{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006-p013","extent":"range","passage_number":6,"through":13,"paragraph_count":8,"first_locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006","last_locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture I-II","date":"1907-05-01","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Teilnehmeraufzeichnungen von vier Vorträgen","evidence_translation":"Participants' records of four lectures","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3339,"original_word_count":2968,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":null,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p006-p013","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p006-p013.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01#p006","word_count":1025,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":6,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006","text":"Until the time of Christ only a few specially chosen people were initiated. After severe testing they were permitted to learn the teachings that can now be found in my book *Theosophy*.[^3] One had to wait a long time until the higher degrees of vision were permitted. Only the most initiated knew the tradition of how to carry out an initiation. If someone wanted to become a pupil, as a first step they had to do this, as a second step, that, and so forth. The initiation concluded when the pupil had gone through the preparatory stages and was led by the wise ones into the mysteries themselves. That took place in a state of consciousness called “ecstasy,” a state of existence outside the physical body. It was connected with a diminution of consciousness, but at the same time with a vision of the spiritual world. An inner schooling consisting of certain will impulses, meditations, and a purification of the desires brought the pupil to a point where the last step was possible. Then the pupil was put by the initiator into a state that lasted three and a half days, a state like the one we enter when we fall asleep at night. External sense impressions disappeared. When we are asleep, nothing enters into the place where the sense impressions of sight and sound have disappeared, but with those being initiated a new world appeared. They were surrounded by a new world, a world of astral light, not the darkness, nothing of what today's human being experiences in the night appeared to them. The darkness was permeated by spiritual light and beings that are incarnated within the spiritual light. These beings became visible in the astral light. Then, after awhile, the astral world full of flowing light began to resound with the music of the spheres. What had merely been seen earlier began to be heard; it was a pure, spiritual music. External music is only a shadow-like reflection of the sounds of the spheres the seer hears, the seer who also perceives the inside of spiritual beings. Suppose we enter a large room filled with people; only when they begin to speak do they reveal their inner life to us. That is how it is in the spiritual world. First the beings become visible, then the inner life of the beings speaks to us. That is the harmony of the spheres.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":403,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":365,"en_words":403,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006"],"missing_from_translation":["Jesus"],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","bead_length_ratio":1.1,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. A name the German carries is absent here (or a name appears here that the German does not carry). Two things cause this and they need telling apart: the translation really drops or reassigns what the original distinguishes, OR the paragraph alignment paired the wrong passages. `bead_confidence` does NOT settle which: this corpus's embedding aligner pairs topically-related paragraphs at full confidence, and a sampled high-confidence mismatch proved to be a wrong pairing. Read the German passages listed and confirm they are counterparts BEFORE drawing any conclusion about the translation."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":7,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p007","text":"Then, when the initiates were led back to vision of the physical world, they experienced themselves fully transformed into new human beings. Everyone who returned in this way then typically expressed: “My God, my God, how you have glorified me!” (Compare Matt. 27:46 and Mark 15:34)[^4]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":46,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p007"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":8,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p008","text":"And so they returned, knowledgeable concerning the spiritual world out of their own experience. They were then seen as messengers from the spiritual world. What they had experienced up to the point of entering the spiritual world was prescribed precisely, stage by stage.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":9,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p009","text":"Although the rites of initiation were not recorded exactly, still there were canons of initiation containing prescriptions for all the steps. Everywhere, whether in the Egyptian schooling of Hermes, or in the Persian school, or in the Greek mysteries, or with the Druidic or Drotten mysteries, there were typical, traditional rules concerning what was to be experienced by anyone wanting to become an initiate.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":64,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":78,"en_words":64,"ratio":0.