{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-07/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As an illustration of what has just been set forth, let us take a seven-armed candelabrum and light it step by step, and let us consider the first flame of its sevenfold unity a symbol of the first phase of human evolution, the *Saturn* phase. Every evolution proceeds in seven subdivisions, so in the first flame we see a symbol of the forces that flowed into man during the *Saturn* period. Passing to the second flame of this sevenfold candelabrum we have the symbol of the forces that came to man during the *Sun* phase. In like manner we can see in the third unit the forces from the *Moon*, and in the fourth, the symbol of everything that streamed into man from the *Earth* evolution. Now let us imagine the middle light as burning brightly, while the next three are but very dim. The middle light represents the time when Christ entered evolution; and never could the remaining candles be kindled, never could the next evolutionary epochs come about, had not the Christ impulse intervened in the evolution of mankind—indeed, they are still dark today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. The Earth as Christ's Body and as a New Light Center","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-07-07","location":null,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-07/p016","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/AP1948/19090707p02.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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In derselben Weise haben wir in der dritten Flamme der Siebenheit ein Symbolum für die Kräfte, die dem Menschen im Laufe der alten Mondenzeit zugeflossen sind. Und in der vierten haben wir ein Symbolum für alles, was dem Menschen zugeflossen ist aus der Erdenentwickelung. Denken wir uns nun das mittlere Licht hellentzündet, die nächsten noch in dunklen Flammen brennend: da, wo das mittlere Licht ist, da ist der Zeitpunkt, wo das Christus-Licht in die Entwickelung eingeschlagen hat. Niemals könnten die anderen Lichter entzündet werden, niemals könnten die folgenden Zeiten der Entwickelung kommen, wenn nicht der Christus-Impuls in die Mensch heitsentwickelung eingeschlagen hätte. 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