Christ, Golgotha, Holy Spirit, Lent

Lent Day 34

We will never understand the Mystery of Golgotha and the Christ Being if we remain in the sense world and try to comprehend the man nailed to the cross on a hill only with our senses. We have to rise out of the sense world – experience an inner resurrection if you like – and acknowledge with veneration the spiritual event that took place. In this way, we awaken “the very power in our soul […] that constitutes our highest faculty.”

In other words, all we need to understand Christ is already within us, we just need to become aware of it. This is an awakening of the Holy Spirit within us signified by the dove.

Rudolf Steiner says, “He must deepen himself inwardly and intensify his consciousness if he wants to go beyond his understanding of the sense world and develop enough strength to allow the spiritual significance of the Mystery of Golgotha to become a truth for his soul.” Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion, lecture VII

Christ in the “Holy Trinity” by Masaccio, c. 1427, Fresco, Santa Maria Novella, Florence.

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Kristina Kaine

Kristina Kaine has worked with people all her life: during her early career in medical sales and staff recruitment, and since 1987 in her own business which matches people in business partnerships. Through this rich interaction with people, Kristina has observed the struggle for self identity from many angles. She was awakened to the ideas of Rudolf Steiner by Rev Mario Schoenmaker, attending all of Schoenmaker's lectures for 14 years. After Schoenmaker's death in 1997, Kristina realised the need to explain the knowledge of the threefold human being in simple terms that could be applied easily in daily life. She has set this out in her book, 'I Connecting : the Soul's Quest', which was published in 2007 by Robert Sardello through Goldenstone Press. It is not unusual for Kristina to receive comments about her book like this: "It seems like a very lucid treatment, like looking through a clear glass window through which one can discover and recognize the landscape of the soul." Since 2003 Kristina has written weekly reflections which apply this knowledge of the threefold human being to Bible texts. This is not done in the context of any particular religious beliefs but from a broader perspective that all religions could apply. These reflections are distributed by email and are read worldwide. They are now available as Kindle books.

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