Regarding Inspirations

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "In that period at the beginning of our reckoning of time, when the remembrance of the Event of Golgotha began to be celebrated which later became the Easter festival — in that period in which the Easter festival was livingly felt and perceived, when man still took part in the turning of the year as I have just described it — then it was in essence so, that people felt their own lives surrendered, given over to the outer spiritual-physical world. Their feeling told them that in order to make their lives complete, they had need of the vision of the Entombment and the Resurrection, of that sublime image of the Mystery of Golgotha. But it is from filling the consciousness in such a way that inspirations arise for human beings. People are not always conscious of these inspirations, but it is a secret of human evolution that from these religious attitudes toward the phenomena of the world, inspirations for the whole of life proceed."

Source: April 2, 1923. GA 223