The Christian Mystery VI. ~ The Mystic Death. / entering a dense forest.

 The Mystic Death.

 

 

"The Mystic Death. - In the grip of the greatest of all suffering the disciple recognizes that the world of the senses is illusion. He is actually aware of death and of descending into the world of shades, but then the darkness breaks and a new light - the astral light - shines out. The veil of the temple is 'rent in twain.' This light has nothing in common with the physical ight of the sun. It rays forth from the inner being of man. The impression it makes is wholly unlike that made by outer light. The following comparison will give us some idea of what is meant. We imagine that we are leaving a turbulent city behind us and entering a dense forest. The noises gradually cease and the silence becomes complete. We finally begin to be aware of what lies beyond the silence, to pass the zero point at which all external sound has ceased. And now sound arises again for the inner ear from the other side of existence. Such is the experience of the soul of one who enters the astral world. He is then in contact with the inverse quality of the things with which he was familiar, just as in arithmetic, beneath the zero point, we enter into the growing series of negative numbers.

Thus do we need to lose all in order to regain all, and this applies to our own existence. In the moment of losing all we appear to die to ourselves and it is in the world around us that we begin to live again.

Such is the Mystic Death. When a man has passed this stage, the time has come for the next:" ( Rudolf Steiner, An esoteric cosmology, VIII: The Christian Mystery, 38 )

 

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