{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who interpret the Gospel at present do not at all understand the principle of giving names at the time the Gospels were written and therefore they do not speak as they should. It is, in fact, exceedingly difficult to describe the principle of giving names at that time, yet we can make it comprehensible, even though we only indicate it in rough outlines. Let us suppose, in the case of someone whom we meet, that instead of holding to the name which does not at all fit him, and which has been given to him in the abstract way customary today, we were to harken to and notice his most distinguishing characteristics, were to notice the most prominent attribute of his character and were in a position to discern clairvoyantly the deeper foundations of his being, then were to give him his name in accordance with those most important qualities which we believe should be attributed to him. Were we to follow such a method of giving names, we should be doing something, at a lower more elementary stage, similar to what was done at that time by those who gave names in the manner of the writer of the Gospel of St. John. In order to make very clear his manner of giving names, let us consider the following:","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":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-31/p014","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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p014"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-31/p014","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Denken Sie sich, wir würden bei einem Menschen, der uns entgegentritt, nicht stehen bleiben bei jenem gar nicht zu ihm gehörigen Namen, den er auf den abstrakten Wegen erhält, die nun einmal heute für die Namengebung üblich sind, sondern wir würden lauschen und achtgeben, welches seine hervorragendsten Eigenschaften, das hervorstechendste Merkmal in seinem Charakter ist, und wir würden in der Lage sein, hellseherisch die tiefere Grundlage seines Wesens zu erforschen, und würden dann nach den wichtigsten Eigenschaften, die wir ihm glauben beilegen zu müssen, seinen Namen ihm geben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p015"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Würden wir eine solche Namengebung einmal befolgen, dann wür den wir ungefähr auf einer niederen, elementaren Stufe etwas Ähnliches ausführen, was diejenigen ausgeführt haben bei einer Namengebung, die im Sinne des Schreibers des Johannes-Evangeliums Namen gegeben haben. Wenn ich mich recht verständlich machen wollte, wie der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums bei seiner Namengebung zu Werke ging, müßte ich jetzt sagen: Dieser Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums hat sich die äußere geschichtliche Mutter des Jesus auf ihre hervorstechendsten Eigenschaften hin angesehen und hat nun gesagt: Wo finde ich einen Namen für sie, der ihr Wesen am vollkommensten ausdrückt? Und weil sie durch die früheren Inkarnationen, die sie durchgemacht hatte, bis zu der geistigen Höhe gekommen war, auf der sie stand, weil sie in ihrer äußeren Persönlichkeit gleichsam als ein Abdruck, als eine Offenbarung erschien dessen, was man in der christlichen Esoterik nennt die «Jungfrau Sophia», so nannte er die Mutter des Jesus die «Jungfrau Sophia». So hat sie immer geheißen in den esoterischen Stätten, wo das Christentum esoterisch gelehrt worden ist: die «Jungfrau Sophia». Exoterisch läßt er sie überhaupt unbenannt, gegenüber den anderen Evangelisten, die den Profan-Namen Maria für sie gewählt haben. Er durfte nicht den Profan-Namen nehmen. Johannes mußte im Namen ausdrücken die tiefe weltgeschichtliche Entwickelung. Das tut er, indem er andeutet, daß sie nicht Maria genannt werden kann, vielmehr stellt er neben sie ihre Schwester Maria, Kleophas’ Weib, und nennt sie einfach «Jesu Mutter». Dadurch deutet er an, daß er ihren Namen nicht nennen will, daß er öffentlich nicht bekanntgegeben werden kann. In esoterischen Kreisen nannte man sie immer die « Jungfrau Sophia». Sie war diejenige, die als äußere historische Person repräsentiert die «Jungfrau Sophia ».","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p016"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p014","GA 103/1908-05-31/p015"],"method":"embedding","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":418,"en_words":440,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p015","GA 103/1908-05-31/p016"],"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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