{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-07_02/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the lectures on St. Luke's Gospel I spoke of the ‘Eight-fold Path’ which men can tread if they adhere to what flowed into the evolution of humanity through Gautama Buddha. This Eightfold Path is usually said to consist of the following: right view, right understanding, right speech, right action, right vocation, right application, right memory or recollectedness, right contemplation.[^1] These are attributes of the life of soul. It can be said that since the time of Gautama Buddha, human nature has reached a stage where it is possible for man gradually to unfold in himself, as intrinsic faculties of his own, the attributes of this Eightfold Path. Before Gautama Buddha had lived on Earth in the incarnation in which he attained Buddhahood, this would have been beyond the power of human nature. Let us therefore be quite clear about the following.—In order that in the course of hundreds of thousands of years these faculties should be able to gradually to develop in individual men, it was essential for the initial impetus to he given through the presence in physical human nature of a Being as lofty as Gautama Buddha. As have said, these faculties will, in fact, unfold in a considerable number of human beings and when the number is sufficient, the Earth will be ready to receive the next Buddha—Maitreya Buddha—who is now a Bodhisattva.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Christ's Dual Initiation: Descent and Cosmic Expansion","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 können sagen: Seit den Zeiten, da Gautama Buddha gelebt hat, ist die Menschennatur bis zu einer solchen Stufe eben emporgestiegen, daß es möglich geworden ist, daß der Mensch in sich selber, wie eine innere Fähigkeit der Menschennatur, nach und nach die Eigenschaften dieses achtgliedrigen Pfades entwickeln kann. Vorher aber, bevor Gautama Buddha in der Buddha-Inkarnation auf der Erde gelebt hat, war es noch nicht zur Menschennatur gehörig, daß man sich diese Eigenschaften erwerbe. Also halten wir fest: Damit sich diese Eigenschaften nach und nach in der Menschennatur entwickeln können, war die Tatsache notwendig, daß einmal durch das Anwesendsein einer so hohen Wesenheit wie die des Gautama Buddha, in der physischen Menschennatur der Anstoß dazu gegeben wurde, daß nun durch Jahrhunderte, durch Jahrtausende hindurch diese Fähigkeiten sich als selbständige im Menschen entwickeln können. Ich habe damals erwähnt, daß sich nun diese Fähigkeiten bei einer größeren Anzahl von Menschen als selbständige entwickeln werden; und wenn eine genügend große Anzahl von Menschen diese Fähigkeiten erlangt haben wird, dann wird die Erde reif sein, den nächsten Buddha, den Maitreya Buddha, der jetzt ein Bodhisattva ist, zu empfangen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-07_02/p004"}],"english":["GA 123/1910-09-07_02/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":227,"ratio":0.88,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 123/1910-09-07_02/p004"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5355,"original_word_count":5795,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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