The Christian Community in Johannesburg
  • Home
  • About
    • Covid-19 Notice
    • Photos & videos 2016 onwards
    • Social media
    • Library
    • Stories, Poetry & more
    • Articles >
      • Contributions by members
    • Where are they now
    • History
    • Advent Fair
    • Artists in our community
    • Webmaster
  • Community Notice Board
  • NEWS 2021
  • Programme
  • Contemplations 2021
  • Market
  • Links

The Twelve Disciples of the New Jerusalem – John

7/2/2021

0 Comments

 
John is one of the three disciples with an intimate relationship to Jesus. Together with Simon Peter and James, John accompanies Jesus onto the mountain when Jesus is transfigured. Peter, James and John are called aside by Jesus when Jesus goes way from the disciples to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane. Peter, James and John do not yet have the capacity to remain conscious to bear witness as apostles and fall asleep.

In being assigned tasks by the Christ who says: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”, it may be viewed that John is given the task of revealing the truth. This truth comes to us in John’s Gospel, his Epistles and the Book of Revelation.

In John we encounter a great mystery. Rudolf Steiner introduces us to a community of John. John the writer of the Book of Revelation is not John the Younger, the brother of James. The writer of Revelation is Lazarus who rose after a three-day temple sleep. The being of John the Baptist remains with all that is unfolding around Jesus and pours himself into John Lazarus. John Lazarus is the last human being to go through the ancient initiation process and he is the first human being to receive the Christian initiation that makes it possible for him to receive a revelation of the spiritual world in full consciousness. It may be possible for us to imagine that this community of John also includes the life-forces of the young disciple called John.

Whereas, when we look at Simon Peter, we encounter one person on a journey of development, when we look at John, we realise he is a community of persons.
​
John Lazarus dies of old age according to Christian tradition; he does not die a martyr’s death as do most of the other Apostles.
Picture
​John is associated with the fourth stone of the foundation of the New Jerusalem, emerald. Rudolf Steiner describes this stone as carrying the moral quality of green. Emerald is given its green colour by the impurity of chromium within the silicate structure. Emerald is connected with Sagittarius the centaur who is an archer. The arrow of the archer is pointed at the heart of Scorpio, which is connected with John the Evangelist. The soul quality connected with emerald is the control of thought. This soul quality must be transformed into the spiritual quality for a feeling for truth.

Picture
The attributed coat of arms for John
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Use Ctrl-F to search this page
    Picture
    Follow us on Twitter. We put reminders of events and notices on Twitter.
    Picture
    Picture

    Article Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021

    2020 - January to December
    2019 - January to December

    2018 - January to December​
    ​2017 - January to December
    2016 - January to December
    2015 - January to December
    ​2014 - November & December
    2013 - July to December
    2013 - January to June
    2012 - April to December
    Picture
    Send us your photos of community events.

      Feedback
      Please give feedback on anything,
      anonymously or with your name

    Submit

    Subscribe to our newsletter or notifications

    * indicates required
    I wish to receive
    Email Format

    Articles (prefaced by month number)

    All
    01 - A Worthy Opponent
    01 - Faith In The Future
    01 - Family Bicycle Ride
    01 - January
    01 - Old Testament Initiations
    01 - Peter
    01 - Reflect Contemplate Consider
    01 - The Twelve Apostles Of The New Jerusalem
    01 - Tree Of Knowledge Of Good And Evil
    02 - February
    02 - Is It True? What Is Truth?
    02 - JOHN
    02 - LOGOS – Consecrating Humanity
    02 - The Threefold In Daily Practical Life
    02 - The Tower Of Babel
    02 - Thoughts On The Word
    The Brother Of James
    The Son Of Zebedee

    RSS Feed


On this site

Home
About us
Library
Photos
Stories
Articles
   ​
  from
​     Member
​
Where are
     our
​     members
History
Community Notice Board            News About The Community      Community Programme       Contemplations      
Businesses in the Community    Links to other Communities         Webmaster
Links to other websites of our community
Advent Fair
Artists in our community

Services

The Act of Consecration of Man
Sunday                            10h00
Wednesday                    see programme
Friday                               08h30
Saturday (in German)    09h00
Sunday Service for Children
Sunday                            09h30
Child Care 
2nd & 4th Sundays​          10h00  - 11h00

Contact information

​Address
46 Dover Street corner Pine Avenue
Ferndale
Randburg

GPS:S26.0887400, E27.9962600
​Telephone & Email
Telephone / Fax   +27 (0)11 789 3083
​Email                       joburg@thechristiancommunity.org.za
​Office hours           09h00 - 13h00

Priests

Rev. Reingard Knausenberger
Office    +27 (0)11 886 2220
Mobile  +27 (0)82 218 1515
​Email     lenker@thechristiancommunity.org.za
​Rev. Michaël Merle
Mobile  +27 (0)83 675 0836
​Email​     michael@thechristiancommunity.org.za
Copyright © 2012 to 2020. | All rights reserved. | Powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
    • Covid-19 Notice
    • Photos & videos 2016 onwards
    • Social media
    • Library
    • Stories, Poetry & more
    • Articles >
      • Contributions by members
    • Where are they now
    • History
    • Advent Fair
    • Artists in our community
    • Webmaster
  • Community Notice Board
  • NEWS 2021
  • Programme
  • Contemplations 2021
  • Market
  • Links