Let us worthily fulfill the Act of Consecration of Man:
Out of the revelation of Christ
In reverence of Christ
In mindfulness of Christ’s deed.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
(Epistle is read.)
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
I. The Gospel
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
My heart be filled with Your pure life, Oh Christ.
From my lips let flow the word purified by You.
For if Your Grace makes me worthy, my heart can be pure, and
pure my word.
So live Your word worthily upon my lips, and borne by thy
Spirit reach into those to whom it shall be proclaimed.
Your blessing, Oh Christ, stream living through the word.
May You be in my heart.
May Thy word flow from my lips.
Then from a worthy source and in a right stream, thy gospel
is proclaimed.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
Now is proclaimed the Gospel from the ____ Chapter of ____.
May it be revealed through You, Oh Christ.
(Insert Pericope.)
We lift up our soul to You, Oh Christ.
The word of the Gospel wipes out that which lives impure in
our word.
An Almighty Divine Being, spiritual-physical is the ground
of existence of the heavens and of the earth who goes before His creatures like
a Father.
Christ, through whom human beings attain the re-enlivening
of the dying earth-existence, is to this divine being as the Son born in
eternity.
In Jesus, The Christ entered as Man into the earthly world. The birth of Jesus upon earth is a working of the Holy
Spirit who, to heal spiritually the sickness of sin within the bodily nature of
mankind, prepared the son of Mary to be the vehicle of the Christ.
The Christ Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate the death on
the cross, and was lowered into the grave of the earth.
In death, He became the helper of the souls of the dead who
had lost their divine nature.
Then He overcame death after three days.
Since that time, He is the Lord of the heavenly forces upon
earth, and lives as the fulfiller of the Fatherly deeds of the Ground of the World.
He will in time unite for the advancement of the world with
those whom through their bearing, he can wrest from the death of matter. Through Him can the healing spirit work.
Communities whose members feeling the Christ within
themselves, may feel united in a church to which belong those who are aware of the
healing-bringing power of the Christ.
They may hope for the overcoming of the sickness of sin,
for the continuance of Man’s being, and for the preservation of their life destined
for eternity.
Yea so it is.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
(A Festival reading is given during appropriate times.)
II. The Offertory
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Receive, Divine Ground of the World, weaving in widths of
space and in depths of time, this offering brought to Thee, through me, Thy
unworthy creature.
I bring it because to You have also flowed my strayings from
You, my denials of Your being, my weaknesses.
With me bring it all who are here present, with me may there
bring it all true Christians who are born, with me may there bring it all who
have died, that they bury not their eternal being for the sake of their temporal.
Yea so be it.
Divine Ground of the World, who has fashioned out of the
members of His being, the being of Mankind in the supersensible, You who have
transformed what was fashioned, to You my willing turn.
The power of this willing springs from feeling, that unites
with Christ who lives in thy life.
And may my thinking live in the life of the Holy Spirit,
through all cycles of the Earth to come.
To You, Oh Ground of the World, be offered this draught of
health.
May it enliven the good, that that also can raise itself to
the heavens which has fallen to the earth.
May the fragrance ascend, as this God-willed being is
descended.
Yea, so be it.
We all draw near to You in soul, Oh Christ, that You offer
us with You, and Your light shine upon our day, and that You may accept us.
Come to us Spirit of the widths of space and of the depths
of time, and hallow our offering with Your holy being.
May our grounding in the Spirit fill the smoke with blessed
Spirit, through Christ’s living in our praying.
Yea so be it.
Christ in us – out of the Christened soul may the smoke
ascend, and upon us descend Your grace.
Christ in us – Christ in our prayer – our prayer be for your
ear.
Christ in the lifting of our hands – Christ’s light in our
daylight.
Before my mouth the threshold be guarded.
A wall hinder my error from streaming around me.
All evil be taken from my words, and good will pour into
them.
In the offering be borne the fire of love, creative of
being, and the flame beget timeless existence, that the good endure.
