{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When man begins to develop astral consciousness, things on the astral plane appear to him as in a mirror. The number 165 should not be read as 165 but as 561—as reflected writing. Everything appears reversed on the astral plane. Even time is reversed. When you follow someone on the astral plane you start, to begin with, from where he is. Then you go back to his birth. You can follow him on the physical plane forwards; on the astral plane backwards. Leaving the physical body is like this: It is as though we were leaving the temple of the physical body and were laid hold of from all sides. This is the occurrence which John wants to describe. He left his body in order to experience the Christ, his own higher divine self, confronting him. People around him have their astral bodies bound strongly to their physical bodies as if with fetters. Had John remained like them he would have continued to be fettered to his physical body. Now let us read how this occurrence is described pictorially and symbolically in the John Gospel, chapter 8, verses 58 and 59: “Jesus said unto them, verily, verily I say unto you: Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them”, through the hindrances. With this ends the eighth chapter. This is the passing out of the astral body from the physical body. The final act, leading to the leaving of the physical body and to higher vision, usually lasts three days. When these three days are up, one attains a consciousness on the astral plane comparable to that previously experienced on the physical plane. Then one is united with the higher world.","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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Das ist der ° Vorgang, den Johannes schildern will, der darin besteht, daß er aus sich herausgetreten ist, um den Christus, sein eigenes höheres göttliches Selbst, vor sich zu erleben. Die Menschen, die um ihn herum sind, sind so, daß sie streng, wie mit Fesseln, ihren Astralleib an ihren physischen Leib gefesselt haben. Wäre Johannes so geblieben wie sie, dann wäre er weiterhin an den physischen Leib gefesselt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-02-19/p030"},{"locus":"GA 94/1906-02-19/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Nun lesen Sie, wie dieser Vorgang bildlich, symbolisch im Johannes-Evangelium Kapitel 8, Verse 58 und 59, geschildert ist: «Jesus sprach zu ihnen: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch: ehe denn Abraham ward, bin ich. - Da hoben sie Steine auf, daß sie auf ihn würfen. Aber Jesus verbarg sich und ging zum Tempel hinaus, mitten durch sie hindurchstreichend», durch die Hindernisse. Damit endet das achte Kapitel. Das ist der Vorgang des Heraustretens des Astralleibes aus dem physischen Leibe. Gewöhnlich dauert solch ein Vorgang, ein letzter Akt, der zu diesem Heraustreten führt, um den Menschen völlig sehend zu machen, drei Tage. Wenn diese drei Tage um sind, dann erlangt der Mensch ein ebensolches Bewußtsein auf dem astralen Plan wie früher auf dem physischen Plan. Dann vereinigt er sich mit der höheren Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/94/1906-02-19/p031"}],"english":["GA 94/1906-02-19/p033"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":311,"en_words":303,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 94/1906-02-19/p030","GA 94/1906-02-19/p031"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4768,"original_word_count":4981,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"UNK1980","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA094/English/UNK1980/19060219p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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