{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p008-p015","extent":"range","passage_number":8,"through":15,"paragraph_count":8,"first_locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p008","last_locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture X","date":"1914-01-13","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LAL1969","book_title":"On the Fifth Gospel","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA148/English/LAL1969/19140113p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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This was John the Baptist. He felt it his mission to bring home to the Jews, where their true strength lay. And perceiving what the religion of the Jews had become, he spoke the significant words: “You call yourselves children of Abraham! If you were Abraham's children you would know that your God Jehovah who is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is a God of the Earth—as witnessed by the fact that he formed the first man out of the Earth. 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In the region where John the Baptist was preaching, certain ancient teachings were prevalent—somewhat to the following effect.—At the beginning of the evolution of humanity, man and the higher animals were endowed by Jahve with the power of breathing air, but in consequence of the deed of Lucifer, this power was contaminated. Only those animals which do not breathe air have remained uncontaminated, namely the fishes. Many people went to the waters of the Jordan (indeed it happens to this very day) at a certain season of the year and shook their clothes in order that their sins might be cast to the fishes and carried away. John the Baptist had witnessed such customs which had been adopted from the heathen peoples and this was in his mind when he cried: “You have understood more of the Serpent than of Jehovah; you call yourselves unlawfully the children of Jahve, the children of Abraham. 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Schooled as he was in the wisdom of the Jewish Prophets, he knew that up to a certain point of time the evolution of humanity involved adherence to the God of the Earth; but he also knew that a time must come when the “Above”, that which comes into the Earth from *super*-earthly worlds, would again assume significance. It is of the utmost importance to realise that before Christ entered into the Aura of the Earth through the Mystery of Golgotha, He dwelt in *supersensible regions of the Cosmos*. We can study the religions whose worship was directed to the Powers of super-earthly worlds and discover how the Christ worked in those spheres before He passed into the Aura of the Earth through the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Paul knew that this time would come; but before the Event at Damascus he had not perceived Christ's actual presence in the Aura of the Earth. He was, however, prepared for this, and in Corinthians II., Chapter 12, verses 1-5, he says: It is not expedient for me to boast: I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ above 14 years ago... and so on. Paul is, of course, referring to himself. What does he really say in this passage? Nothing else than that 14 years before (chronologically this would be about 6 years before the Mystery of Golgotha) he *was already able* to look clairvoyantly into the spiritual worlds. He says that there is in him a man who can look into the spiritual worlds; it is of *this* man he boasts, not of himself. Paul realises now that formerly he had seen Christ while He was still in the *spiritual world*. The Event at Damascus had revealed to him Christ had now passed into the Aura of the Earth and was living in the Aura of the Earth. That is the great truth concerning which so many who lived in the early centuries of Christianity uttered such strange words. 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The meaning is that the human soul must so prepare to receive the “I” that the revelation of the Spirit is no longer received through the starry script, no longer through the forces manifesting in lightening and thunder, but through the Spirit itself. In former times when men strove to look upwards to the Christ, they could only do so by gazing, as Zarathustra had gazed, at what may be called the physical sheath of Christ, the “Ahura Mazdao”, the physical Sun and its forces. Therein dwelt the Christ. But now the Christ had departed from the realm of the physical forces of the Sun, had passed into the spiritual Aura of the Earth. After those who worshipped Jehovah had prepared the way, Christ was able to permeate the Aura of the Earth. 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The Jews, and others too—for there were others as well as the Jews—were endowed with faculties which enabled them to worship the Spirit of the Earth in the right way. Whence were these faculties derived? Prior to the Mystery of Golgotha these faculties were bound up with physical heredity! What I am going to say will, of course, be considered utter foolishness by modern science, but it may be the kind of foolishness that can be wisdom before God.