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These are three fundamentally different things: initiation, clairvoyance and magic. Let us first make clear to ourselves, by means of a simple comparison, what an initiate, what a clairvoyant and what a magician is. Imagine some region where no one has ever heard of railways, steamships and so on, where people live without railways and without steamships. In such a region, the fact that there are railways and steamships is pure occultism. Occult means something like secret, something that people know nothing about. Now when someone from the area where there are no railways and so on travels to another area where he sees railways and steamships, and then returns to his homeland, he tells his people that there are railways and steamships. He knows it from his own experience, because he has seen into a world that is still a secret for others.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p011","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_lecture_same_day","base_unit":"GA 101/1907-10-21","note":"Another lecture given on the same date as 1907-10-21; the suffix only separates two lectures of one day."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071021a01.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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Man cannot find the occult truths with the mind, but he can see them. Everything that is told from spiritual research can be understood if one is willing to think about it thoroughly. However, one cannot find the occult truths without clairvoyance; clairvoyance is needed for that. So what is proclaimed by Theosophy can also be understood by those who think about it thoroughly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p012","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_lecture_same_day","base_unit":"GA 101/1907-10-21","note":"Another lecture given on the same date as 1907-10-21; the suffix only separates two lectures of one day."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071021a01.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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There was the clairvoyant, who perhaps through incarnations, in a self-denying way, applied the methods and trained himself to look into the higher worlds, who could see much in these higher worlds, and who refrained from learning the laws of these higher worlds, in order not to be held back by laws, but to prove a greater service to humanity through a more rapid development of clairvoyant abilities. This renunciation is not to be taken lightly. It is a great and mighty step when anyone decides to become a seer without at the same time becoming acquainted with the whole system of laws in the higher worlds; and if he waits, perhaps for thousands of years, before he attains this, he can only do so on condition that he places himself under the strict care of a chosen guru or teacher. For if he approached the things of the spiritual world as a mere clairvoyant, without knowing its laws, he would soon go astray and into the most dreadful errors if he did not accept the guru's advice in all important matters.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p013","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_lecture_same_day","base_unit":"GA 101/1907-10-21","note":"Another lecture given on the same date as 1907-10-21; the suffix only separates two lectures of one day."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071021a01.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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It is possible for one to become an initiate of higher degrees without laying claim to clairvoyant powers. In the old occult schools it was quite usual for these two classes to be side by side. Clairvoyants willingly accepted the advice of initiates who were not clairvoyant at all. This was especially necessary for cases where a high degree of clairvoyance and a high degree of initiation were required, for example, for everything related to the astrological field. It was the case that those who wanted to fully comprehend the complicated laws of astrology usually had to do without the high level of clairvoyance that the astral clairvoyants had to acquire. They complemented each other. Only in recent times, when man thinks and feels in a materialistic way, must it be realized that it is impossible to separate these two fields strictly, and therefore no distinction has been made between the two classes since the fourteenth century, so that the teacher gives no one an initiation without at the same time giving a certain degree of clairvoyance. This is necessary because it cannot be reconciled with the selfishness and lack of trust that prevail today. Therefore, no distinction is made between the two, because people today cannot be selfless.