GA 130

Esoteric Christianity and the Spiritual Guidance of Humanity

Das esoterische Christentum und die geistige Führung der Menschheit

Twenty-three individual lectures from the years 1911 and 1912, given in various cities.

Contents (selection)

The Christ Impulse in Historical Development / Buddha and Christ. The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas / Rosicrucian Christianity / The Etherisation of the Blood. The Intervention of the Etheric Christ in Earth Evolution / Jeshu ben Pandira - the Preparer for an Understanding of the Christ Impulse. Karma as the purpose of life / The Christ-impulse as real life / Faith, love, hope - three stages of human life / World-I and human-I / Basic mood towards human karma / The fact of the God-impulse passed through death. "Five Easters" by Anastasius Grün / The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars.

Appendix (notes from lectures): The significance of the year 1250 / The seven principles of the macrocosm and their connection with man / The starry sky above me - the moral law in me.

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Das esoterische Christentum und die geistige Führung der Menschheit, GA 130 (1995), ISBN 3-7274-1300-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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