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Only through the fact that, parallel with the darkening of Devachanic consciousness, initiation into the mysteries continued, together with the acquisition of certain faculties with which selected persons could look into the spiritual worlds in full clarity—only through the fact that the initiates could speak of this in myths and sagas, was it possible for a ray of light to penetrate into the Devachanic consciousness between death and a new birth. But all those who had made themselves comfortable in the physical world experienced this fading away of consciousness in the spiritual world. It was no fairy tale but plain truth, that the initiates in the Eleusinian mysteries were able to have a special experience. The principle of initiation is that, even during his life, man can ascend to the spiritual worlds and learn what takes place there. The initiate of that time was actually able to learn directly from the shades in the spiritual world. 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Ultimately men would have entirely lost their connection with the spiritual world. Now, however singular it may appear to those who are only slightly infected with some form of materialism, what I am about to say is true. Had nothing else intervened in human evolution, mankind would have succumbed to spiritual death. But there is a possibility of illuminating the consciousness between death and a new birth, and this illumination can be achieved either through initiation or (to a lower degree) through man's participating in the spiritual world during this life, having experiences that do not die out with his bodies, but remain connected with the eternal core of his being, even in the spiritual world. This was the concern of the mysteries and of all spiritual development. It was the concern of the great initiates before Christ and, above all, of the Being whom we call Christ. All other initiates were in a certain sense forerunners of the Christ; they were harbingers who pointed to the coming of the Christ.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-12/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080912p01.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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Dann würde der Mensch ein immer dämmerhafteres, immer schattenhafteres Bewußtsein gehabt haben in den geistigen Welten. Einzig dadurch, daß parallel mit der Verdunkelung des Bewußtseins im Devachan die Einweihung in die Mysterien ging, und damit die Aneignung gewisser Fähigkeiten, mit denen auserlesene Menschen schon hineinsahen in die geistigen Welten in heller Klarheit, einzig dadurch, daß die Eingeweihten in Mythen und Sagen darüber berichten konnten, ist sozusagen eine Schattierung von Hellerem, von Lichterem hineingekommen in das devachanische Bewußtsein zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Bei allen denjenigen aber, die sich schon so recht hineingefunden hatten in die physische Welt, war es so, daß sie schon empfunden haben dieses Abdämmern des Bewußtseins in der geistigen Welt, und es ist kein Märchen, es ist Wahrheit, daß der Eingeweihte in den eleusinischen Mysterien eine ganz besondere Erfahrung hat machen können. Das Einweihungsprinzip ist, daß der Mensch schon während des Lebens in die Welten des Geistes steigen und erfahren kann, was da vor sich geht. Der damalige Eingeweihte hat in der Tat unmittelbar von den Schatten in der geistigen Welt erfahren können. Es ist wirklich ein Ausspruch eines Eingeweihten, wenn es heißt: Oh, besser ein Bettler in der physischen Welt als ein König im Reiche der Schatten. Dieser Ausspruch ist aus den Erfahrungen der Eingeweihten heraus gesprochen. Solche Dinge können wir nicht tief genug nehmen, und wir verstehen sie erst dann, wenn wir die Tatsachen der geistigen Welt kennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-12/p011"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Jetzt wollen wir das, was gestern in abstrakter Form angedeutet worden ist, in eine konkretere Form bringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":17,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-12/p012"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-12/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Wäre nichts anderes eingetreten als das Heruntersteigen der Menschen in die physische Welt, immer dunkler wäre das Bewußtsein geworden zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Die Menschen hätten zuletzt den Zusammenschluß mit der geistigen Welt vollständig verloren. Nun mag es noch so sonderbar erscheinen demjenigen, der auch nur noch ein klein wenig angekränkelt ist im Inneren von irgendeiner Form des Materialismus, wahr ist es doch, was ich jetzt sagen werde. Wäre jetzt nichts eingetreten in der Entwickelung der Menschheit, dann wäre die Menschheit geistig dem Tode verfallen. Aber es ist eine Möglichkeit der Aufhellung des Bewußtseins zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt vorhanden, und diese Aufhellung kann entweder durch die Einweihung selbst errungen werden, oder heute schon in einem niedrigeren Grade dadurch, daß der Mensch schon in diesem Leben teilnimmt an der geistigen Welt, daß er schon Erlebnisse hat, die nicht mit seinen Leibern absterben, die mit ihm verbunden bleiben in seinem ewigen Wesenskern, auch in der geistigen Welt. Dafür sorgten nun die Mysterien, die ganze geistige Entwickelung, es sorgten dafür die großen Eingeweihten vor Christus und vor allem die Wesenheit selbst, die wir als Christus kennen. Alle anderen Eingeweihten waren in gewisser Weise Vorläufer des Christus, es waren Vorausgesandte, die auf das Erscheinen des Christus hinwiesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-12/p013"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","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)."}}