{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p013-p024","extent":"range","passage_number":13,"through":24,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p013","last_locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"V. The Seven Degrees of Initiation","date":"1908-05-23","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/AP1962/19080523p01.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 individual ego should feel itself fully independent and separate, existing completely within itself and people should be united in marriage because of a love which they freely and voluntarily bestow upon one another. Through the Christ-Principle there should come into the earth-mission a love that would rise ever higher and higher above the material and constantly mount toward the Spirit. Love had its beginning in its lowest form which was bound up with the senses. 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Therefore they felt themselves secure within the whole and only those were considered members of the whole who came into being through human propagation maintained by means of this blood relationship. In the very beginning of human evolution upon the earth, marriage took place only within very narrow circles, within families related by blood. Endogamy, (marriage within the tribe) was closely adhered to. Then the narrow blood-circle gradually widened and men began to marry outside the family, but not yet within other peoples or folk. The folk of the Old Testament held fast to the idea that the folk blood relationship should be maintained. 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He appealed to those who had broken this principle of mere blood relationship, and the important thing He had to demonstrate, He demonstrated not in Judea, but outside in Galilee. Galilee was the region where peoples of every race and tribe had mixed together. The term Galilean means “mixed-breed,” “mongrel.” Christ Jesus went to the Galileans, to those who were most mixed. Out of a human reproduction such as this, brought about by a mingling of blood, something arose that was no longer dependent upon a physical basis of love. Therefore what He wished to say, was said at a marriage. But why at a marriage? Because at the time of a marriage reference can be made to the reproduction of human beings. And what He wished to demonstrate, He did not wish to show at a place where marriage took place within narrow boundaries, within the blood-bond, but where it was entered into independently of the tie of blood. Therefore what He had to say was said at a marriage—and at a marriage in Galilee. 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All materiality is for him the expression of something of a soul-spirit nature, and just as your face is the expression of something of a soul-spirit nature, so too is the light of the sun the expression of a soul-spirit light. All that occurs apparently only in the material physical world is at the same time the expression of deeper spiritual processes. Occultism does not deny matter. For it, even the grossest matter is the expression of a soul-spirit something. 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What Jahve did was to implant the group-soul ego in the astral body and by gradually maturing it, prepare it for the reception of the fully independent “I AM.” But men could only comprehend this “I AM” when their physical body also became a fit instrument for sheltering It. You can easily imagine that the astral body might be ever so capable of receiving an ego, but if the physical body is not a fit instrument for truly comprehending the “I AM” with a waking consciousness then it is impossible to receive it. The physical body must also always be a suitable instrument for what is imprinted upon it here upon the earth. Therefore when the astral body had been matured, the physical body had to be prepared to become an instrument of the “I AM,” and this is what occurred in human evolution. We can follow the processes through which the physical body was prepared to become the bearer of the self-conscious, ego-endowed human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-23/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-05-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":276,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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Strange