{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p004-p010","extent":"range","passage_number":4,"through":10,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p004","last_locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"The Esoteric Path to Christ","date":"1911-10-14","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/RSP1973/19111014p01.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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The great, majestic, crowning features of the work of redemption, of the Mystery of Golgotha, were drawn by the writer of this Gospel from his clairvoyant consciousness also. Consequently, although the Gospels are really revived Mystery rituals—this is shown in my *Christianity as Mystical Fact*—they are so because the writers of the Gospels, following their esoteric path, could procure for themselves out of the super-sensible world a picture of the events in Palestine which led to the Mystery of Golgotha. Ever since the Mystery of Golgotha up to our own times, a person who desired to come to a super-sensible experience of the Christ-Event had to go through the stages which you will find described in earlier lecture-cycles as the seven stages of our Christian Initiation: The Washing of the Feet; The Scourging; The Crowning with Thorns; The Mystic Death; The Burial; the Resurrection; the Ascension. Today we will make clear to ourselves what the pupil can attain by going through this Christian Initiation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p004","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/RSP1973/19111014p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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As you can convince yourselves by reading the lectures on this subject, Christian Initiation is very different from the incorrect method of Initiation described in the first lecture of this course. In Christian Initiation certain feelings which belong to humanity in general are first invoked, and they lead to an Imagination of the Washing of the Feet. Thus the picture of this in the John Gospel is not the first thing to be imagined; the aspirant begins by trying to live for a long time with certain feelings and perceptions. I have often characterised this by saying that the person concerned should gaze upon the plant, which grows out of the mineral ground, takes into itself the materials of the mineral kingdom, and yet raises itself above this kingdom as a higher being than the mineral. If the plant could speak and feel, it would bow down to the mineral kingdom and say: ‘Certainly I was destined within the economy of the Cosmos to attain a higher stage than you, Mineral, but you give me the possibility of existence. In the order of beings you are certainly a lower being than myself, but I have to thank you for my existence, and I bow myself in humility before you.’ In the same way the animal would have to bow down to the plant, although the plant is a lower being than the animal, and say: ‘I thank you for my existence; I acknowledge it in humility, and I bow myself before you.’ And so would each being that climbs upwards have to bow down to the other standing below, and also he who has risen by way of a spiritual ladder to a higher level must bow down to the beings who alone have made this possible for him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":508,"en_words":517,"ratio":1.02,"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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And this Imagination corresponds exactly to the scene represented in the John Gospel as the Washing of the Feet, where Christ Jesus, who is the Head of the Twelve, stoops to those who stand here below Him in the order of the physical world, and in humility acknowledges that He thanks those who are below Him for the possibility of his higher ascent. He acknowledges before the Twelve: ‘As the animal thanks the plant, so do I thank you for what I was able to become in the physical world!’ A person who permeates himself with this feeling comes not only to an Imagination of the Washing of the Feet, but also to a quite pronounced feeling, as though water were washing over his feet. This can be felt for weeks: it shows how deeply imbued our human nature is with such universal human feelings, which nevertheless can raise man above himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":508,"en_words":517,"ratio":1.02,"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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For had it not come to pass as it has done, as I have experienced it, I should not have been able to reach the height I have attained.’ When the person in question makes this a matter of his perception, and lives within it, he actually feels something like sharp pains and woundings, like strokes of a scourge against his own skin, and the Imagination arises as if he were outside himself, and was watching himself scourged according to the example of Christ Jesus. In line with this example one can experience the Crowning of Thorns, the Mystic Death, and so on. 