{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1914-07-16/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nowadays one can read theological works—and those who have read them will bear me out—which assure us that certain theologians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have at last disposed of the popular medieval belief that Christ came to Earth in order to snatch the Earth from the devil, to snatch the Earth from Lucifer. Within modern theology there is an “enlightened” materialism which will not recognize itself as such but on the contrary imagines itself to be specially enlightened. It says: “In the dark Middle Ages people said that Christ appeared in the world because He had to snatch the Earth away from the devil.” But the true explanation leads us back to this simple, popular belief. For everything on the Earth that is not set free by Christ belongs to Lucifer. All that is human in us, all that is more than what is merely confined in our ego, is ennobled, is made fruitful for the whole of humanity, when it is permeated with Christ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Christ's Redemption of Earth's Spiritual Relics","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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Ja, so sagen sie, in diesem finsteren Mittelalter, da haben die Leute davon gesprochen, daß der Christus in der Welt erschienen ist, weil er die Erde dem Teufel hat entreißen sollen. — Die wahre Aufklärung führt uns zu diesem einfachen, schlichten Volksglauben zurück ! Denn von der Erde gehört Luzifer all dasjenige, was durch den Christus nicht befreit wird. Und alles Menschliche, was in uns mehr ist als das, was bloß beschlossen ist in unserem Ego, es wird geadelt, es wird fruchtbar gemacht für die ganze Menschheit, wenn es durchchristet ist. Und indem ich am Ende der Betrachtungen dieser Tage vor Ihnen stehe, meine lieben Freunde, möchte ich nicht unterlassen, zu jeder einzelnen Seele derer, die da vereinigt waren in diesen Tagen, auch diese Worte noch zu sprechen:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1914-07-16/p043"}],"english":["GA 155/1914-07-16/p039","GA 155/1914-07-16/p040"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":217,"en_words":203,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 155/1914-07-16/p043"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6157,"original_word_count":6192,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Christ and the Human Soul","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA155/English/RSP1972/19140716p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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