{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 353/1924-04-12/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now the Churches did not wish this knowledge to be in the possession of men. The Churches did not want the real facts about Christ Jesus to come to light, but only such knowledge as was authorised by them. Julian the Emperor was treacherously murdered on a journey to Asia, in order that the world might be rid of him. That is why Julian is always known as the Apostate, the heretic: Julian the Heretic! He desired that the connection between Christianity and the ancient truths should be maintained, for he thought: It will be easier for Christianity to make progress if it contains the truths of the ancient wisdom than if men are allowed to believe only what the priests tell them. So you see, at the time when the Easter Festival was transferred to the spring, knowledge that this festival is connected with resurrection still survived. Although knowledge of the resurrection of man had been lost, the resurrection of nature continued to be celebrated in a festival. But even that has been forgotten in places where Easter is still celebrated without any inkling of what it really signifies; and to-day people have come to the point of asking: Why need Sun and Moon have anything to do with the date of Easter? If Easter were always to fall on the first Sunday in April, book-keeping would be greatly simplified! The suggestion, therefore, is that the date should be determined by commercial considerations! ... As a matter of fact, the people who clamour for this are more honest than the others who insist that conditions in the heavens shall still be the determining factor, without having the slightest notion *of* what this means. Those who say *from* their own point of view that conditions in the heavens need not be taken into account are really the more honest. But the sad thing is that people can only be honest about this because they know nothing of the real connections. What we have to do to-day is to emphasise that the *Spiritual* must always be the decisive factor!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Easter Festival and Its Background","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-04-12","location":null,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/353/1924-04-12/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Die Kirche wollte nicht die Wissenschaft von dem Christus Jesus, sondern nur dasjenige, was sie befiehlt. Und so ist es denn geschehen, daß, als der Kaiser Julian einen Zug nach Asien unternommen hat, er meuchlings ermordet worden ist, um ihn aus der Welt zu schaffen. Das hat dann dazu geführt, daß man immer diesen Julian «Julianus Apostata» nennt, den Abtrünnigen, den Ketzer: Julianus der Ketzer! Aber er wollte eben die Verbindung des Christentums mit den alten Erkenntnissen für die Menschen bestehen lassen. Er dachte sich, das Christentum kommt besser fort, wenn es Weisheitsinhalt hat, als wenn es nur die Befehle der Priester in sich hat, wenn die Menschen nur glauben sollen, was die Priester sagen. - Und so ist es denn gekommen, daß in der Zeit, als das Osterfest auf den Frühling verlegt worden ist, die Menschen zwar noch gewußt haben: das Osterfest hängt mit einer Auferstehung zusammen. Wenn sie auch nichts mehr gewußt haben von der Auferstehung des Menschen, so haben sie doch die Auferstehung der Natur gefeiert. Aber dann ist das auch vergessen worden, dort, wo das Osterfest noch gefeiert worden ist, wo man aber nicht mehr gewußt hat, was es bedeutet. Und heute ist es soweit, daß die Leute sich fragen: Warum muß das Osterfest nach Sonne, Mond und Sternen festgesetzt werden? Es soll doch einfach der erste Sonntag im April sein, dann kommen wir auch mit der Buchhaltung besser zurecht! - Nach kommerziellen Verhältnissen soll es heute festgesetzt werden! Eigentlich sind diejenigen Menschen, die dieses Osterfest nach kommerziellen Verhältnissen festsetzen wollen, ehrlicher als die andern; die andern setzen das Osterfest nach dem Himmel fest, aber wissen nichts mehr davon. Diejenigen sind die ehrlicheren, die von ihrem Standpunkte aus sagen: Das brauchen wir nicht, diese Festsetzung. Aber das ist eben das Traurige, daß wir nur deshalb ehrlich werden können, weil niemand mehr weiß, wie der Zusammenhang wirklich ist. Wir haben heute die Aufgabe, wiederum hinzuweisen darauf, daß das Geistige überall das Maßgebende ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/353/1924-04-12/p026"}],"english":["GA 353/1924-04-12/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":336,"en_words":348,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5524,"original_word_count":5936,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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