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354. Nutrition and Health: Lecture II 02 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Questioner: Today he is completely active and more mobile than when he was sixty-five or seventy. He is my father. Dr. Steiner: Well, first of all we should establish the exact nature of his earlier arteriosclerosis.
You see, I am somewhat acquainted with your own condition of health. I don't know your father, but perhaps we can discover something about your father's health from your own. For instance, you suffer somewhat, or have suffered (I hope it will be completely cured), from hay fever.
A son can suffer externally from some disease that in the father was pushed inward. Indeed, that is one of the secrets of heredity: that many things become diseases in the descendants which in the forefathers were aspects of health.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Fifth Recapitulation Lesson 15 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Yet when we develop the will, spirit-devoted to higher worlds, if we align our will to just that, to thinking in the physical-sensory world that gods wield authority3 in us, who inspire, stimulate our willing, if we would be in service to the gods, then God allows his existence to wield authority in us as human beings, and we catch the scent, we sense4 in god-infused willing a true existence.
So will ruinous spirit rapture Slay your experience of yourself; Yet spirit-devoted earth-willing Will allow the god in man to rule. We may not carry over there what we simply have here on this side.
You hold of world life Will alone fast within; When world living fully captures you, So will ruinous spirit rapture Slay your experience of yourself; Yet spirit-devoted earth-willing Will allow the god in man to rule. Ex Deo Nascimur In Christo Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus I honor the Father I love the Son I unite with the Spirit 1.
41b. H. P. Blavatsky's, “The Key to Theosophy”: VII. On the Various Post Mortem States

It is stated in Isis Unveiled that such planetary Spirits or Angels, "the gods of the Pagans or the Archangels of the Christians," will never be men on our planet. Theo.
Enq. How can that which, if not breathed by God into man, yet is on your own confession of an identical substance with the divine, fail to be immortal?
Plato calls the latter the logos (or the second manifested God); and we, the manifested divine principle, which is one with the universal mind or soul, not the anthropomorphic, extra-cosmic and personal God in which so many Theists believe.
89. Awareness—Life—Form: Planetary Evolution VII 01 Nov 1904, Berlin
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

The lunar human beings who came to the Earth in the middle of the Lemurian age, when their bodily house was ready to be inhabited and prepared to receive manas, are called pitris, which means 'fathers'. It therefore depended on how the pitris had developed earlier on, and when had they received the spark of manas.
They are the fourth dhyani, the budhi dhyani. They are real gods. We have now widened our horizon. The spark, which the budhi dhyani are there to give, can first of all be thrown into the solar pitris.
Lord of form Jahveh elohim Lord of life Christos Lord of conscious awareness Speaking of a trinity of the soul we have to say: Father, Mother and Son—Osiris, Isis, Horus. Speaking of a trinity of the spirit, we have to say: Father, Word and Holy Spirit.
33. Biographies and Biographical Sketches: Ludwig Uhland

Everything arbitrary and imaginary collapses: there is necessity, there is God." [ 2 ] Since Goethe had immersed himself in such an ideal of art, he saw everything in a new light.
The idea is to dissolve the hero and his story into poetry, into legend, precisely into the underlying ballad. Squire Waters leaves his father's house and goes to court; a minstrel joins him as the song that echoes the knightly life of action.
One was Wilhelm Steudel, whom he took into his home as a fifteen-year-old boy. The father of the prematurely orphaned child was Uhland's friend, Dean Steudel in Tübingen. In 1848, the son of Uhland's sister, who had already died in 1836, lost his father.
113. The East in the Light of the West: The Bodhisattvas and the Christ 31 Aug 1909, Munich
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Shirley M. K. Gandell

He does not bring to the earth anything corresponding to the relationships between father and child, or mother and child, which exist under time conditions, but He brings into the world something which goes on side by side, which co-exists.
Inasmuch as through the conditions of ancestry and descent, the blood poured—itself from generation to generation, from father to child and grandchildren, those who were connected through time were ipso facto those who loved each other.
Extraordinary things were prophesied about this child when he was born. His father therefore especially guarded him; he was only to know what was most precious, he was to dwell in perfect happiness, he was not to become acquainted with pain and sorrow or with the misfortunes of life.
54. Reincarnation and Karma as Key to the Mystery of Man 15 Feb 1906, Berlin

What we can perceive as the confluence of father, mother, grandmother et cetera like an imprint changes and takes shape from its inner being. What lives in the core one cannot derive from father and mother expresses itself gradually in the traits.
If you cannot lead back this spiritual core to father and mother, to the ancestors, we must be able to lead it back to something spiritual. Soul and spirit come from the soul and spirit.
The Christian mysticism expressed this the deepest in John's Gospel where you read: “In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was in God's presence, and what God was, the Word was.” John directly calls the speech Christ. In the female nature, it is somewhat different.
8. Christianity As Mystical Fact (1961): The Gospels
Translated by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, Peter Kändler

What had come to the initiates was the “Kingdom of God.” This unique Being has brought the Kingdom to all who will cleave to him. What was formerly the personal concern of each individual has become the common concern of all those willing to acknowledge Jesus as their Lord.
The Jewish people regarded itself as one organism. Its Jao was the God of the whole people. If the Son of this God were to be born he must be the Redeemer of the whole people.
Even those who cannot yet participate in initiation may enjoy some of the fruits of the Mysteries. Henceforth the Kingdom of God is not dependent on “external observances”: “Neither shall they say Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Das Tschaperl 25 Sep 1897,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

No, Hermann Bahr was never that bored of serving up the same confession to his friends for a whole year. He must consider it a sin to serve the same God today as he did yesterday. That does not seem polite to him in the face of the other gods, who also want their revelations to be proclaimed with fiery tongues.
Sometimes it looks as if Bahr is poking fun at Viennese culture. Lampl's father was once a respectable janitor. Bahr describes him: "Characteristic old Viennese figure, like the old Bauernfeld in recent years".
110. The Spiritual Hierarchies (1928): Lecture V 14 Apr 1909, Düsseldorf
Translated by Harry Collison

These Beings must first prepare themselves for the task. The Beings who, are so to speak, nearest God Himself, who, as is beautifully expressed in Christian Western Esotericism, ‘bask in the light of God's countenance,’ are the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones.
What the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, bring down to Saturn from the hand of God, must be so appointed that within Saturn these commands can be carried out, and these impulses become realities.
Where beings are evolving there are some who advance and others who remain behind, as many a father knows, who complains that his son in college lags behind whilst others are making good progress.

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