{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The fact that Christ confined His message to the spoken word and left no record in writing applies only in His case, but such limitation would be totally unacceptable to our epoch. If Christ had written down His words and translated them into the current language of the day, Ahrimanic forces would have entered into them, for all set forms are Ahrimanic. The written word has a different effect from that of the spoken word when a group of pupils is gathered together and is entirely dependent upon the power of the spirit. One must not imagine that the author of the John Gospel sat beside Christ when He was speaking and recorded His words in shorthand like our stenographers who are recording this lecture. That this did not occur is of immense significance. We only realize the full significance of this when we learn from the Akashic Chronicle what really lies behind Christ's condemnation of the Scribes, of those who derived their knowledge from documents. He objected to the Scribes because their knowledge was derived from documents, because their souls were not directly in touch with the source from which the living word flowed. And this led, in Christ's opinion, to the debasement of the living word.","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 darf sich nicht vorstellen, daß der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums daneben gesessen hat, wenn der Christus Jesus gesprochen hat, und seine Worte nachstenographiert hat wie die Herrschaften hier. Gerade daß es nicht geschah, darauf beruht eine ungeheure Kraft, eine ungeheure Bedeutung. Diese Bedeutung, die sieht man erst dann ganz ein, wenn man, ich möchte sagen, aus der Akasha-Chronik heraus verstehen lernt, was eigentlich in den Worten liegt, die der Christus Jesus immer gerade gegen Schriftgelehrte, gegen diejenigen einzuwenden hat, die ihre Weisheit aus den Schriften haben. Er hat das gegen sie einzuwenden, daß sie sie eben aus den Schriften haben, daß sie in ihren Seelen nicht unmittelbar zusammenhängen mit jenem Quell, aus dem das lebendige Wort unmittelbar ausfließt. 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