{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 139/1912-09-21/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is a profound mystery that is given to us by occult science in the picture of the Mystery of Golgotha. Anyone who understands the true nature of the human being and of humanity, and the nature of the earthly ego and its relation to the form of the human body, knows that when the human body is entirely penetrated by the earthly ego such a penetration would be abnormal for the ordinary man as he walks about on earth. But when a man goes out of himself and sees himself from outside and is able to ask the question, “How would this body be if the totality of egohood were to enter into it?” then his answer must be that it would be pierced by five wounds. The form of the cross on Golgotha with Christ upon it with His wounds is derived from the nature of man and from the very being of the earth itself. From our study of the nature of man it is possible for the picture of the Mystery of Golgotha to arise for us out of our own knowledge. Strange as it may seem, it is actually possible to see how the cross is raised on Golgotha, how the crucifixion takes place, and to perceive directly the truth of this historical event, and all this without the use of clairvoyance when such a vision would be natural. Because of the Mystery of Golgotha it is possible for the human intellect to approach so closely to this mystery that if it is used with sufficient sharpness and subtlety it can be transformed into an imagination, into a picture that then contains the truth. If we understand the nature of Christ and His relation to the human bodily form, our imagination can be guided in this way in such a manner that the picture of Golgotha itself arises for us. The older Christian painters were often guided in this way. Even though they were not perhaps in all cases clairvoyant, their knowledge of the Mystery of Golgotha was so powerful that it impelled them so far that they were able to picture it in such a way that they could paint it. It was just at this great turning point of human evolution that the understanding of the being of Christ, in other words, the primal ego of man, emerged out of clairvoyance and rose up into the ego-soul of man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Christ's Inner Monologue and the Mystery of Golgotha","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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Aus der Menschennatur und aus der Erdenwesenheit selber folgt die Gestalt des Kreuzes mit dem Christus und den Wunden auf Golgatha. Bis in das Bild hinein kann sich aus der Betrachtung der Menschennatur das Mysterium von Golgatha aus dem ergeben, was man wissen kann. Das ist das Eigentümliche, daß es eine Möglichkeit gibt, nicht nur im Hellsehen, wo es sich als natürlich erweist, hinzuschauen, wie das Kreuz auf Golgatha erhöht ist, wie die Kreuzigung stattfindet, und die Wahrheit dieses historischen Ereignisses zu schauen, sondern daß es eine Möglichkeit gibt, daß wir durch das Mysterium von Golgatha sogar die menschliche Vernunft so weit heranbringen an das Mysterium von Golgatha, daß, wenn man fein genug, scharf genug diese menschliche Vernunft gebraucht, diese sich umwandelt in Imagination, in Einbildung, die aber dann Wahrheit enthält, wodurch dann, wenn man versteht, was der Christus ist und wie er sich zur Form des Menschenleibes verhält, die menschliche Phantasie so geleitet wird, daß das Bild auf Golgatha selber entsteht. So waren vielfach die älteren christlichen Maler geleitet, die nicht etwa immer Hellseher waren, sondern aus der Kraft der Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgatha bis zu dem Bilde von Golgatha getrieben wurden, so daß sie es malen konnten. Es ist eben in jenem großen Wendepunkt der Menschheitsevolution aus dem Hellsehen herangebracht worden an die Ich-Seele des Menschen das Verständnis für die Christus-Wesenheit, das heißt für das Ur-Ich des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/139/1912-09-21/p019"}],"english":["GA 139/1912-09-21/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":406,"ratio":1.22,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.13,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7419,"original_word_count":6585,"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/AP1986/19120921p01.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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