{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p013-p023","extent":"range","passage_number":13,"through":23,"paragraph_count":11,"first_locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p013","last_locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p023","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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We shall then have to encounter events through which our karma can be balanced, for every man must reap what he has sown. Karma is a just law. But what the karmic law has to fulfill is not there only for individual men. Karma does not only balance the accounts of each Ego, but in every case the balancing must be arranged so as to be in the best possible accord with the concerns of the whole world. It must enable us to give all possible help to the advancement of mankind on earth. For this we need enlightenment, not merely the knowledge that the karmic fulfillment of our deed must come about. The fulfillment can take a form which will be either less or more useful for the general progress of humanity. Hence we must choose those thoughts, feelings or perceptions which will pay off our karma and at the same time serve the collective progress of mankind. In the future it will fall to Christ to bring the balance of our karma into line with the general Earth-karma and the general progress of humanity. And this happens principally in the time between death and a new birth. But it will also be prepared for in the epoch of time we are now approaching, before whose door we stand, because men will more and more acquire the capacity for a special experience. 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He will feel constrained to reflect on his action, and something like a dream-picture, arising in his mind, will make a quite remarkable impression on him. He will say to himself: ‘I cannot identify this as a recollection of something I have done, yet it feels like an experience of my own.’ Like a dream-picture it will stand there before him, closely concerned with him; but he cannot recall that he has experienced or done it in the past. If he is an anthroposophist he will understand the matter; otherwise he will have to wait until he comes to Anthroposophy and learns to understand it. The anthroposophist will know: ‘What you see as an apparent consequence of your actions is a picture that will be fulfilled in the future; the balancing of your actions is shown to you in advance.’ We are at the beginning of an epoch in which men, directly after they have committed a deed, will have a premonition, a feeling, perhaps even a significant picture, of how this deed will be karmically balanced.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":202,"en_words":184,"ratio":0.91,"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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These capabilities will give a powerful stimulus to human morality, and this will signify something quite different from the voice of conscience, which has been a preparation for it. The individual will no longer believe: ‘What I have done will die with me.’ He will know quite exactly: ‘My action will not die when I die; it will have a consequence which will live on with me.’ And there is much else that the individual will know. The time during which the doors of the spiritual world have been closed to men is nearly over. Men must again climb up into the spiritual world. Their awakening capacities will enable them to participate in the spiritual world. Clairvoyance will always be different from this participation. Just as there was an ancient dreamlike clairvoyance, so will there be a future clairvoyance that is not dreamlike, the clairvoyance of people who know what they are doing and what it signifies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":174,"ratio":0.92,"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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Everywhere there are spiritual beings who stand in a relationship to me.’ Men will learn to communicate with these beings and to live with them. And in the next three thousand years the truth that Christ is acting as Karmic Judge will become apparent to a sufficiently large number of people. Christ Himself will be experienced by men as an etheric Form. Like Paul before Damascus, they will know quite intimately that Christ lives, and is the Source for the reawakening of the physical prototype we received at the beginning of our evolution, and need if the Ego is to attain full development.