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The ancient Mysteries had fulfilled their mission. A new Mystery — pointing toward the future, encompassing all of humanity — accomplished itself on the hill of Golgotha in Jerusalem. What had once been venerated as the lofty Sun-being, what among the ancient Indians was called Vischvakarman, among the ancient Persians under Zarathustra the Ahura Mazdao, among the Egyptians Osiris, and among the early Greeks could be seen in the divine being of Apollo — now it has, as was foretold, descended to the earth and incarnated in the human body of Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ.[1] So it was that «all religious proclamation before the appearance of Christ Jesus was a pre-proclamation of Christ Jesus».[2] In the Old Testament, Moses receives, in answer to the question in whose name he has been sent, the reply: «Say, the ‹I am› has sent you.»[3] The Gnosis pointed toward the divinity of the Christ, toward his coming in the spirit, yet not toward his appearance in the flesh.[4] The Gnostic philosophers of Greece — Rudolf Steiner mentions among them Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles — developed in the language of concepts,
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner: Die geistigen Wesenheiten in den Himmelskörpern und Naturreichen, GA 136, Vortrag vom 13. April 1912, Dornach 1996, S. 178f.
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104, Vortrag vom 17. Juni 1908, Dornach 1985, S. 25.
- ↑ Ebd., S. 26. — In Exodus 3:13–15, the passage reads as follows in the standard translation: «Moses said to God: 'If I come to the people of Israel and say to them: "The God of your fathers has sent me to you", and they ask me: "What is his name?" — what shall I say to them?' God answered: 'I am who I am', and added: 'Say to the people of Israel: "The I-am-here has sent me to you: the Lord! He is the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob." For "Lord" (He-is-here) is my name for all time. With this name shall the coming generations also address me when they pray to me.'»
- ↑ Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104, Vortrag vom 17. Juni 1908, Dornach 1985, S. 31.