Yea so be it.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
III. The Transubstatiation
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Our prayer reach unto You, Oh Ground of the World, through
Jesus Christ, Thy son, our Lord.
Your blessing ray out over the pure offering, the offering
done in love, the offering fulfilled with good will.
Receive it from our pure thinking, from our loving hearts,
from our willing devotion.
We unite for this offering that we be the Community of the
Christ.
May He be in us.
He who makes hearts to be at peace, strengthens wills,
unites mankind.
So grant He unity to those who confess Him.
May He grant it to all who look towards Him, and would
follow Him.
Feel with blessing, Oh Christ, the confession unto You, and
hear our praying who are united in Thy name.
Receive Oh Father God, the Christ offering, even as it would come to life in us.
Be it brought for the redemption of souls, for the
attainment of true salvation, for walking with Christ.
Our praying unite with all, who bringing Christ to life
within them, have gone before us.
Their sheltering power ray forth to us.
Christ in us – hear our praying, Oh Father-God, for the
acceptance of our offering.
This offering is sent to You by the Christian Communion,
which knows Christ in freedom, as its helping guide.
Christ in us – Let live, Oh Father-God, in this Christ
offering, the body and the blood of your Son, who has His being in love.
Before the agony of his passing, He took the bread for the
revealing of salvation, and He looked up to You, His Father, thanking You, and
uniting His soul therewith.
Thus He gave it to the disciples to eat, and He said: Take
with the bread my body.
After sharing the bread for the way, he took the cup for the
making strong of salvation, and He looked up to You, His Father, Thanking Thee, and uniting his
soul therewith.
Thus He gave it to the disciples to drink and he said: Take
with the cup my Blood.
And He went on: With this word, Godhead is given again to
man, for on the cross will the body bear the new confession, and from the
cross will flow in the
blood, the new faith; take this into your thinking.
And so live in our thoughts the new confession, the new
faith: this thinking in us, Christ’s suffering and death, His resurrection, His
revelation, through all ages of the Earth to come.
To Thee, Oh Father God, the offering be brought: thinking in
purity, hoping for salvation, working from Christ.
May Christ hold sway in the bread that bears salvation, in
the water* that bestows strength.
Thou, Oh Father-God, did once receive the offerings of those
who had not yet Christ.
So may You receive the offering of those who bring it in the
name, the being, the power of Christ.
Thy Spirit’s power of grace work earthward, as this
offering strives heavenward.
Let the bread be Christ’s body.
Let the water* be Christ’s blood.
So would we make this offering in as much as Christ is in
us.
And we would unite in praying with those from whom You did
receive before us Your Son’s offering.
Before Thee, we can do no works; Before Thee, we would
overcome sin through Christ, through whom You, oh Father-God, do create, heal,
and ensoul – through Christ, through whom You, together with the Healing-Spirit,
do fulfill the revelation, the ordering of space, the course of time.
So be it.
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
Our Father who is in the Heavens
Hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done as above in the heavens so also on the
earth,
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us,
And lead not into temptation
But deliver us from the evil.
Yea so be it.
Amen
IV: The Communion
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enlighten us.
Thou, Oh Christ, didst say to those walking with Thee:
I stand at peace with the world; this peace with the world can be with you also, because I give it to you.
Therefore make me strong, oh Christ, that in me which wrests itself free from the load of sin, and in thinking and willing joins with You that it stand at peace with the world and unite with the world’s evolving which can come to pass through You in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
Oh Christ, Thou who didst go forth without sickness from the Father God, who didst with the Healing Spirit give continued life to the spirits of human beings, quell through Thy health-bearing Body the might of the sickness of sin and strengthen me in my wrestling soul with Thy health bestowing Blood, that I live evermore with Thee.
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World, as Thou receivest it from the Father and makest it whole through the Spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
The receiving of Thy Body Oh Christ be to me who am not sick unto death but unto the life of the soul and of my formative forces, the healing medicine.