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":129,"en_words":117,"ratio":0.91,"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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Men could not then be made acquainted with experiences concerning reincarnation; they were not ripe for it and it would only have led them into error. Christianity had to develop for nearly 2,000 years without being able to indicate the teaching of reincarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":447,"en_words":396,"ratio":0.89,"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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The Oriental makes what is given to him as teaching about reincarnation into a path of individual redemption, whereas for Lessing the essential question was: ‘How can the whole of humanity move forward?’ According to Lessing, we must distinguish successive periods of time within the progressive development of humanity. Something new is given to humanity in each epoch. We see from history that new civilising actions keep on emerging in the course of human development. How could one speak of the evolution of the whole of humanity, says Lessing, if a soul lived in only one epoch? Whence could the fruits of civilisation come if human beings were not born again, if what they had learnt in one epoch were not carried over into the next, and its fruits into the following epoch and so on?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":447,"en_words":396,"ratio":0.89,"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 the Christ-Impulse makes everything a man does or can do into an action of universal relevance, not something that touches him only as an individual. He only can be Christ's disciple who says: ‘I do it for the least of the brethren, because I know Thou feelest as though I had done it for Thee.’ As the whole of humanity is bound up with Christ, so does he who confesses Christ feel that he belongs to all mankind. This thought has worked into the thinking, feeling, and perception of the whole human race. And when the idea of reincarnation reappeared in the eighteenth century, it appeared as a Christian thought. And although Widenmann treated reincarnation clumsily, in an embryonic way, yet in his prize essay of 1851 his thought of reincarnation is permeated by the Christian impulse. 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We have reached a time in which the human organism must understand, accept, permeate itself with the thought of reincarnation. For the progress of human evolution does not depend on what teachings are promulgated or find a new foothold. Other laws come into consideration, and they do not depend upon ourselves.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/131/1911-10-14/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p016"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":478,"en_words":416,"ratio":0.87,"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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Then he will know: ‘What I am now feeling is foreign to me, because it is the ego that has come over from earlier lives.’ This will oppress the heart, will cause fear and anxiety, in those who cannot explain it by repeated earth-lives. These feelings, which are not merely a theoretical uncertainty but a starving, a cramping, of life, will disappear through the perceptions given to us by Spiritual Science, which tell us: ‘You must think of your life as extended over earlier earth-lives.’ Then men will see what it means for them to experience the connection with the Christ-Impulse. For it is the Christ-Impulse which will give life to the whole retrospective view, the whole perspective of the past. A man will feel: ‘Here was this incarnation; there, that one.’ Then he will come to a time beyond which he will be unable to go without clearly understanding: ‘The Christ-Impulse was then on earth!’ Incarnations will be followed further back to a time when the Christ-Event was not yet there. 