{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 193/1919-11-04/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Equally we shall be convinced that deeper and deeper penetration of the Gospels is necessary through spiritual science. The literal, word-for-word acceptance of the Gospels that is still so prevalent to-day, promotes Ahrimanic culture. Even on external grounds it is obvious that a strictly literal acceptance of the Gospels is unjustified. For as you know, what is good and right for one time is not right for every other time. What is right for one epoch becomes Luciferic or Ahrimanic when practised in a later one. The mere reading of the Gospel texts has had its day. What is essential now is to acquire a *spiritual* understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha in the light of the truths enshrined in the Gospels. Many people, of course, find these things disquieting; but those whose interest is attracted by Anthroposophy must learn to realise that the levels of culture, gradually piling one above the other, have created chaos, and that light must penetrate again into this chaos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lucifer and Ahriman: Incarnations Shaping Human Evolution","date":"1919-11-04","location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/193/1919-11-04/p045","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","translation_credit":{"identified_edition":"RSP1974","translator":null,"publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA193/English/RSP1974/InnAsp_index.html"},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/193/1919-11-04/p045","paragraph_aligned":true}]}