{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-11-25/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"From the above it may be seen that all that happens has its significance in the wise guidance of the evolution of humanity. For this reason, a man who drinks alcohol should not be scolded; but on the other hand, those who have hurried on before the rest of humanity and have developed so far that they no longer require alcohol, should avoid it. Christ appeared on Earth to give humanity the forces which will enable men to achieve the highest ego-consciousness in the Sixth Age; He desires to prepare men for the “time which is not yet come.” Had He let things remain at the stage of the “water sacrifice” only, mankind would never have obtained the individual ego. The changing of the water into wine signifies the raising of man to individuality. Humanity has reached a point in its evolution where it required wine, therefore Christ changed the water into wine. When the period comes when man no longer requires wine, Christ will then change the wine back again into water. How was it possible for the power to appear in Christ which enabled Him to change water into wine? As the Earth itself is the Body of Christ, He could make the forces of the Earth active within Himself. On the Earth the water that flows through the wine is changed into wine; Christ could accomplish as a personality all that takes place in the Earth, because all the forces of the Earth must also be in Him, as soon as the Earth is His Body and is ensouled by His astral body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","site_heading":"The Individual 'I Am' and Future Human Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Alles Geistige, das sich entwickelt, hat im Stoff seinen entsprechenden Ausdruck, und umgekehrt hat auch alles Stoffliche im Geistigen sein ihm entsprechendes Gegenstück. Der Wein, der Alkohol ist erst in einer bestimmten Zeit der Welt- und Menschheitsgeschichte aufgetreten. Und er wird wieder aus derselben verschwinden. Wir sehen hier die tiefe Wahrheit der okkulten Forschung. Der Alkohol war die Brücke, die vom Gattungs-, vom Gruppen-Ich zum selbständigen, individuellen Ich hinüberführt. Niemals hätte der Mensch den Übergang vom Gruppen- zum Einzel-Ich gefunden ohne die stoffliche Wirkung des Alkohols. Dieser erzeugte das individuelle, persönliche Bewußtsein im Menschen. Wenn die Menschheit dieses Ziel erreicht haben wird, braucht sie den Alkohol nicht mehr, und dieser wird wieder aus der physischen Welt verschwinden. Sie sehen, alles, was geschieht, hat seine Bedeutung in der weisen Lenkung der Menschheitsentwickelung. Deshalb soll heute niemandem widersprochen werden, wenn er Alkohol trinkt, während andrerseits jene Menschen, die der übrigen Menschheit vorausgeeilt sind und ihre Entwickelung so weit gefördert haben, daß sie des Alkohols nicht mehr bedürfen, denselben auch meiden sollen. Christus erscheint, um der Menschheit Kräfte zu geben, damit im sechsten Zeitraum das höchste Ich-Bewußtsein erlangt werden kann. Er will die Menschen vorbereiten auf jene «Zeit, die noch nicht gekommen ist». Würde er es beim Wasseropfer gelassen haben, so würde es die Menschheit niemals zum individuellen Ich gebracht haben. Die Verwandlung des Wassers bedeutet die Erhebung des Menschen zum individuellen Wesen. Die Menschheit war in ihrem Entwickelungsgange an einem Punkt angelangt, wo sie des Weins bedurfte, daher verwandelt Christus das Wasser in Wein. Wenn die Zeit da sein wird, wo der Mensch keinen Wein mehr braucht, dann wird Christus den Wein wieder in Wasser zurückverwandeln. Wie konnte in Christus eine solche Kraft auftreten, daß er Wasser in Wein verwandeln konnte? Weil Christi Leib die Erde selbst ist, konnte er die Kräfte der Erde in sich selbst wirksam machen. In der Erde verwandelt sich das Wasser, indem es den Weinstock durchströmt, zu Wein. Was in der Erde geschieht, das konnte Christus als Persönlichkeit ebenfalls ausführen, weil alle Kräfte der Erde ja auch in ihm vorhanden sein müssen, sobald die Erde sein Leib ist und von seinem Astralleib beseelt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-11-25/p014"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-11-25/p028","GA 100/1907-11-25/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":366,"en_words":392,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4625,"original_word_count":4157,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LR1942","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John (Basle)","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/LR1942/19071125p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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