{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-14/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The knowledge of the Word penetrated into the world, it shone into the darkness of the astral, etheric and physical bodies. Only a few who were not born of the flesh understood it. They could reveal themselves as children of God. But now the eternal, all-embracing aspect of human nature, which was before Abraham, entered in, which every human individuality has. This supersensible power has become flesh in Christ Jesus. Thus, Christ Jesus is the power in the evolution of humanity that wants to lead humanity to the realization of its innermost being, of its “I am”. From this point of view, the Gospel of John and especially that most profound chapter in which so much is said about the “I am” becomes understandable. He says explicitly: “All I say of the ‘I am,’ I do not say of myself” (John 14:10), but He says that when people recognize the power of the “I am,” then they have something higher than all other powers. When you express the “I am,” you speak of the power that also lives in the Light of the world. “I am” lives in everything; it is what permeates the entire being of the earth in all realms. You can only properly explore what the earth gives you as food if you understand the ‘I am.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"35. The Gospel of John and the Future of Christianity","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-14","location":null,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-14/p034","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/SOL2024/19071214p01.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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Von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus wird verständlich das Johannesevangelium und vor allem jenes tiefste Kapitel, in dem so viel von dem «Ich bin» gesprochen wird. Er sagt ausdrücklich: «Alles was ich sage von dem «Ich bin», das sage ich nicht von mir selbst» (Joh 14,10), — sondern er sagt davon, dass, wenn die Menschen die Kraft des «Ich bin» erkennen, dann haben sie etwas, was höher ist, als alle anderen Kräfte. Wenn ihr das ausdrückt, das «Ich bin», so sprecht ihr von der Kraft, die auch lebt im Licht der Welt. «Ich bin» lebt in allem, es ist das, was das ganze Erdenwesen in allen Reichen durchzieht, was euch als Nahrungsmittel die Erde gibt, das könnt ihr nur richtig erforschen, wenn ihr versteht das «Ich bin»:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68a/1907-12-14/p034"}],"english":["GA 68a/1907-12-14/p034"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":215,"en_words":220,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5065,"original_word_count":4785,"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/SOL2024/19071214p01.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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