{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1902-04-26/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You do not reach divinity through concepts, not through the mind. If you imagine divinity as personality, you see divinity in the superpersonality, as essence in the superessential, as perfection in the superperfect! It is most remarkable that the Western world could be surprised by the word \"superman\", which we encounter so often today. In Dionysius we see a word that takes us much higher, in that he speaks not only of the superman, but of the \"supergod\". This is in contrast to the God who is human-like, in contrast to what was then called \"positive theology\", the vital theology that was behind the negative one. Nicholas Cusanus said - after he had acquired all the knowledge that science could give him, after the realization had dawned on him during a voyage across the great sea of how the spiritual eye must become clear at a glance - that these are not expressions for something that exists, but only for symbols that can awaken a perspective in us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"24. On Scotus Eriugena","site_heading":null,"date":"1902-04-26","location":null,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/87/1902-04-26/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19020426p01.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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Stellt ihr euch die Göttlichkeit als Persönlichkeit vor, so seht ihr die Göttlichkeit in der Überpersönlichkeit, als Wesen im Überwesentlichen, als Vollkommenheit im Übervollkommenen! Es ist höchst merkwürdig, dass das Abendland überrascht werden konnte durch das Wort «Übermensch», das uns heute so oft entgegentritt. Bei dem Dionysios schen wir ein Wort auftreten, das viel höher uns hinaufführt, indem er nicht bloß vom Übermenschen, sondern vom «Übergott» spricht. Das ist im Gegensatz zu dem Gott, der menschenähnlich ist, im Gegensatz zu dem, was man dann die «positive Theologie genannt hat, die lebenskräftige Theologie, die hinter der negativen war. 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