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Just as it was necessary that the first Christ-Event should take place on the physical plane in order that the salvation of man could be accomplished, so must the preparation be made here in the physical world, the preparation to look with full understanding, with full illumination, upon the Christ-Event of the twentieth century. For a person who looks upon it unprepared, when his powers have been awakened, will not be able to understand it. The Lord of Karma will then appear to him as a fearful judgment. In order to have an illuminated understanding of this Event, the individual must be prepared. The spreading abroad of the anthroposophical world-conception has taken place in our time for this purpose, so that men can be prepared on the physical plane to perceive the Christ-Event either on the physical plane or on the higher planes. Those who are not sufficiently prepared on the physical plane, and then go unprepared through the life between death and a new birth, will have to wait until, in the next incarnation, they can be further prepared through Anthroposophy for the understanding of Christ. 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Durch das, was als rosenkreuzerische Einweihung charakterisiert worden ist, und durch das, was überhaupt heute ein Mensch als Einweihung haben kann, wird nun auch in einer gewissen Weise, nur mit etwas anderen Mitteln, dasselbe erlangt: daß ein Anziehungsband geschaffen wird zwischen dem Menschen, insofern er in einem physischen Leibe verkörpert ist, und dem, was als das eigentliche Urbild des physischen Leibes auferstanden ist aus dem Grabe von Golgatha. Nun aber wissen wir aus dem Beginne dieses Vortragszyklus, daß wir an dem Ausgangspunkte einer Weltepoche stehen, in welcher ein Ereignis erwartet werden muß, das sich nun nicht abspielt wie das Ereignis von Golgatha auf dem physischen Plan, sondern das sich in der höheren Welt, in der übersinnlichen Welt abspielen wird, das aber in einem genauen und richtigen Zusammenhange steht mit dem Ereignis von Golgatha. Während das letztere dazu bestimmt war, den eigentlichen physischen Kräfteleib des Menschen, das Phantom, das seit Beginn der Erdentwickelung degeneriert ist, dem Menschen wiederzugeben, wozu eben im Beginne unserer Zeitrechnung eine Reihe von Ereignissen notwendig waren, die sich wirklich auf dem physischen Plane abgespielt haben, so ist zu dem, was jetzt geschehen muß, nicht ein Ereignis auf dem physischen Plan notwendig. Eine Inkarnation der Christus-Wesenheit in einem fleischlichen menschlichen Leib konnte nur einmal im Laufe der Erdentwickelung geschehen. Und es heißt einfach, das Christus-Wesen nicht verstehen, wenn man eine Wiederhoiung der Inkarnation dieser Wesenheit behaupten kann. Das aber, was eintritt und einer übersinnlichen Welt angehört, nur in einer übersinnlichen Welt beobachtet werden kann, das wurde mit den Worten charakterisiert: Der Christus wird der Herr des Karma für die Menschen. Das heißt: die Ordnung der karmischen Angelegenheiten wird in der Zukunft geschehen durch den Christus; immer mehr und mehr werden die Menschen der Zukunft empfinden: Ich gehe durch die Pforte des Todes mit meinem karmischen Konto. Auf der einen Seite stehen meine guten, gescheiten und schönen \"Taten, meine gescheiten, schönen, guten und verständigen Gedanken — auf der anderen Seite steht alles Böse, Schlechte, Dumme, Törichte und Häßliche. Der aber, der in der Zukunft für die Inkarnationen, die nun folgen werden in der menschheitlichen Entwickelung, das Richteramt haben wird, um Ordnung in dieses karmische Konto der Menschen hineinzubringen, das ist der Christus! — Und zwar haben wir uns das in folgender Weise vorzustellen:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":385,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p010"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nachdem wir durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind, werden wir in einer späteren Zeit wieder inkarniert. Es müssen nun für uns Freignisse eintreten, durch die unser Karma ausgeglichen werden kann; denn jeder Mensch muß ernten, was er gesät hat. Karma bleibt ein gerechtes Gesetz. Aber was das karmische Gesetz erfüllen soll, ist nicht nur für den einzelnen Menschen da. Karma gleicht nicht nur die Egoismen aus, sondern es soll der Ausgleich bei jedem Menschen so geschehen, daß sich die karmische