{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-11-14/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Initiation stories are always told to us in a veiled manner. The miracle of Lazarus is nothing other than the wonderful and powerful representation of how Christ created the first initiate of the New Testament, how the initiate, with his disciple who had been in a death-like state for three and a half days, called the soul back into the body after it had made its journey through the spiritual world, only to be awakened afterwards by Christ himself. All this is easy to understand for those who know something about it, for it is the language in which initiation stories are told. “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” This means: outward appearance as a revelation of the inner being; so that the sentence can truly be translated as: “The sickness is not unto death, but that God may be revealed as an outward appearance, so that he may also be revealed to the senses.” In the personality of Lazarus slumbers the deeper human essence, which has the ability and the power to be developed in him in a mysterious way, to be led up into the spiritual world, so that he could recognize the essence of Christ himself, the Son of God. But this power first had to be developed. He developed it in Lazarus so that the divine that rested in Lazarus could be revealed and reveal what the Son of God is. Thus, Christ Jesus creates in Lazarus the first person who knows from his own inner observation who Christ Jesus actually is. At the same time, this miracle — for it is a genuine miracle for those who only accept the outer physical laws — shows what the disciple in question must go through during the three and a half days, for this is equivalent to genuine death, because the etheric body and the astral body are lifted out of the physical body and only the physical body remains.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-14","location":null,"word_count":339,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p035"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1908-11-14/p035","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Alles das ist leicht zu durchschauen von dem, der etwas davon versteht, denn es ist die Sprache, in der überhaupt Einweihungsgeschichten erzählt werden. «Diese Krankheit ist nicht zum Tode, sondern sie dient zur Ehre Gottes, damit der Sohn Gottes durch sie geehret wird.» Das bedeutet: äußeres Erscheinen als Offenbarung des Inneren; so daß der Satz in Wahrheit zu übersetzen ist: «Die Krankheit ist nicht zum Tode, sondern daß der Gott als äußere Erscheinung offenbar werde, damit er auch für die Sinne geoffenbart werden könne.» In der Persönlichkeit des Lazarus schlummert die tiefere menschliche Wesenheit, die die Fähigkeit und die Kraft hat, daß sie in geheimnisvoller Art in ihm entwickelt werden konnte, hinaufgeführt werden konnte in die geistige Welt, so daß er erkennen konnte das Wesen des Christus selber, des Sohnes Gottes. Diese Kraft mußte aber erst entwickelt werden. Er entwickelte sie in Lazarus, damit das Göttliche, das in Lazarus ruhte, offenbar werden könne, und offenbaren könne dasjenige, was der Sohn Gottes sei. So schafft der Christus Jesus in Lazarus den ersten, der aus eigener innerer Beobachtung weiß, wer der Christus Jesus eigentlich ist. Zu gleicher Zeit zeigt dieses Wunder — denn es ist für den, der nur die äußeren physischen Gesetze gelten lassen will, ein echtes Wunder -, was der betreffende Schüler während der dreieinhalb Tage durchmachen muß, denn das kommt einem echten Tode gleich, weil der Ätherleib und der Astralleib aus dem physischen Leib herausgehoben werden und nur der physische Leib daliegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":314,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1908-11-14/p035"}],"english":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p035"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":314,"en_words":339,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p035"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8142,"original_word_count":8014,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19081114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 57/1908-11-14/p035"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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