{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us suppose we have here a vessel filled with water. In the water, salt is dissolved and the water becomes quite transparent. Because we have warmed the water, we have made a salt solution. Now let us cool the water. The salt precipitates and we see how the salt condenses below and forms a deposit at the bottom of the vessel. That is the process for one who sees only with physical eyes. But for a person who can see with spiritual eyes, something else is happening. While the salt is condensing below, the spirit of the salt streams up through the water, filling it. The salt can only become condensed when the spirit of the salt has departed from it and become diffused into the water. Those who understand these things know that wherever condensation takes place, a spiritualization also always occurs. What thus condenses below has its counterpart above in the spiritual, just as in the case of the salt, when it condenses and is precipitated below, its spirit streams upward and disseminates. Therefore, it was not only a physical process that took place when the blood flowed from the wounds of the Saviour, but it was actually accompanied by a spiritual process; that is, the Holy Spirit which was received at the Baptism united Itself with the earth; that the Christ Himself flowed into the very being of the earth. From now on, the earth was changed, and this is the reason for saying to you, in earlier lectures, that if a person had viewed the earth from a distant star, he would have observed that its whole appearance was altered with the Mystery of Golgotha. The Sun Logos became a part of the earth, formed an alliance with it and became the Spirit of the Earth. This He achieved by entering into the body of Jesus of Nazareth in his thirtieth year, and by remaining active there for three years, after which He continued to remain on the earth. Now, the important thing is, that this Event must produce an effect upon the true Christian; that it must give something by which he may gradually develop the beginnings of a purified astral body in the Christian sense. There had to be something there for the Christian whereby he could make his astral body gradually more and more like a Virgin Sophia, and through it, receive into himself the Holy Spirit which was able to spread out over the entire earth, but which could not be received by anyone whose astral body did not resemble the Virgin Sophia. There had to be something which possesses the power to transform the human astral body into a Virgin Sophia. What is this power? It consists in the fact of Christ Jesus entrusting to the Disciple whom He loved—in other words to the writer of the Gospel of St. John—the mission of describing truly and faithfully through his own illumination the events of Palestine in order that men might be affected by them. If men permit what is written in the Gospel of St. John to work sufficiently upon them, their astral body is in the process of becoming a Virgin Sophia and it will become receptive to the Holy Spirit. Gradually, through the strength of the impulse which emanates from this Gospel, it will become susceptible of feeling the true spirit and later of perceiving it. This mission, this charge, was given to the writer of the Gospel by Jesus Christ. You need but read the Gospel. The Mother of Jesus—the Virgin Sophia in the esoteric meaning of Christianity—stands at the foot of the Cross, and from the Cross the Christ says to the Disciple whom He loved: “Henceforth, this is thy Mother” and from this hour the Disciple took her unto himself. This means: “That force which was in My astral body and made it capable of becoming bearer of the Holy Spirit, I now give over to thee; thou shalt write down what this astral body has been able to acquire through its development.” “And the Disciple took her unto himself,” that means he wrote the Gospel of St. John. And this Gospel of St. John is the Gospel in which the writer has concealed powers which develop the Virgin Sophia. At the Cross, the mission was entrusted to him of receiving that force as his mother and of being the true, genuine interpreter of the Messiah. This really means that if you live wholly in accordance with the Gospel of St. John and understand it spiritually, it has the force to lead you to Christian katharsis, it has the power to give you the