{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-04-25/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the patriarchs are spoken of and their age is given in huge numbers, then we have to understand that these so-called patriarchs must be seen as representatives of tribes. The Bible students had been doing this for a long time, but they did not know what was actually behind it. If we now remember the lecture “Blood is a Special Juice”, we find a special application of the word “consciousness”. Those who firmly believe that there is development must also admit that everything is in development, including consciousness. The consciousness that we have today was not always there; it developed out of another consciousness that was dim and dream-like, that lived in images in people. This kind of consciousness, which was dull and clairvoyant at the same time, was dependent on a very specific fact. In those days, people lived in small communities. All nations, in whose distant origin we delve, show the same thing. The further back we go in the history of civilization, the smaller the communities of people become. It was considered immoral to marry outside of these small communities. It was only later that this principle of close marriage was interrupted by the principle of distant marriage, and it is with this interruption that the development of the dim consciousness to the present rational consciousness begins. In the members of those ancient tribes a very different memory lived; what the father and grandfather experienced lived in the son as if he himself had experienced it. The ancestral powers passed down through the blood of these tribes, which were united in close blood ties, to such an extent that the descendant remembered the events of his ancestors as if he had experienced them himself; that was in the blood, which rolled through generations. The son remembered and said: I have experienced this - what father and grandfather, etc., had experienced. As long as this I - this tribal I - was preserved, one spoke of the same entity with the same name. It is Adam, the continuous I of Adam, it refers to what is inherited through many generations from Adam, not the person of Adam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"30. The Bible and Wisdom","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-04-25","location":null,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-04-25/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070425p01.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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Das Bewusstsein, was wir heute haben, war nicht immer da, es entwickelte sich aus einem andern Bewusstsein heraus, das dämmerhaft, traumhaft war, das in Bildern im Menschen lebte. Diese Art des Bewusstseins, das dumpf und hellseherisch zugleich war, hing an einer ganz bestimmten Tatsache. Die Menschen lebten damals in kleinen Gemeinschaften, alle Völker, in deren fernen Ursprung wir untertauchen, zeigen dasselbe, je weiter die Geisteswissenschaft zurückgeht, desto kleinere Volksverbände zeigen sich ihr. Es galt als unsittlich, aus diesen kleinen Volksverbänden herauszuheiraten. Erst später wurde dies Prinzip der Nah-Ehe durch das Prinzip der Fern-Ehe unterbrochen, und mit dieser Unterbrechung fängt auch die Entwicklung des dämmerhaften Bewusstseins zu dem heutigen verstandesmäßigen Bewusstsein zusammen. In den Angehörigen jener alten Stämme lebte ein ganz anderes Gedächtnis; das, was der Vater, der Großvater erlebte, das lebte im Sohn, als ob er selbst es erlebt habe. Die durchziehenden Kräfte von den Vorvätern, die rannen durch das Blut dieser in engen Blutsverbänden zusammengeschlossenen Stänmme, und zwar in einem solchen Grade, dass der Nachkomme sich der Geschehnisse seiner Vorfahren so erinnerte, als ob er selbst sie erlebt habe; das war im Blut, das rollte durch Generationen hindurch. Der Sohn erinnerte sich und sagte: Ich habe das erlebt —, was Vater und Großvater et cetera erlebt hatten. Solange sich dies Ich — dies Stammes-Ich — erhielt, sprach man von derselben Wesenheit mit demselben Namen. Es ist Adam das durchgängige Ich des Adam, man bezeichnet damit das, was sich hinvererbt durch viele Generationen von Adam, nicht die Person des Adam.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-04-25/p003"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-04-25/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":338,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2390,"original_word_count":2224,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070425p01.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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