{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 187/1918-12-22_02/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Most of all, understanding must come about, Christian understanding, for a certain aspect of human life. Someday Christian thought will announce a fact that has already been put forward by some minds since the middle of the nineteenth century—may I say, in stammering accents, but quite distinctly. When one has first grasped the fact that a child enters his earth life with a consciousness of human equality, then one must go on to the fact that as the child becomes a man, unequal powers develop in him—as if from just the fact of being born—powers that are obviously not of this earth. One is then confronting another great mystery of human existence, one that is in direct contrast to the idea of equality. To see into this mystery will help one to form a true picture of mankind—something that already at this present moment in time has become earnestly necessary for the future evolution of the human soul. One faces the startling fact that human beings begin to differ from one another while they are growing out of childhood, by reason of something that obviously is born in them, something in their blood: that is, their various gifts and capacities.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-22","location":null,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/187/1918-12-22_02/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Alan P. Shepherd and Dorothy S. 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Dieses Mysterium zu durchschauen und durch das Durchschauen dieses Mysteriums eine richtige Anschauung über den Menschen zu erlangen, das wird zu wichtigen und notwendigen Bedürfnissen in der zukünftigen menschlichen Seelenentwickelung von der Gegenwart ab gehören. Die Frage steht bange vor dem Menschen: Ja, die Menschen werden verschieden, wenn sie es auch noch nicht in der Kindheit sind, durch etwas, was scheinbar mit ihnen geboren ist, was im Blute liegt, durch ihre verschiedenen Begabungen und Fähigkeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/187/1918-12-22_02/p016"},{"locus":"GA 187/1918-12-22_02/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Die Frage der Begabungen und Fähigkeiten, welche so viele Ungleichheiten unter den Menschen bewirken, sie tritt an den Menschen heran im Zusammenhang mit dem Weihnachtsgedanken. Und das Weihnachtsfest der Zukunft, es wird in ernster Weise den Menschen immerzu gemahnen an den Ursprung seiner ihn über die Erde hin differenzierenden Begabungen, Fähigkeiten, Talente, vielleicht sogar genialen Fähigkeiten. Er wird nach diesem Ursprung fragen müssen. Und das richtige Gleichgewicht innerhalb des physischen Daseins wird er nur erlangen, wenn er in der rechten Art auf den Ursprung seiner ihn von den andern Menschen unterscheidenden Fähigkeiten hinweisen kann. Das Weihnachtslicht oder die Weihnachtslichter müssen der sich entwickelnden Menschheit Aufschluß geben über diese Fähigkeiten, müssen die große Frage lösen: Besteht Ungerechtigkeit innerhalb der Weltenordnung für den einzelnen persönlichen Menschen zwischen Geburt und Tod? 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