{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And how was Christ Jesus announced to the simple shepherds of the field? With the soul's eye they saw the light of the Angel Their clairvoyance and clairaudience were awakened. They heard the deepest words which for them signified the future meaning of earth life: “ *The Divine is revealed in the heights and there shall be peace among men on earth who can be of good will*.” Out of the depths of the soul arose the capacity by which in the Holy Night the poor simple shepherds without any kind of wisdom experienced feelingly what was being revealed to the world; out of the perfection of that wisdom that could reach even to the Mystery of Golgotha, out of the finest observation of the course of the stars this revelation came to the wise men of the East, to the Magi, the same revelation. In the one case it is read within the human heart, the heart of the poor simple shepherd, and it penetrates to the deepest point within the human heart; it is there that they became clairvoyant and the heart reveals to them by its clairvoyant power the coming of the Saviour of mankind. The others looked up to the breadths of heaven, they knew the mystery of the widths of space and the evolution of time; they had attained a wisdom by which they could experience and solve the mysteries of space and time. The Christmas Mystery was revealed to them. Our attention is directed to the fact that what lives in man's innermost soul and what lives in the widths of space flow from the same source. And both, in the way they had been developed up to the Mystery of Golgotha, were already in a declining condition. The clairvoyance that emerged from the quickened human heart, that of the shepherds, to whom we are told the announcement came, was still strong enough to perceive the voice that proclaimed: “ *The Divine is revealed in the heights, in heaven, and peace shall be on earth among men of good will.*” We might say that the last remnants of this clairvoyance through *inner piety* were still present in the shepherds whose karma, or destiny, had brought them together to that place where Christ was born. And from that primeval *holy wisdom* which first flourished in the post-atlantean times among the original Indians, then especially among the Persians, and again was transplanted among the Chaldeans, and of which at all events the last remnants were present among those whom we find as the three Magi from the East, out of this primeval holy wisdom which comprehended the world of space and time—out of this wisdom, through its representatives who had raised themselves to the highest point, was the Christmas Mystery again revealed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Aus der Vollendung derjenigen Weisheit, die bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha hat erlangt werden können, aus der feinsten Beobachtung des Sternenganges ergibt sich für die Weisen des Morgenlandes, für die magischen Weisen, dieselbe Offenbarung! Die einen lesen sie im Menschenherzen, die armen, einfältigen Hirten, und sie dringen bis zum tiefsten Punkt des Menschenherzens. Da werden sie hellsichtig, da offenbart ihnen das Herz aus seiner Schauenskraft heraus das Kommen des Heilandes der Menschheit. Die anderen schauen zum ganzen weiten Himmelszelt auf. Sie kennen die Geheimnisse der Raumesweiten und der Zeitenentwickelung, sie haben eine Weisheit errungen, durch die sie diese Geheimnisse der Raumesweiten und der Zeitenentwickelung erfühlen und enträtseln können. Da offenbart sich ihnen. das Weihnachtsmysterium.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p015"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Hingewiesen werden wir darauf, wie aus dem gleichen Quell dasjenige fließt, was in des Menschen Inneren lebt und das, was in den Raumesweiten lebt. Und beides war in der Art, wie es sich entwickelt hat bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha hin, schon in der Abnahme begriffen. Das Hellsehen, das aus dem belebten Menschenherzen herauskam, das bei den Hirten, auf die hingewiesen wird als auf jene, für welche die Verkündigung in Betracht kommt, noch stark genug war, um die Stimmen zu vernehmen: Es offenbart sich der Gott in der Höhe, in den Himmeln, und es wird sein Friede unter den Menschen auf Erden, die eines guten Willens sind, - man möchte sagen, die letzten Reste dieses durch innere Frommheit Hellsehendwerdens waren noch vorhanden bei den Hirten, die das Karma, das Schicksal zusammengetragen hatte an dem Orte, wo der Christus geboren worden ist. Und aus jener uralten heiligen Weisheit, die in der nachatlantischen Zeit zuerst geblüht hat bei den Ur-Indern, dann namentlich bei den Persern, dann wiederum bei den Chaldäern, die sich hereinverpflanzt hat und von der ebenfalls noch gerade die letzten Reste vorhanden waren unter denjenigen, bei denen wir suchen sollen die drei Magier aus dem Morgenlande — aus dieser uralt heiligen Weisheit, die die Welt im Raum und in der Zeit durchmaß, aus dieser Weisheit heraus, indem ihre Vertreter sich zu einem höchsten Aufschwung erhoben, offenbarte sich wiederum dieses Weihnachtsmysterium. Beides aber ist uns in der fünften nachatlantischen Zeit abhanden gekommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p016"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-23/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":457,"en_words":466,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 202/1920-12-23/p015","GA 202/1920-12-23/p016"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5418,"original_word_count":5132,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"MP1983","book_title":"The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201223p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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