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The Festival of Pentecost

5/15/2016

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“…After    His  Resurrection   from  the   dead  and  also  at  His   Ascension,    Christ   was   still  outside  the world  of   men;  He  had   not   endowed   their  individual   ego-consciousness   with  those  forces   which  He  had  already  borne  into Earth-existence   through  the  Mystery  of  Golgotha.

In order  that  this  might  come  about,  the festival  of Ascension  had  to  be  followed   by  the   Festival   of  Pentecost,  the  festival  of  the  outpouring  of  the   Holy   Spirit,   the  Spirit  of   Universal  Love,  upon  the  Apostles.

Rudolf   Steiner   speaks   about   this   as   follows: ‘From the event  of  Pentecost  onwards,  the  Christ-Being  experienced  His  entry  into  the  sphere  of  the  Earth,  which  signified  for  Him  what  the  transition into the  Spirit-Land signifies for the human being.

But  instead  of  ascending  –  as  is  the   case  with  a  human  being  after  death–  to  Devachan,  to  a  spiritual  region (that  is, as far as the World of  Archetypes),  the  Christ  Being  offered   up  His   sacrifice as  though  He  were   building  His  Heaven  on  the  Earth;  He  sought  it  on  the Earth.

Since  then,  and  for  all  future  ages  of  the  Earth,   it  has  become  possible  for  every  man  inwardly  to  experience  the  direct  presence  of  the  macrocosmic  Christ  through an  inner  experience  of  the  new  Holy  Spirit  who  proceeds   from  Him, who  quickens  the  soul  of    man  with a  universal,  cosmic  love, and   reveals  to  his  fully   awake  individual  ego-consciousness  a  perception  of   the     higher    worlds,  so  that  he  may  become  a   conscious witness  and   servant  of  the  Spirit. ” 

​~From ‘The  Cycle  of  the  Year   as  a  Path  of  Initiation, The  Mystery  of  Pentecost’  by Sergei O. Prokofieff

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