as it may seem, it has had the task, as it were, of preparing the human body so that it might be cut off from connection with the Divine, in order to allow the personal “I AM” to emerge. Alcohol has the effect of severing the connection of the human being with the spirit world in which he previously existed. It still has this effect today. It was not without reason that alcohol has had a place in human evolution. In the future of humanity, it will be possible to see in the fullest sense of the word that it was the mission of alcohol to draw men so deeply into materiality that they become egoistic, thus bringing them to the point of claiming the ego for themselves, no longer placing it at the service of the whole folk. Alcohol performed a service, the contrary of the one performed by the human group-soul. It deprived men of the capacity to feel themselves at one with the whole in the spirit world. Hence the Dionysian worship which cultivated a living together in a kind of external intoxication, a merging into the whole without observing this whole. Evolution in the post-Atlantean period has been connected with the worship of Dionysos, because this worship was a symbol of the function and mission of alcohol. Now, when mankind is again endeavouring to find its way back, when the ego has been so far developed that the human being is again able to find union with the divine spiritual powers, the time has come for a certain reaction, an unconscious one at first, to take place against alcohol. This reaction is now taking place and many persons today already feel that something which once had a very special significance is not forever justified.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":431,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-23/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-05-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":429,"en_words":431,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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In the first place He had to point out that the ego must become independent; in the second place, that He was addressing Himself to those who had freed themselves from the blood relationship. He had to turn to a marriage where the physical bodies came under the influence of alcohol, because at this marriage wine would be drunk. And Christ Jesus showed how His mission had to proceed in the different earthly epochs. How often we hear extraordinary explanations of the meaning of the changing of water into wine. Even from the pulpit one hears that nothing else is meant than that the insipid water of the Old Testament should be superceded by the strong wine of the New. In all probability it was the wine-lovers who always liked this kind of an explanation, but these symbols are not so simple as that. It must be kept constantly in mind that the Christ said: My mission is one that points toward the far distant future when men will be brought to a union with the Godhead—that is to a love of the Godhead as a free gift of the independent ego. 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Let us especially understand the thoughts that they held. It was declared that people were at one time united with the group-soul and felt their union with the Godhead. Then they developed a downward tendency and this was considered as an entanglement in matter, as a degeneration, a kind of falling away from the Divine, and the question was asked: whence came originally what the human being now possesses? From what has he fallen away? The further we go back in earthly evolution, the more we find the solid, earthly matter passing over into a fluidic state under the influence of warmer conditions. But we know that when the earth was much more fluidic than it became later on, human beings also existed, but they were much less detached from the Godhead than at a subsequent period. To the degree that the earth hardened, human things became materialized. At the time the earth was in a fluidic condition, the human being was contained within the watery element, but he could only walk about upon the earth after it had already deposited solid portions. Therefore, people felt the hardening of the physical body and could say: the human being was born out of the earth when it was still in its fluidic state, but at that time he was still wholly united with the Godhead. All that brought him into matter defiled him. Those who are to remember this ancient connection with the Divine were baptized with water. 