Be it through Thee
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World
as Thou receivest it from the Father
and makest it whole through the Spirit
in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
Oh Christ, Thou who didst go forth without sickness from the Father God, who didst with the Healing Spirit give continued life to the spirits of human beings, quell through Thy health-bearing Body the might of the sickness of sin and strengthen me in my wrestling soul with Thy health bestowing Blood, that I live evermore with Thee.
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World, as Thou receivest it from the Father and makest it whole through the Spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
The receiving of Thy Body Oh Christ be to me who am not sick unto death but unto the life of the soul and of my formative forces, the healing medicine.
Be it through Thee
Thou who dost bear and order the life of the World
as Thou receivest it from the Father
and makest it whole through the Spirit
in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling:
Oh Christ, sick is the dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul
becomes whole.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling: Oh Christ, sick is dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul becomes whole.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling: Oh Christ, sick is dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul becomes whole.
I take the bread and do so in the name of the Lord, calling:
Oh Christ, sick is dwelling into which You enter, but through Your word my soul
becomes whole.
The Body of the Lord heal my soul that it continue to live.
Yea so be it.
Take me, for as much as Thou have given Thyself to me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
I take the cup and do so in the name of Lord, calling: Oh
Christ, I confess unto that which is revealed through You and the might of Man’s
adversary You take from me.
The blood of the Lord keep strong my soul, that in the time
to come it die not.
Yea so be it.
What my mouth has received become spirit in my soul and what
is offered in time change into medicine everlasting.
Thy body, Oh Christ, which I have received and Your blood
which enlivens me,
May they penetrate me that the sickness of sin be healed by the medicine
that makes whole: the sacrament.
May it come to pass through You, You who do bear and order
the life of the world, as You receive it from the Father and make it whole through the
spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
(Priest delivers the Sacrament to those attending.)
(Priest delivers the Sacrament to those attending.)
The body of Christ, which you receive, and the blood of
Christ, which enlivens you, may they penetrate you that the sickness of sin be healed by the
medicine that makes whole: the sacrament.
May it come to pass through You, You who do bear and order
the life of the world, as you receive it from the Father and make it whole through the
spirit in all cycles of time to come.
Yea so be it.
The peace be with you.
Christ in you-
And may He fill your spirit.
The Father-God be in us.
The Son-God create in us.
The Spirit-God enliven us.
(Repeat opening Epistle.)
Christ in you –
And may He fill your spirit.
The Act of Consecration of Man: Thus it has been.
The Act of Consecration of Man: Thus it has been.
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"In 1919 Rudolf Steiner translated the Opening Sections through Offertory, in 1921 the Canon and Communion of the Missale Romanum (GA343a) and illustrated the Tridentine Mass latin in contrast with the emerging text of the Act of Consecration of Man - throughout several volumes of lectures to priests - but Rudolf Steiner was quite clear that he only facilitated Rittlemeyer to receive the text from the spiritual world. The comment I made many years ago about begging down the archetypes [of a tenth century Mass] is as was told to me by a now quite ancient retired CC priest."-James Gillen
Now is the time to turn wine into water in preparation for the "Water Man", for he leads the way.
He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'
-Luke 22.10
22 comments:
"Whoever partakes of wine cannot attain to any true knowledge of Manas, Buddhi and Atma. He can never comprehend reincarnation. By his coming again Christ means his reappearance in the Sixth sub-race when he will be proclaimed by the ‘Water-Man’."
"The Indian, Persian and Egyptian initiates had no need of wine. What played a part in the sacred rituals was exclusively water. "
-Rudolf Steiner
That is why Christ indicated the bread and said: “This is my Body.” And of the juice of the grapes (at the LAST SUPPER the juice of grapes was passed round, not fermented wine) he had to say: “This is my Blood,” for the juice of the fruits of the earth is his blood. Consequently mankind must appear to him like beings who walk about upon his body. That is why he told his disciples after having washed their feet: “He that eateth bread with me, lifts up his heel against me.” (Treads on me).
