{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And today? Today, whether Protestants or Catholics or anything else, people are inwardly moved by Raphael's pictures. It can be seen how in the Sistine Madonna a great cosmic mystery reveals itself to human hearts and will carry its impulse through them into the future, when mankind will have been led to an interconfessional, broad and all-embracing Christianity, as we already have it in Spiritual Science. And that impulse will continue to work as a result of the fact that a wonderful mystery has inspired human souls through the Sistine Madonna. I have often said that when someone looks into a child's eyes, he can know that what is gazing out of those eyes is something that has not come into existence through birth, something that reveals the depths of the human soul. One who studies the children in Raphael's Madonna pictures can see that divinity itself, an occult and superhuman reality, looks out of those eyes—something that is still present in the child in the earliest period after birth. This can be perceived in all Raphael's paintings of children, with one exception. The portrayal of one child is different—it is that of the Jesus Child in the Sistine Madonna painting. Whoever looks into the eyes of that Child knows that they already reveal more than can be embodied in a human being. Raphael has made this distinction to show that in this one Child, the Child of the Sistine Madonna, there lives something that is already experiencing, in advance, a reality of pure spirit, a Christ-like reality.","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":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Öfters ist von mir schon hingewiesen worden darauf, daß, wenn der Mensch Kindern ins Auge schaut, er wissen kann, daß aus dem kindlichen Auge etwas herausschaut, was nicht durch die Geburt ins Dasein getreten ist, was menschliche Seelentiefen herausschauen läßt. Wer die Kinder auf den Madonnenbildern von Raffael anschaut, der sieht, daß aus seinen Kinderaugen herausschaut das Göttliche, das Verborgene, das Übermenschliche, das mit dem Kinde in den ersten Zeiten nach der Geburt noch verbunden ist. Das kann man auf allen Kinderbildern Raffaels beobachten, mit Ausnahme eines einzigen. Ein Kindesbild wird man nicht so deuten können, und das ist das Jesuskind der Sixtinischen Madonna. Wer diesem Kinde ins Auge schaut, der weiß, daß mehr, als was in einem Menschen sein kann, schon aus dem Auge dieses Kindes herausschaut. Diesen Unterschied hat Raffael gemacht, daß in diesem einzigen Kinde der Sixtinischen Madonna etwas lebt, was ein rein Geistiges, ein Christushaftes schon im voraus erlebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-08/p020"}],"english":["GA 143/1912-05-08/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.08,"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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