tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post4024512430957310853..comments2024-03-26T08:30:05.306+11:00Comments on Christianity is Esoteric: Subliminally Yours…18th May 2001Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-77429320186485648822018-03-16T09:01:17.734+11:002018-03-16T09:01:17.734+11:00A person having the experience of the Etheric Chri...A person having the experience of the Etheric Christ would be in difficulties of some kind. He might be very depressed and not know how to manage. Suddenly, a person will be beside him and speak a few words. These will have the effect of completely changing his perspective. His soul disposition will lift and he will see how to go forward with life. Then the stranger will disappear and the person will realize that this could not have been an ordinary human being. In a lecture of 1911 titled “The Etherization of the Blood”3 Rudolf Steiner described this experience in these words:<br /><br />“[H]e may become aware that suddenly someone has come near to help him, to make him alert to this or that. The truth is that Christ has come to him, although he believes that what he sees is a physical man. He will come to realize, however, that this is a supersensible being, because it immediately vanishes. Many a human being will have this experience when sitting silently in his room, heavy-hearted and oppressed, not knowing which way to turn. The door will open, and the etheric Christ will appear and speak words of consolation to him. The Christ will become a living comforter to men. However strange it may as yet seem, it is true nevertheless that many a time when people, even in considerable numbers, are sitting together not knowing what to do and waiting, they will see the etheric Christ. He Himself will be there, will confer with them, will cast His word into such gatherings.”<br /><br />Rudolf Steiner explained that the Etheric Christ has the only etheric body that can appear as a physical body. Moreover, He can appear simultaneously to 10, 100, 1000 people all around the globe. “[Christ has] the only etheric body able to work in the physical world as a human physical body works. It will differ from a physical body in this respect only, that it can be in two, three, even a hundred, a thousand places at the same time.” <br /><br />Quotes from The Etherization of the Blood, 1911<br />http://www.rudolfsteiner.org/articles/article-detail/the-reappearance-of-christ-in-the-etheric-the-re-emergence-of-human-awareness-of-the-etheric-world/Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-20601486987142875152010-12-10T23:03:34.762+11:002010-12-10T23:03:34.762+11:00Dear 888,
THE HOLY SPIRIT
Catholics certainly be...Dear 888,<br /><br /><b>THE HOLY SPIRIT</b><br /><br />Catholics certainly believe in the individual's infilling with the <b>Holy Spirit,</b> but we hold this in balance with the equally important truth that the Church herself is inspired and filled and guided by the <b>Holy Spirit.</b> <br /><br />The Church is the Body of Christ on earth, and as such is a living, moving, breathing, Spirit filled organism--against which the gates of hell will never prevail. <br /><br />It is this <b>Spirit filled Church</b> which provides the balance and ballast for our own individual experience of the infilling of the <b>Holy Spirit.</b> <br /><br />It is the <b>Spirit-filled Church</b> which provides the correction and qualification of our claims. It is the <b>Spirit-filled Church</b> which validates God's guidance in our lives and it is the <b>Spirit</b> filled lives of the saints, the teaching of the Church and the liturgy of the Church which deepen, broaden, complete and sacramentally seal the personal infilling of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />The <b>Holy Spirit</b> will not be subject to human reason. This is the fundamental problem with Protestantism. The intellect becomes one’s compass for truth, instead of the <b>Living Voice of the Holy Ghost.</b> <br /><br />The proper use of reason is to <b>believe in and serve the Divine Revelation revealed by the <b>Holy Ghost</b> in the Church,</b> not to criticize what is revealed endlessly until you satisfy your intellect. <br /><br />The intellect is only perfected after it has <b>accepted the divine truths that God reveals to it.</b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.com