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Baptism by water was a baptism of remembrance, that of the Holy Spirit is one of prophecy pointing to the future. That relationship which has been wholly lost, and which baptism by water recalls to mind has also been lost in all that was expressed in the symbol of the wine, of the sacrificial wine. Dionysos was the dismembered God who was drawn into the individual souls, separate parts no longer knowing anything of one another. Humanity was split into many pieces and thrown into matter through what alcohol has brought to the world, alcohol the symbol of Dionysos. In the Marriage at Cana, a great principle was preserved, the instructive principle of evolution. There are, to be sure, absolute truths, but they cannot at all times be revealed to men without preparation. Each age must have its special function, its special truths. Why is it that we can speak today of reincarnation, etc.? Why are we able to sit together in such an assembly as this and foster Spiritual Science? We can do so, because all of the souls which are present within you today have been incarnated upon the earth in so and so many bodies and so and so many times. Very many of the souls which are within you now lived at one time in the Germanic countries where the Druid priests walked among you and brought to your souls Spiritual Wisdom in the form of myth and saga. And because your soul received it in that form at that time, it is now in the position to receive it in another form, the Anthroposophical. At that time it was in the form of pictures—today it is in the form of Anthroposophy. But then it would not have been possible to impart truth in its present form. Do not imagine that the ancient Druid priest would have been able to impart the truth in the form in which it is presented today. Anthroposophy is the form befitting the humanity of the present or of the immediate future. In later incarnations truth will be proclaimed, and men will work for it in quite different forms, and what is now called Anthroposophy will be related as something remembered, just as we now relate the Sagas and Fairy-tales. Anthroposophists should not be foolish enough to say that in ancient times there existed only stupidities and childish ideas, and that we alone have advanced the world so gloriously. Those, for example, who pretend to be monists do this. But we are working in Spiritual Science in preparation for the next epoch. For if our present age were not here, the next would likewise not come. No one should, however, make the future an excuse for present conduct. Much nonsense is indulged in also in respect of the teaching of Reincarnation. I have met people who said that in their present incarnation they did not need to be respectable human beings, because for this they had time enough later on. 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Let us hold clearly in mind what the Christ really wished to say by this: Those who have descended to the stage of materialism, symbolized by the drinking of wine, will I also lead to a union with the Spirit.—So He will be there, not alone for those who can be raised by means of the symbol of baptism, by water. It is very significant that we are shown at once that here are six vessels of purification. We shall return to this number. Purification is what is accomplished by means of baptism. If in those epochs in which the Gospel had its origin one wished to express the fact of baptism, it was spoken of as a purification. The word “baptism” was never actually used, but they said “to baptize,” and what resulted through baptism was called “purification.” Never will you find in the Gospel of St. John the corresponding *ΒαπτιζΩ*, except in verb form. 