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/148/1914-01-13/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-01-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p032","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p032"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p033"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p034"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p035"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p036","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p036"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 148/1914-01-13/p032","GA 148/1914-01-13/p033"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":553,"en_words":433,"ratio":0.78,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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And the progress of human evolution is constituted by the fact that intellectual knowledge becomes independent of the factor of heredity. In certain Mysteries therefore, it was a true and right principle to allow an office to pass from father to son. But as evolution progresses, knowledge becomes an affair purely of the *soul*. The innermost core of the human soul becomes an affair of the soul itself, no longer depending upon the external factors of heredity. Now by what means did it become possible for man to keep intact the innermost core of his being? Let us realise what is meant by saying that man can no longer, in the real sense inherit his faculties from his forefathers.—Certainly many people think that they inherit their faculties and talents from their forefathers—but it is not so, in reality. Goethe was one among countless others whose genius was not transmitted to his descendants. But if man had not derived spiritual power from another source, what would have been the inevitable result? Their faculties of knowledge would have been orphaned! The position of the human being on the Earth would have been such that each according to his karma would have been obliged to wait for what the Earth bestows for the impressions bestowed by the Earth upon his senses. But this would have been of essential or lasting value to him and under such circumstances he would have been glad to slip away from the Earth. Buddha's teachings emphasise this very clearly for they draw man away from the realm of sense-perception and from all connection with the Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. 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Aber es hätte auch keinen besonderen Zweck, wenn man den Leuten in die Seele reden will, gleich damit anzufangen, sie mit einem Schimpfwort zu belegen. Und es gibt auch kein besonderes Bild von Johannes, wenn man sagt: Das war eben sein göttlicher Zorn! — Da möchte ich doch das triviale Wort gebrauchen: Schimpfen können andere auch! Auf das kommt es nicht an. Aber in diesem Worte, das viele eben nur als Schimpfwort empfinden, liegt eben die ganze Bedeutung dessen, worauf Johannes die um ihn Seienden aufmerksam machen wollte: Ihr wisset nicht mehr, worinnen die Mission des Jahve-Gottes besteht; denn so, wie ihr nicht appelliert an die Kräfte der Erde, sondern an die Kräfte außerhalb der Erde, seid ihr nicht Kinder Abrahams, denn ihr betet das an, was euch die Schlange gebracht hat. So seid ihr von dem Geschlechte derer, die um euch herum ihre Götter unter den verschiedensten Namen anbeten, die doch aber das meinen, was euch als die «Schlange» charakterisiert ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p017"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Und dann versetzen wir uns in das Innerste des Gemütes dieses Täufers Johannes. Er hatte wohl vielleicht seinen Grund, so den Leuten gegenüberzutreten. Ich sage das jetzt nicht aus dem Fünften Evangelium heraus — denn in bezug auf das Fünfte Evangelium ist es noch nicht bis zur Gestalt des Täufers Johannes gekommen -, aber ich sage es aus dem, was sich sonst ergeben konnte. Es hatte also der Täufer Johannes wohl seinen Grund, um zu denen, die zu ihm hinkamen an den Jordan, so zu reden, als ob er an ihnen merken würde, daß sie gewisse Gebräuche von den Heiden angenommen hätten. Ja, es lag sogar in dem Namen, den ihm die gaben, die da kamen, etwas von dem, was er zunächst nicht hat hören wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p018"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"In den Gegenden, in denen der Täufer Johannes seine Worte sprach, waren alte Lehren vorhanden, welche man etwa in der folgenden Weise charakterisieren kann: Ja, im Beginne der Menschheitsentwickelung haben einmal aus dem Jahve-Ursprung heraus der Mensch und die höheren Tiere den Luftatem bekommen; aber durch die Tat des Luzifer ist der Luftatem schlecht geworden. Nur diejenigen Tiere sind gut geblieben, sind sozusagen im Stadium der ursprünglichen Entwickelung geblieben, die nicht den Luftatem haben: die Fische. — Da mochten denn manche hingekommen sein nach dem Jordan — wie es in manchen Gegenden die Juden heute noch tun - und zu einer gewissen Zeit des Jahres sich an das Gewässer hingestellt und ihre Kleider geschüttelt haben, weil sie glaubten, dadurch ihre Sünden den unschuldigen Fischen hinzuwerfen, die sie dann weiter zu tragen hätten. Solche und andere Gebräuche, die mit dem umliegenden Heidentume zusammenhingen, sah der Täufer Johannes an denjenigen, von denen er eben sagte: Ihr habt von der Schlange mehr begriffen als von Jahve. Ihr nennt euch deshalb mit Unrecht Kinder desjenigen, der bestimmt war zu eurem Vorfahren, Kinder des Abraham. Ich sage euch: Es könnte der Gott Abrahams, Isaaks und Jakobs wiederum zu seiner ursprünglichen Mission zurückgreifen und aus diesen Steinen, das heißt aus der Erde, ein Menschengeschlecht hervorbringen, das ihn besser versteht!