{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-29/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I must remind you that the old division into castes in India really received its first blow, its first shock, through Buddhism, for among many other things which Buddhism introduced into Asiatic life was the idea that it did not recognise the division into castes as something justifiable; that as far as it was possible in Asia it recognised the power of each human being to attain to the highest possible to man. We know too that this was only possible through the pre-eminent1y great and mighty individuality of Buddha. We also know that Buddha became a Buddha in the incarnation of which we are usually told and that in the earlier part of his life he was a Bodhisattva, which represents the stage next below Buddhahood. 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Da wir nicht versammelt sind, um äußere Wissenschaft zu treiben, sondern um die menschliche Moral aus den okkulten Untergründen heraus zu verstehen, so müssen wir uns auf einige okkulte Wahrheiten einlassen, müssen einige okkulte Wahrheiten ins Auge fassen. Da müssen wir uns schon einmal fragen: Woher kam denn eigentlich eine solche Seele wie die des Franz von Assisi? Verstehen können wir eine solche Seele, wie wir sie in Franz von Assisi vor uns haben, nur dann, wenn wir ein wenig in sie hineinschauen, wenn wir uns bekümmern um das, was in ihren verborgenen Tiefen war. Da muß ich Sie daran erinnern, daß die alte Kasteneinteilung Indiens eigentlich ihren ersten Stoß, ihre erste Erschütterung erfahren hat durch den Buddhismus, denn der Buddhismus hat unter mancherlei, was er hineingebracht hat in das Leben Asiens, auch das gebracht, daß er die Kasteneinteilung nicht als etwas Berechtigtes anerkannte, daß er, soweit es für Asien möglich war, die Anwartschaft eines jeden Menschen zu dem Höchsten, was der Mensch erreichen kann, anerkannt hat. Wir wissen auch, daß dies nur möglich war durch die hervorragend große und gewaltige Persönlichkeit des Buddha, und wir wissen auch, daß der Buddha ein Buddha geworden ist in jener Inkarnation, von der uns gewöhnlich erzählt wird, daß er früher ein Bodhisattva war, was die nächstuntergeordnete Würde unter dem Buddha darstellt. 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