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Warum aber eine Hochzeit in Galiläa? Wir werden verstehen, warum es eine Hochzeit in Galiläa ist, wenn wir uns die ganze Mission des Christus noch einmal vor die Seele rufen. Seine Mission besteht darin, dem Menschen die volle Kraft des Ich, die innere Selbständigkeit in die Seele zu bringen. Das einzelne Ich sollte sich in völliger Selbständigkeit und Abgeschlossenheit, in völligem Stehen-in-sich-selber fühlen, und durch die Liebe, die als eine freie Gabe gegeben wird, soll Mensch mit Mensch zusammengeführt werden. Eine Liebe also soll durch das Christus-Prinzip in die Erdenmission hineinkommen, die immer mehr und mehr über das Materielle erhaben ist und immer mehr und mehr in Geistiges aufsteigt. Ausgegangen ist die Liebe von ihrer niedersten Form, die an die Sinnlichkeit gebunden ist. Dasjenige liebte sich in den ursprünglichen Menschheitszeiten, was durch Blutsbande miteinander verbunden war, und man hielt ungemein viel darauf, daß die Liebe diese materielle Basis der Blutsverwandtschaft habe. Der Christus war gekommen, um diese Liebe zu vergeistigen, um auf der einen Seite die Liebe loszureissen von den Banden, in die sie durch die Blutsverwandtschaft hineinverschlungen wird, und auf der anderen Seite die Kraft, den Impuls zu der geistigen Liebe zu geben. Innerhalb der Bekenner des Alten Testamentes sehen wir im vollsten Sinne noch das ausgedrückt, was wir die Zugehörigkeit zur Gruppenseele als die Grundlage des einzelnen Ichs im Gesamt-Ich nennen können. Wir haben gesehen, der Ausspruch: «Ich und der Vater Abraham sind Eins» bedeutet etwas für den Bekenner des Alten Testaments; es bedeutet, sich geborgen zu fühlen in dem Bewußtsein, daß jenes Blut, welches schon geronnen hat in den Adern des Vaters Abraham, herunterrollte bis zu ihm, dem Bekenner. Da fühlte er sich in einem Ganzen geborgen; und nur diejenigen betrachtete man als zusammengehörig, welche aus einer solchen Art menschlicher Fortpflanzung hervorgegangen waren, die durch diese Blutsverwandtschaft aufrechterhalten blieb. Ganz im Anfange der Menschheitsentwickelung auf der Erde wurde überhaupt nur geheiratet in ganz engen Kreisen, in ganz blutsverwandten Familien. Die «Nah-Ehe» war das, woran man im Anfange der Menschheitsentwickelung festgehalten hat. Immer mehr erweiterten sich die engen Blutkreise. Man heiratete hinaus aus dem Stamm, aber noch nicht in ein anderes Volk hinüber. Das Volk des Alten Testamentes hielt ganz fest daran, daß die Volksblutsverwandtschaft aufrechterhalten wurde. Der ist ein «Jude», der dem Blute nach ein Jude ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p020"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"An dieses Prinzip wendet sich der Christus Jesus nicht; er wendet sich an diejenigen, die dieses Prinzip der bloßen Blutsverwandtschaft durchbrechen, und er zeigt das Wichtige, was er zu zeigen hat, daher nicht zuerst innerhalb Judäas, sondern draußen in Galiläa. Galiläa war das Gebiet, wo Völker aus allen möglichen Stämmen und Völkern gemischt waren. Der «Galiläer» bedeutet der «Mischling». Zu den Galiläern geht der Christus Jesus, zu denen, die am meisten gemischt sind. Und aus dem, was solcher durch Mischung bewirkten Fortpflanzung der Menschheit zugrunde liegt, soll das hervorgehen, was eben nicht mehr an die materielle Grundlage der Liebe gebunden ist. Daher wird das, was er zu sagen hat, auf einer Hochzeit gesagt. Warum gerade auf einer Hochzeit? Weil durch die Hochzeit hingedeutet werden kann auf die Fortpflanzung der Menschheit. Und das, was er zeigen will, zeigt er nicht da, wo man nur heiratet in engeren Grenzen, wo man nur heiratet innerhalb der Blutsbande, sondern da, wo man unabhängig von den Blutsbanden heiratet. Deshalb wird das bei einer Hochzeit gesagt, und zwar bei einer Hochzeit in Galiläa. Und wenn wir verstehen wollen, was hier gezeigt wird, dann müssen wir wiederum einen Blick werfen auf die ganze Entwickelung der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p021"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Oft ist betont worden, daß es für den Okkultisten etwas Äußeres, bloß Materielles nicht gibt. Alles Materielle ist für ihn der Ausdruck eines Seelisch-Geistigen. Und wie Ihr Antlitz der Ausdruck für ein Seelisch-Geistiges ist, so ist das Licht der Sonne der Ausdruck für ein seelisch-geistiges Licht. Alles, was scheinbar bloß materiell geschieht, ist zu gleicher Zeit der Ausdruck tieferer geistiger Vorgänge. Der Okkultismus leugnet nicht das Materielle, ihm ist nur selbst das gröbste Materielle der Ausdruck eines Seelisch-Geistigen. So entsprechen den geistigen Entwickelungsvorgängen in der Welt immer parallel gehende materielle Tatsachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p022"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wenn wir im Geiste zurückblicken auf die Entwickelung der Menschheit, als die Menschheit noch auf dem alten Kontinente zwischen