{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 126/1910-12-29/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now at this point, because the Theosophical Society is in a certain respect a veritable arena of misunderstandings, I want to emphasise that very many of these misunderstandings are pure inventions. there are people who like to read into what is said, for example, in the lectures given in our German Movement, a certain opposition to the original revelations of the Theosophical Movement in the modern age. I am therefore glad to take the opportunity of pointing out that what is given here from genuine Rosicrucian sources harmonises with mach that was originally given in the Theosophical Movement. This is an opportune moment for referring to the matter. It has been said by me, and enlarged upon quite independently of traditions, that certain personalities in later history are, as it were, shadow-images of earlier personalities portrayed in the myths, and behind whom there stand Beings of the higher Hierarchies. Such things should not be taken as though they contradicted those revelations which were given to the Theosophical Society through H. P. Blavatsky. For then, through sheer misunderstanding, one might very easily set oneself in opposition to the good old teachings which were transmitted through that extraordinarily useful instrument, H. P. Blavatsky. In connection with what we have been studying here, let me quote a passage from her later writings, where she refers to her earlier work, Isis Unveiled. The following passage will show you that what is said about contradiction is really sheer invention—there is no other way of putting it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Hierarchies and Human Incarnation in History","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1910-12-29","location":null,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/126/1910-12-29/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Deshalb ergreife ich gerne die Gelegenheit, darauf hinzuweisen, wie das, was hier aus ursprünglich rosenkreuzerischem Quell gegeben wird, in Harmonie steht mit mancherlei von dem, was gerade ursprünglich der theosophischen Bewegung gegeben worden ist. Und wir haben ja in diesem Augenblick gerade Gelegenheit, auf etwas hinzuweisen, was von dieser Art ist. Es ist also von mir gesagt und ganz unabhängig von Traditionen entwickelt worden, daß gewisse spätere historische Persönlichkeiten gleichsam die Schattenbilder sind von früheren, durch die Mythen dargestellten Persönlichkeiten, hinter denen höhere Hierarchien stehen. Solches darf man nicht in Widerspruch bringen mit denjenigen Manifestationen, die durch H.P. Blavatsky in die Theosophische Gesellschaft hineingebracht worden sind. Denn sonst könnte man durch ein reines Mißverständnis sich sehr wohl in einen Widerspruch versetzen zu den guten alten Lehren, die durch das außerordentliche, brauchbare Instrument von H.P.Blavatsky der theosophischen Bewegung zugeflossen sind. Aber in bezug auf das, was hier entwickelt worden ist, möchte ich Ihnen eine Stelle aus den späteren Schriften der Blavatsky vorlesen, wo sie auf die «Entschleierte Isis», ihr ältestes okkultes Werk, hinweist. Da möchte ich die folgende Stelle Ihnen vorlesen, damit Sie sehen, wie das, was von solchem Widerspruch gesagt wird, im Grunde genommen, ich kann nicht anders sagen, aus den Fingern gesogen ist:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/126/1910-12-29/p019"}],"english":["GA 126/1910-12-29/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":251,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6485,"original_word_count":6175,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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