{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-02/p067","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What Christ meant by this answer was that in the innermost soul of man there is the potential nucleus of a God: something divine. How often have we not pointed out that the fourth principle of the human being is the potential human capacity for the divine! “Ye are Gods.” That is, something divine dwells in you. It is not the human being but something different, not the person of a man as he lives on earth between birth and death; and it is different also from what man inherits from his parents. Whence derives this element of divinity, this human individuality? It passes through repeated earth lives from incarnation to incarnation: it comes over from an earlier earth life, from a previous incarnation. Hence we read, not the man's parents have sinned, nor has his own personality—the personality one ordinarily addresses as “I”; but in a previous incarnation he created the cause of his blindness in this life. He became blind because out of a former life the works of the God within him revealed themselves in his blindness. Christ Jesus here points clearly and distinctly to karma, the law of cause and effect.","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":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-02/p067","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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Aus einem früheren Erdenleben herüber, aus einer früheren Inkarnation kommt diese Individualität. Also: nicht seine Eltern haben gesündigt, auch nicht seine Persönlichkeit, zu der man gewöhnlich «Ich» sagt. Aber in einem früheren Leben hat dieser Mensch die Ursache dazu gelegt, daß er blind geboren ist in diesem Leben. Blind ist er dadurch geworden, daß sich die Werke des Gottes in ihm von einem früheren Leben her in seiner Blindheit zeigen. Karma, das Gesetz von Ursache und Wirkung, wird hier klar und deutlich von dem Christus Jesus angedeutet. Auf was also muß jetzt gewirkt werden, wenn diese Krankheit geheilt werden sollte? Es muß auf das gewirkt werden, was nicht als ein vergängliches Ich zwischen Geburt und Tod lebt, sondern tiefer müssen sich die Kräfte hineinbohren, in das Ich, das von Leben zu Leben geht. Die Christus-Kraft hat sich abermals gesteigert. Bis jetzt haben wir gesehen, daß sie nur auf das gewirkt hat, was ihr gegenübersteht. Jetzt wirkt sie auf das, was das Menschenleben zwischen Geburt und Tod überlebt, was von Leben zu Leben geht. Der Christus fühlt sich selbst als der Repräsentant des Ich-bin. Indem er seine Kraft hineingießt in das Ich-bin, indem so der hohe Gott des Christus sich mitteilt dem Gotte im Menschen, bekommt der Mensch die Kraft, sich von innen heraus zu heilen. Jetzt ist der Christus hineingedrungen bis in das innerste Wesen der Seele. Seine Kraft hat hineingewirkt in die ewige Individualität des Kranken und hat diese dadurch stark gemacht, daß die eigene Kraft des Christus auftritt in der Individualität des Kranken und dadurch auch hineinwirkt bis in die Folgen der früheren Inkarnationen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":371,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-02/p053"}],"english":["GA 112/1909-07-02/p067","GA 112/1909-07-02/p068"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":371,"en_words":366,"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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