{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A most important event was brought about through the Christ-Impulse. Now just ask yourselves this question: Did all those living at the time when Christ Jesus worked on earth know that such an important event was taking place? Just reflect that Tacitus—the great historian, mentions the Christians as an almost unknown sect. A hundred years after Christ he only mentions the Christians as a sect living in a side-street in Rome, whose teacher was a certain Jesus; they are simply mentioned as living there. For a long time after the Christ-Event many people in Rome believed Jesus was a contemporary of theirs, as though he had only just appeared. In short, important events can take place in the evolution of man, without contemporaries noticing that anything has happened. The most important things may come about and pass unobserved if people do not cultivate the understanding for them. They would then miss the experience, and as far as that was concerned they would be barren and dried up. ‘Change your hearts! The Kingdoms of Heaven have approached!’ That was the proclamation of John the Baptist and of Christ Jesus Himself. They hinted to those who had ears to hear that something most important was occurring. That nothing is known in the world of an important happening is no proof that it is not taking place. Those whose business it is to-day to point out the signs of the times, are aware of what is taking place to-day. They must point to an occurrence which, though not one of the most cogent, is yet important. True it is that just in our own time something of infinite significance is developing. Just as John pointed to Christ, and Christ Himself pointed to the approach of the Kingdoms of Heaven, to the ego; so must we to-day point to another important event.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-02","location":null,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p029","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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Kurz, es kann Wichtiges vorgehen in der Menschheitsentwickelung, ohne daß die Zeitgenossen etwas davon merken. Wichtigstes könnte sogar vorübergehen, wenn die Menschen nicht geneigt wären, sich Verständnis dafür zu verschaffen! Dann aber würde die Menschheit dieses Wichtigste nicht erleben, würde in bezug auf dieses Wichtigste verdorren und veröden. — «Ändert den Sinn, die Reiche der Himmel sind nahe herbeigekommen!» so war die Verkündigung des Täufers Johannes und des Christus Jesus selber. Damit wiesen sie hin für die, welche Ohren hatten zu hören, daß ein Wichtigstes geschähe. Daß man von einem Wichtigsten in der Welt nichts weiß, das ist kein Beweis dafür, daß es nicht da ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p040"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Diejenigen, welche heute die Zeichen der Zeit zu deuten haben, die wissen, was heute geschieht, die müssen auf ein Ereignis — wenn auch nicht von schlagendster Bedeutung, so aber doch auf ein wichtiges Ereignis — hinweisen. Wahr ist es, es entwickelt sich etwas von unendlicher Bedeutung gerade in unserer Zeit! Und während dazumal auf den Christus hingewiesen wurde von dem Johannes, und wenn von ihm selber hingewiesen wurde auf das Herankommen der Reiche der Himmel, auf das Ich, so muß heute hingewiesen werden auf ein anderes wichtiges Ereignis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p041"}],"english":["GA 116/1910-02-02/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":308,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 116/1910-02-02/p040","GA 116/1910-02-02/p041"]},"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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