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The first duty of one who aspired to become a leader was to practice this self-knowledge, to guard carefully against anything that might arise in him through Lucifer's influence. He had to study these Luciferic spiritual beings in his own astral body most accurately, for by so doing he could keep them at a distance. This also enabled him to perceive the other divine-spiritual beings, the higher, guiding ones, and particularly those that had transferred their own sphere of action from the earth to the sun, or to other planets; and the regions beheld by men corresponded to that from which they had descended. There were human souls, for instance, that had come down from Mars; and when these, in keeping with their development, combatted the Luciferic influences in their own astral body, they attained to a higher degree of clairvoyance, to a pure and good seership, and they beheld the higher spiritual beings of the region from which they themselves had descended, from the Mars region. 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Applying the later term “oracle” to these institutions, we have in Atlantis a Mars Oracle, where the mysteries of Mars were studied, a Saturn Oracle, a Jupiter Oracle, a Venus Oracle, and so on. The highest was the Sun Oracle; and the loftiest of all the initiates was the ranking initiate of the Sun Oracle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":169,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-29/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-06-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":164,"en_words":169,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Let us try to imagine the nature of the intercourse between teacher and pupil. Assuming the presence of spiritual teachers who had achieved initiation as by an act of grace, we ask, How did the later neophytes arrive at initiation in the Atlantean age? Here we must imagine first of all the mighty impression exercized by those already initiated—through their whole conduct, their mere presence—upon those predestined to become their pupils. The very sight of an Atlantean initiate was enough to start a sympathetic vibration in the soul of the neophyte, thus disclosing his fitness for the discipleship. The influences that passed between men at that time were entirely remote from objective day-consciousness, and the type of instruction we know today was then unnecessary. All intercourse with the teacher, everything the teacher did, worked hand in hand with men's imitative faculty. A great deal passed unconsciously from teacher to pupil; hence the most important factor, for those sufficiently matured through their previous life conditions, was that in the beginning they should merely be admitted to the sanctuaries and remain in contact with their teachers. Then, by observing what the teachers did and by impressions made on their feelings and sensations, they were trained—prepared, indeed, over a very long period of time. Eventually the harmonious accord between the soul of the teacher and the soul of the pupil reached the point where everything the teacher possessed in the way of deeper spiritual secrets passed over of itself to the disciple.—Such were the conditions in those ancient times.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":276,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-29/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-06-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-06-29/p013","GA 112/1909-06-29/p014"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":432,"en_words":416,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Mighty elemental disturbances in air and water, terrific upheavals in the earth, gradually altered the entire face of the globe. Europe, Asia, and Africa, which had been dry land only to a very slight extent, arose out of the water, as did likewise America. Atlantis disappeared. Men migrated eastward and westward, and a great variety of settlements came into being. But after the mighty catastrophe mankind had advanced another step. Again a change had taken place in the connection between the etheric and physical bodies: in the post-Atlantean time the union of the two became much firmer. The teacher could now no longer detach the pupil's etheric body by an impulse of will and thereby transmit his power of vision as he had formerly done. 