{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-05-23/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What kind of a festival is it? It is that festival which is intended to remind us, and which once reminded humanity with the greatest vividness, that a God descended to earth, took up his abode in the man, Jesus of Nazareth, in order that, at the time when human beings were approaching the development of the ego, they would be able in a suitable manner to find the way back through death into the spiritual life. I have often explained this here. The Easter Festival is, therefore, that festival in which man sees in the Mystery of Golgotha death and immortality following it. We look upon this spring festival in the right sense when we say to ourselves: Christ has affirmed the immortality of man in that He Himself has conquered death; but we human beings only rightly understand the immortality of Christ Jesus if we appropriate this understanding during the earth life; that is, if in our souls we vitalize our relation to the Mystery of Golgotha, and if we are able to free ourselves from that materialistic concept which would dissociate from the Mystery of Golgotha all spiritual significance. Today people no longer wish to acknowledge “Christ” at all, but merely “the humble man of Nazareth, Jesus.” A man would feel embarrassed, as it were, in the presence of his own scientific instincts, if he were to grant that the Mystery of Golgotha involves a spiritual mystery in the middle of earth existence—namely, the death and resurrection of the God.","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":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-05-23/p041","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 ist dasjenige Fest, das uns erinnern soll und das die Menschen einmal mit aller Lebendigkeit erinnert hat daran, daß ein Gott zur Erde herniedergestiegen ist, in dem Menschen Jesus von Nazareth Wohnung genommen hat, damit in der Zeit, in der sie sich näherten der Ich-Entwickelung, die Menschen in entsprechender Weise zurückfinden können den Weg durch den Tod in das geistige Leben hinein. Das habe ich öfter hier auseinandergesetzt. So daß also das Osterfest dasjenige Fest ist, in dem der Mensch anschaut Tod und darauf folgende Unsterblichkeit in dem Mysterium von Golgatha. Wir schauen dieses Frühlingsfest in dem richtigen Sinne an, wenn wir uns sagen: Der Christus hat bekräftigt die Unsterblichkeit des Menschen, indem er selber den Tod besiegt hat. Aber wir Menschen verstehen die Unsterblichkeit des Christus Jesus nur richtig, wenn wir uns während des Erdenlebens dieses Verständnis aneignen, das heißt, wenn wir in unserer Seele unser Verhältnis zu dem Mysterium von Golgatha beleben und wenn wir loskommen können von jener materialistischen Vorstellung, die von dem Mysterium von Golgatha alles Geistige wegsondern will. Heute will man gar nicht mehr den Christus gelten lassen, sondern nur noch den «schlichten Mann aus Nazareth», den Jesus. Man geniert sich gewissermaßen vor seiner eigenen Wissenschaftlichkeit, wenn man zugeben sollte, daß das Mysterium von Golgatha ein geistiges Geheimnis mitten im Erdendasein enthält: Tod und Auferstehung des Gottes. Aber wenn wir das geistig erleben, dann bereiten wir uns auch vor, anderes geistig zu erleben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-05-23/p043"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-05-23/p041"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":253,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9860,"original_word_count":9624,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frances E. 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