Rudolf Steiner, The Mystery of Golgotha
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/MG1442_index.html
To back up Dr. Steiner's claim that there was no fermented wine at the Last Supper:
" In regards to the Lord's Supper. The Greek word oinos is not used in connection with the Lord's Supper. Instead, the phrase gennema ampelos, which is translated "fruit of the vine" is used, or is referred to by metonymy as "the cup." The phrase "fruit of the vine" refers to unfermented grape juice, as can be seen by this quote from Josepheus:
"God bestows the fruit of the vine upon men for good; which wine is poured out to him, and is the pledge of fidelity and mutual confidence among men, and puts an end to their quarrels, takes away passion and grief out of the minds of them that use it, and makes them cheerful. 'Thou sayest that thou didst squeeze this wine from three clusters of grapes with thine hands and that the king received it: know, therefore, that this vision is for thy good, and foretells a release from thy present distress within the same number of days as the branches had whence thou gatherest thy grapes in thy sleep'" [Josephus, Antiquities II:V:2].
Note that this quotation makes it clear that "wine" (oinos) did not always refer to fermented grape juice.
http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2011/05-08a.html
“At this point I feel obliged to make an interpolation which is of importance and which ought to be thoroughly understood, particularly by the friends of Spiritual Science. It ought never to be represented that our attempts at Spiritual Science are a substitute for the life and exercise of religion. Spiritual Science may in the highest sense, and particularly as regards the Mystery of Christ, be taken as a support, as a foundation for the life and exercise of religion; but it should not be made a religion, for we ought to be clear that religion in its living form and living practice enkindles the Spiritual consciousness of the human community. If this Spiritual consciousness is to become a living thing in man, he cannot possibly remain at a standstill, stopping at the merely abstract ideas of God or Christ, but must stand renewed amidst the religious practices and activities (which in different people may take various forms) as something which provides him with a religious centre and appeals to him as such.
"If this religious sentiment is only deep enough, and finds means of stimulating the soul, it will soon feel a longing — a real longing — for the very ideas that can be developed in Spiritual Science. If Spiritual Science may be said to be a support for a religious life, as, objectively speaking, it certainly is — subjectively the time has come today when we may say that a man with true religious feelings is driven by these feelings to seek knowledge. For Spiritual consciousness is acquired through religious feeling and Spiritual knowledge by Spiritual Science, just as knowledge of nature is acquired by Natural Science. Spiritual consciousness leads to the impulse to acquire Spiritual knowledge. It may be said that an inner religious life may today subjectively drive a man to Spiritual Science.”
Rudolf Steiner, “The Human Soul and the Universe” http://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0175/19170220p02.html
Why water? Water has memory: https://youtu.be/ILSyt_Hhbjg
It is well-nigh incomprehensible to me that again, quite recently, anthroposophical Spiritual Science should have been accused by theological circles of destroying the religious life. It has been said, for example: the life of Anthroposophy betokens the death of religion!
Now the life of Anthroposophy is indissolubly bound up with that life of the soul in which the very deepest forces of religion unfold. This search for super-sensible realities cannot betoken the death of religion — at most it might betoken the end of something that is merely regarded as religion and is already dead. If, indeed, this is what has happened to religion, Anthroposophy would simply be opening up a vista of death.
By its very nature, however, being a living path to the super-sensible realities, Anthroposophy is a means whereby the religious feelings, the whole-hearted devotion of men to the super-sensible worlds may be enhanced, quickened, pervaded with warmth.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 79 – On the Reality of Higher Worlds – Christiania (Oslo), November 25, 1921
Translation by D. S. Osmond
“I know, my dear friends, how much there is in the heart of modern men which speaks against the sacramental. But whoever has experience in these things may also say something different. It might be thought that what may be called the emotional antagonism (Erbostsein) to ceremonial which so easily arises in modern people, reveals something in them that might be the outcome of Christian, evangelical consciousness. But I must confess to you that I have never really yet seen anyone in whom emotional antagonism to the sacrament has arisen out of love or goodness, but always out of the secret wickedness in human nature.
