{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have already referred to Saint-Martin. He was one of those who still recognized the evocative or magical power of the words—(the Freemasons of the nineteenth century of course no longer had any understanding of this)—of that language which was once upon a time common to all mankind before it was split into separate languages and which was closely related to the “inner word”. Christ, of course, had to express Himself externally in the language of His day; the inner word which He felt within His soul however, differed from the spoken word of ordinary speech; it was imbued with the power which words have lost, with the power that the universal language once possessed before it was split into separate languages. Unless we are able to form some conception of this power which is independent of these separate languages and which is found in those whose words are fully inspired, we cannot understand the power that dwelt in Christ, nor the significance of what is meant when we speak of Christ as the incarnated “Word” through which He worked and by which He performed His acts of healing and cast out evil spirits. The loss of the “Word” was inevitable, for it was in accordance with human evolution after the Mystery of Golgotha. We must endeavour to recover the “Word” that has been lost. But meanwhile we have reached a stage of evolution which holds little prospect that our efforts will be rewarded.","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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Saint-Martin ist einer noch von denjenigen, welche den Ausdruck in den Worten des Christus-Geistes verstanden haben. Man sieht, er versteht ihn. Freimaurergesellschaften des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts verstanden ihn nicht. Man sieht, Saint-Martin versteht ihn, den Ausdruck in jenen Worten, jener Sprache, die allen Menschen einmal gemeinschaftlich war, allen Wesen der Erde, die sich erst differenziert hat in verschiedene einzelne Sprachen; die nahestand dem, was das innere Wort ist. Äußerlich mußte sich der Christus Jesus natürlich so ausdrücken, wie es in der Sprache derer war, die ihm zuhörten; aber was er als innerliches Wort vor seiner Seele hatte, das war so, daß es nicht stimmte mit dem, wie die Sprachworte äußerlich geprägt sind, sondern daß es in sich hatte die verlorene Worteskraft, die undifferenzierte Sprachkraft. Und ohne daß man sich eine Vorstellung bildet von dieser von den einzelnen differenzierten Sprachen unabhängigen Kraft, die im Menschen ist, wenn das Wort ihn ganz durchgeistigt, kann man nicht aufsteigen zu der Kraft, die in dem Christus lebte, und auch nicht zu der Bedeutung desjenigen, was eigentlich gemeint ist, wenn geradezu von dem Christus als von dem «Wort» gesprochen wird, mit dem er sich ganz identifiziert hat, durch das er wirkte, durch das er auch seine Heilungen und die Dämonenaustreibungen vollbrachte. Dieses Wort mußte selbstverständlich verlorengehen; denn das liegt in der Entwickelung der Menschheit seit dem Mysterium von Golgatha. Es muß nur wieder gesucht werden, dieses Wort. Aber zunächst sind wir in einer Entwickelung darinnen, die noch nicht sehr viel Aussicht erweckt, daß man den Weg zurückfinden wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p030"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":244,"ratio":0.95,"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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