{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This astral vision is something quite different from physical sight. You can get some idea of astral vision if you think of the flow of dream life. In dreams we have symbolic pictures—true symbols. One sees symbols. One loses consciousness of what takes place here in the physical world, but one can experience in symbolic pictures such events as the life of Christ Jesus as John describes it from his own experience in the astral world. Descriptions of this nature form the content of the first twelve chapters of the John Gospel. Don't misunderstand me. I know many will say: If all this is astral experience, then it is nothing real and what is told us of the founder of Christianity is not authentic. But this is not the case. It would be as if one denied that a man of flesh and blood could be a genius, because one cannot see genius. Although one learns the truth of Christ Jesus only on the astral plane, it is still a fact that he lived his life on the physical plane. We are dealing with symbols on the astral plane and outer reality on the physical plane. Nothing is taken away from the facts when we understand them more deeply in the sense of the John Gospel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"John's Gospel as Initiation into Higher Worlds","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Mißverstehen Sie mich nicht! Ich weiß, viele werden sagen: Wenn das astrale Erlebnisse sind, dann ist das doch nichts Wirkliches, und was uns von dem Stifter des Christentums gesagt wird, hat dann doch keine Gültigkeit. - Das ist nicht richtig. Es wäre das gleiche, wie wenn man leugnen wollte, daß ein Mensch aus Fleisch und Blut ein Genie ist, weil man das Genie nicht sehen kann. Wenn man auch die Wahrheit über den Christus Jesus erst auf dem Astralplan erkennen lernt, so hat sich sein Leben doch auf dem physischen Plan tatsächlich abgespielt. Wir haben es mit dem Symbol auf dem astralischen Plan und mit der äußeren Wirklichkeit auf dem physischen Plan zu tun. 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