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And subsequently we find many passages which attest that “this man performs many signs,” and all that follows indicates that the accusers did not wish to have intercourse with Him because of these signs. If you read these words, whatever their translation (this has already been referred to in my book Christianity as Mystical Fact), you would need to ask:—What is really at the bottom of it all? The raising of some one provoked the enemies of Christ Jesus to rise up against Him. Why should just the raising of Lazarus so provoke these opponents? Why does the persecution of Christ Jesus begin just at this stage? One who knows how to read this Gospel will understand that a mystery lies hidden within this chapter. The mystery concealed therein is, in truth, concerned with the actual identity of the man who says all that we find written there. In order to understand this, we must turn our attention to what in the ancient Mysteries is called “initiation.” How did these initiations in the ancient Mysteries take place?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-22/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. Monges","identified_edition":"AP1962","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080522p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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The next thing that occurred to the neophyte was that he was put into a death-like sleep by the initiator or hierophant who understood the matter and there he remained for three and a half days. Why this occurred can be seen if we consider that in the present cycle of evolution, when the human being sleeps in the ordinary sense of the word, his physical and ether bodies lie in bed and his astral body and ego are withdrawn. In that condition he cannot observe any of the spiritual events taking place about him, because his astral body has not yet developed the spiritual sense-organs for a perception of the world in which he then finds himself. Only when his astral body and ego have slipped back into his physical and ether bodies, and he once more makes use of his eyes and ears, does he again perceive the physical world, that is, he perceives a world about him. Through what he had learned, the neophyte was capable of developing spiritual organs of perception in his astral body and when he was sufficiently evolved for the astral body to have formed these organs, then all that the astral body had received into itself had to be impressed upon the ether body just as the design on a seal is impressed upon the sealing-wax. This is the important thing. All preparations for initiation depended upon the surrender of the man himself to the inner processes which reorganized his astral body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":381,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-22/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-05-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-22/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-22/p011"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-22/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-22/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-22/p011"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":721,"en_words":812,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But these organs are not yet firmly enough fixed in the ether body. They will become so when what has been formed in the astral body will have been stamped upon the ether body. However, as long as the ether body remains bound to the physical, it is not possible for all that has been accomplished by means of spiritual exercises to be really impressed upon it. Before this can happen, the ether body must be drawn out of the physical. Therefore when the ether body was drawn out of the physical body during the three and a half days deathlike sleep, all that had been prepared in the astral body was stamped upon the ether body. The neophyte then experienced the spiritual world. Then when he was called back into the physical body by the Priest-Initiator, he bore witness through his own experience of what takes place in the spiritual worlds. This procedure has now become unnecessary through the appearance of Christ-Jesus. This three and a half day death-like sleep can now be replaced by the force proceeding from the Christ. For we shall soon see that in the Gospel of St. John strong forces are present which render it possible for the present astral body, even though the ether body is still within the physical, to have the power to stamp upon the etheric what had previously been prepared within it. But for this to take place, Christ-Jesus must first be present. Up to this time without the above characterized procedure, humanity was not far enough advanced for the astral body to be able to imprint upon the ether body what had been prepared within it through meditation and concentration. This was a process which often took place within the Mysteries; a neophyte was brought into a death-like sleep by the Priest-Initiator and was guided through the higher worlds. 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Und nachher stehen mehrere Sätze, die da besagen: «Dieser Mensch tut viele Zeichen » (11, 47), und alles folgende weist darauf hin, daß die Ankläger keine Gemeinschaft mit ihm haben wollen wegen dieser Zeichen. Wenn Sie diese Worte lesen, wie sie auch immer übersetzt sein mögen - es ist auch schon in meinem «Christentum als mystische Tatsache» von mir darauf hingewiesen worden -, so müssen Sie fragen: Was liegt denn da eigentlich zugrunde? Die Auferweckung eines Menschen bestimmt gerade die Gegner, gegen den Christus Jesus aufzutreten. Warum regt die Gegner gerade die Auferweckung des Lazarus so auf? Warum beginnt gerade da die Verfolgung? — Ein jeder, der zu lesen versteht, muß einsehen, daß sich in diesem Kapitel ein Mysterium verbirgt. Dieses Mysterium, das sich dahinter verbirgt, ist nichts anderes als die Mitteilung darüber, wer eigentlich der wirkliche Autor des Johannes-Evangeliums ist, wer eigentlich das alles sagt, was im Johannes-Evangelium gesagt wird. Um das zu verstehen, müssen wir einmal einen Blick werfen auf das, was wir die «Einweihung» in den alten Mysterien nennen. Wie ging diese Einweihung in den alten Mysterien vor sich?