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152. Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha: Progress in the Knowledge of the Christ: The Fifth Gospel 27 May 1914, Paris

And the image, the afterimage under which the Greeks imagined the third inspiration of Christ in an archangel-like being, is Apollo, the sun god. Apollo, as protector of the oracles of Pythia, appears as the entity that harmonizes the dragon that rises from the earth in the form of vapors.
The young Jesus of Nazareth lived in the house of his real father and the mother of the Solomon-like boy Jesus. The other two had died in the meantime. The young Jesus of Nazareth was introduced to his father's trade, a kind of carpentry or joinery.
Shortly after that happened, he returned home. It was around the time his father died in Nazareth. During the time between his twenty-fourth and thirtieth year, now that he was back home in Nazareth, he came into contact with the Essenes, who had one or two colonies in the area.
165. The Ancient Christmas Plays and a Forgotten Spiritual Current in Humanity: Lecture Two 27 Dec 1915, Dornach

The text continues: “This is the book of the knowledge of the invisible God by means of the hidden mysteries,” that is, the mysteries that are hidden in man, “showing the way to the chosen essence of man, leading in silence to the life of the Father of the World, in the coming of the Redeemer, the Savior of souls, who will receive the Word of Life, which is higher than all life , in the knowledge of Jesus, the living one, who came forth from the aeon of light in the allness of the pleroma, that is, of other aeons, of all spiritual beings, in the teaching, except for which there is no other, that Jesus, the living one, taught his apostles, saying, “This is the teaching in which all knowledge rests.”
We have followed you with all our hearts, leaving father and mother, leaving vineyards and fields, leaving goods, leaving the glory of the outward king, and have followed you that you may teach us the life of your Father who sent you.” And now, at this invitation of the apostles, the Christ Jesus, the Living One, responded with what He has to say to them: “Christ, the Living One, answered and said: ‘My Father's life is this, that you receive your soul out of the human being of that understanding, which is not earthly’”.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the First Goetheanum and Subsequent Address 20 Sep 1913, Dornach

Since the old heirloom of the divine ladder of the original beginning of earth evolution had withered in the abundance of this earth personality, the world word appeared over there in Asia: In the beginning was the word. And the word was with God. And a god was the word. And the Word appeared to the human soul and spoke to the human soul: Fill the evolution of the earth with the meaning of the earth.
The evils prevail, Witnesses of dissolving egoity, The guilt of selfhood incurred by others, Experienced in the daily bread, In which heaven's will does not prevail, Since man has separated himself from your kingdom And forgot your name, You fathers in the heavens. The Lord's Prayer was given as a gift: given to mankind. The microcosmic Lord's Prayer, proclaimed from East to West, is now echoed by the ancient macrocosmic prayer.
The evils prevail, Witnesses of the dissolution of the ego, Selfhood guilt incurred by others, Experienced in our daily bread, In which heaven's will does not prevail, Because man has separated himself from your kingdom And forgot your name, You fathers in the heavens. So we part, taking with us in our souls the awareness of the significance of the seriousness and dignity of the act we have performed, the awareness that should remain from this evening, igniting in us the striving for knowledge of a new revelation given to humanity, for which the human soul thirsts and from which it will drink.
196. The History and Actuality of Imperialism: Lecture I 20 Feb 1920, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

If we go back to the oldest form of imperialism, we find it based on the king being God who really physically appeared on earth, the son of heaven who physically appeared on earth, who was even the father of heaven.
The second form was when the ruler, the one who was to play a leading role, wasn't the god himself, but the god's envoy, or inspired by the god, interpenetrated with divinity. The first imperialism is characterized by realities. When an oriental ruler of ancient times appeared before his people, it was in all his splendor, because as a god he was entitled to wear such clothes. It was the clothing of a god. That's what a god looked like.
282. Speech and Drama: The Secret of the Art of the Masters Consists in This: He Annihilates Matter Through Form' —Schiller 09 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Woe to that man who leads a lonely life far from father and mother, far from brothers and sisters. Grief will not suffer him to enjoy whatever happiness should befall him; thoughts of his home weigh heavy upon him, of that beloved home of his fathers where the golden sun first opened the heavens to his view, and where as he played day by day with his brothers and sisters bonds grew up between them as precious and tender as any earth affords.
His yearning thoughts Throng back for ever to his father's halls, Where first to him the radiant sun unclosed The gates of heav'n; where closer, day by day, Brothers and sisters, leagued in pastime sweet, Around each other twin'd love's tender bonds. I will not reckon with the gods; yet truly Deserving of lament is woman's lot. Man rules alike at home and in the field, Nor is in foreign climes without resource; Him conquest crowneth, him possession gladdens, And him an honourable death awaits.
29. Collected Essays on Drama 1889–1900: Schlenther's Direction 15 Jan 1899,
Translated by Steiner Online Library

