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Gesamtausgabe, first edition 3(12/4/1921, Oslo) (44ff.) 4677 209-01 life after death The trains of the Vikings from Norway to the south and southwest (England, France, Sicily etc.) brought an active element as a remainder of the world of Nordic gods to the Roman-Latin culture. The Norwegians of modern time can be teachers of certain secrets of the earthly nature, which are accessible to them unconsciously during sleep, for their fellow-souls after death. The train of the Varangians from Sweden to the east is "dammed up" and takes on a passive, contemplative character under the influence of the east. The modern Swedes can take with them into death what lives more unconsciously during the waking state in the observation of nature. They have the mission to integrate an element of will into their fellow-souls. 6(12/18/1921, Dornach) (103ff.) 4684 209-02 The meaning of the letters (alphabet) got lost with the transition from the Greek to the Latin language. Examples: alpha = aleph = the human being feeling his breath, beta = cover, house. The alphabet expressed the human secret and his relation to the universe. It was an echo of the music of the spheres in the etheric body (planetary movements, vowels) and in the physical body (consonants, zodiac). 7(12/23/1921, Dornach) (124ff.) 4688 209-03 The human ego draws figures into us with the help of the material deposited along the nerve strands. The process of thinking represents a processing of what is mineralised by the ego in the human organism (otherwise, this process is also called process of dying off). The ego is pulled into the mineral. However: Parts of the ego are always beyond those places of the physical body to which they are assigned, when the will is active. They are expelled through life processes. I come beyond my body with my will and I move due to forces, which are beyond myself. The ego then works from the spiritual world. 9(12/25/1921, Dornach) (144ff.) 4695 209-04 festivals of the year Tip to the fact that Christmas is only celebrated on 25th December since 354. The Baptism in the Jordan, the entry of the Christ in Jesus (Epiphany), was celebrated on 6th January in the period before. In the fourth century, the ancient knowledge (gnosis) ceases, with which Christ was still understood. The birthday of Jesus was put more out of feeling beside the Adam and Eve Day, the 24th December (Christ as the second Adam). Similarly: 127/15 and /16(12/21/ and 12/26/1911, Berlin or Hanover). References to lectures of CW 209 in 194-09, 202-23.

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