{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Occult research comes in here again, not merely to put forth theories, but to tell us how things actually are in life. How do people write biographies of Raphael to-day? Even the best are so written that they simply state that Raphael was born on Good Friday of the year 1483. It is not for nothing that Raphael was born on a Good Friday. This birth already proclaimed his exceptional position in Christianity and shows that in the deepest and most significant way he was connected with the Christian Mysteries. It was on a Good Friday that Raphael was born. His father was Giovanni Santi. He died when Raphael was eleven years old. At the age of eight years his father sent him as a pupil to a painter, who was, however, not of any special eminence. But if one realises what was in Giovanni Santi, Raphael’s father, one gets a peculiar impression which is further strengthened when the matter is investigated in the Akashic Records. There it appears that there lived in the soul of Giovanni Santi much more than could be expressed in his personality and then we can agree with the duchess, who at his death said: “A man full of light and truth and fervent faith has died.” As occultist, one can say that in him there lived a much greater painter than appeared outwardly. The outer faculties, which depend on the physical and etheric organs, were not developed in Giovanni Santi. That was the original cause why he could not bring the capacities of his soul to full expression; but really a great painter lived in him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Jetzt aber fragen wir uns, wenn der okkulte Blick, der forscht und nicht etwa äußerlich verstandesmäßig vergleicht, nun erforscht, daß es dieselbe Seele ist, die in Elias, in Johannes dem Täufer und in Raffael vorhanden war: Wie kommt es denn, daß Raffael, der Maler, der Träger wird für die Individualität, die in Johannes dem Täufer gelebt hatte? Kann man sich vorstellen, daß diese merkwürdige Seele des Johannes des Täufers in den Kräften lebte, die in Raffael vorhanden waren? Da kommt nun wieder die okkulte Forschung, aber nicht so, daß sie bloß \"Theorien in die Welt setzt, sondern so, daß sie sagt, wie die Dinge sind, wie die Dinge wirklich ins Leben eingepflanzt sind! Wie schreiben die Leute heute noch Raffael-Biographien? Sie können es überall sehen, auch die besten sind heute so geschrieben, daß sie einfach angeben: Raffael wurde geboren an dem Karfreitage des Jahres 1483. Raffael ist nicht umsonst an einem Karfreitage geboren! Ankündigend schon durch diese Geburt seine Sonderstellung im Christentum, zeigt sich bei ihm, daß er mit den christlichen Geheimnissen in der tiefsten und bedeutungsvollsten Weise zu tun hat. An einem Karfreitag also war Raffael geboren. Sein Vater war Giovanni Santi. Giovanni Santi starb, als Raffael elf Jahre alt war. Als Raffael acht Jahre zählte, hatte er ihn in die Lehre zu einem Maler gegeben, der aber nicht so hervorragend war. Aber wenn man nimmt, was in dem Giovanni Santi, dem Vater Raffaels, war, so hat man einen eigentümlichen Eindruck, der sich noch erhöht, wenn man die Sache in der Akasha-Chronik betrachtet. Da zeigt sich, daß das, was lebte in der Seele des Giovanni Santi, viel mehr ist, als eigentlich aus ihm herausgekommen war, und man muß der Herzogin recht geben, die bei seinem Tode sagte: Ein Mensch voll Licht und Recht und allerbestem Glauben ist gestorben. 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