Ausgleichung in der bestmöglichen Weise in die allgemeinen Weltangelegenheiten hineinfügt. Wir müssen unser Karma so ausgleichen, daß wir in der bestmöglichen Weise den Fortschritt des ganzen Menschengeschlechtes auf der Erde fördern können. Dazu brauchen wir eine Erleuchtung; dazu bedarf es nicht nur des allgemeinen Wissens, daß für unsere Taten die karmische Erfüllung eintreten muß, weil für eine Tat diese oder jene karmische Erfüllung eintreten könnte, die ein Ausgleich sein kann, Weil aber die eine nützlicher, die andere weniger nützlich sein könnte für den allgemeinen Fortschritt der Menschheit, so sollen diejenigen Gedanken, Gefühle oder Empfindungen gewählt werden, die unser Karma abtragen und zugleich dem Gesamtfortschritte der Menschheit nützlich werden. Einzureihen unseren karmischen Ausgleich dem allgemeinen Erdenkarma, dem allgemeinen Fortschritt der Menschheit, das fällt in Zukunft dem Christus zu. Und es geschieht im wesentlichen in der Zeit, in welcher wir zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt leben; aber es wird sich auch in der Zeitepoche, der wir entgegengehen, vor deren Toren wir stehen, so vorbereiten, daß in der Tat die Menschen immer mehr die Fähigkeit erlangen werden, ein bestimmtes Erlebnis zu haben. Heute haben es höchst wenige Menschen. Aber immer mehr und mehr Menschen werden von der jetzigen Zeit, von der Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts an durch die nächsten Jahrtausende folgendes Erlebnis haben:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p011"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Der Mensch wird dieses oder jenes getan haben. Er wird sich besinnen, wird aufschauen müssen von dem, was er da getan hat — und es wird etwas wie eine Art Traumbild vor dem Menschen erstehen. Das wird einen ganz merkwürdigen Eindruck auf den Menschen machen. Er wird sich sagen: Ich kann mich nicht besinnen, daß es eine Erinnerung wäre an etwas, was ich getan habe; dennoch aber ist es so, wie wenn es mein Erlebnis wäre. — Wie ein Traumbild wird es dastehen vor dem Menschen, ihn recht angehend, aber er kann sich nicht erinnern, daß er es in der Vergangenheit erlebt oder getan hat. Dann wird nun der Mensch entweder Anthroposoph sein und die Sache verstehen, oder er wird warten müssen, bis er an die Anthroposophie herankommt und es verstehen lernt. Der Anthroposoph aber wird wissen: Was du da siehst wie eine Folge deiner Taten, das ist ein Bild, das sich in der Zukunft mit dir vollziehen wird; vorauserscheint dir der Ausgleich deiner Taten! — Die Epoche fängt an, in welcher die Menschen in dem Augenblick, wo sie eine Tat getan haben, eine Ahnung, vielleicht sogar ein deutliches Bild, eine Empfindung haben werden, wie der karmische Ausgleich dieser \"Iat sein wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p012"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"So in engster Verbindung mit den menschlichen Erlebnissen werden erhöhte Fähigkeiten in der folgenden Epoche der Menschheit auftreten. Das werden gewaltige Antriebe zur Moralität des Menschen sein, und diese Antriebe werden noch etwas ganz anderes bedeuten als das, was die Vorbereitung zu diesen Antrieben gewesen ist: die Stimme des Gewissens. Der Mensch wird nicht mehr glauben: Was du getan hast, das ist etwas, was mit dir sterben kann — sondern er wird ganz genau wissen: Die Tat wird nicht mit dir sterben; sie wird als Tat eine Folge haben, die mit dir weiterleben wird. — Und manches andere wird der Mensch wissen. Die Zeit, in welcher für die Menschen die Tore zu der geistigen Welt abgeschlossen waren, nähert sich ihrem Ablauf. Die Menschen müssen wieder hinaufsteigen zur geistigen Welt. Die Fähigkeiten werden so erwachen, daß die Menschen Teilnehmer der geistigen Welt sein werden. Hellsehen wird noch immer etwas anderes sein als diese Teilnehmerschaft. Aber wie es ein altes Hellsehen gegeben hat, das traumhaft war, so wird es ein zukünftiges Hellsehen geben, das nicht traumhaft ist, und wo die Menschen wissen werden, was sie getan haben, und was es bedeutet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p013"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Aber noch etwas anderes wird eintreten. Die Menschen werden wissen: Ich bin nicht allein; überall leben geistige Wesenheiten, die in Beziehung stehen mit mir. — Und der Mensch wird