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The only way that Christ could convey the meaning of it to His disciples was to lead them into the spiritual world, and then to create in physical conditions, an image or reflection of events in the macrocosmic world. For this purpose He led them to the point where the forces of those who had been initiated could become of service again to mankind. He then stood at the summit of His power, and this is shown when He tells the: His sun stood at its zenith, in the sign of Cancer No wonder, therefore, that at this point the Gospel of Matthew informs us that the life of Christ, as regards His earthly existence had reached its climax! 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Just now we would remind you that Christ Jesus, having led the disciples to the point of initiation, showed them that by following this path they would themselves be able to experience expansion into the spiritual world of the macrocosm. He explained that they had already experienced the preliminaries of initiation, that the way was open, to where they could become more and more able to recognize the true nature of Christ as the Being Who fills all spiritual spaces, Whose reflection had been in Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Jesus told His disciples that they must progress in ripeness for initiation so that they might become initiates for humanity. 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It must surely come; but it comes like a thief in the night.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/123/1910-09-11/p049","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-09-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p036","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p036"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":162,"en_words":150,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In the ancient Mysteries, and to a certain extent in the new, there were three stages of initiation into the macrocosm. The first stage brought knowledge of all that could be perceived through the spirit-self. The Initiate was then not only a man in the new sense, but he had attained to what, in the language of the Hierarchies, is called ‘Angel-nature’—the nature of the Hierarchy next above man. Thus in the Persian Mysteries a man who had advanced to this stage at which he had expanded to the Macrocosm, when the spirit-self was active in him was called either a Persian (since he was no longer an isolated being but belonged to the Angel of the Persian nation) or he was simply called an Angel, one whose nature was divine. The second stage is that in which the life-spirit had awaked in like manner; at this stage a man was called a ‘Sun-hero’ in the old Persian Mysteries, for he had then advanced to the point where he could draw into himself the spiritual forces of the Sun, when these forces had approached the earth. Such a man might also be called ‘Son of the Father.’ And he who had won to the heights of the third stage, the stage of Atma, or spirit-man, was called in the ancient Mysteries ‘the Father.’ These were the three stages of initiation—‘Angel,’ ‘Son or Sun-hero,’ and ‘Father.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/123/1910-09-11/p050","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-09-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p037","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p037"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":247,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Stellen wir uns so recht die Szene vor: Ein Mensch schläft ein. Dann liegen im Bette physischer Leib und Ätherleib, während von ihm astralischer Leib und Ich ausgegossen sind in den Kosmos und die Kräfte des Kosmos in diese Glieder eindringen. Träte nun der Christus da zu ihm, so würde er die Wesenheit sein, die ihm bewußt diese Kräfte heranzieht und beleuchtet. So ist es aber gerade mit der Szene, die uns dargestellt wird: Die Jünger fahren hin in der letzten Nachtwache; da sehen sie, daß das, was sie erst für ein Gespenst angeschen haben, der Christus ist, der die Kraft des Makrokosmos in sie einfließen läßt (Matth. 14,25-26). Es ist handgreiflich dargestellt, wie er die Jünger hinführt zu den Kräften des Makrokosmos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p027"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Und die nächsten Szenen des Matthäus-Evangeliums stellen nichts anderes dar, als wie der Christus die Jünger hinausführt Schritt für Schritt die Wege, die der zu Initiierende geht. Es ist so, wie wenn der Christus selbst das durchmachte und Schritt für Schritt seine Jünger an den Händen führte an die Stätten, wohin der zu Initiierende geführt wird. Ich will Ihnen eines sagen, an dem Sie so recht sehen können, wie Schritt für Schritt der Christus die Jünger hinausführt in den