Anthroposophy : Jñāna Yoga : Wisdom is better than rubies

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "I endeavored yesterday to make clear to you the immense service done by the Christ to the pupil in occultism. Christ gives him the means whereby he can remember his I when he is in the higher worlds. Without the Christ Impulse this cannot be done. Christ thus becomes a helper in the initiations of modern time and will be increasingly so for pupils in occultism. As man advances in wisdom, he will realize how deep is his need of the Christ. Christ is there for the simplest of men; on the other hand He is also there for those who need wisdom and again more wisdom, and yet again still more wisdom. That is the nature of the Christ, and it is connected with all those things of which we were speaking yesterday. It follows from this that the further man's evolution goes, the more understanding will there be for the Christ. The understanding will grow and spread. There will be an increasing number of people who recognize that while there is complete justification for saying that Christ is there for everyone, even the simplest and humblest, and that everyone can find Him, He is at the same time also there for those who are under the necessity to seek wisdom, those who feel a deep inward obligation to follow after wisdom."

 "Wisdom is crystallized pain."  — Rudolf Steiner

"Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it."

— Proverbs 8:11

"The process of knowing is the process of healing."

— Rudolf Steiner

"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

the pearl of great price

Your pineal gland is your metamorphosed heart from your last incarnation, and is the seed of your next incarnation.

Source: The Rudolf Steiner Archive June 11, 1912

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