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p014","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_lecture_same_day","base_unit":"GA 101/1907-10-21","note":"Another lecture given on the same date as 1907-10-21; the suffix only separates two lectures of one day."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071021a01.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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Only he is a magician or adept who knows how to apply the higher forces, of which all physical events are an expression, in the world here, who is thus able not only to call upon the physical forces and powers when something is at stake in his actions, but who can set the higher forces in motion. In our time, it is no small thing to be a magician or adept. There has never been a time in the development of humanity when the path of the magician or adept was so completely opposed to our own as it is today. And today, under certain circumstances, one best serves humanity by limiting oneself to spreading the knowledge of the higher worlds, and even - perhaps with a bleeding heart - refraining from it in cases where the application of magical powers might be appropriate. For today's public life is so alien to the concept of magistery that under certain circumstances the influence of higher worlds on this world would mean a setback if magical powers were applied directly. He who has practised the use of these powers to a certain extent, and who has acquired the knowledge of the mechanism as well, must in certain cases refrain from using these powers, for the simple reason that it is impossible today to go against the current of the world. Not only clairvoyance and initiation belong to the magician, but also practice. That is what it is all about. The magician must practice certain tasks with great dedication over a long period of time. Just think about how much you can know - even in the physical world - without being able to actually do what you can talk about, what you know something about. You can be initiated into many things. You can know exactly how a locomotive is constructed, but without anyone giving you the order to build a locomotive, because he would risk throwing the money out the window. It is the same in the higher realms. Practice makes the magician, perception in the higher worlds makes the clairvoyant, knowledge and realization of the laws in the higher worlds makes the initiate.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":486,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p015","unit_kind":{"kind":"second_lecture_same_day","base_unit":"GA 101/1907-10-21","note":"Another lecture given on the same date as 1907-10-21; the suffix only separates two lectures of one day."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071021a01.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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Machen wir uns zunächst durch einen einfachen Vergleich klar, was ein Eingeweihter, was ein Hellseher und was ein Magier ist. Denken Sie sich irgendeine Gegend, wo man keine Eisenbahnen, keine Dampfschiffe und so weiter kennt, wo die Menschen ohne Eisenbahnen und ohne Dampfschiffe leben. In einer solchen Gegend ist der Umstand, daß es Eisenbahnen und Dampfschiffe gibt, der reine Okkultismus. Okkult bedeutet so viel wie geheim, etwas, wovon die Leute nichts wissen. Wenn nun einer aus der Gegend, wo es keine Eisenbahnen und so weiter gibt, in eine andere Gegend reist, wo er Eisenbahnen und Dampfschiffe sieht, und er kommt dann wieder in seine Heimat zurück, dann erzählt er seinen Leuten, daß es Eisenbahnen und Dampfschiffe gibt. Er weiß es aus eigener Anschauung, denn er hat in eine Welt hineingesehen, die für die anderen noch ein Geheimnis ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p011"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-10-21_02/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wer durch okkulte Schulung hineingeführt wird in die höheren Welten, der ist in dieser Beziehung ein Hellseher. Er weiß aus eigener Anschauung, daß es geistige Welten und Wesenheiten, geistige Kräfte gibt. Die geistigen Welten haben verschiedene Stufen. Es kann ein Mensch auf der einen Stufe Hellseher sein, einige