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He presented himself to us for the last time as a human personality, who was born as a child with very special inner gifts, but not initially with those gifts that would have led the person particularly to an understanding of the external, present physical world. Above this personality, which appeared to us as a child in the Nathanic child Jesus, the actual Jesus of Nazareth, we see radiating what we called the Nirmanakaya of the Buddha, what we see as the aura of this child. It is the form which the Buddha took after his last incarnation, in which he became Buddha. We have been able to emphasize that what we call our Occidental esoteric teaching fully justifies what is contained in the Oriental scriptures: that the individuality before the incarnation of the Buddha, in which it appeared in the sixth century before Christ, was a Bodhisattva.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-10-18/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Deeper Secrets of Human Development in the Light of the Gospels","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA117/English/SOL2024/19091018p01.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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He no longer descended to a fleshly embodiment, this Buddha, but only to one in the etheric body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-10-18/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Deeper Secrets of Human Development in the Light of the Gospels","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA117/English/SOL2024/19091018p01.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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Man will become master over these once; he is afterwards a trinity, one could even say a multiplicity, as it is explained in my “Occult Science in Outline”.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-10-18/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Deeper Secrets of Human Development in the Light of the Gospels","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA117/English/SOL2024/19091018p01.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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Er trat uns das letzte Mal entgegen als menschliche Persönlichkeit, die da geboren ward als ein Kind mit ganz besonderen innerlichen Anlagen, aber zunächst nicht mit jenen Anlagen, die den Menschen besonders zum Verständnis der äußeren, gegenwärtigen physischen Welt geführt hätten. Über dieser Persönlichkeit, die als Kind uns entgegengetreten ist in dem nathanischen Jesuskinde, dem eigentlichen Jesus von Nazareth, über ihr sehen wir strahlen das, was wir den Nirmanakaya des Buddha nannten, was wir als Aura dieses Kindes sehen. Es ist diejenige Gestalt, welche der Buddha annahm nach seiner letzten Inkarnation, in welcher er Buddha wurde. Wir konnten hervorheben, daß dasjenige, was wir unsere abendländische esoterische Lehre nennen, voll rechtfertigt das, was in den morgenländischen Schriften enthalten ist: daß die Individualität vor der Verkörperung des Buddha, in der sie im 6. 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Er verkörperte sich dann nicht mehr in einem irdisch-fleischlichen Leibe, sondern nur noch in dem, als unterste körperlich-leibliche Wesenheit, was wir den Äther- oder Lebensleib nennen. Darin verkörperte sich hinfort eine solche Individualität. Er stieg nicht mehr herunter zu einer fleischlichen Verkörperung, dieser Buddha, sondern nur zu einer solchen im Ätherleibe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-10-18/p008"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-10-18/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Ein solcher ätherischer Leib, in dem sich eine Individualität vorwärtsentwickelt hat, sieht - wenn er gesehen wird — nicht wie ein anderer Leib aus, der als physischer Leib auf der Erde besteht. Was wir als physischen Leib sehen bei einer Individualität, die bis zur Verkörperung im physischen Leib heruntersteigt, das ist da eine geschlossene Einheit. Da ist nirgends eine Unterbrechung. Ein solcher ätherischer Leib aber, in dem sich eine Individualität wie der Buddha verkörpert, ist nicht eine geschlossene Raumeinheit. Er ist eine Vielheit von nicht zusammenhängenden Gliedern. Erinnern wir uns an die sogenannte Spaltung der Persönlichkeit, die eintritt, wenn der Mensch sich immer mehr hinaufentwickelt. Dieser Vorgang ist beschrieben in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?». Was zusammenhängt als ein Ganzes bei dem gewöhnlichen Menschen, die Kräfte, die wir Denken, Fühlen und Wollen nennen, das steht dann sozusagen jedes für sich da. Der Mensch wird über diese einst Herrscher werden; er ist nachher eine Dreiheit, man könnte sogar sagen eine Vielheit, wie es in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß» ausgeführt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-10-18/p009"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-10-18/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"In einem solchen Fall, wie bei der Verkörperung des Buddha in späteren Zeiten, haben wir einen solchen ätherischen Leib, der aus nicht zusammenhängenden Wesen besteht. Bei den gewöhnlichen Menschen ist es auch nur das Prinzip des physischen Leibes, welches den ätherischen Leib zusammenhält.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-10-18/p010"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-10-18/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Wenn ein solcher Bodhisattva-Buddha im ätherischen Leib verkörpert wieder erscheint, so erscheint er dann, wenn er sichtbar wird, als eine Vielheit, als eine Schar von Wesenheiten. Von dieser Schar von Wesenheiten erzählt der Schreiber des Lukas-Evangeliums, wenn er von den Engeln spricht, die den Hirten auf dem Felde erschienen. Dieser ätherische Leib, den man den Nirmanakaya des Buddha nennt, der schwebte über jenem nazarenischen Jesuskinde. Er ist es, welcher der Inspirator wird, der alles das, was der Buddha war, einträufelt in das Christentum auf diese Weise. So sehen wir, wie hier der Buddhismus einströmt in das Christentum. Ganz konkret muß man sich das denken, nicht nur im Abstrakten. Wer verstehen will, wie sich das in Wirklichkeit abspielt, der muß hinweisen können auf das konkrete Ereignis, wo der bis zu jener nächsten Stufe fortgeschrittene Buddha sich dem Christentum einfügt. Das ist beschrieben im Lukas-Evangelium, in der Engelschar, die der Nirmanakaya des Buddha ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-10-18/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}