{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-06/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I believe there will come a time when people will say: Those who have learned through Theosophy to appreciate the content of the Gospels in the right way, know how to appreciate the content of the Gospels in such a way that they place it higher than any pope or church father has ever placed it - even though they have placed it very high. Humanity will only learn what lies in these profound documents by recognizing the nature of man. But what will we then recognize? Again, this is easy to find through mere contemplation. One will say to oneself: If we find the essence of man in the Gospels, it must have come into them through those who wrote them on earth, so that what we must say on humble reflection - the older we get, the more - must apply to them in particular: We have done so many things that have moved us beyond ourselves, where the higher man has announced himself. And those who wrote the Gospels were only able to write these documents because of the coming of the higher man! This is where the concept of inspiration regains its meaning. Just as higher powers work into the brain in the first three years of childhood, so powers from the spiritual worlds were imprinted into the souls of the Gospel writers so that the Gospels were written. - Now we sense something else besides guidance. Humanity must be truly guided if it is to realize that those who wrote the Gospels were not on the same level with what they produced - and this will become more understandable the further humanity progresses. There we learn to feel: Impulses from the spiritual world are at work in what has been brought forth in the course of time; and just as man feels a guidance within himself, so impulses of a spiritual guidance are at work in the whole development of mankind. And when people are placed under spiritual guidance, the best they can do happens under spiritual guidance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-06","location":null,"word_count":343,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-06/p036","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110606s01.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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Man wird sich sagen: Wenn wir das Wesen des Menschen finden in den Evangelien, so muss es durch die hineingekommen sein, die sie auf der Erde geschrieben haben, sodass für diese besonders gelten muss, was wir bei einem demütigen Nachdenken - je älter wir werden, desto mehr - sagen müssen: Wir haben so manches gemacht, wodurch wir über uns hinausgerückt sind, wo sich der höhere Mensch angekündigt hat. Und nur aus dem Hereinragen des höheren Menschen haben die, welche die Evangelien schrieben, diese Urkunden schreiben können! Da bekommt der Inspirationsbegriff wieder seine gute Bedeutung. Wie in das Gehirn in den ersten drei Jahren der Kindheit höhere Kräfte hineinarbeiten, so wurden hineingeprägt in die Seelen der Evangelienschreiber aus den geistigen Welten Kräfte, dass die Evangelien geschrieben wurden. - Jetzt spüren wir noch etwas anderes als eine Führung. Eine Menschheit muss wahrhaftig geführt werden, wenn sie zustande bringt, dass die, welche die Feder führten, als die Evangelien zustande kamen, nicht auf derselben Stufe standen mit dem, was sic hervorgebracht haben - und was verständlicher werden wird, je weiter die Menschheit vorschreitet. Da lernen wir fühlen: In dem, was im Laufe der Zeiten hervorgebracht ist, walten Impulse aus der geistigen Welt; und wie der Mensch in sich fühlt eine Führung, so walten in der ganzen Menschheitsentwicklung Impulse einer geistigen Führung. Und wenn die Menschen hineingestellt werden in eine geistige Führung, so geschieht das Beste, was sie tun können, eben unter einer geistigen Führung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":333,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-06/p036"}],"english":["GA 246/1911-06-06/p036"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":333,"en_words":343,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6231,"original_word_count":5957,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110606s01.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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