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The facts adduced by spiritual research are that Christ chose three times an archangelic form, leaving out the angelic form, and then made use of a human body. I leave it to future research to determine the reason, which I do not yet know, though I do know that it is true.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-06-01","location":null,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p022","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p022"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p022","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Und wenn Sie mich fragen: Wie kommt es, da der Christus nicht herunterstieg von Hierarchie zu Hierarchie und dann erst zum Menschen herunterstieg —, wenn Sie mich heute darum fragen, so muß ich Ihnen antworten: Das weiß ich nicht, weil ich überhaupt nicht kombiniere. Sondern die Tatsachenforschung ergibt, daß der Christus sich dreimal einer Erzengelgestalt - die Engelgestalt wurde ausgelassen - und dann einer Menschengestalt bediente. Ich überlasse es späterer Forschung, festzustellen, warum das so ist. Heute weiß ich es noch nicht, aber es ist so. 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