{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 71b/1918-05-03/p050","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now I said to myself: There comes a point in time when humanity stands in the middle of its development, when the development of humanity stands at a particular point. Once, in this Greco-Roman age, humanity was on the verge of growing older and older and younger and younger. 33 years old; a new impulse had to come if humanity was not to lose its connection with the spiritual world. For this spiritual world opens up to man especially when he sees within himself in his spiritual and soul experience the physical and bodily decay, as it was in ancient times. This spiritual impulse came. It is to be deepened through the newer spiritual science. For that which the human being can no longer draw out of his bodily form, the spirit must give him through spiritual-scientific knowledge as spiritual, in order to keep him capable of development up to the highest age. But for this to happen, a special impulse had to come at a particularly important moment in history, when humanity, going down from above, had reached the 33rd year. And strangely, the greatest symbol in human development is the new impulse of Golgotha, the Christ impulse. The greatest impulse for the development of the earth comes from the 33-year-old Christ Jesus in the 33rd year of humanity. I did not set out, dear attendees, to look at the Christ impulse first and to place it artificially. I knew nothing of this being placed in this way. This law presented itself to me first, as I have explained it before, and then I had to see the Christ impulse in the light of this law.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Man and the Historical and Moral Life of Humanity according to the Results of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-03","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p050","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 Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180503p01.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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Denn dasjenige, was der Mensch nicht mehr holen kann aus seinem Körperhaften heraus, das muss der Geist dem Menschen durch geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnis geben als Geistiges, [um] bis in das höchste Alter hinauf ihn entwicklungsfähig erhalten. Aber dazu musste ein besonderer Impuls in einem besonders wichtigen Augenblick der Geschichte kommen, als die Menschheit, von oben heruntergehend, das 33. Jahr erreicht hatte. Und merkwürdig steht wie das größte Symbolum in der Menschheitsentwicklung da der neue Impuls von Golgatha, der Christusimpuls. Von dem 33-jährigen Christus Jesus geht im dreiunddreißigsten Lebensjahr der Menschheit der größte Impuls, der über die Erdenentwicklung gegangen ist, aus. Ich bin nicht darauf ausgegangen, sehr verehrte Anwesende, den Christusimpuls als Erstes anzusehen und ihn künstlich hineinzustellen. Ich wusste nichts von diesem Hineingestelltsein in dieser Weise. Mir ergab sich zuerst dieses Gesetz, wie ich es vorhin auseinandergesetzt habe, und dann musste ich im Lichte dieses Gesetzes den Christusimpuls schauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/71b/1918-05-03/p050"}],"english":["GA 71b/1918-05-03/p050"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":277,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9369,"original_word_count":9033,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Being as a Spirit and Soul Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA071b/English/SOL2024/19180503p01.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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