Makrokosmos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p028"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wenn man lebendige Anschauungen hat von der geistigen Welt, und wenn die hellseherischen Kräfte heranwachsen, lernt man so manches kennen, was man vorher nicht kennen kann. So lernt man erkennen, wie eigentlich zum Beispiel der Zusammenhang in den fortschreitenden Wachstumsverhältnissen der Pflanze ist. Der materialistische Sinn wird von der Pflanze sagen: Hier habe ich eine Blüte nehmen wir an eine Blüte, die Früchte trägt -, da wird sich Same entwickeln. Den Samen kann man herausnehmen, kann ihn in die Erde versenken, das Samenkorn verfault, und es erscheint eine neue Pflanze, die auch wieder Samen trägt. So geht es von Pflanzensproß zu Pflanzensptoß weiter. Der materialistische Sinn wird dabei denken, daß irgend etwas von dem verfaulenden Samenkorn übergeht in die neue Pflanze. Der materialistische Sinn kann gar nicht anders denken als, wenn es auch noch so klein, noch so winzig ist, so muß doch irgend etwas materiell übergehen. Aber so ist es nicht. Tatsächlich wird in bezug auf das Materielle die ganze alte Pflanze zerstört. Es geschieht ein Sprung in bezug auf das Materielle, und die neue Pflanze ist materiell etwas ganz Neues. Es geschieht tatsächlich eine Neubildung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p029"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Man lernt nun die wichtigsten Verhältnisse in der Welt dadurch kennen, daß man dieses eigentümliche Gesetz begreifen und anwenden lernt auf den ganzen Makrokosmos, daß in der Tat in bezug auf die materiellen Verhältnisse Sprünge geschehen. Das hat man in den Mysterien in ganz besonderer Weise ausgedrückt. Man hat gesagt: Es muß der zu Initiierende beim Hinausschreiten in den Kosmos auf einer Stufe die Kräfte kennenlernen, die diese Sprünge bewirken. Nun lernt man etwas kennen im Kosmos, wenn man in irgendeiner Richtung geht, die dadurch ausgedrückt wird, daß man die Sternbilder zu Hilfe nimmt. Die sind dann wie Buchstaben. Wenn wir so in einer bestimmten Richtung hinauswachsen, erleben wir das Überspringen von dem Vorfahren zu dem Nachkommen, sei es auf dem Gebiet des Pflanzlichen, des Tierischen, des Menschlichen, oder sei es auf dem Gebiete des planetarischen Daseins; denn auch zum Beispiel beim Übergang vom Saturn zur Sonne ging alles Materielle verloren. Das Geistige blieb, alles Materielle zerstob. Das Geistige war es, das den Sprung bewirkte. Ebenso war es beim Übergang von Sonne zu Mond, vom Mond zur Erde. Im kleinsten und im größten ist das so. - Es gibt nun zwei Zeichen, ein altes, wodurch man bildlicher, mehr in imaginativer Schrift darstellte, und dann ein neueres Zeichen als Darstellung für das Sprunghafte. Das neue können Sie in den Kalendern finden. Wenn die Evolution weitergeht, ringelt das alte sich ein, etwa wie eine Spirale, und die neue Evolution geht dann wie eine zweite Spirale aus der alten hervor, indem sie von innen nach außen weitergeht. Aber es geht die neue Evolution nicht so weiter, daß sie sich unmittelbar an die alte anschließt, sondern zwischen dem Ende der alten und dem Beginn der neuen ist ein kleiner Sprung, dann erst geht es weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p030"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"![Spiral](images/123-02.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p031"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"So erhalten wir diese Figur: Zwei sich ineinandetschlingende Spiralen, in der Mitte ein kleiner Sprung: das Zeichen des Krebses, das uns symbolisieren soll das Hinauswachsen in den Makrokosmos und darstellen soll das Entstehen irgendeines neuen Sprosses innerhalb irgendeiner Evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":39,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p032"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Nun gab es noch ein anderes Zeichen in der Darstellung dieser Verhältnisse. So sonderbar es ihnen scheinen mag, es war so gebildet, daß man einen Esel und sein Füllen abbildete, den Vorfahren und den Nachkommen. Das sollte darstellen das eigentliche Übergangsverhältnis von einem Zustand in den anderen. Und in der Tat wird sogar das Sternbild des Krebses in alten Abbildungen sehr häufig so dargestellt, daß man einen Esel und sein Füllen abbildete. Das zu wissen ist nicht unwichtig. Es ist eine wichtige Lehre für den Menschen zum Verständnis dessen, daß auch beim Aufstieg in den Makrokosmos ein solcher wichtiger Übergang ist, indem der Mensch hinaufwächst in die geistige Welt, aber dann an ganz neue Erleuchtungen anknüpfen muß, Das wird ganz richtig dargestellt, indem man es in der Sternensprache so darstellt, wie wenn die physische Sonne durchgeht durch das Sternbild des Krebses und, nachdem sie den höchsten Punkt erreicht hat, wieder einen Abstieg durchmacht. So ist es auch, wenn der zu Initiierende erst durchmacht den Aufstieg in die geistige Welt, um die Kräfte kennenzulernen, und dann die Kräfte, wenn er sie erkannt hat, wieder herunterträgt, um sie der Menschheit dienstbar zu machen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p033"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Daß der Christus Jesus dies den Jüngern vorführt, wird im Matthäus-Evangelium (Matth. 