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None the less it is truth but truth that will be subjected to the same fate as those emissaries who were sent from civilised States to the courts of barbarians—as Voltaire relates. First, unworthy treatment and then, afterwards, recognition and acknowledgment.) This, then, was said to the pupils of the Grail: ‘Look at the plant. Its flower may not be compared with the human head. The flower, with its male and female organs of fertilisation, corresponds to the sexual system in man. It is the *root* of the plant that corresponds to the human head.’ Darwin himself once rightly compared the root of the plant with the head of man. The human being is a plant reversed. He has accomplished the complete turn. In chastity and purity the plant stretches out its calyx towards the light, receiving its rays, receiving the ‘holy love-lance,’ the ‘kiss’ which ripened the fruit. 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Sinnbildlich dargestellt ist es in einem Mythos, der tief verstanden werden muß: Als der Geist, der im Anfang unserer Entwicklung abgefallen ist von den die Menschheit leitenden Geistern, als Luzifer abgefallen ist, da fiel aus seiner Krone ein Stein, und aus diesem wurde eine Schale geformt, jene Schale, aus welcher der Christus Jesus mit seinen Jüngern das Abendmahl genommen hat, jene Schale, in welcher das Blut aufgenommen worden ist auf Golgatha von Joseph von Arimathia; dieser brachte sie in das Abendland. Nach vielen Wanderungen kam die Schale in die Hände Titurels, durch den die Gralsburg gegründet worden ist. Er hat sie aufbewahrt, zusammen mit der heiligen Liebeslanze. Die Sage berichtet, daß alle, die in die Schale hineinblicken, ein Ewiges in sich aufnahmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p037"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Fassen wir noch einmal das ganze Geheimnis dieses Mythos: ein Zusammenklang mit den Fortschritten der Menschheitsentwicklung, wie ihn sich die, die vom Geheimnis des Grals wissen, vorstellen. Sie sagen: Als die Menschheitsentwicklung auf der Erde begann, war alle Liebe noch gebunden an das Blut. Die Blutsverwandtschaft war es, die die Menschen verband. Wir finden da kleine Stämme und finden, daß in diesen die Nahehe herrscht. Später erst kam die Fernehe. Der Zeitpunkt, von dem an herausgeheiratet werden darf aus dem Stamm, bildet einen wichtigen Übergang im Leben eines jeden Volkes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p038"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"In den Sagen und Mythen ist das Bewußtsein davon erhalten. Zuerst war also die Liebe gebunden an die Blutsverwandtschaft; dann wurden die Kreise weiter und weiter, innerhalb welcher man sich heiratete. Das ist der eine Strom der Entwicklung: die Liebe, die gebunden ist an die Gleichheit und Gemeinschaft von Fleisch und Blut. Dann wird ein anderes Prinzip maßgebend, das die Selbständigkeit einpflanzt. In jener alten Zeit, die dem Christentum vorangegangen ist — so sagten die Gralsritter -, waren diese zwei Strömungen: die Blutbruderschaftsliebe und das Freiheitsprinzip, das, was in dem Menschen waltet als Selbständiges, als Luziferisches, die Macht des Jahve, dessen Name bedeutet: Ich bin, der ich bin. - Mit dem Christentum sollte in die Welt gebracht werden eine Liebe, die unabhängig ist von Blutbruderschaft. So ist der Ausspruch Christi zu deuten: Wer nicht verlässet Vater und Mutter, der kann nicht mein Jünger sein. - Das heißt: Wer nicht an die Stelle einer Liebe, die an Blut und Fleisch gebunden ist, zu setzen vermag die allgemeine Menschenliebe, die von Seele zu Seele geht, von Mensch zu Mensch überhaupt, die sich allmählich herausbilden muß, der kann nicht mein Jünger sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p039"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"So sehen wir, daß der Krone Luzifers entfällt die Schale. Sie verbindet mit dem Luzifer-Prinzip das Christus-Prinzip. In dieser Erkenntnis wird den Gralssrittern die große Kraft, die sie mit Ich-Leben durchdringt. Diesen Sinn finden wir in der Sage vom heiligen Gral. Und denen, die Schüler des heiligen Gral waren, wurde folgendes klargemacht. Ich will in einfacher Weise in Dialogform hinstellen, was den Gralsschülern in langen Übungen allmählich klargemacht worden ist. Manche werden sagen, das sei unglaublich. Aber mit der Wahrheit ist es so, wie mit den Gesandten der zivilisierten Staaten an den Höfen der Barbaren - wie es Voltaire erzählt: Sie müssen sich erst unwürdige Behandlung gefallen lassen, ehe sie anerkannt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p040"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Dem Gralsschüler wurde also gesagt: Sieh dir