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The one is the concept of the being of spirit-and-soul in the first three years of childhood, the being who is now no longer really adapted to the external nature of man and is, moreover, unable to unfold ego-consciousness: this being of spirit-and-soul was called in olden times the *Son of God*. And the being whose physical body today is so constituted that ego-consciousness can awaken within it was called the *Son of Man*.—The Son of God within the Son of Man.—The conditions prevailing today are such that the Son of God can no longer become conscious in the Son of Man, but must first be separated if the ego-consciousness of today is to arise. It is the task of man, through conscious absorption of the realities of the spiritual world, so to transform and make himself master of his external sheaths that the Son of Man is gradually permeated by the Son of God. When the earth has reached the end of its evolution, man must have consciously achieved what he has no longer been able to achieve from childhood onwards: he must have completely permeated what he is as Son of Man with the divine part of his being. What is it that must completely permeate and flow through his human nature? What is it that must pour into every part of the physical, etheric and astral bodies, so that the whole Son of Man is permeated with the Son of God? It is that which lives in the first three years of life, but permeated with the fully conscious ego—this it is that must spread through the whole man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p015"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":571,"en_words":605,"ratio":1.06,"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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The soul-nature of such a being cannot penetrate the outer sheaths of an ordinary man of present-day development, for he would not be able to realise the human Ideal of earthly evolution, would not be able to make it manifest. We should have, as it were, to tear the soul out of him and put in its place a soul such as is present in the first three years of life, but permeated with full ego-consciousness. In no other way could an Ideal of earth-evolution stand before us. And for how long would such a soul be able to endure a physical human life? The physical body is capable of bearing such a soul for three years only; then, if it is not to be shattered, it is bound to overpower that soul. The whole karma of the earth would have to be so organised that after three years the physical body is shattered. For in man as he is today, the being who lives in him for three years is overpowered; if, however, it were to remain, it would overpower and shatter the physical body. The Ideal of man's mission on the earth can therefore be fulfilled only if, while the physical body, etheric body and astral body remain, the ordinary soul-nature is ejected and the soul-nature of the first three years, plus full ego-consciousness, is inserted in its place. Then this soul would shatter the human body; but during these three years it would present a perfect example of what man can achieve.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p015"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":571,"en_words":605,"ratio":1.06,"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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The human Ideal was once actually placed before mankind on the earth. Through the Baptism in Jordan, the soul with which we are connected during the first three years of childhood—but in this case completely permeated by the ego and in unbroken connection with the spiritual world—entered into a human body from which the earlier soul had departed. And then, after three years, this soul from the spiritual worlds shattered the bodily sheaths. Therefore we have before us in the first three years of life a faint image, an utterly inadequate image, of the Christ-Being Who lived for three years on earth in the body of Jesus. And if we try to develop in ourselves a manhood whose nature is that of the soul of childhood but fully permeated with the reality and content of the spiritual world, then we have a picture of that Egohood, that Christhood, of which St. Paul is speaking when he calls upon men to fulfil the “Not I, but Christ in me”.