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344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Fifteenth Lecture 20 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And the processes that take place in the middle human being, which are quite similar to external natural processes, undergo a strong metamorphosis in the human mind, so that something completely different takes place in the mind than outside of it.
These forms often state, for example, that the child should ask itself whether it has the habit of keeping its hands under the blanket. You can imagine that, from a very early age, the child is made aware of sexual mischief precisely through the obligation required of him by confession.
That is how one would like an anthroposophical book to disappear, to no longer be there, but to go through a process in the person. If it is read in this way, one learns to understand human nature in a concrete way. In this way, an enormous amount can be done in the preparation for the act of communion.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Sixteenth Lecture 20 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Funerals should actually be performed in this mantle. The alb and stole are worn under this mantle. Now, what else I noticed: the alb has the belt around here and this belt is also the color of the chasuble, and this then makes it possible for you to cross the stole where it should be worn at the front.
And the length of the robe: to just above the knee. The surplice goes to the knees. Under this robe you wear the alb. You only wear the surplice when you are officiating. Tunic, surplice, stole.
You can, of course, explain it, but you have to understand that the cult text should be heard, so that the cult text has no meaning if it is not heard. If someone reads it, it is not a cult text at all; he must hear it from someone else.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Seventeenth Lecture 21 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
From that time on, there arose the necessity to understand the event of Golgotha more and more with the human mind. However, during the time when Paul lived on earth, the human mind was still so developed that it could easily understand such things as we then find as the interpretation of the Mystery of Golgotha in all of Paul's letters, where the idea of the re-establishment of human nature, which had fallen as the Adamic nature, through Christ Jesus, also shines through.
And Western Christianity now awaits Johannine Christianity, which will be a Christianity based on the spirit. This is how Schelling understood it in his mature years, at forty or fifty. The other question was about the periods of Church history after the twelve apostles.
There is a lot of native wit in Thuringia with regard to everyday life, but in terms of understanding all higher questions, Thuringia is quite backward. That is why it is difficult to work there.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Eighteenth Lecture 21 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
It is the completely different way of thinking from which one must try to understand such a word as “predestination”. Otherwise, how do you get along with the teachings of Augustine and with the whole dispute of the minds at that time about predestination?
His followers felt the need to bring it to an understanding. Today, people treat such things as if they were none of their business. I don't think that [the teaching] of Augustine can be treated in the same way as that of the Gnostics.
It is to be understood that for three days there was the possibility that he would not overcome death. The struggle lasted so long.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Nineteenth Lecture 22 Sep 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
The conversation was not - Before handing over the beret to Friedrich Rittelmeyer, Rudolf Steiner speaks:] This is therefore the last action to be undertaken out of the spirit, out of which I have undertaken the attempt to realize this movement as a ritual-bearing one in the world, directly out of the spiritual world.
But it is certainly good if you now, before you go out into the world to do your own work, face your soul impartially and frankly, that what you are thinking of undertaking is not fenced off in the world today, but is fought over, and you will have to all that you undertake out of the spirit, which is to begin here through you, what you undertake for those who will entrust themselves to you, you will have to have an alert eye for the fact that what you want to make the soul of your work will be fought over.
You must realize that even those who see things as they are, due to the darkness in people's souls today, do not find it easy to understand that in the evolution of the world, at the time when humanity is to receive the first impulse towards freedom in the course of modern evolution, there have always been souls that have found the way to the divine spiritual world.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Participant Questions Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
The spiritual meaning of the vestments, insofar as this has not yet been hinted at. Is it possible to derive an understanding of the cult vestments from the history of human clothing in general within the history of customs (the cultic origin of all clothing in general, the difference between men's and women's clothing)?
345. The Essence of the Active Word: Lecture I 11 Jul 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
We may not forget that gradually everything in humanity has become abstract and intellectual, and that intellectualism today stands completely in the afterglow. Today we may want to just understand things but we must open our hearts for the realities of the spiritual world. Mere understanding, how this or that can be grasped, is all very good but it is not the reason for a movement to be supported.
Then you really stand within the process and therefore realize: you are not speaking subjectively but you are a tool for the spiritual world. On this rests the substantial understanding that it can be met with the ritual. Contributing most significantly to this is the How in the speech.
There is always more to strive for, more to struggle through and understand because priest consciousness is not a given from one day to the next, you must first allow these things to permeate you.
345. The Essence of the Active Word: Lecture II 12 Jul 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
Now here is another difficulty because it is really necessary to get a better understanding of the Gospels than what currently exists. It is really a matter of understanding that the Words of the Gospels are to be taken up quite differently to any other words, which have flowed from civilisation's development through humanity.
Are we to only take people who emotionally come from underdeveloped religious sentiments, to whom the way of knowledge is closed? How should we approach participants if we don't follow the route of thinking?
(The following sentence was only partially captured.) Under their pillows they use to hide something—take Jacob Böhme for instance—this is no longer found today.
345. The Essence of the Active Word: Lecture III 13 Jul 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
When a person of today says to himself he can be called a “human-being,” he thinks that under all circumstances he has in a comprehensive way with a word, he believes, described an idea. Now, when the starting point is feeling, it is good: in the true sense of the word language is so little understood, making the description which a person as a human-being applies to himself actually something whose understanding must first be wrestled with, whose understanding must first be arrived at.
Then the next step must be to say to oneself: Before I can become capable at all of understanding the entire preliminary stages in existence which leads to me saying “I” to myself, I must undergo three developmental steps—right up to the judgement which I may express as the following: I have no right to call myself “human-being,” I need to first go through three steps of development, I must push through three tests.
We should through inner spiritual means, with internalized feeling and will work towards the understanding of the foregoing, when we can call ourselves ‘human-beings.’ Just consider, my dear friends, what the Act of Consecration will become under your handling when you start from today taking these things I've spoken about into your priest meditations.
345. The Essence of the Active Word: Lecture IV 14 Jul 1923, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
The Mystery of Golgotha is a totally singular event and for its understanding should not be considered out of historical foundations but it should be grasped out of itself.
We can remind ourselves of various impulses towards a possible understanding of the Bible where absolutely no preparatory understanding is regarded necessary and that it should simply be taken in a naive, primitive manner.
We may not remain fixed in an opinion and say that the earlier, the simple people emerging from the lowest levels could not understand the meaning in it. If the meaning of the Gospels is so simple to understand, we must reveal the other side of this wonderful fact: How were these simple people capable of relating such a profound meaning in the Gospels?

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