{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-12_02/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Zarathustra spoke to those who were his pupils in somewhat the following way.—‘You must realise that behind the physical light of the Sun there is spiritual light. Just as behind physical man there is his astral body, his aura, so behind the Sun there is the great Aura. The physical Sun is to be regarded as the light-body of a Being who will one day descend to the Earth; it is the outer, bodily raiment of this Being that is perceived through clairvoyant vision and within this bodily raiment there is *soul*. Just as soul expresses itself through sound or tone, so does the Sun Word, the Sun Logos, speak through the Sun Aura’... And Zarathustra could give this promise to mankind.—One day the great Aura, the Being of Light, will come from divine-spiritual spheres, and the soul of that Being will be the Sun Word.—This was the prophetic wisdom, uttered for the first time by Zarathustra, concerning the coming of the Sun Aura and of the Sun Word.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XII","site_heading":"Divine Beings Descending: Christ as the Greatest Avatar","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1910-09-12","location":null,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/123/1910-09-12_02/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Und das Sonnenwort war dann mehr das Innerliche. - So könnte man etwa im Sinne des Zarathustra sagen, er lehrte die, welche seine Jünger waren: Ihr müßt euch klar sein, daß hinter dem physischen Sonnenlichte ein geistiges Licht ist. Wie hinter dem physischen Menschen sein Astralisches, die Aura ist, so ist hinter der Sonne die Große Aura. Diese physische Sonne ist aber gleichsam als der Lichtleib eines Wesens anzusehen, das einst auf die Erde herabkommen wird; es ist gewissermaßen das äußere Leibliche, das man durch hellseherische Anschauung kennenlernt, und in diesem Leiblichen ist noch ein Inneres, Seelisches darinnen. So wie durch den Ton ein Seelisches sich ausdrückt, so dringt durch das Mittel der Sonnenaura das Sonnenwort, der Sonnenlogos. Und das konnte Zarathustra der Menschheit versprechen: daß kommen werde einst aus den göttlich-geistigen Sphären die Große Aura, das Lichtwesen, und daß die Seele des Lichtwesens das Sonnenwort sein werde. 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