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A human being who, to begin with, received Christianity merely according to the letter of the Gospels—as was customary later on—became one who learned to behold the cosmic realities and Christ's living connection with the Cosmos. The awakening of clairvoyant vision of Christianity as cosmic reality—such was the content of that ancient epic drama. The Catholic Church took care to ensure that every trace of this epic should be exterminated. Nothing has remained—the Catholic Church has had power enough for that. It is only by accident that a transcript has been preserved of which, too, nothing would be known, had it not been from the hand of a personage living at the Court of Charles the Bald—from the hand of Scotus Erigena.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Karma Across Incarnations: Garibaldi, Byron, Marx","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-04-05","location":null,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-04-05/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Der Christus aber wollte dadurch, daß er seinem Worte die Kraft verlieh, den Menschen dasjenige, was die Natur nicht gab, durch die Moral bringen, durch die religiös-moralische Vertiefung. Der Christus war es, der die Menschen lehrte: Wenn ihr fühlt, wie ich fühle, wenn ihr, statt nach der Sonne zu sehen, nach dem seht, was in mir erweckt ist, der noch als letzter im dreißigsten Jahre das Sonnenwort empfing, dann werdet ihr wieder den Weg zum Sonnenhaften finden. — Und die Mysterienlehrer der ersten christlichen Zeit wußten ganz genau: Es wird sich nun der Verstand entwickeln, die Intellektualität, die dem Menschen zwar die Freiheit bringt, die ihm aber das alte Hellschen nimmt, das ihn in die Geistigkeit des Kosmos führt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-04-05/p018"},{"locus":"GA 239/1924-04-05/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Deshalb stifteten diese Weisen alter christlicher Mysterien eine Art von Lehre, die nun gegeben wurde in jenem epischen Drama, dramatischem Epos, von dem ich sprach. Da wurde dargestellt ein solcher Schüler der christlichen Mysterien, der unter dem Opfer des Intellektes, das er zu leisten hatte in einem bestimmten jugendlichen Lebensalter, in das wirkliche Christentum hineingeführt werden sollte, auf daß ihm die Anschauung gebracht würde: der Christus ist ein Sonnenwesen, das gelebt hat in dem Jesus von Nazareth von dem dreißigsten Jahre seines Lebens an. Und in ergreifender Weise war in jenem Drama dargestellt, wie ein nach dem wahren Wesen des Christentums Strebender in seinen jungen Jahren das Opfer des Intellekts bringt, das heißt, den hohen Weltenmächten das Gelöbnis leistet, nicht sich an die Intellektualität zu halten, sondern sich in das eigene Innere zu vertiefen, um das Christentum nicht nur kennen zu lernen als etwas Historisch-Traditionelles, sondern es kennen zu lernen als etwas Kosmisches, hinzuschauen auf den Christus als auf denjenigen, der die Sonnenwesenheit als Geistigkeit in sich trägt. Es war eine dramatische Szene großartiger Art, großartigen Inhaltes, die diese Umwandlung einer Menschenwesenheit darstellte unter dem Opfer des Intellekts. Und aus einem Menschen, der das Christentum bloß aufnahm nach dem Wortlaut der Evangelien - so wie es später gekommen ist - wurde einer, der da lernte hinschauen auf das Kosmische, der den lebendigen Zusammenhang des Christus mit dem Kosmos anschaute. Das Hellsichtigwerden für das Christentum als Kosmisches, das stellte für diesen seinen Helden jenes alte epische Drama dar. Die katholische Kirche hat dafür gesorgt, daß auch jede Spur von diesem Drama ausgerottet worden ist. Nichts ist zurückgeblieben, die katholische Kirche hat Macht genug dazu gehabt. Es ist ja zum Beispiel nur einem Zufall zu verdanken, daß eine Abschrift sich erhalten hat von den Werken einer Persönlichkeit am Hofe Karls des Kahlen, von der man sonst auch nichts wissen würde: von Scotus Erigena.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-04-05/p019"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-04-05/p018","GA 239/1924-04-05/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":533,"en_words":556,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 239/1924-04-05/p019"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5642,"original_word_count":5468,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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