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This most precious gift was knowledge of the outer world, of the mysteries of the Cosmos received into the human astral body in thinking, feeling and willing; hence the pupils of Zarathustra strove to impregnate these soul-forces with the wisdom that can be drawn from the deep foundations of the divine-spiritual world. Symbols for this knowledge—which can be acquired by mastering the secrets of the outer world—were gold, frankincense and myrrh: gold the symbol of thinking, frankincense—the symbol of the piety which pervades man as feeling, and myrrh—the symbol of the power of will. Thus by appearing before their Master when he was born again in Bethlehem the Magi gave evidence of their union with him. 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So wurde auch Zarathustra wiedergeboren und erschien wieder sechshundert Jahre vor unserer Zeitrechnung im alten Chaldäa als Zarathas oder Nazarathos, der der Lehrer der chaldäischen Geheimschule wie auch der Lehrer des Pythagoras wurde und große, gewaltige Einblicke in die äußere Welt gewinnen konnte. Wenn wir uns mit wahrem Verständnis in die Weisheit der Chaldäer hineinversetzen mit dem, was uns nicht die Anthropologie, sondern die Anthroposophie zu geben vermag, dann bekommen wir eine Ahnung davon, was Zarathustra als Zarathas in den Geheimschulen der alten Chaldäer lehren konnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/114/1909-09-19/p015"},{"locus":"GA 114/1909-09-19/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Alles, was Zarathustra lehren und der Welt bringen konnte, das zielte, wie wir gesehen haben, auf die äußere Welt ab, um in die äußere Welt Ordnung und Harmonie zu bringen. Daher war auch die Kunst, Reiche zu bilden und zu organisieren, wie esdem Fortgange der Menschheit entspricht, und was die sozialeOrdnung möglich macht, die Mission des Zarathustra. Und daher können diejenigen, die zu den Schülern des Zarathustra gehörten, mit Recht nicht nur große Magier, große Eingeweihte, sondern auch immer Könige genannt werden, das heißt solche, welche die Kunst der Herstellung äußerer sozialer Organisation und Ordnung kennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/114/1909-09-19/p016"},{"locus":"GA 114/1909-09-19/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Eine ungeheure Anhänglichkeit entwickelte sich in den Schulen der Chaldäer zu der Individualität — nicht zu der Persönlichkeit — des Zarathustra. Sie fühlten sich verwandt, diese Weisen des Morgenlandes, mit ihrem großen Führer. Sie sahen in ihm den Stern der Menschheit, denn «Zoroaster» ist eine Umschreibung des Wortes «Goldstern» oder «Stern des Glanzes». Sie sahen in ihm einen Abglanz der Sonne selbst. Und aus ihrer tiefen Weisheit heraus konnte es ihnen nicht verborgen bleiben, als ihr Meister in Bethlehem wiedererschien. Da wurden sie durch ihren Stern geführt und brachten ihm die äußeren Zeichen für das Beste, was er den Menschen hatte geben können. Das Beste, was man einem Menschen aus der Zarathustra-Strömung geben konnte, war das Wissen von der äußeren Welt, von den Geheimnissen des Kosmos, aufgenommen in den menschlichen Astralleib, in Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, so daß die Zarathustra-Schüler ihr Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, die Kräfte ihrer Seele, durchsetzen wollten mit der Weisheit, die man einsaugen kann aus den tiefen Grundlagen der göttlich-geistigen Welt. Für dieses Wissen, das man sich durch die Einsaugung der äußeren Geheimnisse zu eigen machen kann, hatte man als Symbole Gold, Weihrauch und Myrrhen: Gold als Symbolum für das Denken, Weihrauch für die Frömmigkeit, für das, was uns als Fühlen durchdringt, und Myrrhen für die Kraft des Wollens. So zeigten sie ihre Zusammengehörigkeit mit ihrem Meister, als sie vor ihm erschienen, da er wiedergeboren wurde in Bethlehem. 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