{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 114/1909-09-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Humanity has only now become sufficiently mature to assimilate the spiritual content of the teaching of Karma and Reincarnation. It is therefore not surprising that in what has been imparted to humanity for centuries from the Gospels, there is much that gives a quite erroneous picture of Christianity. In a certain respect the Gospel message was entrusted prematurely to men and it is only to-day that they are becoming mature enough to develop all the faculties that could lead to an understanding of the actual content of the Gospel records. It was absolutely necessary that what was proclaimed by Christ Jesus should take account of the conditions and the attitude of soul prevailing in those days. Therefore Karma and Reincarnation were not taught as abstract doctrines, but *feelings* were cultivated through which human souls would gradually become ready to receive this teaching. What was needed at that time was to speak in a way that could lead by degrees to an understanding of Karma and Reincarnation rather than any enunciation of the teaching itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Event of Golgotha: Initiation Presented on the Stage of World History","site_heading":"Christ's Initiation: Love's Transformation of Human Consciousness","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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Es war durchaus notwendig, daß das, was als Verkündigung des Christus Jesus erfolgte, auf den damaligen Zustand, auf die damalige Verfassung der Menschenseelen Rücksicht nahm; so daß man damals nicht in abstrakten Lehren Reinkarnation und Karma lehrte, sondern daß man solche Gefühle in die Menschenseele einströmen ließ, durch welche die Seelen erst nach und nach reif wurden, die Lehre von Reinkarnation und Karma aufzunehmen. Das heißt, man mußte in der damaligen Zeit das sagen, was nach und nach zum Verständnis der Lehre von Karma und Reinkarnation führen konnte, und nicht die Lehre selber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/114/1909-09-26/p007"}],"english":["GA 114/1909-09-26/p008"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":188,"en_words":174,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 114/1909-09-26/p007"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8487,"original_word_count":8605,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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