21,1-11) wie auch in den anderen Evangelien erzählt. Und es wird so erzählt, daß er nicht durch das bloße Wort wirkt, sondern daß er seinen Jüngern vorführt die Imagination, das lebendige Bild dessen, was er selbst vollzieht, wo er entgegengeht jener Höhe, zu der in der Zeit die Menschheit durch ihre Entwickelung hinansteigen soll. Da gebraucht er das Bild des Esels und seines Füllens; das heißt, er führt die Jünger an das Verstehen dessen hin, was im geistigen Leben entspricht dem Sternbild des Krebses. Das ist also ein Ausdruck für etwas, was sich zugetragen hat in dem geistiglebendigen, spirituellen Verhältnis zwischen dem Christus und seinen Jüngern. Und das ist etwas von solcher Majestät und Größe, daß es nicht ausgedrückt werden kann, indem man Menschenworte aus irgendeiner Sprache wählt, sondern nur dadurch, daß der Christus die Jünger hineinführt in die Verhältnisse der spirituellen Welt und ihnen in den physischen Verhältnissen Abbilder schafft für die makrokosmische Welt. Da führt er sie hinauf bis zu der Stelle, wo die Kräfte des Initiierten wieder nutzbar werden für die Menschheit. Da steht er auf der Höhe, die nur angedeutet werden kann, indem er sagt: Er steht in der Sonnenhöhe in dem Zeichen des Krebses! Kein Wunder daher, wenn das Matthäus-Evangelium an dieser Stelle darauf aufmerksam macht, daß das Christus-Leben für seine Erdenzeit auf seiner Höhe angekommen ist, und mächtig darauf hinweist mit den Worten: «Hosianna in der Höhe!» Da ist jeder Ton so gewählt, daß durch das, was da geschieht, die Jünger heranwachsen, damit wiederum durch das, was in ihnen vorgeht, in der Menschheit heranwachsen kann, was dutch den Christus Jesus in die Entwickelung der Menschheit hat hineingebracht werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p034"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Und die nachfolgende Passahgeschichte ist dann nichts anderes als das jetzt real-lebendige Einfließen dessen, was zuerst einfließen sollte in die Jünger als eine Lehre und dann magisch einfließen soll in die Menschheit durch die Kräfte, die vom Mysterium von Golgatha ausgegangen sind. So müssen wir den weiteren Fortgang des Matthäus-Evangeliums begreifen. Wir werden dann auch begreifen, wie der Schreiber des Matthäus-Evangeliums sich immer bewußt geblieben ist, daß er sozusagen aufmerksam zu machen hat auf den Kontrast zwischen der lebendigen Lehre, die aus den kosmischen Höhen gehört worden ist, und die für die Jünger gilt, und demjenigen, was den Außenstehenden entgegentreten kann, die nicht empfänglich sind für die Kräfte des Christus Jesus selber. Deshalb treten uns jene Ausführungen entgegen in den Gesprächen mit den Schriftgelehrten und Pharisäern, die wir morgen betrachten wollen. Heute aber wollen wir noch darauf aufmerksam machen, daß der Christus Jesus, nachdem er seine Jünger so weit geführt hat, als es ging, und sie hat teilnehmen lassen an den Stätten, wohin der zu Initiierende geführt wird, er ihnen auch noch in Aussicht gestellt hat, daß, wenn sie diesen Weg gehen, sie selber erleben werden das Hineinwachsen in die geistige Welt des Makrokosmos. Er sagt ihnen, daß sie selber die Veranlagung zur Initiation haben, daß sie ihnen bevorsteht, und daß sie sich hinausleben werden in die makrokosmische Welt, wo sie die wahre Natur des Christus immer mehr und mehr werden erkennen können als desjenigen Wesens, das alle geistigen Räume erfüllt, und das sein Abbild gehabt hat in dem Jesus von Nazareth. Daß sie zu dieser Initiation heranreifen, daß sie Menschheitsinitiierte werden, das mußte der Christus seinen Schülern sagen. Er konnte sie noch darauf aufmerksam machen, daß man zur selbständigen Initiation nur heranwachsen kann, indem man in Geduld und Ausdauer das Innere reifen läßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p035"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Was muß denn heranwachsen im Inneren des Menschen, wenn das Innere immer mächtiger wird, und wenn der Mensch die hellseherische, höhere Kraft entwickelt? Seine Anlagen müssen so heranwachsen, daß er aufnehmen kann die Kräfte des Geistselbst, des Lebensgeistes und des Geistesmenschen. Wann es aber eintreten wird, daß jene Kraft von oben in ihn hereinleuchten wird, welche den Menschen zum Initiierten, zum Teilnehmer macht an den Reichen der Himmel, das hängt ab von dem Augenblicke, in dem der Mensch reif werden kann; es hängt ab von dem Karma des einzelnen. Wer weiß das? Nur die höchsten Initiierten wissen das. Das wissen die, welche auf niederen Stufen der Initiation stehen, noch nicht. Ist irgendeine Individualität reif, hineinzuwachsen in die geistige Welt, so kommt auch für sie die Stunde des Hineinwachsens. Gewiß, sie kommt, aber sie kommt so, daß es sich der Mensch nicht versicht, sie kommt «wie der Dieb in der Nacht» (Matth. 