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Jeff and I continue look at the final chapter in Rudolf Steiner's transformational book "Christianity As Mystical Fact: And the Mysteries of Antiquity". Today we look look at what chapter 13 has to say about Augustine and how he prefigures modern mankind's existential angst.

Concerning Origen, about which there was a little confusion. As Jeff said Origen (185-284),lived prior to Augustine (354-430), but his thinking was retroactively deemed heretical after Augustine in 553 AD.
https://www.grunge.com/1191198/why-wa...

GA 8. https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA008/Eng...

Final quote regarding technology:
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA173a...
Mankind is now faced with having to solve certain quite specific problems. This applies, above all, to something I have already spoken about, which is connected with today's much-admired technology—a consequence of natural science—which is also much admired by spiritual science. In the comparatively near future, this much-admired modern technology will reach a final stage where it will, in a certain way, cancel itself out. In contrast, something will come into being—I have mentioned it in passing here—which will enable people to make use of the delicate vibrations in their etheric bodies as a driving force with which to run machines. Machines will exist which are dependent on people and people will transfer their own vibrations to the machines. People alone will be capable of setting these machines in motion by means of certain vibrations stimulated by themselves. People who today see themselves as practitioners of science will, in the not too distant future, find themselves faced with a complete transformation of what they today call the practical application of science; for the human being is to be tuned in with his will to the objective sphere of feeling in the universe. This is one of the problems.

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