How do I find the Christ
How do I associate myself with the Christ

How to find the Christ Today we live with the materialistic world view of the natural sciences. Represented by the public education system, the public mass media and the ruling societies. If man is satisfied with this, he lives in the world view of materialism, as an atheist and in a state of denial of God. But the whole human being is a creation of God and the angelic hierarchies. But every human being can overcome this illusion of denying God in our contemporary civilizations and come to a conviction of the existence of God. If he does not, the human being is in an abnormal, pathological state of denial of God. "The one who does not find the Father is in some way born with deficient faculties, he is not healthy. To be an atheist is to be physically ill in some way, and all atheists are physically ill in some way. Not finding the Christ is a fate, not an illness, because finding the Christ is an experience, not a mere stating. One finds the Father principle by stating what one should actually see in nature", (B181, 27.1.1923). To find the Christ, however, lies in the respective fate of man, the fate that guides one to come so far as to be able to find the Christ. "One finds the Christ only by having a rebirth experience. In this rebirth experience, the Christ appears as an independent being, not merely as the Son of the Father. For then one learns to recognize: As a modern man, if he only holds on to the Father, he cannot feel completely human. Therefore the Father has sent the Son, that the Son may complete his work on earth", (B181, 27.1.1923). The Christ can be found for us if we really try to strive for self-knowledge with all our strength and conviction. This will lead us to learn a lot about ourselves, but at the same time it will show us an impossibility, an own powerlessness. It is a limit, our physical body, that prevents us from coming to full self-knowledge. Every person carries in his physical body an impulse of illness that makes us deniers of God (see the chapter "The adversaries of good..." and Gondishapur). This denial of God prevents us from full self-knowledge, brings us to the point of powerlessness, never to be able to progress in our development. It is decisive to allow this powerlessness experience of being in the physical in its entire intensity. Then an envelope can come to us in the recognition of the spiritual. Where we recognize the nothingness of the physical existence and recognize what the spirit can give us, there we can overcome this powerlessness that is like a death of the soul. In our soul we carry the ability to experience the Christ. "By feeling the Savior, we feel that we carry something in our soul that can rise from death at any time in our own inner experience." (B128, 16.101918). The arrogance, the delusion of our own greatness can prevent us from reaching this fainting experience. Then we become caught in the delusion of not being able to find Christ. A strong will is needed to fight arrogance, only then will we recognize the limitations of our own powers. "But then, when we can feel powerlessness and restoration from powerlessness, then the stroke of luck occurs for us that we have a truly real relationship with the Christ Jesus" (B128, 16.101918). In this way, the Christ, the person who is also connected with reality, with life on earth, will only find him there. To place oneself without ifs and buts in life. Novalis: "Among a thousand happy hours, That's how I found myself in life, Only one remained true to me; One where in my heart, Who had died for us. My world was shattered, Like stung by a worm Withered my heart and blossom; All my life's possessions, Every wish was in my grave, And to make matters worse, I was still here. Since I was so quietly ill, Eternally crying and longing away, And just stay scared and delusional: "Went up to me from above Way of the grave stone pushed, And opened my insides. ...who I saw, and who by his side... ...but imbued with love... you've done so much... ...of the supper / Divine meaning / Is the riddle of the earthly senses; /... We eat of his body / And drink of his blood / Forever /... ...Now the world seems to have a new meaning... First like a fatherland; A new life you accept Charmed from his hand... ..he lives, and will be with us now, When everything leaves us! And so this day shall be A world rejuvenation festival... ...As only moved by love Gave himself over wholly to us, And into the earth The cornerstone of a city of God? ....he is the star, he is the sun, He is the Bronze of eternal life, From herb and stone and sea and light His childlike face shimmers. In all things his childlike action. His hot love will never rest He unconsciously cuddles up to his Infinitely firm to each breast. A God for us, a child for himself He loves us all dearly, ...shall be our meat and drink, Treusinn is his dearest thanks." Spiritual songs... The Christ has become the spirit of the earth and he has restored the human body, the new Adam. When we walk on the earth, drink or eat, we walk in the body of