Virgin Sophia. Then will the Holy Spirit, united with the earth, grant you illumination or photismos according to the Christian meaning. And what the most intimate disciples experienced there in Palestine was so powerful that from that time on, they possessed at least the capacity of perceiving in the spiritual world. The most intimate disciples had received this capacity into themselves. Perceiving in the spirit, in the Christian sense, means that the person transforms his astral body to such a degree through the power of the Event of Palestine that what he sees need not be before him externally and physically-sensible. He possesses something by means of which he can perceive in the spirit. There were such intimate pupils. The woman who anointed the feet of Christ Jesus in Bethany had received through the Event of Palestine the powerful force needed for spiritual perception, and she is, for example, one of those who first understood that what had lived in Jesus was present after His death, that is, had been resurrected. She possessed this faculty. It may be asked: Whence came this possibility? It came through the development of her inner sense-organs. Are we told this in the Gospel? We are indeed; we are told that Mary Magdalene was led to the grave, that the body had disappeared and that she saw there two spiritual forms. These two spiritual forms are always to be seen when a corpse is present for a certain time after death. On the one side is to be seen the astral body, and on the other, what gradually separates from it as ether body, then passing over into the cosmic ether. Wholly apart from the physical body, there are two spiritual forms present which belong to the spiritual world.","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":1073,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-31/p021","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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Wer die Dinge kennt, der weiß, daß da, wo eine Verdichtung geschieht, auch immer eine Vergeistigung stattfindet. Was also sich nach unten verdichtet, hat sein Gegenbild nach dem Geistigen, nach oben. Ganz genau ebenso wie dann, wenn dieses Salz nach unten sickert und sich da verdichtet, der Geist des Salzes ausströmt und sich nach oben hin verbreitet, ebenso war nicht nur ein physischer Vorgang vorhanden, als das Blut herausrann aus den Wunden des Erlösers, sondern indem das Blut herausrann, war das wirklich begleitet von einem geistigen Vorgange. Und dieser geistige Vorgang besteht darin, daß der Heilige Geist, der da aufgenommen war bei der Taufe, sich mit der Erde verband, daß der Christus selbst einfloß in das Wesen der Erde. Von jetzt an war die Erde verwandelt. Denn das liegt dem zugrunde, was Ihnen in den früheren Vorträgen gesagt worden ist: man hätte sehen können, wenn man von einem fernen Stern auf die Erde geblickt haben würde, daß das ganze Aussehen der Erde mit dem Ereignis von Golgatha sich veränderte. Es sollte sich der Sonnenlogos mitteilen der Erde, ein Bündnis mit der Erde schließen, der Geist der Erde werden. Der Weg, durch den er das getan, besteht darin, daß er im dreißigsten Jahre des Jesus von Nazateth in dessen Leiber eingezogen ist, drei Jahre darin gewirkt hat und dann für die Erde erhalten worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p027"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Und nun handelt es sich darum, daß in dem wirklichen Christen eine Wirkung dieses Ereignisses sein muß, daß es etwas geben muß, wodurch der wirkliche Christ nach und nach die Anlage zu einem im christlichen Sinne geläuterten astralischen Leib erhält. Es mußte für den Christen etwas da sein, wodurch er seinen astralischen Leib nach und nach ähnlich machen kann einer «Jungfrau Sophia», um dadurch den «Heiligen Geist» in sich aufzunehmen, der ja sonst auch ausgebreitet sein könnte auf der Erde, aber nicht empfangen werden könnte von dem, dessen astralischer Leib nicht ähnlich ist der «Jungfrau Sophia». Es mußte etwas da sein, was die Kraft in sich enthält, den menschlichen Astralleib zu einer «Jungfrau Sophia » zu machen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p028"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wo liegt diese Kraft? Diese Kraft liegt darin, daß der Christus Jesus dem Jünger, den er lieb hatte, also dem Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums, die