In Vienna, everything is temperament, openness, love, hate, anger - but for God's sake, no secrecy, no reticence, no playing with the situation! That makes you insecure, unstable, confuses your judgment.
Almost all the youth departments were deserted - the staff consisted only of heroic fathers, albeit incomparable ones. - The repertoire was patchy, uninteresting, completely characterless.
He didn't come to Vienna as a rich man who could live off his fortune - he had to greedily scrounge for the day's acquisition. Philippi is now the redeeming god of the Burgtheater. The director wants to make money. He has said it himself often enough. That is a very justified and understandable point of view.
286. Ways to a New Style in Architecture: Foreword by Marie Steiner
Translated by Harry Collison

Both inside and outside, the Building stood there as a masterpiece of art created by a human hand; the relief-modelling of its inner surfaces might well be an organ for the speech of the Gods; its windows showed in the coloured shades of their designs the way to the Spirit, the stations along the path to the spiritual world.
—This was what spoke from the forms and windows of the Goetheanum. Gothic architecture contained the prayer: “O Father of the Universe, may we be united with Thee in Thy Spirit.” The hidden Spirit permeating man makes him able to experience the world in forms and movements which to-day confront us like riddles.
To-day, the inner, living growth of man's being would fain come to expression in a building art which in ancient Greece created the dwelling place of the God, and in Gothic times the house of the community in prayer. The lectures in which Rudolf Steiner thus spoke to us of the new style of architecture, of the art of relief and of the nature of colour, are only available in imperfect, incomplete transcriptions.
317. Curative Education: Lecture X 05 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Try to accustom yourselves to live your way every evening into the consciousness: In me is God. In me is God—or the Spirit of God, or what other expression you prefer to use. (But please do not think I mean just persuading yourself of this truth theoretically—which is what the meditations of the majority of people amount to!)
First, you have this picture before you: In me is God; and on the following morning, you have this picture before you: I am in God (see Figure 3, right).
Rudolf Steiner: “So the mother, you see, was evidently, earlier on, in a delicate state of health.” The father too had in his youth been weak and ailing. Their first child, at whose birth the mother was twenty years old and the father twenty-two, died young of pneumonia.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Origin of Architecture from the Soul of Man and its Connection with the Course of Human Development I 12 Dec 1911, Berlin

And in a sense it is Maya to believe that in the minds or souls of those who built the Egyptian pyramids, the Greek temples and other works of art, only those thought forms, impulses and intentions were effective for that which confronts us, that which has confronted people over time in the forms, colors and so on, because the gods worked through the hands, through the minds, through the hearts of people. Our time is, after the fourth post-Atlantic cultural period has passed, the first time cycle in which the gods test people for their freedom, in which the gods do not deny their help, but only come to meet people when these people, in their own free striving from their individual soul, which they have now received through enough incarnations, take up that which flows down from above.
I once used the expression: a temple of Pallas Athena or Apollo or Zeus needs no human soul near it or inside it, because it is not designed for a human to be near or inside it; rather, it should stand in its grandiose, lonely infinity, merely showing the dwelling of the god. The god lives in him, and this dwelling of the god in him forms his self-contained infinity. And the further away, one might say, people in the surrounding area are from a Greek temple, the more genuine a Greek temple appears.
This enabled him to say that for seven consecutive days, when he returned to his father, he would remain silent, would not speak in any way, and would present himself as a fool. But now he also knew that the Empress was plotting his death.
216. Supersensible Influences in the History of Mankind: Lecture II 23 Sep 1922, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

My reply would be: “Very well, let us assume that you are in earnest about your conceptions of God and of the Spirit. You must place the spiritual somewhere when you aspire to reach it ... but you do not admit that man's powers of knowledge are capable of this.
And now let us go further, and say to him: “You, Father, are dedicating your life and service to the spiritual and you most certainly acknowledge that the creator of the material is the spiritual.
That is why you censure Anthroposophy. According to your view, the God in whom you believe must surely once have taken a materialisation of the spiritual in earnest! Otherwise there would have been no Creation.

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