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And in the night before the battle, Maxentius had a dream that urged him to leave the safety of the walls of Rome and go out to meet Constantine. But Constantine, with his much smaller army, had a dream that night that instructed him to let his army carry the symbol of Christ and to win in this sign. No rational arguments, no strategic reasons, no knowledge of warfare had played a role at that time, because it came down to the decision, but subconscious forces faced each other in Maxentius and Constantine. One may think of the value or worthlessness of Constantine as one wants, in the victory, which Constantine achieved at that time, the impulse of Christ lived as a real, actual force, which worked through the subconscious of humans since the Mystery of Golgotha, completely apart from what humans thought about the Christ.","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":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-05-27/p037","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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Derjenige, der die Geschichte studiert in ihren Tiefen, wird stets zugeben müssen: Damals entschieden nicht die Ideen der Generäle, nicht die Vernunftgründe der Menschen über das, was in der Schlacht geschah, sondern etwas ganz anderes! Maxentius fragte bei den sibyllinischen Büchern an und er bekam zur Antwort: Wenn du außerhalb der Tore Roms Konstantin angreifen wirst, so wirst du den größten Feind Roms vernichten. — Ein rechtes Orakel! Und in der Nacht, die der Schlacht voranging, hatte Maxentius einen Traum, der ihn antrieb, die gesicherte Stellung in den Mauern Roms zu verlassen und Konstantin entgegenzugehen. Konstantin aber, mit seinem viel kleineren Heer, er hatte in der Nacht einen Traum, der ihn anwies, das Symbolum des Christus seinen Heere vorantragen zu lassen und in diesem Zeichen zu siegen. Keine Vernunftgründe, keine strategischen Gründe, keine Kenntnisse des Kriegswesens hatten dazumal eine Rolle gespielt, da es auf die Entscheidung ankam, sondern unterbewußte Kräfte standen sich gegenüber in Maxentius und Konstantin. 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