Hibernia: the mysterious and forgotten birthplace of Christianity. Understanding the cosmic influence upon earth.

The Cosmic Christ and the etheric plane

In esoteric science, Christ is a cosmic spiritual Being standing above the Hierarchies, who descended from Cosmic Heights to the sphere of the Sun, then united with the earth in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. 

The great and sublime Sun Being descended from cosmic heights, descended to Earth—that is the event that came to pass in the Mystery of Golgotha. And when He had descended from spiritual worlds and passed through death, and His body had been laid in the Earth, then this same Christ—after His death, after His resurrection—had initiate pupils. 

And it is important that many should know today what Christ taught at that time to His initiate pupils; it is important that many should know of this teaching of the risen Christ, in order that they may be able to participate in the forces that are now at work for the further evolution of mankind. 

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Following His death and resurrection, He abides within the etheric plane of the earth. This central event in human evolution is known as the Mystery of Golgotha. 

We must learn to understand that in the future we are not to look on the physical plane for the most important events but outside it, just as we shall have to look for Christ on His return as etheric form in the spiritual world.   

The violet south window of the first Goetheanum, showing the initiation into the cosmic etheric world.

Some notes on The Mysteries Of Hibernia I

The Irish, or Hibernian Mysteries stand at the starting point of modern spiritual life, though they contain elements from more ancient Mysteries. Extremely powerful forces repel the clairvoyant attempt at accessing these Mysteries in the Akashic Record. The opposition is very intense. 

In preparation for initiation, the pupil was made to experience a feeling of anguish that arose from all kinds of doubts or missteps on the path of attaining knowledge, through the regular power of cognition. The pupil would feel that he was open to deception at multiple points, and would also struggle to express in words the essential nature of the truths he acquired without falling into errors and pitfalls. 

From all this, the pupil was made aware of the difficulties in the process of genuinely attaining knowledge. In a second preparatory stage, the pupil approached a contradiction. That knowledge in the ordinary sense did not really contribute to happiness, yet happiness was essential to the human being. 

Considering the uncertainties of attaining knowledge “how can I know that this is really true?”, after this preparatory stage, the pupil was made ready to discard “knowledge” altogether. Though this defies our sense of what’s normal, the pupil felt he had no other option than this resolution, because of the immense challenges he experienced in attaining knowledge. On the opposite hand, it’s easy to say that one should forgo happiness for knowledge, but that is not a viable approach.

Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centers GA 232 7. The Mysteries Of Hibernia I

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