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It is quite possible that our contemporaries, the human beings living in our age, may sleep through this. We shall learn gradually to recognize what is to take place for all humanity during the age that began with the close of Kali Yuga. It is our task today to see to it that this transitional event may not pass us by unnoticed and without effect upon the progress of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":100,"en_words":109,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Indeed, people everywhere will gradually begin actually to see, although only in shadowy outline and in its first elements, what we call man's etheric body. The human being of today sees only the physical body; the capacity to see the etheric body will gradually be added. People will have learned that this etheric body is a reality, or they will think it is an illusion of their senses, since such a thing, so they will say, does not exist. 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One who was experienced in clairvoyance during pre-Christian times knew that the time would come in which this would occur. He knew that it was not yet possible to find in the astral sphere of our earth what one calls the Christ, but the time will come when the clairvoyant eye will be opened and will be able to see Christ in the earthly sphere. He knew that a great change would take place regarding earthly clairvoyance, yet he was not sufficiently advanced to be convinced by the events in Palestine that these events had already taken place. 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The return of Christ thus will come to pass for humanity through the fact that human beings will advance to the faculty of beholding Christ in the etheric. This is what we may look forward to in our time of transition. It is the task of spiritual science to prepare human souls so that they may be able to receive Christ, Who has come down to them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p041","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":416,"en_words":485,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Anthroposophists, however, should be those who are not deceived by such materialism that believes Christ can descend again to earth in the flesh. They know that the Dark Age has come to an end, that age in which human beings needed, for the development of their I-consciousness, the life within physical matter without insight into the spiritual worlds. Man must now develop himself so that he can ascend again to the spiritual sphere where he will be able to behold Christ living and ever-present in the etheric.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p043","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":162,"en_words":183,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The period of human life between death and a new birth will also be passed differently if human souls have experienced the reappearance of Christ. The life after death will also change as a result of this experience. This is why it is so important for the souls now incarnated to be well prepared for the Christ event that is to take place during this century. It is just as important for those who are incarnated here on earth in a physical body as for those who will already have passed through the portal of death and will be living the life between death and a new birth. It is of the greatest importance for all souls alive today to be prepared for this event and thus to be well armed against the dangers.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p044","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":225,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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This event can bring light to human beings only if they awaken to this new perception and thereby open themselves also to the new Christ event.