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We actually feel as if thorns were pressing into our head; we feel all the pain and suffering of the Crucifixion. We have to feel this before we can experience the Mystical Death, the Burial, and the Resurrection, as these also have been described. Even if we have not gone through these feelings with sufficient intensity, they will certainly have the effect that we become strong and full of love in the right sense of the word. 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Denn trotzdem der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums einen großen Teil dessen, was in seinem Evangelium dargestellt ist — wie Sie aus der Darstellung des Johannes-Evangeliums in dem entsprechenden Zyklus ersehen können — selbst gesehen hat, so müssen wir doch auch von ihm sagen, daß es nicht die Hauptsache für ihn war, bloß dasjenige darzustellen, woran er sich erinnerte; denn das gab eigentlich nur jene kleinen, genauen Züge, von denen wir ja gerade, wie wir gesehen haben, im Johannes-Evangelium überrascht sind. Aber die großen, die majestätisch überragenden Züge des Erlöserwerkes, des Mysteriums von Golgatha, hat auch dieser Evangelienschreiber seinem hellsehenden Bewußtsein entnommen. Daher können wir sagen: ebenso wie die Evangelien eigentlich aufgefrischte Einweihungsritualien sind — das geht auch aus dem Buche «Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache» hervor — so sind sie auf der anderen Seite gerade deshalb so geworden, weil die Evangelienschreiber auf ihrem esoterischen Wege sich aus der übersinnlichen Welt ein Bild dessen verschaffen konnten, was in Palästina vorgegangen ist und zu dem Mysterium von Golgatha geführt hat. Wer nun, seit dem Mysterium von Golgatha bis in unsere 'Tage herein, zu einer übersinnlichen Erfahrung von dem Christus-Ereignis kommen wollte, mußte dasjenige auf sich wirken lassen, was Sie in den entsprechenden Vortragszyklen, die jetzt eigentlich schon zu dem Elementaren unserer geisteswissenschaftlichen Arbeit gehören, geschildert finden als die sieben Stufen unserer christlichen Einweihung: Fußwaschung, Geißelung, Dornenkrönung, mystischer Tod, Grablegung, Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt. Heute wollen wir uns einmal klarmachen, was der Schüler erreichen kann, wenn er diese christliche Einweihung auf sich wirken läßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p004"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Machen wir uns den Prozeß der christlichen Einweihung klar; sehen wir gleich auf das allererste, um was es sich da handelt. Es wird nicht so gemacht — wie Sie sich überzeugen können, wenn Sie die entsprechenden Zyklen durchnehmen — wie in jener nicht richtigen Einweihung, von der in dem ersten Vortrage dieses Zyklus gesprochen worden ist; sondern so, daß zunächst die allgemein menschlichen Gefühle wirken sollen, die dann zur Imagination der Fußwaschung selber führen. Nicht also wird zuerst das Bild des Johannes-Evangeliums imaginiert, sondern es wird von dem, der die christliche Einweihung anstrebt, zunächst versucht, mit gewissen Gefühlen und Empfindungen eine längere Zeit zu leben. Ich habe es oft dadurch charakterisiert, daß ich sagte, der Betreffende sollte hinschauen auf die Pflanze, die sich erhebt aus dem mineralischen Boden, die aufnimmt die Stoffe des Mineralreiches und sich dennoch erhebt über dieses Mineralreich als ein höheres Wesen, als es das Mineral ist. Wenn nun diese Pflanze sprechen und fühlen könnte, so müßte sie sich herunterneigen zu dem Mineralreich und sagen: Zwar bin ich bestimmt worden innerhalb der Weltengesetzlichkeit zu einer höheren Stufe als du, Mineral, aber du gibst mir die Möglichkeit des Daseins. Du bist zwar in der Ordnung der Wesen zunächst ein niedrigeres Wesen als ich, aber ich verdanke dir niedrigerem Wesen mein Dasein, und ich neige mich in Demut vor dir. — In derselben Weise müßte sich das Tier herunterneigen zur Pflanze, trotzdem diese ein niedrigeres Wesen ist als das Tier und müßte sagen: Dir verdanke ich mein Dasein; ich erkenne es in Demut an und neige mich vor dir. — Und so müßte jedes Wesen, das hinaufsteigt, sich herunterneigen zu den anderen, unter ihm stehenden; und auch wer auf einer geistigen Stufenleiter hinaufgestiegen ist zu einer höheren Stufe, müßte sich herunterneigen zu den Wesen, die ihm das allein möglich gemacht haben. Wer sich nun ganz durchdringt mit dem Gefühl der Demut gegenüber dem Niedrigeren, wer dieses Gefühl ganz und gar einverleibt in seine Wesenheit und es monatelang, ja vielleicht Jahre hindurch in seiner Wesenheit leben läßt, der wird sehen, daß es sich ausbreitet in seiner Organisation und ihn so durchzieht, daß er die Verwandelung dieses Gefühls zu einer Imagination erlebt. Und diese Imagination besteht genau in der Szene, die im Johannes-Evangelium geschildert ist als die Fußwaschung, da der Christus Jesus, der das Haupt der Zwölf ist, sich herunterneigt zu denen, die unter ihm stehen in der Ordnung der physischen Welt hier, und in Demut anerkennt, daß er die Möglichkeit des Aufstieges denjenigen verdankt, die unter ihm sind, und anerkennt vor den Zwölfen: Wie das Tier der Pflanze, so verdanke ich euch, was ich werden konnte in der physischen Welt. — Wer sich mit dieser Empfindung durchdringt, kommt nun wieder nicht nur zu jener Imagination der Fußwaschung, sondern auch zu einem ganz bestimmten Gefühl, zu dem