die Pflanze an. Man kann nicht die Blüte mit dem Kopf des Menschen vergleichen; sie entspricht mit ihren männlichen und weiblichen Befruchtungsorganen der Geschlechtsseite des Menschen. Die Wurzel entspricht dem Kopfe. - Schon Darwin hat in einem Vergleich richtig darauf hingewiesen, daß die Wurzel dem Kopfe des Menschen entspricht. Der Mensch ist die umgekehrte Pflanze: Er hat die volle Wendung vollzogen. Keusch streckt die Pflanze ihren Kelch dem Lichte entgegen, aufnehmend die Strahlen, die heilige Liebeslanze, empfangend den reinen Kuß, unter dem die Frucht sich bildet. Die Wendung ist halb vollzogen beim Tier. Die Pflanze, die sich mit dem Kopf in die Erde bohrt, das Tier mit dem waagrechten Rückgrat und der Mensch mit seinem aufrechten Gang, den Blick nach oben gerichtet (es wird an die Tafel gezeichnet). Diese drei verbunden, geben das Kreuz. Sieh hin, wurde dem Schüler gesagt, wie Plato die Wahrheit kündet, wenn er sagt, daß die Weltseele ausgespannt, gekreuzigt liegt auf dem Weltenleib. - Die Weltseele, die Seele, die durch Pflanze, Tier und Mensch geht, findet sich in den Leibern, die das Kreuz darstellen. Das ist die ursprüngliche Bedeutung des Kreuzes. Alles Übrige ist Rederei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p041"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Was hat es bewirkt, daß der Mensch diese Umkehrung vollzogen hat? Wenn wir die Pflanze betrachten, so sehen wir: Für den wahren Mystiker hat die Pflanze denjenigen Bewußtseinszustand, den der schlafende Mensch hat. Wenn er schläft, hat der Mensch den Wert einer Pflanze. Der Mensch hat sein heutiges Bewußtsein dadurch errungen, daß er den reinen, keuschen Pflanzenleib durchdrungen hat mit Begierde, mit dem Leidenschaftsleib. Er ist dadurch in gewisser Weise höher gestiegen zum Selbstbewußtsein, aber erkauft hat er dies mit dem Durchdringen der reinen Pflanzensubstanz mit Begierden und Trieben. Und nun malte man vor dem Schüler einen Zukunftszustand des Menschen aus, einen Zustand, wo der Mensch sein helles Bewußtsein erhalten haben wird, aber wiederum geläutert, gereinigt zurückgekehrt sein wird zur reinen Substanz wie die Pflanze. Er hat sich dann zurückerrungen die reine, keusche Natur. Das Organ der Fortpflanzung wird umgebildet. Man stellte sich vor im Sinne des Gralsritters, daß der Mensch der Zukunft Organe haben wird, die der Fortpflanzung so dienen werden, daß sie nicht von Begierde durchdrungen sein werden, sondern rein und keusch sein werden wie der Pflanzenkelch, der sich hinwendet zu der Liebeslanze, dem Sonnenstrahl. So wird verwirklicht sein das Ideal des Grals, wo der Mensch in reiner Keuschheit, gerade wie die Pflanze, hervorbringen wird seinesgleichen, wo er wieder erzeugt sein Ebenbild in dem höheren reinen Kelch, wenn der Mensch Schaffender im Geiste sein wird. Dieses reale Ideal nannte man den heiligen Gral, die umgewandelten Reproduktionsorgane des Menschen, die so rein und keusch den Menschen hervorbringen, wie heute der Kehlkopf das Wort hervorbringt, das die Wellen der Luft bewirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p042"},{"locus":"GA 92/1907-12-02/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"Und nun wollen wir versuchen zu zeigen, wie in Richard Wagners Gemüt dieses große Ideal nachlebte. Es war im Jahr 1857, da stand er am Karfreitag im Gartenhaus der Villa der Frau Wesendonck auf dem Balkon und sah hinaus, wie die ersten Pflanzen hervorkamen. Er hat diesen denkwürdigen Moment aufgezeichnet. Er empfand in dem Hervorsprießen der jungen Pflanzen das ganze Geheimnis des heiligen Gral, des Geborenwerdens alles dessen, was verbunden ist mit der Vorstellung vom heiligen Gral. Er empfand das im Zusammenhang mit dem Karfreitag. Wunderbare Stimmung überkam ihn. Da schoß der erste Gedanke seines «Parsifal» in ihm auf. Es ist nun viel hineingefallen in die Zeit, die darauf folgte. Aber die Empfindung ist geblieben. Aus ihr heraus formte er die Gestalt seines Parsifal, jene Gestalt, in welcher das Gefühl zum Wissen erhoben wird, wo man durch das Mitfühlen wissend, «durch Mitleid wissend» wird. Und die ganze Entwicklung, wie die menschliche Natur verwundet wird durch die unreine Lanze - das tritt uns im Amfortas-Geheimnis entgegen. Wir sehen, wie da aufleuchtet das mystische Geheimnis vom heiligen Gral.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/92/1907-12-02/p043"}],"beads":[{"from":[39],"to":[37],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[40,41],"to":[38,39],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[42],"to":[40,41],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[43,44],"to":[42],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[45],"to":[43],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}