{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104/1908-06-20/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now that which develops from age to age in the post-Atlantean epoch is represented by the writer of the Apocalypse as being expressed in small communities. These small communities, divided in space in the external world, represent to him these cultural epochs. When he speaks of the community or Church at Ephesus he intends the following: “I assume that at Ephesus there was a community which accepted Christianity in a certain sense; but as everything develops only gradually, there is always something remaining from each cultural epoch. In Ephesus we have indeed a school of initiates, but the Christian teaching is there coloured in such a way that we can still recognize every-where the ancient Indian civilization.” He wishes to show us the First Post-Atlantean Age. Hence this first age he represented by the community at Ephesus, and that which is to be announced is to be communicated by letter to the community at Ephesus. We must represent it approximately thus: The character of that remote Indian age of civilization of course remained; it continued in various streams of culture. We find something of this character in the community at Ephesus, which comprehended Christianity in such a way that it was still determined by the typical character of the ancient Indian civilization.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Seven Post-Atlantean Ages and Spiritual Initiation","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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In Ephesus haben wir zwar eine Eingeweihtenschule, aber wir haben die christliche Lehre da so gefärbt, daß man noch überall die altindische Kultur erkennen kann. — Er will uns zeigen die erste Epoche in der nachatlantischen Zeit. Diese erste Epoche in der nachatlantischen Zeit ist also repräsentiert in der ephesischen Gemeinde, und das, was zu verkünden ist, soll in einem Briefe an die Gemeinde von Ephesus verkündet werden. Wir müssen uns das ungefähr so vorstellen: Der Charakter jener fernen indischen Kulturepoche blieb natürlich, er setzte sich fort in verschiedenen Kulturströmungen. In der Gemeinde von Ephesus haben wir noch etwas von diesem Charakter. 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