Esoteric Christianity & the Christ

Zarathustra's Persian name for the cosmic Sun-Being, identified by Rudolf Steiner as the Christ-Logos before incarnation.

The wisdom of the human being. The consciousness that arises when the human awakens to itself as natural and spiritual.

Steiner's name for community formed when people wake up in the encounter with each other's soul and spirit, replacing the old bonds of blood and language.

The cosmic act of love that descended into Earth at the Mystery of Golgotha and now works as the central impulse of human spiritual evolution.

The initiate-individuality first surfaced in the 1614 Fama Fraternitatis manifesto, who in Steiner's account transmits the Rosicrucian-Christian stream into modern spiritual science.

The modern seven-step initiation Steiner inherited from Christian Rosenkreuz and reformulated for consciousness-soul humanity, centred on Study, the Rose-Cross meditation, and a karma-conscious life.

The Christmas Conference (25 to 31 December 1923, Dornach) was the meeting at which Rudolf Steiner refounded the General Anthroposophical Society and laid down the Foundation Stone Meditation as its mantric centre.

The macrocosmic Sun-Logos who descended at the Baptism in the Jordan and became the spiritual Lord of the Earth at Golgotha.

Steiner's image of the present age as a Weltsilvester, where a dying cosmic year of civilization gives way to a new spiritual age that must be consciously begun.

The January 6 festival of the Christ descending into Jesus at the Jordan baptism, the original chief Christ-feast before it became Christmas.

The inner schooling tradition that approaches the Christ event as cosmic deed, transmitted through the Rosicrucian-Christian stream and continued in The Christian Community.

Etheric Christ in Anthroposophy is Steiner's name for the Second Coming of Christ as an etheric-realm event (not bodily-physical), perceptible to imaginative cognition from 1933 onward.

Maitreya Buddha in Anthroposophy is the future Buddha-individuality whose final earthly incarnation, around 3000 CE, will herald the etheric-Christ epoch to humanity as the great teacher of universal loving-kindness.

The great Sun Initiate of late Atlantis who led the most evolved humans into the Gobi oracle in Central Asia and seeded every post-Atlantean cultural epoch through the seven Holy Rishis.

Steiner's identification of the Nathan-Jesus Mary with the heavenly cosmic Sophia, the Wisdom-being who descends to become the seed of Anthroposophia.

The Zarathustra-individuality who, after carrying the Christ in the Nathan Jesus body for three years, continued through history as one of the great teaching-masters of the Christian-Rosicrucian stream.

The Mystery of Golgotha is the once-only cosmic event in which the Sun-Spirit / Logos united with the Earth's evolution through the crucifixion of Jesus.

The spiritual archetype-pattern of the physical body, damaged in Lemuria and re-established as the Resurrection Body of Christ.

Steiner's triad for late-1800s cultural decline: empty speech kills truth, frozen custom kills community, and mechanical deed kills the heart in the will.

The perfected Phantom that Christ won at Golgotha, the incorruptible archetype-body that now seeds the future spiritual evolution of every human being.

The two opposed currents in every human encounter: a social force that falls asleep into the other, and an antisocial force that asserts self-consciousness.

Sophia in Anthroposophy is the cosmic Divine Wisdom, identified by Steiner with the heavenly Mary (specifically the Nathan-Jesus Mary) and as the cosmic-feminine counterpart to the Logos.

The Sun Logos is Steiner's term for the cosmic Christ-Being's location prior to incarnation, the highest member of the Exusiai who united with Earth at Golgotha.

Sun Spirit in Anthroposophy is the totality of the Sun's spiritual existence: the cosmic Sun-Being whose highest rank is Christ (the Sun Logos), with Kyriotetes, Sun-Archangels, and the seven Elohim active in the Sun-sphere.

Steiner's polarity between the old wisdom bound to blood and race, and the freely chosen Christ-community of spirit and soul.

The Christian Community is the sacramental movement founded 16 September 1922 with Friedrich Rittelmeyer, retaining seven renewed sacraments with women in the priesthood from its founding.

For Steiner, the lighted Christmas tree is a young symbol of the ancient Paradise Tree, picturing the human being's descent into matter and rebirth in light.

A medieval Norwegian ballad Steiner read as a genuine record of an initiation-sleep through the Thirteen Holy Nights of the cosmic New Year.

Steiner's view that society's three spheres mirror the soul's path before birth, between birth and death, and after the gate of death.

Steiner's twofold annunciation of Christ's birth: the Magi's dying star-wisdom and the shepherds' earth-born heart-knowledge, two polar paths meeting at Golgotha.

Steiner's threefold genealogy of civilization: three ancient Mystery-streams that gave birth, in turn, to our spiritual, rights, and economic life.

Two folk nativity plays from the village of Oberufer, collected by Karl Julius Schroer and revived by Steiner, whose performers prepared morally so the Christmas Child could conquer hearts.

The thirteen nights from Christmas to Epiphany when, for Steiner, the earth-soul is most deeply in-drawn and the human soul most open to the spiritual world.

Steiner's reading of empire as three forms: the god-king, the divine symbol, and the empty economic platitude that opens a space for spirit.

Two Jesus Children in Anthroposophy is Steiner's exegesis of the two gospel genealogies: the Solomon Jesus (Matthew, Davidic-royal line, Zarathustra-individuality) and the Nathan Jesus (Luke, priestly-Adam line) unite at age twelve in the temple.

Steiner's 1919 Betriebsraete: factory-born organs of economic self-administration meant to replace the wage relationship with associative partnership, not to parliamentarize the workplace.

Zarathustra in Anthroposophy is the founding-individuality of the ancient Persian sun-religion whose I-being reincarnated as the Solomon Jesus child and transferred to the Nathan Jesus at age twelve.