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They do not allow our physical body to become the same everywhere, but from within the body they immobilize the forces for the original identical design.[^3] These opposing forces can still go on working in the second seven years until puberty; indeed, they can even continue to work in the third and fourth seven-year periods during the development of the astral body and the sentient soul. However, in the middle of the development of the intellectual or mind soul, which evolved above all in the fourth post-Atlantean or Greco-Roman time, the extra-earthly forces are less and less able to reach us. And in the very midst of this development, that is, in the period between our twenty-eighth and thirty-fifth years, they have least access to us. If we add two years at the beginning of this period and subtract two years at the end, the time in question is that between the thirtieth and the thirty-third year. 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Thus, the sun-being, Christ, really entered into the earth sphere and united with the whole etheric body of the earth, as I have often explained. He then entered into the earth aura and now continues to work there. This sun-being must work for us in such a way that we realize more and more that in Christ the divine spirit was sent to us who was to counterbalance and redeem from within the separation and diversification in humanity created by Lucifer and Ahriman's opposition to the original impulses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/165/1916-01-09/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-01-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 165/1916-01-09/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-09/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":389,"en_words":371,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Da lassen sie ihn nicht gleich werden, da variieren sie ihn von innen heraus. Sie können es auch noch in den zweiten sieben Jahren, bis zur Geschlechtsreife heran. Sie können es auch noch in den dritten und vierten sieben Jahren während der Entwickelung des astralischen Leibes und der Empfindungsseele. Aber wenn es in die Mitte der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele kommt, gerade desjenigen Gliedes in der menschlichen Entwickelung, das sich vorzugsweise in der vierten nachatlantischen, der griechisch-lateinischen Zeit entwickelt hat, da können die außerirdischen Kräfte am wenigsten an den Menschen heran, und in der Mitte am allerwenigsten, also in dem Zeitraum des Menschlichen, der zwischen dem achtundzwanzigsten und fünfunddreißigsten Lebensjahre liegt, und da wiederum in der Mitte. Wenn wir zwei Jahre vorher noch dazuzählen und zwei Jahre nachher weglassen, so ist das die Zeit vom dreißigsten bis dreiunddreißigsten Jahre. Nachher kommt die Zeit, wo wiederum außerirdische Kräfte auf den Menschen den größten Einfluß haben; in der Tat, da ist der Mensch so, daß außerirdische Kräfte auf ihn den allergrößten Einfluß haben. Jetzt aber - vom dreißigsten bis dreiunddreißigsten Jahre —, da ist noch am meisten von dem vorhanden, daß nur Erdenkräfte noch auf den Menschen wirken. Und in dieser Zeit, in diesen drei Jahren - auch wenn das bleiben würde an Entwickelungsverschiedenheit, was in den jüngeren Jahren wirkte, und das dazukommen würde, was durch die späteren Jahre auftritt —, wenn jetzt nur das wirken würde, was auf den Menschen in dieser Zeit vom dreißigsten bis dreiunddreißigsten Jahre wirkt, so würden die Menschen schon viel gleicher sein auf der Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 165/1916-01-09/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Diese drei Jahre hat nun der Christus ganz besonders benützen müssen — es sind drei ganz besonders ausgesonderte Jahre -, um nur mit den Erdenkräften in dem Menschen eine Gemeinschaft einzugehen, in denen sich das Irdische am Menschen noch am meisten bewahrt hat. Dazu wurde vorbereitet durch die beiden Jesus-Leiber, wie wir das auseinandergesetzt haben, bis zum dreißigsten Jahre hin der Christus-Leib, und dann, vom dreißigsten bis dreiunddreißigsten Jahre nahm der Christus Besitz von diesem Leib. Da, wo noch am meisten die Erdenkräfte wirken und wo Deformation eintreten konnte, da war die Entwickelung nicht mehr da, da trat eben der physische Tod ein. So ist wirklich in die Erdensphäre hereingekommen diese Christus-Sonnenwesenheit und hat sich dann auf die Art, wie ich ja öfters geschildert habe, mit dem ganzen Ätherleib der Erde vereinigt, ging über in die Erdenaura und wirkt nun in der Erdenaura weiter. Für den Menschen muß sie aber so wirken, daß der Mensch wirklich immer mehr begreift, daß ihm in dem Christus jener Gottesgeist auf die Erde geschickt worden ist, wodurch dasjenige, was durch den Widerpart Luzifer-Ahriman gegen die ursprünglichen Impulse in der Menschheit vereinzelt war, verschieden gemacht war,von innen heraus wiederum aufgehoben werde. In der äußeren Natur des Menschen wirken die guten geistigen Wesenheiten mit Luzifer und Ahriman zusammen. Dasjenige aber, was dem Menschen ursprünglich beim physischen Erdenanfang vorgesetzt war, von außen zu haben: Gleichheit über die ganze Erde hin, Möglichkeit des Menschennamens über die ganze Erde hin, das sollte durch den Christus-Geist nun von dem innersten Wesen des Menschen aus diesem Menschen gebracht werden. Das war eines aus der viel-, vielsinnigen Bedeutung des Mysteriums von Golgatha, daß mit dem Christus-Geiste der Erde etwas gegeben wurde, was, wenn es im richtigen Sinne verstanden wird, den Menschennamen wiederum möglich macht über die ganze Erdenmenschheit hin. Wenn dasjenige, was wirklich Inhalt des Christentums ist, was zum Teil schon geoffenbart ist durch das Christentum, was diejenigen erkunden werden, die mit Hinblick auf den Christus suchen werden in der geistigen Welt dasjenige, was der Christus fortwährend offenbart nach seinem Wort: «Ich bin bei euch alle Tage bis ans Ende der Erdenzeiten», wenn dasjenige nach und nach weiter herauskommt, was im Namen des Christus der Menschheit von innen heraus mitgeteilt werden kann, dann wird immer mehr dasjenige, was durch Luzifer und Ahriman in der Erdenmenschheit bewirkt worden ist, ausgeglichen werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":389,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/165/1916-01-09/p021"}],"beads":[{"from":[26],"to":[20],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27,28],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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