{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All forces, my dear friends, develop further. What has become of that which the Magi of the East understood through the development of their intellect which was still clairvoyant? What has become of their astrology? Their kind of astronomy? We cannot understand human evolution if we do not look into such things. Today it has become cold and gray mathematics and geometry. Today we see the abstract forms that are taught in schools as geometry and mathematics. This is the last remnant of that which in the living radiance of the cosmic light was mastered by that ancient wisdom which led the three Magi of the East to Christ. The outer wisdom has become the inner theories of space and time. And whilst the Magi of the East, through their understanding of the mysteries of space, were able in vision to reckon “ *In this night* will the Saviour be born,” our astronomy, which is the successor to that astrology, can only reckon the future eclipses of the sun and moon and similar things. And whilst the poor shepherds of the field out of the inwardness of their hearts were raised to that which certainly stood in close relationship to them, namely, the vision of the Christmas Mystery, and the hearing of the heavenly announcement, there has only remained to present-day humanity the perception of external nature. This perception of external nature through the senses represents the last transformation of the simplicity of the shepherds, just as our reckoning of future eclipses of sun and moon is the last successor of the wisdom of the Magi.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Was die Weisen aus dem Morgenlande durch die Entwickelung des noch hellsehenden Verstandes als ihre Astrologie, als ihre Art von Astronomie gekannt haben, was ist es heute geworden? Wir verstehen die Menschheitsentwickelung nicht, wenn wir nicht in solche Dinge hineinschauen. Es ist heute zur grauen Mathematik und Geometrie geworden. Wir schauen heute die abstrakten Gebilde an, die wir in der Geometrie und in der Mathematik in der Schule erhalten: das ist der letzte Rest dessen, was in lebendigem Glanze im Weltenlichte beherrscht wurde von jener alten Weisheit, welche die drei Magier aus dem Morgenlande zu dem Christus hinführte. Das äußere Schauen ist inneres Raumes- und Zeitendenken geworden. Während die Magier des Ostens fähig waren, aus ihrer Enträtselung der Raumesgeheimnisse schauend zu berechnen, in dieser Nacht wird der Heiland geboren, berechnen unsere Astronomen, die Nachfolger jener Astrologen, lediglich noch die zukünftige Sonnenund Mondenfinsternis oder ähnliches. Und während die armen Hirten auf dem Felde aus der Innigkeit ihres Herzens heraus sich zur Anschauung desjenigen, was ganz gewiß mit ihnen in Verbindung stand, zur Anschauung des Weihnachtsmysteriums, zum Hören der Himmelsverkündigung erhoben, ist dem heutigen Menschen nur das Anschauen der äußeren sinnlichen Natur geblieben. Das Anschauen der äußeren sinnlichen Natur stellt ebenso die Nachfolgeschaft der Hirteneinfalt dar, wie darstellt die Nachfolgeschaft der Weisen aus dem Morgenlande unsere Berechnung der Sonnen- und Mondenfinsternisse in der Zukunft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-23/p018"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-23/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":227,"en_words":266,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"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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