{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 94/1906-07-11/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The first step is the washing of the feet. One arrives at this step by having for months tried to live with the following ideas in mind: The plant cannot live without the mineral kingdom, which is beneath it. If it could speak, it would have to say: You mineral kingdom, you are admittedly lower than I, but I owe my higher existence to you. And when man looks around at life, he must admit to himself: If I have come far in the spiritual, then others must work for me. We must therefore bow down in humility and gratitude to those who stand below us. “Whoever wants to be first will be last in the kingdom of heaven,” is a word of the gospel. This practice eventually leads to the inner image of the washing of feet. Christ washes the feet of the apostles to offer them the tribute of his thanks. He who lives in these conceptions of humility will realize that the image of the washing of feet appears to him in the form of an astral dream. Thereby what is described in the Gospel of John becomes one's own experience.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XIV","site_heading":"Christian Initiation and the Earth's Inner Layers","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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Und wenn der Mensch sich im Leben umsieht, so muß er sich eingestehen: Habe ich es im Geistigen weit gebracht, so müssen dafür andere für mich arbeiten. Wir müssen uns deshalb in Demut und Dankbarkeit zu denen hinunterneigen, die unter uns stehen. «Wer da will der Erste sein, der wird der Letzte sein im Himmelreich», lautet ein Wort des Evangeliums. Diese Übung führt schließlich zum inneren Bilde der Fußwaschung. Christus wäscht den Aposteln die Füße, um ihnen den Tribut seines Dankes darzubringen. Wer in diesen Demutsvorstellungen lebt, der merkt, daß ihm in Form eines Astraltraumes das Bild der Fußwaschung erscheint. 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