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88. On the Astral World and Devachan: Lesson II Berlin

The Bhagavad Gita is the account of a wonderful religious and philosophical conversation between the hero Arjuna and Krishna, the incarnate God. The luminous and exalted wisdom teachings and the extremely finely differentiated capacity for feeling and discernment in the most subtle ethical questions not only suggest that our tribal ancestors had an unrivaled culture in this area, but they also seem like direct revelations of the divine spirit.
But when he discovers blood relatives in their ranks, fathers, sons, grandsons, cousins and brothers, who are about to kill each other in a rage, his noble heart trembles in wild sorrow, and overwhelmed by compassion, his already tensed bow falls away from him.
Dharma is our past, present and future at the same time and works in us as father, mother and son. The Father as the Overself, as the higher self, as one's truth and law; the Mother as the developing being and the Son as the future.
127. Mendelssohn: Overture of the Hebrides 03 Mar 1911, Berlin
Translator Unknown

The others who had wandered farther to the East had developed further, and so no longer remained in connection with the ancient gods. The western peoples, however, had preserved for themselves the possibility of experiencing an ancient clairvoyance now entirely immersed in the personality, in the individuality.
And we shall win a conception of this if we realize how Ossian allowed the voice of his father, Fingal, to sound forth in his songs. We are told how the heroes find themselves in a difficult position.
Dermid, of the dark brown hair! Ossian, king of many songs!—Be near your father's arm!’ We reared the sunbeam of battle; the standard of the king! Each hero exulted with joy, as, waving, it flew in the wind.
70b. Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul: A Forgotten Pursuit of Spiritual Science Within the Development of German Thought 17 Mar 1916, Munich

Here we find, dear ladies and gentlemen, the son of the great Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Immanuel Hermann Fichte, who was influenced by his father's ideas. But we also find that he is able to penetrate deeper into the knowledge of the spirit than his father, despite being a much lesser spirit than his father.
Jakob Böhme says so beautifully: "When you look at the depths , he means the depths of the blue sky “When you look at the depth of the sky, the stars and the earth, you see your God, and in the same you live and are you too. And the same God reigns through you and also reigns you.” “You are created from this God and live in the same. Also, all your knowledge stands in this God, and when you die, you will be buried in this God.”
114. The Gospel of St. Luke: The Buddha and Zarathustra Streams Converge 19 Sep 1909, Basel
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Owen Barfield

You live in a Cosmos permeated by Spirit, among cosmic Gods and spiritual Beings; you are born of the Spirit and rest in the Spirit; with every indrawn breath you inhale divine Spirit; with every exhalation you may make an offering to the great Spirit!’
With his profound insight into the mysteries of existence, Goethe hints at this in the words: From my father I have my stature And life's serious conduct; From my mother a happy nature And delight in telling fables.
For this reason the Solomon Jesus had to inherit power from the father, because it was his mission to transmit to the world the divine forces radiating through the world in Space.
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Guardian of the Threshold: Scene 10
Translated by Harry Collison

But, more than any other spirit, man Requires a god who doth not only ask For admiration when his outward form Reveals itself in glory to the soul, But One who radiates His highest power When He Himself doth dwell within man's soul, And loving unto death foretelleth life.
In some long-past existence, it was she Who caused the son to leave his father's home; And now she leads the son to him again. The soul, which in Thomasius now dwells In former life was to that one which now Fulfils itself within Capesius, As son to father bound by ties of blood. The father will not now through Lucifer Demand the debt Maria owes to him, For by Christ's power, the debt hath been annulled.
182. How Do I Find the Christ? 16 Oct 1918, Zurich
Translated by Alan P. Shepherd, Dorothy S. Osmond

is contained in several volumes of the series: Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. (Published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1874.) The text of the translation of De Carne Christi (On the Flesh of Christ) is to be found in Vol.
The wicked spirit, bidden speak by a follower of Christ, will as readily make the truthful confession that he is a demon, as elsewhere he has falsely asserted that he is a god ...’ In Vol. VII of the same series, The Five Books of Tertullian against Marcion, the translator includes in his Introductory Notice (p.
282. Speech and Drama: Further Study of the Sounds of Speech 21 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

You are probably familiar with the delightful little story illustrative of the saying: Der Ton macht die Musik.3 Little Itzig writes home to his father: ‘Dear Father, send me a gulden!’ The father cannot read, so takes the letter to a notary who reads out to him in a peremptory, rude tone of voice: ‘Dear Father, send me a gulden!’
Is that really what he says?' But now the poor father cannot after all find it in his heart to leave the matter at that, so he goes to the parson. The parson takes the letter and reads out to him in a gentle, quiet tone : ‘Dear Father, send me a gulden!’
Such things were well known to the men of earlier times, just as they knew too that the art of music takes us back to the Gods of the past, the plastic and pictorial arts lead us an to the Gods of the future, while the art of drama, standing between the two, conjures up the Spirits of the time in which we live.
140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: Man's Journey Through the Planetary Spheres 18 Nov 1912, Hanover
Translated by René M. Querido

Christ Jesus speaks profound words in the Gospel when He says to those around Him, “In all of you there is Divinity; are you then not Gods?” He says with all power and authority, “Ye are gods!” (John 10:34). Christ Jesus means by these words that in every human breast lies a spark that is Divine. This spark must be kindled in order that it may be possible to say, “Be as the gods.” A different and indeed exactly opposite effect is the aim of words spoken by Lucifer when he approaches man in order to drag him down from the realm of the Gods, “Ye shall be as God” (Genesis 3:5) The meaning here is entirely different.
Occult research also shows us how we can be prepared to receive the physical body. The physical body is bestowed upon us by the Father principle. It is through the Christ impulse that we are able to partake of the Father principle in the sense of the words, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30).
100. The Gospel of St. John (Basle): Lecture I 16 Nov 1907, Basel
Translator Unknown

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a God 2. The same was in the very beginning with God 3. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
And the Light shone in the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it. 6. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that through him all men might believe.
But those that did receive Him, to them gave He power to manifest that they were Sons of God. 13. Those who trusted in His Name were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
97. The Christian Mystery (2000): The medieval view of the world in Dante's Divine Comedy 11 Feb 1906, Düsseldorf
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

The earliest Atlanteans were not yet conscious of the I. The personal comes under the sign of the god Mercury, Hermes. Man came to the personal level when he fell into I-nature, egotism. This also made us into people who want to have possessions and is the reason why Mercury was also the god of merchants.
Then St Bernard42 became the guide for the higher regions where God is beheld and one enters wholly into the divine self. There Dante went beyond the teachings of the Church.
In the end we are shown how we live, move and are in God but must not presume to understand God.43 In the end, Dante only wrote of growing certainty in the human ability to recognize God.

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