Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity

Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity is a work by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, in the authorized English translation of a third edition, revised and enlarged. The text asks whether the demands made by natural science are really such as they are described by some of its representatives. The text says it would certainly be a dreary outlook if natural science itself compelled us to accept the creed proclaimed by many of its modern prophets.

The text says the nether-world meant to the Greeks the conquest of the perishable and the awakening of the eternal in the soul. The text says the narrative in the Odyssey is different from what is demanded by a history of outer events, and that the hero makes voyages in enchanted ships. The text says Christianity was the fulfilment not only of what the Jewish prophets had predicted, but also of the truth which had been prefigured in the Mysteries. The Cross of Golgotha, the text says, gathers together in one fact the whole cult of the Mysteries of antiquity.