Crucifixion
Crucifixion was a very cruel method of execution widely used in antiquity. It was imposed in the Orient and especially in the Roman Empire, mainly on runaway or rebellious slaves.
The Mystery of Golgotha, which took place with the death on the cross, the entombment, the descent into hell and the resurrection of Christ, is the central event of the entire development of the Earth and of humanity. After the rise of Christianity as the Roman state religion (380), crucifixion was replaced by other methods of execution in Europe. In the mystical re-experiencing of the descriptions of the Gospel of John, the carrying and crucifixion of the cross is at the same time the fourth stage of the Christian initiation and can lead to a corresponding stigmatisation, through which the stigmata of Christ are revealed.
Literature
- Wolfgang Garvelmann: Sie sehen Christus. Anna Katharina Emmerick - Therese Neumann - Judith von Halle. Erlebnisberichte von der Passion und der Auferstehung Christi. Eine Konkordanz, Verlag für Anthroposophie, Dornach 2011, ISBN 978-3037690093
- Rudolf Steiner: Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache, 24 Vorträge, gehalten in Berlin vom 19. Oktober 1901 - 26. April 1902 (not in GA) [1]
- Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Das christliche Mysterium, GA 97 (1998), ISBN 3-7274-0970-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Das Johannes-Evangelium im Verhältnis zu den drei anderen Evangelien, GA 112 (1984), ISBN 3-7274-1120-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Erfahrungen des Übersinnlichen. Die drei Wege der Seele zu Christus, GA 143 (1994) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der erkenntniskultischen Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule von 1904 bis 1914, GA 265 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2650-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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