{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1905-10-22/p059","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is a law in the occult that expresses itself in the fact that in a race - I cannot prove this today - in which the leading individuals nourish their organism, that is, the instrument of the spirit, with alcoholic or similar drinks, it is simply impossible to arrive at a knowledge of the higher members of the human being. There are only two possibilities: either knowledge of the higher worlds and no alcohol, or alcohol and development on the physical plane with the prospect that there may be other planes, but that we cannot see into them ourselves. This is why all ancient cultures were influenced by the idea of reincarnation. Even the slave who worked on the Egyptian pyramids knew the truth of reincarnation. He knew that he would also one day take the place from which orders were given, just as he had to obey now. Christianity was an education of humanity for the importance of the physical plane. The fifth sub-race with the culture of authority was then prepared. How does this fifth sub-race prepare itself externally? By taking a completely different direction in the mysteries. Before Dionysus, there is no trace of the later sacrifice. There are ablutions, and the water is the sacrifice. With Dionysus, the god of becoming takes effect. The culture of the ram or lamb appears. Homer. Christ is the individuality that descends from the highest regions. Today, it already contains in its physical being what the other human beings will also contain in the very distant future. If you want to contemplate Christ, he is best described in the Gospel of the intimate disciple John. The Word became flesh, it says there. Man will one day become the Word, and this Word lives in the flesh in Christ. When you contemplate this Christ in the fourth sub-race, then he could say one thing: “In a certain way, I am deeply related to this sub-race, this fourth, but at the same time I am also growing out of this fourth sub-race. I represent that which will appear again and again in the future. This is how he is connected to the development of humanity, to the earthly wave of evolution that makes up the fourth and fifth sub-races and will then make up the sixth sub-race. In this way, he looks at everything that develops as material life on earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XVII. 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Schon der Sklave, der an den ägyptischen Pyramiden arbeitete, wusste die Wahrheit der Reinkarnation. Er wusste, dass er auch einmal den Platz einnehmen wird, von wo aus man befiehlt, wie er jetzt zu gehorchen hatte. Das Christentum ist eine Erziehung der Menschheit für die Wichtigkeit des physischen Planes gewesen. Vorbereitet wurde dann die fünfte Unterrasse mit der Autoritätskultur. Wodurch bereitet sich äußerlich diese fünfte Unterrasse vor? Dadurch, dass gerade in den Mysterien eine ganz andere Richtung eingeschlagen wird. Vor Dionysos haben Sie noch nichts von dem späteren Opfer. Da haben Sie die Waschungen, und das Wasser ist das Opfer. Mit Dionysos wird der Gott des Werdens wirksam. Die Widder oder Lammkultur tritt auf. Homer. Christus ist die Individualität, die herabsteigt aus den höchsten Regionen. Sie enthält heute schon körperlich dasjenige, was in sehr ferner Zukunft auch die anderen Menschen enthalten werden. Wenn Sie Christus betrachten wollen, so ist er am besten geschildert im Evangelium des vertrauten Jüngers Johannes. Das Wort ist Fleisch geworden, heißt es da. Der Mensch wird einst Wort werden, und dieses Wort lebt im Fleisch im Christus. Wenn Sie diesen Christus in der vierten Unterrasse betrachten, dann konnte er eines sagen: Ich bin in gewisser Weise tief verwandt mit dieser Unterrasse, dieser vierten, aber ich wachse auch gleichzeitig aus dieser vierten Unterrasse heraus. Ich stelle dasjenige dar, was wieder und wieder in der Zukunft erscheinen wird. Dadurch ist er verbunden mit der Menschheitsentwicklung, mit der irdischen Evolutionswelle, die die vierte und fünfte Unterrasse ausmacht, und dann die sechste Unterrasse ausmachen wird. 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