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":10,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p010","text":"Typical, similar characteristics appear wherever the lives of the great apostles of religions or world-views are described. The lives of Orpheus, Pythagoras, Hermes, and Buddha have many features in common, features that are important for all religious heroes. Why is this? Superficial researchers have believed that one borrowed from the other. But that is not true. Nevertheless, all of these typical religious heroes passed through these steps up to the highest stage of initiation. There were no biographies in ancient times that took into consideration the external conditions of a person's life. The further back we go before the turning point of time, the less value we find ascribed to the externals of life. Absolutely nothing was said concerning what the very greatest heroes of humankind experienced externally on the physical plane. Their lives were entirely dedicated to initiation. Telling the story of their initiation meant telling the story of their life. The main thing about a Hermes or a Buddha was what he had experienced until the initiation. Since the stages of initiation were similar everywhere, one heard a spiritual description of the life of the great initiates.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":173,"en_words":189,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p010"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":11,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p011","text":"What in the past had been experienced only in secret became historical fact in Christianity. What could be described of Herme' experience took place in inner mysteries, at locations far removed from profane eyes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":34,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"medium","likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. A name the German carries is absent here (or a name appears here that the German does not carry). Two things cause this and they need telling apart: the translation really drops or reassigns what the original distinguishes, OR the paragraph alignment paired the wrong passages. `bead_confidence` does NOT settle which: this corpus's embedding aligner pairs topically-related paragraphs at full confidence, and a sampled high-confidence mismatch proved to be a wrong pairing. Read the German passages listed and confirm they are counterparts BEFORE drawing any conclusion about the translation."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":12,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p012","text":"In Christianity, for the first time, something was experienced as an external physical event that otherwise only took place in the mystery centers. The course Christ's life followed is the same as that experienced by all initiates when, to begin with, they had their etheric bodies lifted out of their physical. Everything that Christ Jesus experienced physically, on the physical plane, they had experienced in the etheric realm. Their last words were also, “My God, my God, how you have glorified me!” They had experienced earlier in the etheric body what Christ experienced in a physical body. In this way the prophecies of the prophets were fulfilled. This one time only experience of Christ represents the greatest decisive turning point in our world history and separates it into two parts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":124,"en_words":130,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":13,"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p013","text":"The evangelists did not write ordinary biographies, but took rather the existing canonical initiation books. All four Gospels are to be seen as initiation writings, each presented from a different perspective. Since, however, initiation is described everywhere in the same way, the Gospels are in agreement on the most important things. We can describe the life of an initiate if we consider it as a life dedicated wholly to initiation. It would have seemed unholy to the evangelists to give an ordinary, external, historical biography of Christ Jesus. They had to take the building blocks for their writings from books derived from the mysteries. Hence, to a certain extent, what the prophets had said was fulfilled.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":102,"en_words":116,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. Hindes","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReadApoc/19070501p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 104a/1907-05-01/p013"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}],"witnesses":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":26,"passage_count":26,"word_count":2968},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":36,"passage_count":36,"word_count":3339,"completeness":{"ratio":1.12,"band":"comparable","note":null}}],"aligned_witness":{"status":"aligned","lang":"de","edition":"original","confidence":"medium","passages":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Bis zur Zeit des Christus Jesus waren es nur wenige Auserwählte, die initiiert wurden. Nach schweren Proben wurden sie zugelassen zu den Lehren von den höheren Welten, wie sie jetzt in meinem Buch «Theosophie» stehen. Lange mußte man verweilen, bis man hineingeführt wurde in die höheren Grade des Schauens. Nur die Allereingeweihtesten kannten die Tradition vom Vollzug der Einweihung. Wenn jemand Schüler werden sollte, mußte er als ersten Schritt diesen tun, als zweiten Schritt diesen und so weiter. Die Einweihung schloß damit ab, daß der Schüler durchgemacht hatte die vorbereitenden Stadien und durch den Weisen hinaufgeführt wurde in die Mysterien selbst. Das geschah in einer Art Bewußtseinszustand, den man «Ekstase» nannte, in einem Verweilen außerhalb des physischen Leibes. Er war verknüpft mit einer Herabdämpfung des Bewußtseins, aber zugleich verknüpft mit einem Schauen der geistigen Welten. Durch eine innere Schulung, die durch Willensimpulse, Meditationen, Läuterung der Leidenschaften herbeigeführt wurde, war der Schüler so weit gebracht, daß er den letzten Schritt tun konnte. Dann wurde er von dem Initiator dreiundeinhalb Tage lang in einen Zustand versetzt, wie er bei uns eintritt, wenn wir des Abends einschlafen. Die äußeren Sinneseindrücke verschwanden. Bei uns tritt abends nichts an Stelle dessen, was da verschwindet an Seh- und Hör-Eindrücken; es trat aber bei dem Einzuweihenden eine neue Welt auf. Er war umgeben von einer neuen Welt, einer