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p019"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Und nun bereitete sich das Mysterium von Golgatha vor. Indem es sich vorbereitete - ich will die Dinge jetzt mehr abstrakt darstellen, wir werden später einmal auf Konkreteres eingehen können -, stehen sich gewissermaßen gegenüber der Christus Jesus und der Täufer Johannes. Wenn wir uns vor die Seele stellen, was wir eben über den Täufer Johannes gesagt haben, so wird uns das zeigen, in welchem Sinne der Christus Jesus sozusagen dem Täufer Johannes gegenüberstand: demjenigen stand er in dem Täufer Johannes gegenüber, der gewissermaßen am besten verstand, was es heißt, den Geist der Erde zu verehren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p032"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Woher kamen denn die Fähigkeiten, namentlich innerhalb des Judentumes und auch innerhalb anderer Kreise - denn es gab auch andere Menschen, die mehr oder weniger, aber dann immer durch Mysterien angeregt waren -, die den Geist der Erde im richtigen Sinne verehrten? Woher kamen denn diese Fähigkeiten? Diese Fähigkeiten waren vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha an das gebunden, was wir nennen können die physische Vererbung im Menschen, an jene physische Vererbung, die ja auch Erdengesetz ist. Es ist für die heutige Naturwissenschaft noch eine vollständige Torheit, das zu sagen, was ich nun werde zu sagen haben; aber es könnte das auch eine Torheit sein, die «Torheit vor den Menschen und Weisheit vor Gott» ist. Vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha war im wesentlichen das, was man Erkenntnisfähigkeiten nennt, in einer gewissen Beziehung abhängig von den Vererbungsverhältnissen, und darin bestand gerade der Fortgang und Fortschritt der menschlichen Entwickelung, daß die Erkenntnis durch Vorstellen unabhängig wurde von allen natürlichen Vererbungsverhältnissen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p033"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Daher hat man in den alten Mysterien oftmals ganz recht getan, daß man das Mysterienamt vom Vater auf den Sohn und so weiter vererbt hat. Das ist das Bedeutsame, daß in der Zeit des Mysteriums von Golgatha für die Erdenmenschheit das Erkennen aufhörte abhängig zu sein von rein physischen Verhältnissen. Es wurde das Erkennen durch den Fortschritt der Menschheit eine rein seelische Angelegenheit. Eine rein seelische Angelegenheit wird das Innerste der menschlichen Seele, nicht mehr abhängig von äußeren Vererbungsverhältnissen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p034"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Wodurch wurde nun möglich gemacht, daß der Mensch also gewissermaßen sein Inneres ungeschädigt dennoch fortbehielt? Fassen Sie nur die ganze Bedeutung dessen auf, daß das innerste Verhältnis der menschlichen Seele, das Erkenntnisverhältnis, eine rein seelische Angelegenheit wurde, daß der Mensch sozusagen nichts mehr ererben konnte von seinen Vorfahren in bezug auf seine Fähigkeiten. Gewiß möchten heute noch viele Menschen ihre Erkenntnisfähigkeit von ihren Vorfahren ererben, aber es geht nicht. Das merkt man schon. Goethes Fähigkeiten haben sich nicht gerade auf seine Nachkommen vererbt, und bei anderen kann man es auch nicht sehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p035"},{"locus":"GA 148/1914-01-13/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Aber was hätte denn mit diesen Fähigkeiten geschehen sollen, wenn sie von nichts anderem her gleichsam geistig unterhalten worden wären, wenn sie nicht einen geistigen Impuls erhalten hätten? Verwaist wären die innerlich gewordenen Fähigkeiten des Menschen gewesen. Der Mensch wäre so auf die Erde gestellt gewesen, daß er hätte warten müssen, was ihm gerade nach dem, wie sein Karma beschaffen gewesen wäre, die Erde aus der Umgebung gegeben hätte, was da hereingeleuchtet hätte in seine Sinne. Er hätte das aber nicht besonders schätzen können, sondern hätte froh sein müssen, wenn er bald wieder von der Erde fortgekommen wäre, da er sich ja keine besonders wertvollen Fähigkeiten auf der Erde hätte erobern können. Das hatte Buddha sehr wohl den Menschen bemerkbar gemacht; daher seine von allen irdischen Sinneswahrnehmungen ablenkende Lehre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/148/1914-01-13/p036"}],"beads":[{"from":[9],"to":[17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[18,19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13,14],"to":[32,33,34,35,36],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers).","uncovered":[8,11,12,15]}}