{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-06/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us briefly recall the events connected with the particular course of that human being known as Zarathustra or Zoroaster. Under this name he had given out in early days in the East the mighty teaching that had fitted him for the incarnation described in the Gospel of Matthew. It was he who had inaugurated the Hermetic Civilization in Egypt, and to this end had given up his astral body to Hermes; he also had founded the Mosaic Civilization through the sacrifice of his etheric body, which had been preserved for Moses. Zarathustra himself incarnated later in other astral and etheric bodies. The incarnation in the sixth century B.c. is of special interest, when, as Zarathos or Nazarathos, he had instructed the sages and Magi of Chaldea, and had come in touch with the wisest of the Hebrew pupils of the Mysteries, during the Babylonian Captivity. During the following six centuries, this teaching had permeated the traditions, ceremonies, and culture of the Chaldean Mystery Schools. The name of their great master, Zarathustra, in the form of Zarathos or Nazarathos, had been honoured in the highest degree by generations of pupils in the Mystery Schools of Babylon, Chaldea, and Assyria. They looked forward with longing to the next appearance of their great teacher and leader, for they knew the secret of his reincarnation, and expected it to occur at the end of six hundred years. As the time approached when the blood suitable for this incarnation should be ready, three messengers or wise men, went forth from the East. They knew that the honoured name of Zarathustra would guide them, as a star, to the place of his reincarnation. It was the *Being* of the great Teacher himself which as a ‘star’ guided the three Magi to the birthplace of Jesus, as is told in the Gospel of Matthew.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Stages of downward penetration of divine nature into a human individuality","site_heading":"Divine Descent and the Two Jesus Children","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wir wissen ferner, daß er hingeopfert hat seinen damaligen Ätherleib, der aufbewahrt wurde für Moses, und daß Moses für seine Kulturschöpfung in sich hatte den Ätherleib des Zarathustra. Zarathustra selber hat sich später weiter inkarnieren können in anderen astralischen und Ätherleibern. Besonders interessiert uns dann die Inkarnation des Zarathustra im 6. Jahrhundert vor unserer Zeitrechnung als Zarathas oder Nazarathos im alten Chaldäa, wo er als Schüler hatte die chaldäischen Weisen und Magier, und wo insbesondere die weisesten der hebräischen Geheimschüler zur Zeit der babylonischen Gefangenschaft mit ihm in Berührung kamen. Und die ganzen folgenden sechs Jahrhunderte waren für die chaldäischen Geheimschulen erfüllt von den Traditionen, Zeremonien und Kulten, die herrührten von Zarathustra in der Persönlichkeit des Zarathas oder Nazarathos. Und alle die Generationen von chaldäischen, babylonischen, assyrischen und so weiter Geheimschülern, die in jenen Gegenden Asiens lebten, verehrten aufs höchste den Namen dieses ihres großen Meisters, des Zarathustra, unter der Veränderung als Zarathas oder Nazarathos. Und sie warteten sehnsüchtig auf die nächste Inkarnation ihres großen Lehrers und Führers, denn sie wußten, daß er wiedererscheinen werde nach sechshundert Jahren. Das Geheimnis von diesem Wiedererscheinen war ihnen bekannt; das lebte sozusagen wie etwas, was ihnen von der Zukunft hereinschien.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-06/p013"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-06/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Und als die Zeit heranrückte, da das Blut für die neue Inkarnation des Zarathustra bereitet war, da machten sich die drei Abgesandten, die drei weisen Magier aus dem Morgenlande, auf. Sie wußten, daß der verehrte Name des Zarathustra selber wie ihr Stern sie führen würde nach jenem Orte, wo die Wiederinkarnation des Zarathustra stattfinden sollte. Es war die Wesenheit des großen Lehrers selber, die als der «Stern» die drei Magier hinführte zur Geburtsstätte des Jesus des Matthäus-Evangeliums. - Auch das ist ja selbst äußerlich philologisch zu belegen, daß in der Tat das Wort «Stern» als Name für menschliche Individualitäten in alten Zeiten gebraucht worden ist. Nicht nur durch die Geistesforschung, die es uns aus ihren Quellen klarer als etwas anderes sagt, daß damals die drei Magier folgten dem Stern Zoroaster, dem «Goldstern» Zoroaster, daß er sie dahin führte, wo er sich wieder inkarnieren wollte, sondern auch aus dem Gebrauch des Wortes «Stern» für hohe menschliche Individualitäten - wie gesagt, eine Tatsache, die auch philologisch belegt werden kann — könnte sich schon manchem ergeben, daß unter dem Stern, der die Weisen führte, Zarathustra selbst zu verstehen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-06/p014"}],"english":["GA 123/1910-09-06/p015","GA 123/1910-09-06/p016"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":468,"en_words":400,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 123/1910-09-06/p013","GA 123/1910-09-06/p014"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5403,"original_word_count":5980,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1946","book_title":"The Gospel of St. Matthew (1946)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA123/English/RSPC1946/19100906p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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