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and etheric bodies in the awake state properly. See lecture 3(3/25/1922). *) The figure of Laocon as an Imagination for a boundary in the correct view of sculptural art: 271/1(10/28/1909, Berlin).

211-06 6(4/4/1922 62ff. 4803 On the original yoga training: the brain which is an image of the entire universe (revelation of the cosmic word) was touched with inhaling. The air was made suitable for touching by means of the sound A-U or A-O. In exhaling was devotion, confession to the cosmic word, accordingly in the sound M (AUM). This process is today internalised: contemplative thoughts that are filled with will (exhaling) in devoted submission to the cosmos correspond to inhalation. In former times, sound (internal) touched light (of the cosmic thoughts); now human will (internal) touches cosmic thought. On the original yoga training see 212/7(5/27/1922, Dornach).
7(4/2/1922, Dornach) 70ff. 4804 211-07 Mystery of Golgotha People of earlier times felt a continuous life of spirit and soul, remembering their prebirth existence, and did not have any concept of death. Birth and death were merely points of transformation. Only towards the turn of time, is death felt as significant. This was connected with the appearance of the intellect, which was important for the human advancement, but could not be given by the gods but by Ahriman. He who is very different from us (gods) and whose evolutionary path is very different from ours. Only since this time Ahriman influences the human consciousness. He worked on the unconscious before. Nevertheless, his complete claim to power was ruined by the fact that one of the gods, Christ, went through death: The gods enriched their wisdom with the knowledge of death. 7(4/2/1922, Dornach) 79ff. 4804 211-08 Mystery of Golgotha The event of Damascus: Paul experiences that the old divine wisdom of the scribes has led to the error (by the work of Ahriman) of the condemnation of Jesus. 198/4(4/2/1920, Dornach): Paul had his experience of Damascus possibly at the age of 33 years (age of Jesus) and worked for the purposes of the Risen One for further 33 years: It is a strange parallelism between the life of Christ Jesus and the life of Paul. Only that the life of Christ Jesus was just filled by the internal existence of Christ, that such a strong initiated post-experience of this event was with Paul that enabled him to produce the fitting ideas for Christianity as the first of humankind in a period which is commensurate with the earth-life of Christ Jesus. 8(4/13/1922, The Hague) 92ff. 4814 211-09 Communion Explanations of the sacrifice of the mass as a representation of the Mystery of Golgotha. 11(4/24/1922, London) 125ff. 4821 211-10 Christ was the threefold aspect of the sun before the Mystery of Golgotha: For Zarathustra He was a divine being, for the Egyptians divine forces = Osiris. The Greeks regarded Him as the effects of the sun in the etheric surrounding of the earth = Zeus. Julian the Apostate (331-363) was initiated into this threefold mystery of the sun in a certain degree. The papal triple crown (Latin: tiara, not the mitre (mitra)!)* was the external symbol of it. See 208-16. * the last triple crown was used at the coronation of Pope Paul VI in 1963.

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