{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These things are more closely related than is suspected by those who only study them superficially. Today few are prepared to admit that Marx and Engels are the direct heirs of the Church Fathers. That is of no great moment, but it leads to something of far greater moment if we bear the following in mind. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, which condemned Jesus Christ, the Sadducees played a leading part. Who were the Sadducees (those who have rightly been given the name of Sadducees)[^8] at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha? They were a sect which wished to eradicate, to suppress everything that proceeded from the ancient Mysteries. They had a fear, a horror of every form of Mystery cult. The courts and the administration were in their hands. They were completely under the influence of the Roman State; in effect they were the servile agents of Rome. There is unmistakable evidence that they purchased preferment for large sums of money and then recouped themselves by dunning the Jewish population of Palestine. It was they who realized—and thanks to their Ahrimanic, materialistic outlook they were quick to perceive this—that Rome was threatened if it should come to be accepted in any way that the drama of Christ was related to the fundamental teachings of the Mysteries. They had an instinctive feeling that Christianity would give birth to something that would gradually overthrow the authority of Rome. And this accounts for those fierce wars of extermination which Rome waged against Judaism in Palestine during the first century and in later centuries. These wars of extermination were prosecuted with the avowed object of exterminating not only the Jews but all those who knew anything of the reality and traditions of the ancient Mysteries. Everything associated in any way with the Mystery teachings, especially in Palestine, was to be destroyed root and branch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Reality-Based Thinking and the Spirit's Suppression","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-03-27","location":null,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-03-27/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Es waren diejenigen Leute, welche alles, was aus dem Mysterium kam, hinwegeskamotieren wollten, hinweghaben, hinwegschaffen wollten. Diese Sadduzäer waren geradezu diejenigen, welche einen gewissen Horror, einen Schrecken, Schauder hatten vor allem Mysterienkult. Sie waren aber diejenigen, die den Gerichtshof in Händen hatten. Und sie waren es auch, die die Verwaltung dazumal in Palästina in Händen hatten. Sie standen aber ganz unter dem Einfluß des römischen Staates, durchaus unter dem Einfluß des römischen Staates. Sie waren im Grunde die Knechte des römischen Staates, was sich äußerlich schon dadurch ausdrückte, daß sie ihre Stellen durch Riesensummen erkauften, und dann wiederum diese Riesensummen erpreßten von der jüdischen Bevölkerung Palästinas. Sie waren es, deren Blick sich vor allen Dingen darauf richtete — weil sie, man könnte sagen, ihr ahrimanischer Materialismus zu diesem Blick geschärft hatte —, sie waren es, deren Blick sich vor allen Dingen darauf richtete, zu sehen, daß eine große Gefahr für das Römertum vorliege, wenn dasjenige irgendwie Geltung bekäme, was mit dem Christus im Einklange mit dem Mysterienwesen geschähe. Sie hatten eine instinktive Ahnung davon, daß vom Christentum etwas ausgeht, was das Römertum allmählich zertrümmern wird. Und damit hängt es zusammen, daß im Grunde genommen im Laufe des ersten Jahrhunderts und auch noch in spätere Jahrhunderte hinein von seiten des Römertums aus diese furchtbaren Vernichtungskriege geführt wurden gegen das palästinensische Judentum. 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