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By the fact, that what He stood for was communicated to the unreceptive in words, but to those who were receptive and were chosen by Himself, the action was different. In these chosen ones it worked so that it endowed them with imaginations, it stirred in them the first stage of higher knowledge. What proceeded from Christ Jesus acted therefore in a twofold manner on those who were ‘outside or without’ so that they heard His words, and with them acquired a kind of theory; on the others, who had felt His power, and were chosen because, on account of their Karma, they were specially open to receive this power, it awakened imaginative cognition, a knowledge which in a certain way led them a stage higher towards the spiritual world. 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Wir haben gesehen, daß die Kraft, die von dem physischen und Ätherleib ausströmt, fähig wurde, so zu wirken, wie es in der Bergpredigt und wie es auch in den nachfolgenden Heilungen zum Ausdruck gekommen ist. Das Nächste war, daß die Kraft dieses Christus Jesus auch noch so wirkte, wie sonst die Kraft eines Eingeweihten in den Mysterien gewirkt hat, so gewirkt hat, daß er Schüler heranzog. Und wieder mußte der Christus Jesus natürlich auf seine besondere Art die Schüler heranziehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-10/p011"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-10/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wenn man nun das Matthäus-Evangelium von diesem Punkt aus verstehen will, wo sich das Spätere an die Bergpredigt und an die Heilungen anschließt, so gehört dazu als Vorbereitung einiges von dem, was wir uns im Laufe der Jahre an Wissen von okkulten Tatsachen erworben haben. Das gehört dazu, daß der Mensch, wenn er nun wirklich durch die Einweihung hinaufgeführt werden soll den Weg in die höheren Welten, zu einer Art von imaginativem Anschauen kommt, zu einem Anschauen, das in Imaginationen lebt. Diejenigen, die um den Christus Jesus waren, mußten sich nun nicht nur die Fähigkeit erwerben, anzuhören, was in einem solchen majestätischen Kundgeben, was in einer solchen Manifestation gegeben ist, wie es die Bergpredigt ist, sie mußten nicht nur teilnehmen an dem, was durch den Christus Jesus selber bewirkt worden war an Heilungen, sondern es mußte die mächtige Kraft, die in dem Christus Jesus wirkte, übergehen auf die nächsten Freunde und Jünger nach und nach. Auch das wird dargestellt. Zunächst wird dargestellt, wie der Christus Jesus nach der Versuchung imstande ist, die alten Lehren mit einer neuen Nuance zu zeigen und die alten Heilungen durch einen neuen Impuls zu bewirken. Dann aber wird gezeigt, wie er in einer neuen Weise auf seine Jünger wirkt, wie die Kraft, die er im höchsten Maße in sich verkörpert hat, auf seine Jünger-Umgebung wirkt. Wie wird das gezeigt? So, daß das, was er darstellt, für den unempfänglichen Menschen so erscheinen muß, daß es auch in Worten ausgedrückt wird. Auf die Empfänglichen aber, die er sich selbst auserwählt und geführt hatte, wirkte es anders. Da wirkte es so, daß es ihnen die Imaginationen gab, daß es die nächsthöhere Stufe der Erkenntnis erregte. Was von Christus Jesus ausging, konnte also in zweierlei Weise wirken: auf die Außenstehenden so, daß sie seine Worte hörten und eine Art Theorie mit seinen Worten empfingen; auf die anderen, die seine Kraft miterlebt hatten und die er sich auserwählt hatte, weil er auf sie, wegen ihres besonderen Karmas, seine Kraft übertragen konnte, auf sie wirkte seine Kraft so, daß sie aus ihrer Seele Imaginationen herauslöste, Erkenntnisse, die in einer gewissen Weise eine Stufe höher in die höheren Welten hinaufweisen. Das ist in dem Ausdruck gegeben «die Äußeren hören nur Gleichnisse» - das heißt, bildliche Ausdrücke für das Geschehen in der geistigen Welt -, «ihr aber vernehmt das, was die Gleichnisse bedeuten, ihr vernehmt die Sprache, die euch in die höheren Welten hinaufleitet» (Matth. 13,11). Auch das darf man nicht trivial auffassen, sondern man muß es verstehen im Sinne eines Hinaufleitens der Jünger in die höheren Welten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":425,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-10/p012"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-10/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Und nun wollen wir uns einmal recht hineinvertiefen, wie das Hinaufleiten der Jünger in die höheren Welten geschehen sein kann. Allerdings, um das zu verstehen, was ich jetzt sage, dazu gehört nicht nur Anhören, sondern ein wenig guter Wille, der durchsetzt ist mit dem, was durch die von Ihnen schon errungenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse gebracht werden kann. Ich möchte Sie möglichst deutlich nämlich zu dem führen, was das Matthäus-Evangelium eigentlich mit den nächsten Schilderungen meint.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":74,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-10/p013"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-10/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Da erinnern wir uns noch einmal, daß die Einweihung ihre zwei Seiten hat. Die eine ist die, wo der Mensch hinuntersteigt in physischen Leib und Ätherleib, wo er also sein eigenes Inneres kennenlernt, wo er hineingeführt wird in die Kräfte, die im Menschen selber schöpferisch sind. Und die andere Seite der Initiation ist die, wo der Mensch hinausgeführt wird in die geistige Welt, wo er sich ergießt in den Makrokosmos. Nun wissen Sie, daß dies in bezug auf die Realität - nicht in bezug auf das Bewußtsein - ein Vorgang ist, der sich jedesmal beim Einschlafen vollzicht: Der Mensch zieht seinen astralischen Leib und das Ich aus dem physischen Leib und Ätherleib heraus und gießt sie aus in die Sternenwelt, so daß er dann Kräfte aus der ganzen Sternenwelt saugt; daher der Name «astralischer Leib». Was der Mensch durch jene Art der Einweihung erreichen kann, wenn er mit astralischem Leib und Ich heraus ist aus physischem Leib und Ätherleib, das ist nicht nur ein wissentliches Überschauen dessen, was auf unserer Erde ist, sondern das ist ein Ausfließen in den Kosmos, ein Kennenlernen der Sternenwelt und ein Aufnehmen der Kräfte, die uns aus der Sternenwelt zufließen. Dieses aber, was so für uns als etwas zu gelten hat, was sich der Mensch nach und nach durch ein Hinausfließen in den Kosmos erwirbt, das war nach der besonderen Beschaffenheit der Christus-Wesenheit nach der Johannes-Taufe da. 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