Rudolf Steiner: "Goethe felt at the end of his Faust that only Christian symbolism could express his poetic intentions; he felt that Christianity must inspire the most noble connections between human souls, that it must found bonds of brotherly love not based on blood but between souls devoted to the spirit. We feel the impetus still inherent in Christianity as potential when we think about the conclusion of the Gospels. From the cross on Golgotha, Christ Jesus gazes down upon his mother, she looks to her son, and he bestows community on a humanity previously based only in blood relations. A mother was once given a son, a son a mother, through bonds of blood. These blood relations were not be abolished through Christianity; they remain. But, in addition, spiritual connetions are to be forged, spiritual bonds that irradiate blood relations with spiritual light. This is the reason that Christ Jesus said from the cross: Woman, behold, this is your son! And to the disciple he said: Behold, this is your mother! The bonds formerly only founded in blood were bequeathed from the cross as spiritual ties."
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