In brief: Steiner said that to deny God (be an atheist) was a sickness, to deny Jesus Christ was a calamity, and to deny the Holy Ghost caused spiritual dullness.
I would rephrase this in positive terms:
To believe in the reality of a personal, loving, creator God; is necessary for us to have a coherent understanding of the human condition in the universe - theism enables reason.
To believe in, and accept, the Great Gift of Jesus Christ (his offer of resurrected, eternal, Heavenly life beyond death) is what enables us to grasp the sustaining strength that comes from Hope.
(Hope being a necessary virtue in this world which includes entropy-death and evil, as endemic and inescapable.)
To have direct personal experience of contact with the spiritual person of the Holy Ghost**; is what enables us to know the reality of God and Jesus Christ - rather than merely know-about them.
Put differently; the Holy Ghost is what enables us to know as real-and-true; those intermittent, and perhaps brief, occasions of enchantment and romance in this mortal life.
Or, in other words, without the Holy Ghost the work of God and Jesus would just be theories.
The Holy Ghost is what makes the difference between escapist make-believe or fear-driven delusional fantasy on the one hand - and that magical experience which is a foretaste of the Heavenly condition.
*Note: Steiner's insight is important for Christians to consider, since there is a tendency to conflate the significance of belief in Father, Son and Holy Ghost - as if conversion to one implies all others. But, to my observation, these elements of faith are separable in theory, and often in practice.
**Note: I regard the Holy Ghost as our spiritual experience of the person of the resurrected Jesus Christ.
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