{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1902-03-08/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We are therefore dealing with the view in Matthew that man has 42 stations on his path to ancestors and that when he has passed through [these stages], he enters divinity. These stations, these ancestors, can be spread over many lives. But only the one who has passed through forty-two stages can enter the world as Buddha\" or \"Christ. It is quite the same. Buddha also had to go through the same series of ancestors. With Buddha we also have 6 times 7 = 42 stages or embodiments. It is therefore the case that we not only have a deep similarity between Jesus and Buddha, but that we also have before us in the transcendent Jesus nature the same thing that is in the Buddha nature. We are dealing with a person at a higher stage of development who has gone through all the stages that one has gone through when one has survived life with all its trials and when one has entered the stage where one can be the judge of the dead. He will return again after he has come down to judge the living and the dead, he will enter the realm of the judges of the dead, he, Jesus, who has passed through the forty-two-link chain of the judges of the dead. It is just as it says in the Buddhist legend, where the Buddha passed through forty-two stages. He then entered the stage where he himself became God; the man who has become God is now no longer dependent on passing through the eternal necessity of the limbs. He appears on a divine counsel. Hence we are told with Jesus and Buddha that they are sent by divine decree and [...] by the will of the Father. 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Aber erst derjenige, welcher zweiundvierzig Stationen passiert hat, kann eintreten in die Welt als Buddha» oder «Christus. Es ist ganz dasselbe. Auch Buddha hat dieselbe Vorfahren-Reihe durchzumachen gehabt. Bei Buddha haben wir ebenfalls 6 mal 7 = 42 Stufen oder Verkörperungen. Es ist also so, dass wir nicht bloß eine tiefe Ähnlichkeit zwischen Jesus und Buddha zu verzeichnen haben, sondern dass wir auch in der transzendenten Jesus-Natur dasselbe vor uns haben, was in der Buddha-Natur ist. Wir haben es zu tun mit einem Menschen auf höherer Entwicklungsstufe, welcher alle diejenigen Stadien durchgemacht hat, die man durchgemacht hat, wenn man das Leben mit allen seinen Prüfungen überstanden hat und wenn man selbst eingetreten ist in das Stadium, wo man selbst Totenrichter sein kann. Er wird wieder zurückkehren, nachdem er heruntergekommen ist, um zu richten die Lebendigen und die Toten, er wird in das Reich der Totenrichter eingehen, er, der Jesus, der die zweiundvierziggliedrige Kette der Totenrichter durchlaufen hat. Es ist geradeso, wie es in der buddhistischen Legende steht, wo der Buddha zweiundvierzig Stadien durchlaufen hat. Er ist dann eingetreten in das Stadium, wo er selbst Gott geworden ist; der Gott gewordene Mensch ist nun nicht mehr darauf angewiesen, durch die ewige Notwendigkeit der Glieder durchzugehen. Er erscheint auf einen göttlichen Ratschluss. Daher wird uns bei Jesus und Buddha gesagt, dass sie durch göttlichen Ratschluss und [...] durch den Willen des Vaters gesandt sind. Die einzelnen Glieder der Kette der Vorfahren sind nach einer Weltordnung vor sich gegangen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/87/1902-03-08/p006"}],"english":["GA 87/1902-03-08/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":291,"en_words":307,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5385,"original_word_count":5185,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ancient Mysteries and Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA087/English/SOL2024/19020308p01.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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