lernen, einen Verkehr zu haben mit diesen Wesenheiten, mit ihnen zu leben. Und in den nächsten drei Jahrtausenden wird einer genügend großen Anzahl von Menschen das als eine Wahrheit erscheinen, was wir nennen können: das karmische Richteramt des Christus. Den Christus selbst werden die Menschen als eine ätherische Gestalt erleben. Und sie werden ihn so erleben, daß sie dann, wie Paulus vor Damaskus, ganz genau wissen, daß der Christus lebt und der Quell ist für die Wiedererweckung desjenigen physischen Urbildes, das wir mitbekommen haben im Beginne unserer Erdentwickelung, und das wir brauchen, wenn das Ich seine völlige Entfaltung erlangen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p014"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wenn auf der einen Seite mit dem Mysterium von Golgatha etwas eingetreten ist, was der menschlichen Erdentwickelung den größten Anstoß gegeben hat, so fällt auf der anderen Seite dieses Mysterium von Golgatha doch wieder in jene Zeit der Menschheitsentwickelung hinein, in welcher sozusagen das menschliche Gemüt, die menschliche Seele am meisten verfinstert war. Es hat allerdings alte Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung gegeben, in welchen die Menschen ganz gewiß wissen konnten, weil sie eine Rückerinnerung hatten, daß die menschliche Individualität durch wiederholte Erdenleben geht. Im Evangelium erscheint uns nur, wenn wir es verstehen, wenn wir sie spüren, die Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben, weil die Menschen damals in der Zeit waren, wo sie am wenigsten imstande waren, diese Lehre zu verstehen. Dann folgten die Zeiten herauf bis in die Gegenwart. In den Zeiten, als die Menschen zunächst den Christus auf dem Wege suchten, wie es gestern angedeutet worden ist, mußte alles wie eine kindliche Vorbereitung geschehen. Daher konnte die Menschheit nicht bekannt gemacht werden mit dem, was sie nur hätte beirren können, wozu sie noch nicht reif war: mit den Erfahrungen über die wiederholten Erdenleben. So sehen wir das Christentum fast zwei Jahrtausende sich entwickeln, ohne daß hingewiesen werden konnte auf die Lehre von der Wiederverkörperung. Und wir haben in diesen Vorträgen dargestellt, wie anders als es im Buddhismus der Fall war, wie selbstverständlich aus dem abendländischen Bewußtsein heraus der Gedanke der wiederholten Erdenleben auftaucht. Zwar so, daß noch viele Mißverständnisse walten. Aber selbst wenn wir diese Idee bei Lessing oder bei dem Psychologen Droßbach nehmen, so werden wir doch gewahr, daß für das europäische Bewußtsein die Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben eine Angelegenheit der ganzen Menschheit ist, während im Buddhismus der Mensch sie nur als die innere Angelegenheit seines Lebens betrachtet, wie er von Leben zu Leben geht und sich befreien kann von dem Durst nach Dasein. Während der Orientale das, was ihm als Lehre von den wiederholten Erdenleben gegeben wird, zu einer Wahrheit der individuellen Erlösung macht, war für Lessing zum Beispiel das Wesentliche: Wie kann die ganze Menschheit vorwärts kommen? Und er sagte sich: Innerhalb der zeitlichen Vorwärtsentwickelung der Menschheit müssen wir aufeinanderfolgende Zeiträume unterscheiden. In jeder einzelnen Epoche wird der Menschheit Neues gegeben. Wenn wir die Geschichte verfolgen, sehen wir, wie immer neue Kulturtaten eintreten in den Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung. Wie könnte man von einer Entwickelung der ganzen Menschheit sprechen, sagt Lessing, wenn eine Seele nur in der einen oder nur in der anderen dieser Epochen leben könnte? Woher könnten aber die Früchte der Kultur kommen, wenn nicht die Menschen wiedergeboren würden und das, was sie in der einen Epoche gelernt haben, hinübertragen würden in die nächste, dann wiederum in die folgende und so fort?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":447,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p015"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So wird für Lessing die Idee der wiederholten Erdenleben eine Angelegenheit der ganzen Menschheit. Er macht sie nicht nur zu einer Angelegenheit der einzelnen Seele, sondern zu einer Angelegenheit des ganzen Kulturlaufes der Erde. Und damit die vorgeschrittene Kultur entsteht, muß die Seele, die im neunzehnten Jahrhundert lebt, herübertragen in ihr jetziges Dasein das, was sie sich früher erworben hat. Um der Erde und ihrer Kultur willen müssen die Menschen wiedergeboren werden! Das ist Lessings Gedanke.