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/118/1910-01-27/p045","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-01-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":306,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Nach und nach werden wir das kennenlernen, was für alle Menschen geschehen wird in unserem Zeitalter, das nun nach dem Ablauf des Kali Yuga begonnen hat. Wir haben heute die Aufgabe, gerade dafür zu sorgen, daß dieses Ereignis, dieses Übergangsereignis nicht unbemerkt und ohne Wirkung für den Fortschritt der Menschheit an uns vorübergehe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p026"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Das Kali Yuga ist abgelaufen, wenige Jahre ist es her. 1899 ist der Durchschnittszeitpunkt, in dem es abgelaufen ist. Jetzt leben wir einer Zeit entgegen, wo sich auf natürliche Weise wieder entwickeln werden, zu dem entwickelten Selbstbewußtsein hinzu, gewisse hellsehetische Fähigkeiten. Die Menschen werden das Eigentümliche und Merkwürdige erleben, daß sie eigentlich nicht wissen werden, wie es ihnen ist! Die Menschen werden anfangen Ahnungen zu bekommen, die sich verwirklichen werden, Ereignisse vorauszusehen, die sie treffen werden. Die Menschen werden überhaupt anfangen, nach und nach das wirklich zu sehen, wenn auch schattenhaft und in den ersten Elementen, was wir den Ätherleib des Menschen nennen. Heute sieht der Mensch nur den physischen Leib. Das Sehen des Ätherleibes wird nach und nach hinzutreten als etwas, von dem die Menschen entweder gelernt haben werden, daß es eine Realität hat, oder von dem sie denken werden, daß es Sinnestäuschung sei, daß es das gar nicht gibt. So weit wird das gehen, daß manche sich bei solchen Erlebnissen fragen werden: Bin ich denn verrückt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p027"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Wenn es auch zunächst eine kleine Anzahl von Menschen sein wird, die in den nächsten Jahrzehnten diese Fähigkeiten sich heranentwickeln werden, so ist Geisteswissenschaft etwas, was man verbreitet, weil man die Verantwortung fühlt, welche wir haben gegenüber dem, was in der Realität geschieht, geschehen muß nach dem natürlichen Gang der Ereignisse. Warum lehren wir Geisteswissenschaft? Weil Erscheinungen auftreten werden, die nur durch Geisteswissenschaft zu begreifen sein werden, und die unverstanden bleiben werden, wenn man nicht Geisteswissenschaft haben wird... [Lücke].","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p028"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Diese Fähigkeiten werden sich verhältnismäßig rasch entwickeln bei einer geringen Anzahl von Menschen. Es ist ja allerdings wahr: Durch eine esoterische Schulung kann der Mensch schon heute weit über das hinaufsteigen, was sich da in kleinen Anfängen für alle Menschen vorbereitet. Aber das, wozu der Mensch heute künstlich durch entsprechende Schulung aufsteigen kann, das bereitet sich wenigstens in kleinen Anfängen für die ganze Menschheit vor wie etwas, wovon man wird reden müssen, ob man es nun verstehen wird oder nicht, in den Jahren 1930 bis 1940. Nur noch wenige Jahrzehnte trennen uns von dem Zeitpunkt, an dem solche Erscheinungen schon anfangen werden, häufiger zu sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p029"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Dann aber wird noch etwas anderes für jene Menschen eintreten, die diese Fähigkeiten werden errungen haben. Diesen Menschen wird sich ein Beweis ergeben für einen der größten Sätze des neuen Testamentes, der erschütternd für diese Seelen wirkt. Denn in diesen Seelen ersteht der Satz: «Ich bin bei euch alle Tage bis ans Ende der Welt», das heißt, wenn wir es richtig übersetzen: «bis ans Ende der Erdenäonen». Dieser Ausspruch sagt uns, daß das Christentum nicht bloß dasjenige ist, was einmal in Büchern geschrieben war, was in gewissen Zeiten gelernt worden ist; er sagt uns, daß Christentum nicht bloß das ist, was man heute zusammenfaßt unter diesen oder jenen Dogmen, sondern etwas Lebendiges, das Sehen und Erleben von Offenbarungen in sich hat, das immer stärker und stärker sich entfalten wird. Wir stehen heute erst am Anfange der Wirkung des Christentums, und wer wirklich mit dem Christus sich verbunden hat, der weiß, daß aus diesem Christentum immer neue und neue Offenbarungen kommen werden. Er weiß: das Christentum ist nicht im Weichen, das Christentum ist im Wachsen, im Werden, das Christentum ist etwas Lebendiges, nicht etwas Totes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p030"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Derjenige, der heute eine geistige Entwickelung durchmacht, der kann schon heute anfangen, die Wahrheit des Ausspruches zu erleben: «Ich bin bei euch alle Tage bis ans Ende der