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  • THE REAPPEARANCE OF CHRIST IN THE ETHERIC

    Rudolf Steiner

    THE REAPPEARANCE OF CHRIST IN THE ETHERIC

    The first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles describes Christ's Ascension: "and a cloud received him out of their sight". As the disciples were looking up, two angels appeared and told them that "this same Jesus, taken up from you into heaven shall come again in same way as you have seen him go".

    In 1910, Rudolf Steiner began a series of lectures announcing the advent of Christ's appearance in the sphere of the earth's etheric or life-body, which would take place, he said, in the period between 1930 and 1940. At first, only a few would be aware of it, but in time more and more people - regardless of religious affiliation - will be strengthened, comforted, and infused by the Christ's living presence. Such "Damascus experiences", bespeaking a new natural clairvoyance, have become increasingly common.

    "The Christ will become a living comforter", Steiner writes. "However strange it may seem, it is nevertheless true that often when people, even in considerable numbers, are sitting together not knowing what to do and waiting, they will see the etheric Christ. He will be there, will confer with them, and will cast his word in such gatherings. We are now approaching these times".

    This collection contains Steiner's lectures on this theme, as well as on important related questions such as "the etherization of the blood, the etheric vision of the future, the Sermon on the Mount and the Land of Shambhala, Buddhism and Pauline Christianity, comets, and the three realms between death and rebirth".

    February 2004; Trans.various, Intro. Stephen Usher (13 lectures, 1910-1917; GA 118, 130, 182, 186); AP; 256pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm; pb;

    £16.99  ISBN 9780880105194 - This title is out of print.