{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p009","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"As now in our fifth period of civilization, it is the Angels who bring down the Christ into our spiritual evolution, so the sixth period of civilization will be directed by beings belonging to the ranks of the Archangels who guided the ancient Persian civilization. And the spirits of Personality—the Primal Powers—or Archai—who guided humanity during the ancient Indian epoch will have to guide humanity in the seventh period of civilization. In the Graeco-Roman period the Christ descended from the heights of the spirit-world and revealed Himself in the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth. He then came down as far as the physical world. It will be possible to find Him in the world immediately above ours when humanity shall have become sufficiently ripe. It will not be possible in the future to find Him in the physical world, but only in the world immediately above, for human beings will not always remain the same. Having become more mature, they will then find the Christ in the spiritual world, as Paul found Him in his experience before Damascus, which event prophetically foreshadowed the future means of finding the Christ. And since in our times the same great teachers who have already guided mankind through the Egyptian civilization are working, so also in the twentieth century it will be these same teachers who will lead men out to behold the Christ as Paul beheld Him. They will show mankind how the Christ not only works upon the earth, but how He spiritualizes the whole solar system. And those who will be the reincarnated holy teachers of India in the seventh period of civilization will proclaim the Spirit Who was foreshadowed by the undivided Brahma. To such teaching, however, the right content and meaning can only be given through the Christ, as the great, the immense Spirit, of Whom these teachers formerly said He hovered above their sphere. Thus will humanity be led upwards from stage to stage into the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":331,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p009?edition=ASGB1921","alignment_confidence":"high","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/l03/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p009","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/l03/p009?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":306,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.08,"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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In der nächsthöheren Welt wird er zu finden sein, wenn die Menschheit dazu reif geworden sein wird. Nicht in der physischen Welt kann er in Zukunft zu finden sein, sondern nur in den nächsthöheren Welten. Denn die Menschen werden nicht dieselben geblieben sein; sie werden reifer geworden sein und den Christus finden, wie ihn Paulus durch das Ereignis vor Damaskus, in dieser Beziehung die Zukunft prophetisch voraussehend, in der geistigen Welt gefunden hat. Und wie es in unserer Zeit dieselben großen Lehrer sind, welche schon in der ägyptisch-chaldäischen Kultur die Menschen geleitet haben, so werden sie auch diejenigen sein, welche im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert die Menschen hinaufführen werden zu einem Schauen des Christus, wie ihn Paulus gesehen hat. Sie werden dem Menschen zeigen, wie der Christus nicht nur auf die Erde wirkt, sondern das ganze Sonnensystem durchgeistigt. Und als einen Geist, der geahnt wurde durch das einheitliche Brahman, in das aber erst der richtige Inhalt durch den Christus einziehen kann, werden auch die, welche die wiederverkörperten heiligen Lehrer Indiens in der siebenten Kulturperiode sein werden, den großen gewaltigen Geist verkünden, von dem sie damals gesagt haben, daß er über ihrer Sphäre walte. So wird die Menschheit von Stufe zu Stufe hinaufgeleitet werden in die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p010"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":306,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.11,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7626,"original_word_count":6840,"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. 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