{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 159/1915-05-18/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We would now have to examine whether something similar could have occurred in the Maid of Orleans by way of natural initiation and ask whether her soul was inspired in the nights from the 25th day of December to the 6th of January. From her biography it seems difficult to demonstrate that she was even once in a sleep-like state during the twelve or thirteen special days when the Christ impulse could have entered her soul, inspiring her to act as its human shell on the battle grounds of France. Yet, that is precisely what happened. There is a time when the karma of a particular individual can facilitate such a sleep-like state in a human being. During the last few days prior to a person's birth he lives in the mother's womb in a dreaming, sleep-like state. He has not yet perceived with his senses what is happening in the world outside. If by virtue of his karma a person were especially suited to receive the Christ impulse during these last few days in the womb, then these days could also be days of natural initiation. Strengthened by and saturated with the Christ impulse, such a person would have to be born on the sixth day of January. Joan of Arc was born on that day. It is her special mystery that she was born on the 6th day of January and had spent the time from Christmas to the day of Epiphany in a peculiar sleep-like state in the womb of her mother where she received her natural initiation. Now consider the profound connections beyond the external developments that we are accustomed to call history. As a rule, the external events that are reconstructed from historical documents are of the least significance. What is of decisive historical significance is the plain date in our calendar indicating that Joan of Arc was sent into this world on the 6th day of January. Thus, supernatural forces become active in the sentient world and we must read the occult signs that present this fact to us. They tell us that the Christ impulse had already streamed into the Maid of Orleans before her physical birth, as if by way of natural initiation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Introduction","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-05-18","location":null,"word_count":371,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-05-18/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Peter Mollenhauer, Ph.D.","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/Singles/19150518p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-05-18/p023"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/159/1915-05-18/p023","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Dezember bis zum 6. Januar inspiriert worden wäre. Im Lebensgange scheint so etwas nicht nachzuweisen zu sein, daß die Jungfrau von Orleans auch einmal in den zwölf oder dreizehn Tagen vom 25. Dezember bis 6. Januar in einem schlafähnlichen Zustande war, in welchem besonders der Christus-Impuls hätte in sie hineinwirken können, so daß sie dann als Mensch wie die Hülle nur des Christus-Impulses gewirkt hätte auf Frankreichs Schlachtfeldern. Und doch war es so. Es gibt nämlich eine Zeit, die, wenn das Karma der betreffenden Individualität das besonders möglich macht beim Menschen, wirklich von einem solchen schlafähnlichen Zustand ausgefüllt werden kann. Das ist die Zeit der letzten Tage, in denen der Mensch noch, bevor er das physische Erdenlicht schaut, im Leib der Mutter lebt. Da lebt der Mensch in einem traumhaften, schlafähnlichen Zustand. Er hat ja noch nicht durch die Sinne etwas gesehen, was äußerlich in der Welt sich zuträgt. Wäre ein Mensch durch sein Karma besonders geeignet, in diesen letzten Tagen, in welchen er im Leib der Mutter wohnt, aufzunehmen den Christus-Impuls, so würden diese Tage auch Tage der Naturinitiation sein. Dann würde ein solcher Mensch schon gekräftigt und gestärkt mit dem in ihm liegenden Christus-Impuls zum erstenmal das Auge aufschlagen nach der Initiation, das heißt in diesem Falle, nach der Geburt. Und ein solcher Mensch müßte am 6. Januar geboren sein. Die Jungfrau von Orleans ist am 6. Januar geboren. Das ist das Geheimnis der Jungfrau von Orleans, daß sie am 6. Januar geboren ist, daß sie die Zeit von Weihnachten bis zum Dreikönigstag in jenem eigentümlichen, schlafähnlichen Zustand im Leib der Mutter zugebracht und da ihre Naturinitiation aufgenommen hat. Nun bedenken Sie die tiefen Zusammenhänge, die hinter der äußeren Entwickelung stehen, die man gewöhnlich die Geschichte nennt. Was äußerlich in der Geschichte aus Dokumenten dargestellt wird, das ist in der Regel sogar das Unwichtigste. Das einfache Datum, das in unserem Kalender verzeichnet ist, daß die Jungfrau von Orleans am 6. Januar in die Welt hineingeschickt worden ist, das ist von maßgebender historischer Bedeutung. So wirken die Kräfte aus dem Übersinnlichen in das Sinnliche herein. Und wir müssen diese okkulte Schrift lesen, durch die sich für uns die Hineinwirkung des Übersinnlichen in das Sinnliche darstellt. Also das Hineinströmen des Christus-Impulses wie durch eine Naturinitiation, schon vor der physischen Geburt, war bei der Jungfrau von Orleans vorhanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":416,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/159/1915-05-18/p014"}],"english":["GA 159/1915-05-18/p022","GA 159/1915-05-18/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":416,"en_words":559,"ratio":1.34,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.19,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11895,"original_word_count":9965,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Peter Mollenhauer, Ph.D.","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Mystery of Death","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA159/English/Singles/19150518p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 159/1915-05-18/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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