Europa und Amerika war, auf der alten Atlantis, von da aus hinüberlebte in die spätere nachatlantische Zeit, und wie verschiedene Generationen endlich bis zu uns herauf geführt haben, dann können wir den ganzen Sinn dieser Entwickelung der Menschheit von der vierten Rasse zur fünften Rasse — wenn wir ihn vom Rassenstandpunkt aus betrachten — so ins Auge fassen, daß sozusagen aus der noch ganz und gar in die Gruppenseele getauchten Menschheit der Atlantis allmählich sich entwickeln, langsam heranreifen sollte das Einzel-Ich der menschlichen Persönlichkeit in der nachatlantischen Zeit. Was der Christus geistig brachte durch seinen mächtigen geistigen Impuls, das mußte langsam auch durch andere Impulse vorbereitet werden. Was Jahve getan hat, war, daß er in den astralischen Leib das Gruppenseelen-Ich hineingelegt und ihn so vorbereitet hat zur langsamen Reifung, um aufzunehmen das völlig selbständige «Ich-bin». Nicht anders aber konnte dieses Ich-bin von dem Menschen erfaßt werden, als wenn auch sein physischer Leib ein geeignetes Werkzeug wurde, um dieses Ich-bin zu beherbergen. Sie können sich leicht vorstellen, daß der astralische Leib noch so fähig sein könnte, ein Ich aufzunehmen — wenn der physische Leib so ist, daß er kein geeignetes Werkzeug ist, um das «Ich-bin» auch wirklich im Wachbewußtsein zu fassen, dann ist es eben nicht möglich, ein «Ich-bin» aufzunehmen. Es muß auch der physische Leib immer das geeignete Werkzeug sein für das, was sich auf Erden hier ausprägt. Also mußte der physische Leib, als der astralische Leib herangereift war, vorbereitet sein, um ein Werkzeug für das. «Ich-bin» zu werden. Und das geschah auch in der menschlichen Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p023"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Wir können die Prozesse verfolgen, durch welche der physische Leib vorbereitet wurde, ein Träger des selbstbewußten, des «Ich-bin »begabten Menschen zu werden. Sogar in der Bibel wird uns das angedeutet: daß derjenige, der Stammvater wird in einer gewissen Beziehung in der nachatlantischen Zeit, daß Noah der erste Weintrinker ist, als erster die Wirkung des Alkohols erlebt. Da kommen wir auf ein Kapitel, das wirklich für manchen schockierend sein kann. Was in der nachatlantischen Zeit als ein besonderer Kultus hervortritt, ist der Dionysosdienst. Sie wissen alle, wie der Dionysoskult in Zusammenhang gebracht wird mit dem Wein. Dieser merkwürdige Stoff wird der Menschheit allerdings erst in der nachatlantischen Zeit zugeführt, und dieser Stoff wirkt auf die Menschheit. Sie wissen, jeder Stoff wirkt irgendwie auf die Menschen, und der Alkohol hat eine ganz bestimmte Wirkung auf den menschlichen Organismus. Er hatte nämlich eine Mission im Laufe der Menschheitsentwickelung; er hatte — so sonderbar das erscheint — die Aufgabe, sozusagen den menschlichen Leib so zu präparieren, daß dieser abgeschnitten wurde von dem Zusammenhang mit dem Göttlichen, damit das persönliche «Ich-bin» herauskommen konnte. Der Alkohol hat nämlich die Wirkung, daß er den Menschen abschneidet von dem Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt, in der der Mensch früher war. Diese Wirkung hat det Alkohol auch noch heute. Der Alkohol ist nicht umsonst in der Menschheit gewesen. Man wird in einer zukünftigen Menschheit im vollsten Sinne des Wortes sagen können, daß der Alkohol die Aufgabe hatte, den Menschen so weit in die Materie herunterzuziehen, damit der Mensch egoistisch wurde, und daß der Alkohol ihn dahin brachte, das Ich für sich zu beanspruchen und es nicht mehr in den Dienst des ganzen Volkes zu stellen. Also den entgegengesetzten Dienst, den die Gruppenseele der Menschheit geleistet hat, hat der Alkohol geleistet. Er hat den Menschen die Fähigkeit genommen, in höheren Welten sich mit einem Ganzen eins zu fühlen. Daher der Dionysoskult, der das Zusammenleben in einer Art äußeren Rausches pflegt. Ein Aufgehen in einem Ganzen, ohne zu schauen dieses Ganze. Die Entwickelung in der nachatlantischen Zeit ist deshalb mit dem Dionysoskult verbunden worden, weil dieser Kult ein Symbolum war für die Funktion und Mission des Alkohols. Jetzt, wo die Menschheit wiederum strebt, den Weg zurückzufinden, wo das Ich so weit entwickelt ist, daß der Mensch wieder den Anschluß finden kann an die göttlich-geistigen Mächte, jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen, wo, anfangs sogar aus dem Unbewußten