Deeper Secrets in Human History In the Light of the Gospel of St. Matthew (CW 117)

3 lectures, Berlin, November 1-23, 1909 (CW 119)Steiner examines the four aspects of Christ in the four Gospels, with a special emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew. Lecture I November 02, 1909: Christ-Jesus: the Being of Light and Love. The Gospel of St. John: transcendental Ideas. The Gospel of St. Luke: self-offering sacrifice. The Gospel of St. Mark: the spirit-power of the earthly sun-hidden forces of nature and of spirit. The Gospel of St. Matthew: the. Christ as the harmonized picture of Man: secrets of human historyLecture II November 09, 1909: The faculty of reasoned thought, recognizing Divinity without clairvoyance, as an external revelation, is developed in the ancient Hebrew people. To this end, the particular bodily constitution of Abraham must be transmitted by way of heredity. The combining of the mathematical world-picture with inner Imagination is achieved through Moses in Egypt. The Law is given in Arabia. In the Babylonian captivity, contact is made with oriental wisdo