{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-03/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now pass from these more elementary aspects to some on a higher level, we may consider the following: On the average, people living today are in their second incarnation since the Christian chronology began. In their first life it was sufficient if they received the Christ impulse from their immediate environment in whatever way possible. In their present, or second incarnation that is no longer enough; that is why people are gradually losing the Christ impulse. Were people now living to return in their next incarnation without having received the Christ impulse anew they would have lost it altogether. That is why it is essential that the impulse of Christ find entry into human souls in the form presented by spiritual science. Spiritual science does not have to resort to historical evidence but is able to relate the Christ impulse directly to the kinds of issues we are continually discussing in our circles. This enables it to be connected with the human soul in ways that ensure it is carried over into future ages when the souls incarnate once more. We are now too far removed from the historical event to absorb the Christ impulse the way we did in our first incarnation after the Christ event. That is why we are going not only through an external crisis, but also an inner crisis in regard to the Christ impulse. Traditions no longer suffice. People are honest who say that there is no proof of historical Christ. But spiritual knowledge enables man to discover the Christ impulse once more as a living reality in human evolution. The course of external events shows the necessity for the Christ impulse to arise anew on the foundation of spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Franz Brentano's Struggle: Truth, Goodness, and Spiritual Science","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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Daher ist es wiederum so notwendig, daß dieser Christus-Impuls sich so in die menschliche Seele setzt, wie ihn die Geisteswissenschaft gibt, die nicht angewiesen ist auf irgendeinen historischen Beweis, sondern die aus solchen Grundlagen heraus, wie sie hier wiederholt besprochen worden sind, den Christus-Impuls aufzeigt. So verbindet er sich mit der menschlichen Seele, daß er wirklich auch hinübergetragen werden kann in die Zeitalter, wo die Menschen neu kommen werden. Aber gerade deshalb sind wir in der Gegenwart in einer Art von Krisis auch in bezug auf den Christus-Impuls. So können wir ihn nicht aufnehmen, wie wir ihn in unserer ersten Inkarnation aufgenommen haben, denn wir sind zu weit von dem Historischen entfernt. Die Tradition ist vorbei. Diejenigen Menschen sind ehrlich, die sagen: Es gibt keinen Beweis aus der Geschichte für den historischen Christus. — Die Geisteswissenschaft zeigt, wie der Christus-Impuls in der Menschheitsentwickelung da ist. Geisteswissenschaft kann die Realität des Christus-Impulses wiederum bringen. Aber so muß er auftreten innerhalb der Menschheitsentwickelung, wie er aus der Geisteswissenschaft heraus auftreten kann. Das zeigt einfach der äußere Verlauf des heutigen Daseins.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-03/p032"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-03/p039"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":284,"en_words":289,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8951,"original_word_count":9212,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170703p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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