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Um so mehr fühlen wir uns gedrungen, an den Merktagen des Jahres, an den Festen, welche wie fixierte Erinnerungen an das, was die Vormenschheit erdacht und ersonnen hat, aus der Zeit und ihrem Wandel zu uns hereinragen, unsere Verbindung mit dieser Vormenschheit zu empfinden, ein wenig uns zu versenken in dasjenige, was aus den Seelen, aus den Herzen der Menschen der Vergangenheit dazu geführt hat, jene Merkzeichen in den Lauf der Zeiten hineinzustellen, welche uns als die Feste des Jahres erscheinen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/127/1911-12-21/p004"},{"locus":"GA 127/1911-12-21/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Ist das Osterfest ein solches, das, wenn wir es verstehen, in uns Gedanken wachruft an menschliche Kräfte und an Überwindungsfähigkeit alles Niederen durch das Höhere, alles äußerlich Physischen durch das Geistige, ist es ein Fest der Auferstehung, der Erweckung, ein Fest der Hoffnung und der Zuversicht an die geistigen Kräfte, die in der Menschenseele erweckt werden können, so ist auf der anderen Seite das Weihnachtsfest ein Fest der Harmonieempfindung mit dem ganzen Kosmos, ein Fest der Gnadenempfindung, ein Fest, das uns immer wieder und wieder den Gedanken nahebringen kann: Wie sich auch alles um uns herum erweisen mag, wie auch in den Glauben sich die herbsten Zweifel hineinmischen können, wie sich auch in die kühnsten Hoffnungen die schlimmsten Enttäuschungen hineinmischen können, wie auch um uns herum alle guten Dinge des Lebens wanken können es gibt etwas in der menschlichen Natur und Wesenheit, das kann uns der richtig verstandene Gedanke des Weihnachtsfestes sagen, das nur vor die Seele lebendig, geisthaft hingestellt zu werden braucht, um uns immerwährend zu offenbaren, daß wir von den Kräften des Guten abstammen, von den Kräften des Rechten, von den Kräften des Wahren. — Auf unsere siegenden Kräfte in die Zukunft hin weist uns der Östergedanke. 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