{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l01/p033","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"It is not well to make many definitions or summaries in spiritual science or theosophy, or indeed in occultism generally. It is better to give a description, and to try and call forth a feeling of what really exists. On this account we have attempted to induce a feeling of what distinguishes the first three years of human life, and of the way in which this is related to the light that streams from the cross on Golgotha. The meaning of this feeling is that an impulse is passing through human evolution, and that through this impulse the Pauline saying, ‘Not I—but the Christ in me,’ will become a fact. We have only to know what man is in reality, in order to be able to proceed from such knowledge to insight into the nature of the Christ. When once, however, we have arrived at the Christ-idea, through true observation of humanity, we know that we discover the Christ in the best way if we first look for Him in ourselves; and if we then return to the Bible records we value them rightly for the first time. And no one prizes the Bible more, or more consciously, than one who has found the Christ in this way. It is possible to imagine a being, let us say, an inhabitant of Mars, descending to earth, without ever having heard of the Christ and His work. Much that has taken place on earth would be incomprehensible to the Martian; much that interests people nowadays would not interest him. But it would interest him to discover the central impulse of earthly evolution, the Christ-idea as it is expressed in human nature itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p033?edition=ASGB1921","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1992","ASGB1921"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p033"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p033","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l01/p033?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p028","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p028"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":342,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 15/l01/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Es ist nicht gut, wenn man in der Geisteswissenschaft oder Theosophie oder überhaupt im Okkultismus viel definiert, viel in Begriffen redet. Besser ist es, wenn man charakterisiert und eine Empfindung hervorzurufen versucht von dem, was wirklich ist. Deshalb sollte auch hier versucht werden, eine Empfindung anzuregen von dem, was die ersten drei Jahre des Menschenlebens kennzeichnet, und wie sich dies verhält zu jenem Lichte, das ausstrahlt von dem Kreuze auf Golgatha. Diese Empfindung besagt, daß ein Impuls durch die menschliche Evolution geht, von dem man mit Recht sagen kann, daß das Paulinische Wort durch ihn Wahrheit werden muß: «Nicht ich, sondern der Christus in mir!» Man braucht nur zu wissen, was der Mensch in Wirklichkeit ist, und man kann von solcher Erkenntnis aus zu der Einsicht in die Wesenheit Christi vorschreiten. Wenn man aber durch die wahre Menschheitsbetrachtung zu dieser Christus-Idee gekommen ist und weiß, daß man den Christus am besten entdeckt, wenn man ihn erst in sich selber sucht, und wenn man dann zurückgeht zu den biblischen Urkunden, dann gewinnt erst die Bibel ihren großen Wert. Und es gibt keinen größeren, aber auch keinen bewußteren Schätzer der Bibel als einen Menschen, der im angedeuteten Sinne den Christus gefunden hat. Es wäre denkbar, daß ein Wesen, man sage ein Marsbewohner, herunterkäme auf die Erde, das nie etwas gehört hat von dem Christus und seinem Wirken. Vieles, was sich hier auf der Erde abgespielt hat, würde ein solcher Marsbewohner nicht verstehen; vieles, was die Menschen heute interessiert, würde ihn nicht interessieren. Aber das würde ihn interessieren, was der Mittelpunktsimpuls der Erdenevolution ist: die Christus-Idee, wie sie die Wesenheit des Menschen selber ausdrückt! - Wer das begriffen hat, der erkennt dann erst recht die Bibel; denn er findet, was er vorher in sich erschaut hat, in ihr in einer wunderbaren Weise ausgedrückt und sagt sich dann: Ich brauche gar nicht erzogen zu sein zu einer besonderen Schätzung der Evangelien, sondern trete als ein vollbewußter Mensch vor dieselben, und durch das, was ich durch die Geisteswissenschaft erkannt habe, erscheinen sie mir in ihrer ganzen Größe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":342,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l01/p028"}],"english":["GA 15/l01/p033","GA 15/l01/p034"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":342,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6442,"original_word_count":6235,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 15/l01/p028"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}