Introduction by Christopher Bamford |
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1. Esoteric Science and Esoteric Development — Initiation |
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The connection between the living and the dead. |
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The influence of Lucifer's and Ahriman's impulses. |
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The building of a future physical organ for the memory of earlier incarnations. |
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The esoteric development of the present-day human being: |
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1) the development of the inner power of thinking through meditation; |
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2) penetrating meditation with the force of feeling; |
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3) penetrating meditation with the impulses of will. |
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2. Christ at the Time of the Mystery of Golgotha and Christ in the Twentieth Century |
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The Being of Yahweh. Michael, the "Countenance of Yahweh." |
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Michael and the other archangels as inspirers of successive ages. |
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Christ's connecting with the destiny of humanity and His uniting with earthly evolution. |
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The new Michael-revelation. |
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3. The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (1) |
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The Michael age since the last third of the nineteenth century. |
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Michael's ascent to Archai. |
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The carrying of the spiritual world into the world of the senses. |
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The Michael impulse and the anthroposophical worldview. |
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4. The Michael Impulse and the Mystery of Golgotha (2) |
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Natural scientific understanding in the now expired Gabriel age. |
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Awakening of an understanding for the spiritual in the new Michael age. |
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The descent of Christ to Earth in order to go through death. |
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Michael's elevation from the Messenger of Yahweh to the Messenger of Christ, from folk spirit to spirit of the age. |
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5. Christ's Path through the Centuries |
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COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 14, 1913 |
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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. |
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The search for the Christ. |
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The future seeing of Christ in His etheric being. |
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Christ as advisor and friend of the human being. |
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6. The Three Spiritual Preliminary Stages of the Mystery of Golgotha |
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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. |
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The working of the Christ impulse into the physical world and into the evolution of humanity. |
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7. The Christ Impulse across the Ages and Its Power in the Human Being |
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The spiritual pre-history of the Mystery of Golgotha. |
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Three preliminary stages. |
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The beginning of the Atlantean epoch. |
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The future flowing of the Christ impulse into the human power of memory. |
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The averting, through the Christ impulse, of the danger of memory becoming chaotic. |
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8. The Christ Spirit and Its Relation to the Evolution of Consciousness |
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The three preliminary stages of the event of Golgotha. |
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The three-time spiritual penetrating by the Christ impulse of the angel-being that later incarnated as the Nathan Jesus. |
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The working of Christ in human history. |
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Constantine and Maxentius. |
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The "Ahasver" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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The Anthroposophical Movement and the leading powers of our age. |
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9. Progress in the Knowledge of Christ: The Fifth Gospel |
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The three preliminary stages of the Mystery of Golgotha. |
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The incarnation of Christ in Jesus of Nazareth. |
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Three epochs in the development of Jesus of Nazareth, connected with three great experiences of pain. |
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The conversation of Jesus with His stepmother: breathing out of the Zoroaster "I". |
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The necessity of a conscious Christ-knowledge now and in the future. |
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10. The Four Sacrifices of Christ: The Three Precursors of the Mystery of Golgotha |
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The necessity of attaining a new Christ-knowledge and the schooling of selflessness. |
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Spiritual science as the school of selflessness for the intellectual and moral life of humanity. |
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The true understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha. |
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Editorial and Reference Notes |
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Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works |
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Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner |
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Index |
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