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Eine Fülle von Gutem und Bösem hatte sich auf die Empfindungen dieser Individualität ergossen. Und wenn man hinschaut mit den Mitteln der Geistesforschung, durch die man so etwas erkennen kann, dann findet man diese Individualität wirklich wie, ich möchte sagen, in Lebensstürmen hineingezogen in dasjenige, was dazumal in der zweiten Hälfte des 2. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts im Römischen Reiche bei der Ausbreitung des Christentums erlebt wurde. Und gerade bei dieser Individualität liegt etwas außerordentlich Ergreifendes vor, wenn man den geistigen Blick auf sie richtet in der Art, wie ich es das letzte Mal für andere menschliche Individualitäten in ihren wiederholten Erdenleben auseinandergesetzt habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-06-01/p022"},{"locus":"GA 240/1924-06-01/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Gerade bei dieser Individualität, die im hohen Alter ihr Leben beschloß, liegt das vor, daß sie, nachdem sie soviel, ich möchte sagen, eines höchsten opferwilligen Guten bei dem aufkeimenden Christentum gesehen hatte und unendlich viel Böses, Schlechtes in dem damaligen Römertum, zu etwas kam wie zu einem Urteil und einer Frage: Wo ist denn das Mittelmaß? Gibt es nur ganz Gutes und ganz Böses in der Welt? - Man kann deutlich mit dem imaginativen, inspirierten Bewußtsein verfolgen, wie diese Individualität dann im 11. nachchristlichen Jahrhundert als Frau wiedergeboren wurde. Durch die Erlebnisse in der Frauenpersönlichkeit glich sich auf der einen Seite das Scharfe, Eckige wieder aus, zu dem diese Persönlichkeit während ihres römischen Lebens in hohem Alter gekommen war, wurde weich, wurde zum inneren sinnenden Betrachten des Guten und Bösen. Dann kam sie wieder, diese Persönlichkeit, im 18. Jahrhundert und wurde geboren als der deutsche Dichter Friedrich Schiller. Und nun versuchen Sie einzudringen in Schillers Leben, wie es sich herausarbeiter: erst zu einem Mittelmaß der Lebensauffassung; wie er dann Goethe dazu brauchte, um abzustreifen alles dasjenige, was er mitgebracht hat von der Überzeugung: es gibt nur Gutes, es gibt nur Böses. 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