{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 123/1910-09-08/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A man who is really able to descend into his own inner being perceives something that has qualities which, according to the ancient Hebrew mystical teaching, can only be imagined when concentrating on the most exalted wisdom to which the soul can attain. Such a man regards wisdom as an ideal, he feels his being exalted when he can fill it to some extent with wisdom. Those who at the time of the Essenes were able to plunge down into the physical body knew they approached beings whose whole substance consisted of what a man can attain, in small measure at least, when he strives for wisdom; a wisdom that is not won through ordinary external understanding but only through an understanding born of difficult soul experiences, and that cannot be acquired in *one* incarnation but in many, and only then in part—for only by acquiring every form of wisdom can man possess it completely. The beings perceived at this stage of initiation were beings of Wisdom—in them the peculiar qualities of pure unalloyed wisdom could be seen. The Hebrew word used to express the qualities of these beings, which to-day we somewhat vaguely call wisdom, was ‘Chokmah.’ A somewhat denser form of this quality of wisdom is that which is found in man, although in his individuality he can attain it only in small measure. On making the descent into his physical organism a man is again confronted with beings who possess in vast measure an attribute that is a denser form of wisdom, and which, in Hebrew terminology, was called ‘Binah.’ As beings they appeared completely illumined by this attribute. It is what is aroused in man when he is reminded of his reason, though he may indeed only achieve reason in a very restricted form. We have to imagine beings who are completely permeated by the effects of reason; it is these who are referred to when the word ‘Binah’ is used. It is a denser form of ‘Chokmah.’ In the secret doctrine of the ancient Hebrews, ‘Chokmah’ is the name for the original creative wisdom which brought forth from itself the Mysteries of the World. It was there compared to a spring of water, while ‘Binah’ was compared to the sea, thereby indicating its denser nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The bringing forth of the secrets of the Mysteries","site_heading":"Christ's Temptation and the Ego in the Kingdom","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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Da wußten diejenigen, die in den physischen Leib untertauchten, daß sie an Wesen herankamen, die in ihrer ganzen Substantialität das waren, wovon der Mensch sich nur ein Kleines, ein Geringes aneignen kann, wenn er nach der Weisheit strebt, nach der Weisheit, die man nicht in dem gewöhnlichen äußeren Wissen erlangt, sondern in demjenigen Wissen, das in schweren Erlebnissen der Seele erreicht ist, und das man nicht während einer Inkarnation, sondern durch viele Inkarnationen, und auch da nur zum Teil, sich aneignet. Denn nur ein SichUmtun in allen Weisheitsmöglichkeiten könnte einen Vollbesitz der Weisheit geben. Wesenheiten, welche sich als Weisheitswesen kundgaben, bei denen gewaltig hervortretende, lautere Weisheit die besonders sich kundgebende Eigenschaft war, sie nahm der Mensch wahr. Und die Eigenschaft solcher Weisheitswesenheiten bezeichnete man in der althebräischen Geheimlehre als Chochmah, was man heute nicht ganz unzutreffend mit Weisheit bezeichnet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/123/1910-09-08/p023"},{"locus":"GA 123/1910-09-08/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Eine besondere Nuance dieser Weisheitseigenschaft ist wieder eine gewisse Vergröberung. Das ist das, was auch im Menschen eine Vergröberung der Weisheit ist. Nur erlangt es der Mensch auch nur in einem gewissen geringen Grade in seiner Individualität. Hier aber, beim Hinuntersteigen in den physischen Leib, findet der Mensch wieder Wesenheiten, welche diese Eigenschaft, die gegenüber der Weisheit eine vergröberte Eigenschaft ist und in der althebräischen Geheimlehre mit Binah bezeichnet wurde, sogar in ganz hervortretendem Maße haben, so daß sie als Wesenheiten erscheinen, die ganz und gar leuchten durch diese Eigenschaft. Das ist das, was man beim Menschen hervorbringen kann, wenn man ihn an seinen Verstand erinnert. Verstand erringt ja der Mensch wirklich nur bis zu einem gewissen gesingen Grade. Aber an Wesenheiten, die ganz durchdrungen sind von dem, was der Verstand erringt, daran müssen wir denken, wenn das in Betracht kommt, was mit Binah gemeint ist. Das ist aber eine vergröberte Nuance von Chochmah. Daher sagt die althebräische Geheimlehre, wenn sie von der eigentlichen, schöpferisch produktiven Weisheit sprach, die in sich selber hervorbringt die Geheimnisse der Welt, wenn sie Chochmah meint, daß sie zu vergleichen wäre mit einem Wasserstrahl, während Binah zu vergleichen sei mit einem Meer. 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