Sin
Sin (Greek: ἁμαρτία hamartia "to miss a goal", synonymous with Hebrew: חֵטְא chet "sin, guilt" used in the Old Testament; Latin: peccatum, derived from the Indo-European: *ped "to walk, fall, stumble", cf. Latin: pes "foot"), through which man imposes karmic guilt on himself, is a consequence of the Fall of Man caused by the Luciferic temptation, through which man was thrust into the sensual world and thereby increasingly withdrawn from the direct guidance of the gods. On the one hand, this opened the gate to freedom for man, through which he can bring his actions in thoughts, words and deeds into harmony with the will of the spiritual world by his own free decision and thereby enrich it through his individual contribution; on the other hand, if he, tempted by Lucifer and Ahriman, directs his egoistic desires towards the sensual world, he can also miss his spiritual goal of development and thereby fall into sin.
Sins as momentary transgressions have their seat in the astral body, while vices as permanent bad habits work in the etheric body. The well-known "Seven Deadly Sins" (see the painting by Hieronymus Bosch on the right) are in fact Seven Deadly Vices to which man can fall prey.
Literature
- Edelgard Vietor: Schuld und Sünde. Erkennen - verwandeln - verzeihen, Urachhaus Vlg, Stuttgart 2002
- Rudolf Steiner: Christus und die menschliche Seele, GA 155 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-1550-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band III: 1913 und 1914; 1920 – 1923, GA 266/3 (1998), ISBN 3-7274-2663-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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