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But human beings are less and less able to afford a home, a dwelling place for the Word that is to live within the flesh, that is to live on upon the earth.” This, I say again, was an underlying mood, it was indeed *the* dominant feeling among these souls, as they lived in the spiritual world between the 7th or 8th and the 19th or 20th century, no matter whether their sojourn there was interrupted by another life on earth. It remained their fundamental underlying feeling: “Christ lives indeed for the earth, since for the earth He died; but the earth cannot receive Him. Somehow there must arise on earth the power for souls to be able to receive the Christ.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Spiritual Conditions of Evolution Leading Up to the Anthroposophical Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-07-11","location":null,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-07-11/p023","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"Karmic Relationships  III","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA237/English/RSP1977/19240711p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und es lebte wohl in diesen Seelen das Wort: «Und das Wort ist Fleisch geworden und hat unter uns gewohnet», und sie empfanden: Aber die Menschen haben immer weniger ein Haus für das Wort, das im Fleische leben soll, fortleben soll auf der Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-07-11/p025"},{"locus":"GA 237/1924-07-11/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Das gab wiederum eine Grundstimmung, die Grundstimmung bei den Seelen, die zwischen dem 7., 8. und dem 19., 20. Jahrhundert in der geistigen Welt lebten, auch wenn sie in irgendeinem Erdendasein eine Unterbrechung hatten, das gab die Grundstimmung ab: Der Christus lebt zwar für die Erde, denn er ist für die Erde gestorben, aber die Erde kann ihn nicht aufnehmen; und es muß werden die Kraft auf der Erde, daß Seelen den Christus aufnehmen können! Das lebte sich neben allem anderen, was ich geschildert habe, gerade in diese in ihrer Erdenzeit als ketzerisch angesehenen Seelen hinein zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt: Das Bedürfnis nach einer neuen, nach einer erneuerten Christus-Offenbarung, Christus-Verkündigung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/237/1924-07-11/p026"}],"english":["GA 237/1924-07-11/p023","GA 237/1924-07-11/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":253,"en_words":301,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.1,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4860,"original_word_count":4407,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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