{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-02-08/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As I said, the pre-Christian world view is admirable in a way. But it did not extend to certain things of an earthly nature. And here I touch on something that is of extraordinary importance for the evolution of the earth. With regard to everything that a person bears within himself as a physical human being, human development was actually a given. In the fifteenth millennium BC, still in the old Atlantis, man had developed all the qualities of his physical constitution to a certain extent within himself, and these then hardened more or less slowly. But in terms of the main development, in terms of the development of knowledge, it was different. Something remained, like a great human manifestation, a knowledge of humanity, imparted by the leaders of the mysteries until the event of Golgotha. What the old pagan sages had within them was, so to speak, the mirror image of an even older wisdom, but of a wisdom that could still observe spiritually; but it was all a mirror image. Then the Mystery of Golgotha entered, that is to say, nothing less than something extraterrestrial: the Christ Being. Something that descended to Earth from spheres that are quite extraterrestrial united with a human physical body, the body of Jesus of Nazareth. Thus something entered into the earthly development of humanity that had not occurred throughout the entire previous evolution of the earth: something cosmic entered into humanity. From the 15th millennium until the Mystery of Golgotha, human beings have essentially lived with their physical constitution through their mental head constitution of ancient inheritance. Now something occurred that, in a certain respect, connected heaven with earth. An extraterrestrial being united with a human body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Consciousness Evolution: Atlantean Divergence and Christian Incarnation","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 in bezug auf die Hauptesentwickelung, auf die Erkenntnisentwickelung war das anders. Da blieb etwas zurück wie eine große Menschheitserscheinung, ein Wissen der Menschheit, vermittelt durch die Führer der Mysterien bis zum Freignis von Golgatha. Was die alten heidnischen Weisen in sich hatten, das war gewissermaßen das Spiegelbild einer noch älteren Weisheit, jedoch einer solchen Weisheit, die noch geistig beobachten konnte; aber es war alles Spiegelbild. Da trat das Mysterium von Golgatha ein, das heißt nichts Geringeres als etwas Außerirdisches: das Christus-Wesen. Etwas, das aus Sphären, die durchaus außerirdisch sind, auf die Erde herabdrang, verband sich mit einem menschlichen physischen Leibe, dem Leibe des Jesus von Nazareth. Damit trat etwas ein in die irdische Menschheitsentwickelung, was die ganze frühere Erdenentwickelung hindurch nicht eingetreten ist: daß etwas Kosmisches in die Menschheit hereingekommen ist. Die Menschen haben im wesentlichen mit ihrer physischen Konstitution seit dem 15. Jahrtausend bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha durch ihre seelische Kopfkonstitution von alter Erbschaft gelebt. Jetzt trat etwas ein, was in gewisser Beziehung den Himmel mit der Erde verband. 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