{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 114/1909-09-21/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What is Vishva Karman? What is Ahura Mazdao? What is Christ in His true form? The *Divine, Creative Word*! Hence in Zarathustra's teaching the momentous communication is made that he was initiated in order not only to apprehend in the light the Being he called Ahura Mazdao, but also the Divine, Creative Word, *Honover*—which was to descend to the Earth and for the first time *did* descend into an individual etheric body at the Baptism by John. The Divine-Spiritual Word which had been preserved since the Lemurian epoch came forth from ethereal heights at the Baptism by John and entered into the etheric body of the Nathan Jesus. And when the Baptism was completed, what was it that had happened? *The Word had become Flesh*!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Incarnation of the Christ in Jesus of Nazareth","site_heading":"The Zarathustra Ego and Christ's Descent at Baptism","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1909-09-21","location":null,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/114/1909-09-21/p039","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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