{"id":62405,"date":"2024-12-19T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=62405"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T09:39:45","slug":"when-time-turned-a-christmas-contemplation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/when-time-turned-a-christmas-contemplation\/","title":{"rendered":"When Time Turned: A Christmas Contemplation"},"content":{"rendered":"One hundred and one years ago, Rudolf Steiner gave the members of the Anthroposophical Society the Foundation Stone. The fourth verse is the moment of transformation, but also the center of the text\u2014there, we hear how the Christmas light shines forth for the first time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the threefold call in the first three verses, \u201cHuman soul!&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Practice&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;,\u201d the first words of the fourth verse have a quite different sound: \u201cIn the Turning Point of Time, the World Spirit Light stepped into the earthly stream of being&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\u201d While, in the three spheres of the depths, the surroundings, and the heights, in the world of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we moved through space, time, and eternity, now, upon the Eart<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred and one years ago, Rudolf Steiner gave the members of the Anthroposophical Society the Foundation Stone. The fourth verse is the moment of transformation, but also the center of the text\u2014there, we hear how the Christmas light shines forth for the first time. After the threefold call in the first three verses, \u201cHuman soul!&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Practice&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;,\u201d the first words of the fourth verse have a quite different sound: \u201cIn the Turning Point of Time, the World Spirit Light stepped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9277,"featured_media":52512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9183,8823],"tags":[11408,11598,8814],"class_list":["post-62405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-anthroposophy","category-reflection","tag-2023-51-52-en","tag-english-issue-51-52-2024","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}