{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us now relate the concrete case described above (the raising of Jairus’ daughter) to the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven to which Christ owed His powers of healing. If we employ the usual technique of modern historical research in order to explore the source of the special supernatural power through which Christ worked, we shall never find an answer, for times have changed much more than people imagine. Today they assume that three or four thousand years ago men were to all appearances much the same as they are now, that though they have become far cleverer, they have changed very little on the whole. Such people then count back in time until they arrive at millions of years. As I mentioned recently in a public lecture, they count the millions of years ahead until they reach the end of time. They have calculated to a nicety the nature of individual substances millions of years hence: milk will be solid and luminous—I wonder how this milk will be obtained, but we will not go into that now—albumen will be used to decorate the walls so that it will be possible to read the newspaper in its phosphorescent light. Dewar put forward this idea a few years ago in a lecture before the Royal Institute when he discussed the end of the world as envisaged by physicists. At the time I made use of the following comparison in referring to these calculations. I said that if someone were to observe the changes that occur in the human stomach and heart over a period of two or three years, were then to multiply the figure arrived at and calculate the changes that would occur in two hundred years and what the body would look like in two hundred years’ time, then this would be comparable to the calculations of the physicists. Such calculations maybe ingenious, but in two hundred years the person will long have been dead. The same applies to the Earth. Those confident calculations on the part of physicists as to what will happen millions of years hence may be mathematically correct, but physically the inhabitants of the Earth will have perished long before this time. To estimate the geological conditions of the Earth millions of years ago on the same principle is comparable to deducing from the condition of a child's stomach at the age of seven what its condition had been seventy-five years before. People simply fail to realize how confused their thinking is, for man as a physical entity did not exist in that primordial time to which geologists look back. Because strong measures are necessary to combat the many errors of our time which have the weight of authority behind them, one must not be afraid on occasions to react strongly against such methods. One retorts to such people: you calculate from the organic changes in the human organism today what it will be like two hundred years hence. But in two hundred years, of course, the human organism will have ceased to exist. One can also reply that from the results of purely occult investigations—I am aware of course that modern science will regard this as nonsense, but it is none the less true—man as he is today cannot possibly exist six thousand years hence, any more than it is possible for a man who is now twenty years old to be alive in two hundred years time. We can discover through occult investigation that in the sixth millennium women as they are constituted today will become sterile and that an entirely different reproductive process will exist by that time. I realize that this will sound the purest nonsense to those who think along the lines of modern science; nevertheless the fact is undeniable. In our present materialistic age people have very confused ideas about history and historical evolution. Therefore we no longer understand even subtle indications transmitted by external history of differences in the constitution of the human soul which have taken place in relatively recent times.","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":675,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-04-10/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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Heute setzt man voraus: Nun ja, vor zweitausend, viertausend Jahren haben doch die Menschen ungefähr so ausgeschaut wie jetzt, sie sind zwar ungeheuer viel gescheiter geworden, aber so im allgemeinen waren doch die Menschenseelen so, wie sie jetzt sind. Und dann rechnet man zurück, und da kommt man zu Millionen Jahren. Ich habe ja neulich schon im öffentlichen Vortrage gesagt: Man rechnet die Jahrmillionen weiter und kommt zu einem Weltenende. Man hat sehr schön ausgerechnet, wie da die einzelnen Substanzen sein werden: wie Milch fest sein wird, aber leuchten wird — ich möchte wissen, wie diese Milch gemolken wird, aber das wollen wir nicht weiter berühren -, Eiweiß wird man verwenden, indem man die Wände damit anstreicht, weil es leuchten wird, so daß man dabei Zeitung lesen kann. Dewar in der Royal Institution brachte das vor einigen Jahren vor, indem er das Erdenende, so wie es die Physiker ausgerechnet haben, auseinandersetzte. Nun, ich hatte damals einen Vergleich gebraucht, indem ich sagte: Solche Berechnungen der Physiker sind geradeso, wie wenn jemand hergeht und beobachtet, was für Veränderungen vor sich gehen mit dem menschlichen Magen oder dem menschlichen Herzen in zwei, drei Jahren, und dann multipliziert und ausrechnet, was für Veränderungen dann vorgehen werden in zweihundert Jahren, wie also der menschliche Leib in zweihundert Jahren aussehen wird. Sie sind genau ebenso geistreich: nur, der Mensch wird längst verstorben sein in zweihundert Jahren. So ist es aber auch mit unserer Erde. Was da die Physiker so schön ausrechnen, was geschehen wird nach Jahrmillionen, das ist richtig gerechnet, nur wird die Menschheit der Erde als physische Menschheit längst vorher abgestorben sein. Und was die Geologen zurückrechnen für Jahrmillionen, das ist ebenso, nach derselben Methode gerechnet, wie wenn man einen Magen nehmen würde und zurückrechnet, nachdem das Kind sieben Jahre alt geworden ist, wie dann der Organismus des Kindes vor fünfundsiebzig Jahren gewesen ist. Nur merken es die Menschen nicht, was sie eigentlich in ihrem Denken anrichten, denn in denjenigen Zeiten, zu denen die Geologen zurückrechnen, hat die Menschheit als physische Menschheit noch nicht einmal existiert. Man muß, weil starke Arzeneien nötig sind gegen viele Irrtümer unserer Zeit, die mit großer Autorität auftreten, sich schon nicht scheuen, manchmal auch eine starke Arzenei für diejenigen, die sie brauchen können, gegen diese Dinge zu setzen. Starke Arzeneien wie die, daß man etwa sagt: Du rechnest aus, wie ein menschlicher Organismus nach seinen Veränderungen in zweihundert Jahren sein wird; aber er wird natürlich als menschlicher Organismus in zweihundert Jahren nicht mehr leben! Dem kann man, wie sich mir aus rein okkulten Forschungen ergeben hat, entgegensetzen - ich weiß selbstverständlich, das gilt der heutigen Wissenschaft als Narretei, aber wahr ist es —, daß, so wie die Menschheit jetzt ist, sie von heute an in 4000 Jahren nicht mehr wird sein können, ebensowenig wie ein Mensch nach | zweihundert Jahren, der heute zwanzig Jahre alt ist, noch leben wird. Denn man kann es herausfinden durch okkulte Forschung, daß im Laufe des sechsten Jahrtausends die Menschenfrauen, wie sie heute organisiert sind, unfruchtbar sein werden, keine Kinder mehr gebären werden. Und eine ganz andere Ordnung wird eintreten im sechsten Jahrtausend! Das zeigt uns die okkulte Forschung. Ich weiß, daß es dem, der im Sinne der heutigen Wissenschaft denkt, als etwas ganz Unsinniges erscheinen wird, das auszusprechen; aber es ist schon einmal so. Und so muß man sagen: Das, was Geschichte ist, was geschichtlicher Verlauf im Erdenwerden ist, darüber macht man sich gerade heute im materialistischen Zeitalter die konfusesten Begriffe. Deshalb versteht man auch selbst äußerlich durch die Geschichte auf uns gekommene feine Anspielungen auf anders geartete Seelenkonstitutionen in verhältnismäßig gar nicht weit zurückliegender Zeit nicht mehr.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":701,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p028"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":701,"en_words":675,"ratio":0.96,"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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