{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the course of human evolution, the various organs have developed bit by bit, gradually working out their form. We have seen how, when the organs had reached the level of the hips, certain structures and functions appeared in man. Then, too, as the human individuality became more self-reliant, a hardening of the bony system set in. The more independent man became, the more his bony system hardened and the greater became the power of death. We must bear this in mind if we are to understand the following in the right way. Whence comes it that man must die and the body must completely disintegrate? It comes from the fact that in the human body something can be burned, even down to the bones. Fire has power over the human bone-substance. Man has no power, at least no conscious power, over his bones. This power still lies outside man's abilities. In the moment when, at the baptism in Jordan, the Christ drew into the body of Jesus of Nazareth, in that moment the bony system of this being became something entirely different from what it is in other men. This was something that had never happened before and has not happened again to this day. With the Christ-being there entered into the Jesus-being something that had power over the forces that burn up the bones. Today the building up of the bones has not yet been placed within man's discretion. But this power reached right down into the bones. The conscious power of the Christ-being extended into the bones. This is part of the meaning of the baptism by John. Therewith something was implanted in the earth that can be called the supremacy over death, for death first appeared in the world with the bones. Through the fact that power over the bones entered the human body, the victory over death also came into the world. Here a deep mystery is expressed. Something in the highest degree holy entered into the bony system of Jesus of Nazareth through the Christ. Therefore it was not to be touched. For this reason the scripture had to be fulfilled: “A bone of him shall not be broken.”[^2] That would have allowed human power to meddle in divine forces. Here we are gazing into a deep mystery of human evolution.","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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Das liegt daran, daß im menschlichen Leibe etwas verbrannt werden kann: die Knochen. Es hat das Feuer eine Gewalt auch über die menschliche Knochensubstanz. Der Mensch hat keine Gewalt, wenigstens keine bewußte Gewalt über seine Knochen. Diese Gewalt liegt noch außerhalb der Macht des Menschen. In dem Augenblick, in dem in der Jordantaufe der Christus in den Leib des Jesus von Nazareth einzog, in dem Augenblick wurde das Knochensystem dieser Wesenheit etwas ganz anderes als bei anderen Menschen. Das war ein Fall, der sich vorher niemals und auch nachher niemals bis auf heute ereignet hat. Es fuhr mit der Christus-Wesenheit in die Jesus-Wesenheit etwas herein, das Macht hatte über die Kräfte, die Knochen verbrennen. Heute ist es noch nicht in die Willkür des Menschen gestellt, die Knochen aufzubauen. Diese Gewalt aber griff bis in die Knochen hinein. Bis in. die Knochen hinein griff die bewußte Gewalt der Christus-Wesenheit; das gehört zum Sinn der Johannestaufe. Damit war in die Erde etwas verpflanzt, was man nennen kann die Oberherrschaft über den Tod, denn mit den Knochen ist der Tod erst in die Welt. gekommen. Dadurch, daß die Gewalt über die Knochen einzog in den menschlichen Leib, damit ist die Überwindung des Todes in die Welt gekommen. Damit wird ein tiefstes Mysterium ausgesprochen, damit war ein Heiligstes, ein im höchsten Maße Heiligstes, in das Knochensystem des Jesus von Nazareth durch den Christus eingezogen. Daher durfte es nicht angetastet werden. Daher mußte sich das Schriftwort erfüllen: Ihr dürft ihm kein Bein zerbrechen. — Da hätte in die Gotteskräfte Menschengewalt eingegriffen. 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