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If he had been able to find the Christ Impulse at that time, he could have united with it; he came either too late or too early.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"56. Theosophy and the Bible","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-11-29","location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1910-11-29/p014","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/SOL2024/19101129p01.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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Empedokles hat auch die Mysterien auf Sizilien eingeführt und er musste auskosten das tragische Geschick der damaligen Eingeweihten; er konnte nicht mehr erkennen den gemeinsamen Ursprung, weil schon der Christus-Impuls heranrückte. Er wollte eins werden mit den Elementen und stürzte sich in den Ätna. Er wäre reif gewesen, sich in ganz anderer Weise mit dem Urquell zu verbinden. 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