{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then the course of human evolution entered upon a phase in which it gradually became impossible to draw the ether body out of the physical without a very great disturbance in all its functions, because the whole tendency of the post-Atlantean evolution was to cause the ether body to be attached closer and closer to the physical body. It was consequently necessary to carry out other methods of initiation which proceed in such a manner that without the separating of the physical and ether bodies, the astral body, having become sufficiently developed through katharsis and able of itself to return again to the physical and etheric bodies, was able to imprint its organs on the ether body in spite of the hindrance of the physical body. What had to happen was that stronger forces had to become active in Meditation and Concentration in order that there might be the strong impulse in the astral body for overcoming the power of resistance of the physical body. In the first place there was the actual specifically Christian initiation in which it was necessary for the pupil to undergo the procedure which was described yesterday as the seven steps. When he had undergone these feelings and experiences, his astral body had been so intensely affected it formed its organs of perception plastically—perhaps only after years, but still sooner or later—and then impressed them upon the ether body, thus making of the pupil one of the Illuminati. This kind of initiation which is specifically Christian could only be described fully, if I were able to hold lectures about its particular aspects, every day for about a fortnight instead of only for a few days. But that is not the important thing. Yesterday you were given certain details of the Christian initiation. We only wish to become acquainted with its principle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XII. The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-05-31","location":null,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-31/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","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/AP1962/19080531p01.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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Es war daher notwendig, andere Methoden auszuführen, die darauf hinausgehen, daß ohne die Trennung von physischem Leib und Ätherleib der Astralleib, wenn er genügend entwickelt ist innerhalb der Katharsis, wenn er von selbst wieder hineingeht in den physischen und Ätherleib, dann trotz des Hindernisses des physischen Leibes zu einem Abdruck seiner Organe im Ätherleibe kommt. Das, was eintreten mußte, ist also, daß stärkere Kräfte in Meditation und Konzentration wirken mußten, damit starke Impulse im Astralleib seien, welche die Widerstandskraft des physischen Leibes überwinden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p007"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Zunächst kam dann die eigentlich spezifisch christliche Einweihung, die es notwendig macht, daß der Mensch sich den Prozeduren unterwirft, die gestern als die sieben Stufen geschildert worden sind. Wenn der Mensch diese Gefühle und Empfindungen durchmacht, wird sein astralischer Leib so intensiv bearbeitet, daß er — vielleicht erst nach Jahren, aber doch früher oder später - plastisch seine Wahrnehmungsorgane formt und sie dann in den Ätherleib hineindrückt, um dadurch den Menschen zu einem Erleuchteten zu machen. Diese Art der Einweihung, die die spezifisch christliche ist, könnte ausführlich nur beschrieben werden, wenn ich nicht nur mehrere Tage, sondern vielleicht zwei Wochen jeden Tag einen Vortrag über alle Einzelheiten halten könnte. Darauf kommt es aber nicht an. — Es handelte sich gestern darum, gewisse Einzelheiten in der christlichen Einweihung Ihnen anzugeben. Wir wollen uns ja nur mit dem Prinzip bekanntmachen. — Dadurch, daß der Mensch so etwas durchmacht, ist er in der Tat in der Lage, ohne den dreieinhalb Tage dauernden lethargischen Schlaf die Einweihung zu erlangen, namentlich wenn der christliche Schüler fortdauernd meditiert über die Sätze des Johannes-Evangeliums. Wenn er die ersten Sätze des Johannes-Evangeliums: «Im Urbeginne war das Wort» bis zu der Stelle «voller Hingabe und Wahrheit» jeden Tag auf sich wirken läßt, sind sie eine ungeheuer bedeutsame Meditation. Diese Kraft haben sie in sich. Denn dieses Johannes-Evangelium ist überhaupt in seiner Ganzheit nicht bloß dazu da, gelesen und mit dem Intellekt verstanden zu werden, sondern es muß innerlich ganz erlebt und gefühlt werden. Dann ist es selbst eine Kraft, die der Einweihung zu Hilfe kommt und für sie arbeitet, und dann werden «Fußwaschung», «Geißelung» und andere innere Vorgänge als astralische Visionen, ganz entsprechend dem, wie sie im Johannes-Evangelium vom 13. Kapitel ab selbst beschrieben werden, erlebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p008"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p006","GA 103/1908-05-31/p007"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":425,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p007","GA 103/1908-05-31/p008"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7995,"original_word_count":7635,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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