{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-23/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us hold in mind that what preceded the “raising of Lazarus” is a communication of weighty matters, but that the writer has reserved the most profound matters for the chapters subsequent to that event. Nevertheless, he wished throughout to indicate that the content of his Gospel is something which will be thoroughly understood only by one who has attained a certain degree of initiation. Therefore he indicates in various passages that what is communicated in the first chapters has to do with a certain kind and degree of initiation. You already know that there are different degrees of initiation. For example, in a certain form of oriental initiation, seven degrees can be distinguished and these seven degrees were designated by all sorts of symbolical names. The first was the degree of the “Raven,” the second that of the ”Occultist,” the third of the “Warrior,” the fourth that of the “Lion.” Amongst different peoples, who still felt a kind of blood relationship as the expression of their group-soul, the fifth degree was designated by the name of the folk itself; thus among the Persians, for example, an initiate of the fifth degree was called in an occult sense, a “Persian.” When we understand what these names signify, then the justification of these titles will soon be evident.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Seven Degrees of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-05-23","location":null,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-23/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maud B. 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Man unterschied zum Beispiel in einer gewissen Form morgenländischer Einweihung sieben Grade der Einweihung, und diese sieben Grade der Einweihung benannte man mit allerlei symbolischen Namen. Der erste Grad war der Grad des «Raben», der zweite der des «Okkulten», der dritte der des «Streiters», der vierte der des «Löwen». Der fünfte Grad wird nun bei den verschiedenen Völkern, die noch eine Art von Blutzusammengehörigkeit fühlten als den Ausdruck ihrer Gruppenseele, bezeichnet mit dem Namen des Volkes; also bei den Persern zum Beispiel wird ein im fünften Grade Eingeweihter erst im okkulten Sinne ein «Perser» genannt. Wenn wir uns klarmachen, was diese Namen bedeuten, wird uns die Berechtigung dieser Benennungen bald erscheinen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-23/p005"}],"english":["GA 103/1908-05-23/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":218,"en_words":218,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7320,"original_word_count":6933,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maud B. 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