{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p020","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Herewith the points of view have been stressed which enable us to discern how the guidance of humanity has come under the influence of the Christ. The other forces, however, which had remained behind in the Egypto-Chaldaeic times worked on side by side with those that are permeated by the Christ. This is evident even in the attitude frequently adopted today towards the Gospels. Literary works appear in which great pains are taken to show that the Gospels can be understood through an astrological interpretation. The greatest opponents of the Gospels employ this astrological interpretation to prove, for example, that the way taken by the Archangel Gabriel from Elizabeth to Mary signifies merely the progress of the sun from the constellation of Virgo to another. This, in a certain sense, is correct, except that these thoughts were poured in this manner into our age by the beings who had remained behind during the Egypto-Chaldaeic period. Under such an influence people are induced to a make-belief that the Gospels present only allegories in the place of definite cosmic relations. The truth really is that in the Christ the whole cosmos finds expression. Therefore one can express the life of the Christ by connecting its separate events with the cosmic relations which work into earth existence unceasingly *through the Christ*. A right understanding of this matter will thus lead to a full recognition of the Christ as having lived on earth. Whereas if the interpretation were true that the Christ life as expressed in the Gospels is only a matter of constellations being treated allegorically, then we should have to conclude that there was no real earthly Christ at all.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p020?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/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p020","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/p020?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":278,"ratio":1.09,"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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Die größten Gegner der Evangelien berufen sich auf dieses astrologische Auslegen, so daß zum Beispiel der Weg des Erzengels Gabriel von Elisabeth zu Maria nichts anderes bedeuten solle als das Schreiten der Sonne vom Stembilde der Jungfrau zu einem andern. Das ist etwas, was in gewisser Weise richtig ist; nur werden diese Gedanken unserer Zeit in dieser Art eingeflößt von den Wesenheiten, die während der ägyptisch-chaldäischen Zeit zurückgeblieben sind. Man will unter solchem Einflusse glauben machen, daß die Evangelien nur Allegorien darstellten für gewisse kosmische Verhältnisse. In Wahrheit liegt die Sache so, daß in dem Christus sich der ganze Kosmos ausspricht, daß man also das Christus-Leben ausdrücken kann, indem man für seine einzelnen Vorgänge die kosmischen Verhältnisse anführt, die fortwährend durch Christus in das Erdendasein hereinwirken. So wird eine richtige Auffassung dieser Sache zur vollen Anerkennung des irdisch-lebenden Christus führen müssen, während der charakterisierte Irrtum meint, wenn er gewahr wird, es werde das Christus-Leben in den Evangelien durch kosmische Konstellationen ausgedrückt, dies beweise, daß nur diese Konstellationen allegorisch behandelt werden, und daß es keinen irdisch-realen Christus gegeben habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p027"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":278,"ratio":1.09,"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. 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