Christ, "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke bread, and gave it to them, saying, 'This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me! Likewise, after the meal, he took the cup and said: "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood which is poured out for you", (Luke 22:19-20). And our physical body is to a certain extent the new Adam's body. "Behold, the dwelling of God among men! He will dwell among them, and they will be His people; and He, God, will be with them", (Rev 21:3). Thus the Christ in us and around us is always near. "I did not see a temple in the city. For the Lord their God, the ruler of all creation, is their temple, he and the Lamb. The city needs no sun or moon to shine on it. For the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb", (Rev 21:22-23). And the Lord, the Christ dwells among us human beings and can meet us at any time, in each of our fellow men in the human body. In us we can go through one of the Christian initiation paths and connect with the Christ. "And in the same measure, humanity ascends in communion with the Christ Jesus. . . More and more man must learn to understand what Paul said: "It is not I who work, but Christ who works in me" (B079, 24.6.1908). To erect the new temple means to work on one's own self, on one's astral body, etheric body and physical body, to make them worthy to unite with Christ. "What the soul receives as spirit must be able to pour into the form. Just as the man who straightens up and becomes a temple, the man who is strengthened in himself, so the soul must be able to become a temple that receives the spirit. This is what our age is for, that it makes the beginning with a temple art that can speak aloud to the people of the future: The temple is the person, the person who receives the spirit in his soul! (B158, 12.12.1911). In his lecture of 11.2.1919 (B064), Rudolf Steiner describes two ways of the: "How does one come to live a Christian life?" On the one hand the strength, patience and interest to listen to each other, but also to speak openly about what moves you. "Whatever you do to one of the least of my brothers, you have done to me", (Mt, 25, 40). „... Whatever one of the least of your brothers thinks, you must see that I think in him, and that I feel with you, measuring the other's thoughts against your own, having social interest in what is going on in the other soul", (B064, 11.2.1919). The path of thought towards Christ, where I can overcome my own innate and acquired prejudices, and thus listen to my fellow man, and not face him with prejudice and antipathy. On the other hand the path of will as an impulse for self-education. To find this, to work it out, to get used to it, to a new idealism (self-educated idealism), which goes beyond the previous one. "Not I but the Christ in me", (Gal. 2,20). The path of the will to Christ, where I live out not only what I have brought with me. Rather, I work my way through the world to an understanding of what is needed and what is necessary from it in terms of a new ideal, a new idealism, in order to help my fellow human beings and the world and to find a way into a humane future. "Idealism of rebirth", (B064, 11.2.1919) To recognize the speech of one's fellow human being as an experience of the presence of Christ. People can appear today who can present the most beautiful things and the most comprehensive contexts without much work. But today it does not depend on what is said, but on who says it. Only the one who has really had to work out the content of his speech word for word, thought for thought, in his life, the one who has really penetrated the word with his ego in this way, his speech is true. It is a struggle between demonic statements that are easily obtained and the Word through which the Christ, the Logos, can work. "That which has become of the Word, of the Logos in the course of development, it can only be understood when the Logos is in turn connected with the Christ, when we become conscious: Our body, by becoming the instrument of utterance, forces the truth down, so that it partially dies on our lips, and we enliven it again in Christ, when we become aware that we must spiritualize it, that is, think with the Spirit, not accept language as such, but think with the Spirit. (B128, 16.101918). In the lecture "The three ways of the soul to Christ", (B115, 16.4.1912) Rudolf Steiner describes ways to recognize Christ. "This first way is the one through the so-called Christian documents, through the Gospels", (B115, 16.4.1912). It is not a cold intellectual reading and wanting to fathom provable historical processes, it is rather a reading of the Holy Scriptures, which can bring forth images in the consciousness of the reader, in which shine forth and through, spiritual truths from the higher worlds. "The second way in which the human soul can seek the Christ is what can be called the way through inner experience, which preferably numerous souls must follow in the present and in the near future, out of their particular nature and characteristics",(B115, 16.4.1912). Life and human destiny, with the appropriate