true God and the one true God is connected with the Earth.—Far too little notice is taken of this because at the present time people assume that a word like “God” must always imply the same.
They believed—and this is well-nigh incredible to the modern mind that Jehovah is an Earth God, who works in the Moon-forces that are connected with the Earth and who is therefore also a Moon God, as described in the book Occult Science.
If you were Abraham's children you would know that your God Jehovah who is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is a God of the Earth—as witnessed by the fact that he formed the first man out of the Earth.
57. The Bible and Wisdom (New Testament) 14 Nov 1908, Berlin

There we see Moses, the leader of the people, facing his God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who issued the order to Moses to act for his people what we find happening then as the action of Moses.
We see that it has a deep sense to read the words at this point: the God of Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob. The God who calls himself the God “I am the I-am” is the same as the fourth member of the human being, the same who let flow the ego into the human being.
Humankind lived this way in the pre-Christian time in which the God was creating, in which the Yahveh God was forming, in which the “I am the I-am” lived, in which, however, humankind could not yet live consciously but according to the external law coming from the Yahveh God.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: “Ein Frühlingsopfer” 19 Nov 1898,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

The illegitimate daughter of the drunkard Kappel, half child, half blossoming into a virgin, lives in her father's house. The woman who has married the lousy man is a good creature. She has taken the child, who is disregarded by the whole world, into her home. Here it is also mistreated by the father. The stepmother is dying; she has just received the priest's consolations. This is where the drama begins.
She goes there and receives an answer from the Mother of God. On the way back it happens to her that she falls in love. Now she does not want to die again. She regrets what she has done.
103. The Gospel of St. John: The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit 31 May 1908, Hamburg
Translated by Maud B. Monges

For this reason they laid special emphasis upon the fact that in Jesus of Nazareth lived the Father, who had always existed in Judaism and was transmitted down through the generations as the God of the Jews.
The important thing for him was not the words, “I and Father Abraham are one,” but that at every moment of time, there exists in the human being an Eternal which was present in him before Father Abraham.
They wish to show that the ancient God exists in Jesus of Nazareth. Luke especially wished to make this very clear, therefore he traces the whole ancestry back to Adam and then to God.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Square, Tao, Dawn, Jachin, and Boaz 24 Sep 1912, Basel

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We will then experience the elemental world (as clairvoyants) in the flickering colors. We have to learn (recognize) how the gods speak. The gods speak in colors. We should gradually develop a sense for this language so that when we speak more for entertainment, we feel immersed in green; in yellow when we say very selfish words; in elemental red as a punishment for evil; and in blue when we turn to the spiritual.
Only a few are called by grace, as elect, to see through Christ; the others must develop this through meditation and holy service. Day and hour for each one only the Father knows, but it will come for everyone. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
103. The Gospel of St. John: The Seven Degrees of Initiation 23 May 1908, Hamburg
Translated by Maud B. Monges

But he that hath received his testimony hath set his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
He who was sent from God, who was sent to enkindle the Divine in this way, also preached God in the true sense, no longer according to the blood tie.
Then the foregoing sentence will read: “He who finds God in the ‘I AM, bears witness of Divine Speech or God's language, even in his stammering words”—and he finds the way to God.

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