Christ on the Way to Cavalry & Christ Carrying the Cross by TitianThen, when the pupil learn
Christ on the Way to Cavalry & Christ Carrying the Cross by TitianThen, when the pupil learns, under suitable guidance, to regard his physical existence in a totally new light, then he learns to look upon his own body as something external, to be carried about with him; when this feeling and sensation have become so much a matter of course that he can say: ‘I bear my physical body through the world like an outer instrument’ he has reached the fourth stage of Christian initiation, the Bearing of the Cross. This does not make him a feeble ascetic; on the contrary, he learns to handle the instrument of his body much more effectually than before. When we learn to regard the body as something which we carry about with us, we have attained the fourth stage of Christian initiation, the Bearing of the Cross — then we have conquered for ourselves the power to behold in the spirit the scene in which Christ bears the Cross upon His back, as we have learnt, by the elevation of our soul, to carry our body like a piece of wood.—Rudolf Steiner, The Gospel of St. John: Lecture XIVSee also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views -- source link
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