{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1905-05-29/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now we can follow the legend of the Cross still further. The wood was used as a bridge between two riverbanks. because it did not suit as a pillar in Solomon's Temple. This was a preparation. The Ark of the Covenant was in the Temple, but the Word-become-Flesh was not yet there. The wood of the Cross was laid as a bridge across a stream; only the Queen of Sheba recognised the worth of the wood for the temple, which should live in the consciousness of the soul of all humanity. Now the same wood was used for the construction of the Cross on which the Redeemer hung. He who unites the two earlier currents [of evolution], who allows the worldly and the spiritual to flow into each other, the Christ, is Himself joined to the living Cross. That is how He can carry the wood of the Cross as something [external] which He carries on His back. He is Himself united with the wood of the bridge, and can therefore take the dead wood upon Himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. Concerning the Lost Temple and How it is to be Restored III (In connection with the Legend of the True Cross, or Golden Legend)","site_heading":null,"date":"1905-05-29","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1905-05-29/p043","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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Als Brücke zwischen zwei Ufern wird das Holz verwendet, weil es als Pfeiler in den Salomonischen Tempel nicht taugte. Dies war eine Vorbereitung. Die Bundeslade war im Tempel, aber das fleischgewordene Wort war noch nicht da. Als Brücke über einen Fluß wird das Kreuzesholz gelegt, aber erst die Königin von Saba erkannte den Wert des Holzes für den Tempel, der im Bewußtsein der ganzen Menschenseele leben soll. Nun wird dasselbe Holz verwendet, um das Kreuz, an dem der Erlöser hängt, daraus zu zimmern. Derjenige, der die beiden früheren Strömungen vereinigt, der die weltliche und die spirituelle Strömung ineinanderlaufen läßt, der Christus ist selbst vereint mit dem lebendigen Kreuz. Daher kann er das Holz des Kreuzes tragen als etwas, was er auf seinen Rücken nimmt, als etwas, was außer ihm lebt. 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