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-22/p010"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-22/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Ein Mensch, der eingeweiht worden war, konnte selbst Erlebnisse, Erfahrungen haben in den geistigen Welten, so daß er ein Zeuge werden konnte der geistigen Welten. Diejenigen, die reif befunden wurden, eingeweiht zu werden, wurden in diese Mysterien hineingezogen. Überall - in Griechenland, bei den Chaldäern, bei den Ägyptern, bei den Indern - gab es solche Mysterien. Da wurden die Einzuweihenden lange unterrichtet ungefähr in den Dingen, die wir heute in der Geisteswissenschaft lernen; und wenn sie genügend unterrichtet waren, folgte das, was ihnen den Weg öffnete, um selbst zu schauen. Aber in den alten Zeiten konnte das auf keine andere Weise bewirkt werden als dadurch, daß der Mensch in bezug auf seine vier Glieder: physischen Leib, Ätherleib, Astralleib und Ich, in einen ganz besonderen Zustand versetzt wurde. Was da geschah mit dem Einzuweihenden, war, daß er durch den Initiator, durch den Einweihenden, der die Sache verstand, dreieinhalb Tage in einen totenähnlichen Zustand versetzt wurde. Das geschah aus folgendem Grunde. Wenn der Mensch nämlich im heutigen Entwickelungszyklus im gewöhnlichen Sinne schläft, so liegen sein physischer Leib und Ätherleib im Bette, das Ich mit dem Astralleib ist herausgehoben. Der Mensch kann dann nicht irgendwelche geistigen Ereignisse um sich herum wahrnehmen, weil sein Astralleib noch nicht die geistigen Sinnesorgane hat, um in der Welt, in der der Mensch dann ist, wahrzunehmen. Erst wenn sein astralischer Leib und sein Ich wieder hineinschlüpfen in seinen physischen und Ätherleib, sich wieder der Augen und der Ohren bedienen, nimmt der Mensch wieder die physische Welt, das heißt überhaupt eine Umwelt wahr. Durch das, was die Einzuweihenden gelernt hatten, wurden sie fähig, die geistigen Sinnesorgane ihres astralischen Leibes herauszubilden. Wenn sie nun so weit waren, daß ihr astralischer Leib diese Sinnesorgane ausgebildet hatte, mußte dafür gesorgt werden, daß alles, was der astralische Leib in sich aufgenommen hatte, sich in den Ätherleib eindrückt, wie die Worte eines Petschafts sich in den Siegellack eindrücken. Das ist das, worauf es ankommt. Alle Vorbereitungen für die Einweihung beruhten darauf, daß der Mensch sich solchen inneren Vorgängen hingab, welche seinen astralischen Leib umorganisierten. Der Mensch war auch seinem physischen Leibe nach einmal so, daß er keine Augen und Ohren hatte wie heute, sondern gleichgültige Organe an dieser Stelle; wie Tiere, die nie dem Licht ausgesetzt waren, keine Augen haben. Das Licht formt heraus das Auge, der Ton bildet heraus das Ohr. Was der Mensch durch Meditation, Konzentration übt, und was er dadurch innerlich erlebt, wirkt so wie Licht auf das Auge, Ton auf das Ohr. Dadurch wird der astralische Leib umgeformt, und dadurch werden herausgeholt die Erkenntnisorgane, um zu schauen in der astralischen, der höheren Welt. Jetzt sind sie aber noch nicht fest genug in dem Ätherleibe; sie werden dadurch fest, daß das, was im astralischen Leibe zunächst sich bildet, eingeprägt wird in den Ätherleib. Solange aber der Ätherleib im physischen Leibe steckt, ist es nicht möglich, daß das, was durch die Übungen erreicht wird, sich auch wirklich abdrückt im Ätherleibe. Dazu mußte ehedem der Ätherleib herausgehoben werden aus dem physischen Leibe. Wenn also in den dreieinhalb Tagen des totenähnlichen Schlafes der Ätherleib herausgehoben war aus dem physischen Leibe, drückte sich alles das, was im Astralleibe vorbereitet war, ab. Der Mensch erlebte die geistige Welt. Wurde er dann wieder durch den Priester-Initiator zurückgerufen in den physischen Leib, so war er ein Zeuge dessen, was in den geistigen Welten vorgeht, durch sein eigenes Zeugnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":560,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-22/p011"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-22/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Diese Prozedur ist eben durch die Erscheinung des Christus Jesus unnötig geworden. Dieser dreieinhalb Tage lange todähnliche Schlaf kann nunmehr durch die von Christus ausgehende Kraft ersetzt werden. Denn wir werden gleich sehen, daß im Johannes-Evangelium die starken Kräfte liegen, daß heute der Astralleib, auch wenn der Ätherleib im physischen Leibe drinnen ist, die Stärke hat, trotzdem abzudrücken, was vorher in ihm vorbereitet war. Dazu mußte aber erst der Christus Jesus da sein. Vorher waren die Menschen nicht so weit, daß ohne die charakterisierte Prozedur das, was im astralischen Leibe durch Meditation und Konzentration vorgebildet war, im Ätherleibe hätte abgedrückt werden können. — Das war ein Vorgang, der sich oft in den Mysterien abgespielt hat: Ein einzuweihender Mensch wird durch den Priester-Initiator in einen todähnlichen Schlaf gebracht; darauf wird der Betreflende durch die höheren Welten geführt; dann wird er wieder zurückgerufen durch den Priester-Initiator in seinen physischen Leib, und nunmehr ist er durch sein eigenes Erlebnis ein Zeuge der geistigen Welten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-22/p012"}],"beads":[{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11,12],"to":[11,12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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