Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha

by Steiner, Rudolf; Miller, Michael; Bamford, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780880106061
• ISBN10: 0880106069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr

Summary

In February of 1913 - a landmark year for Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy - the first General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society was held. In September, the Foundation Stone for the Goetheanum was laid in Dornach. The ground for Anthroposophy as we know it today was established. Such is the background for the remarkable lectures contained in this volume. Outwardly, they begin to set the record straight. Inwardly, they seek to establish a right relationship of service to Christ and the spiritual worlds in accord with the spirit of the times, the archangel Michael.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Christopher Bamford	ix
1. Esoteric Science and Esoteric Development — Initiation	1	(17)
LONDON, MAY 1, 1913
The connection between the living and the dead.
The influence of Lucifer's and Ahriman's impulses.
The building of a future physical organ for the memory of earlier incarnations.
The esoteric development of the present-day human being:
1) the development of the inner power of thinking through meditation;
2) penetrating meditation with the force of feeling;
3) penetrating meditation with the impulses of will.
2. Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the Twentieth Century	18	(14)
LONDON, MAY 2, 1913
The Being of Yahweh. Michael, the "Countenance of Yahweh."
Michael and the other archangels as inspirers of successive ages.
Christ's connecting with the destiny of humanity and His uniting with earthly evolution.
The new Michael-revelation.
3. The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (1)	32	(12)
STUTTGART, MAY 18, 1913
The past Gabriel age.
The Michael age since the last third of the nineteenth century.
Michael's ascent to Archai.
The carrying of the spiritual world into the world of the senses.
The Michael impulse and the anthroposophical worldview.
4. The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (2)	44	(11)
STUTTGART, MAY 20, 1913
Natural scientific understanding in the now expired Gabriel age.
Awakening of an understanding for the spiritual in the new Michael age.
The descent of Christ to Earth in order to go through death.
Michael's elevation from the Messenger of Yahweh to the Messenger of Christ, from folk spirit to spirit of the age.
5. Christ's Path through the Centuries	55	(13)
COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 14, 1913
The post-Atlantean age.
The working of the ether body in the old Indian epoch, the sentient body in the old Persian epoch, the sentient soul in the Egyptian-Chaldean epoch, the intellectual or Gemüt soul in the Greek-Latin epoch, the consciousness soul in the present epoch.
The search for the Christ.
The future seeing of Christ in His etheric being.
Christ as advisor and friend of the human being.
6. The Three Spiritual Preliminary Stages of the Mystery of Golgotha	68	(8)
STUTTGART, MARCH 5, 1914
Christ's connecting three times with humanity before the Mystery of Golgotha through penetrating three times the spirit being that was born later as the Nathan Jesus child: for regulating the sense experience in the Lemurian epoch; for regulating the life forces at the beginning of the Atlantean epoch; for the regulating of the soul forces at the end of the Atlantean epoch.
The working of the Christ impulse into the physical world and into the evolution of humanity.
7. The Christ Impulse across the Ages and Its Power in the Human Being	76	(16)
PFORZHEIM, MARCH 7, 1914
The spiritual pre-history of the Mystery of Golgotha.
Three preliminary stages.
The Lemurian epoch.
The beginning of the Atlantean epoch.
The Mystery of Golgotha.
The future flowing of the Christ impulse into the human power of memory.
The averting, through the Christ impulse, of the danger of memory becoming chaotic.
8. The Christ Spirit and Its Relation to the Evolution of Consciousness	92	(12)
MUNICH, MARCH 30, 1914
The three preliminary stages of the event of Golgotha.
The three-time spiritual penetrating by the Christ impulse of the angel-being that later incarnated as the Nathan Jesus.
The working of Christ in human history.
Constantine and Maxentius.
The Maid or Orleans.
The "Ahasver" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Anthroposophical Movement and the leading powers of our age.
9. Progress in the Knowledge of Christ: The Fifth Gospel	104	(14)
PARIS, MAY 27, 1914
The three preliminary stages of the Mystery of Golgotha.
The incarnation of Christ in Jesus of Nazareth.
Three epochs in the development of Jesus of Nazareth, connected with three great experiences of pain.
The conversation of Jesus with His stepmother: breathing out of the Zoroaster "I".
The necessity of a conscious Christ-knowledge now and in the future.
10. The Four Sacrifices of Christ: The Three Precursors of the Mystery of Golgotha	118	(15)
BASEL, JUNE 1, 1914
The necessity of attaining a new Christ-knowledge and the schooling of selflessness.
Spiritual science as the school of selflessness for the intellectual and moral life of humanity.
The true understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
Editorial and Reference Notes	133	(10)
Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works	143	(16)
Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner	159	(14)
Index	173