The New Essential Steiner

, such as culturally engendered habits or physical impulses. Steiner refers to ordinary thinking as dead; he could have used Plato’s allegory, according to which ordinary thinking is cave-like.

St. Paul, “I live, no, not I but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20).

Similarly, Steiner recommends that the individual think and act from a deeper and wider reality, understood in the Christian tradition as Christ , in the Hindu tradition as Krishna , in Buddhist tradition as Buddha , in the Chinese tradition as Tao , and in the Western philosophical monist tradition as the Self, or the Absolute.

Steiner sees the incarnation of Christ as the instrument of a potentially universal transformation, one that aims to reunite the spiritual and physical.