{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1914-07-15/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us think of all that it signifies when the human soul is able to say to itself: “Yes, I have done this or that in the world. It does not impair my evolution, for I do not remain as imperfect as I was when I committed the deed; I am permitted to overcome that imperfection in the further course of my Karma by making compensation for the deed. But I cannot undo it for the Earth-evolution.” Man would have to bear unspeakable suffering if a Being had not united Himself with the Earth, a Being who undoes for the Earth that which we cannot change. This Being is the Christ. He takes away from us, not subjective Karma, but the objective spiritual effects of the acts, the guilt. That is what we must follow up in our hearts, and then for the first time we shall understand that Christ is in truth that Being who is bound up with the whole of Earth-humanity. For the Earth is there for the sake of mankind, and so Christ is connected also with the whole Earth. It is a weakness of man, as a consequence of the Luciferic temptation, that although he is indeed able to redeem himself subjectively through Karma, he cannot redeem the Earth at the same time. That is accomplished by the Cosmic Being, the Christ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Judgment: Karma, Guilt, and Earth 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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Es beeinträchtigt meine Fortentwickelung nicht, denn ich bleibe nicht so unvollkommen wie ich war, als ich die Tat begangen habe. Ich darf meine Vollkommenheit im weiteren Verlauf meines Karma wieder erringen, indem ich die Tat ausgleiche. Aber ungeschehen kann ich sie ja nicht machen für die Erdenentwickelung. — Unsägliches Leid müßte man mittragen, wenn nicht ein Wesen mit der Erde sich verbunden hätte, welches das, was von uns nicht mehr abgeändert werden kann, für die Erde ungeschehen machte. Dieses Wesen ist der Christus. Nicht subjektives Karma, aber die geistigen objektiven Wirkungen der Taten, der Schuld, die nimmt er uns ab. Das ist dasjenige, was wir, wie gesagt, in unserem Gemüt weiterverfolgen müssen. Dann werden wir es erst verstehen, daß der Christus im Grunde genommen diejenige Wesenheit ist, die mit der ganzen Menschheit im Zusammenhang steht, mit der ganzen Erdenmenschheit; denn die Erde ist um der Menschheit willen da. 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