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If we turn our attention to what exists at the very central point of this Mystery and wish to express it in occult terms, we must contemplate the moment of the Crucifixion when the blood flowed from the wounds of the Saviour, and at the same time we must remember something which has often been said in the course of these lectures, that for one who knows the spiritual worlds, all material, substantial, physical objectivity is only the outer expression, the external manifestation of something spiritual. Now let us permit the physical event to arise before our souls: Christ-Jesus upon the Cross, the blood flowing from His wounds. 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There is a very great difference between all the earthly occurrences which preceded this Event of Golgotha and those that succeed it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-26/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-05-26","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":89,"en_words":100,"ratio":1.12,"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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If we wish to visualize the earth's ether body, we must imagine its central point exactly at the center of the earth where the physical earth body also has its central point. This entire physical earth body is embedded in its own ether body and these two are again embedded in an astral body. If someone had observed clairvoyantly the astral body of the earth during the course of the earth's evolution, during the course of long epochs of time, he would have seen that, as a matter of fact, this astral body and ether body of the earth have not always remained the same, that they have changed. In order to represent the matter quite pictorially, let us in spirit transplant ourselves outside beyond the earth to some other star, and let us imagine a person with clairvoyant vision looking down upon the earth from this star. He would not only see the earth suspended there as a physical planet, but he would see an aura about it, he would see the earth surrounded by an aura of light, for he would be perceiving the earth's ether and astral bodies. If this clairvoyant person were to remain a long time on this distant star, long enough to have observed the pre-Christian periods of the earth pass by and the Event of Golgotha approaching, the following spectacle would have presented itself to him. Before the Event of Golgotha the aura of the earth, the astral and ether bodies offered a certain aspect of colour and form, but following a particular, definite moment of time, he would have seen the colour of the entire aura changing. What was this particular moment of time? It was the very moment when the blood flowed from the wounds of Christ-Jesus upon Golgotha. 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Dieses Bild, dessen Inhalt physisches Ereignis ist, was drückt es geistig für denjenigen aus, der das Johannes-Evangelium richtig verstehen kann?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":42,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p004"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Dieser physische Vorgang, das Ereignis von Golgatha, ist der Ausdruck, die Offenbarung für einen geistigen Vorgang, der im Mittelpunkte alles Erdengeschehens steht. Wer im Sinne der heutigen materialistischen Weltanschauung dieses Wort auffaßt, wird sich nicht viel dabei vorstellen können. Denn er wird sich nicht denken können, daß dazumal bei diesem einzigartigen Ereignis auf Golgatha etwas geschehen ist, was sich unterscheidet von einem etwa physisch ähnlichen oder gleichen Ereignisse. Es ist ein gewaltiger, großer Unterschied zwischen allen Erdenvorgängen, die vor diesem Ereignisse auf Golgatha liegen, und denen, die nachher kommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p005"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn wir uns das einmal in den Einzelheiten in die Seele malen wollen, so müssen wir sagen: Nicht nur der einzelne Mensch oder irgendein anderes Einzelwesen hat physischen Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib, so wie wir das in den vorhergehenden Vorträgen in mancherlei Beziehung geschildert haben, sondern auch ein Weltenkörper ist nicht nur diese physische Materie, als die er dem Astronomen und anderen physischen Forschern erscheint; auch ein Weltenkörper hat einen Ätherleib und einen astralischen Leib. Unsere Erde hat ihren Ätherleib, ihren astralischen Leib. Würde unsere Erde nicht ihren zu sich gehörigen Ätherleib haben, so würde sie nicht Pflanzen beherbergen können; würde unsere Erde nicht ihren zu sich gehörigen astralischen Leib haben, würde sie nicht Tiere beherbergen können. Wenn man sich den Ätherleib der Erde vorstellen will, so muß man sich dessen Mittelpunkt ebenso im Mittelpunkt der Erde denken, wie der physische Erdenleib seinen Mittelpunkt dort hat. Dieser ganze physische Erdenleib ist eingebettet in den Ätherleib der Erde und diese beiden zusammen wieder in einen astralischen Leib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p006"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Wenn nun jemand hellseherisch den astralischen Leib der Erde beobachtet hätte im Laufe der Erdentwickelung, im Laufe langer Zeiträume, so würde er gesehen haben, wie tatsächlich dieser astralische Leib und dieser Ätherleib der Erde nicht immer dieselben geblieben sind, daß sie sich veränderten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-26/p007"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-26/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Um uns die Sache recht bildlich vorzustellen, wollen wir uns einmal im Geiste versetzen außerhalb der Erde auf irgendeinen anderen Stern, wollen denken, ein hellseherischer Mensch sehe von einem anderen Stern auf unsere Erde hinab. Ein solcher Mensch würde nicht nur die Erde schweben sehen als einen physischen Planeten, sondern er würde eine Aura sehen, er würde die Erde von einer Lichtaura umgeben sehen, weil er wahrnehmen würde Ätherleib und astralischen Leib der Erde. Würde nun ein solcher hellseherischer Mensch auf diesem fernen Stern lange weilen, so lange, daß er die vorchristlichen Zeiten für die Erde vorübergehen und das Ereignis von Golgatha hätte eintreten schen, so würde sich ihm folgender Anblick darbieten: Die Aura der Erde, Astralleib und Ätherleib bieten einen gewissen Anblick von Farben und Formen vor dem Ereignis von Golgatha; dann aber würde er sehen, wie die ganze Aura ihre Farben ändert von einem bestimmten Zeitpunkte an. Welcher Zeitpunkt ist das? Das ist derselbe Zeitpunkt, wo auf Golgatha das Blut aus den Wunden des Christus Jesus floß. 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