{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-31/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is often so with the prophets, both true and false. They take the trouble to say something and to repeat it again and again and the people learn to believe it, because it is constantly repeated. The representative of Spiritual Science desires to be no such prophet. He does not wish to be a prophet at all. And although it may often be said: “Yes, you not only repeat, but you are always elucidating things from other sides, you are always discussing them in other ways;” when they speak thus to him, he is guilty of no fault. A prophet wishes that people believe in him. Spiritual Science has no desire to lead to *belief*, but to *knowledge*. Therefore let us take Voltaire's utterance in another way. He says:—“The *simple* is *believed* and is the concern of the prophet.” Spiritual Science says:—the *manifold* is *known*. Let us try to understand more and more that Spiritual Science is something that is manifold—not a creed, but a path to knowledge, and consequently it bears within it the manifold. Therefore let us not shrink from collecting a great deal in order that we may understand one of the most important Christian documents, the Gospel of St. John. We have attempted to assemble the most varied material which places us in the position of being able to understand more and more the profound truths of this Gospel; able to understand how the physical mother of Jesus was an external manifestation, an external image of the Virgin Sophia; to understand what spiritual importance the Virgin Sophia had for the pupil of the Mysteries, whom the Christ loved; again to understand how, for the other Evangelists—who view the bodily descent of Jesus as important—the physical father plays his significant part when it was a question of the external imprint of the God-idea in the blood; and further, to understand what significance the Holy Spirit had for John, the Holy Spirit through which the Christ was begotten in the body of Jesus and dwelt therein during the three years and which is symbolized for us in the descent of the Dove at the Baptism by John.","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":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-31/p038","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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Deshalb versuchten wir, die mannigfaltigsten Materialien herbeizutragen, die uns in die Lage versetzen, die tiefen Wahrheiten des Johannes-Evangeliums immer mehr zu verstehen; zu verstehen, wie die leibliche Mutter des Jesus eine äußere Offenbarung, ein Abbild ist für die «Jungfrau Sophia » ; was für den Mysterienschüler, den Christus lieb hatte, geistig die «Jungfrau Sophia» gilt; wie dann noch für die anderen Evangelisten, die auf leibliche Abkunft schauen, hineinspielt der leibliche Vater, der seine Bedeutung da hat, wo es auf die äußere Ausprägung des Gottesbegriffes im Blute ankommt; was ferner für Johannes der «Heilige Geist » bedeutet, durch den der Christus in Jesus gezeugt wurde während der drei Jahre, der Geist, der uns angedeutet wird symbolisch dadurch, daß herunterstieg die Taube bei der Johannes-Taufe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-31/p056"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-31/p038"],"method":"embedding","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":171,"en_words":360,"ratio":2.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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