{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I should like to draw your attention to two things, when speaking on the riddles of life; things which so truly can illuminate the meaning of life. One is the fate that has befallen the works of Raphael. Whoever looks to-day at the reproductions of his pictures, does not see what Raphael painted. And if he travels to Dresden or to Rome, he finds them so much spoiled that he can hardly be said to see the pictures of Raphael. It is easy to see what will become of them when we consider the fate of Leonardo da Vinci's “Last Supper,” which is falling more and more into decay. These pictures, in times to come, will fall into dust, and everything which great men have created will disappear. When these things have vanished, we may well ask: “What is the meaning of this creation and decay!” We shall see that really nothing remains of what the single personality has created.","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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Das ist etwas, in dem uns so recht der Sinn des Lebens aufgehen kann. Es ist, wenn wir die Erscheinung Raffaels ansehen, das Schicksal, dem seine Werke entgegengehen. Der, welcher heute die Bilder in Reproduktion ansieht, sieht nicht das, was Raffael gemalt hat, auch der, welcher nach Dresden oder Rom geht, nicht, denn diese Bilder sind auch schon so verdorben, daß man nicht sagen kann, daß man die Bilder von Raffael noch sieht. Leicht ist es ins Auge zu fassen, was aus denselben werden wird, wenn man das Schicksal des Abendmahl-Gemäldes des Leonardo da Vinci betrachtet, welches immer mehr und mehr dem Verfall entgegengeht. Wer sich dieses überlegt, der weiß, daß diese Bilder mit der Zeit pulverisiert werden. Er wird die traurige Überzeugung bekommen, daß alles das verschwinden wird, was die großen Menschen einst geschaffen haben. Da also diese Dinge verschwinden werden, so könnten wir uns fragen: Welcher Sinn liegt denn in dem Entstehen und Vergehen derselben? 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