{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In our lecture today I should like to remind you how easy it is to misunderstand the real nature of the Mystery of Golgotha because we fail to recognize how difficult it is to achieve a deeper insight into that Mystery with our present mode of cognition. We may readily believe, for example, that through mystical contemplation, by turning inwards to seek the divine within, we shall find the Christ. The majority of those who have followed the path of mysticism have not found the Christ. We shall not find the Christ if we maintain, as many Theosophists maintain, that we must first become aware of the divine within and we shall then experience the Christ. That is not so. What, at most, under these circumstances may suggest the presence of an inner light, can never, if rightly understood, be called the Christ, but might be called a Universal Divine Being. And because we are not accustomed to differentiate today, even theoretically, many mystics believe that they can find the Christ through what is usually called mysticism, through a mysticism that is relatively uncontrolled. This is a delusion. And it is important to bear this in mind, just as it is important to note that the philosophies of the late nineteenth century down to our own times have developed, as subsidiary branches of philosophy, philosophies of religion which imagine that they are in a position to speak of the Christ. In effect, they portray—and can only portray—what may be called a Universal Divine Being, but not the Christ. The philosopher Lotze, for example, who attempted to probe deeply into this question speaks of such a Universal Being, but he would never dream of calling this Divine Being the Christ. Neither the mystical path nor the path followed by such philosophers can lead to an understanding of the true nature of the Mystery of Golgotha. In order to arrive at a fuller understanding of this Mystery I propose to call attention to certain characteristics of the conceptions attaching to it. Let us regard these conceptions in the first place purely as expressions of opinion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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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Man findet nicht den Christus, wenn man etwa wie manche, die sich Theosophen nennen, sagt, man müsse in seinem eigenen Innern gewahren das mit diesem eigenen Innern verbundene Göttliche, dann ginge der Christus in dem Menschen auf. Das ist nicht der Fall. Dasjenige, was dann höchstens aufgehen kann, was im Innern gewissermaßen als ein inneres Licht erscheinen kann, das kann niemals, richtig verstanden, der Christus genannt werden, sondern das könnte nur ein göttliches Wesen im allgemeinen genannt werden. Und nur weil man sich heute nicht gewöhnt, auch nur theoretisch die Dinge zu unterscheiden, glauben manche Mystiker, durch das, was man gewöhnlich Mystik nennt, durch die gewissermaßen sich selbst überlassene Mystik, zu dem Christus kommen zu können. Das ist nicht der Fall. Und es ist wichtig, einmal dies vor seine Seele hinzustellen, ebenso wie es wichtig ist, darauf zu achten, daß ja auch die Philosophien des abgelaufenen Zeitraumes des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bis in unsere Zeit herein, als Teile von sich, Religionsphilosophien erzeugt haben, und daß diese Philosophien gar oftmals glauben, vom Christus reden zu können. In Wahrheit können sie nichts anderes finden — und man findet auch in diesen Philosophien nichts anderes — als dasjenige, was ein göttliches Wesen im allgemeinen, aber nicht der Christus genannt werden kann. Nehmen Sie selbst einen Philosophen, der nach einer gewissen Vertiefung gesucht hat, wie Lotze. Lesen Sie seine Religionsphilosophie und Sie werden finden: er spricht von einem göttlichen Wesen im allgemeinen, aber er spricht nicht so, daß er dieses göttliche Wesen, von dem er denkt, sinnt, mit dem Christus-Namen bezeichnen könnte. — Noch weniger kann man auf den Wegen, die durch solche Mystik, durch solche Philosophie gesucht werden, das Wesen des Mysteriums von Golgatha finden. Wir wollen uns, um dies näher einzusehen, einmal einige Eigenschaften der Vorstellungen vom Mysterium von Golgatha vor die Seele führen. Ich möchte sagen, zunächst wie bloße Behauptungen wollen wir uns diese Vorstellungen des Mysteriums von Golgatha vor die Seele führen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":421,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p003"},{"locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Zunächst gehört es, wenn das Mysterium von Golgatha überhaupt das sein soll, was der Menschheit in ihrer geschichtlichen Erdenentwickelung nötig ist, zu dem Wesen dieses Mysteriums von Golgatha, daß diejenige Wesenheit, also die Christus-Wesenheit, die durch das Mysterium von Golgatha gegangen ist, mit dem Mysterium von Golgatha etwas verrichtet hat, das seine Beziehung hat zur ganzen Weltordnung. Wenn wir den Ausdruck nicht gebrauchen wollen, können wir sagen, zur ganzen kosmischen Ordnung. Sieht man bei dem Wesen, das durch das Mysterium von Golgatha gegangen ist, ab von einer Beziehung zur ganzen Welt, dann hat man nicht mehr dieses Wesen, dann kann man von irgendeinem göttlichen Wesen im allgemeinen sprechen, aber man kann nicht von dem Christus-Wesen sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p004"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p003","GA 175/1917-04-10/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":537,"en_words":427,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"evidence":["length","anchors"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8744,"original_word_count":8870,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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