Dying into Christ

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "It would become the whole disposition of the human soul to permeate the cosmos, to unite itself with cosmic worlds, if the Michael thought could awaken as a festival thought in such a way that we were to place a Michael festival in the second half of September alongside the Easter festival; if to the thought of the resurrection of the God after death could be added the thought, produced by the Michael force, of the resurrection of man from death, so that man through the Resurrection of Christ would find the force to die in Christ. This means, taking the risen Christ into one's soul during earthly life, so as to be able to die in Him — that is, to be able to die not at death but when one is living."

Source: April 2, 1923. GA 223