Gefühl, wie wenn Wasser seine Füße umspülen würde. Das kann der Betreffende wochenlang dann fühlen, und das wäre ein äußeres Zeichen dafür, wie tief sich in unser Wesen eine solche allgemein menschliche und doch den Menschen über sich selbst hinaushebende Empfindungswelt einprägt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":508,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p005"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Weiter haben wir gesehen, daß man durchmachen kann, was zur Imagination der Geißelung führt, wenn wir uns recht lebendig vorstellen: Es werden mich noch viele Leiden und Schmerzen in der Welt treffen; ja, von allen Seiten können die Leiden und Schmerzen kommen; keinem bleiben sie im Grunde genommen erspart. Ich aber will meinen Willen so stählen, daß von allen Seiten die Leiden und Schmerzen, die Geißelschläge, die von der Welt kommen, auf mich eindringen mögen; ich will aufrechtstehen und mein Schicksal ertragen, wie es sich ergeben wird; denn hätte es sich bisher nicht so ergeben, wie ich es durchlebt habe, so hätte ich mich nicht so zu der Höhe entwickeln können, zu der ich gekommen bin. — Wenn der Betreffende dies zu seiner Empfindung macht und damit lebt, dann fühlt er tatsächlich etwas wie Stiche und Verwundungen, wie Geißelschläge gegen die eigene Haut, und die Imagination tritt auf: wie wenn der Betreffende außer sich wäre und sich selbst nach dem Vorbilde des Christus Jesus gegeißelt sähe. So kann man nach diesem Vorbilde die Dornenkrönung, den mystischen Tod und so weiter erleben. Das ist öfter geschildert worden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p006"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Was wird von demjenigen erreicht, der so in sich selber versucht, zunächst die vier Stufen und, wenn das Karma günstig ist, auch die übrigen, also alle sieben Stufen der christlichen Einweihung zu erleben? Aus den entsprechenden Schilderungen selbst können Sie es entnehmen, daß die ganze Stufenleiter der Empfindungen, die wir da durchmachen, auf der einen Seite uns stärken und kräftigen sollen und uns zu einer ganz anderen Natur machen sollen, so daß wir fühlen, daß wir stark, kräftig und frei dastehen in der Welt, aber auch fähig sind zu einer jeden Tat hingebungsvoller Liebe. Aber das soll in einem tiefen Sinne uns zur anderen Natur werden in der christlichen Einweihung. Denn was soll da geschehen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":115,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p007"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Vielleicht ist es noch nicht allen von Ihnen, welche die früheren elementaren Zyklen gelesen haben und dadurch der christlichen Einweihung mit ihren sieben Stufen begegnet sind, aufgegangen, daß durch die Intensität der Empfindungen, welche dabei durchgemacht werden sollen, wirklich hineingewirkt wird bis in die physischen Leiber. Denn durch die Stärke und die Gewalt, mit der wir diese Empfindungen durchmachen, spüren wir, wie wenn Wasser zunächst unsere Füße umspülte, wie wenn Wunden uns versetzt würden, spüren wirklich so etwas, wie wenn die Dornen in unser Haupt hineingestoßen würden, spüren wirklich alle Schmerzen und Leiden der Kreuzigung. Wir müssen das spüren, bevor wir die Erlebnisse des mystischen Todes, der Grablegung und der Auferstehung spüren können, wie sie ja auch geschildert worden sind. Wenn man nicht genügend intensiv diese Empfindungen durchmacht, haben sie freilich auch die Wirkung, daß wir kräftig und liebevoll werden im rechten Sinne des Wortes, aber was uns da einverleibt wird, das kann nur bis zum Ätherleibe gehen. Wenn wir aber anfangen, es bis in unseren physischen Leib zu spüren — die Füße wie von Wasser umspült, den Leib wie von Wunden bedeckt —, dann haben wir diese Empfindungen stärker in unsere Natur hineingetrieben und haben erreicht, daß sie vorgedrungen sind bis zum physischen Leib. Sie dringen ja auch wirklich bis zum physischen Leib vor; denn es kommen die Stigmata, die von Blut durchtränkten Stellen der Wundmale des Christus Jesus hervor; das heißt also: bis in den physischen Leib treiben wir die Empfindungen hinein und wissen, dafß selbst bis in den physischen Leib die Empfindungen ihre Stärke entfalten, wissen also, daß wir uns von unserer Wesenheit mehr ergriffen fühlen als etwa bloß Astralleib und Ätherleib. Es ist also im wesentlichen so zu charakterisieren, daß wir durch einen solchen Vorgang mystischer Empfindungen bis in unseren physischen Leib hinein wirken. Wenn wir das tun, machen wir nichts Geringeres, als daß wir uns bereit machen in unserem physischen Leibe, das Phantom nach und nach zu empfangen, das ausgeht von dem Grabe auf Golgatha. Wir arbeiten deshalb in unseren physischen Leib hinein, um denselben so lebendig zu machen, daß er eine Verwandtschaft, eine Anziehungskraft fühlt zu dem Phantom, das sich auf Golgatha aus dem Grabe erhoben hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":363,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p008"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[5,6],"to":[5],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[7],"to":[6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9,10],"to":[8],"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)."}}