This is a personal, but actual observation. It is certainly a manifold process which we see emerging today, but that which is first irritated is really the Opposing Tendencies in human nature, which work against salvation. It is a goading on by the same forces which say in the Gospel: “We know you”, and which then begin to fight against Christ, because they “recognise” Him.”
-Rudolf Steiner
"But in the Mysteries into which Christ sent His message, it was still known that men once possessed a sublime knowledge born of the working of material substances, born of metabolism. No attempt was made to awaken the old matter-born knowledge of spirit-reality in the manner in which this had been done in primeval humanity, nor in the degenerate way subsequently pursued by hashish-eaters and others with similar habits in order to acquire, through the workings of matter, knowledge not otherwise accessible. An attempt was made in quite another way to awaken this matter-born knowledge, namely, by clothing the Mystery of Golgotha in ritual, in mantric formulae, above all in the whole structure of the Mystery as Revelation, Offering, Transubstantiation, Communion, in the administration of the sacrament of the Eucharist in bread and wine. It was not poisons, therefore, but the Lord's Supper, clothed in what arises from the mantric formulae of the Mass, and from its fourfold membering: Gospel, Offering, Transubstantiation, Communion. For the intention was that after the fourth part of the Mass, the Communion, actual communion among the faithful should take place, with the aim of giving an intimation, at least, that thereby a knowledge leading to what was once achieved instinctively by the old metabolism-born knowledge, must be re-acquired.
It is difficult for men to-day to form any conception of this metabolism-born knowledge, because they have no inkling of how much more a bird knows than a man — although not in the intellectual, abstract sense — how much more even a camel, an animal wholly given up to the process of metabolism, knows than a man. It is, of course, a dim knowledge, a dream-knowledge, for degeneration has entered to-day into what was contained in the metabolic process of primeval man. But on the basis of the earliest Christian teachings, the sacrament at the altar was conceived as a means of pointing to the need to re-acquire a knowledge of the eternal nature of the human soul." (RS, The teachings of the risen Christ, GA 211)
As physical men we are entirely dependent on the blood flowing rightly through the body and, moreover, taking a definite course. Were it to deviate from this course we should not be able to live. The fact that the arrangement of rivers and seas has just as great a significance for the earth is generally not considered at all. It is not usually realised that water actually forms the blood circulation of the earth. Why is this not realised as a rule?
Well, you see, the blood makes a more striking impression. It is red, it contains all sorts of substances and people say to themselves that blood is in fact a peculiar substance. As to water, one simply thinks — Oh, well, it's just water! It makes less impression and the substances which it contains in addition to hydrogen and oxygen, are not present to the same extent as, for instance, the iron in the blood. So people don't consider the matter again. Nevertheless it is true that the entire water-circulation is of immense importance for the life of the earth. Just as little as the human organism could live without a circulation of blood, could the earth exist if it had no circulation of water. Rudolf Steiner
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dR1YAwAAQBAJThe Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries
Jean-Marie Ragon
The old way was to perceive with one's inner soul the Beings or Intelligences, up to the Godhead. The new way, arising at this time, was to evolve intellectual thoughts about the Prime Foundations of the Universe. The former way was supported by the forces of Michael in the spiritual realm of Earth. Behind the thought-forces directed to the things of outer sense, the forces of Michael equipped the soul with faculties to perceive divine Being and Intelligence in the Universe. On the other hand, for the second way to find its fulfilment, the inner union of the soul with the forces of Michael must first be developed and accomplished.
In the sphere of religious ritual, even the central doctrine of the Holy Communion began to totter. We find this happening in far-spread regions of the religious experience of man, from Wycliffe in England (fifteenth century) to Huss in Bohemia.
In Holy Communion man was able to find his union with the spiritual world which was opened up to him through Christ. For he was able to unite his being with Christ in such a way that the fact of the outer sense-union was at the same time a spiritual fact.- R. Steiner https://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c12.html
There was no alcoholic wine during the Last Supper.