24,43). Aber wie wächst der Mensch hinein in die geistige Welt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p036"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Die alten und in gewisser Beziehung auch die neueren Mysterien hatten drei Stufen für die makrokosmische Einweihung. Die erste Stufe war die, wo der Mensch so hineinwuchs, daß er alles wahrnahm, was man durch das Geistselbst wahrnehmen kann. Da ist er nicht nur ein Mensch im neuen Sinne, sondern da ist er zu dem hinaufgewachsen, was man im Sinne der Hierarchien die Engelnatur nennt; das ist die nächste über dem Menschen stehende Hierarchie. So nannte man in den persischen Mysterien auch den, der hineinwuchs in den Makrokosmos, so daß das Geistselbst in ihm tätig war, entweder einen «Perser», weil ein solcher nicht mehr ein einzelner war, sondern dem Engel des persischen Volkes angehörte. Oder man nannte solche Menschen direkt Engel oder Gottesnaturen. Die nächste Stufe ist dann die, wo der Lebensgeist entsprechend erwacht. Einen Menschen auf dieser Stufe nannte man entweder einen «Sonnenhelden» im Sinne der persischen Mysterien, weil er dann aufnahm die Kraft der Sonne, sich von unten heraufentwickelte zu den Kräften der Sonne, wo die geistige Kraft der Sonne der Erde entgegenkam, man nannte ihn aber auch einen «Sohn des Vaters». Und denjenigen, in den das Atma oder der Geistesmensch hineinragte, nannte man in den alten Mysterien den «Vater». Das waren die drei Stufen des zu Initiierenden: Engel, Sohn oder Sonnenheld und Vater.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p037"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-11/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Nur die höchsten Initiierten haben ein Urteil darüber, wann im Menschen die Initiation erwachen kann. Daher sagte der Christus: Die Initiation wird kommen, wenn ihr auf den Wegen weiterschreitet, die ich euch jetzt geführt habe. Ihr werdet aufsteigen in die Reiche der Himmel, aber die Stunde ist weder bekannt den Engeln, die mit dem Geistselbst initiiert sind, noch dem Sohn, dem mit dem Lebensgeist Initiierten, sondern nur den höchsten Eingeweihten, die mit dem «Vater» initiiert sind. - Daher spricht hier wieder ein Wort des Matthäus-Evangeliums zu uns, das absolut konform ist mit der Mysterientradition. Und wir werden sehen, daß die Verkündigung des Reiches der Himmel nichts anderes ist als die Voraussage an die Jünger, daß sie die Initiation erleben werden. Daß er das meint, darüber spricht sich der Christus Jesus des Matthäus-Evangeliums noch besonders aus (Matth. 24). Wenn man die Stelle richtig liest, um die es sich da handelt, kann man es mit Händen greifen, daß der Christus auf gewisse Lehren hinweisen will, die damals im Umlauf waren über das Hinaufwachsen in die Reiche der Himmel. Man hatte dieses Hinaufwachsen in die Reiche der Himmel materiell genommen, indem man glaubte, daß die ganze Erde hinaufwachsen würde, während man hätte wissen müssen, daß nur einzelne zu Initiierende durch ihre Initiation hinaufwachsen; das heißt, es entstand die Anschauung bei einzelnen, daß demnächst in materieller Weise eine Transformation der Erde in den Himmel stattfinden werde. Und der Christus macht noch besonders darauf aufmerksam, indem er sagt, daß welche kommen werden, die das behaupten. Er nennt sie Lügenpropheten und falsche Messiasse (Matth. 24,24). Deshalb ist es ganz sonderbar, daß heute noch einige der Evangelienerklärer davon fabeln, daß die Anschauung von einem materiell herannahenden Gottesreich eine Lehre des Christus Jesus selber gewesen sei. Wer das Matthäus-Evangelium wirklich lesen kann, der weiß, daß das, was der Christus Jesus meint, ein spirituelle Vorgang ist, zu dem der zu Initiierende hinaufwächst, zu dem aber auch im Laufe der Erdenentwickelung die ganze Menschheit, welche sich an den Christus hält, hinaufwachsen wird, aber hinaufwachsen wird, indem sich die Erde selber vergeistigt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-11/p038"}],"beads":[{"from":[39,40],"to":[27,28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[41,42],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[43],"to":[30],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[44],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[45],"to":[32],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[46],"to":[33],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[47],"to":[34],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[48],"to":[35],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[49],"to":[36],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[50],"to":[37],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[51,52],"to":[38],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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