Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/292/en

The Christ Event, the Mystery of death and Resurrection, has taken place for all human beings on earth. This is the esoteric fact of an exoteric-esoteric happening bound to a particular time and a particular place. Humanity had advanced, in varying degrees, far enough in its I-development that the hidden holy of holies of the soul — the I, the kernel of being of every human being — stood in need of an impulse, in order to find itself within itself and, in self-knowledge, to determine itself in freedom. This impulse embodied itself during the Baptism in the Jordan with the indwelling of the Christ-I — the sun being filled with spirit in highest perfection — in the body of the human being Jesus of Nazareth. For three years the divine being worked in this chosen human body. It was the force of this divine I which, through death on the cross, spiritualized the substance-bound earthly body. The Resurrection in the spirit took place; it stands henceforth before humanity as the great world-goal. The path to this goal gives all future development its direction and content. With the awakening to consciousness of the "I am," every human being finds within himself "the way, the truth and the life." This finding means having to pass through abysses of spiritless nothingness; but it also means working to earn spiritual fruits that rise in resurrection into the eternal body of the I. Advancing since the Mystery of Golgotha, humanity finds itself placed into conscious confrontation with evil, with what brings death, with the spirit-power that resists all development. To recognize evil breaks its power and lends the I its strength. Thus in the place of the old Mystery-nature there steps