{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p016","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Let us first consider Jesus of Nazareth. His conditions of existence were quite exceptional. At the beginning of our era two boys were born and named Jesus. The one came through the Nathan line of the house of David,[^2] the other through the Solomon line of the same house.[^3] These two children were not born quite at the same time, but nearly so. In the Jesus descended from Solomon, described in the Gospel of St. Matthew, there was incarnated the same individuality who had formerly lived on the earth as Zarathustra, so that in this Child Jesus there appears the re-incarnated Zarathustra or Zoroaster. The individuality of Zarathustra grew up in this Child until, as St. Matthew *says*, His twelfth year. In that year, Zarathustra left the body of this Child and passed over into that of the other Child Jesus Whom the Gospel of St. Luke describes. In consequence of this the latter Child became suddenly quite different. The parents were astonished when they found Him in Jerusalem in the temple after the spirit of Zarathustra had entered into Him. This is intimated when it is said that the Child, after having been lost and found again in the temple, so spake that his parents did not recognize Him. They only knew Him, the Child descended from Nathan, as He had been up to this time. But when He began to reason with the doctors in the temple, it was possible for Him to speak as He did because the spirit of Zarathustra had come into Him. Until the thirtieth year did the spirit of Zarathustra live in the Jesus who was descended from the Nathan line of the house of David. In this body He ripened to a still higher perfection. The following remark must here be added: as regards this personality in which the spirit of Zarathustra *now* lived, an extraordinary feature was that into his astral body the Buddha rayed forth his impulses from the spiritual worlds.","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/p016?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/p016"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p016","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/p016?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":294,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.13,"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/l03/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Man betrachte zunächst Jesus von Nazareth. Dieser hatte ganz besondere Daseinsbedingungen. Im Beginne unserer Zeitrechnung sind zwei Jesus-Knaben geboren worden. Der eine stammte aus der nathanischen Linie des Hauses David, der andere aus der salomonischen Linie desselben Hauses. Diese beiden Knaben waren nicht ganz zu gleicher Zeit geboren, aber doch annähernd. In dem salomonischen Jesus-Knaben, den das Matthäus-Evangelium schildert, inkarnierte sich dieselbe Individualität, die früher als Zarathustra auf der Erde gelebt hat, so daß man in diesem Jesus-Kinde des Matthäus-Evangeliums vor sich hat den wiederverkörperten Zarathustra oder Zoroaster. So wächst heran, wie ihn Matthäus schildert, in diesem Jesus-Knaben bis zum zwölften Jahre die Individualität des Zarathustra. In diesem Jahre verläßt Zarathustra den Körper dieses Knaben und geht hinüber in den Körper des anderen Jesus-Knaben, den das Lukas-Evangelium schildert. Daher wird dieses Kind so plötzlich etwas ganz anderes. Die Eltern erstaunen, als sie es in Jerusalem im Tempel wiederfinden, nachdem in dasselbe der Geist des Zarathustra eingetreten war. Das wird dadurch angedeutet, daß der Knabe, nachdem er verlorengegangen war und in Jerusalem im Tempel wiedergefunden wurde, so gesprochen hat, daß ihn die Eltern nicht wiedererkannten, weil sie dieses Kind - den nathanischen Jesus-Knaben - eben nur so kannten, wie er früher war. Aber als es anfing zu den Schriftgelehrten im Tempel zu reden, da konnte es so sprechen, weil in dasselbe der Geist des Zarathustra eingetreten war. - Bis zum dreißigsten Jahre lebte der Geist des Zarathustra in dem Jesus-Jüngling, der aus der nathanischen Linie des Hauses David stammte. In diesem andern Körper reifte er heran zu einer noch höheren Vollendung. Noch ist zu bemerken, daß in diesem andern Körper, in dem jetzt der Geist des Zarathustra lebte, das Eigentümliche war, daß in dessen Astralleib der Buddha seine Impulse aus der geistigen Welt einstrahlen ließ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p020"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":294,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.13,"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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