{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 124/1910-12-19_02/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have shown in my Rosicrucian Mystery Play, “The Portal of Initiation,” how when it is necessary for the further evolution of the world, a human Being is inspired at certain times by some higher Being. This is not intended as a mere poetic image, but is an occult truth presented poetically. The personality of the original Zarathustra was no such highly evolved Being as the Buddha, but was chosen as one into whom a high individuality could enter, could dwell, and inspire him. Such persons were mainly found in olden times, that is in pre-Christian times, in the civilisations that evolved in North-Western Europe and Mid-Western Asia, but not among the peoples that in pre-Christian times evolved in Africa, Arabia, and the districts of Asia Minor extending eastwards into Asia. In these countries that kind of initiation was found which I have just described in its highest development as that of Buddha; while the other I am now about to describe as that of Zarathustra was more suited to northern peoples. The possibility of anyone being initiated in this way has only existed, even in our part of the world, for the last three or four thousand years. The personality of Zarathustra was selected somewhat in the following way to be the bearer of a higher Being, who could not himself incarnate. It was ordained from the spiritual worlds that a Spiritual Being should enter into some child, and when the child had grown up should work within this human being making use of the instruments of his brain, his will, etc. In order that this might take place something quite different had to happen than would otherwise happen in the individual evolution of this human being. Now the events I am about to describe did not happen in any such physical way throughout the life of this highly evolved human being as they otherwise should; though, naturally, people who follow the life of such a child with ordinary perceptions do not observe this. But those who have higher perception see that there is conflict from the beginning between the soul-forces of this child and the outer world, that it is possessed of a will, of an impulsiveness that is in apparent contradiction to all that goes on around it. The fate of this divine, spirit-filled personality is that it grows up as a stranger, that those about it have no idea, no feeling, by which they can rightly understand such a child. As a rule there are few, perhaps only one person, who is able to divine what is developing within this human being. Conflict with its surroundings is apt to develop, and then occurs (but not till later years) what I described as happening when dealing with the story of the temptation of Buddha, when a man descends into his own being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Two Paths to Spiritual Leadership: Buddha and Zarathustra","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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Earlier in the paragraph the translation also changes the German statement that even in our regions, three to four millennia ago, only this kind of initiation could be given, into 'The possibility of anyone being initiated in this way has only existed, even in our part of the world, for the last three or four thousand years'.","german_locus":"GA 124/1910-12-19_02/p021","german_sentence":"Leicht dagegen entwickeln sich Konflikte mit der Umwelt, und es tritt dann nicht erst in späteren Jahren das auf, was ich Ihnen jetzt mit der Versuchungsgeschichte des Buddha geschildert habe, was entsteht, wenn der Mensch in die eigene Wesenheit hinuntersteigt.","german_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/124/1910-12-19_02/p021","found":"Flagged by a reader in paragraph-pairing batch 1 (index-cited) of 4 November 2026; confirmed against the German and the printed volume on 5 November 2026; a blind re-check of seven sampled candidates agreed on all seven; warning approved by the operator on 5 November 2026.","advice":"The words are quoted correctly from this translation, but this sentence does not say what the German says. 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Das ist nicht bloß als ein poetisches Bild gemeint, sondern als poetische Repräsentation einer okkulten Wirklichkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":49,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/124/1910-12-19_02/p019"},{"locus":"GA 124/1910-12-19_02/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Die Persönlichkeit des ursprünglichen Zarathustra war also keine solche, die durch sich selbst so hoch gestiegen wäre wie Buddha, sondern sie war dazu ausersehen, daß eine höhere Individualität in ihr gleichsam Platz nähme, sie durchgeistigte, sie durchweste. Solche Persönlichkeiten waren hauptsächlich bei allen denjenigen Kulturen in den alten Zeiten, das heißt bei allen vorchristlichen Kulturen, zu finden, die sich entwickelt hatten durch Europa, durch das nordwestliche und mittelwestliche Asien hindurch, nicht aber bei jenen Kulturen der vorchristlichen Zeiten, die sich durch Afrika, Arabien, auch durch die vorderasiatischen Länder hindurch nach Asien hineinerstreckten. Während in den letztgenannten Ländern jene Art der Einweihung vorherrschend war, die ich eben beschrieben habe in der höchsten Entfaltung bei dem großen Buddha, war die andere Art der Einweihung, die ich jetzt bei Zarathustra an einem besonderen Beispiel darstellen will, besonders bei den nördlichen Völkern heimisch. Auch in unsern Gegenden war noch vor drei bis vier Jahrtausenden nur die Möglichkeit vorhanden, eine solche Initiation zu geben, wie ich sie jetzt schildern will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/124/1910-12-19_02/p020"},{"locus":"GA 124/1910-12-19_02/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Etwa in folgender Weise war die Zarathustra-Persönlichkeit dazu ausersehen, Träger zu sein einer höheren Wesenheit, die sich nicht selbst inkarnieren sollte. Es war gleichsam bestimmt von den geistigen Welten: In dieses Kind soll hineinversenkt werden eine göttlichgeistige Wesenheit, die in diesem Menschen wirken kann, sich seines Gehirns, seiner Werkzeuge und seines Willens bedienen kann, wenn dieses Kind herangewachsen ist. Dazu muß allerdings von vornherein etwas ganz anderes mit dem Menschen geschehen, als sonst in der menschlichen individuellen Entwickelung geschieht. Nun spielen sich ja allerdings die Vorgänge, welche jetzt ein wenig beschrieben werden sollen, nicht so sehr physisch-sinnlich ab, als vielmehr in dem ganzen Leben eines solchen heranwachsenden Menschen, obwohl natürlich ein anderer, der mit groben Sinnen ein solches Kind verfolgen würde, es nicht beobachten könnte. Wer es aber beobachten kann, der sieht, daß da von vornherein zwischen den Seelenkräften eines solchen Kindes und der äußeren Welt Konflikte spielen, daß dieses Kind ein Wollen, eine Impulsivität hat, die gleichsam im Widerspruch steht mit dem, was sich ringsherum abspielt. Das ist ja der göttlichen, der geisterfüllten Persönlichkeiten Schicksal, daß sie als Fremdlinge heranwachsen, daß ihre Umgebung keinen Sinn und keine Empfindung hat, um sie recht zu verstehen. Gewöhnlich sind nur ganz wenige, vielleicht ist sogar nur eine Persönlichkeit vorhanden, die eine Ahnung davon haben kann, was mit einem solchen Menschen heranwächst. 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