The Christian Mystery. A collection of early lectures by Rudolf Steiner. (CW 97 and others)

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1. PROLOGUE

1-1. The Mystical Meaning of the Mass

1-2. The Significance of Christmas from the Perspective of Spiritual Science

1-3. The Origin of Religious Confessions and Forms of Prayer

2. THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

2-1. The Christian Mystery

2-2. The Mystery of Golgotha

2-3. The Promise of the Spirit of Truth

2-4. The World-Historical Significance of the Blood That Flowed on the Cross

2-5. The Purification of the Blood from the Passion of Selfhood through the Mystery of Golgotha

3. LUCIFER AND CHRIST

3-1. Lucifer the Bearer of Light, Christ the Bringer of Love

3-2. The Children of Lucifer: The Step from Love Based on Kinship to Spiritual Love

3-3. The Intellect as a Gift from Lucifer: Its Future Transformation into a New Clairvoyance

4. PATHS OF INITIATION

4-1. The Three Paths of Initiation

4-2. The Yoga Path, Christian Gnostic Initiation, and the Esotericism of the Rosicrucians

4-3. How Does One Gain Higher Knowledge in the Rosicrucian Sense?

4-4. Who Are the Rosicrucians?

4-5. Christian Initiation and Rosicrucian Training

4-6. The Schools for Adepts in the Past: The Mysteries of the Spirit, the Son, and the Father

4-7. Earlier Initiation and Esoteric Christianity

4-8. Christian Gnostic Meditations

5. THE LORD'S PRAYER

5-1. The Lord's Prayer as Prayed by Rudolf Steiner

5-2. Brief Remarks by Rudolf Steiner on the Lord's Prayer

5-3. The Lord's Prayer

5-4. The Lord's Prayer

5-5. The Lord's Prayer, Considered Esoterically, Part 1

5-6. The Lord's Prayer, Considered Esoterically, Part II

6. GOSPEL READINGS

6-1. John's Gospel

6-2. John's Gospel as a Record of Initiation: The First Twelve Chapters

6-3. The Sermon on the Mount

7. EPILOGUE

7-1. Christianity Began as a Religion but Is Greater than a Religion