עברית ‘When I look into a human being's eyes, an infinity shines out to me, when I hear a human being speak, the divine-spiritual essence of his soul resounds as direct feeling'.
The Human Meetings Create the Earthly-Human Sun
The healing of karma becomes a creative social and spiritual power, by means of which the new Heaven and Earth of the earthly-human Sun are woven together.
‘When I look into a human being's eyes, an infinity shines out to me, when I hear a human being speak, the divine-spiritual essence of his soul resounds as direct feeling… we will be able to sense that humans, when they express themselves, are of a divine-spiritual nature… we will perceive this immortal soul directly in the human being's expression: then the moment is where we can behave as if the whole of humanity were one big family…’
(Rudolf Steiner, Lecture of 10 January 1919 (GA 188).
The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Volume 4
The Creation of the Earthly-Human Sun, the New Human Meeting and Michaelic Community
From the Second Chapter: Christ’s Appearance Between ‘I’ and ‘Thou’ and the New Michaelic Community
In the second chapter, the appearance of Christ between ‘I’ and ‘Thou’, we show how the modern Christ experience is also an archetype of the new human meeting. It takes place all the time in the midst of all our meetings, but we stubbornly ignore it. We prefer to continue to deepen our ominous social sleep, suppressing the voice of conscience, and ignoring the meaning of the karma we have with others. Through the creative use of the knowledge drama, the new role of the etheric Christ, as lord of karma, comes for the first time into full supersensible consciousness. By following his ordeals in carrying and harmonizing human karma, we learn how to do the same with our friends and comrades. We learn the new Michaelic art of community building that is starting in the 21st century, through the formation of the heart center of our human meetings, and the meetings become the spiritual source of the formative forces of the earthly-human Sun. Free adjustment and healing of karma becomes a creative social and spiritual power, by means of which the new Heaven and Earth of the earthly-human Sun are woven together. The healing moral breath and pulsation with each other, which creates a wholly new social life, is also a world-creative activity. In the new, resurrected human meeting one perceives the appearance, words, and deeds of the etheric Christ with utmost imaginative clarity of perception, and one becomes his Michaelic partner, to resurrect and redeem humanity and planet earth in the present age of Michael.
Rudolf Steiner, Lecture of 10 January 1919 (GA 188):
But when the knowledge takes hold in humanity that a being of spirit and soul lives in every human being, that in every human being a divine-spiritual being shines through their eyes, and the message of a divine-spiritual being resounds from their words, when, in other words, it is no longer recognized in the abstract that humans have an immortal soul, but it is recognized in direct feeling in the encounter between human beings: when I look into a human being's eyes, an infinity shines out to me, when I hear a human being speak, it is not just the physical sound that speaks, but the divine-spiritual essence of his soul resounds - this will become a direct feeling, just as we perceive any surface as blue or red, we will be able to sense that humans, when they express themselves, are of a divine-spiritual nature, we will not only learn to recognize by faith that humans have an immortal soul, but we will perceive this immortal soul directly in the human being's expression: then the moment is where we can behave as if the whole of humanity were one big family… But this is the only thing that will make possible, the only solution to the so-called social question… We can behave towards what shines in from eternity in man in the same way as we behave in the right relationship with the closest family. We can do that, we can do that in every direction. If we recognize this, we can then muster that love for humanity that is as great as family love.