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In all civilizations over a long period of time we find such Mysteries. Whether you seek in the culture we knew as the first post-Atlantean, which ran its course in ancient India, or in that of Zarathustra, or among the Egyptians or Chaldeans, you will invariably find neophytes being admitted to the Mysteries which were something part-way between church and school; and there they underwent a severe training calculated to promote thinking and feeling as these apply to events of the invisible, spiritual world—not merely as related to things of the sense world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-29/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-06-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-06-29/p018","GA 112/1909-06-29/p019"],"length_check":{"de_words":226,"en_words":217,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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He was trained to make his astral body in every respect a citizen of the spiritual worlds; and when the right time had come the conclusion of this development consisted in his being placed in a deathlike state lasting three and a half days. While in Atlantean times the etheric and physical bodies were so loosely joined that the former could be withdrawn more easily than in later periods, it had now become necessary in the Mysteries to throw the neophyte into a deathlike sleep. While this lasted he was either placed in a coffinlike box or bound to a sort of cross—something of that sort. The initiator, known as the hierophant, possessed the power to work upon the astral, and particularly upon the etheric body—for during this procedure the etheric left the physical body. That is something different from sleep: in sleep the physical and etheric bodies remain in bed while the astral body and ego withdraw; but in this final act of initiation only the physical body remained in place. 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So mußte derjenige, welcher sich zum Führer entwickeln wollte, vor allen Dingen diese Selbsterkenntnis üben, scharf auf sich achtgeben, was alles von Luzifers Einfluß kommen konnte. Er mußte diese geistigen Wesenheiten des Luzifer in seinem eigenen astralischen Leibe scharf studieren. Dadurch konnte er sie sich vom Leibe halten. Dadurch sah er die anderen, die höheren, leitenden göttlichgeistigen Wesenheiten, vor allem diejenigen, die ihren eigenen Schauplatz von der Erde zur Sonne oder auf die anderen Planeten verlegt hatten. Und zwar sahen die Menschen, je nachdem sie diese oder jene Abstammung hatten, dieses oder jenes Gebiet. Es gab Menschenseelen, die, sagen wir, vom Mars heruntergekommen waren. Wenn diese sich der Entwickelung überließen, die luziferischen Einflüsse in ihrem eigenen astralischen Leibe bekämpften, dann wurden sie zu einem höheren Grade des Hellsehens, zu einem guten, reinen Hellsehen hinaufgeführt, und sie sahen die höheren geistigen Wesenheiten aus dem Reiche, aus dem sie selber heruntergestiegen waren, also die höheren geistigen Wesenheiten des Mars. Seelen, die aus dem Reiche des Saturn heruntergekommen waren, gelangten dahin, die Wesenheiten des Saturn zu sehen. Die Seelen, die von Jupiter oder Venus gekommen waren, schauten die Jupiter- oder Venuswesenheiten. Ein jeder Mensch sah sein entsprechendes Reich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p011"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Die höchsten Wesenheiten aber unter den Menschen, diejenigen, die über die Mondenkrisis hinübergekommen waren, die konnten sich allmählich dazu vorbereiten, nicht nur die geistigen Wesen von Mars, Jupiter oder Venus zu sehen, sondern die geistigen Wesenheiten der Sonne selber, die hohen Sonnenwesen. Dadurch, daß die Wesen, welche eingeweiht wurden, von den verschiedenen Planeten heruntergestiegen waren, wurden ihnen wieder die Welten dieser Planeten in bezug auf ihre Geistigkeit sichtbar. Daher werden Sie es verstehen, daß es Institutionen oder Anstalten gab in der alten Atlantis, wo zum Beispiel die vom Mars Herstammenden aufgenommen wurden, wenn sie dazu reif waren, um die Marsgeheimnisse zu studieren. Andere Stätten gab es, wo die von der Venus Abstammenden die Geheimnisse der Venus kennenlernten. Wenn wir das mit einem späteren Wort «Orakel» nennen, dann haben wir auf der Atlantis ein Mars-Orakel, wo die Marsgeheimnisse erforscht wurden, ein Saturn-Orakel, ein Jupiter-Orakel, ein Venus-Orakel und so weiter. Das höchste war das Sonnen-Orakel. Und der Höchste der Eingeweihten war der höchste Eingeweihte des Sonnen-Orakels.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p012"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Weil der Mensch suggestiver Einwirkung unterworfen war und Willenseinflüsse ausgeübt wurden, war auch der ganze Unterricht ein anderer. Versuchen wir es, uns eine Vorstellung davon zu machen, wie sich Lehrer und Schüler unterhielten. Nehmen wir an, es waren geistige Lehrer vorhanden, denen wie durch eine Gnade die Einweihung zuteil geworden war. Wie kamen die Späteren, die Schüler, zur Einweihung in der atlantischen Zeit?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Da müssen wir uns vorstellen, daß vor allen Dingen die schon Eingeweihten durch ihr ganzes Auftreten, durch ihr einfaches Dasein einen gewaltigen Einfluß ausübten auf diejenigen, die dazu prädestiniert waren, ihre Schüler zu werden. Es konnte kein atlantischer Eingeweihter sich zeigen, ohne daß diejenigen, welche Schüler werden sollten, sogleich in sich die Saiten ihrer Seele erklingen fühlten, die ihnen die Möglichkeit zu solcher Schülerschaft gaben. Es waren dem gegenständlichen, dem Tagesbewußtsein durchaus entzogene Einflüsse, die in der damaligen Zeit von Mensch zu Mensch gingen. Und jene Art von Unterricht, wie wir sie heute kennen, war damals nicht notwendig. Der ganze Umgang mit dem Lehrer, alles, was er tat, wirkte zusammen mit dem Nachahmungsvermögen der Menschen. Vieles ging unbewußt von dem Lehrer zum Schüler hinüber. Daher war es das Wichtigste, daß diejenigen, die reif waren durch ihre vorhergehenden Lebensverhältnisse, nur zunächst hineingeführt wurden in die Orakelstätten und in der Umgebung der Lehrer lebten. Und durch das Sehen dessen, was die Lehrer taten, und durch die Einwirkung der Gefühle und Empfindungen wurden sie vorbereitet - vorbereitet allerdings in einer langen, langen Zeit. Dann kam die Zeit, in welcher ein solcher bedeutsamer Zusammenklang war zwischen der Seele des Lehrers und der Seele des Schülers, daß alles, was der Lehrer in sich hatte an höheren Geheimnissen, sich übertrug auf den Schüler. So war es in den alten Zeiten. Wie war es nun, nachdem sich das Zusammenhalten von Ätherleib und physischem Leib gebildet hatte?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Obwohl sich in der atlantischen Zeit der Ätherleib und physische Leib völlig zur Deckung gebracht hatten, war der Zusammenhalt zwischen Ätherleib und physischem Leib noch kein sehr starker, und es bedurfte nur einer Willensanstrengung von seiten des Lehrers, um wieder den Ätherleib in einer gewissen Weise herauszuholen. Es war. zwar nicht mehr möglich, wenn der richtige Zeitpunkt auch gekommen war, daß wie von selbst auf den Schüler überging, was in dem Lehrer war, aber der Lehrer konnte doch leicht den Ätherleib des Schülers herausheben, und dann konnte der Schüler dasselbe sehen, was der Lehrer sah. Es war also bei der leichten oder losen Verbindung des Ätherleibes mit dem physischen Leibe möglich, den Ätherleib des Schülers herauszuheben, und dann übertrug sich die Weisheit, die hellseherische Beobachtung des Meisters, auf den Schüler.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p015"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Nun kam die große Katastrophe, die den atlantischen Kontinent hinwegfegte. Gewaltige Vorgänge im Luft- und Wassergebiete, gewaltige Erschütterungen der Erde bewirkten, daß nach und nach das ganze Antlitz der Erde sich änderte. Europa, Asien und Afrika, die nur zum kleinsten Teil Land waren, erhoben sich aus dem Wasser, ebenso Amerika. Atlantis verschwand. Es wanderten die Menschen nach Osten und Westen hinüber, und es entstanden die mannigfaltigsten Besiedelungen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p016"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Nach dieser gewaltigen Katastrophe aber war die Menschheit wiederum fortgeschritten. Wieder war in dem Zusammenhang zwischen Ätherleib und physischem Leib eine Änderung eingetreten. Jetzt in der nachatlantischen Zeit war ein viel festerer Zusammenhalt zwischen Ätherleib und physischem Leib im Menschen. Es war jetzt nicht mehr möglich, durch einen Willensimpuls des Meisters den Ätherleib herauszuholen und jede Beobachtung zu übertragen. Daher mußte die Initiation, die zum Hineinschauen in die geistige Welt führte, eine andere Form annehmen, eine Form, die sich etwa in der folgenden Weise schildern läßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":86,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p017"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"An die Stelle jenes Unterrichtes, der mehr auf dem unmittelbaren seelischen Einfluß von Lehrer zu Schüler beruhte, mußte nach und nach ein solcher Unterricht treten, der sich langsam dem annäherte, was wir heute darunter verstehen. Und je weiter die nachatlantische Zeit vorwärtsschritt, desto ähnlicher wurde er dem heutigen Unterricht. Wie es in der atlantischen Zeit die Orakel gab, so wurden jetzt von den großen Führern der Menschheit Institute eingerichtet, welche die Nachklänge enthielten der alten atlantischen Orakel. Mysterien, Einweihungsstätten entstanden in der nachatlantischen Zeit. Und wie die geeigneten Menschen in den atlantischen Zeiten in die Orakel aufgenommen wurden, so wurden sie jetzt in die Mysterien hineingenommen. Da mußten die Schüler, weil eben nicht mehr so wie früher auf sie gewirkt werden konnte, sorgfältig vorbereitet werden durch einen strengen Unterricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wir finden deshalb durch lange Zeiten bei allen Kulturen solche Mysterien.ObSie in die Kultur zurückgehen, die wir als die erste nachatlantische kennen, die sich im alten Indien abspielte, oder ob Sie zu der Kultur des Zarathustra gehen oder zu der der Ägypter, der Chaldäer, überall werden Sie finden, daß die Schüler hineingenommen wurden in Mysterien, die ein Mittelding waren zwischen Kirche und Schule. Und dort wurden sie zuerst streng unterrichtet, damit sie denken und fühlen lernten nicht bloß in bezug auf das, was in der Sinnenwelt war, sondern was in der unsichtbaren, in der geistigen Welt vorging.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Und das, was man lehrte, können wir heute genau bezeichnen: es ist zu einem großen Teil dasselbe, was wir heute als Anthroposophie kennenlernen. Das war der Gegenstand des Lernens in den Mysterien. Nur war es mehr angemessen den Sitten der damaligen Zeit und in strenger Weise geregelt, nicht so wie heute, wo in einer, wenigstens zum Teil, freien Art den Menschen, die in gewisser Beziehung dafür reif sind, die Geheimnisse der höheren Welten in verhältnismäßig rascher Weise mitgeteilt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p020"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Damals wurde der Unterricht streng geregelt. Auf der ersten Stufe wurde zum Beispiel nur eine gewisse Summe von Erkenntnissen mitgeteilt, und alles andere verschwieg man vollständig. Erst wenn der Schüler das verarbeitet hatte, teilte man ihm mit, was einer höheren Stufe angehörte. Dadurch, daß der Schüler so vorbereitet wurde, erhielt er Begriffe, Ideen, Empfindungen und Gefühle in seinen astralischen Leib eingepflanzt, die sich auf die geistige Welt bezogen. Dadurch hatte er auch in einer gewissen Weise die Einflüsse Luzifers bekämpft. Denn alles, was mitgeteilt wird an geisteswissenschaftlichen Begriffen, bezieht sich auf die höheren Welten, nicht auf die Welt, für welche Luzifer ein Interesse bei den Menschen hervorrufen will, nicht auf die Sinnenwelt allein. Dann, nachdem der Schüler so vorbereitet worden war, kam die Zeit heran, wo er zum selbständigen Schauen geführt wurde. Er sollte selber hineinschauen in die geistige Welt. Dazu war notwendig, daß der Mensch alles das, was er in seinem astralischen Leib sich erarbeitet hatte, widerspiegeln konnte im ätherischen Leib. Denn nur dadurch gelangt der Mensch zum Schauen in die geistige Welt, daß er alles, was er in seinen astralischen Leib hineingearbeitet hat mit Lernen, durch ein gewisses Fühlen und Empfinden über das Gelernte so stark in sich erlebt, daß nicht nur sein astralischer Leib, sondern auch der dichtere ätherische Leib davon beeinflußt wird. Wenn der Schüler aufsteigen sollte vom Lernen zum Schauen, so mußte das, was man ihn gelehrt hatte, Wirkungen tragen. Deshalb schloß sich an das Lernen durch die indische, persische, ägyptische, griechische Zeit hindurch ein gewisser Schlußakt, der in folgendem bestand.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p021"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Der Schüler wurde zunächst wiederum lange vorbereitet, nicht durch Lernen, sondern durch das, was man Meditation nennt, und durch andere Übungen, innere Geschlossenheit, innere Ruhe, innere Gelassenheit zu entwickeln. Er wurde dazu vorbereitet, seinen astralischen Leib ganz und gar zu einem Bürger in den geistigen Welten zu machen. Und in dem rechten Zeitpunkt wurde er dann, als Abschluß dieser Entwickelung, dreieinhalb Tage in einen todähnlichen Zustand gebracht. Während in den atlantischen Zeiten der Ätherleib noch so lose in dem physischen Leib war, daß er auf eine leichtere Art herausgehoben werden konnte, mußte jetzt der Mensch in einen todähnlichen Schlaf gebracht werden in den Mysterien, Er wurde während dieser Zeit entweder in einen sargähnlichen Kasten gelegt oder an eine Art Kreuz angeschnürt oder dergleichen. Und derjenige, den man als den Einweiher, den Hierophanten bezeichnet, hatte die Fähigkeit, auf den astralischen Leib und namentlich auf den Ätherleib zu wirken, denn der Ätherleib ging durch diese Prozedur während dieser Zeit heraus. Das ist etwas anderes als der Schlaf. Im Schlaf bleiben im Bette der physische Leib und der Ätherleib, draußen ist der astralische Leib und das Ich. Jetzt aber, im Schlußakt der Einweihung, bleibt liegen der physische Leib, und es wird, wenigstens für den größten Teil des physischen Leibes, der Ätherleib einfach herausgehoben - nur die unteren Partien bleiben, die oberen Partien werden herausgehoben - und der Betreffende ist dann in einem todähnlichen Zustand. Alles, was früher gelernt wurde durch Meditation und andere Übungen, das wurde jetzt in diesem Zustand hineingedrückt in den Ätherleib. In diesen dreieinhalb Tagen durchwandelte der Mensch wirklich die geistigen Welten, wo die höheren Wesenheiten sind. Und nach diesen dreieinhalb Tagen rief ihn derjenige, der ihn eingeweiht hatte, wiederum zurück, das heißt, er hatte die Macht, ihn wieder erwachen zu machen. Da brachte der Betreffende mit das Wissen der geistigen Welt. Jetzt konnte er hineinschauen in diese geistige Welt, und nun konnte er werden ein Verkünder der Tatsachen der geistigen Welt für seine Mitmenschen, die noch nicht die Reife hatten, um auch hineinzuschauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p022"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Also die alten Lehrer in den vorchtistlichen Zeiten waren in die Tiefen der Mysteriengeheimnisse eingeweiht worden. Da waren sie in den dreieinhalb Tagen geführt worden von dem Hierophanten, und waren lebendige Zeugen dessen, daß es ein geistiges Leben gibt, und daß hinter der physischen Welt eine geistige Welt vorhanden ist, welcher der Mensch mit seinen höheren Gliedern angehört und in die er hineinwachsen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":64,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p023"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-29/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Aber die Entwickelung ging weiter. Was ich Ihnen jetzt erzählt habe als eine Einweihung, das war am intensivsten noch vorhanden in der ersten Zeit nach der atlantischen Katastrophe. Immer mehr und mehr jedoch wurde das Band geschlossen zwischen Ätherleib und physischem Leib. Daher wurde diese Prozedur immer gefährlicher, denn die Menschen gewöhnten sich immer mehr und mehr an die physische Sinnenwelt mit dem ganzen Bewußtsein. Das ist ja der Sinn der Menschheitsentwickelung, daß sich die Menschen daran gewöhnten, mit all ihrer Neigung und Sympathie in dieser physischen Welt zu leben.-Es ist der große Fortschritt der Menschheit, daß die Menschen diese Liebe zur physischen Welt wirklich entwickelten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-29/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[8],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10,11],"to":[13,14,15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[16,17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[18,19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14,15],"to":[20,21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[16],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[17],"to":[23,24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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