{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Passing on now to the Middle Ages we find that extraordinary figure who was born—as if to give an outward indication of his special connection with the spiritual world—on Good Friday in the year 1483 and died in early manhood at the age of thirty-seven, a phenomenal influence through his gifts to humanity. I am speaking of Raphael. He was born on a Good Friday as if to show that he is connected with the event commemorated on Good Friday. What, in the light of Spiritual Science, can the West experience through the figure of Raphael? If we study this figure in the light of Spiritual Science, we shall discover that Raphael accomplished more for the spreading of Christianity, for the penetration of an interconfessional Christianity into the hearts of men than all the theological interpreters, than all the cardinals and popes of his time. Before the eyes of Raphael's soul there may have risen a picture of the scene described in the Acts of the Apostles.[^3] One stands up before the Athenians and says: Ye men of Athens worship the gods ignorantly, with external signs. But there is that God whom one can learn to know, the God who lives and weaves in everything that has life. That God is the Christ who suffered death and has arisen, thereby giving man the impulse leading to resurrection. Some did not listen, others thought it strange. In Raphael's soul this event came to expression in the painting now hanging in the Vatican, incorrectly named ‘The School of Athens.’ In reality it depicts the figure of Paul teaching the Athenians the fundamental principles of Christianity. In this picture Raphael has given something that seems like a heralding of the Christianity that transcends denominations. The profound meaning of this picture has not yet dawned upon men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-08","location":null,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Wenden wir den Blick nun weiter, so finden wir jene eigentümliche Gestalt des Mittelalters, die da geboren ist - wie um äußerlich anzudeuten, daß sie zu der geistigen Welt in besonderer Weise steht - an einem Karfreitage im Jahre 1483, und die jugendlich wieder dahingegangen ist im siebenunddreißigsten Lebensjahre, die so mächtig gewirkt hat durch das, was sie der Menschheit gegeben hat: die Gestalt des Raffael. Er wurde geboren an einem Karfreitage, wie um anzudeuten, daß er verbunden ist mit dem, was am Karfreitage gefeiert wird. Was wird der abendländische Sinn im Sinne der Geisteswissenschaft an der Gestalt des Raffael erfahren können? Wenn wir diese Gestalt mit den Mitteln der Geisteswissenschaft ins Auge fassen, können wir erfahren, daß sie mehr leistete für die Verbreitung des Christentums, für das Hineinleben eines interkonfessionellen Christentums in die Herzen und Gemüter der Menschen, als alle theologischen Interpreten, als alle Kardinäle und Päpste seiner Zeit. Vor Raffaels Blick mag gestanden haben, was in der Apostelgeschichte steht: Wie einer unter die Athener tritt und sagt - sogar die Gebärde ist dort dargestellt -—: Ihr Leute von Athen, ihr habt den Göttern Opfer gebracht in äußeren Zeichen. Es gibt aber eine Erkenntnis jenes Gottes, der in allen Leben lebt und webt. Das ist der Christus, der durch den Tod gegangen und auferstanden ist, und der dadurch den Menschen den Impuls gegeben hat zur Auferstehung. — Die einen hörten nicht zu und die anderen fanden es sonderbar. In Raffaels Gemüt wurde das zu jenem Bilde, das wir heute im Vatikan finden, das den unrichtigen Namen trägt «Die Schule von Athen». In Wirklichkeit zeigt es die Gestalt des Paulus, die Athener belehrend über das Grundwesen des Christentums. Da hat Raffael etwas gegeben, was wie eine Heroldschaft des über den Konfessionen stehenden Christentums erscheint. Wenig ist das verstanden worden bisher, der tiefe Sinn dieses Bildes ist den Menschen noch nicht aufgegangen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-08/p018"}],"english":["GA 143/1912-05-08/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":311,"en_words":303,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7582,"original_word_count":7177,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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