Master Jesus & Rudolf Steiner

Selg Note 26: Margareta Morgenstern informed Emil Bock in a written note: "R. Steiner had said to Rittelmeyer that Master Jesus had referred him to Fichte".

"Schure asked Rudolf Steiner who had initiated him and the answer was Master Jesus. Schure confirmed this on his deathbed" 
From a lecture by Walter Stein, note 29 Selg.

"(This personality's) way of proceeding was to take the works of Fichte as the basis for certain considerations which generated seeds that came to fruition in the book 'An Outline of Esoteric Science' which the man (Steiner) whom the boy had become, later wrote. Certain aspects which led to that book were considered in connection with Fichte's writings."
-RS Autobiography
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"Stein and Rittelmeyer, also Edouard Schure, seemed to indicate that this was Master Jesus" 

"He approached Rudolf Steiner in the shape of an ordinary man, whose identity could not be established."

-Selg page 4

"Steiner told him [Rittelmeyer] in the presence of Mrs Steiner, that he had two initiators: Christian Rosenkreutz and Master Jesus (Zarathustra): The latter referred him to Fichte. The former worked through Felix Balde." 

From Walter Stein's diary- a conversation with Rittelmeyer on July 9, 1924

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Meditation on the Prologue of John

By continually meditating upon passages of the Gospel of St. John, the Christian pupil is actually in a condition to reach initiation without the three and a half day continued lethargic sleep. 

If each day he allows the first verses of the Gospel of St. John, from “In the beginning was the Word” to the passage “full of devotion and truth” to work upon him, they become an exceedingly significant meditation. They have this force within them, for this Gospel is not there simply to be read and understood in its entirety with the intellect, but it must be inwardly fully experienced and felt. 

It is a force which comes to the help of initiation and works for it. Then will the “Washing of the Feet,” the “Scourging” and other inner processes be experienced as astral visions, wholly corresponding to the description in the Gospel itself, beginning with the 13th Chapter. 

-Rudolf Steiner