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What we have learned yesterday and today amounts simply to this: at that point of time which our Christian reckoning designates the new “Year 1” there occurred something of the most profound significance for the entire *Earth* evolution and, in as far as cosmic evolution is connected with the earth, for cosmic evolution as well. It can be said that with the event of Golgotha a new center was created: ever since then the Christ Spirit has been united with the earth. It had long been gradually approaching, but since that time it has been within the earth; and now men's task is to learn to grasp this fact: that since the Golgotha event the Christ Spirit has been in the earth and in everything it brings forth. 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The form it will take in the future is of such import that men will see in the whole earth the body of Christ. For Christ has entered the earth and has therein created a new light center; He permeates the earth, shines forth into the world, and is for all time interwoven with the earth's aura. So if today we see the earth devoid of its underlying Christ Spirit, we see what is decaying, rotting—its decomposing corpse. Split it up as we may into minute particles, unless we understand the Christ, we see but the disintegrating corpse. 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Dasjenige, was wir gestern und heute gewonnen haben, ist also nichts anderes, als daß in dem Momente unserer Zeitentwickelung, welche die christliche Zeitrechnung mit einer neuen «1» beginnt, etwas eingetreten ist, was für die ganze Erdentwickelung und, insofern die kosmische Entwickelung mit der Erde zusammenhängt, auch für die kosmische Entwickelung von höchster Bedeutung ist. Ja, mit dem Golgatha-Ereignis ist ein neuer Mittelpunkt geschaffen. Mit der Erde ist seitdem vereint der Christus-Geist. Nach und nach ist er herangekommen, und seit der Zeit ist er in der Erde. Und es.handelt sich darum, daß die Menschen erkennen lernen, daß der Christus-Geist seit jener Zeit in der Erde ist, daß in jedem Produkt der Erde der Christus-Geist ist, und daß sie alles unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Todes erkennen, wenn sie nicht den Christus-Geist darinnen erblicken, alles aber erkennen unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Lebens, wenn sie darinnen erblicken den Christus-Geist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-07/p022"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-07/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wir sind erst im Anfange derjenigen Entwickelung, welche die christliche Entwickelung ist. Die Zukunft dieser Entwickelung besteht darinnen, daß wir in der ganzen Erde sehen den Körper des Christus. Denn der Christus ist seit jener Zeit in die Erde eingezogen, hat in der Erde einen neuen Lichtmittelpunkt geschaffen und durchdringt die Erde, leuchtet in die Welt hinaus und ist ewig in der Erdenaura verwoben. Sehen wir daher die Erde heute ohne den Christus-Geist, der ihr zugrunde liegt, so sehen wir das Verwesende, das Verfaulende der Erde, den sich zersetzenden Leichnam. Sehen wir die Erde zerspaltet in noch so viele kleine Partikel, so sehen wir, wenn wir nicht den Christus verstehen, den sich zersetzenden Erdenleichnam. Überall, wo wir bloß Stoffe sehen, da sehen wir die Unwahrheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-07/p023"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-07/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"So finden Sie nicht die Wahrheit, wenn Sie den Menschen der Erde studieren; Sie studieren nur seinen sich zersetzenden Leichnam. Wenn Sie seinen Leichnam studieren, dann können Sie konsequenterweise die Elemente der Erde nur so beurteilen, daß Sie sagen: «Die Erde besteht aus Stoff-Atomen » - gleichgültig, ob es räumlich ausgedehnte Atome oder Kraftmittelpunkte sind, es kommt darauf nicht an. Wenn wir Atome sehen, aus denen unsere Erde bestehen soll, dann sehen wir den Erdenleichnam, das, was sich fortwährend zersetzt, und was einst nicht mehr sein wird, wenn die Erde nicht mehr sein wird. Und die Erde löst sich auf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-07/p024"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-07/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Dann erst erkennen wir die Wahrheit, wenn wir in jedem Atom sehen einen Teil des Christus-Geistes, der seit jener Zeit darinnen ist. Aus was besteht denn die Erde, seitdem der Christus-Geist sie durchdrungen hat? Bis ins Atom hinein besteht die Erde aus Leben, seit sie der Christus durchdrungen hat! Jedes Atom hat nur dadurch einen Wert und kann nur dadurch erkannt werden, daß Sie in ihm sehen eine Hülle, die ein Geistiges umschließt. 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