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That is a well known fact and has often been described even by the materialistic thinkers of the present time. Something similar took place during the baptism by John in the Jordan. The people were plunged into the water. This baptism was not like the usual baptism of today. The baptism of John caused the etheric bodies of the candidates to be loosened and they saw more than they could comprehend with their ordinary powers of understanding. They saw their life in the spirit and the influence of the spirit on this life. They saw also what the Baptist taught, that the old age was fulfilled and that a new age must begin. In the clairvoyant observation that was possible for them for a few seconds during the baptismal immersion they saw that mankind had come to a turning point in evolution, and that what humanity had possessed in former times when it was in a group-soul condition was now in the process of completely dying out; quite new conditions had to come in, and they saw this while in their liberated etheric body. A new impulse, new capacities, must come to humanity. The baptism of John was therefore a question of knowledge. “Transform your minds, but don't merely turn your gaze backwards as would still be possible. Turn your gaze now to something else, to the God who manifests in the human `I.' The kingdoms of the divine have approached you.” The Baptist did not only preach that; he made it manifest to them by bestowing the baptism on them in the Jordan. Those who had been baptized knew then as a result of their own clairvoyant observation, even though it lasted but a short time, that the words of the Baptist expressed a world-historical fact.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Elijah's Spirit in John the Baptist and Christ","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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Da trat bei ihnen immer das ein, wovon öfter gesprochen worden ist, daß es eintritt, wenn der Mensch durch irgend etwas jenen Schock bekommt, den er durch irgendeine plötzliche Todesdrohung bekommen kann, zum Beispiel, wenn er ins Wasser fällt und dem Ertrinken nahe ist, oder bei einem Absturz im Gebirge. Da tritt eine Lockerung des Ätherleibes ein. Der Ätherleib geht teilweise aus dem physischen Leibe heraus, und die Folge ist, daß dann etwas eintritt, was beim Menschen immer unmittelbar nach dem Tode eintritt: eine Art Rückschau auf das letzte Leben. Das ist eine ganz bekannte Tatsache, die oft beschrieben wird, auch von materialistischen Denkern der Gegenwart. Etwas Ähnliches trat aber auch ein bei der ’Taufe des Johannes im Jordan. Die Leute wurden unter das Wasser getaucht. Das war nicht eine Taufe, wie sie heute gebräuchlich ist, sondern durch die Johannes-Taufe wurde bewirkt, daß der Ätherleib der Menschen sich lockerte und daß die Leute mehr sahen, als sie mit dem gewöhnlichen Verstande begreifen konnten. Sie sahen ihr Leben im Geiste und auch die Einflüsse auf dieses Leben im Geistigen. Und auch das sahen sie, wovon der Täufer lehrte: daß die alte Zeit erfüllt ist und daß eine neue Zeit beginnen müsse. In der hellseherischen Beobachtung, die sie für wenige Augenblicke machen konnten während des Untertauchens bei der Taufe, sahen sie: die Menschheit ist an einem Wendepunkt in der Evolution angekommen; was die Menschen in den alten Zeiten, da sie in der Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit waren, gehabt haben, ist im völligen Aussterben; ganz andere Verhältnisse müssen eintreten. Das sahen sie in ihrem freigewordenen Ätherleibe: Ein neuer Impuls, neue Eigenschaften müssen über die Menschheit kommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":372,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/139/1912-09-17/p007"},{"locus":"GA 139/1912-09-17/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Deshalb war die Johannes-Taufe eine Erkenntnissache. «Ändert den Sinn, wendet den Blick nicht bloß nach rückwärts, wohin es noch möglich wäre, die Blicke zurückzuwenden, sondern blicket hin auf etwas anderes: der Gott, der sich im menschlichen Ich offenbaren kann, ist nahe herbeigekommen; die Reiche des Göttlichen sind nahe herbeigekommen.» Das predigte der Täufer nicht nur, das ließ er sie erkennen, indem er ihnen die Taufe im Jordan zuteil werden ließ. Und die, welche getauft wurden, wußten fortan aus ihrer eigenen hellsichtigen Beobachtung, wenn diese auch nur kurze Zeit dauerte, daß die Worte des Täufers eine weltgeschichtliche Tatsache ausdrückten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/139/1912-09-17/p008"}],"english":["GA 139/1912-09-17/p007","GA 139/1912-09-17/p008"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":470,"en_words":468,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8799,"original_word_count":8199,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Conrad Mainzer","identified_edition":"AP1986","book_title":"The Gospel of St. Mark","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA139/English/AP1986/19120917p01.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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