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That is a very considerable reduction, for it can be said, broadly speaking, that with the exception of the very deepest stage of all, our consciousness in sleep is reduced to about one-third. But in the ancient Mysteries the process was carried further than that; the consciousness was reduced to a quarter of a third (that is, to one-twelfth), so that finally the candidate was actually in a condition resembling death. To outer observation he was exactly like a dead man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Experiences of Initiation in the Northern Mysteries","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-03-26","location":null,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/119/1910-03-26/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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