heraus, eine gewisse Reaktion gegen den Alkohol eintritt. Diese Reaktion tritt aus dem Grunde ein, weil viele Menschen heute schon fühlen, daß so etwas, was einmal eine besondere Bedeutung hatte, nicht ewig berechtigt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":429,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p024"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Es braucht niemand das, was jetzt gesagt worden ist über die Aufgabe des Alkohols in einer bestimmten Zeit, etwa als für den Alkohol gesprochen aufzufassen; sondern es geschah, um klarzumachen, daß diese Mission des Alkohols erfüllt ist und daß für die verschiedenen Zeiten sich eben Verschiedenes schickt. Aber es tauchte auch in derselben Epoche, wo die Menschheit durch den Alkohol am tiefsten in den Egoismus heruntergezogen worden ist, die stärkste Kraft auf, die dem Menschen den größten Impuls geben kann, um wieder den Zusammenschluß mit dem geistigen Ganzen zu finden. Auf der einen Seite mußte der Mensch bis zur tiefsten Stufe hinuntersteigen, um selbständig zu werden, auf der anderen Seite mußte dagegen die starke Kraft kommen, die wieder den Impuls geben konnte, um den Weg zum Ganzen zurückzufinden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p025"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Dies mußte der Christus andeuten in dem ersten Zeichen für seine Mission. Er mußte erstens andeuten, daß das Ich selbständig werden sollte, und sodann, daß er sich an diejenigen wendet, die sich schon losgelöst haben von den Blutszusammenhängen. Er mußte sich wenden an eine solche Hochzeit, wo die Körper unter dem Einfluß des Alkohols standen; denn bei dieser Hochzeit wird Wein getrunken. Und der Christus Jesus zeigt, wie er es hält mit seiner Mission in bezug auf die verschiedenen Erdperioden. Wie oft wird es ganz sonderbar ausgedrückt, was die Verwandlung des Wassers in Wein hier für eine Bedeutung habe. Auch sogar von Kanzeln kann man es hören, daß damit nichts anderes gemeint sei, als daß das schale Wasser des Alten Teestamentes abgelöst werden solle von dem kräftigen Wein des Neuen Testamentes. Es waren vermutlich Weinliebhaber, die diese Art der Auslegung immer wieder geliebt haben. Denn so einfach sind diese Symbole nicht. Es muß festgehalten werden, daß der Christus sagt: Meine Mission ist eine solche, daß sie in eine fernste Zukunft hinweist; und es soll den Menschen als selbständigen Menschen gebracht werden der Zusammenhang mit der Gottheit, die Liebe zur Gottheit als eine freie Gabe des selbständigen Ich. Diese Liebe soll den Menschen in Freiheit an die Gottheit binden, wie ihn früher ein innerlicher Zwangsimpuls der Gruppenseele dieser Gottheit eingegliedert hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p026"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Fassen wir jetzt im Sinne einer Stimmung auf, was so die Menschheit erlebte. Fassen wir vor allem die Gedanken, die man damals hatte. Man sagte: Der Mensch war einst mit der Gruppenseele verbunden und fühlte seinen Zusammenhang mit der Gottheit. Dann hat er sich herunterentwickelt. Das betrachtete man wie ein Verstricktwerden mit dem Materiellen, wie eine Degeneration, wie eine Art Abfall von dem Göttlichen, und man fragte: Woher ist denn das, was der Mensch jetzt hat, ursprünglich gekommen? Wovon ist er abgefallen? Je weiter wir in der Erdenentwickelung zurückgehen, desto mehr finden wir, daß die festen Stoffe immer mehr unter dem Einfluß von wärmeren Zuständen in Flüssiges übergehen. Wir wissen aber, daß damals, als die Erde noch ein flüssiger Planet war, der Mensch auch schon vorhanden war. Aber damals war der Mensch auch noch weniger von der Gottheit losgelöst als später. In demselben Maße, als sich die Erde verfestigte, vermaterialisierte sich auch der Mensch. Der Mensch war, als die Erde flüssig war, schon im Wasser enthalten; aber er konnte nur herumgehen auf einer Erde, die auch schon Festes abgesetzt hatte. Daher fühlte man das Sichverfestigen des Menschen so, daß man sagte: Aus der Erde, die noch Wasser war, wird der Mensch herausgeboren, aber da ist er noch ganz mit der Gottheit verbunden. Alles, was ihn in die Materie hineingebracht hat, hat ihn verunreinigt. Diejenigen, die sich dieses alten Zusammenhanges mit dem Göttlichen erinnern sollten, wurden mit der Wassertaufe getauft. Diese sollte das Symbolum dafür sein: Werdet euch bewußt eures alten Zusammenhanges mit der