{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 114/1909-09-25/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We shall now understand how humanity advances into the future. The Bodhisattva who became Buddha five or six centuries before our era, ascended into the spiritual world and now works in his Nirmanakaya. He has risen to a higher stage and need not again descend into a physical body. The powers that were his as Bodhisattva are again present—but in a different form. When he became Buddha at that time, he passed over the office of Bodhisattva to another who became his successor; another became Bodhisattava. A Buddhist legend speaks of this in words which give expression to a deep truth of Christianity. It is narrated that the Bodhisattva, before descending to the incarnation when he became Buddha, removed his heavenly tiara and placed it upon the Bodhisattva who was to be his successor. The latter, with his somewhat different mission, works on. He too is to become a Buddha. When—in about three thousand years—a number of human beings have evolved from within themselves the teachings of the Eightfold Path, the present Bodhisattva will become Buddha, as did his predecessor. Entrusted with his mission five or six centuries before our era, he will become Buddha in about three thousand years, reckoning from our present time. Oriental wisdom knows him as the Maitreya Buddha.[^2]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Christ: The Bringer of the Living Power of Love","site_heading":"Christ's Love as Living Power in Human Evolution","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. 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Derjenige, der sich fünf bis sechs Jahrhunderte vor unserer Zeitrechnung vom Bodhisattva zum Buddha entwickelt hat, ist damit so in die geistige Welt aufgestiegen, daß er nun als Nirmanakaya wirkt. Er ist damit auf eine höhere Stufe gehoben worden und braucht nicht mehr in einen physischen Leib hinunterzusteigen. Die Wirkungsweisen, die er als Bodhisattva hatte, sind in einer anderen Art wieder vorhanden. Als er damals vom Bodhisattva zum Buddha wurde, übergab er das Amt des Bodhisattva an einen anderen. Da wurde ein anderer sein Nachfolger, ein anderer zum Bodhisattva. Das drückt die buddhistische Legende durch etwas aus, was für das tiefere Christentum eine tiefe Wahrheit ist. Es wird erzählt, bevor die Individualität des Bodhisattva zu ihrem Buddha-Werden heruntergestiegen ist, habe sie die himmlische Tiara abgenommen und dem ihr folgenden Bodhisattva aufgesetzt. Der folgende Bodhisattva wirkt weiter mit seiner etwas anders gearteten Mission. Auch ihm ist es vorgesetzt, ein Buddha zu werden. Gerade zu jener Zeit, wenn eine Anzahl Menschen aus sich selbst heraus die Lehre vom achtgliedrigen Pfade entwickelt haben werden - in etwa dreitausend Jahren -, wird derjenige zum Buddha werden, der zum Bodhisattva geworden ist, als sein Vorgänger Buddha wurde. Fünf bis sechs Jahrhunderte vor unserer Zeitrechnung wurde er mit seiner Mission betraut; er wird ein Buddha werden nach dreitausend Jahren, von unserer Zeit angefangen gerechnet. Das ist derjenige, den die orientalische Lehre als den Maitreya Buddha kennt. Damit der jetzige Bodhisattva zum Maitreya Buddha werden kann, muß eine größere Anzahl von Menschen aus dem eigenen Herzen heraus die Lehre vom achtgliedrigen Pfade entwickelt haben; die Menschen werden dann in einer größeren Anzahl so weise sein, daß sie das können. Dann wird derjenige, der jetzt Bodhisattva ist, eine neue Kraft in die Welt bringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/114/1909-09-25/p030"}],"english":["GA 114/1909-09-25/p028","GA 114/1909-09-25/p029","GA 114/1909-09-25/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":321,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6439,"original_word_count":6917,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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