Most Karaites [Jews] of Egyptian descent believe that wine is forbidden on Passover. These Karaites have pure, unadulterated grape juice with their seders.
http://abluethread.com/2013/03/25/should-jews-stop-wining-on-passover/
I need only call attention to the familiar Nicene Creed, which says “suffered under Pontius Pilate”.
As the esotericist knows, this is an incorrect rendering. What it really says is “suffered in pontoi pilatoi”, which means merely “in compressed water” and signifies “descended in order to suffer in matter.” This sentence in the Creed which is said all over Christendom has come about through the word “pontoi” having become “Pontius.”
-Rudolf Steiner
"Today much which was only available to the Priests in olden times is now to some extent also made available to the laity. Our entire modern theology, all its literature is now available. The same can be said to be valid in our case. You can study theology as a layman. If you choose a way of knowledge like Anthroposophy it is self-evident that the thoughts of participants become familiar with such things as would first and foremost been available for the celebrating Priests in past times. Today it is different. We can't put up boundaries. If we would have clung to old principles it would be as if a religious movement existed and within that movement would have been the priesthood who then would have Anthroposophy to themselves, who would have to do everything on the level of profane technicality, as demanded by the times ... (gap in stenographer's notes). If you take that into account you will understand that this communion which the priest celebrates has developed from something which belongs to the Anthroposophical Movement. However, there is no ground for saying: ‘On the one hand we have the priestly, on the other we have cosmic communion.’ Both come from the same foundation, only differentiating in form. They can both stand independently beside one another. So when you enter with profound feeling into these things you will have no difficulties."
-Rudolf Steiner
Where does the top alter piece (three pieces) come form?? Who is the artist?
Where can I find the different epistles
I don't have all the texts. They are part of GA 343 of Rudolf Steiner's works. You can find the German edition but I don't think it's been translated into English.
The above Act of Consecration in the Easter mood. Here before Christmas the "Chariot of the Sun" and the "Bow of Colour" would be mentioned. This part is not really important to the actual Mass, and its effectiveness.
Below is a link to a German edition:
https://www.booklooker.de/Bücher/Angebote/isbn=9783727434303?zid=cano022pufic8vbndh7sg7nt1n
List of Epistles given in GA 345
NZ 347974-75Epistles:Advent season (given October 1923)NZ 3547-354976-81Christmas (given December 1922)NZ 3585-358882-89Epiphany (given January 1924)NZ 3550-355190-93Passion Weeks, Char Weeks, Easter Days (given February 1923)NZ 3571-357794-107Ascension and Pentecost (given September 1923)NZ 3559-3561108-115Johanni (given June 12, 1924)NZ 3552-3554116-121Michaeli (given September 1923)NZ 3559-35
GA 345:
https://fvn--archiv-net.translate.goog/PDF/GA/GA345/GA345-073.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_sch=http
There are numerous examples of Albert Steffen's spiritual experiences, and it is sufficient to mention one that happened during the 'Sacraments of the Act of Consercration of Man' at the founding of the Christian Community on 16th September 1922 in the white room of the First Goetheanum. In his diary Albert Steffen describes this event as follows:
"Today the first Act of the Consecration of Man took place as a deed performed out of the spirit, where the resurrected Christ was present...I may say that Christ was present because I saw His resurrection body of light when the words about the bread and the wine were spoken. This is the first time that I saw Christ as a Being before me'.
"And no, we do not bend to the permits and demands of a corrupted vernacular. Mankind (of the kind of Man) is most obviously is a term given to adult humanhood and is already understood to be what it was and what it was not, without question, until some imbecilic complainant unpicked the thread on that tapestry."
-Rosenthorpe II
Human - Manushya: in Sanskrit the word for man. But this is also struck, with this word Manushya, the basic sensation that was associated with humanity in a large part of people. What do you now refer to when you give the person the name Manushya, so if you use this word stem to designate the person, what do you refer to? One refers to the spiritual in man, one judges above all the human being as a spiritual being. If you want to express: man is spirit, and the other is only the expression, the revelation of the spirit, - so if you primarily attach importance to man as a spirit, you say "Manushya".
-Rudolf Steiner
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