Erdenzeiten». So ist er bei uns, umschwebend die Erde in Geistesform. Vor dem Ereignis von Golgatha konnten die Hellseher den Christus nicht in der Erdenatmosphäre finden. Erst nach dem Ereignis von Golgatha wird der Christus in der Erdenatmosphäre sichtbar, weil er seit dieser Zeit da ist. Einer, der gelehrt war in der Hellsichtigkeit der vorchristlichen Zeit, wußte, daß einmal ein Zeitpunkt kommen werde, in dem folgendes eintreten wird. Er wußte: Jetzt findet man im Bereiche des Astralischen unserer Erde noch nicht das, was man den Christus nennt, aber es wird eine Zeit kommen, wo dann das hellseherische Auge offen sein wird und sehen wird im Bereiche der Erde den Christus! Er wußte, daß einmal in bezug auf das irdische Hellsehen eine große Veränderung eintreten wird. Er war nicht so weit, überzeugt werden zu können durch die Ereignisse von Palästina, daß diese Ereignisse schon eingetreten seien. Keine physischen Ereignisse konnten ihn überzeugen, daß der Christus schon zur Erde niedergestiegen sei. Eines erst konnte ihn überzeugen: als er hellseherisch in der Erdenatmosphäre den Christus sah. Da war er überzeugt davon, daß der von den Mysterien erwartete Herabstieg des Christus zur Erde sich wirklich vollzogen hatte. Das was Paulus erlebt hatte, die Anwesenheit des Christus in der Erdenatmosphäre, das ist dasjenige, was ein durch esoterische Schulung hellseherischer Mensch heute künstlich erleben kann, das ist auch das, was eben durch natürlich gewordenes Hellsehen einzelne Menschen werden erleben können, wie es charakterisiert worden ist, von den Jahren 1930 bis 1940 anfangend, dann durch längere Zeiträume hindurch als etwas ganz natürlich Gewordenes. Das Ereignis von Damaskus wird sich dann für viele wiederholen, und wir können dieses Ereignis eine Wiederkunft des Christus nennen, eine Wiederkunft im Geiste. DerChristus wird für die Menschen, die hinaufsteigen können bis zum Sehen des Ätherleibes, da sein. Denn bis zum Fleische ist der Christus nur einmal heruntergestiegen: damals in Palästina. Aber im Ätherleibe ist er immer vorhanden in der Ätheratmosphäre der Erde. Und weil die Menschen sich zum Äthersehen entwickeln werden, deshalb werden sie ihn schauen. So ergibt sich die Wiederkunft des Christus dadurch, daß die Menschen hinaufsteigen zu der Fähigkeit, den Christus zu schauen im Ätherischen. Dieses haben wir in unserer Übergangszeit zu erwarten. Und dasjenige, was die Geisteswissenschaft zu leisten hat, das ist nun auch, vorzubereiten die Seelen, damit sie empfangen können den Christus, der zu ihnen herniedersteigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p031"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Jetzt haben wir sozusagen nun auch schon die zweite der von uns gestellten Fragen ins Auge gefaßt. Wir haben auf der einen Seite gesehen, wie es einen guten Sinn hat, seine Inkarnationen gut anzuwenden, wir haben aber auch gesehen, wie wir am besten unsere eigene gegenwärtige Verkörperung anwenden können dadurch, daß wir uns vorbereiten für jenen Einblick, der uns wird für die Zukunft des Christus. Und im richtigen Sinn sollen wir sie verstehen, diese Wiederkunft, dann werden wir auch verstehen, was an großen Gefahren damit verbunden ist. Das ist, was ich Ihnen jetzt noch sagen muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p032"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Größtes ist es, was der Menschheit in den kommenden Zeiten in dem charakterisierten Wiederkommen des Christus im Geiste bevorsteht. Aber der Materialismus unserer Zeit wird so stark sein, daß selbst eine solche Wahrheit materialistisch gedeutet werden wird. Und diese materialistischen Deutungen werden sich in Realität umsetzen. Als ein Wiederkommen im Fleische wird man umdeuten diese Wahrheit. Falsche Christusse werden in gar nicht zu ferner Zeit über die Erde wandeln, falsche Messiasse, Leute, die sich ausgeben werden für den wieder heruntergestiegenen Christus. Anthroposophen aber sollten diejenigen sein, die nicht bis in den Materialismus hinein verfallen können, zu glauben, daß der Christus wiederum im Fleische heruntersteigt auf die Erde, denn sie wissen, daß das finstere Zeitalter zu Ende ist, in dem die Menschen zur Entwickelung ihres Ich-Bewußtseins das Leben im Physisch-Stofflichen ohne Einblick in die geistigen Welten brauchten. Der Mensch muß sich jetzt wieder hinaufentwickeln bis in die geistigen Sphären, wo er den Christus als einen Lebendigen und Gegenwärtigen im Ätherischen wird schauen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p033"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Der Menschheit wird eine Zeit von etwa 2500 Jahren gelassen werden, um sich diese Fähigkeiten anzueignen. 