{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 8/l06/p021-p026","extent":"range","passage_number":21,"through":26,"paragraph_count":6,"first_locus":"GA 8/l06/p021","last_locus":"GA 8/l06/p026","lang":"en","edition":"AP1947","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"VI. The Mystery Wisdom of Egypt","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1947","RPC1961"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.93,"band":"fuller_than_original","note":"This witness is longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. 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But at that very moment he enters upon a stage which finds expression in a higher degree of initiation. He suffers and dies. What is earthly disappears. But the spiritual element, the light of the world, does not. His resurrection follows. He is revealed to his followers as Christ. Buddha, at the moment of his transfiguration, dissolves into the blissful life of the universal spirit. Christ Jesus once more calls the universal spirit into Present existence in human form. Such an event had formerly taken place at the higher stages of initiation in a symbolical sense. Those initiated in the spirit of the Osiris myth attained in their consciousness to such a resurrection as a symbolical experience. In the life of Jesus, this “great” initiation was added to the Buddha initiation, not as a symbolical experience, but as reality. Buddha demonstrated by his life that man is the Logos, and that he returns to the Logos, to the light, when his earthly part dies. In Jesus, the Logos itself became a person. In Him, the Word was made flesh.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l05/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l05/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 8/l05/p006"],"length_check":{"de_words":244,"en_words":269,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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That which man previously had sought to attain through the Mysteries was now replaced by the belief that Christ had lived on earth, and that the faithful belonged to him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p022","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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It is in this sense that the words of St. Augustine are to be under \" stood, *“I should not believe the Gospels unless the authority of the Catholic Church induced me to do so.”* Thus the Gospels do not contain within themselves testimony to their truth, but they are to be believed because they are founded on the personality of Jesus, and because the Church from that personality mysteriously draws the power to make the truth of the Gospels manifest.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p023","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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To the confidence in the mystical forces that spring up in the inmost being of man durIng initiation was to be added the confidence in the One, in the primordial Initiator.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":48,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p024","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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He experienced in the higher world what the Mystery of Golgotha comprises. Now, when the Christian mystic goes through this experience by initiation he at the same time beholds the historical event that took place on Golgotha, and he knows that in that event, enacted within the physical world, there is the same content that existed formerly only in the super sensible facts of the Mysteries. Thus there was poured out on the Christian community, through the Mystery of Golgotha, that which formerly had been poured out on the mystics within the temples. And initiation gives Christian mystics the possibility of discerning what is contained in the Mystery of Golgotha, whereas faith makes man an unconscious partaker of the mystical stream which flowed from the events depicted in the New Testament, and which has ever since pervaded the spiritual life of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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Er stirbt nicht physisch in dem Augenblicke, in dem ihn das Weltlicht durchklärt. Er ist in diesem Augenblicke ein Buddha. Aber er betritt auch in diesem Augenblicke eine Stufe, die in einem höheren Grade der Initiation ihren Ausdruck findet. Er leidet und stirbt. Das Irdische verschwindet. Aber das Geistige, das Weltlicht verschwindet nicht. Seine Auferstehung erfolgt. Er enthüllt sich als Christus für seine Gemeinde. Buddha zerfließt im Augenblicke seiner Verklärung in das selige Leben des Allgeistes. Christus Jesus erweckt diesen Allgeist noch einmal in menschlicher Gestalt in das gegenwärtige Dasein. Solches ward mit dem Initiierten bei den höheren Weihen in einem Sinne vollzogen, der *bildhaft* ist. Die im Sinne des Osiris-Mythos Initiierten waren zu solcher Auferstehung in ihrem Bewußtsein als in einem Bild-Erlebnis gelangt. Diese «große» Initiation, aber nicht als Bild-Erlebnis, sondern als *Wirklichkeit*, wurde also im Jesus-Leben zu der Buddha-Initiation hinzugefügt. 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