Thank you Kimbermoon and Rahu for your responses. I found this quote from a lecture which Rudolph Steiner gave in the early part of the last century. Does anyone have any sources, quotes or thoughts along these lines?
"[The Christ's] mission consisted in bringing to mankind the full force of the ego, an inner independence in the soul."
Steiner, Rudolf. The Gospel of St. John. (Hamburg Cycle, 1908), rev. ed. New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1962. p. 82
Thanks again x