{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have entitled my book “Christianity as Mystical Fact”. The title was not chosen at random. Every word is important. It is not merely the mystical content that is to be expounded. Rather, the aim is to show that the facts of the Gospel of John are indeed mystical facts, but that they are therefore also historical facts. Christianity is not to be shown as mystical, as a mystical concept, but as a fact that can be explained mystically, but is historically real. Those who were struck by the thyrsus can be led to the archetypes of what the books tell. Here we are tying in with something that I said last time in relation to the historical-critical research of the gospels. I said that the critics have accepted that the Gospel of Mark, although written much later, was not written by contemporaries. At the same time, I said that the writer of the Gospel of Mark does not describe the places where the events took place, and that the events and localities seem to be completely indifferent to him. I also said that what Mark links as facts is a kind of poetic composition, so that the chronological sequence cannot be decisive either. Therefore, the criticism admits of two things: that we cannot infer anything from the sequence of events and nothing from localities and places.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-07-18","location":null,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1903–1904 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.","evidence_translation":"Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90a); the description calls them \"Hörermitschriften\", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker \"[Lücke in der Mitschrift]\". 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Es hat sich vielmehr darum gehandelt zu zeigen, dass die Tatsachen des Johannes-Evangeliums zwar mystische Tatsachen sind, dass sie aber deshalb doch auch historische Tatsachen sind. Es soll nicht das Christentum als mystisch gezeigt werden, als mystische Auffassung, sondern das Christentum als eine mystisch zu erklärende, aber historisch wirkliche Tatsache. Derjenige, den der Thyrsus traf, der kann zu den Urbildern dessen, was die Bücher erzählen, geführt werden. Hier knüpfen wir mit diesem Wort an etwas an, was ich das letzte Mal in Bezug auf die historisch-kritische Evangelien-Forschung gesagt habe. Ich habe gesagt, dass die Kritik das Markus-Evangelium hat gelten lassen, dass dieses Markus-Evangelium zwar viel später geschrieben wurde, dass es, wie die Kritik sagt, nicht von Zeitgenossen geschrieben worden ist. Von ihnen habe ich gleichzeitig gesagt, dass dieser Schreiber des Markus-Evangeliums so spricht, dass er die Orte, an denen sich die Ereignisse abgespielt haben, nicht schildert, dass ihm die Ereignisse, die Lokalitäten vollständig gleichgültig zu sein scheinen. Ich habe auch gesagt, dass das, was Markus verknüpft als Tatsachen, eine Art dichterische Komposition sei, dass also auch die zeitliche Folge nicht maßgebend sein kann. Deshalb gibt die Kritik zweierlei zu: dass wir nichts entnehmen können aus der Zeitfolge und nichts aus Lokalitäten und Orten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p009"}],"english":["GA 90a/1904-07-18/p009"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":233,"en_words":227,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6019,"original_word_count":5790,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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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