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This movement had already assumed rather large dimensions. (I once mentioned the fact here that on the first page of the ledger there usually stand the words, “With God”, but generally what is in these books is not exactly “with God”.) In those times when the Easter Festival was established according to the course of stars—when the first Sunday after the spring full moon was dedicated to the sun,—in those times a consciousness still existed that in the winter season the earth-soul is in the earth; that at St. John's season the earth-soul is wholly outside in cosmic spaces, and in the spring it is on the way to cosmic spaces. Therefore, the spring festival, the Easter Festival, cannot be established only with reference to the earth, on a definite day, but must be regulated according to the constellations of the stars. There is a deep wisdom in this, which comes from the times when, as a result of the ancient instinctive clairvoyance, human beings were still able to perceive the spiritual reality in the course of the year. We must attain to this again, and we can attain to it again in a certain sense if we lay hold upon the tasks of the present in connection with just such explanations as we have carried on together here.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Pneumatosophy: The Riddles of the Inner Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-23","location":null,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p038","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Frances E. 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Es half einem natürlich nichts, Gründe dagegen anzuführen, denn die Sache, die da zugrunde lag, war diese: es käme doch dadurch eine furchtbare Unordnung in Soll und Haben der Kassabücher hinein, wenn man jedes Jahr das Osterfest auf eine andere Zeit legt. Diese Bewegung hatte sogar schon ziemlich große Dimensionen angenommen. Ich habe auch hier schon einmal gesagt: In den Kassabüchern steht gewöhnlich immer auf der ersten Seite «Mit Gott», aber meistens ist es dann so, daß das, was in diesen Büchern steht, nicht gerade «mit Gott» ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p038"},{"locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"In jenen Zeiten, in denen man das Osterfest festgesetzt hat nach dem Sternenlauf — der erste Sonntag nach dem Frühlingsvollmond war der Sonne geweiht -, da war noch ein Bewußtsein dafür vorhanden: Zur Winterzeit ist die Erdenseele in der Erde, zur Johannizeit ist die Erdenseele ganz draußen im Weltenraum, im Frühling ist sie auf dem Wege nach dem Weltenraum. Das Frühlingsfest, das Osterfest kann daher nicht nach der Erde allein festgesetzt werden auf einen bestimmten Tag, sondern muß sich nach den Sternenkonstellationen richten. 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