tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post7542069108949777328..comments2024-03-26T08:30:05.306+11:00Comments on Christianity is Esoteric: Holy Communion- 4th February 1993Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-9984271249489046152017-11-27T21:07:05.896+11:002017-11-27T21:07:05.896+11:00Man is thus directly united with the spiritual wor...Man is thus directly united with the spiritual world by means of the physically perceptible words and actions of the cultus. Rightly presented, its words and actions bring to our experience on the physical plane a world that corresponds to the pre-earthly one from which we human beings have descended. In just the same sense in which forty- or fifty-year-olds who have met again feel themselves transported back into the world they shared in childhood does a person who joins others at the celebration of a genuine cultus feel himself transported back into a world he shared with them before they descended to the earth. He is not aware of this; it remains a subconscious experience, but it penetrates his feeling life all the more deeply for that very reason. The cultus is designed with this intent. It is designed with a view to giving man a real experience of something that is a memory, an image of his pre-earthly life, of his existence before he descended to the earth. The members of congregations based on a cultus feel especially keenly what, for purposes of illustration, I have just described as taking place when a group comes together in later life and exchanges memories of childhood: They feel transported into a world where they lived together in the super-sensible. This accounts for the binding ties created by a cultus-based community, and it has always been the reason why it did so. Where it is a matter of a religious life that does not have an atomizing effect because of its stress on preaching but instead emphasizes the cultus, the cultus will lead to the forming of a true community or congregation. No religious life can be maintained without the community building element. Thus a community based in this sense on common memories of the super-sensible is a community of sacraments as well. <br />-Rudolf SteinerMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-31856695133813781842017-03-18T07:31:04.772+11:002017-03-18T07:31:04.772+11:00Salt must be added for the reason that salt especi...Salt must be added for the reason that salt especially makes otherwise indigestible things, digestible.<br /><br />Man instinctively puts salt into his soup, because salt has the property of spreading rapidly through the body, and makes food digestible. -Rudolf SteinerMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-13777685879429142102017-03-18T07:30:54.491+11:002017-03-18T07:30:54.491+11:00The relationship between salt and the fluidic disp... The relationship between salt and the fluidic disposition is a fascinating one. For it is that the fluids are drawn unto salt and the salt does love them, completely. The salt is the intermediary between the fluidic natures and the mineral natures. It is because of the nature of salt that the two may not only cooperate, but be attached and interspersed into one another.<br />This is why there becomes often, the practice of a little salt being added to the holy waters of Communion. Firstly, there is the water received as dignified by the action of the ceremony's invocations alone; then secondly, the water is received with a little salt having been added to it by the celebrant and by this the action within the man is transformed physically.<br /><br />Of course the salts within the man do meet with the water ordinarily also. However the blending of the two in this deliberate way, impacts quite dramatically and the potency received is doublefold. <br /><br />-B. Hive <br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.com