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Four such initiates set out to describe the greatest event in the evolution of the earth: a sage, a healer, a magician and a human being in the sense of the initiates of the fourth category. One described it from the standpoint of the ordinary man, one is the magician who had a special understanding of the willpower of the Christ and enshrined it in his Gospel, and one is the healer who wrote the Gospel of Luke. That is why you find the tradition in which Luke is seen as a physician, and that also corresponds to the facts that Luke stands by his fellow human beings in sacrificial love. Then there is a wise man who has written what constitutes the wisdom of the nature of Christ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-11-19/p024","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/SOL2024/19091119p01.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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Indeed, the humble modesty of these four people, who refrained from giving the whole picture of Christ, but only what they could see, could perceive according to their particular individuality, appears as something lofty and powerful compared to the consciousness of today's man, who does not doubt that he can grasp even the highest things with his intellect in every respect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":85,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-11-19/p025","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/SOL2024/19091119p01.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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But what we encounter in the Gospel of Mark is so harrowing in part that if one has not yet heard the various things that tie in with the Gospel of Matthew, one would, so to speak, believe that there are profound contradictions between the Gospel of Mark and the other Gospels. One would not be able to cope with the Gospel of Mark, because it is in this gospel that the greatest, the most harrowing truths of the world are communicated; not the highest, these are contained in the Gospel of John. Therefore, today I will speak about the Gospel of Matthew.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-11-19/p026","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/SOL2024/19091119p01.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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Einer beschrieb es vom Standpunkt des gewöhnlichen Menschen, einer ist der Magier, der vorzugsweise die Willenskräfte der Natur des Christus ins Auge gefaßt hat und sie in sein Evangelium hineingeheimnißt hat, ein Heiler, der das Lukas-Evangelium geschrieben hat. Daher finden Sie gerade die Tradition, in der Lukas als Arzt aufgefaßt wird, und das entspricht auch den Tatsachen, daß Lukas in opferfähiger Liebe den Mitmenschen beisteht. Dann ein Weiser, der das geschrieben hat, was die weisheitsvolle Natur des Christus ausmacht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-11-19/p024"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-11-19/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Das sind die vier Eingeweihten, die, verzichtend darauf, das Ganze zu beschreiben, sich sagten: Wir können nur das schildern, was unserer Seele naheliegt. Allerdings nimmt sich die demütige Bescheidenheit dieser vier Menschen, die darauf verzichtet haben, das ganze Bild des Christus zu geben, sondern nur das, was sie sehen können, schauen können nach ihrer besonderen Individualität, als etwas Hohes, Gewaltiges aus gegenüber dem Bewußtsein des heutigen Menschen, der gar nicht daran zweifelt, daß er auch die höchsten Dinge allseitig mit seinem Verstande umfassen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-11-19/p025"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-11-19/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Nachdem in Basel einmal zwei Seiten dieses gewaltigen Ereignisses bereits von mir beleuchtet worden sind in den Vorträgen über das Lukas- und Johannes-Evangelium, soll heute einiges über das Matthäus-Evangelium hier gesprochen werden. Wir könnten ebensogut an das Evangelium nach Markus anknüpfen. Aber es bestehen gewisse Gründe, warum von mir, nachdem ich übernommen habe, vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkt aus ein wenig dieses große Ereignis zu schildern, warum von mir nach dem Lukas- und dem Johannes-Evangelium nunmehr das Matthäus-Evangelium gewählt wird. Der Grund, warum das geschieht, liegt darin, daß man ein Gefühl erhalten soll dafür, wie man sich in demütiger Bescheidenheit dem Verständnis dieses Weltereignisses nähern soll. Wir lernen große Wahrheiten kennen im Lukas- und im Johannes-Evangelium. Dasjenige aber, was uns im Markus-Evangelium entgegentritt, das ist zum Teil so erschütternd, daß, wenn man noch nicht die verschiedenen Dinge, die an das Matthäus-Evangelium anknüpfen, gehört hat, man sozusagen glauben würde, daß tiefgehende Widersprüche seien zwischen dem Markus-Evangelium und den andern Evangelien. Man würde nicht mit dem Markus-Evangelium zurechtkommen, denn in diesem Evangelium werden die größten, die erschütterndsten Wahrheiten der Welt mitgeteilt; nicht die höchsten, diese sind ja im Johannes-Evangelium enthalten. Daher werde ich heute über das Matthäus-Evangelium sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-11-19/p026"}],"beads":[{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[25],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"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)."}}