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p016"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Da taucht der Gedanke der Wiederverkörperung auf als etwas, was eine Menschheitsangelegenheit ist. Da hat aber auch schon der Christus-Impuls gewirkt. Da ist er hineingeworfen worden. Denn eine Menschheitsangelegenheit machte der Christus-Impuls aus allem, was der Mensch tut oder tun kann; nicht eine Angelegenheit, die uns nur individuell berührt. Nur der kann ja sein Jünger sein, der da sagt: Ich tue es dem geringsten der Brüder, weil ich weiß, Du empfindest es selber so, wie wenn ich es Dir getan hätte! — Wie mit dem Christus die ganze Menschheit verbunden ist, so fühlt sich der, welcher sich zu dem Christus bekennt, der ganzen Menschheit angehörig. Dieser Gedanke hat hineingewirkt in das Denken und Fühlen und Empfinden der ganzen Menschheit. Und als die Idee der Wiederverkörperung im achtzehnten Jahrhundert wieder auftritt, da tritt sie als ein christlicher Gedanke auf. Und wenn wir sehen, wie zum Beispiel Widenmann die Wiederverkörperung behandelt, obwohl er sie embryonal, stümperhaft behandelt, so müssen wir doch sagen, daß in seiner gekrönten Preisschrift aus dem Jahre 1851 sein Gedanke der Wiederverkörperung durchdrungen ist von dem christlichen Impuls; und ein besonderes Kapitel gibt es in dieser Schrift, wo die Auseinandersetzung stattfindet zwischen dem Christentum und der Wiederverkörperungslehre. Das aber war notwendig in der Menschheitsentwickelung, daß erst die anderen christlichen Impulse von den Seelen aufgenommen wurden, damit der Wiederverkörperungsgedanke in einer reifen Form in unser Bewußtsein eintreten kann. Und dieser Wiederverkörperungsgedanke wird tatsächlich so mit dem Christentum sich verbinden, daß man es empfinden wird wie etwas, was sich durch die einzelnen Inkarnationen hindurchzieht; daß man verstehen wird, wie die Individualität, die sich für eine buddhistische Anschauung vollständig verliert — wie wir gesehen haben aus dem Gespräche des Königs Milinda mit dem Weisen Nagasena —, erst dadurch ihren rechten Inhalt erhält, daß sie sich durchchristet. Und jetzt können wir verstehen: warum verliert die buddhistische Anschauung ein halbes Jahrtausend vor dem Erscheinen des Christus das menschliche Ich, während sie beibehält die aufeinanderfolgenden Inkarnationen? Weil der Christus-Impuls noch nicht geschehen ist, der erst hineinfüllt, was immer mehr und mehr bewußt von einer Inkarnation zur anderen gehen kann! Jetzt ist aber die Zeit gekommen, in welcher für die menschliche Organisation die Notwendigkeit eintritt, den Wiederverkörperungsgedanken aufzunehmen, zu verstehen, sich mit ihm zu durchdringen. Denn der Fortschritt der menschheitlichen Entwickelung hängt nicht davon ab, welche Lehren verbreitet werden, welche Lehren neu Platz greifen; sondern da kommen noch andere Gesetze in Betracht, die gar nicht von uns abhängen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":402,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p017"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Gewisse Kräfte werden in der Menschennatur entwickelt werden gegen die Zukunft hin, die so wirken, daß der Mensch, sobald er nur ein gewisses Lebensalter erreicht hat und seiner selbst recht bewußt wird, in sich die Empfindung haben wird: Da ist etwas in mir, was ich verstehen muß. — Das wird die Menschen immer mehr und mehr ergreifen. In den verflossenen Zeiten, auch wenn sich die Menschen noch so sehr bewußt wurden, war dieses Bewußtsein, das jetzt kommen wird, nicht vorhanden. Es wird etwa so sich äußern: Da fühle ich etwas in mir, das hängt zusammen mit meinem eigentlichen Ich. Merkwürdig, es will aber nicht hereinpassen in alles, was ich wissen kann seit meiner jetzigen Geburt! — Dann wird man das, was da wirkt, verstehen können oder wird es nicht verstehen. Verstehen wird man es können, wenn man die Lehren der anthroposophisch orientierten Geisteswissenschaft zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat. Man wird dann wissen: Was ich fühle, das fühle ich jetzt deshalb fremd, weil es das Ich ist, das aus früheren Leben herübergekommen ist, — Beklemmend, Furcht und Angst erzeugend wird diese