{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-06/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Christian path is pursued by an awakening of the feelings. There are seven stages of feeling which must be aroused. In addition are other exercises which are only given personally to the pupil, and suited to his special character. It is, however, indispensable to experience the 13th Chapter of St. John's Gospel, so to experience it as I will now describe. The teacher says to the pupil: You must develop quite definite feelings. Imagine the following: the plant grows from the soil, but is of a higher order than the mineral soil from which it grows. Nevertheless the plant needs it, the higher could not exist without the lower, and if the plant could think, it would have to say to the earth: It is true that I am higher than thou, yet without thee I cannot live. And it must incline itself to the earth in gratitude. Likewise must the animal bear itself to the plant, for it could not exist without plant life, and even so must the human being bear himself with regard to the animal. And if man has ascended higher, he must say to himself: I could never stand where I do without the lower. He must bow thankfully before them, for they have made it possible for him to exist. No creature in the world could subsist without the lower, to which it must feel gratitude. So even Christ, the very highest, could not exist without the twelve, and the feeling of his inclination to them in gratitude is powerfully portrayed in this 13th chapter. He, the highest of all, washes his disciples' feet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. The Nature of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-06","location":null,"word_count":271,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-06-06/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Theosophy of the Rosicrucian","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA099/English/RSP1966/19070606p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Dazu kommen andere Übungen, die nur von Mensch zu Mensch gegeben werden und auf den einzelnen Charakter zugeschnitten sind. Unerläßlich ist es aber, das 13. Kapitel des Johannes-Evangeliums zu erleben, so zu erleben, wie ich es jetzt schildern will. Der Lehrer sagt zum Schüler: Du mußt ganz bestimmte Gefühle in dir ausbilden. Stelle dir vor: Die Pflanze wächst heraus aus dem Erdboden. Sie ist höher als der mineralische Erdboden, aus dem sie herauswächst, aber sie braucht ihn. Sie, das Höhere, könnte nicht sein ohne das Niedere. Und wenn die Pflanze denken könnte, so müßte sie zur Erde sagen: Zwar bin ich höher als du, doch ohne dich kann ich nicht sein — und dankbar müßte sie sich zu ihr hinneigen. Ebenso müßte es das Tier der Pflanze gegenüber tun, denn ohne Pflanze könnte es nicht sein, und ebenso der Mensch dem Tier gegenüber. Und wenn der Mensch höher gestiegen sein wird, dann muß er sich sagen: Niemals könnte ich auf meiner Stufe stehen ohne die niedere. Dankbar muß er sich neigen gegen sie, denn sie hat es ihm möglich gemacht, daß er bestehen kann. Kein Wesen auf der Welt könnte bestehen ohne das Niedere, dem es dankbar sein müßte. So auch konnte der Christus, das Höchste, nicht bestehen ohne die Zwölfe, und gewaltig ist das Gefühl des sich dankbar zu ihnen Hinneigens dargestellt im 13. Kapitel des Johannes-Evangeliums: Er, der Höchste, wäscht seinen Jüngern die Füße.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-06-06/p011"}],"english":["GA 99/1907-06-06/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":256,"en_words":271,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5549,"original_word_count":5247,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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