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97. The Christian Mystery (2000): Animal Soul and Human Individuality 16 Mar 1907, Leipzig
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

If you think of a lion, your feelings for the lion grandfather, father, son and grandson are exactly the same. Such an approach would seem absolutely frivolous if applied to human beings.
It took long periods of evolution to transform it into the god-like body of today. Much came to a standstill along that long route. But because the earth continued to go through its transformation, coming to a standstill became bodily regression.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Three Lights 17 Dec 1911, Berlin

But we already know that during the evolution of the earth, entities penetrated our bodies and disturbed their connection, so that the various elements of our being do not fit together as they should have done according to the intention of the gods. What is meant by this disorder is brilliantly expressed in the words that Lucifer speaks to man when he wants to seduce him: “Your eyes will be opened, and you will distinguish good from evil.”
But in the line of inheritance that passes through the generations from father to son, grandson and so on, the hierarchies also work, and it is the spirits of form that form the physical body, the spirits of movement that bring about the etheric body, and the spirits of wisdom that give shape to the astral body.
53. The Philosophical Faculty and Theosophy 08 Jun 1905, Berlin

A method, which is regarded as ridiculous, is that by which the human being is tormented with pointless exercises, as such as: today, my father has become fifty years old. Tomorrow, my aunt travels to Paris. One smiles at such things and it is still the question whether one has any cause of it.
Leonardo da Vinci got thoughts about the spirit of humankind as thoughts of mathematics from bridge building. The gods want free beings, they do not want a thing in nature. What the human being creates consciously in the world is an execution of the divine world plan.
37. Writings on the History of the Anthroposophical Movement and Society 1902–1925: The Formation of the General Anthroposophical Society Through the Christmas Conference of 1923 13 Jan 1924,

You live in the limbs That carry you through the world of space Into the being of the spiritual sea: Practice spirit-remembering In the depths of the soul, Where in the ruling Creator of the world the own I in the God-I reveals itself; And you will truly live in the human-world-being. For the Father-Spirit of the heights rules in the depths of the world, generating being: You power-spirits Let from the heights resound What finds the echo in the depths; This speaks: From the divine, humanity exists.
58. Metamorphoses of the Soul: Paths of Experience I: The Mission of Anger 05 Dec 1909, Munich
Translated by Charles Davy, Christoph von Arnim

Similarly, we are not making the ‘I’ a god when we say it is of like substance with the divine being that permeates and pulses through the world.
And not in vain do we call the undefined power that flows from the wisdom of the world and shows itself in the righting of wrongs the “wrath of God”, in contrast to God's love. But we know that these two things belong together; without the other, neither can exist.
Prometheus is a descendant of the ancient race of Titans, who had succeeded the first generation of gods in the evolution of the earth and of humanity. Ouranus and Gaia belong to the first generation of gods.
148. Fifth Gospel I (Frank Thomas Smith): Lecture III 03 Oct 1913, Oslo
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

In the sixth degree he became a “Sun-Hero”, in the seventh a “Father”. For the first four degrees it is sufficient today to say that he was gradually led deeper and deeper into spiritual experience.
The Christ-Being had to feel the godly power weakening as he became similar to the body of Jesus of Nazareth. A god gradually became a man. As someone who sees his body weaken and die under extreme pain, so the Christ-Being saw his divine content disappear in that he became ever more similar, as an etheric being, to the body of Jesus of Nazareth, to the point where he was so similar that he could feel fear like a man.
And soon the masses, who had previously been amazed at the Christ-Being's over-earthly miraculous power, no longer admired him, but stood in front of the cross mocking the weakness of the god who became man with the words: You helped others, now help yourself! That was the Passion path—endless suffering, to which was added sorrow for humanity at that moment of the mystery of Golgotha.
55. Supersensible Knowledge: Education in the Light of Spiritual Science 01 Dec 1906, Cologne
Translated by Rita Stebbing

The designations of everything else we share with others; they can reach a person's ear from outside, but not the name that refers to what is god-like in each individual human soul. That is why in Hebrew esoteric schools it was called the “inexpressible name of God—Jahve,” the “I am the I am.”
Often the rhymes were meaningless. For example: “Fly beetle fly, your father is away; your mother is in Pommerland, Pommerland, fly beetle fly.” Incidentally, in the idiom of children “Pommerland” meant motherland.
4. The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (1963): The Conscious Human Deed
Translated by Rita Stebbing

Spinoza writes in a letter of October or November, 1674: “I call something free which exists and acts from the pure necessity of its nature, and I call that compelled, the existence and action of which are exactly and fixedly determined by something else. The existence of God, for example, though necessary, is free because He exists only through the necessity of His nature. Similarly, God knows Himself and all else in freedom, because it follows solely from the necessity of His nature that He knows all.
And the more idealistic these representations are, just so much the more blessed is our love. Here too, thought is the father of feeling. It is said: Love makes us blind to the failings of the loved one. But this also holds good the other way round, and it can be said: Love opens the eyes just for the good qualities of the loved one.
165. The Conceptual World and Its Relationship to Reality: Lecture One 15 Jan 1916, Dornach

These Catholic theologians had to defend the dogma of the Trinity, of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the three persons in the Godhead. After the development of ecclesiastical theology, they could not help saying: the three persons are individual, complete entities, but at the same time they are supposed to be one unity!
Because when you have experienced concepts, it is actually God who lives in you. And basically, Catholic theology is horrified when people claim that God lives in man.
181. A Sound Outlook for Today and a Genuine Hope for the Future: Problems of the Time II 06 Aug 1918, Berlin
Translator Unknown

When Man the Suns in this way from the spiritual world, he is “received” by father and mother, and goes through all the stages of his embryonic development. Science two-day assumes that the parents give the child existence; and since father and mother are the center of the family, and the family is the foundation of the community, therefore the communities, which are extended families, consider men as their own property.
Christ, unlike the Jehovah-Deity, United Himself with no nation but with universal humanity. He was in the confraternity of those Gods from whom the nations took their rise, but He left that realm when it was ready to pass away; He came to earth and took up His abode in humanity at large.
It really is a paradox to find that the cleverest book about Goethe whatever may be said to the contrary—has been written by Jesuit, Father Baumgarten. No details concerning him is neglected. The usual distinguishing mark of Jesuit work on the subject is hostility to Goethe: but this is a highly intelligent, painstaking book, not superficially written.

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