{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-08-14/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Ahriman's whole interest lies in diverting man away from the spiritual, towards the material. What is material is indeed also spiritual but its spirit lies hidden within the earth. Ahriman does need much cunning and the use of many a trick in order to prevent man from seeing any cosmic aspect in the personality of the Christ. Nevertheless one finds descriptions of Christ which are strikingly ahrimanic; they are bereft of everything supersensible and are deliberately made to appear purely human. Particularly in social-democratic literature is this very common; not to mention painters who have done everything possible to eliminate every suggestion of a cosmic quality from their figure of Christ. Some years ago there was an exhibition here in Berlin of paintings of Christ, a whole series of ahrimanic paintings one after the other. And then there are all the self-appointed preachers who officially or unofficially speak in a sectarian manner about the Christ with no awareness that Ahriman has them by the collar and induces them to present *his* version of the Christ impulse and not one in which the true impulse of Christ is effective.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. Rhythm in Breathing and Cognition","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-08-14","location":null,"word_count":188,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-08-14/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170814p01.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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Ich habe vor vielen Jahren hier in Berlin einmal eine Ausstellung von ChristusBildern gesehen, eines neben dem anderen. Ich habe den Katalog heute noch, worin ich mir meine Anmerkungen machte: ein ahrimanisches Christus-Bild neben dem anderen! Und wieviele Wanderapostel, welche heute in dieser oder jener Weise sektierend offiziell oder inoffiziell von dem Christus sprechen, wissen nicht, wie Ahriman ihnen im Nacken sitzt und sie verleitet, sein Bild von dem Christus-Impuls zu zeichnen, und nicht dasjenige, welches im Christus-Impuls selbst wirkt. Aber dieses Bild, das im Christus-Impuls selbst wirkt, kann im Sinne unserer Zeit durch nichts anderes dargestellt werden als durch die Mittel der Geisteswissenschaft. Indem die Geisteswissenschaft von denjenigen Schauungen handelt, welche man hat, wenn man außerhalb des Leibes ist, hat sie wieder die Möglichkeit, das Christus-Bild in seiner wahren Gestalt zu schauen. Solange man im Leibe ist, muß man sagen: Das Auge kann zwar die Farben sehen, aber nicht sich selbst. Wenn Sie sich in der Geistesschau aus dem Leib herausbegeben — wenn Sie sich selbst sehen, sehen Sie das Auge -, so sehen Sie den Christus-Impuls durch den Christus-Impuls. Denn die Geisteswissenschaft kann das ersetzen, was keine Historie geben kann: eine Schilderung des Christus-Begriffes kann sie geben. Wie die Geisteswissenschaft den Menschen dahin bringen kann, über das Auge zu schauen, so kann sie es dahin bringen, über den Christus-Impuls, durch den sonst die geistige Welt gesehen wird, zu sprechen. Dadurch wird es zwar erreicht, daß über den Christus-Impuls Vorstellungen gewonnen werden können, aber die Attacken Ahrimans werden deshalb nicht weggeschafft; ihnen muß man sich vielmehr tapfer und mutig gegenüberstellen. Und daß die Menschen den Christus-Begriff nicht durch Geisteswissenschaft ins Auge fassen wollen, das rührt davon her, daß sie eine unterbewußte Furcht davor haben, daß der Christus-Impuls, sobald er durch Geisteswissenschaft gesehen wird, an den Widerstand Ahrimans stößt. 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