Gottheit, und daß ihr verunreinigt seid, heruntergekommen seid zu dem heutigen Zustand! - So taufte auch der Täufer, um auf diese Weise den Menschen den Zusammenhang mit der Gottheit nahezubringen. Und so war alle Taufe in den alten Zeiten gemeint. Es ist ein radikaler Ausdruck, aber ein Ausdruck, der uns das, was gemeint ist, zum Bewußtsein bringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p027"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Der Christus Jesus sollte mit etwas anderem taufen. Er sollte die Menschen nicht auf die Vergangenheit weisen, sondern durch die Entwickelung der Geistigkeit in ihrem Innern auf die Zukunft. Durch den «heiligen», durch den ungetrübten Geist sollte des Menschen Geistiges zusammenhängend werden mit der Gottheit. Die Wassertaufe war eine Erinnerungstaufe. Die Taufe aber mit dem «heiligen Geist» ist eine prophetische Taufe, die hinweist in die Zukunft. Jener Zusammenhang, der ganz verlorengegangen ist, an den erinnern sollte die Wassertaufe, ist mit verlorengegangen auch in dem, was ausgedrückt wurde im Symbolum des Weines, des Opferweines. Dionysos ist der zerstückelte Gott, der in die einzelnen Seelen eingezogen ist, so daß die einzelnen Teile nichts mehr voneinander wußten. In viele Stücke zersplittert, in die Materie geworfen ist der Mensch durch das, was durch den Alkohol - das Symbol für Dionysos - der Menschheit gebracht worden ist. Aber in der Hochzeit von Kana ist ein großes Prinzip festgehalten. Das ist das pädagogische Evolutionsprinzip. Es gibt zwar absolute Wahrheiten, aber sie können der Menschheit nicht ohne weiteres zu jeder Zeit überliefert werden. Jede Zeit muß ihre besonderen Verrichtungen, ihre besonderen Wahrheiten haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p028"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Warum dürfen wir heute über Reinkarnation und so weiter sprechen? Warum dürfen wir in einer solchen Versammlung zusammensitzen und Geisteswissenschaft pflegen? Wir dürfen das, weil alle die Seelen, die heute in Ihnen sind, in so und so vielen Körpern so und so oft auf der Erde inkarniert waren. Gar manche von den Seelen, die heute in Ihnen sind, haben einstmals gelebt innerhalb der germanischen Länder, wo die Druidenpriester unter sie getreten sind und das, was geistige Weisheit ist, in Form von Mythen und Sagen an die Seele herangebracht haben. Und weil die Seele das dazumal in jener Form aufgenommen hat, ist sie heute in der Lage, das in einer anderen Form, in anthroposophischer Form aufzunehmen. Damals im Bilde, heute in der Form der Anthroposophie. Aber nicht hätte damals die Wahrheit in der heutigen Form vorgetragen werden können. Sie dürfen nicht glauben, daß der alte Druidenpriester die Wahrheit hätte in dieser Form verkünden können, wie es heute geschieht. Aber Anthroposophie ist diejenige Form, die für die heutigen oder unmittelbar kommenden Menschen taugt. In späteren Inkarnationen wird in ganz anderen Formen die Wahrheit verkündet und für sie gewirkt werden, und das, was man heute Anthroposophie nennt, wird als eine Erinnerung erzählt werden, wie man heute die Sagen und Märchen erzählt. So unsinnig darf der Anthroposoph nicht sein, zu sagen: Es hat in alten Zeiten nur Dummheiten und kindliche Anschauungen gegeben, und «nur wir haben es heute so herrlich weit gebracht». — Das tun zum Beispiel diejenigen, die vorgeben, Monisten zu sein. Wir aber arbeiten in der Geisteswissenschaft, um die nächste Epoche vorzubereiten. Denn würde unsere Epoche nicht da sein, so würde die nächste eben auch nicht kommen. Aber auch keiner darf die Gegenwart mit der Zukunft entschuldigen. Auch mit der Reinkarnationslehre wird da viel Unfug getrieben. Es sind mir Menschen vorgekommen, die gesagt haben, sie brauchten in ihrer heutigen Inkarnation noch keine anständigen Menschen zu sein, dafür hätten sie noch später Zeit. Wenn man aber heute damit nicht beginnt, dann wird die Folge davon gerade in der nächsten Inkarnation eintreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p029"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"So müssen wir uns klar sein, daß es etwas Absolutes in den Formen der Wahrheit nicht gibt, sondern daß jedesmal das erkannt wird, was einer gewissen Epoche der Menschheit entspricht. Es mußte sozusagen der höchste Impuls heruntersteigen bis zu den Lebensgewohnheiten der damaligen Zeit. Denn er mußte das, was höchste Wahrheit ist, in die