Thus we have made a feeble attempt to explore the meaning that the Mystery of Golgotha has for all worlds. We are conscious of the fact how inadequate all attempts must be to penetrate into this holy mystery and to express its essence. Yet it suffices for us when by the honorable friends a feeling could be awakened for the all-encompassing significance of the Mystery of Golgotha.
In
order to only very shortly summarize what has been said, we once again
visualize the great symbol of the cross of Golgotha. As we have seen,
this cross, which represents a synthesis of death and birth, is erected in the
center of world events as the deep primordial, moral intuition of the Father
that is to be realized by the moral fantasy of the Son and the moral technique
of the Spirit. This cross, which is erected on the Earth, must be experienced
by Man, and the Gods, by looking down at this cross, strengthen
themselves towards the fulfillment of their cosmic mission.
Arch-Lucifer
is converted by this cross. Arch-Ahriman of space is defeated by the cross.
For heaven it is a revelation of the Father and the meaning of the
world. For the Earth it is a power that can transform it. For mankind it is its destiny.
Would the Mystery of Golgotha not occur, the Gods would not have had a possibility
to ever gain a knowledge of their own deepest essence.
Would the Mystery of Golgotha not occur, the Earth would have no possibility to
fulfill her deepest desire to become a body for cosmic consciousness.
Would the Mystery of Golgotha not occur, mankind could not be a connecting link between
heaven and Earth. She would then be torn apart.
But
the Mystery of Golgotha is here, did occur. This cosmic cross of Golgotha
stands in the center of world events as a powerful synthesis of cosmic birth and cosmic death, as the crucifixion
of God in a moment of space. As a World Rose Cross it stands there, as the
World Rose Cross that is being erected by all worlds. For all levels of
existence of the Earth are concentrated and transformed in the figure of the
Crucified One. The astrality of the
ancient Moon is transformed into the Manas of Jupiter, the ethereality of
the ancient Sun here becomes the Buddhi of Venus and the physical phantom of Saturn
becomes the Atma of Vulcan, the Resurrection Body that is ensouled by mankind and spiritualized by Christ.
And
this great wonder of the world of a complete transformation of the cosmic past
into the cosmic future occurs through the great Christ-I of the world, in the threefold
corporeality of Jesus in the image of the crucifixion that encompasses the
whole evolution of the world.
It
is the Earth that forms the support of this World Rose Cross. The Gods are the
ones that recognize this mystery and from their knowledge contribute toward the possibility that through the power of Golgotha the lowermost can in the course
of the future evolution of the world be transformed into the uppermost.
However, the Mystery of Golgotha is uppermost, holiest for mankind in so far as it signifies for mankind its
destiny.
For by mankind experiencing the Mystery of Golgotha, it renders the transformative activity of the Gods possible as well as the salvation of the world, which is to be transformed by the Gods. For it remains true: Man stands in the center of the world. For him long the Gods from above and the Earth from below. And it is only through Man and with Man that the Gods can fulfill their transformative activity. And only through Man and with Man can the Earth be saved.
Tallin, 1929 and 1939
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