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Anthroposophical Society in America NEWSLETTER Anthroposophical Society in America Summer 1984 Published by the Anthroposophical Society in America for its Members Con tents Rudolf Steiner How Do I Find the Christ? (Oct. 16, 1918) 2 Gundhild Bock Kacer The Anthroposophical Society: Name and Task of Member’s Groups — A Historical Study 4 Christof Lindenau Toward a Spiritual Practice of Thinking— A Guide for the Study of Anthroposophy. Part I, The Task 9 George O’Neil and Gisela O’Neil How to Read a Book: A Study of Rudolf Steiner’s Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Part VI 13 PUBLICATIONS Brian Gray Rudolf Steiner: The Tension Between East and West 16 Barbara Betteridge Rudolf Steiner: The Cycle of the Year as Breathing Process of the Earth 16 Alice Wulsin Rudolf Steiner: An Occult Physiology 17 Kenneth Melia Wolfgang Schad, Ed.: Goetheanistische Naturwissenschaft Vol. 3, Zoologie 18 Magda Lissau H.D. van Goudoever: A Contemplation About Rudolf Steiners Calendarof the Soul 19 Patricia Kaminski Rudolf Steiner: Man in the Past, the Present and the Future. The Sun Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science 19 Douglas Sloan Rudolf Steiner: The Art of Lecturing 19 Gisela O’Neil Heinz Mueller: Healing Forces in the Word and Its Rhythms 20 David Bittleston B. Masters & D. Bittleston, Ed.: Child and Man 21 Maria St. Goar A. Bittleston & D.T. Jones, Ed.: The Golden Blade 1984 21 Ruth Mariott Harald Falck-Ytter: Polarlicht 22 Malcolm Gardner William R. Fix: The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution 22 Gisela O’Neil Hermann Koepke: Das neunte Jahr 23 Stewart C. Easton Geoffrey Ahern: The Rudolf Steiner Movement and the Western Esoteric Tradition 24 MEMBERSHIP M. K. Maulsby Kimball at Eighty 26 New Members and Members Who Have Died 27 REPORTS D. Adams & S. Usher Promotion Efforts of the Anthroposophic Press 28 D.R. Dauenhauer Anthroposophic Efforts in Seattle, Wash. 28 Maria St. Goar The Southeastern Regional Group: Overcoming Isolation 29 Barbara Betteridge Mystery Play Performance in Los Angeles at Easter 29 Patricia Kaminski Eighth Annual Spring Conference in Fair Oaks, Calif. 30 L.F.C. Mees A First Impression of America 30 Rudolf Steiner On Plagiarism: The Story of Max Heindel (June 10, 1917) 31 NOTES Notes, Programs, Announcements 32 How Do I Find the Christ? possibility of finding our soul anew and joining it to the spirit. On the one hand, we may experience the futility of existence, and, on the other, the glorification of existence by RUDOLF STEINER out of our own self, if we transcend the feeling of Zurich, October 16, 1918 powerlessness. We may feel the disease in our lack of power, and we may feel the Healer, the healing power, if This is the last section of the lecture, “How Do I Find the Christ, ” we have felt the powerlessness, and have become related translated by Henry & Lisa Monges, published in 1941 by the to death in our soul. In feeling the Healer we feel that we Anthroposophic Press. bear something within our soul which can rise from death at any time within our own inner experience. If we search for these two experiences, we find the Christ in our own We live in the fifth post-Atlantean period and have soul. advanced far into it, we live in the twentieth century. The This is an experience which humanity approaches. consequence is that, when we as souls are bom, and enter Angelus Silesius stated it in speaking the significant the world of the senses from the supersensible world, we words: have experienced something in the spiritual world cen­ turies before. Just as the contemporaries of the Mystery of Christ cannot redeem thee— Golgotha gained, centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha, “The Cross of Golgotha from Evil can ne’er redeem a complete understanding of it, so did we experience, thee, while still in the spirit world, a kind of reflected image of So long as it remain unraised within thee.” the Mystery of Golgotha, before we were born, centuries before we were born. But this is valid only for the human It may be raised within us when we feel the two poles: beings of the present age. Present-day human beings bear Powerlessness through our body, resurrection through our within themselves, when they are born in the physical spirit. world, a kind of reflected splendor of the Mystery of This inner experience, consisting of these two parts, is Golgotha, a kind of reflected image of the experiences that which draws us toward the Mystery of Golgotha. This human beings had centuries after the Mystery of is an event, in regard to which we cannot excuse ourselves Golgotha. by saying