{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1914-05-27/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can distinguish three epochs in the development of this Jesus of Nazareth. The first from the age of twelve to eighteen. The second from the age of eighteen to twenty-four. The third from about the age of twenty-four to thirty. The young Jesus of Nazareth lived in the house of his real father and the mother of the Solomon-like boy Jesus. The other two had died in the meantime. The young Jesus of Nazareth was introduced to his father's trade, a kind of carpentry or joinery. But strangely enough, he developed with infinite perfection of spiritual life in his soul. We must note that basically no one in his family understood the deeply significant development of the young Jesus of Nazareth. He was alone with it even as a boy from twelve to eighteen years old; completely alone with it. What made this inner development, which took place in the solitude of the soul, so remarkable was that Jesus of Nazareth was able to draw from the depths of his soul all the great revelations that had come to the Jewish people over time. In the time when Jesus of Nazareth lived, the Israelite people hardly had anything else but written traditions of what the ancient prophets had once received in direct revelations from the spiritual worlds. They knew from the scriptures what the ancients had received in revelation, but they no longer had the opportunity to reach up to the revelation itself, which had once come to the ancient prophets through that voice called the great Bath-Kol. In a retrogressive development, Jesus of Nazareth went through everything again that the Jewish people had gone through, and he worked his way up to the point where his soul sensed: “The great Bath-Kol speaks to me again. Directly from the spiritual world I hear the voice once received by the prophets. And as is the case with such inner development, so it was also with Jesus of Nazareth: this inner development was connected with the deepest mental pain and suffering. The highest realizations are not attained without pain and suffering. In particular, there was one that settled like a terrible pain in the soul of Jesus of Nazareth, who was about seventeen to eighteen years old, when he said to himself: “Once the great Bath-Kol spoke the most wonderful revelations to the Jewish people. Today the Jewish people are here, but if the great Bath-Kol were to speak to them today, there would be no one to hear her. They understand the scriptures, but they no longer understand the living scripture. He was lonely within himself; an immense sadness came over his soul, over what had become of his people in the downward development of humanity. Then the time came when Jesus of Nazareth was to be sent out into the world. He wandered around, practicing his trade here and there, in the most diverse areas, both in Palestine and outside of Palestine, in pagan areas. These wanderings were particularly remarkable in their impression on the people Jesus of Nazareth came to. What the pain in his soul had done had been transformed into something like love, which one felt radiating from him directly in his presence. When he sat with the people he visited in the evening after he had finished his work, they felt an atmosphere of love surrounding them with his words, but also through his mere presence. The love-imbued words he spoke to them made the deepest impression on the people, and when he had gone away to work elsewhere, something like the most vivid memory of him remained with the people he had left. It often happened that Jesus of Nazareth had been gone for three or four weeks when the people he had left three to four weeks earlier had a shared vision that he entered their house again and spoke to them – the vision spoke to them. So deep was the impression that, in essence, he had remained with them, this Jesus of Nazareth. Thus, what Jesus of Nazareth was, found expression in hundreds and hundreds of souls as he wandered around in his eighteenth to twenty-fourth year.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Progress in the Knowledge of the Christ: The Fifth Gospel","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-27","location":null,"word_count":696,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-05-27/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140527.