Text: The Fifth Gospel, Rudolf Steiner. ....".The Christ spirit only united with the three bodies(of Jesus) gradually in a process that took three years. Initially the connection was only a loose one. The three bodies were only truly filled with the christ spirit at a time when death was not far off. Compared to all the pain and suffering Jesus of Nazareth experienced in his three stages of development, the suffering the Christ went through now was infinitely greater. Over a period of three years the Christ spirit slowly found a way of entering into the three human bodies. It was continual pain, but pain that was transformed into love and love and love. If we investigate the way Christ Jesus lived among his close followers during the three years, we find it was different from year to year. In the first year Christ was only loosely connected with the body of Jesus of Nazareth. At any moment the physical body might be in one place and the Christ spirit would be somewhere else. When the other gospels speak of the Lord appearing to the disciples in some place or other, the physical body would be somewhere else, and the christ spirit would move around the country.... That was at the beginning. As time went on the Christ spirit united more and more closely with the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus it would happen, later on, that when the christ was among his closest disciples, these would be so strongly connected to him in heart and mind that he was not separate from them as it were. The more he entered into his body, the more did he come to live in the inmost being of his disciples. Going about in their midst he would speak now through one of them and now through another, for he had become so much a part of them that it would not always be Christ Jesus who uttered the words but sometimes one of his disciples................As Christ went about with his disciples in this way he became increasingly more dangerous in the eyes of his enemies who would say"How can we lay hands on him" We can't arrest the whole company. If we take one who is speaking we shall never know if he is the one or not." They never knew if the one they saw before them was the one they wanted..... There was something very special about this company and because of this it was necessary to have a betrayal. The matter was not as it usually represented..... The kiss would be meaningless-unless the situation was such that someone who was in a position to know had to show those who did not know which was the right man. The Christ spirit only united completely with the bodies of Jesus of Nazareth when great suffering had to be faced, and the Mystery of Golgotha was beginning. One of the facts emerging when the seer's eye is directed to those events in the Akashic record is that at the time when the Christ hung on the cross, a darkness fell on the Earth in the region around Golgotha that was like an eclipse of the Sun...... Seen with a seer's eye, life on Earth during an eclipse is very different from the usual. .... While this change happened on Earth, also in the physical sense, the Christ spirit entered into the living Earth aura. Through the death of Christ Jesus, the Earth received the Christ impulse. The greatest event that ever happened on Earth can only be described in such simple, halting words....... When the body of Jesus was taken from the cross and laid in a tomb, another natural event occured, rather like something entering the moral life of a person. The seer's eye can observe a whirlwind arising and a fissure opening in the ground. This received the body of Jesus, and the burial cloths were whirled away from the corpse..... These two events - the darkening of the Earth and the earthquake accompanied by a wirlwind - show that natural events occured at the same time as the spiritual events at that time in Earth evolution. Normaly this happens only in living creatures, for instance when thinking and an voluntary decision precede a movement of a hand. Only at one special moment did a spiritual and two physical events come together. .... Our studies have gradually shown what must come alive in our souls so that we may truly have a part in the ongoing evolution of humanity. The meaning and purpose of human evolution on Earth is that human souls should become more and more conscious of their mission. The Christ has come. His impulse has been a real influence. For a long time it was active more at an unconscious level. Then he had to be able to work through what had so far been understood. He had an influence because of what he was, not because of what people understood. It will however, become more and more necessary for people to understand the Christ, who entered into the bodies of Jesus of Nazareth and through them into the Earth's aura and therefore the living evolution of humanity."(Rudolf Steiner, Dec.1913)

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