2500 Jahre werden ihr zur Verfügung stehen, das Äthersehen als natürliche, allgemeine Menschheitsgabe zu erwerben, bis die Menschen dann zu einer andern Fähigkeit wiederum in einer Übergangszeit hinaufzusteigen haben werden. In diesen 2500 Jahren werden immer mehr Seelen der Menschen sich zu diesen Fähigkeiten hinaufentwickeln können. Und es wird keinen Unterschied machen, ob die Menschen in der genannten Zeit leben werden hier zwischen Geburt und Tod, oder nach dem Tode in der geistigen Welt sich aufhalten werden. Auch die Zeit des Menschenlebens zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt wird anders verbracht werden, wenn die Seelen erlebt haben werden die Wiederkunft des Christus. Auch das wird durch dieses Erlebnis anders werden. Daher wird es für die Seelen, die jetzt verkörpert sind, so sehr von Bedeutung sein, wohlvorbereitet zu sein für das Christus-Ereignis, das in diesem Jahrhundert kommt, sowohl wenn sie noch hier im physischen Leibe verkörpert sind, wie es auch wichtig sein wird für diejenigen, die dann schon durch die Todespforte geschritten sind und zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt sich befinden, wenn dieses neue Christus-Ereignis vor sich gehen wird. Für alle gegenwärtigen Seelen ist es wichtig, vorbereitet zu sein auf dieses Geschehen und dadurch gewappnet zu sein auch vor den Gefahren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p034"},{"locus":"GA 118/1910-01-27/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Wenn wir so sprechen, dann fühlen wir, was uns Anthroposophie sein soll und sein kann, wie sie uns vorbereiten soll, damit wir das erfüllen können, was machen wird, daß ein größtes Ereignis nicht spurlos an der Menschheit vorübergeht. Denn würde es spurlos an der Menschheit vorübergehen, so würde die Menschheit eine wichtige Entwickelungsmöglichkeit verlieren, und sie würde in Finsternis, in das Verdorren versinken. Licht kann es nur bringen, wenn die Menschen aufwachen für das neue Wahrnehmen und so auch dem neuen Christus-Ereignis sich öffnen. Das wird immer und immer wieder gesagt werden in der Zukunft. Aber immer wieder und wiederum gesagt wird auch werden, daß die falschen Propheten das Gute, das Große würden verhindern können, wenn es ihnen gelänge, die Meinung zu verbreiten, daß der Christus im Fleische erscheinen würde. Wenn das Anthroposophen nicht begreifen sollten, dann würden sie dem Irrtum verfallen können, der es ermöglichen würde, daß falsche Messiasse auftreten. Sie werden auftreten, weil sie auf die schwachen, auf die durch den Materialismus schwach gemachten Seelen rechnen, die sich nur vorstellen können, daß, wenn der Christus wiederkommt, er im materiellen Fleische erscheinen muß. Diese Mißdeutung der Verkündigung ist eine schlimme; sie wird eintreten als eine schlimme Versuchung für die Menschheit. Anthroposophie hat die Aufgabe, die Menschen vor dieser Versuchung zu bewahren. Das kann nicht stark genug betont werden für alle, die es hören wollen. Damit sehen Sie aber auch, daß Anthroposophie Wichtiges zu sagen hat, daß wir Anthroposophie nicht bloß treiben, weil wir neugierig sind auf allerlei Wahrheiten, sondern weil wir wissen, daß diese Wahrheiten gebraucht werden zum Heile der Menschheit, zur stetigen Vervollkommnung der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/118/1910-01-27/p035"}],"beads":[{"from":[34],"to":[26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[35],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[36],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[37],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[38],"to":[30],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[39,40,41],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[42],"to":[32],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[43],"to":[33],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[44],"to":[34],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[45,46],"to":[35],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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