"In the world you shall have tribulation; But be of good cheer: I have overcome the world." — John 16:33 |
Rudolf Steiner: "The modern materialistic world conception is a product of fear and anxiety. This fear lives on in the outer actions of human beings, in the social structure, in the course of history ... Why did people become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which is given in material existence? Because they were afraid to descend into the depths of the human being."
"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." — Luke 9:23-24
I am come to send fire on the Earth;
and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with;
and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
—Luke 12:49-50
Holy Sonnet 14 by John Donne
Rudolf Steiner: "In older languages the self was not specifically designated, for it was contained within the verb. The 'I' was not directly mentioned. The verb was used to show what one was doing, and this was what indicated that one was speaking about oneself. There was no name for the self. It only came about in later times that the human being gave his self a name, and in our German language that name [ich] contains the initials of Jesus Christ, which is an important symbolic fact." [Iesus CHristus: ICH]
Continued: Larry the Wookie
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