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A further step forward is that man struggles through to a feeling that a human individuality may have evolved to higher and higher stages of perfection in repeated earth lives. One who had arrived at a glimpse of this truth would also be able to feel that in Jesus a being of lofty spirituality had appeared. The loftier the spirituality, the greater the possibility of accomplishing something of importance. Thus the individuality of Jesus could become capable of accomplishing the deed which the Evangelists so mysteriously indicate in the Baptism by John, and which, by the way in which they speak of it, they so clearly point out as of the utmost importance. The personality of Jesus became able to receive the Christ into its own soul, the Logos Who was made flesh in that soul. Thenceforward the Ego of Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, and the outer personality was the vehicle of the Logos. The event of the Ego of Jesus becoming the Christ is enacted in the Baptism by John. 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Aber auch eine solche Grundüberzeugung fand sich in weiten Kreisen vor. Man braucht bloß auf die Lebenshaltung der Essäer und Therapeuten zu sehen, die vor der Entstehung des Christentums lange vorhanden waren. Die Essäer waren eine in sich abgeschlossene palästinensische Sekte, deren Zahl zur Zeit Christi auf viertausend geschätzt wird. Sie bildeten eine Gemeinde, die es als Anforderung an ihre Mitglieder stellte, ein Leben zu führen, das innerhalb der Seele ein höheres Selbst entwickelt und damit eine Wiedergeburt bewirkt. Der Aufzunehmende wurde einer strengen Prüfung unterworfen, ob er auch reif sei, sich für ein höheres Leben vorzubereiten. Wer aufgenommen war, mußte eine Probezeit durchmachen. Ein feierliches Gelübde mußte abgelegt werden, an die Fremden die Geheimnisse der Lebensführung nicht zu verraten. Das Leben selbst war geeignet, die niedere Natur im Menschen zu erdrücken, damit der in ihm schlummernde Geist immer mehr geweckt werde. Wer den Geist bis zu einer bestimmten Stufe in sich erlebt hatte, der stieg zu einem höheren Ordensgrad auf; und er genoß eine dementsprechende, nicht äußerlich auferzwungene, sondern in den Grundüberzeugungen naturgemäß bedingte Autorität. Verwandt mit den Essäern waren die in Ägypten wohnenden Therapeuten. Über ihre Lebensführung erlangt man allen wünschenswerten Aufschluß durch eine Schrift des Philosophen *Philo* «Über das beschauliche Leben». (Der Streit darüber, ob diese Schrift echt oder unecht sei, muß heute als geschlichtet betrachtet und die Annahme als berechtigt angesehen werden, daß Philo wirklich das Leben einer lange vor dem Christentum bestehenden, ihm wohl bekannten Gemeinschaft beschrieben hat. Vergleiche darüber G. R. Mead, Fragmente eines verschollenen Glaubens, Leipzig 1902.) Man braucht sich nur einzelne Stellen aus dieser Schrift vorzuhalten, um zu sehen, auf was es ankam. «Die Wohnungen der Gemeindemitglieder sind äußerst einfach, sie gewähren nur den notwendigen Schutz gegen äußerste Sonnenhitze und äußerste Kälte. Die Wohnungen liegen nicht dicht beieinander wie in den Städten, denn Nachbarschaft ist weniger anziehend für jemand, der die Einsamkeit sucht; noch sind sie weit voneinander entfernt, um die geselligen Beziehungen, die ihnen so lieb sind, nicht zu erschweren und um sich bei einem Räuberanfall leicht Hilfe gewähren zu können. In jeder Behausung ist ein geheiligter Raum, Tempel oder Monasterium genannt, ein kleines Zimmer, oder Kammer, oder Zelle, in welchen sie den Geheimnissen des *höheren Lebens* nachgehen ... Sie besitzen auch Werke alter Schriftsteller, die einst ihre Schule leiteten und viele Erklärungen über die in den allegorischen Schriften übliche Methode hinterließen ... Die Auslegung der heiligen Schriften ist bei ihnen auf den *tieferen* Sinn der allegorischen Erzählungen gerichtet.» — Man sieht: es handelte sich um eine Verallgemeinerung dessen, was im engeren Kreise der Mysterien auch angestrebt worden ist. Nur wird natürlich durch eine solche Verallgemeinerung der strenge Charakter abgeschwächt worden sein. — Die Essäer- und Therapeutengemeinden bilden einen natürlichen Übergang von den Mysterien zu dem Christentum. Das Christentum wollte aber zu einer Menschheitsangelegenheit machen, was sie zu einer Sektenangelegenheit gemacht hatten. Dadurch war natürlich die Grundlage für eine weitere Abschwächung des strengen Charakters gegeben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":526,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l09/p001"}],"beads":[{"from":[2,3,4],"to":[1],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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