{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-10_02/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a sure sign by which Jeschu ben Pandira could be recognized, were he to reincarnate in our epoch. The sign is that he would certainly not declare himself to be the Christ. If anyone were to come forward in our time claiming to bear the same power that was in Jesus of Nazareth, he could, by this very claim, be recognized as falsely identifying himself with the forerunner of Christ who lived a hundred years B.C. 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Diese Behauptung würde ein sicherstes Kennzeichen sein, daß er es nicht ist, und daß ein falscher Vorherverkündiger in ihm auftreten würde, wenn er sich in irgendein Verhältnis zum Christus selbst setzen würde. Aber die Gefahr ist ungeheuer groß, die auf diesem Gebiete sich geltend machen kann. Denn in unserer Zeit schwankt die Menschheit zwischen zwei Extremen. Man betont auf der einen Seite so stark, wie in unserer Zeit die Menschheit nicht geneigt ist anzuerkennen, was an geistigen Kräften unter den Menschen wirkt. Es ist schon eine auf der Straße liegende Wahrheit geworden, auf die sogar die Zeitungen immer wieder hinweisen, daß unser Geschlecht nicht die Gabe und die Kraft habe anzuerkennen, wenn irgendwie eine originale geistige Kraft sich zeige. Das ist die eine Unart unseres Zeitalters. Es ist wahr, daß sich die größte Wiederverkörperung in unserer Zeit abspielen könnte und unser Zeitalter stumpf dafür sein könnte, sie vorübergehen lassen könnte, ohne sich darum zu kümmern! Und die andere Unart ist nicht minder vorhanden, allerdings eine Unart, die unser Zeitalter mit vielen anderen gemeinsam hat: Geradeso wie unterschätzt werden die geistigen Individualitäten, so daß sie nicht anerkannt werden, so ist auf der anderen Seite wieder unter den Menschen das lebhafteste Bedürfnis vorhanden, zu vergöttern, heraufzuheben irgendwie in eine besondere Wolkenhöhe. Sehen Sie sich überall heute die Gemeinden an, die ihre besonderen Messiasse haben, wie dort überall das Bedürfnis vorhanden ist, zu vergöttern. 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