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All that Christianity has been able to teach men in nearly 2,000 years is the simple fact that the Christ descended to Earth and established a connection with the Earth. Human understanding was not ripe for more. Only now, in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, the epoch of the Consciousness Soul, is humanity becoming ripe to understand, not merely the fact that the Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha, but the real significance of this event. Mankind will be able to understand the content of the Mystery of Golgotha only out of the spiritual foundations which can be built in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Spirit's Living Reality and the Social Problem","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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Nicht viel mehr hat sich ausgelebt, als daß durch alles, was die Menschen mit Bezug auf das Christentum empfunden haben, namentlich mit Bezug auf das Mysterium von Golgatha, eigentlich nur darauf hingewiesen worden ist, daß der Christus durch den Menschen Jesus einmal dagewesen ist und durch das Mysterium von Golgatha gegangen ist. Gewissermaßen haben diese ersten fast zwei Jahrtausende des Lebens des Christentums auf der Erde nicht mehr vermocht - wegen des noch nicht zu weiterem Reifen vorgeschrittenen menschlichen Verständnisses -, als dem Menschen anzuzeigen, der Christus hat sich mit der Erde verbunden, der Christus ist auf die Erde herabgestiegen. Erst jetzt im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum, in dem Zeitraum der Bewußtseinsseelenentwicklung, wird die Menschheit reif, nicht nur zu verstehen, daß der Christus durch das Mysterium von Golgatha gegangen ist, sondern was eigentlich in diesem Mysterium von Golgatha lebt. 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