 The
Fifth Gospel
From the Akashic Record
13 lectures by Rudolf Steiner
The Fifth Gospel lectures by
Rudolf Steiner describe events in the life of Jesus that are
not recorded in the traditional four biblical Gospels.
From his
clairvoyant reading of the Akashic Record - the cosmic memory of
all events, actions, and thoughts - Rudolf Steiner was able to
speak of aspects of the life of Jesus Christ that are not
contained in the four biblical Gospels. The original four
gospels having also come by way of spiritual revelation, this research can
truly be
spoken of as a "fifth gospel".
After an
intense inner struggle to verify the exact nature of these
events, and checking the results of his research, Steiner
describes many detailed episodes from the Akashic Record. He
speaks of some of Jesus' more profound and deeply moving
experiences in young adulthood prior to the Baptism, including
details on his relationship with the community of the Essenes,
Jesus' clairvoyant experiences of the now decadent pagan and
Jewish religious practices and his painful awareness of the
spiritual estrangement of humanity through the loss of direct
experience of the spiritual world. He also describes how
ordinary people experienced this unique young man in his
travels as a journeyman carpenter and the profound effect he
had on people wherever he went. These moving descriptions
bring the reader much closer to the very human element of
Jesus and depict the crisis of humanity in such a deeply felt
way, that his further descriptions of the Incarnation at the
Baptism by John convey incisively the importance of the
Mystery of Golgotha for humanity.
Steiner
states that divulging such spiritual research is intensely
difficult owing to the prevailing prejudices of our time, but that "it was absolutely
essential that knowledge of such facts should be brought to
Earth evolution at the present time."
This
edition has been retranslated and features six lectures that
have never before been published in English.
Trans: A. R. Meuss (13
lectures, Oslo, Berlin and Cologne, Oct 1913 to Feb 1914,
GA 148); 264pp
Rudolf
Steiner Press
ISBN:
1 85584 039 1
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