XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels

GA 90a/1904-07-18/p024 ·1904-07-18 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. 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.» (Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.). 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]". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Those He comes to are completely entwined with their people and their time. Jesus came to the Jews, although He was not born of this people, and had to work among them. He had to create something higher out of the substance of the people, which would flourish in the world. His followers came from three groups. The first group were those who were attached to Judaism, to the laws that he had not come to abolish but to fulfill with complete tolerance. This was the people in whom he planted his teaching like a mustard seed, so that it would flourish. The second group, where he spread his teaching with complete love and tolerance. This was the group that believed in him because of his personal power and influence. These were the ones who were close to him, who knew what he meant to them. And there was still a third group. These were the ones who believed because of the deeds he did, although they were not particularly close to him, but who were captivated by his appearance, and therefore, at the moment when this appearance was dragged down – after the crucifixion – they could no longer believe until they had proof.

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