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Unlike other Christian creeds, the creed of The Christian Community is not a statement of belief, but rather a series of assertions that act as a path to a deeper understanding of Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In “The Origins of the Creed and the Christian Community<\/a>” Peter Selg offers an insightful and informative overview of how, in the time leading up to the founding of The Christian Community nearly 100 years ago, Rudolf Steiner formulated both the creed itself and its founding principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, we share an extract from the book highlighting the enduring importance and significance of the creed today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our responsibility today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adolf M\u00fcller, who undertook such a\nprofound study of these matters, said the Creed possessed \u2018the beauty and\nclarity of a crystalline configuration of Christian consciousness\u2019. He believed\nthat with it, or with the healing and redeeming truths laid down in it, human\ndignity could be re-established anew in the twentieth century. According to\nM\u00fcller, the Creed makes a substantial contribution to the human incarnation and\nconnection of Christ with human evolution and thus to what makes possible the\n\u2018re-enlivening of dying earth existence\u2019. The inner movement of the Creed\nrequires heart forces, and indeed, heart thinking of a Michaelic nature. Adolf\nM\u00fcller experienced it as a \u2018foundation stone that must be implanted in the\nhuman heart\u2019. He concluded his book with this phrase in 1932, a few months\nbefore the Nazi regime seized power and embarked on its rule of terror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we all know, survival of the \u2018intrinsically human\u2019 is today hugely endangered by manifest evil. The redeeming and healing power of Christ and the healing spirit are urgently needed today in all areas of culture and civilisation. The aim of \u2018wresting from the death of matter\u2019 people for whom this is possible \u2018through their bearing\u2019 is a very topical concern, but in the face of the global and excessively powerful sway of forces wedded to materialism, it seems scarcely achievable. It says in the Creed, in regard to Christ and the souls to be saved by him, \u2018those whom, through their bearing, he wrest from the death of matter\u2019. There is freedom here in that Christ\u2019s capacity to act is defined or limited by human \u2018bearing\u2019 or conduct. Everything depends on human beings themselves, but human beings are ringed about by powerful forces and powers of temptation, and live within their spell of enchantment. And yet Christ, the \u2018Lord of the heavenly forces upon earth\u2019, is very close to human beings in our era, which is also the era of the Archai Michael. With Michael\u2019s help, we can find the way from the kingdom of Ahriman (or even through <\/em>the kingdom of Ahriman) to Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In\nhis essay on the Creed, Georg Dreissig pointed out that the return of Christ \u2013\nin Greek, parousia <\/em>\u2013 literally means \u2018existence\u2019 and \u2018presence\u2019. Rudolf\nSteiner described the etheric return of Christ as \u2018the greatest secret of our\nage\u2019, and spoke of the raising of the human being into the realm of the\netheric, which will enable Christ to become perceptible to us \u2013 specifically\nthrough the experience of misery and the abyss; of evil, in fact. But the Creed\n\u2013 as spiritual \u2018seal of the heart\u2019 (as St Ambrose called it) is of key\nimportance for engaging with this whole process, which requires a great deal of\ncourage and inner assurance. Georg Dreissig wrote: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the Creed we grow beyond our earthly humanity toward the Christ, indeed, we grow into him: our feeling insight and grasp of the secret of our humanity, which is rooted in God and his Creation, reveals itself ever more deeply, and at the same time becomes apparent in and through us. As we repeatedly look upon him and upon ourselves in the present era, we place ourselves into his presence.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christ entered the earthly world \u2018as human being\u2019, as the Creed emphasises in its new\nversion. \u2018Christ in the form of a servant\u2019 passed over the land, \u2018blessing it\u2019\nduring his incarnation, and is once again close to us, a brother to human\nbeings, a counsellor and friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, Andreas Laudert\nrecalled Rudolf Steiner\u2019s unusual translation of the Caesarea Philippi scene,\npresented on March 7, 1911, in a lecture in Berlin on the Gospel of St Mark.\nSteiner said there that Christ did not (only) ask about himself but also about\nthe human I and humanity altogether (\u2018What do people say of the I?). And Peter\nreplied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We understand the I in its essential spirituality to be you, the Christ! \u2018Communities whose members feel the Christ within themselves\u2019 in this sense form the I-community of the future, of the only possible future on earth, as we can say today after the devastating and <\/em>renascent experiences of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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