{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Man has descended into the dark age, into Kali-Yuga. Before that dark age men saw into the spiritual world with a dim twilight consciousness. They were then able, not merely to make use of the instruments of the physical body, but when they observed the physical world through their eyes, ears and so on, they perceived the spiritual surrounding all things, flowers, plants, stones, etc. As regards this observation of the spiritual, men were rich in those days. In the older times the spirit was bestowed on them; whereas, in the dark age, as regards the spirit they were reduced to beggary; for the spirit was no longer bestowed upon them. They had become poor in spirit. Kali-Yuga came upon them more and more, that time when men had to say to themselves: In the old days things were different, the spirit was then bestowed on men; they were able to look up into a spiritual world, they were then rich in spirit; the kingdoms of heaven were then accessible to them. Now men are pressed down into the physical world. The gates of the spiritual world are closed to human senses, and no view of the kingdoms of heaven is open to the physical body. But Christ was able to say: ‘Lay hold of the ego, where it must now be apprehended! Then will the Kingdoms of Heaven draw near to you. They will arise within your own ego. Though the spiritual light may be concealed from your eyes behind the external light which is perceptible to the senses, though spiritual sound may be concealed from your ears behind physical sound; yet, when Christ Himself shall raise you, ye shall find the Kingdoms of Heaven within you! ‘Unhappy were those who had become poor in the dark age, who had become beggars as regard the spirit. They can now become blessed, the impulse having been given through which Christ is able, from the spiritual world, from the Kingdoms of Heaven, to penetrate into the very ego or ‘ I ’ of man. Therefore, with respect to man's poverty of spirit, the highest Christian proclamation is this: ‘From henceforward, blessed are they who are beggars in spirit, who no longer receive the spirit bestowed upon them according to the old conception. Henceforth, they can be blessed if they take in the Christ-Impulse; for, through the developing of their ego, the Kingdoms of Heaven will be within them.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","title":"III. The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-02","location":null,"word_count":407,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1926","book_title":"The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA116/English/APC1926/19100202p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Arm sind sie geworden an Geist. Immer mehr und mehr war das Kali Yuga herangekommen, wo die Menschen sich sagen mußten: In den alten Zeiten war es anders; da wurde der Geist den Menschen noch geschenkt, da konnten sie hinaufschauen in eine geistige Welt, da waren sie reich an Geist, da waren ihnen die Reiche der Himmel zugänglich. Jetzt aber sind die Menschen heruntergedrängt worden in die physische Welt. Geschlossen haben sich die Tore zu der geistigen Welt vor den menschlichen Sinnen, und der physische Leib eröffnet keine Aussicht in die Reiche der Himmel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p032"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Aber der Christus konnte sagen: Ergreift das Ich da, wo ihr es jetzt ergreifen sollt, dann sind die Reiche der Himmel nahe herbeigekommen. In eurem Ich werden sie aufgehen! Wenn auch eure Augen euch hinter dem äußeren sinnlichen Licht verschließen das geistige Licht, wenn auch eure Ohren euch hinter dem physischen Ton den geistigen verschließen, wenn ihr zu dem Christus selber euch erhebt, werdet ihr in euch finden die Reiche der Himmel! - Unselig waren die, welche durch das finstere Zeitalter arm geworden waren, Bettler geworden waren um Geist. Selig konnten sie jetzt werden, nachdem der Impuls gegeben war, daß bis in das menschliche Ich hinein der Christus dringen konnte, diejenige Wesenheit, welche ihnen Kunde geben konnte von dem Geistigen, von den Reichen der Himmel. So ist in bezug auf die Verarmung des Menschen an Geist die höchste christliche Verkündigung die: Selig können von jetzt ab sein diejenigen, die da Bettler sind um Geist, die nicht mehr den Geist geschenkt bekommen durch eine alte Anschauung; selig können sie doch werden von jetzt ab, wenn sie den Christus-Impuls aufnehmen; dann können ihnen selber werden durch die Entwickelung ihres Ich die Reiche der Himmel!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p033"}],"english":["GA 116/1910-02-02/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":399,"en_words":407,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 116/1910-02-02/p032","GA 116/1910-02-02/p033"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7289,"original_word_count":7367,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1926","book_title":"The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA116/English/APC1926/19100202p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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