{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 214/1922-08-05/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In olden times man spoke of the Fall into Sin. He spoke of this picture of the Fall as though with his own being he had belonged to a higher world and had fallen down into a lower, into a deeper world. Take it in a pictorial sense and it is quite true to the reality. We can in a very real sense speak of a Fall into Sin. But just as the man of olden times felt truly when he said to himself: ‘I am fallen from a spiritual height and have united myself with something lower’—so should man of modern time discover how his increasingly abstract thoughts are also bringing him into a kind of Fall. But this is another kind of Fall. It is a Fall that goes upwards. Man as it were falls upward, that is to say he ascends, but he ascends to his own detriment just as the man of olden times felt himself fall to his detriment. The man of old who still understood the Fall into Sin in the old sense could recognise in Christ Him Who had brought the human being into the right relation to this Sin, that is to say, into the possibility of a salvation. The man of old, when he developed the right consciousness, could recognise in Christ the Being Who had lifted him again out of the Fall. So should the man of modern time as he goes on into intellectualism see the Christ as the one who gives him weight so that he shall not spiritually fly away from the Earth or from the world in which he should be.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Christ and the Evolution of Consciousness","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-08-05","location":null,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/214/1922-08-05/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA214/English/Singles/19220805p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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Er sprach von diesem Bilde des Sündenfalls in dem Sinne, als ob er seiner Wesenheit nach einer höheren Welt angehört hätte und in eine tiefere heruntergefallen wäre, was ja auch, wenn man es bildlich auffaßt, durchaus der Realität entspricht. Man kann durchaus im realen Sinne von einem Sündenfall sprechen. Geradeso wie aber der alte Mensch richtig gefühlt hat, wenn er sich sagte: Ich bin hinuntergestürzt aus einer geistigen Höhe und habe mich mit Tieferstehendem vereinigt -, so sollte der neuere Mensch finden, wie ihn die immer abstrakter werdenden Gedanken auch in eine Art von Fall bringen, aber in einen Fall, bei dem es hinaufgeht, wo der Mensch gewissermaßen nach oben fällt, also steigt, aber in demselben Sinne zu seinem Verderben steigt, wie der alte Mensch sich fallen gefühlt hat zu seinem Verderben. So wie der alte Mensch, der noch den Sündenfall im Sinne des Alten verstanden hat, in dem Christus denjenigen gesehen hat, der den Menschen in das rechte Verhältnis zu dieser Sünde gebracht hat, nämlich zu der Möglichkeit einer Erlösung -, also wie der alte Mensch, wenn er Bewußtsein entwickelt hat, in dem Christus denjenigen sah, der ihn aus dem Fall heraufgehoben hat, so sollte der neuere Mensch, der in den Intellektualismus hineingeht, in dem Christus denjenigen sehen, der ihm Gewicht gibt, daß er nicht geistig fortfliegt von der Erde beziehungsweise von der Welt, in der er drinnen sein soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":243,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/214/1922-08-05/p015"}],"english":["GA 214/1922-08-05/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":243,"en_words":275,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4535,"original_word_count":4489,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA214/English/Singles/19220805p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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