In the last article I referred to my view, what special role of Paul with the ethereal Christ was connected. It complete the earthly and sensual perception was missing from the Jesus Christ, by now, but he developed his intense relationship with the ethereal Christ, who is completely independent to reach from the ground-sensory memory images human incarnation of Christ in a übersinnlichwe way.
Steiner points out in connection with the ethereal Christ, it submits as a being that is to be the greatest preachers of the ethereal Christ - the Bodhisattva Maitreya.
And the Maitreya Bodhisattva (Japanese, Miroku-Bosatsu 弥勒 菩萨) is in my home country Japan, very popular. Since about 6 This century Maitreya Bodhisattva is obtained as a future carrier unrivaled popularity among the people, which today remains an extent.
When a typical image is shown in which Paul, with a statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva, which is paid by us to the most beautiful, compares, you may wonder:
This finger position is typical for Paul (there is also the representation of Christ himself in the finger position), but also for the Maitreya bodhisattva. There are few other variants of the finger position in the statues of Maitreya Bodhisattva, which are located in Japan.
This fact testifies to a direct connection between Paul and the Maitreya Bodhisattva in relation to the action of the ethereal Christ. Rudolf Steiner is the only one I know of so far, the Paul and the Maitreya Bodhisattva in connection with the ethereal Christ brought. (It is interesting that Steiner has held lectures on Paul and the
Bhagavad Gita.)
When I this statue before a long time for the first time in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto saw felt immediately a unique atmosphere that emanates from it. The terrestrial gravity it is not according to my feeling at this wooden statue, which clearly is on the other many Buddha statues in the case. This bodhisattva is jemamd, the undoubtedly be constantly thinking and free from a passive expectation is, in waiting for the grace of God. I also heard almost only as of his statue, that he thinks about how he can save mankind in the future. This intellectually-meditative attitude that differs markedly from an earlier attitude of prayer, Buddha statues, inspired me.
the many Buddha statues that I saw since my very first childhood everywhere, rather gave me a sleeping impression. I felt myself in the prayer mood of the Buddha statues in part somehow not quite well. And that gave me since my childhood to face serious. I felt that in this mood my consciousness is somewhat muted.
But when I saw the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva, I felt ethereal light as if my body was pervaded by a pleasant and clear light. The forms which shows the statue itself, are free of the ethereal and sensual, earthly-heavy, modern and s a gentleness trahlen but also a clear and independent thinking.
It is interesting that the Japanese love this Bodhisattva is still hot and intimate. My love for the essence of the Bodhisattva Maitreya, which I share with many other Japanese lives, as a Japanese department in me. In addition, there my love for Paul that I share with many other people here in the West - these two sources - flow into my soul into each other and form a single source, the East and West, the Buddhist and the Christian combines.
Japanese - but not only Japanese but also other Asians, the Maitreya Bodhisattva as a bringer of future momentum love - are - even if they do not know - by the Bodhisattva of the ethereal Christ also directly connected. You do not necessarily know exactly which Jesus Christ, who once lived on Earth. The difference in culture makes it not always easy to understand the man Jesus. You do not necessarily believe in the religion of Christianity, telling them of the many miracles of Jesus Christ on earth, because they have to leave their religion, which is linked to their nationality, not necessarily in order to connect to the etheric Christ, for He is in the ether of the Earth and spans the entire globe. Today, he is not a particular people or bound a particular place on earth as it was when he lived in the earthly and visible figure of Jesus on earth. This commitment is in his work any more. The ethereal Christ preferred no one and no nation. He passes his love and his future force for all people on earth. No one needs to convert him to , because we can place it in his future force actively feel . not crucial, it is more and more in the future, where and in what culture and religion he grew up.
And this realization freed me inside of a conventional religious boundaries, and left me in an indescribable joy of the actual size and suspect the universality of the essential Christ, regardless of race, ethnicity and cultural, religious differences will affect the world for mankind. And I think that was
sure also announced the enthusiasm of Paul, the in foreign areas to Christ and always breaking through the confines spread the Christ impulse. The source inner soul of the Association of East and West to me is a free unique place that embraces the earth always. In this place I can contact again and again to the universal nature of Christ is essential in order to feel its liberating breath.
Junko Althaus
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