Erscheinungen sehen, aber andere Erscheinungen nicht sehen. Nun müssen Sie sich etwas vor die Seele rufen, was hier öfters gesagt worden ist: Zum Auffinden und zum selbständigen Erforschen okkulter Wahrheiten gehört Hellsehertum. Nicht aber gehört Hellsehertum dazu, diese Wahrheiten einzusehen. Dazu reicht der gewöhnliche Menschenverstand aus, wenn er nur in genügend umfassender Weise richtig angewendet wird. Wer sagt, was in okkulten Berichten mitgeteilt wird, das könne er nur begreifen, wenn er ein Hellseher wäre, der benützt einfach seinen Verstand nicht genügend. Finden kann der Mensch die okkulten Wahrheiten nicht mit dem Verstande, aber einsehen kann er sie. Alles, was aus der Geistesforschung heraus erzählt wird, kann man einsehen, wenn man nur gründlich nachdenken will. Nur finden kann man ohne Hellsehen die okkulten Wahrheiten nicht, dazu gehört Hellsehertum. Was also durch Theosophie verkündigt wird, das könnten die, welche gründlich darüber nachdenken, auch einsehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p012"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-10-21_02/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Man kann, bis in die höchsten Gebiete der okkulten Erlebnisse hinauf, die Sachen erzählt erhalten, und man kann sie dann einsehen. So gab es in den okkulten Schulen immer Hellseher, welche durch jene Methoden, die angewendet wurden, hineinschauen lernten in die geistigen Welten. Das waren oftmals sehr langwierige Methoden. Aber neben diesen Hellsehern gab es immer auch Eingeweihte. Das waren diejenigen, die aus ihren umfassenden und willig angewandten Verstandeskräften heraus die Tatsachen und Gesetze der höheren Welten eingesehen hatten. Das waren Eingeweihte. Heute ist dieses Verhältnis von Eingeweihten und Hellsehern kaum mehr gut möglich, weil heute jeder Mensch von dem großen Egoismus befallen ist, selbst sehen zu wollen. Von jener Liebe und jenem Vertrauen, die in den okkulten Schulen der Vorzeit herrschten, machen sich die Menschen heute kaum einen Begriff. Da war der Hellseher, der vielleicht durch Inkarnationen hindurch in entsagender Weise die Methoden anwendete und sich geübt hat, um hineinzuschauen in die höheren Welten, der vieles sehen konnte in diesen höheren Welten, und der sich selbst enthielt, die Gesetze dieser höheren Welten kennenzulernen, um sich nicht aufzuhalten durch Gesetze, sondern um durch eine raschere Entwickelung hellseherischer Fähigkeiten der Menschheit einen größeren Dienst zu erweisen. Dieses Entsagen ist nicht so ohne weiteres leicht zu nehmen. Es ist etwas Großes und Gewaltiges, wenn irgend jemand sich entschließt, Hellseher zu werden, ohne zu gleicher Zeit die ganze Art der Gesetzmäßigkeit in den höheren Welten kennenzulernen; und wenn er darauf wartet - vielleicht Tausende von Jahren -, bis er das erreicht, so kann er das nur unter der Bedingung tun, daß er sich unter die strenge Obhut eines gewählten Gurus oder Lehrers stellt. Denn träte er als bloßer Hellseher an die Dinge der geistigen Welt heran, ohne deren Gesetze zu kennen, so würde er bald auf Irrpfade und in die wüstesten Irrtümer hineinkommen, wenn er nicht in allen wichtigen Dingen den Rat des Guru annehmen würde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p013"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-10-21_02/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Andere gab es, die verzichteten überhaupt auf die Entwickelung höherer hellseherischer Gaben, weil sie eingeweiht werden wollten in die Gesetze der höheren Welten. Sie vertrauten in Liebe und Hingebung dem, was ihnen die Seher sagten, aber sie kannten die Gesetze. Um das zu erläutern, kann man ein Beispiel anführen aus der gewöhnlichen Welt. Denken Sie sich einen Menschen, der außerordentlich gut sieht, der alle möglichen Phänomene sehen kann mit seinen Augen, der aber von den Gesetzen der Lichterscheinungen nichts versteht. Und denken Sie sich einen anderen Menschen, der sehr kurzsichtig ist und kaum ein paar Zentimeter vor seine Augen hin sieht, der aber die physikalischen Gesetze der Lichterscheinungen gut kennt. Die beiden können gut zusammenwirken und -arbeiten, der eine kennt die Gesetze, der andere kennt sie gar nicht, aber dafür sieht er die Erscheinungen. Und das gilt noch viel mehr für die höheren Gebiete. Es ist möglich, daß einer ein in höhere Grade Eingeweihter wird, ohne Anspruch zu machen auf hellseherische Kräfte. Das war in den alten okkulten Schulen durchaus üblich, daß diese zwei Klassen nebeneinander waren. Willig haben die Hellseher den Ratschlag von gar nicht hellsehenden