The New Cain: The Temple Legend as a Spiritual and Moral Impulse for Evolution and Its Completion by Rudolf Steiner - The Temple Legend as a Spiritual and Moral Impulse for Evolution and its Completion by Rudolf Steiner with the Ritual Texts for the First

Who was Cain and what does he represent? The first part of thisbook invites us to revise the traditional, biblical, view of Cain as hisbrother's murderer. Rudolf Steiner shows how the original Cain was ready tosacrifice his being to something higher, but this pure impulse was pervertedinto the desire to murder. Our earthly knowledge has an affinity with thefallen Cain, but there is also a path by which we can ascend to the conditionof Cain before his fratricide--through the stages of higher knowledge. Only the descendants of Cain, coming tofull and real "I" development, can sustain themselves in the face of earthlyforces.In the context of this primevalCain, or the "new" Cain, the ritual ceremonies enacted by Steiner between1905 and 1914 acquire their true meaning, as a way to incorporate previouslydeveloped spirit knowledge into the human soul and into physical reality.
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