{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Last Thursday [Public Lecture, Berlin, 15 Feb, 1906. “Reincarnation and Karma”] I already pointed out how one can illustrate this by a simple comparison. Look at a child. One could be tempted to say that these innocent features came from the father or mother, an uncle or an ancestor. However, everything within the child expresses itself in the features, in the gestures of the hands and in all its movements. What slumbers in the child strives to come to expression. Finally the individual emerges and the physiognomy becomes an expression of the individual soul, while previously it showed more of a family type. In primitive man the individual soul is usually still slumbering and has but a meagre existence. In the course of many incarnations and efforts the individual emerges, the soul aquires more power over the physical body, and the physiognomy takes on the imprint, or the expression of the inner man. An immature person expresses little of the power of the soul. Gradually man matures, and full maturity is reached when the inner word has become flesh completely—when the outer has become an exact imprint of the inner, so that the spirit shines through the flesh. This however, John only understood once his higher self had appeared clearly before his astral eyes. It stood in front of his astral eyes and he knew: This is I. Today have I experienced it on the astral plane. However it will gradually descend as it did in Him, who I followed. This is the deep relationship between Christ Jesus and the divine man that exists in every man. This is the deep inner experience of John.","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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In vielen Inkarnationen arbeitet sich aber das Individuelle heraus, die Seele bekommt mehr Macht über den physischen Körper, die Physiognomie bekommt den Abdruck oder den Ausdruck des Inneren. Im Unreifen drückt sich wenig von der Gewalt der Seele aus. Reifer wird der Mensch, und reif ist er, wenn das innere Wort ganz Fleisch geworden ist, wenn das Äußere ein genauer Abdruck des Inneren geworden ist, so daß das Fleisch ganz durchgeistigt ist. Das hat er aber erst jetzt verstanden, nachdem ihm klar vor das astrale Auge getreten ist das höhere Selbst. Das stand auf dem astralen Plane vor dem Seelenauge des Johannes, und er erkannte: Das bin ich. Ich habe es heute nur auf dem astralen Plane erlebt, es wird aber allmählich herunterrücken, wie es bei dem geschehen ist, dem ich gefolgt bin. - Es ist die tiefe Verwandtschaft des Christus Jesus mit dem Gottmenschen, der in jedem Menschen veranlagt ist. Das ist das tiefe innere Erlebnis des Johannes. 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