{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-06-25/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us turn to the time in which Buddha appeared to the ancient Indian people. Conditions were very different at that time. Today the appearance of a Buddha, especially in Europe, would arouse no particular respect. But in those old days it was a different matter, for there were very many who could discern the true nature of the event, namely, that this Buddha birth meant a great deal more than does an ordinary birth. In oriental writings, especially in those treating the subject with the deepest understanding, the birth of Buddha is described in the grand manner, as one might put it. It is related that Queen Maya was “the image of the Great Mother”, and that it was foretold she would bring a mighty being into the world. This being was then born prematurely—a very common means of launching an outstanding being in the world, because thereby the human being in which the higher spiritual being is to incarnate is less closely amalgamated with matter than when the child is carried the full time of gestation. It is then further related in the notable records of the Orient that at the moment of birth Buddha was enlightened, that he opened his eyes at once and directed his gaze to the four points of the compass, to the north, south, east, and west. We are told that he then took seven steps, and that the marks of these steps are engraved in the ground he trod. It is further recorded that he spoke at once, and the words he spoke were these: “This is the life in which I shall rise from Bodhisattva to Buddha, the last incarnation I shall have to pass through on this earth!”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Da wird erzählt, daß «der Großen Mutter Ebenbild » die Königin Maya war, und daß ihr vorhergesagt worden war, sie würde ein mächtiges Wesen zur Welt bringen. Als dann dieses Wesen geboren wurde, kam es als eine Frühgeburt auf die Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-25/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Sehr häufig ist das eines der Mittel, um ein bedeutendes Wesen in die Welt zu schicken: es eine Frühgeburt sein zu lassen, weil dann das menschliche Wesen, in das sich das höhere geistige Wesen verkörpern soll, sich nicht so gründlich mit der Materie vereinigt, als wenn es die vollständige Reifezeit ausgetragen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":52,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-25/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Es wird nun weiter in den bedeutsamen Schriften des Morgenlandes berichtet, daß in demselben Augenblick, als der Buddha geboren wurde, er erleuchtet war, und die Augen sogleich aufschlug und sie nach den vier Hauptpunkten der Welt richtete, nach Norden, Süden, Osten, Westen. Und ferner wird uns gesagt, daß er sogleich sieben Schritte machte, und daß die Spuren dieser sieben Schritte eingegraben sind in den Boden, wo er sie machte. Und auch gesprochen hat er gleich, so wird uns gesagt, und die Worte, die er sprach, lauteten: «Dies ist das Leben, in welchem ich vom Bodhisattva zum Buddha werde, die letzte der Verkörperungen, die ich auf dieser Erde durchzumachen habe.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-25/p020"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-06-25/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":310,"en_words":288,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-06-25/p018","GA 112/1909-06-25/p019","GA 112/1909-06-25/p020"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6326,"original_word_count":6406,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090625p02.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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