{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Many people will ask: How do I attain a closer relationship with the being we speak of as the Christ? One cannot give a simple formula as answer. The whole of spiritual science deals with issues which, through their very nature, lead to the realm in which Christ lives. As you all know, only once, at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, did Christ walk on the earth as a physical human being. Only then was it possible to know Him as one can know a physical person in physical surroundings. If today one wants to draw near to Christ one must seek Him in the form in which He now lives within the earthly sphere. He must be sought in life's finer, more intimate connections like those of which we have spoken today. Schooling oneself to seek out such delicate connections between remote events enables one to raise oneself into that region of consciousness in which the Christ can be truly experienced. What I have just said can of course also be taken in a crude materialistic sense. Someone could say I am implying that one cannot comprehend the Christ with the ordinary thinking that one applies to physical objects. People who speak like that are really expressing the opinion that things only qualify if they can be depicted in one's mind the way one depicts natural objects. This is the attitude of the materialist; no possibility exists to kindle in him awareness of the spiritual.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Aber er lebt nicht in den groben Zusammenhängen, sondern er lebt in feineren Zusammenhängen. So daß gerade das, was ich Ihnen heute erzählt habe: Das Suchen nach feineren, entlegenen Zusammenhängen, das Sich-Schulen an feineren, entlegenen Zusammenhängen, die Menschen in jene Region des Bewußtseins hereinbringen kann, wo sie den Christus wirklich erleben. Freilich kann man da wiederum, ich möchte sagen, unsanft von einer materlalistischen Hand angefaßt werden. Es kann einer sagen: Nun ja, dann erzählst du uns, daß man den Christus eben nicht im gewöhnlichen Vorstellen erfassen kann, wie man es auf Naturdinge anwendet! — Menschen, die überhaupt einen solchen Gedanken anwenden, die also eigentlich aus der Empfindung heraus sprechen: es ist nur das berechtigt, was nach dem Muster der Naturdinge vorgestellt wird — das machen ja alle Materialisten -, die können überhaupt nicht so geführt werden, daß sie das Geistige wahrnehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p030"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p038"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":265,"en_words":248,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8241,"original_word_count":8922,"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/AP1987/19170710p01.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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