{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 148/1913-12-10/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As Jesus walked a little further, he encountered a person who appeared to be in the deepest sorrow, oppression and distress. With bowed head and a physically oppressed body, the man approached Jesus. Then he heard the Being, which I characterized the day before yesterday as Jesus at that time, speak words to him that sounded as if they came from the deepest source of that Being. This oppressed man heard Jesus say: Why has your soul led you on this path? I knew you once, thousands and thousands of years ago, you were different then. — This man felt impelled to say certain things to this being, for as earthmen we cannot describe a being such as this, which consisted only of the physical body, the etheric body and the astral body, with the after-effect of the Zarathustra ego in these three bodies. We can only call it an entity. The despairing man felt impelled to say to this entity: 'In my life I have attained high positions and whenever I rose to a new position I felt very much at home in my element and often the feeling came over me: “What an extraordinary person you are, that your fellow human beings hold you in such high regard, that you have been able to achieve so much on earth. What a rare person you are! I was happy about everything. But then it happened quickly that I lost that happiness. One night it happened. And just when I had fallen asleep, a dream came over me that I brought into the dream the feeling that I was ashamed of myself for dreaming something like that. I dreamt that a being stood before me and asked me: Who has made you so great, brought you to such high honors? I was ashamed that such a question could be addressed to me in a dream, because it was so clear to me that I was a rare person and that I had naturally come to these honors through my great virtues. And when the being had spoken to me in this way, I was seized in my dream by an ever-increasing sense of shame before myself, in my dream – so said this despairing man. Then I fled, but no sooner had I escaped than the apparition stood before me again in a changed form and said: I have exalted you, brought you to honor. Then I recognized him as the tempter of whom the Scriptures tell that he was already the tempter in paradise. Then I woke up and since that moment I have had no peace. I left my dignity, my home, everything, and since then I have been wandering around the world without doing anything. And now, as a beggar, I come before you, a wandering man. And at that moment, when the man had spoken – so it says in the Akasha Chronicle – the apparition was before him again, introducing itself as Jesus of Nazareth, who at that moment again disappeared before his eyes. 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Ich kannte dich einst vor Jahrtausenden, vor vielen Jahrtausenden, da warst du anders. — Es fühlte sich dieser gepreßte Mensch gedrängt, gewisse Dinge auszusprechen vor dieser Erscheinung, denn als Erdenmenschen können wir eine solche Wesenheit, die nur aus dem physischen Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib bestand, mit der Nachwirkung des Zarathustra-Ichs in diesen drei Leibern, nicht bezeichnen. Wir können sie nur eine Wesenheit nennen. Der in Verzweiflung befindliche Mensch fühlte sich gedrängt zu dieser Wesenheit zu sagen: Ich bin in meinem Leben zu hohen Würden gekommen, und stets, wenn ich zu neuen Würden gestiegen, fühlte ich mich so recht in meinem Element, und oft überkam mich die Empfindung: Was bist du doch für ein seltener Mensch, daß deine Mitmenschen dich so erhöhen, daß du es auf der Erde so weit bringen konntest. Was bist du für ein seltener Mensch! Ich war über alles glücklich. Dann aber ist es schnell gegangen, daß ich dieses Glück verlor. In einer Nacht ist das gekommen. Und eben als ich einmal eingeschlafen war, kam ein Traum so über mich, daß ich in den Traum das Gefühl hineinbrachte, daß ich mich vor mir selbst schämte, so etwas zu träumen. Ich träumte, daß ein Wesen vor mir stand, das mich fragte: Wer hat dich so groß gemacht, dich zu so hohen Würden gebracht? — Darüber schämte ich mich, daß überhaupt im Traum eine solche Frage an mich gerichtet werden konnte, denn es war mir so klar, daß ich eben ein seltener Mensch war und daß ich selbstverständlich durch meine großen Tugenden zu diesen Würden gekommen war. Und als das Wesen so zu mir gesprochen hatte, war ich im Traum ganz ergriffen von einem immer größer werdenden Schamgefühl vor mir selbst, im Traum -, so sagte dieser sich in Verzweiflung befindliche Mensch. Da ergriff ich die Flucht, aber kaum war ich entflohen, so stand die Erscheinung in veränderter Gestalt wieder vor mir und sagte: Ich habe dich erhöht, dich zu Würden gebracht. - Da erkannte ich in ihm den Versucher, von dem die Schrift erzählt, daß er im Paradiese schon der Versucher war. Da wachte ich auf und seit dem Augenblick habe ich keine Ruhe mehr. Ich verließ meine Würden, den Wohnort, alles, und irre seitdem tatenlos in der Welt umher. Und jetzt führt mich, irrenden Menschen, der ich mich durch Betteln ernähre, mein Weg vor dich. - Und in dem Augenblicke, wo der Mann das gesprochen hatte — so ergibt es die Akasha-Chronik -, da war die Erscheinung wieder vor ihn, stellte sich vor Jesus von Nazareth, der in dem Augenblicke wieder vor seinen Augen verschwand. 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