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Festhalten müssen wir, daß im Grunde genommen die tief bedeutungsvolle Entwickelung des jungen Jesus von Nazareth niemand aus seiner Familienumgebung verstand. Er war mit ihr einsam schon als Knabe von zwölf bis achtzehn Jahren; ganz einsam mit ihr. Merkwürdig war diese innere Entwickelung, die sich in der Einsamkeit der Seele vollzog, dadurch daß wie aus dem tiefen Seelengrund heraufholen konnte Jesus von Nazareth all dasjenige, was an großen Offenbarungen dem jüdischen Volk im Laufe der Zeit geworden war. Das israelitische Volk hatte ja in der Zeit, in der Jesus von Nazareth lebte, kaum noch etwas anderes als schriftliche Überlieferungen desjenigen, was einstmals die uralten Propheten in unmittelbaren Offenbarungen erhalten hatten aus den geistigen Welten herunter. Man wußte aus den Schriften, was die Alten geoffenbart erhalten hatten, aber man hatte keine Möglichkeit mehr, hinaufzureichen zu dieser Offenbarung selbst, die einstmals den uralten Propheten zugekommen war durch jene Stimme, die man die große Bath-Kol nannte. Wie in rückläufiger Entwickelung machte Jesus von Nazareth in sich selbst alles dasjenige wieder durch, was das jüdische Volk durchgemacht hatte, und er arbeitete sich hinauf bis zu dem Punkte, daß seine Seele verspürte: Die große Bath-Kol spricht wieder zu mir. Unmittelbar aus der geistigen Welt vernehme ich die Stimme, die einmal die Propheten empfangen haben. Und wie es bei solch innerer Entwickelung geht, so war es auch bei Jesus von Nazareth: diese innere Entwickelung war verbunden mit dem tiefsten seelischen Schmerz und Leid. Die höchsten Erkenntnisse erwirbt man sich nicht ohne Schmerz und Leid. Namentlich war es eines, das sich wie ein furchtbarer Schmerz ablagerte in der Seele des etwa siebzehnbis achtzehnjährigen Jesus von Nazareth, als er sich sagte: Einmal hat gesprochen die große Bath-Kol die wunderbarsten Offenbarungen zu dem jüdischen Volk. Heute ist das jüdische Volk da, aber wenn die große Bath-Kol heute zu ihm sprechen würde, es wäre niemand da, sie zu hören. Die Schriften verstehen sie, die lebendige Schrift aber verstehen sie nicht mehr. - Einsam war er in sich; eine ungeheure Traurigkeit kam über seine Seele, über dasjenige, was aus seinem Volk geworden war in der herabgehenden Entwickelung der Menschheit. Dann kam die Zeit, wo hinausgeschickt werden sollte in die Welt Jesus von Nazareth. Er wanderte, indem er sein Handwerk da und dort betrieb, in den verschiedensten Gegenden umher, sowohl in Palästina als auch außerhalb Palästinas, in heidnischen Gegenden. Merkwürdig waren diese Wanderungen namentlich in ihrem Eindruck auf die Menschen, zu denen Jesus von Nazareth kam. Das, was der Schmerz in seiner Seele verrichtet hatte, das hatte sich umgewandelt in etwas wie Liebe, die man unmittelbar in seiner Gegenwart von ihm ausströmen fühlte. Wenn er so am Abend, nachdem er die Arbeit verrichtet hatte, bei den Menschen war, die er besuchte, mit ihnen zusammensaß, so fühlten sie, wie eine Atmosphäre von Liebe mit seinen Worten, aber auch durch seine bloße Anwesenheit, auf sie überging. Das Liebedurchtränkte, was er mit ihnen sprechen konnte, das machte den tiefsten Eindruck auf die Leute, und wenn er weggegangen war, anderswo zu arbeiten, so blieb bei den Leuten, die er verlassen hatte, etwas wie die allerlebendigste Erinnerung an ihn zurück. Oftmals kam es vor, daß Jesus von Nazareth schon drei oder vier Wochen weg war, da hatten die Leute, die er vor drei bis vier Wochen verlassen hatte, die gemeinsame Vision, daß er wiederum zu ihnen hereinträte und mit ihnen sprach — die Vision sprach mit ihnen. So tief war der Eindruck, daß er im Grunde genommen bei ihnen geblieben war, dieser Jesus von Nazareth. So drückte sich das, was Jesus von Nazareth war, in Hundert und Aberhundert von Seelen ein, da er herumwanderte in seinem achtzehnten bis vierundzwanzigsten Jahr.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":700,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-05-27/p020"}],"english":["GA 152/1914-05-27/p020"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":700,"en_words":696,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5623,"original_word_count":5431,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140527.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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