Rudolf Steiner. The Book of Revelation and the Work of the Priest. 1/18. GA 346. The Apocalypse. Dornach, 5 September 1924 https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA346/English/UNK1995/19240905v02.html We will begin by pointing to a great thing in our time, namely, to that great thing which must consist of an entirely new attitude of the human soul to what works its way through priests' activities. For as long as mankind has existed on earth, people have always been attracted to what is present in the activities of priests when an act of consecration of man was performed. However, if we want to understand how the act of consecration of man must appear to the priest who celebrates it and to the layman who participates in it, we must take a look at what the act of consecration of man was in the course of man's development on earth, what it is and what it must become. Looked at from another angle what the act of consecration of man is when it is celebrated, is a permeation of this religiou