{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 117a/1910-01-10/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then he was ready to ascend to a higher degree, the fifth degree. Until then, he had only been an expression of the feelings and thoughts of individual people. The initiate of the fifth degree should embody the spirit and soul of the people. The astral, the etheric and the ego in the individual human being are, so to speak, embedded in the national spirit, which is a concrete individuality, although without an outer physical body. The national spirit gives expression to everything that happens in a single nation, to all its feelings and characteristics – just as Buddha's Nirmanakaya gives its etheric body to various individualities and lives in them. In the Mithras Mysteries, such an initiate was called a “true Persian”. He was, so to speak, a mouthpiece for the entire nation, and those who heard him knew that the national spirit was speaking through him. But when such a high individuality has had all the experiences that he can have through a particular nation, he withdraws from that nation, which then falls into degeneration and decline. The spirit of a nation actually lives a more real life than the individual human being, but it usually speaks only through the whole nation. But if it ever speaks through an individual human being, it is always through someone who is not expressing his or her own individual opinion. The initiate in Palestine was called a “true Israelite” in the fifth degree, like Nathanael.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Sixth Lecture","site_heading":"Astral Encounters and Christ's Transformative Spiritual Power","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ein solcher Eingeweihter wurde in den Mithras-Mysterien ein «wahrer Perser> genannt. Er war gewissermaßen ein Sprachrohr für das gesamte Volk, und die, welche ihn hörten, wussten, dass der Volksgeist durch ihn sprach. Aber wenn eine solche hohe Individualität alle die Erfahrungen gemacht hatte, die er durch ein bestimmtes Volk machen kann, dann zieht sie sich von diesem Volk zurück, welches dann in Degeneration und Verfall gerät. Der Volksgeist lebt eigentlich ein wirklicheres Leben als der einzelne Mensch, aber er spricht gewöhnlich nur durch das ganze Volk. Aber wenn er einmal durch einen einzelnen Mensch spricht, so ist es immer durch jemanden, der nicht seiner eigenen individuellen Meinung Ausdruck gibt. 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