"I am...You?" - Episode 4 in the series, “Identity and Idolatry”

The fourth episode of our series on identity and idolatry leads further into Rudolf Steiner’s search for the eternal human self. Jonah and Patrick describe how Steiner searched intensively for many years to directly experience this ‘ego’ or self. This led to a deep spiritual crisis. But it was in this place of emptiness and utter powerlessness that the True Self found him—a dynamic mystery, at once both other and yet himself. Rudolf Steiner described this moment in his life as “standing before the Mystery of Golgotha in a most holy sacred rite of knowledge” (’erkenntnisfeier’). His devoted striving over many years led to this encounter with Christ, or the one he would later call the Representative of Humanity. From then on, his work flowed from the font of this direct experience and strove to reveal Christ as the one from whom human beings receive their true, eternal self as a gift of grace.

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