Mission übertragen hat, aus seiner Erleuchtung heraus wahr und getreulich die Vorgänge in Palästina aufzuschreiben, damit die Menschen sie auf sich wirken lassen können. Lassen die Menschen das genügend auf sich wirken, was im Johannes-Evangelium aufgeschrieben ist, dann ist ihr astralischer Leib auf dem Wege, eine «Jungfrau Sophia » zu werden, und er wird dann empfänglich für den « Heiligen Geist». Er wird allmählich empfänglich durch die Stärke der Impulse, die vom Johannes-Evangelium ausgehen, wahres Geistiges zu fühlen und später zu erkennen. Das hat der Christus Jesus dem Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums gegeben, diese Mission, diesen Auftrag. Sie brauchen nur das Evangelium zu lesen, Sie finden es darin: Am Kreuze stand Jesu Mutter — die «Jungfrau Sophia» im esoterischen Sinne des Christentums — und vom Kreuz herab spricht der Christus zu dem Jünger, den er lieb hatte:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p029"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"> «Das ist fortan deine Mutter! Und von der Stunde an nahm sie der Jünger zu sich.» (19, 27)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":19,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p030"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Das heißt: Diejenige Kraft, die in meinem astralischen Leib war und ihn befähigt hat, ein Träger zu werden für den Heiligen Geist, diese Kraft. übertrage ich auf dich; du sollst niederschreiben das, was dieser astralische Leib durch seine Entwickelung erlangen konnte! - «Und der Jünger nahm sie zu sich», das heißt, er schrieb das Johannes-Evangelium. Und das Johannes-Evangelium ist dasjenige Evangelium, in dem der Schreiber verborgen hat die Kräfte zur Entfaltung der «Jungfrau Sophia». Am Kreuz wird ihm die Mission erteilt, sie als seine Mutter anzunehmen, der wahre, echte Interpret des Messias zu sein. Eigentlich heißt das also: Lebt euch ganz in den Sinn des Johannes-Evangeliums hinein, erkennt es spirituell; es hat die Kraft, euch zur christlichen Katharsis zu führen, es hat die Kraft, euch die « Jungfrau Sophia» zu geben; dann wird auch der mit der Erde vereinigte Heilige Geist euch die Erleuchtung - Photismos im christlichen Sinne zuteil werden lassen! - Und dies, was die intimsten Schüler erfahren hatten dazumal in Palästina, das war so stark, daß sie fortan wenigstens die Anlage in sich hatten, im Geiste zu sehen. Die intimsten Schüler hatten diese Anlage in sich aufgenommen. Denn dieses Im-GeistigenSehen im christlichen Sinne besteht darin, daß der Mensch seinen astralischen Leib so umgestaltet durch die Kraft des Ereignisses von Palästina, daß äußerlich, physisch-sinnlich nicht da zu sein braucht, was der Mensch sehen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p031"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Der Mensch hat dann noch etwas, womit er in das Geistige hineinsieht. Es gab solche intime Schüler. Diejenige, die in dem Flecken Bethanien den Christus Jesus gesalbt hat, sie hatte die starke Kraft zum geistigen Sehen aus dem Ereignis von Palästina bekommen, und sie ist zum Beispiel eine derjenigen, welche zuerst vernehmen, daß das, was in Jesus gelebt hat, vorhanden ist nach dem Tode, auferstanden ist. Sie hatte diese Möglichkeit. Woher hat sie diese Möglichkeit? Dadurch, daß die inneren Sinnesorgane ihr aufgegangen sind. — Wird uns das gesagt? Ja. Wir werden unterrichtet davon, daß Maria von Magdala hingeführt wird an das Grab, daß der Leichnam fort ist und sie da am Grabe zwei geistige Gestalten sieht. Man sieht diese zwei geistigen Gestalten immer, wenn ein Leichnam längere Zeit da ist. Man sieht auf der einen Seite den Astralleib, und man sieht auf der anderen Seite das, was sich nach und nach als Ätherleib loslöst und in den Weltenäther übergeht. Ganz abgesehen vom physischen Leibe sind zwei geistige Gestalten da, die der geistigen Welt angehören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p032"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p021"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":1044,"en_words":1073,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p027","GA 103/1908-05-31/p028","GA 103/1908-05-31/p029","GA 103/1908-05-31/p030","GA 103/1908-05-31/p031","GA 103/1908-05-31/p032"]},"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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