{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now the Gospel of St. Mark, on the other hand, was written for the Romans. It was directed against the Roman Empire, the “kingdom of the world”. It was an attack upon the legal ordinances of the Empire and its social order. The Jews realized full well what they meant, or rather what they felt, when they said: We must kill Him, otherwise our people will follow Him and then the Romans will come and seize our land and our kingdom. The Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark were directed therefore against Judaism and Romanism respectively. They were broadsides directed not against the real essence of Judaism or Romanism, but against their outward forms as “kingdoms of the world”, in contradistinction to the “Kingdom of Heaven”. The special characteristics of these two Gospels are not taken today with the seriousness they deserve. A few years before the War, the Czar, who has now been deposed, wrote in his own hand on one of his edicts the following words: “Intellectual giants, giants of action will appear one day—of this I am firmly convinced—and bring salvation to Russia and provide for her greatest good.” Had these giants of thought and action in whom the Czar had implicit confidence, materialized, you can well imagine that he would promptly have imprisoned them in the Peter and Paul Fortress, or have exiled them to Siberia. So much for the reliance we can place upon words today. With such an attitude we cannot fathom the inner meaning of the Gospels.","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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Das Markus-Evangelium ist für Römer geschrieben, gegen dasjenige, was im äußeren Römischen Reiche, im Reiche der Welt, sich herausgebildet hatte. Es ist gegen die Gesetzesordnung des Römischen Reiches, gegen die soziale Ordnung des Römischen Reiches geschrieben; es ist eine Gegenschrift gegen das Römische Reich. Jene Juden wußten ganz gut, was sie meinten, oder eigentlich, besser gesagt, was sie fühlten, die da sagten: Wir müssen ihn töten, denn sonst wird das ganze Volk sein Anhänger, und dann kommen die Römer und nehmen uns Land und Reich. — Gegen das Judentum, gegen das Römertum sind Matthäus- und Markus-Evangelium geschrieben. Richtige opponierende Schriften ernstester Art, nicht gegen das Judentum seinem Wesen nach, selbstverständlich, auch nicht gegen das Römertum seinem Wesen nach, sondern gegen dasjenige, was Judentum und Römertum äußerlich geworden sind, was sie als Reiche der Welt gegenüber dem Reiche der Himmel oder des Gottes in der damaligen Zeit waren. Man nimmt diese Dinge allerdings auch in unserer Zeit, wie ähnliche Dinge, wahrhaftig nicht mit jenem Ernste, mit dem sie genommen werden wollen; man weiß es gar nicht einmal, daß man sie nicht mit dem Ernste nimmt, mit dem sie genommen werden wollen. Der Zar, der jetzt abgesetzt worden ist, schrieb wenige Jahre vor dem Krieg auf einen seiner Erlasse die folgenden eigenhändigen Worte: Riesen des Gedankens und der Tat werden erscheinen, ich vertraue fest darauf, und werden das Heil und die Wohlfahrt Rußlands bringen! Denken Sie, wenn das gekommen wäre, auf das der Zar fest vertraut hat: Riesen des Gedankens und der Tat - in die Peter-Pauls-Festung hätte er sie geschickt oder nach Sibirien, selbstverständlich! Das ist der Ernst, der heute hinter den Worten lebt. 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