{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We must always differentiate between the Mystery of Golgotha, according to facts, and the various interpretations which have been brought about in the course of centuries. These facts can be interpreted in a different way in every age, and it would be nonsense to identify some or other teaching of the Mystery of Golgotha with the actual facts of this Mystery. I can explain this with a comparison. Imagine we have a very ingenious person. We also have a child, and next, a mediocre person, balancing everything out, somewhat middle class, even an average person, and thirdly a person with a disposition of brilliance. All three are presented with the same thing: the actual reality of the ingenious individual. The child will have some or other explanation of the genius' actions. The philistine who wants to balance everything out, will also have an explanation, and the person with a disposition of having ingenious qualities will have another explanation. All three are confronted with the same reality but their explanations are completely different and one is not justified to identify either the one or the other as the actual reality. In the same way one may not identify the teachings of the first Christians with the reality of Christianity. These teachings of the first Christian centuries came out of the Orient. One actually learnt what the teachings of oriental wisdom were and they were used to illuminate the Mystery of Golgotha. It is naturally terribly tyrannical when progressive churches take this teaching as the only valid interpretation of the Mystery of Golgotha, because it is nothing other than an interpretation according to the preconditions of a certain age. Other times could interpret the Mystery of Golgotha differently. We must explain it spiritual scientifically to justify the demands of the present time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-12","location":null,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p016"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p016","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Alle drei haben dasselbe vor sich: Die reale Wirklichkeit des genialen Menschen. Das Kind wird irgendeine Erklärung haben für das, was der geniale Mensch tut. Der Philister, der alles nivellieren will, wird auch eine Erklärung haben, und der ebenfalls mit genialen Eigenschaften veranlagte Mensch wird eine andere Erklärung haben. Sie haben alle drei mit derselben Wirklichkeit zu tun, ihre Erklärungen sind aber ganz verschieden, und man ist nicht berechtigt, das eine oder das andere zu identifizieren mit der tatsächlichen Wirklichkeit. Ebenso darf man nicht die Lehren des ersten Christentums identifizieren mit der Tatsächlichkeit des Christentums. Diese Lehren der ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte waren herübergekommen aus dem Orient. Man hat eigentlich gelernt, was orientalische Weisheitslehren waren, und hat diese benützt, um das Mysterium von Golgatha zu erklären. Es ist natürlich nur eine furchtbare Tyrannis, wenn die sich fortentwickelnde Kirche diese Lehren als die allein gültigen ansieht, denn sie sind nichts anderes als das, wonach ein Zeitalter nach seinen Vorbedingungen das Mysterium von Golgatha erklärt hat. Andere Zeiten können dieses Mysterium von Golgatha anders erklären. 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