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When men are able to fashion eyes that radiate only compassion, a mouth not adapted for eating but only for uttering those words of truth which are the words of conscience, when a brow can be shaped whose beauty lies in the moulding of the arch spanning the position of what we call the lotus-flower between the eyes ... when it becomes possible to accomplish all this, it will be understood why the Prophet says: ‘He hath no form nor comeliness.’ (Isaiah, 53, 2.) 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Weil einmal ein großes Problem gelöst werden wird für die Menschen, nämlich die Christus-Gestalt auf den verschiedensten Gebieten des Lebens darzustellen, wie sie wirklich ist. Dann erst wird man sie schauen, wie sie ist, wenn man mancherlei von dem berücksichtigt, was Geistesforschung zu sagen hat; da darf man nicht zurückschauen auf dasjenige, was in Palästina war — da hat ja der Christus die Hüllen des Jesus benützt. Wenn man nach langem Vertiefen in die geisteswissenschaftliche Christus-Idee einmal versuchen wird, den Christus darzustellen, da wird man eine Gestalt bekommen, an der man erkennt, daß in seinem Antlitz etwas enthalten ist, woran sich alle Kunst abmühen kann, aber auch abmühen muß und wird: in seinem Antlitz wird dann etwas enthalten sein von dem Sieg der Kräfte, die nur im Antlitz sind, über alle anderen Kräfte der menschlichen Gestalt. 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