{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-02/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That represents the conviction of the Old Testament adherents: all the great events narrated in the Old Testament, everything that today seems miraculous, occurred through the power of the inner experience contained in the words, *I and Father Abraham are one*. But the time came when men were destined to relinquish this state of consciousness for another, hence it gradually disappeared. That is why Christ could not address those who, on the one hand, had lost the magic power of influencing by means of blood ties, and on the other, still believed only in the common bond with Father Abraham. Clearly, among these Christ could not find the faith necessary for enabling His soul to flow actively into other souls; and for this purpose He had to turn to those who, owing to their mixed blood, no longer clung to this old belief: to the Galileans. That is where His mission had to commence. Even though the old state of consciousness was generally on the wane, still He found in Galilee a medley of peoples that stood at the beginning of the era in which blood became mixed. From all quarters tribes assembled here that had previously been governed solely by the forces of the old blood ties. They were on the point of finding the transition. They vividly retained the feeling that their fathers were still endowed with the old consciousness states, that they possessed the magic powers which act from soul to soul. Among these people Christ could inaugurate His new mission, which consisted in endowing man with an ego consciousness no longer bound to blood relationship; an ego consciousness which could say, It is within myself that I shall find the connection with the spiritual Father Who, instead of letting His blood flow down through the generations, radiates His spiritual force into each individual soul. The ego which is within me, and which is in direct communion with the spiritual Father, was before Abraham was. It is for me, then, to infuse into this ego a force that will be strengthened through my being aware of my connection with the spiritual Father force of the world. *I and the Father are one*. No longer I and Father Abraham—that is, a physical ancestor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. The Artistic Composition of the Gospel of St. John","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-07-02","location":null,"word_count":375,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-02/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/AP1948/19090702p02.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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Denn bei denen konnte er jenen Glauben nicht finden, der dazu notwendig war, um das zu wirken, was strömen konnte von seiner Seele in die anderen Seelen; da mußte er zu denjenigen gehen, die dutch ihre Blutmischung nicht mehr einen solchen Glauben hatten, da mußte er zu den Galiläern gehen. Hier mußte er beginnen mit seiner Mission. Wenn auch im allgemeinen der alte Bewußtseinszustand im Schwinden war, so fand er doch bei ihnen gerade eine Volksmischung vor, die im Anfange der Blutmischung stand. Von allen Seiten kamen hier Volksstämme zusammen, welche vor diesem Zusammenströmen noch unter den Kräften deralten Blutsbande gestanden hatten. Sie waren eben dazu gekommen, den Übergang zu finden. Sie hatten noch das lebendige Gefühl in sich: Unsere Väter haben noch die alten Bewußtseinszustände gehabt, sie haben noch die magischen Kräfte gehabt, die von Seele zu Seele wirken. — Bei ihnen konnte er mit seiner neuen Mission wirken, die darin bestand, dem Menschen ein Ich-Bewußtsein zu geben, das nicht mehr an Blutsverwandtschaft geknüpft ist, ein Ich-Bewußtsein, das sagen konnte: In mir selber finde ich den Zusammenhang mit dem geistigen Vater, mit dem Vater, der nicht sein Blut physisch herunterrollen läßt durch die Generationen, sondern der seine geistige Kraft in jede einzelne individuelle Seele hineinsendet. Das Ich, das in mir ist und das eine unmittelbare Beziehung zum geistigen Vater hat, es war, ehe denn Abraham war. Daher bin ich berufen, eine solche Kraft in das Ich hineinzugießen, die da gestärkt wird durch das Bewußtsein des Zusammenhanges mit der geistigen Vater-Kraft der Welt. «Ich und der Vater sind eins », nicht ich und der Vater Abraham, das heißt ein leiblicher Vorfahr, sind eins.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":380,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-02/p017"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-07-02/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":380,"en_words":375,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7221,"original_word_count":7410,"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/AP1948/19090702p02.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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