—This is the childlike soul, permeated with full and complete egohood. Thereby the human being is able to permeate his “Son of Man” with his “Son of God” and to fulfil his earthly Ideal, to overcome his external nature and once again to find the connection with the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":240,"ratio":0.98,"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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If we are to look into the kingdom of Heaven we must become as children, but with the full maturity of the ego. That is the prospect before us until the earth's mission has been fulfilled.—We may well be moved when we realise on the one hand that our physical body is actually facing a withering process and takes into itself the spiritualising process by overcoming that which is tending to wither. The inner nature must be so strengthened from the spiritual worlds that the opposing outer nature is brought into conformity with it. When this is achieved, we stand, as men, in harmony with the evolutionary process of our earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/127/1911-02-11/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-02-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":355,"ratio":1.33,"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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Der eine Mensch ist der geistig-seelische in den ersten drei Kindheitsjahren, der nicht mehr recht zum äußeren Menschen paßt, aber kein Ich-Bewußtsein entwickeln kann. Diesen Menschen nannte man in alten Zeiten den Gottessohn. Und den, der heute seinen physischen Leib so hat, daß das Ich-Bewußtsein darin leben kann, nannte man den Menschensohn. So daß der Gottessohn im Menschensohn lebt. Heute ist es so, daß der Gottessohn sich nicht mehr bewußt werden kann im Menschensohn, sondern erst abgeschnürt werden soll, wenn das heutige Ich-Bewußtsein auftreten soll. Aber des Menschen Aufgabe ist es, den Menschensohn, die äußeren Hüllen, durch bewußte Aufnahme der spirituellen Welt so umzugestalten, so zu überwinden, so sich über das zum Herrn zu machen, daß nach und nach der Menschensohn wiederum ganz durchdrungen wird vom Gottessohn. Wenn die Erde am Ende ihrer Entwickelung angelangt sein wird, muß der Mensch bewußt gemacht haben, was er unbewußt von der Kindheit herauf nicht mehr machen kann. Mit seinem göttlichen Teil muß er seinen Menschensohn ganz durchdrungen haben. Was muß den Menschen ganz durchdringen und durchgießen, was muß sich in alle Glieder des physischen, Äther- und Astralleibes hineingießen, damit der Mensch seinen ganzen Menschensohn mit dem ganzen Gottessohn durchdringt? Da muß - vom Ich durchdrungen, vollbewußt -, was in den drei ersten Lebensjahren lebt, den ganzen Menschen durchdringen, das muß sich ergießen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p015"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Nehmen wir an, es sollte vor uns auftreten wie ein Muster dessen, was der Mensch werden soll, ein Wesen wie ein Ideal. Was muß sich bei diesem Wesen erfüllen? Dasjenige, was als Seele in diesem Wesen drinnen sitzt, kann man nicht brauchen, das kann die äußeren Hüllen nicht durchdringen. Ein gewöhnlicher Mensch der heutigen Entwickelung würde nicht das menschliche Erdenideal verwirklichen können, würde es nicht darstellen können. Wir müßten die Seele herausreißen, sozusagen ihn vor uns stehen haben wie er als Menschensohn die Seele herausreißt, und eine solche Seele in diesen Menschen hineinsenken, die wie die Seele in den drei ersten Lebensjahren ist, nur von vollem Ich-Bewußtsein durchdrungen. Auf keine andere Weise könnten wir ein Ideal der Erdenentwickelung vor uns hinstellen als einen Menschen, dem wir ausreißen seine Seele und dem wir eine Seele einpflanzen wie in den drei ersten Jahren, und diese kindliche Seele müßte das volle Ich-Bewußtsein haben. Die müßten wir einpflanzen. Und wie lange würde dann in einem physischen Menschenleben es eine solche Seele aushalten können? Der physische Leib kann nur drei Jahre hindurch eine solche Seele tragen, dann muß er eine solche Seele unterjochen. Also bei einem solchen Menschen muß der physische Leib nach drei Jahren zerbrechen. Es müßte das ganze Karma der Erde so ein ‚erichtet sein, daß der physische Leib nach drei Jahren zerbricht. Denn beim Menschen, wie er heute ist, ist es so, daß das, was in drei Jahren lebt, unterjocht wird. Bleibt