Welt des astralen Lichtes. Nicht das Dunkle, nichts von dem, was der heutige Mensch während des Schlafes empfindet, trat da auf. Das Dunkle war durchsetzt von einem geistigen Lichte und Wesen, die sich innerhalb des geistigen Lichtes verkörpern. Diese Wesen wurden sichtbar im Astrallicht. Dann, nach einiger Zeit, fing die von Licht durchflossene astralische Welt an, in der Sphärenharmonie zu erklingen. Was früher bloß geschaut werden konnte, das fing an, gehört zu werden; es war eine rein geistige Musik. Die äußere Musik ist nur ein schattenhaftes Abbild der Sphärenklänge, welche der Seher vernimmt, der auch das Innere der geistigen Wesenheiten wahrnimmt. Wenn wir in einen Saal treten und Menschen da sind, die dann anfangen zu sprechen, verraten sie uns ihr Inneres. So ist es in geistigen Welten. Zuerst werden die Wesen sichtbar, dann spricht das Innere der Wesen zu uns. Das ist die Sphärenharmonie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":365,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p006"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Dann, wenn der Initiierte zum physischen Schauen zurückgeführt wurde, dann empfand er sich völlig verwandelt als ein neuer Mensch. Jeder, der so zurückkehrte, hat dann einen bestimmten Satz geäußert, der typisch war. Er lautete: «Mein Gott, mein Gott, wie hast du mich verherrlicht!» (Vgl. Mt. 27, 46 u. Mk. 15, 34)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":51,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p007"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"So kam er wieder, ein Künder der geistigen Welt aus eigener Erfahrung, aus eigenen Erlebnissen heraus. Er wurde dann angesehen als ein Bote aus den geistigen Welten. Was sie erlebt hatten, bis sie eintraten in geistige Welten, war Stufe für Stufe genau vorgeschrieben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":43,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p008"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wenn auch die Einweihungsriten nicht genau aufgeschrieben waren, so gab es doch solche Einweihungskanons, worin all die Stufen vorgeschrieben waren. Ob nach der ägyptischen Hermesschulung, ob nach der persischen Schule, ob nach den griechischen Mysterien, ob bei den Druiden- oder Drottenmysterien, überall waren typische, traditionelle Vorschriften über das, was der zu erleben hatte, der ein Eingeweihter werden sollte: Erleben sollte er nämlich, daß das Leben im Geiste den Tod besiegen wird. Diese Einweihungsbücher enthielten das, was durchzumachen war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":78,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p009"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wo das Leben der großen Religions- und Weltanschauungs-Apostel geschildert wird, treten immer typische, ähnliche Züge auf. Das Leben des Orpheus, des Pythagoras, des Hermes, des Buddha, haben viele gemeinsame Züge, auf die es ankommt bei allen großen Religionshelden. Woher kommt das? Die äußeren Forscher haben geglaubt, daß einer von den anderen entlehnt habe. Aber so war es nicht. Jedoch alle diese typischen Religionshelden hatten diese Stufen durchgemacht bis zur höchsten Einweihungsstufe. In alten Zeiten gab es keine Biographien, wo man auf das äußere Leben Rücksicht nimmt. Je weiter wir hinter die Zeitenwende zurückgehen, desto weniger finden wir Wert gelegt auf das Äußere. Bei den allergrößten Helden der Menschheit erzählte man überhaupt nicht, was sie äußerlich auf dem physischen Plan erlebten. Ihr Leben war ganz und gar der Einweihung gewidmet. Erzählte man die Einweihung, so erzählte man ihr Leben. Die Hauptsache bei einem Hermes, einem Buddha war dasjenige, was er bis zur Einweihung erlebte. Da die Stufen der Einweihung sich überall ähnlich waren, mußte man eine geistige Beschreibung des Lebens der großen Eingeweihten bekommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p010"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Was früher nur erlebt war im Geheimen, das war im Christentum geschichtliche Tatsache geworden. Hermes hatte durchlebt, was man von ihm beschreiben konnte, in den inneren Mysterien, in Stätten, die sich dem profanen Blick entzogen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":35,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p011"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Im Christentum war nun zum ersten Male erlebt worden als ein äußeres physisches Ereignis, was sich sonst in den Mysterienstätten vollzogen hatte. Der Christus-Lebensgang ist derselbe Lebensgang, der von allen Eingeweihten erlebt worden war, als sie zuerst den Ätherleib aus dem physischen Leibe herausgehoben gehabt hatten. Alles das, was physisch erlebt wurde von dem Christus Jesus auf dem physischen Plan, hatten sie im Ätherischen erlebt. Die letzten Worte waren auch bei diesen: «Mein Gott, mein Gott, wie hast du mich verherrlicht!» Sie hatten früher im Ätherleib das erlebt, was der Christus Jesus nun im physischen Leibe erlebte. So war es geschehen, daß die Weissagungen der Propheten erfüllt waren. Dieses einmalige Freignis bildet den größten Einschnitt in unsere Weltgeschichte und teilt sie in zwei Teile.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p012"},{"locus":"GA 104a/1907-05-01/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Die Evangelisten haben nicht eine äußere Biographie geschrieben, sondern die vorhandenen kanonischen Einweihungsbücher genommen. Alle vier Evangelien sind als Initiationsschriften anzusehen, von vier verschiedenen Seiten her. Da aber die Initiation überall gleich geschildert ist, stimmen die vier Evangelien in den wichtigsten Dingen überein. Das Leben des Eingeweihten können wir beschreiben, wenn wir es betrachten als ein Leben, das der Einweihung gewidmet war. Unheilig wäre es den Evangelisten erschienen, von dem Christus Jesus eine äußere historische Biographie zu geben. Die Bausteine zu ihren Schriften mußten sie nehmen aus den Mysterienbüchern selber. So war in gewissem Grade erfüllt, was die Propheten hatten voraussagen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1907-05-01/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}