Navigating Life, Karma, and Evolution
& the Mystery of Golgotha in the Easter Season
I am a big believer in the power of questions.
It is in our questioning that we become able to learn.
It’s an ultimate act of humility. It requires the recognition that there are things still beyond our comprehension. Ways we can consider, contemplate, and pivot our understanding of the world and our place in it. It inspires a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.
And it counteracts boredom. (The implicit boring-ness of institutions being top of my list.) Boredom is “a lack of self-awareness about what we find fulfilling”. Cue endless digital entertainment in our modern age.
Above all else, I want my life to be deeply, truly interesting.
Thus I always try to uphold the question, particularly in times of stress and anxiety.
Questions begat mystery.
So, if you, like me, have given mainstream Christianity a wide berth these many years, join me in investigating a Sovereign path this Easter season…! Because, though our materialistic, consumerist culture ends the season with the end of related goods to sell, the actual season extends into June.
It is the season of springtime, new life, and the anointing of all the growth still to come, after all.
The Mystery of Golgotha
🕊️ Rudolf Steiner regarded the Mystery of Golgotha — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — as the central, most significant spiritual event in the evolution of humanity and the Earth. While traditional Christianity sees the crucifixion as the atoning death of Jesus for human sin, Steiner viewed it not only as a historical event, but as a cosmic turning point with deep abiding consequences in our capacity for humanity.
But let me back up to the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD — one of the most important early ecumenical councils in Christian history. It shaped the foundation of Christian doctrine, especially around the nature of the Trinity and the Holy Spirit.
From an esoteric or Steiner-informed lens, this council can be seen as part of a broader historical "solidification" of doctrine — an era in which mystery knowledge became crystallized into orthodoxy, potentially losing some of the living spiritual experience of Christ and the Spirit. Steiner often pointed out that overly rigid theological formulations led to the decline of direct spiritual insight.
From a Steiner or mystical Christian lens, this council was a decisive moment — it closed the door on a variety of speculative or mystical interpretations about the nature of the Spirit. By defining the Spirit’s divinity doctrinally, it preserved theological clarity but also limited a spirit of exploring inner experience, in favor of rigid dogma.
Steiner often suggested that the Spirit can be personally experienced — something that doctrine alone cannot fully contain or control. Steiner always maintained that we abide in three realms: the material/physical, the spiritual, and the soul. Our spirit is the element that transcends time and human construct, and always returns to its Source.
🌍 1. A Cosmic Being Entered Earthly Evolution
Steiner taught that Christ is a divine being from the Sun sphere, a high spiritual entity known in many ancient traditions (such as the Logos in Greek thought or Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism). This being, the Christ, entered into the human realm by incarnating in Jesus of Nazareth at the Baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist.
“In the Mystery of Golgotha, the Spirit of the Sun united with Earth existence.”
— Rudolf Steiner
✝️ 2. The Crucifixion: A Spiritual Insertion Into Earthly Reality
According to Steiner, the crucifixion at Golgotha was not just the physical death of Jesus — it was the moment when the Christ Sun Being fully united with the Earth. This brought about a radical spiritual transformation:
Before Golgotha: Human beings had increasingly lost connection with the spiritual world. Clairvoyance was fading. Ego-consciousness was rising, but at the cost of spiritual perception.
At Golgotha: Christ “anchored” Himself into the etheric life of the Earth. From this point on, humans could reconnect with the divine through inner experience, not just outer ritual or inherited wisdom.
“The deed on Golgotha was not merely a human event; it was a divine event, an event in the cosmos.”
🧬 3. Christ and the ‘I’ of the Human Being
Steiner taught that Christ’s sacrifice made it possible for the true spiritual “I” (ego or self) to awaken in every human being. This “I” is our divine individuality — our soul’s core. After Golgotha, people could begin to develop this “I” not just intellectually, but morally and spiritually, in freedom.
The Christ Impulse, Steiner said, transforms karma, enabling healing and inner renewal rather than mere consequence and repetition.
🔄 4. An Ongoing Event — Not Just in the Past
For Steiner, Golgotha wasn’t a one-time event in history, frozen in time. It was the beginning of an ongoing spiritual reality. Christ continues to work in human evolution — especially in the etheric realm (the life-body, or energetic blueprint of your physical body), and Steiner predicted that Christ would appear again in the etheric, perceptible to developing human consciousness.
“The Mystery of Golgotha lives on as a present spiritual force.”
🧭 5. The Impulse of Freedom and Love
Above all, Steiner emphasized that the Mystery of Golgotha introduced love and freedom into the evolution of humanity in a way no other event had. Where other paths emphasized law, fear, or obligation, the Christ impulse calls us to freely chosen love, to moral intuition, and to spiritual transformation from within.
🕯️ The Event at Golgotha, in Steiner's view:
Was the incarnation of the Sun-being Christ into Jesus of Nazareth
Marked the moment when Christ united with the destiny of Earth and humanity
Enabled the true spiritual self — the “I” — to begin evolving in freedom and love
Continues today in the etheric realm, guiding human evolution toward higher consciousness
Doesn’t it all make so much more sense now?!
It’s ok if if doesn't, yet….
I’m glad you’re still with me, as I’m still circling around favorite topics that require my own internal development… Christianity and karma, reincarnation, etc
Because, meanwhile there’s this…
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* Thank you to ChatGPT creators for the ways it expedites much of the formation of coordinating all this language!
I so enjoy and feel very nourished by the way you are able to organize my life experiences into a theological value. We really are in the midsts of accelerated spiritual evolution. Your posts are a bright light on my process and eliminate the obvious and often bring clarity to the invisible. Thank you MEGAN!