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Then we see love spread beyond the narrowest blood relationship. The circle love draws together becomes ever wide. At first we see marriage only between those closely related. Then love spreads to a whole tribe, and then in the Old Testament the whole people is loved, and he who does not belong to the people is foreign. The way is far but we have taken the great step where love is led over from the principle of blood relationship into the spiritual, to the great brother-bond which should span the earth to the Christ-Principle. This is referred to in the utterance: Who does not forsake father and mother, brother and sister and follow Me … etc.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. 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Wir brauchen nur einen kurzen Blick auf diese Erde zu werfen, da sehen wir, wie sich die Liebe so nach und nach entwickelt - sie tritt uns in uralten Zeiten in engsten Grenzen entgegen. Wer liebte sich in uralten Zeiten? - Zunächst nur kleine Gruppen Blutsverwandte. Weiter sehen wir die Liebe sich über die engste Blutsverwandtschaft hinaus ausbreiten, immer weiter wird der Kreis, den die Liebe zieht, wir sehen zunächst nur die engsten Verwandten sich heiraten, wie dann die Liebe sich ausdehnt über einen ganzen Stamm, wie dann im Alten Testament das ganze Volk geliebt wird und wie jeder, der nicht zum Volk gehört, fremd ist. Weit ist der Weg, aber wir haben den großen Schritt gemacht, wo die Liebe von dem Prinzip der Blutsverwandtschaft hinübergeführt wird in das Geistige bis zu dem großen Bruderbund, der die Erde umspannen soll, bis zu dem Christusprinzip. 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