Worte und die Verrichtungen kleiden, welche dem Verständnis der betreffenden Epoche angemessen waren. So mußte der Christus durch eine Art Dionysos- oder Weinopfer sagen, wie die Menschheit sich zur Gottheit erheben solle. Man darf nicht zelotisch sagen: Warum verwandelt Christus das Wasser in Wein? Es muß die Zeit berücksichtigt werden. Durch eine Art Dionysosopfer mußte Christus vorbereiten das, was kommen sollte. Christus geht zu den Galiläern, die zusammengewürfelt sind aus allerlei Nationen, die nicht durch Blutsbande verknüpft sind, und tut da das erste Zeichen seiner Mission; und er schickt sich so weit in ihre Lebensgewohnheiten, daß er ihnen das Wasser in Wein verwandelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p030"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Halten wir fest, was der Christus da eigentlich sagen will: Ich will auch diejenigen Menschen zu einem geistigen Zusammenhange führen, die herabgestiegen sind bis zu der Stufe von Materialität, welche durch das Weintrinken symbolisiert wird. Und er will nicht nur für solche da sein, die durch das Symbol der Wassertaufe sich erheben können. Es ist sehr bedeutsam, daß wir geradezu darauf hingewiesen werden, daß hier sechs Reinigungskrüge stehen (2, 6). Auf die Zahl kommen wir noch einmal zurück. «Reinigung » ist das, was durch die Taufe bewirkt wird. Man sprach in den Zeiten, aus denen das Evangelium herstammt, wenn man die Tatsache des Taufens ausdrückte, vom «Taufen» als von einer Reinigung. Man sprach aber niemals eigentlich das Wort «Taufe» aus, sondern sagte «taufen»; und das, was bewirkt wurde durch die Taufe, nannte man die «Reinigung». Niemals werden Sie in dem Johannes-Evangelium das entsprechende Wort, also AurriSewv, anders als in Form des Zeitwortes finden. Wenn es aber als Hauptwort gebraucht wird, wird immer die Reinigung, die Wirkung ausgedrückt, damit sich der Mensch an seinen Reinigungszustand erinnern soll, an seinen Zusammenhang mit der Gottheit. Also selbst in den symbolischen Krügen für das Reinigungsopfer nimmt der Christus Jesus das Zeichen vor, durch das er - der Zeitepoche entsprechend — auf seine Mission hinweist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p031"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"So wird uns gerade etwas von der tiefsten Mission des Christus in der Hochzeit zu Kana in Galiläa ausgedrückt. Und da mußte er sagen: Es wird meine Zeit kommen in der Zukunft; jetzt aber ist sie noch nicht da. Was ich hier zu wirken habe, hängt zum Teil noch mit dem zusammen, was überwunden werden muß durch meine Mission. Er steht in der Gegenwart und weist zugleich in die Zukunft hinein und zeigt dadurch, wie er nicht im absoluten, sondern im kulturpädagogischen Sinne für die Zeit wirkt. Die Mutter ist es daher, die ihn auffordert und sagt: «Sie haben nicht Wein.» Er aber sagt: Das, was ich jetzt zu vollbringen habe, hängt noch mit den alten Zeiten zusammen, mit «mir und dir»; denn meine eigentliche Zeit,wo der Wein zurückverwandelt wird in Wasser, ist noch nicht gekommen. Wie hätte es auch überhaupt einen Sinn, zu sagen: «Weib, was habe ich mit dir zu schaflen?», wenn er dann doch das befolgt, was die Mutter gesagt hat?! Es hat nur dann einen Sinn, wenn wir darauf hingewiesen ‚werden sollen, daß durch die Blutsverwandtschaft der gegenwärtige Zustand der Menschheit herbeigeführt worden ist, und daß ein Zeichen gegeben wird im Sinne der alten Gebräuche, die noch des Einschlages des Alkohols bedürfen, um hinzudeuten auf die Zeit, da aus den Blutsbanden das selbständige Ich sich herausgestaltet, daß man also vorläufig mit dem Alten, das im Wein symbolisiert wird, noch rechnen muß, daß aber eine spätere Zeit kommen wird, die «seine Zeit» sein wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p032"}],"beads":[{"from":[13,14],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[15],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[16],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[17],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[18],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[25,26],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20,21],"to":[27,28,29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[22,23],"to":[30,31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[32],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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