{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This powerful impulse which found fourfold expression in the Gospels shows that Christ was destined to introduce into the world something that had not existed before. The world disapproves and has always disapproved of change, but a new impulse must be given from time to time. It is amply demonstrated in the Gospels that we can only understand the message of these Gospels aright if we see it in the context of the entire Cosmos, as an expression of cosmic events. This is best illustrated—I refer you to the Mark Gospel, the shortest and most pregnant of the Gospels—if we turn to this Gospel for an answer to the question: who were the first to recognize that Christ Jesus had given to the world that sublime impulse which I have described above? Who first recognized this? One might be tempted to answer: John the Baptist. But he divined it rather, and this is clearly seen in the description of the meeting between Christ Jesus and John in the fourth Gospel. Who, then, were the first to recognize Him? None other than those that were possessed with devils whom Christ had healed. They were the first to cry out, saying, “Thou art the Son of God”—or “Thou art the Holy One of God. And Christ suffered not the devils to speak because they knew Him.” Spiritual beings therefore were the first to recognize Him, and we are here shown the connection between the word of Christ and the spiritual world. Out of their super-sensible knowledge the demons revealed Christ's contribution to the world long before mankind had the slightest inkling of it. They knew it because He was able to cast them out.","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-04-10","location":null,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-04-10/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Das zeigt sich ja am besten — nehmen Sie das kürzeste, das prägnante Markus-Evangelium zur Hand -, wenn Sie sich aus dem Markus-Evangelium die Frage beantworten: Wer erkennt denn eigentlich zuallererst, daß durch den Christus Jesus etwas in die Welt hereingekommen ist, was ein grandioser Impuls von der Art ist, wie es eben gesagt worden ist? Wer erkennt es? Man könnte sagen: der Täufer Johannes. Aber der ahnt es mehr; das zeigt sich insbesondere bei der Schilderung der Begegnung des Christus Jesus mit dem Johannes im Johannes-Evangelium. Wer erkennt es denn zuerst? Die Dämonen in den Besessenen, die Jesus der Christus heilt. Die sind es, die zuerst aussprechen: «Du bist der Gottgesandte» oder «Du bist der Sohn des Gottes» oder dergleichen. Die Dämonen sind es. Den Dämonen muß der Christus zunächst verbieten, daß sie ihn verraten. Geistige Wesen sind es zuerst. Da sehen Sie, daß wir zuerst auf ein Verhältnis des Christus-Wortes zu der geistigen Welt hingewiesen werden. Bevor die Menschen auch nur ein Jota wissen von dem, was durch den Christus in der Welt lebt, sagen es die Dämonen aus ihrer übersinnlichen Erkenntnis heraus. Sie wissen es aus der Tatsache, daß er sie vertreibt, vertreiben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p027"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p025"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":282,"en_words":282,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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