{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Christ came in order to spiritualize this love; in order, on the one hand, to loosen the bonds in which love had been entangled through the blood-relationship and on the other hand to give force and intensity to *spiritual* Love. Among the followers of the Old Testament we still see expressed most completely what we may call membership in the group-soul acting as the foundation of the individual ego within the Universal Ego. We have seen that the expression “I and Father Abraham are one” had a definite meaning for the adherents of the Old Testament. It meant that they felt themselves safe in the consciousness that that blood which ran through the veins of Father Abraham flowed on down even to themselves. 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. One is a “Jew” who in his blood is a Jew.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. 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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. 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