Succession of Christ
The following of Christ What counts for the Christ is not the group in which the person is placed, but the individual. "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple", (Lk 14:26). The person who works on his ego development. "All designations for the Christ that are different from the "I am" are not correct... And looking up to the Christ, stand always in our soul: the Christ is the archetype of the I, my I aspire to become an image of this archetype. And this archetype cannot be described by any other name than "I am". ... The impulse is given into the I, and the I must develop it from its own, inwardly stimulating power", (B096, 3.3.1909, note A/B). Through self-education and self-development of the ego, through striving for a Christian work in the world through one's own ego. To transform what comes to life in the ego into love. To recognize evil, to deal with it, to transform it into good. "Whoever wants to follow me... bear the cross", (Lk., 9:23). My development today also means to strive for a legitimate connection to higher spiritual worlds. "My kingdom is not of this world," (John 18:36). Learning to recognize the origin and purpose of human development. That we come from the spiritual world and we go back to the spiritual world through higher development. Those who recognize such things recognize the kingdom of Christ. It is the spiritual world. The Christ wants to teach us the transformation of the world, the recognition of that which wants to hold us in the physical and to transform this into good, these resisting forces. Seeking and practising self-knowledge, what is the higher in us, what is in us that wants to hold us in this physical-material world. "Then he said to them all: He who wants to follow me, deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it", (Lk. 9:23-24) Recognize the world as a spiritual-divine world as God created us the Christ as the Son of the Father. "He who now confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, in him abides God, and he in God", (1.Letter John, 4:15) Through the Christ we recognize the spiritual-divine world, from where we come and where we will go again. "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me,'" (John 14:6). The Christ shows every man his way, into the spiritual world and he stands as the great guardian of the threshold before man, to deny man the way into the spiritual world until he is mature enough to do so, An individuality very close to Jesus Christ, like the true Count of Saint Germain, expressed these beings of Christ in his music. A music that does not disturb, that does not press. A music that does not want to impose its will, that is not ordering, not cheerful, not powerful, not transforming, that stands completely free. Huge - fragile small. Love-beinglike, in which one recognizes: I am not worthy that you enter under my roof ... All-pervading freedom preserving love. Fate sustaining love power. It stands there quietly, bearing everything and waiting for us. By this, we also and essentially mean what we experience as problematic, destructive and causing pain. In order to understand the being of this human soul and its utterances, to bear them, to carry them, to understand how to live with them, to transform them and thus contribute to healing. It is not the shielding, the rejection, but the knowing through compassion, that the Christian is based on. Being in the middle by going through, does not only mean going through what is sympathetic to you, but going through everything to understand, experience and transform it. The world will become as people develop into the future. People and humanity will work more and more on themselves to form the shells of Christ for the future. The world will be as people will be. This is a secret of the Grail: the world will be what man does. Man can decide for or against the justified development of humanity - he can decide for a Christian or against a Christian path. The path to Christ is the conscious, self-responsible transformation of the human being. "I will tear down the temple and in three days I will build it again," (John 2:19). When we unit with the Christ, then he will be the one who helps us to transform our own bodily body so that we can build the temple in which the divine can enter. To ennoble our lower self in such a way that we can draw in higher self. The knowledge of the divine-spiritual world about the presence of God and the Christ-being is also a knowledge that man was created by God and the angel hierarchies. This knowledge can only be a humility towards the divine world. Humility towards the gift of being allowed. We ourselves are the gift that the gods have given us. (how beautiful it is to experience this in the most beautiful icons of Christian Russian art). Man in humility as a completely empty vessel open to the new Christian being. "... be contained by the victory of the forces that are only in the face, over all other forces of the human form... an eye that lives and radiates only compassion, a mouth that is not fit to eat but only to speak those words of truth that are the conscience that lies on the tongue of man, and if the forehead can be formed ... what we call the lotus flower between the eyes ... This is not beauty, but it is what will triumph over decay: the figure of Christ, where all compassion, all love, all conscience is due". (B115, 8.5.1912). Novalis' spiritual (magical) idealism, the confidence that is lived out in it, the harmony that goes beyond the existing, this innermost Western goodness, the ability to love, devotion and love, like a model heart of love (B115, 29.12.1912). "Old wonders, future times Strange things, Never leave my heart. I'll never forget this part, Where the source of light is holy Washes away the dream of pain. ", (Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen).
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