attention, shows us how it wants to help us on the way to higher development and knowledge. "The third way is the one which can at least be begun to be understood in our time by the anthroposophical movement, the way through initiation", (B115, 16.4.1912). How do I connect with the Christ Love as selfless feeling, wanting and thinking, which wants and demands nothing for itself but wants the good for the other person. Without expecting anything in return. The one who recognizes this higher, independent, free love can also understand the Christ impulse. "The one who can only feel the Christ-impulse correctly, the one who can also feel the higher of love in relation to power and strength and wisdom. (B115, 24.12.1912). Wisdom is divided between the wisdom of the gods and the wisdom of the Luciferian powers, therefore there is no divine omniscience. The power and strength in the world - it is divided between the divine and the Ahrimanic powers, therefore there is no divine omnipotence. But the love has remained completely with God, it is solely divine. Man's striving should be the attainment of wisdom, we are placed in the game of power and strength, but our highest goal should be love. The love-impulse as the deepest grasp of the human being to a general human love. "He who knows love in such a way that he knows love is there to pay debts and brings no advantage for the future, is a Christian." (B11, 17.12.1912). After all, love does not mean rejecting, turning away from, evil in oneself and in others. It means facing evil and making an effort to change it for the good. For today man should not, as before the event of Golgotha, conquer his lower nature. But rather to absorb it and transform it into the good. Love the evil good. In the mystery of Golgotha, the Christ united himself with the earth. He will become more and more the spirit of the earth. At the goal of the earth's development, the Christ will be the real thing and the souls of men will be completely imbued with Him, will form a whole with Him. In this way, the Christ as Spirit has connected Himself with the earth and gradually creates His sheaths for Himself. "Gradually, in the course of the epochs, around the original, purely spiritual Christ impulse, which descended in the baptism of John, something is built up that is like an astral body, etheric body and physical body. All these sheaths are formed by forces that must be developed by humanity on earth", (B115, 8.5.1912). The astral body of Christ is formed by people's wonder (amazement) at the great truths and insights of the spiritual world. "The Christ takes his astral body from the earth development out of all the feelings which have lived as astonishment in the individual human beings", (B115, 8.5.1912). The etheric body of the Christ is formed by all feelings of compassion. "And every time a feeling of compassion or of compassion is developed in the soul, it forms an attraction for the Christ-impulse, and the Christ connects with the soul of man through compassion and love. Compassion and love are the forces from which the Christ forms his etheric body until the end of the development of the earth. (B115, 8.5.1912). "Thirdly, that which enters into the human soul as if from a higher world, is the conscience to which man submits, to which he attaches a higher value than his own individual moral instincts. It is with him that the Christ is most intimately united: from the conscience impulses of the individual human souls, the Christ takes his physical body. (B115, 8.5.1912). To unite with the Christ leads through the conscious spiritual working through of the world, which lets one experience fate. Consciously connecting with the world as a world willed by God, which should bring man to self-consciousness. The world as a revelation of the spiritually divine. "Christianity is a view that sees in everything a revelation of the divine", (B10, 4.9.1906). To recognize oneself confidently and to bring one's own ego in balance with the working beings of the world and thus also to find the Christ in world being. To find the Christ in one's fellow human beings, and if people can bring themselves ever closer in their Christ-connectedness, they will also be able to become a vessel for the Christ-being. "Further, I say to you: Where two of you become one, why it is that they want to ask, that shall happen to them from my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them", (Matthew 18:19-20). The Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind and rose on the third day. The new Adam of the new human physical power body is there for all of us, without him we could not be. In this way he is Christ connected with all people. But this relationship can only become more intimate for those people who also acknowledge Christ as a divine being and do not deny him. "One is a Christian naturally through his relationship with Christ... No one can be a Christian today in the sense in which one must understand it, who does not have a positive relationship with the supersensible Christ Being. (B171,P.77).
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