The old initiates knew from what had happened on Golgotha that the same being who previously had to be looked for on the Sun had now descended to human beings on the Earth. For this reason, the ancient initiation cermonies had become impossible. In the old days, people had looked out into space to the Sun and, through initiation, saw the Christ. Since Christ's death on the cross, since the mystery of Golgotha, however, human beings now no longer look out into space, but rather look back in time to Golgotha, the turning point in time: we look into time. Through the mystery of Golgotha, what before had been a spatial visioin becomes a temporal vision.

April 19, 1924, The Easter Festival Considered in Relation to the Mysteries, 39 x 59 inches, chalk on paper, GA 233a