{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This Christ-Impulse was prepared for by the religion of Jahve or Jehovah; for this religion taught man how little reliance could be placed on his former decisions. During the time which extended from the old Lemurian epoch to the Revelation on Mount Sinai, we have that age in which man was given the power to choose good or evil, while at the same time he became liable to err in judging between them, and became more and more likely to bring on earth that which is known as ‘Sin.’ Sin then ate its way into the life of the earth. Man became ‘like to the Gods,’ but in return for this he acquired qualities which were in nowise ripe for the likeness to God. What had to happen then? First of all man had to be shown what the Godhead expected from him if he was to become a self-conscious ego. This was shown to him by the announcement made on Mount Sinai in the ‘Ten Commandments.’ The people then heard proclaimed through Moses: ‘The good and evil thou hast already developed are not sufficient. I will show thee how these Commandments should sound if thou hadst not descended, and in return for thy defective qualities, received the power of judging between good and evil.’ The Decalogue, the law, given to man on Sinai, was given to man as he had then become; so that out of the spiritual worlds man heard sounding forth that which was right, in contrast to what he had insufficiently developed. The Ten Commandments stand forth as a law of iron, as a torch, showing man what he had not become. He had to submit himself to that law, with all he had become. Man could not at first have submitted to the Ten Commandments, because he had become lacking in decision, lacking in self-guidance. Therefore, they had to be given to him by one who was inspired,—by Moses—that is to say, they were given him from above by Divine administration. They were, however, given in such a way that they were intended for the ego. They told man how an ego must act, if it is to attain the goal of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Der Mensch hat sich die Gottgleichheit angeeignet, aber er hat sie für Eigenschaften in Anspruch genommen, die durchaus nicht reif waren für die Gottgleichheit. Was mußte nun geschehen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p028"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Zunächst mußte dem Menschen gezeigt werden, was die Gottheit von ihm verlangt, wenn er ein selbstbewußtes Ich werden sollte. Und das wurde ihm gezeigt durch die Verkündigung auf dem Sinai, durch die Verkündigung der Zehn Gebote. Da hörten die Menschen durch Moses: Was du bisher entwickelt hast über Gut und Böse, das ist mangelhaft. Ich zeige dir, wie die Gesetze lauten würden, wenn du nicht heruntergestiegen wärest und für deine mangelhaften Eigenschaften die Entscheidung über Gut und Böse in Anspruch genommen hättest! — So steht das Gesetz vom Sinai, der Dekalog, zu dem, was der Mensch geworden war, so daß ihm heruntertönt aus den geistigen Welten, was das Richtige wäre gegenüber dem, was er als mangelhaft ausgebildet hat. Als ein ehernes Gesetz stehen die Zehn Gebote da, als eine Fackel, welche dem Menschen anzeigt alles, was er nicht geworden ist. Er soll sich diesem Gesetz unterwerfen mit all dem, was er geworden ist. Der Mensch konnte sich diese Zehn Gebote zunächst nicht selbst geben, weil er in seinem Entscheiden, in seiner eigenen Gesetzgebung mangelhaft geworden war. Daher mußten ihm die Zehn Gebote durch einen Inspirierten, durch Moses gegeben werden, das heißt durch göttliche Eingebung von oben. Aber sie waren so gegeben, daß sie alle auf das Ich gerichtet waren. 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