{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 131/1911-10-07/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These happenings have originally something to do with events that took place before such a life-thread as our human one had passed into a physical human organization. We must go back to the ancient Lemurian time, into the age wherein human individualities, coming from Divine heights, incarnated for the first time in earthly bodies; back to the event which is indicated for us in the Old Testament as the Temptation through the Serpent. This event is of a very remarkable kind. From its outcome all men suffer as long as they are subject to incarnation. For if this event had not happened, the whole evolution of mankind on the earth would have been different, and men would have passed in a much more perfect condition from incarnation to incarnation. Through this event, however, they become more closely entangled in matter, allegorically designated as the ‘Fall of Man’. But it was the Fall that first called man to his present individuality; so that, as he goes as an individuality from incarnation to incarnation, he is not responsible for the Fall. We know that the Luciferic spirits were responsible for the Fall. Hence we must say that before man became man in the earthly sense, there occurred the divine, super-sensible event by which a deeper entanglement in matter was laid upon him. Through this event man has indeed attained to the power of love and to freedom, but through it something was laid upon him that he could not lay upon himself by his own power. This becoming entangled in matter was not a human act, but a deed of the Gods, which happened before men could cooperate in their own fate. It is something which the Higher Powers of progressive evolution arranged with the Luciferic powers. We shall have to go into all these events and characterise them more exactly. Today we will place only the chief point before our minds.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Sources of Knowledge of Christ, Lord of Karma","site_heading":"Christ as Lord of Karma: The Twentieth Century Transformation","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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Wir müssen zurückgehen bis in die alte lemurische Zeit, in jenes Zeitalter, da zum ersten Male menschliche Individualitäten, aus den göttlichen Höhen herabsteigend, sich in irdische Leiber verkörperten, bis zu jenem Ereignis, das uns angedeutet wird im Alten Testament als die Verführung durch die Schlange. Dieses Ereignis ist sehr merkwürdiger Art. An den Folgen dieses Ereignisses litten alle Menschen, während sie sich verkörperten. Denn wäre dieses Ereignis nicht gekommen, so würde die ganze Entwickelung der Menschheit auf der Erde eine andere geworden sein, und die Menschen würden in einem viel vollkommeneren Zustande von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation gegangen sein. Sie sind aber durch dieses Ereignis tiefer in die Materie verstrickt worden, was allegorisch bezeichnet wird mit dem Sündenfall. Der Sündenfall aber ist es erst, der den Menschen aufgerufen hat zu seiner jetzigen Individualität; so daß der Mensch, wie er als Individualität von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation geht, nicht für den Sündenfall verantwortlich ist. Wir wissen aber, daß die luziferischen Geister für den Sündenfall verantwortlich sind. Deshalb müssen wir sagen: Bevor der Mensch im irdischen Sinne zum Menschen geworden ist, war das göttliche, das übersinnliche Ereignis geschehen, durch das dem Menschen ein tieferes Verstricktwerden mit der Materie auferlegt worden ist. Durch dieses Ereignis ist der Mensch zwar zur Kraft der Liebe und zur Freiheit gekommen, aber es ist ihm dadurch etwas auferlegt worden, was er nicht durch eigene Kraft sich auferlegen konnte. Dieses Verstricktwerden in die Materie war nicht eine menschliche Tat, sondern eine Gottestat, die geschehen ist, bevor die Menschen mittun konnten an ihrem Schicksal. Das ist etwas, was die höheren Mächte der fortlaufenden Entwickelung mit den luziferischen Mächten abgemacht haben. Wir werden auf alle diese Ereignisse noch genauer charakterisierend einzugehen haben und wollen sie heute nur der Hauptsache nach vor unsere Seele stellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-07/p027"}],"english":["GA 131/1911-10-07/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":323,"en_words":320,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7070,"original_word_count":7337,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1973","book_title":"From Jesus to Christ","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA131/English/RSP1973/19111007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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