Awareness - Life - Form
GA 89
Enclosure with a letter to Marie von Sivers dated 13 January 1906
Translated by Steiner Online Library
The Essence of Christ as the Inverted Macrocosmic Man
[ 1 ] One must conceive of the “Essence” of Christ as the inverted macrocosmic human being, who is, however, identical to the second aspect of the Godhead, or the Logos. — Imagine the moment just before the so-called “monad” (the totality of monads) descends to incarnate into the animal-human bodies that had been prepared up to that point. The animal kingdom up to that point—insofar as it had evolved, that is, with the exception of mammals—had physically manifested everything that needed to be condensed into a single being for the lower human. Into these Lemurian animal-humans, the world of monads descends, with Manas first separating from Budhi. Thus, Manas is incarnated in the Lemurian human, uniting with Kama to form Kama-Manas, while Budhi-Atma remains linked to Manas only as a potential. Christ is now the Being who first awakens “Budhi” as the initial spark. For this to happen, it is necessary for the Christ Being to take possession of a third-degree chela (Jesus). Thus, we must view the Christ event on Earth as the reversal of the process within the world of the monads—the very process that took place in the case of “Adam.” Paul expresses this quite clearly when he calls “Christ” the “reversed Adam.” The outer historical event is merely the actual symbol of the inner spiritual process.
[ 2 ] So one should conceptualize the matter roughly according to the following scheme:
