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But if you look at it according to the principle that has been described today, you will be able to find the thread running through everything that appears here: the dragon motif, the motif of the three sisters who are cast out, the motif of overcoming the dragons by fire, the motif of cleverness, the motif of the marriage of the intellectual soul with the outer world; and now, once again in a unique way, the motif of cleverness in the form of subtle magical powers. Then Nemesis, karma, appears in a strange way when the king's son confronts his sisters again: the three brothers have cast out their higher sisterly nature, hence the slaying of the dragon by fire, and so on. Such fairy tales are experiences of people from the common people who are in such intermediate states. Similarly, the great myths of the gods of the peoples are representations of what the initiates experience on the astral plane and the higher planes. Fairy tales relate to the great myths of the peoples in the following way: We can reveal the great myths of the peoples if we take the great, comprehensive conditions of the cosmos as our basis, and we reveal the fairy tales if we take the secrets of the people as our basis. Everything in fairy tales appears in such a way that the various events and images are nothing other than retellings of astral experiences. All human beings had such astral experiences in a certain primeval time. Then they became rarer and rarer. Some people told them to others, others took them up, and so fairy tales migrated from region to region. They appeared in a wide variety of languages, and we noticed the similarity of the treasure trove of fairy tales throughout the world when we were able to extract the astral experiences underlying them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. 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Aber Sie werden, wenn Sie es nach dem Prinzip betrachten, das heute geschildert worden ist, für alles, was hier auftritt, den Faden finden können: das Drachenmotiv, das Motiv der drei Schwestern, die herausgeworfen werden, das Überwindungsmotiv der Drachen am Feuer, das Klugheitsmotiv, das Vermählungsmotiv der Verstandesseele mit der äußeren Welt; jetzt wieder in einzigartiger Weise das Klugheitsmotiv der feineren Zauberkräfte. Dann tritt auf in einer merkwürdigen Weise Nemesis, Karma, indem der Königssohn seinen Schwestern wieder entgegentritt: Ihre höhere schwesterliche Natur haben die drei Brüder hinausgeworfen, daher das Drachentöten am Feuer und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/108/1908-12-26/p038"},{"locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Solche Märchenerzählungen sind Erfahrungen von Leuten aus dem Volk, die in solchen Zwischenzuständen sind. 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