{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One more thing, my dear friends. You know that since 1909 we have been producing our Mystery Dramas in Munich. What we presented on the stage there may be considered good or bad; that is not the present question. What was done there, however, required a certain spiritual power, a power that does not approach the human being simply because of his existence upon earth. Since we can now work in Dornach and carve our different kinds of hard wood, we need muscular strength. We cannot say that we can give this strength to ourselves consciously. It comes from our bodies, from our souls' capacity; it is not under our control. Equally, we have not under our control all that we perform in the spirit and for which we need spiritual power. That is not entirely dependent upon our natural ability, just as what we do physically is not dependent alone upon our talents but also upon the muscular strength of our bodies. We need spiritual powers that are as much outside ourselves as our muscular strength is outside our souls. I know that superficial critics may say, “You are a fool; you believe that spiritual powers come to you from without, whereas they simply rise from your own inner being.” Let them think me a fool; I regard them as belonging to the clever men who cannot distinguish hunger from a piece of bread. I know how spiritual powers from without flow into human beings. The idea that hunger creates the bread that satisfies it—believed only by a crazy man—is as false as that the power of our own soul can create the forces needed for our spiritual activities. These forces must flow into us. Just as we know clearly that our hunger is within us, and that bread comes from without, does one who lives in spiritual worlds know what is within himself and what comes to him from without. Since 1909 I have felt personally, more and more, the spiritual power that came from without whenever there was occasion to develop, in stillness and calm, what was necessary for the Mystery Plays. I knew that a spiritual eye was resting upon what had been accomplished, and I relate this as a direct experience.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-06-01","location":null,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p029","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/p029"},{"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/p029","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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Sie wissen, daß wir seit dem Jahre 1909 in München unsere Mysteriendramen aufgeführt haben. Man mag das, was wir zur Darstellung auf der Mysterienbühne gebracht haben, gut oder schlecht finden, darum kann es sich jetzt nicht handeln. Aber dasjenige, was getan worden ist, brauchte eine gewisse Kraft, eine Kraft, welche an den Menschen nicht so ohne weiteres herankommt dadurch, daß er Mensch auf Erden ist. Sehen Sie, wenn wir jetzt in Dornach arbeiten können, wenn wit unsere verschiedenen Arten von Harthölzern verarbeiten wollen, brauchen wir Muskelkraft. Wir können nicht sagen, daß wir diese Muskelkraft uns bewußt geben können. Sie kommt von unserem Leibe, von dem, was wir in der Seele können. Wir haben sie nicht in der Hand. Auch das haben wir nicht alles in der Hand, was wit im Geistigen verrichten und wozu wir spirituelle Kraft brauchen. Das hängt nicht allein ab von unsern Talenten als Mensch, so wie es nicht von unsern Talenten abhängt, ob wir etwas tun können, sondern auch von der Muskelkraft unseres Leibes. So brauchen wir spirituelle Kräfte, die ebenso außer uns sind wie die Muskelkräfte außer unserer Seele sind. Ich weiß, daß Flachlinge kommen und sagen können: Du bist ein Tor, du glaubst, daß dir spirituelle Kräfte von außen kommen, während sie nur aufsteigen aus dem eigenen Innern. —- Mögen sie mich für einen Toren halten. Ich finde sie gerade von der Gescheitheit der Menschen, die nicht den Hunger von einem Stück Brot unterscheiden können. Ich weiß, wie spirituelle Kräfte von außen in den Menschen einfließen. So wie man, nur wenn man verrückt ist, glauben kann, daß der Hunger selber das Brot erzeugt, das ihn stillt, so wenig wie das der Fall ist, so wenig erzeugt die Kraft unserer Seele diejenigen Kräfte, die wir zum spirituellen Wirken brauchen: sie müssen in uns hereinfließen, müssen uns zufließen. Und ebenso wie wir ganz genau wissen, daß der Hunger in uns ist und das Brot von außen kommt, wenn wir nicht verrückt sind, ebenso weiß derjenige, der in geistigen Welten lebt, was in ihm ist und was von außen kommt. Und ich für meine Person fühlte seit dem Jahre 1909 immer mehr und mehr, wenn es sich darum handelte, in aller Stille und Ruhe dasjenige zu entwickeln, was für die Mysterienspiele notwendig war, ich fühlte die spirituelle Kraft, die von außen kam. Ich wußte ruhen das geistige Auge einer spirituellen Wesenheit auf demjenigen, was getan worden ist. 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