that we have no supersensibly developed facul­ Certainly, this impulse cannot be perceived directly ties. We do not need any such thing. We need merely by someone who has no supersensible vision; but every­ actual self-knowledge, and also the will to combat pride, a one may experience the effect of this impulse within fault which is so very common today, and which prevents himself. And if he experiences it, he finds the answer to the the human being from observing that he becomes proud question: How do I fin d the Christ? and haughty in respect of his own forces as soon as he You find the Christ if you have the following experi­ depends upon them. If, with regard to our own pride, we ences: First, the experience of saying to yourselves: I shall are unable to feel that we have become powerless through strive for self-knowledge as far as it is possible for me to do our own forces, we are then unable to feel either death or so as an individual human personality. But nobody who resurrection; we shall then never feel the thought of honestly strives for this self-knowledge will, as a human Angelus Silesius: being of today, be able to say anything but the following: I “The Cross of Golgotha from Evil can ne’er redeem cannot comprehend what I am striving for. My power of thee, comprehension lags behind my striving; I feel powerless So long as it remain unraised within thee.” in regard to my striving.— This experience is very impor­ tant. This experience of a certain feeling of powerlessness But, if we are able to feel powerlessness and recovery everyone should have, who takes honest counsel with from it, we have the great good fortune of really having an himself on self-knowledge. This feeling of powerlessness actual relationship with Christ Jesus. For this experience is healthy, for it is nothing but the sensation of disease. is the repetition of what we experienced centuries pre­ For, when we have a disease and do not feel it, we are just viously in the spirit world. Thus we have to search for it in that much more ill. By realizing our powerlessness to raise our soul here on the physical plane in its reflected image. ourselves to the Divine at any time in our life, we feel Search yourselves, and you will find powerlessness; and implanted within ourselves the disease we have described. after having found it, you will find redemption from it— And in feeling this disease we feel that the soul would be the resurrection o f the soul by the spirit. condemned by the body, as it is today, to die with the body. But do not let yourselves be misled in these matters If we feel this powerlessness strongly enough, the change through what is preached today by mysticism or even by comes. Then there appears another experience which tells certain positive confessions. If Harnack, for example, us that if we do not surrender to what we are able to gain speaks of the Christ, his statements are not true, for the only through our bodily forces, but if we devote ourselves simple reason that what he says about the Christ — read it to what the spirit bestows upon us, we may then overcome yourselves! — may be said of God in general. What he says this inward soul-death. We are permitted to have the may just as well be said of the God of Jews, and just as well 2 of the God of the Mohammedans, of every God. Many truth. Spiritual science tries to rise from this confession: people who today claim to be spiritually awakened say: I “with every statement you speak untruth,” by proceeding experience God within me but they only experience God in a certain way which I have often characterized. I have the Father in a very weakened form, because they do not often told you that in spiritual science the matter of chief perceive that they are ill, but merely base their words on importance is not what is stated—for this would fall just as tradition.... Yet such people have no Christ; for the much a prey to this judgment of powerlessness—but the Christ-experience is not the realizing of the God in the matter of chief importance is how a statement is made. Try human soul, but consists of two experiences—the death of to follow up (you may do this also with my writings) how a the soul through the body, and the resurrection of the soul subject is characterized from the most varied points of through the spirit. And anyone who tells mankind that he view, how the endeavor is made to characterize a thing feels not only the God within himself, as it is also claimed from one side and then from another; only through this by the merely rhetorical theosophists, but who is able to procedure are we able to deal with things.
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