es aber, so müßte es umgekehrt den physischen Leib unterjochen und zersprengen. Also ein Ideal dessen, was die Menschen-Erdenmission ist, würde sich nur erfüllen, wenn in einem Menschen physischer Leib, Atherleib und Astralleib für sich blieben, die gewöhnliche Seelenhaftigkeit herausgerissen würde, die Seelenhaftigkeit der drei ersten Jahre mit vollem Ich-Bewußtsein hineingesenkt würde. Dann würde die Seele den Menschenleib zersprengen, aber während dieser Jahre würde es darleben ein volles Musterbild dessen, was der Mensch erreichen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p016"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Dieses Ideal ist das Christus-Ideal, und was in der Jordan-Taufe geschehen ist, ist die Realität dessen, was geschildert worden ist. Es wurde tatsächlich dieses vor die Erdenmenschheit hingestellt, was wir als das menschliche Ideal begreifen müssen. Es kann gar nicht anders sein. Was wir da einsehen, ist geschehen. Es ist geschehen, daß durch die Jordan-Taufe die Seele, an die wir gebannt werden während unserer drei ersten Kindheitsjahre, aber nun voll durchdrungen vom menschlichen Ich, in vollem Zusammenhang mit der spirituellen Welt nach oben, in einen menschlichen Leib, aus dem die frühere Seele herausging, hineinversetzt worden ist, und daß nach drei Jahren diese Seele aus den spirituellen Welten die Leiber zersprengt hat. So haben wir in den drei ersten Lebensjahren ein schwaches Abbild dessen vor uns, gleichsam ein ganz entblößtes Abbild dessen, was als Christus-Wesenheit drei Jahre lang im Leib des Jesus auf der Erde gelebt hat. Und wenn wir eine solche Menschenwesenheit in uns selber auszubilden versuchen, die wie die Kindheitsseele ist, aber voll durchdrungen von allem Inhalt der spirituellen Welt, dann haben wir eine Vorstellung jener Ichheit, jener Christusheit, von der Paulus spricht, als er die Forderung an die Menschen stellt: Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in mir —: die mit der vollen Ichheit erfüllte kindliche Seele. Dadurch wird der Mensch so, daß er seinen Menschensohn durchdringen kann mit seinem Gottessohn und imstande sein wird, sein Erdenideal zu erfüllen, zu überwinden alle äußere Wesenheit und den Zusammenhang wieder zu finden mit der spirituellen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p017"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-02-11/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Wie müssen wir aber werden? Jeder Ausspruch hat einen mehrfachen Sinn in den religiösen Urkunden. Wir müssen werden wie die Kinder, wenn wir hineinschauen wollen in die Reiche der Himmel, aber mit der vollen Reife des Ich. Das steht uns in Aussicht bis zur Zeit, wo die Erde ihre Mission erfüllt haben wird. Es ist etwas, was uns sehr, sehr eigentümlich berühren kann, wenn wir sozusagen auf der einen Seite darauf blicken, wie im Grunde unser physischer Leib einem Vertrocknungsprozefßß entgegengeht, und auf der anderen Seite sich der Spiritualisierungsprozeß hineinsetzt, indem er überwindet das, was der Vertrocknung entgegengeht gegen die Zukunft hin. Aus den spirituellen Welten heraus muß das Innere so stark werden, daß das widerstrebende Äußere sich in seinem Charakter anpaßt. Damit stehen wir als Menschen im Einklang mit unserer Erdenentwickelung. Es sagt uns die spirituelle Wissenschaft über unsere Erde, daß wir längst über den Punkt hinaus sind, wo das mineralische Reich, das den Boden bildet, vom Granit durch Gneis, Schiefer bis zu unserer Ackererde, seine frischen Aufbaukräfte hat, sondern daß das alles in einem fortwährenden Zerstörungsprozeß begriffen ist. Wir gehen nicht auf einem Boden herum, der in Neubildung begriffen ist, sondern, weil die Erde über die Mitte ihrer Entwickelung hinausgelangt ist, auf einem Boden, der bereits sich auflöst, der bereits in Zerstörung begriffen ist. Wir stehen mit unserer Bildung ganz im Einklang mit unserer Planetenbildung. Wir haben einen physischen Leib in uns, der nach und nach vertrocknet und den wir überwinden, aber wir haben auch in dem Boden etwas, was im Zerfall begriffen ist, und wie sich Täler und Gebirge bilden, ist Zerfall der Erdenrinde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-02-11/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[14,15],"to":[15,16],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17,18],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}