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And we know from occult investigations that in this Maitreya Buddha the power of the Word will be present in a degree of which men of the present time can as yet have no conception. It is possible to-day through higher clairvoyant perception of the process of world-evolution to discover how the, Maitreya Buddha will teach after three thousand years have passed. Much of his teaching can also be expressed in symbolic forms. But to-day—because mankind is insufficiently mature—it is not yet possible to utter words such as those that will come from the lips of the Maitreya Buddha.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Buddha and Christ: The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-09-21","location":null,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/130/1911-09-21/p036","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Die orientalischen Lehren waren sich dazumal klar darüber, dass der nachfolgende Bodhisattva, der zum Buddha werden würde, die Lehren über die Erde zu verbreiten hatte, die den Christus in der richtigen Weise den Menschen zeigen würden. So wurde der nächstfolgende Bodhisattva, der sich in Jeshu ben Pandira und in anderen immer weiter verkörperte, der Lehrer des Christus-Impulses. Und die Legende deutet das sehr gut an in der Barlaam- und Josaphat-Erzählung, indem von Barlaam, dem christlichen Lehrer, der Josaphat, das heißt der Bodhisattva, unterrichtet wird. Die orientalischen okkulten Lehren nennen daher diesen Bodhisattva den Bringer des Guten: Maitreya-Buddha. Und wir wissen aus okkulten Forschungen, dass dieser Maitreya-Buddha die Kraft des Wortes in einer solchen Weise haben wird, dass sich die heutigen Menschen davon noch gar keine Vorstellung machen können. Wir können heute hellsichtig in dem höheren Weltenwerden sehen, wie der Maitreya- Buddha lehren wird nach dreitausend Jahren. Wir könnten vieles von seinen Lehren auch in symbolischen Zeichnungen ausführen. 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