{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 130/1911-09-21/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"So too is it in our present century in the case of the Bodhisattva who later on, in three thousand years time, will become the Maitreya Buddha. It would be so much occult dilettantism to assert that this Being would be recognisable in his early years as the Bodhisattva. It is between his thirtieth and thirty-first years that he first reveals Himself through his own power, without having to be proclaimed by others. He will convince the world through his own power and it would be well to realise that if the Bodhisattva were alleged in some quarters to be revealing himself in a human being under the age of thirty, that very fact would be evidence of the fallacy of such a statement. Claims of the kind have frequently been made. For example, in the 17th century a certain individual proclaimed himself to be an incarnation of the Messiah, of Christ. His name was Sabbati Zewi and hosts of people from all over Europe, from Spain, Italy and France, made pilgrimages to him in Smyrna.","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":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/130/1911-09-21/p040","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Im dreißigsten bis zum einunddreißigsten Jahre wird er sich aber in noch ganz anderen Eigenschaften zeigen, weil eben eine andere Persönlichkeit Besitz von seinem Körper ergriffen hat. Die Individualitäten, die so Besitz ergreifen werden von der Persönlichkeit eines andern Menschen, sind Individualitäten, die in alten Zeiten gelebt haben und nicht als Kind erscheinen werden, Individualitäten wie Moses, Abraham, Ezechiel. So ist es auch in unserem Jahrhundert mit dem Bodhisattva, der später, in dreitausend Jahren, der Maitreya-Buddha sein wird. Es würde ein bloßer okkulter Dilettantismus sein, wenn man behaupten würde, dass dieser Maitreya schon in jungen Jahren als solcher erkennbar wäre. Zwischen dem dreißigsten und dreiunddreißigsten Jahre zeigt er sich erst durch seine eigene Kraft, ohne dass von andern auf ihn erst hingewiesen sein wird; durch eigene Kraft wird er überzeugen. Und man würde am besten erkennen, dass irgendwo nicht das Richtige getroffen worden sei, wenn man von einem jüngeren Menschen, der weniger als dreißig Jahre alt ist, sagen würde, dass in ihm der Bodhisattva sich zeige. Daran würde man gerade das Unrichtige erkennen. Solche Behauptungen sind ja immer wieder aufgestellt worden. Man braucht nur daran zu erinnern, dass im siebzehnten Jahrhundert eine Individualität auftrat, die behauptete, eine Inkarnation des Messias, des Christus, zu sein. Es ist die Persönlichkeit des Sabbatai Zewi, der im siebzehnten Jahrhundert aufgetreten ist, der sich für den Christus ausgab und zu dem tatsächlich eine große Menge Leute von ganz Europa, von Spanien, Italien, Frankreich bis Smyrna wallfahrte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/130/1911-09-21/p039"}],"english":["GA 130/1911-09-21/p039","GA 130/1911-09-21/p040"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":337,"en_words":285,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4977,"original_word_count":4793,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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