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But it was already so arranged in the developmental history of mankind that the ancient wisdom was dying out and becoming paralyzed. And it was precisely in the fourth century A.D. that one could do nothing with this ancient wisdom. Yesterday I presented another point of view, showing how this ancient wisdom gradually darkened. In a certain sense, the fourth century is the one in which man made the first beginning of being completely dependent on himself, having nothing around him for his contemplation other than what the senses can perceive and what the combining mind can make of the sensory perception. In order to gain its freedom, which could never have been gained through dependence on unearthly things, if ancient wisdom had not been paralyzed, humanity had to lose ancient wisdom, had to be thrown into materialistic observation. 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All the feelings and emotions that were related to the Mystery of Golgotha were no longer associated with the supermundane Christ, but began to be associated with the earthly Jesus of Nazareth. And so the Feast of the Epiphany of Christ became the Feast of the Epiphany of the Child Jesus. 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Und gerade im 4. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderte war es so, daß man mit dieser Urweisheit nichts machen konnte. Ich habe gestern von einem andern Gesichtspunkte dargestellt, wie diese Urweisheit sich allmählich verdunkelt. Das 4. Jahrhundert ist in einem gewissen Sinne dasjenige, in dem der Mensch den ersten Anfang damit machte, ganz auf sich selbst gestellt zu sein, nichts um sich herum zu haben für seine Anschauung als dasjenige, was die Sinne auffassen können, was der kombinierende Verstand aus der Sinnesanschauung machen kann. Die Menschheit mußte gewissermaßen, um ihre Freiheit zu erringen, die niemals wegen der Abhängigkeit von überirdischen Dingen zu erringen gewesen wäre, wenn die Urweisheit nicht abgelähmt worden wäre, also um die Freiheit zu erringen, mußte die Menschheit die alte Urweisheit verlieren, mußte in das materialistische Anschauen herausgeworfen werden. Dieses materialistische Anschauen erscheint in seiner ersten Morgenröte im 4. nachchristlichen Jahrhundert und wird immer stärker und stärker, bis es im 19. Jahrhundert seinen Kulminationspunkt erreicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/209/1921-12-25/p015"},{"locus":"GA 209/1921-12-25/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Auch der Materialismus hat sein Gutes in der Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit. Dadurch, daß der Mensch nicht mehr hereinleuchtend hatte das übersinnliche Licht in sein Gemüt, dadurch, daß er angewiesen war auf dasjenige, was er mit seinen Sinnen in der Umwelt sieht, dadurch wurde die selbständige, zur Freiheit hintendierende Kraft in ihm hervorgerufen. Auch das erschien weisheitsvoll in der Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit, daß der Materialismus heraufgezogen ist. Aber gerade in der Zeit, in der der Materialismus sich des Erdenwesens des Menschen bemächtigte, da konnte man auch nicht mehr verstehen, wie die Einwirkung des Außerirdischen, des Himmlischen, im Symbolum der Johannestaufe im Jordan sich vor die Menschheit hingestellt hat. Da verlor man sozusagen das Verständnis für den Sinn des Festes vom 6. Januar, des Festes der Erscheinung Christi, und man nahm zu anderem seine Zuflucht. Alles dasjenige, was man hatte an Empfindung, an Gefühlstiefe, die sich bezogen auf das Mysterium von Golgatha, das bezog man nun nicht auf den überirdischen Christus, das fing man an zu beziehen auf den irdischen Jesus von Nazareth. Und aus dem Feste der Erscheinung Christi wurde das Fest der Erscheinung des Kindes Jesus. Allerdings hat die Entwickelung einen Verlauf genommen, der heute wiederum bei einer Peripetie angelangt ist, der für unsere heutige gegenwärtige Weltanschauung neue Notwendigkeiten im Menschheitsstreben erzeugen muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/209/1921-12-25/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}