{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But we miss the significance of this if we think of memory at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha as that “psychic sieve” which passes for memory today. Those who heard the words of Christ cherished them faithfully in their hearts and knew them verbatim. For the power of memory was totally different at that time; so too was the constitution of the soul. It was essentially a period when, in a brief space of time, great changes had taken place. We completely overlook the fact that the history of the East was written in such a way that men saw it either in terms of the present or at best in terms of borrowings from Greek history. The course of Greek history was very similar to that of the Jews, but oriental history followed a different course, because in the East the soul was differently constituted. Hence people have no idea of the great changes that have taken place in a short space of time, that the abnormally retentive memory was rapidly lost in the age of declining atavistic clairvoyance, so that of necessity men had to record the words of Christ in writing. In consequence, the words of Christ suffered the same fate that Christ Jesus suffered at the hands of the Scribes whom He opposed. And I leave it to your imagination to picture what would happen if some disciple, even remotely resembling Christ Jesus, were to speak today with the same impulse with which Christ spoke. Would those who call themselves Christians today act in any way differently from the high priests at that time? I leave you to judge.","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-04-10/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Nicht wahr, man beachtet heute überhaupt nicht: Die morgenländische Geschichte wurde ja schon so geschrieben, daß die Menschen dasjenige in sie hineingesehen haben, was sie entweder heute auch haben, oder was sie höchstens aus der griechischen Geschichte übernommen haben. Die griechische Geschichte verlief schon so, daß sie mit der jüdischen Geschichte eine große Ähnlichkeit hatte; aber die morgenländische Geschichte verlief ganz anders, das heißt in der morgenländischen Zeit waren die Fähigkeiten der Seele ganz andere. Und so macht man sich gar keine Vorstellung davon, wie in kurzer Zeit gewaltige Änderungen vor sich gegangen sind, wie jene Riesenkraft des Gedächtnisses, die dazumal die Menschen hatten in diesem Dämmerzustand des alten atavistischen Hellsehens, verhältnismäßig schnell verlorengegangen ist, so daß dann die Notwendigkeit an die Menschen herantrat, die Jesus-Worte aufzuschreiben. Damit wurden diese Jesus-Worte demselben Schicksal überliefert, das der Christus Jesus bei den Schriftgelehrten fand, gegen die er sich auflehnte. Und ich überlasse es Ihnen, nachzudenken, was geschehen würde, wenn irgendein, dem Christus Jesus irgendwie nur von ferne ähnelnder Schüler heute auftreten würde, und würde mit demselben Impuls sprechen, mit dem der Christus Jesus in der damaligen Zeit gesprochen hat. Ob digjenigen, die sich heute Christen nennen, sich anders als die damaligen Hohenpriester benehmen würden, darüber nachzudenken überlasse ich Ihnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p033"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p031"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":275,"ratio":0.89,"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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