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At that time the horrors of leprosy had invaded many parts of Europe. The church had discovered a strange cure for these lepers who were then so numerous. 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Es ließ nämlich der Priester diese Aussätzigen zu sich kommen und sagte dann zu ihnen: Du bist nun einmal mit dieser Krankheit geschlagen in diesem Leben; aber gerade dadurch, daß du jetzt für das Leben verloren bist, bist du für Gott gewonnen, du bist gottgeweiht. Dann aber wurde er hinausgeschickt in von Menschen entfernte Stätten, wo er in der angedeuteten Weise einsam und verlassen sein Leben beschließen mußte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1912-05-28/p040"},{"locus":"GA 155/1912-05-28/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Ich will keinen Tadel aussprechen über diese Kur. Man wußte keine andere, keine bessere. Aber Franz von Assisi wußte eine bessere. Und aus diesem Grunde wird es erwähnt, weil es uns aus den unmittelbaren Erfahrungen heraus leiten wird zu den moralischen Quellen. Sie werden schon sehen in den nächsten Tagen, warum wir diese Dinge durchnehmen. Nun, sie führten Franz von Assisi gerade dazu, alle die Aussätzigen überall aufzusuchen, nichts zu scheuen im Umgang mit diesen Leuten. Und tatsächlich, was nichts von all den Mitteln der damaligen Zeit heilen konnte, was notwendig machte, daß man die Leute aus der menschlichen Gesellschaft ausstieß, das heilte in zahlreichen Fällen Franz von Assisi, weil er sich an diese Leute heranmachte, allerdings mit den Kräften, die er hatte in seinen moralischen Impulsen, die ihn vor nichts zurückschrecken ließen, ihm vielmehr den Mut gaben, nicht nur sorgfältig zu reinigen die einzelnen wunden Stellen, die an solchen Menschen vorhanden waren, sondern mit den letzteren zu leben, sie intensiv zu pflegen, ja sie zu küssen und sie zu durchströmen mit seiner Liebe. — Es ist nicht bloß eine Dichtung, wie die Heilung des armen Heinrich durch die Tochter des treuen Dieners: es ist damit ausgedrückt, was in der damaligen Zeit in zahlreichen Fällen geschehen ist durch die historisch wohlbekannte Persönlichkeit des Franz von Assisi. Und legen Sie sich zurecht dasjenige, was da geschehen ist. Geschehen ist, daß in einem Menschen wie Franz von Assisi vorhanden war ein ungeheurer Fonds psychischen Lebens als etwas, was wir gefunden haben in der alten europäischen Bevölkerung als Starkmut und Tapferkeit, die sich umgewandelt haben in Geistig-Seelisches und die hinterher geistig-seelisch gewirkt haben. Wie in den alten Zeiten das, was da gewirkt hatte als Großmut und Tapferkeit, zur persönlichen Verschwendung geführt hatte und sich noch bei Franz von Assisi in seiner jugendlichen Verschwendungssucht zeigte, so führte es ihn jetzt dazu, daß er ein Verschwender an moralischen Kräften wurde. 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