Thread from direct communication after question of facebook forum Feb-2022
Some (e.g. the gnostics) believed that Christ had endowed Jesus (Zarathustra) sufficiently that he left him on the cross ("why hast thou forsaken me"). Rudolf Steiner suggests that Christ had to go through the full death experience for the whole hierarchy.
In either case, the question of what happens to the phantom body from Old Saturn remains unanswered - to whom does it belong?
Zarathustra (Master Jesus), Christ, or even Adam Kadmon?
I do not know the answer to this from anthroposophy - perhaps you do? I suspect that it belongs to Zarathustra but is shared with the Christ, just as Christ shared "the body" of an angel from Ascension to the Second Crucifixion in the 19th-20th centuries. In this way, each of us can share our phantom and our other members with the Christ.
Your thoughts?