{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1914-07-12/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a well-known Christian Church Father who was not afraid to speak of the Greek philosophers, Heracleitos, Socrates and Plato, as Christians who lived before the founding of Christianity. Why does he do this? As we know, the doctrines professed today obscure much of what was at first an illuminating Christian teaching. St. Augustine himself said: “All religions have contained something of the truth, and the element of truth in all religions is what is Christian in them, before there was a Christianity in name.” St. Augustine dared to say that. Nowadays many a man would be regarded as a heretic if he were to say something similar within certain Christian congregations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Christ's Presence in Human Soul Evolution","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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Sich so fühlen, als ob das menschliche Wesen weit über das hinausginge, was die Seele durch ihre Kraft zunächst wegen ihrer bisherigen Erdenentwickelung erreichen kann, das ist die vorbereitende christliche Stimmung. Und wenn dann die Seele das findet, was sie mit ihrer Wesenheit notwendig verbunden wissen muß, wozu sie aber die Kraft nicht in sich selbst findet, wenn dann die Seele das findet, was ihr diese Kräfte gibt, dann ist dieses Gefundene der Christus. Dann entwickelt die Seele ihr Verhältnis zu dem Christus, dann steht die Seele auf der einen Seite so, daß sie sich sagt: Im Erdenanbeginn ist mir eine Wesenheit vorherbestimmt gewesen, die in mir verfinstert worden ist im Laufe der Erdenentwickelung, und blicke ich jetzt in diese verfinsterte Seele, so fehlen mir die Kräfte, diese Wesenheit zu verwirklichen. Aber ich wende den geistigen Blick hin zu dem Christus, der gibt mir diese Kräfte. — Da steht denn die menschliche Seele, indem sie einerseits in der geschilderten Art dasteht, und auf der anderen Seite den Christus an sich herankommen fühlt, wie in einem unmittelbaren persönlichen Verhältnis zu dem Christus. Da sucht sie den Christus und weiß, daß sie ihn nicht finden kann, wenn er sich nicht durch die menschliche Entwickelung der Menschheit selbst gibt, wenn er nicht von außen an sie herankommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-12/p015"},{"locus":"GA 155/1914-07-12/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Es gibt einen christlichen Kirchenvater, der ziemlich allgemein anerkannt ist, und der nicht davor zurückscheute, Heraklit, den griechischen Philosophen, Sokrates und Plato Christen zu nennen, Christen, die es waren, bevor das Christentum begründet worden ist. Warum tut das dieser Kirchenvater? 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