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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. 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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. 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