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Book of Revelation work 3_18

Rudolf Steiner. The Book of Revelation and the Work of the Priest. 3/18. GA 346. The Apocalypse. Dornach, 7 September 1924 https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA346/English/UNK1995/19240907v02.html Yesterday we referred to the important turning point in human evolution at the beginning of the third mystery epoch, when man's participation in the cosmic things in transubstantiation and in the act of consecration of man began to occur in the astral body. This is that member of the human being which leaves the physical body as far as ordinary consciousness is concerned, and which is unreceptive for percepts from the environment during the time of the separation. Let's try to get a clear idea of how this astral body functions in present-day man. It is the member which transmits the thoughts which enable us to understand the world. For thoughts about one's environment disappear as soon as one's astral body leaves the physical and etheric bodies. We can round out this idea if we re

Book of Revelation work 2_18

  Rudolf Steiner. The Book of Revelation and the Work of the Priest. 2/18. GA 346. The Apocalypse. Dornach, 6 September 1924 https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA346/English/UNK1995/19240906v02.html We will now take a closer look at the connection between the act of consecration of man and apocalyptic things, so that we will then be able to approach the Apocalypse and to see its significance for the present and future activities of priests. Yesterday we had to point to three past epochs of the mysteries, in so far as these mysteries tried to give each priest experiences which put him into an apocalyptic mood. We pointed out that there was a very ancient mystery period during which the gods descended into the mystery centers in order to work with human beings, and a semi-ancient mystery period when the gods sent down their forces, so that the men who lived in this sphere of forces were able to work with the gods in the cosmos. One could say that the path was completely reversed during the t

Book of Revelation work 1_18

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