{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And he came! But again he came in such a way that he accommodated himself to the historical necessities that lie behind evolution. Without special preparation he could not incarnate himself in a physical body. It was still possible for him to incarnate in a sort of subconsciousness in the Buddha. But he could incarnate to live on the earth only if a physical body, and etheric body, and an astral body were specially prepared for him. The Christ had the greatest powers, but he could incarnate only if, through another being, a physical, an etheric, and an astral body had been completely cleansed and purified. Thus the incarnation of the Christ could occur only if another being appeared who had developed himself to this point. This was Jesus of Nazareth. He had proceeded so far in his evolution that he was able, during his life, to purify his physical, etheric, and astral bodies in such a way that it was possible for him, in the thirtieth year of his life, to abandon these bodies, yet to leave them capable of life, usable for a higher being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Tenth Lecture","site_heading":"Initiation, Christ, and Humanity's Spiritual Redemption","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber er kam wiederum, indem er sich fügte den historischen Notwendigkeiten, welche der Evolution zugrundeliegen. In einem physischen Leibe hätte er sich ohne weiteres nicht verkörpern können. Es war noch möglich, daß er sich wie in einer Art Unterbewußtsein verkörpern konnte in dem Buddha. Aber wandelnd auf der Erde konnte er sich nur verkörpern, wenn ein physischer Leib und ein Ätherleib und ein Astralleib besonders zubereitet waren. Der Christus hatte die größte Kraft der Wirkung, aber verkörpern konnte er sich nur, wenn ein physischer Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib durch eine andere Wesenheit vollständig geläutert und gereinigt worden waren. Und so konnte die Verkörperung des Christus nur so geschehen, daß eine Wesenheit auftrat, die sich so hoch entwickelt hatte. Das war Jesus von Nazareth. Er war so hoch gekommen in seiner Entwickelung, daß er in der Lage war, während seines Lebens seinen physischen Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib so zu läutern, daß es ihm möglich war, im dreißigsten Jahre seines Lebens diese Leiber zu verlassen, aber so, daß sie noch lebensfähig, noch brauchbar waren für eine höhere Wesenheit. Oft, wenn ich dies ausgesprochen habe, daß eine hohe Stufe der Entwickelung notwendig war, damit Jesus seine Leiber opfern konnte, machten die Menschen einen sehr merkwürdigen Einwand: Aber das sei doch gar kein Opfer, was könne man sich Schöneres denken? Man könne doch nicht von einem großen Opfer sprechen, wenn es sich darum handelte, einer so hohen Wesenheit seine Leiber zu überlassen. — Ja, schön ist es auch, und es wäre das Opfer nicht groß, wenn man es so abstrahierte. Aber man möchte antworten: Man mache es einmal so; das Opfer wolle wohl jeder bringen, aber man wolle es einmal probieren. — Es ist nötig, ungeheure Kräfte zu haben, um seine Leiber so zu läutern, daß man sie lebensfähig verlassen kann. Um diese Kräfte zu erlangen, dazu sind die Opfer notwendig. Jesus von Nazareth mußte schon eine außerordentlich hohe Individualität sein, damit er das konnte. Das Johannes-Evangelium deutet an, wann Jesus seinen physischen Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib verließ und einging in die geistige Welt und das Christus-Wesen hineinfuhr in die dreifache Leiblichkeit. Das geschah bei der Taufe des Jesus im Jordan. Da geschah etwas sehr Bedeutungsvolles in der Leiblichkeit des Jesus von Nazareth. Wiederum muß das, was ich jetzt sage, ein Greuel sein für ein materialistisches Gemüt. Es ging etwas Besonderes vor, selbst in dem physischen Leibe des Jesus von Nazareth. Wenn wir das verstehen wollen, was da vorging in dem Moment der Taufe, als der Christus in den Jesus hineinfuhr, da müssen wir uns eines einmal vor die Seele führen, was recht sonderbar erscheinen wird, aber doch wahr ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":439,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-12/p022"}],"english":["GA 106/1908-09-12/p023","GA 106/1908-09-12/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":439,"en_words":445,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5907,"original_word_count":5918,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080912p01.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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