{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p047","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But how can this be? How can that which belongs solely to the realm of thought according to the materialist, which is only an idea or theory towards which one feels a moral obligation—how can that be transformed into real force such as the one which burns in coal or which causes the bullet to fly through the air? How can such ideas which are so tenuous possess solid reality? To achieve this transformation a new impulse is needed and these moral ideas must be inbued with the impulse. What impulse is this? You will recall that we said earlier that faith must not be merely a substitute for knowledge: it must be an active agent that effects something. It must make our moral ideas a reality, lift them to a new plane and create a new world out of them. It is important that our articles of faith are not simply a form of unverified knowledge, a blind faith, but that our faith has the power to transform the seed “morality” into a cosmic reality. It was the mission of the Mystery of Golgotha to imbue Earth evolution with this power. This power had to be implanted in the souls of the disciples. At the same time they were reminded of the loss suffered by those who possessed only the written records. It is the power of faith which is of paramount importance. And if we do not understand what we owe to Christ when one so often hears the words “faith” or “belief”, then neither do we understand what entered Earth evolution at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha.","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-04-10/p047","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Wie kann dasjenige, was nur im Gedanken lebt nach den naturalistischen Vorstellungen, was nur eine Vorstellung ist, zu der man sich moralisch verbunden fühlt, wie kann das umgesetzt werden in solche Realität, wie diejenige ist, die in der Steinkohle brennt oder mit der Flintenkugel in die Luft fliegt? Wie kann das eine dichte Vorstellung sein, was so dünn ist als moralische Vorstellung? Dazu braucht es eines Impulses. Es muß ergriffen werden diese moralische Vorstellung von einem Impulse. Wo ist er, dieser Impuls? Jetzt erinnern Sie sich an das, was wir vorher gesagt haben: Der Glaube soll nicht bloß ein Surrogat des Wissens sein; der Glaube soll etwas wirken. Das, was er wirken soll, ist: er soll unsere moralischen Vorstellungen real machen. Er soll sie hinübertragen und eine neue Welt daraus bilden. Darauf kommt es an, daß die Glaubensvorstellungen nicht bloß ein unbewiesenes Wissen sind, etwas, was man glaubt, weil man es nicht weiß, sondern darauf kommt es an, daß in dem, was man glaubt, die Kraft liegt, welche imstande ist, den Keim «Moral» zum Weltenkörper zu realisieren. Diese Kraft mußte durch das Mysterium von Golgatha in die Erdenentwickelung hereingetragen werden. Diese Kraft mußte in die Seele der Jünger hereingesenkt werden, indem ihnen gesprochen wurde von dem, was diejenigen nicht mehr hatten, die nur die Schrift hatten. Auf die Kraft des Glaubens kommt es an. Und wenn man nicht versteht, was der Christus hereinbringt, gerade indem das Wort «Vertrauen», «Glaube» so oftmals ausgesprochen wird, versteht man nicht, was in der Zeit, in der das Mysterium von Golgatha eintrat, in die Erdenentwickelung hereinkam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p049"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p047"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":272,"ratio":1.02,"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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