{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 214/1922-07-30/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If this had remained the situation, then those who knew of the redemption of their bodies would have had to bear Christ as the being who is actively working within them, as the being who is even actively working on their bodily nature. And then again human beings could not have become free beings. When inner freedom would have arrived in the fourteenth century A.D., human beings would have evolved so that they could receive the Christ into themselves for the peace of their souls after death, so that their souls would be able to look down upon the earth as I have just described. But they could not have become free. If they had wanted to become good then they would simply have had to let Christ work within them in the same way that the Father worked in ancient times in human beings who were not initiates. In those times human beings became free when the I was developed within them. The initiates became free human beings in ancient times whereas others were unfree, because the Father lived in them beneath their consciousness. If Christians had been beings who were merely conscious of the Christ within them, then whenever they wanted to be good they would have had to extinguish their own I consciousness in order to let Christ awaken within them through the extinguishing of their own I-consciousness. They themselves actually would not have been able to be good; it would only have been Christ in them who was good. Human beings would have had to walk about upon the earth with the Christ dwelling within them, and inasmuch as Christ would have availed himself of the bodies of human beings, the healing of these bodies would have occurred. But the good deeds accomplished by human beings would have been the deeds of Christ, not the deeds of human beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of Truth IV","site_heading":"Christ, the Holy Spirit, and Human Freedom","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1922-07-30","location":null,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/214/1922-07-30/p023","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"James H. 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Wenn sie hätten gut werden wollen, dann hätten sie den Christus so in sich wirken lassen müssen, wie im Altertum der Vater gewirkt hatte in den Menschen, die nicht Initiierte waren. Damals sind die Menschen, indem das Ich in ihnen entwickelt wurde, frei geworden. Die Initiierten wurden freie Menschen in alten Zeiten, die anderen waren unfrei, weil der Vater unbewußt in ihnen lebte. Wären nun die Christen des Christus in sich bewußte Wesenheiten gewesen, dann hätten sie jederzeit, wenn sie hätten gut werden wollen, auslöschen müssen ihr Ich-Bewußtsein, um den Christus mit Auslöschung dieses Ich-Bewußtseins in sich zu erwecken. Nicht sie selber hätten gut sein können, sondern lediglich der Christus in ihnen hätte gut sein können. Die Menschen hätten herumwandeln müssen hier auf der Erde, der Christus hätte in ihnen wohnen müssen, und indem der Christus sich bedient hätte der Menschenleiber, hätte die Heilung dieser Menschenleiber stattgefunden. Aber die guten Handlungen, welche die Menschen verrichtet hätten, die wären ChristusHandlungen gewesen, nicht Menschenhandlungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/214/1922-07-30/p022"}],"english":["GA 214/1922-07-30/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":313,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4862,"original_word_count":4579,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. 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