{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-09_02/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"To-day, people are not guided by true history and what they happen to believe decides what is or is not historical fact. But however strongly it may be doubted, the truth is that up to the time of Christ, processes of healing, for instance, could be made effective by inducing clairvoyance. In the present age, when humanity has descended more deeply into the the physical world, this is no longer possible. But in those earlier times it was still easy, by applying certain specific measures, to enable the soul to become clairvoyant and to penetrate into the spiritual world. And because the spiritual world is health-giving, in itself and sends its forces into the physical world, it was possible to bring about healings in this way. In a case of illness certain processes were put in motion, enabling the person concerned to see into the spiritual world. And the streams of the spiritual world flowing down into his whole being had a curative effect. This indeed was the usual method of healing. (The ‘temple healing’ spoken of nowadays is sheer dilettantism.) The fact that souls have lost the clairvoyance that was universal in former times, signifies an advance in evolution. But the earlier clairvoyant condition could be so sublimated that healing forces streamed from the spiritual into the physical world and in the case of certain illnesses cures could be effected, We need not therefore be surprised when it is said by the Evangelists that as a result of the Christ Event not only those possessed of the old clairvoyance would be able to reach the spiritual world, but also those who, owing to the evolution of humanity, had lost contact with it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IX","site_heading":"Christ's Initiation Mystery and the Ego-Conscious Beatitudes","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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Und da die geistige Welt ein gesundendes Element ist und gesundende Kräfte bis in die physische Welt schickt, so war damit eine Möglichkeit gegeben, Heilungen einzuleiten. Nehmen wir also an, es war jemand krank, so unternahm man solche Prozesse, daß er hineinschaute in die geistige Welt. Und wenn dann die Ströme der geistigen Welt herunterflossen, dann waren es gesundende Ströme, die in seine Wesenheit herunterflossen. Solche Prozesse waren gewöhnlich die Heilungen. Was heute geschildert wird als «Tempelheilung», ist ein ziemlicher Dilettantismus. Alles ist in Entwickelung, und die Seelen sind seit jenen alten Zeiten fortgeschritten von einem Hellsehen zu einem Nicht mehr hellsehen. Früher aber konnte der hellseherische Zustand des Menschen so erhöht werden, daß gesundende Kräfte vom Geistigen aus hereinströmten in die physische Welt, so daß der Mensch für gewisse Krankheiten vom Geiste aus geheilt werden konnte. Daher werden wir uns nicht zu verwundern brauchen, wenn von den Evangelisten erzählt wird, daß jetzt durch das Christus-Ereignis die Zeiten herangekommen sind, wo nicht allein diejenigen in die geistige Welt hineinwachsen können, die das alte Hellsehen haben, sondern auch die, welche vermöge der Evolution der Menschheit das alte Hellsehen verloren haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-09_02/p030"}],"english":["GA 123/1910-09-09_02/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":283,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6796,"original_word_count":7116,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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