Eingeweihten angenommen. Insbesondere war dies notwendig für die Fälle, in denen ein hoher Grad des Hellsehens und ein hoher Grad der Einweihung erforderlich war, so zum Beispiel für alles, was sich auf das astrologische Gebiet bezieht. Das war so, daß diejenigen, welche sich die umständlichen Gesetze der Astrologie umfassend aneignen wollten, in der Regel verzichten mußten auf jenes hohe Hellsehen, welches die astralischen Hellseher sich anzueignen hatten. Sie ergänzten sich gegenseitig. Nur in der neueren Zeit, wo der Mensch materialistisch denkt und fühlt, muß man sich klar machen, daß es unmöglich ist, diese beiden Gebiete streng zu trennen, und deshalb wird seit dem 14. Jahrhundert kein Unterschied mehr zwischen den beiden Klassen gemacht, so daß der Lehrer keinem eine Einweihung mehr erteilt, ohne zu gleicher Zeit einen gewissen Grad des Hellsehens zu geben. Das geht nicht anders, weil es mit dem Egoismus und mit der Vertrauenslosigkeit, die heute herrschen, gar nicht anders vereinbar sein würde. Daher wird zwischen den beiden kein Unterschied mehr gemacht, denn die Menschen können heute gar nicht selbstlos sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p014"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-10-21_02/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nun unterscheidet sich aber sowohl vom Hellseher als auch vom Eingeweihten der Magier. Für den, der selbst in die höheren Welten hineinschauen kann, folgt noch lange nicht, daß er die in die sinnliche Welt hineinwirkenden Kräfte auch schon beherrschen und anwenden kann. Oder glauben Sie, daß ein Mensch, der in eine Gegend die Kenntnis von der Lokomotive, dem Dampfschiff und der Dampfmaschine gebracht hat, nun auch gleich eine solche Maschine bauen könnte? Er kann ihnen erzählen, wie solche Dinge ausschauen, aber er wird nicht gleich verstehen, sie zu bauen. Daß der Hellseher selbst hineinsehen kann in die höheren Welten, daraus folgt noch nicht, daß er auch die Kräfte, die hereinwirken in die Sinneswelt, zu beherrschen und anzuwenden versteht. Der erst ist Magier oder Adept, der die höheren Kräfte, von denen alles physische Geschehen ein Ausdruck ist, in der Welt hier anzuwenden versteht, der also imstande ist, nicht nur die physischen Kräfte und die physischen Mächte zu Rate zu ziehen, wenn es sich um irgend etwas bei seinem Tun handelt, sondern der die höheren Kräfte spielen lassen kann. Das ist in unserer Zeit eigentlich keine Kleinigkeit, Magier oder Adept zu sein. Es gibt keine Zeit in der Menschheitsentwickelung, die dem Magiertum oder Adeptentum so durchaus entgegengesetzt war, wie unsere heutige es ist. Und man dient heute der Menschheit unter gewissen Verhältnissen am besten dadurch, daß man sich darauf beschränkt, die Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten zu verbreiten, und selbst - vielleicht mit blutendem Herzen - auch in Fällen, wo die Anwendung magischer Kräfte vielleicht am Platze wäre, darauf verzichtet. Denn das heutige öffentliche Leben ist so fremd dem Begriffe des Magiertums, daß unter Umständen der Einfluß höherer Welten auf diese unsere Welt einen Rückschlag bedeuten würde, wenn unmittelbar magische Kräfte angewendet würden. Wer eine gewisse Übung in der Anwendung der Kräfte hat, und zu den Kenntnissen sich auch den Mechanismus angeeignet hat, der muß in gewissen Fällen sich enthalten, diese Kräfte anzuwenden, aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil es unmöglich ist, heute gegen die Strömung der Zeit in der Welt anzulaufen. Zum Magier gehört nicht nur Hellsehen und Einweihung, zum Magier gehört auch Übung. Das ist es, um was es sich handelt. Der Magier muß entsagungsvoll durch lange Zeiten hindurch gewisse Verrichtungen sich aneignen, er muß sich üben. Denken Sie nur einmal, wieviel Sie wissen können - schon in der physischen Welt -, ohne daß Sie selbst in der Lage wären, auch wirklich das ausführen zu können, wovon Sie erzählen können, wovon Sie etwas wissen. In vieles können Sie eingeweiht sein. Ganz genau können Sie wissen, wie eine Lokomotive konstruiert ist, aber ohne daß Ihnen jemand gleich den Auftrag geben würde, eine Lokomotive zu bauen, da er damit riskieren würde, das Geld zum Fenster hinauszuwerfen. So ist es auch auf den höheren Gebieten. Übung macht den Magier, Wahrnehmen in den höheren Welten macht den Hellseher, Wissen und Erkenntnis der Gesetze in den höheren Welten macht den Eingeweihten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":484,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-10-21_02/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}