Empfindung sein für diejenigen Menschen, welche sie sich nicht aus den wiederholten Erdenleben heraus erklären können. Dagegen lösen werden sich diese Gefühle, die jetzt nicht theoretische Zweifel, sondern Lebensbeklemmungen, Lebenszusammenschnürungen sein werden, durch jene Empfindungen, die uns aus der Geisterkenntnis gegeben werden können und die uns besagen, Du mußt dein Leben ausgedehnt denken über frühere Erdenleben hin. — Da werden die Menschen schon sehen, was es für sie bedeuten wird, den Zusammenhang zu empfinden mit dem Christus-Impuls. Denn der Christus-Impuls wird es sein, der beleben wird den ganzen Blick nach rückwärts, die ganze Perspektive nach rückwärts. Man wird empfinden: da war diese Inkarnation, da jene. Dann wird eine Zeit kommen, über die wird man nicht hinüberkönnen, ohne daß man sich klar wird: Da war der Christus-Impuls auf der Erde! Und weiter werden die Inkarnationen folgen, wo das Christus-Ereignis noch nicht da war. Diese Aufhellung des Blickes nach rückwärts durch den Christus-Impuls werden die Menschen brauchen zur Zuversicht in die Zukunft, als eine Notwendigkeit und eine Hilfe, die sich hineingießen kann in die folgenden Inkarnationen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p018"},{"locus":"GA 131/1911-10-14/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Diese Umänderung der menschlichen Seelenorganisation wird kommen. Und sie wird ausgehen von dem Ereignis, das im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert beginnt, und das wir nennen können eine Art von zweitem Christus-Ereignis, so daß diejenigen Menschen, denen die höheren Fähigkeiten erwachten, den Herrn des Karma schauen werden. Die Menschen aber, die dies erleben werden, werden es nicht bloß in der physischen Welt erleben. Es könnte mancher von Ihnen sagen, daß dann, wenn gerade die Hauptsache im Christus-Ereignis des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sich abspielen wird, viele von den jetzt Lebenden zu den Entschlafenen gehören werden und in der Zeit zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt sein werden. Aber ob eine Seele in einem physischen Körper oder in der Zeit zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt leben wird: wenn sie sich vorbereitet haben wird auf das Christus-Ereignis, wird sie das Christus-Ereignis erleben. Nicht das Schauen des Christus-Ereignisses hängt davon ab, ob wir in einem physischen Leibe verkörpert sind, wohl aber die Vorbereitung dazu. Gerade so wie es notwendig war, daß das erste Christus-Ereignis auf dem physischen Plan sich abgespielt hat, damit es dem Menschen zum Heile gereichen konnte, so muß die Vorbereitung, um das Christus-Ereignis des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zu schauen, um es verständnisvoll, lichtvoll zu schauen, hier in der physischen Welt gemacht werden. Denn der Mensch, der es unvorbereitet schaut, wenn seine Kräfte erwacht sind, wird es nicht verstehen können. Da wird ihm der Herr des Karma erscheinen wie eine furchtbare Strafe. Um dieses Ereignis lichtvoll zu verstehen, muß der Mensch vorbereiter sein. Dazu aber geschieht die Ausbreitung der anthroposophischen Weltanschauung in unserer Zeit, daß der Mensch vorbereitet sein kann auf dem physischen Plan, um entweder auf dem physischen Plan oder auf höheren Planen das Christus-Ereignis wahrnehmen zu können. Die Menschen, die nicht genug vorbereitet sind auf dem physischen Plan und dann unvorbereitet das Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt durchleben, müssen warten, bis sie in einer nächsten Inkarnation weiter zum Verständnis des Christus durch die anthroposophische Weltanschauung vorbereitet werden können. Aber die nächsten drei Jahrtausende werden den Menschen die Gelegenheit geben, diese Vorbereitung durchzumachen. Und alle anthroposophische Entwickelung wird darauf abzielen, die Menschen immer fähiger und fähiger zu machen, um sich hineinzuleben in das, was da kommen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":363,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/131/1911-10-14/p019"}],"beads":[{"from":[12,13],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[18,19],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[20,21],"to":[16,17],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[19],"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)."}}