{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p028","lang":"en","edition":"ASGB1921","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"There is a continuous chain in human evolution which such ideas as these make us recognize. And in the true sense of the words, that which resulted in the conquest of sense illusion through Copernicus and Giordano Bruno proceeded from the inspiration arising from that spiritual current now working in the modern spiritual science of anthroposophy. What one might call the newer esotericism worked in a mysterious manner on Copernicus, Bruno, Kepler and others. Those therefore who now base their thought on foundations laid by Giordano Bruno and Copernicus and do not wish to accept anthroposophy, are unfaithful to their own traditions in desiring to hold fast to sense illusion. As Giordano Bruno forced a way through the blue firmament of heaven, even so does spiritual science break down the barriers of birth and death for man by showing how he originates from out of the macrocosm, lives in a physical existence, passes through death, and reenters macrocosmic life. And what we see in a limited degree in each individual meets us unrestrictedly and in a larger sense in the representative of the spirit of the cosmos—in the Christ-Jesus. Once and once only could that impulse be given which the Christ gave. Once only could the whole cosmos be thus reflected, for the conjunction of the stars which then took place can never be repeated. In order to give an impulse to the earth, this conjunction was obliged to work through a human body. As it is true that this same grouping cannot occur a second time, so it is equally true that the Christ was only once incarnated. Only if one did not know that the Christ is the representative of the whole universe and only if it were impossible to win one's way to this Christ-Idea, the elements for which are given through spiritual science—only then would it be possible to maintain that Christ could appear more than once upon the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p028?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/p028"},{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p028","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/p028?edition=ASGB1921","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p036","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p036"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":296,"en_words":324,"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 Geisteswissenschaft aber zeigt: Wie Giordano Bruno das blaue Himmelsgewölbe durchbrach, so durchbricht diese Wissenschaft die Grenzen von Geburt und Tod für den Menschen, indem sie zeigt, wie der aus dem Makrokosmos stammende Mensch im physischen Dasein lebt, und durch den Tod hindurch wieder in ein Makrokosmische Dasein eintritt. Und was wir in jedem einzelnen Menschen im beschränkten Maße sehen, das tritt uns im großen entgegen in dem Repräsentanten des Kosmos-Geistes, in dem Christus Jesus. Und nur einmal konnte dieser Impuls gegeben werden, den der Christus gab. Nur einmal konnte sich so der ganze Kosmos spiegeln; denn diese Konstellation, wie sie damals vorhanden war, sie kommt nicht wieder. Diese Konstellation mußte durch einen Menschenkörper wirken, damit sie auf der Erde den Impuls geben konnte. So wahr, wie diese selbe Konstellation nicht ein zweites Mal eintritt, so wahr ist der Christus nur einmal zur Verkörperung gekommen. Nur wenn man nicht weiß, daß der Christus der Repräsentant des ganzen Weltalls ist, und man sich nicht durchringen kann zu dieser Christus-Idee, zu der durch die Geisteswissenschaft die Elemente gegeben werden, nur dann kann man behaupten, daß der Christus mehrmals auf Erden erscheinen könne.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p036"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":296,"en_words":324,"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. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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