{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In her being as a whole, in her individuality, H. P. Blavatsky revealed what inner strength, what a powerful impulse was inherent in the spiritual Movement we call the Theosophical Movement. To substantiate this, I need refer only to the first of H. P. Blavatsky's more important works, *Isis Unveiled*. This book must give to an ordinary reader the impression of a veritably chaotic, bewildering hotchpotch. A reader who is aware of the existence of an age-old wisdom, guarded through the ages in the Mysteries and protected from profane eyes, and who knows that this wisdom has not been acquired by any external human effort but has been harboured in secret societies, such a reader too finds in the book much that is chaotic—but he finds something else as well. He finds a work that, for the first time, presents to the secular world, courageously and daringly, certain secrets of the Mysteries. One who understands these things finds what an infinite amount has been corectly interpreted—an achievement that would have been possible only by Initiates. Nevertheless, the impression of chaos remains and can be explained by the following reasoned consideration. The outer personality of H. P. Blavatsky, to the extent to which she was incarnated in her physical body, with her intellect, also with her personal characteristics, her sympathies and antipathies, shows us by the very way in which Isis Unveiled is written, that she could not possibly have produced out of her own personality, out of her own soul, what she had to give to the world. She communicates things that she herself was quite incapable of understanding, and if one follows this line of thought further it proves clearly that higher, spiritual Individualities used the body and personality of H. P. Blavatsky in order to communicate what, in accordance with the need of the times, had to be inculcated into humanity. Indeed, the impossibility of attributing to her what she has given is in itself living proof of the fact that those Individualities who are connected with the Theosophical Movement, the ‘Masters of Wisdom and Harmony of Feelings,’ found an instrument in H. P. Blavatsky. Those who see clearly in such matters know that the knowledge did not originate in her but that it flowed through her from lofty spiritual Individualities. Naturally, today is not the appropriate time to speak about these matters in detail.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-08","location":null,"word_count":397,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 143/1912-05-08/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Gerade H. P. Blavatsky zeigte in ihrer Ganzheit, in ihrer Individualität, welche innere Kraft, welcher starke Impuls jener spirituellen Bewegung eigen war, die wir die theosophische Bewegung nennen. Um das zu erhärten, sei nur hingewiesen auf das erste größere Werk von H. P. Blavatsky, auf die «Entschleierte Isis». Dieses Buch macht auf den gewöhnlichen Leser den Eindruck wirklich eines chaotischen Werkes, in dem es drunter und drüber geht. Nimmt dieses Werk aber jemand zur Hand, der weiß, daß es eine uralte, in den Mysterien gehütete Weisheit gibt, die eben gehütet worden ist durch viele Zeiten hindurch vor den profanen Blicken, und der weiß, daß nicht in äußeren Menschenwerken, sondern in geheimen Gesellschaften vorbereitet worden ist diese Weisheit, der findet dann allerdings noch immer Chaotisches in dem Buche, aber auch noch etwas anderes. Er findet nämlich zum ersten Male ein Werk, das mutig und kühn gewisse Geheimnisse der Mysterien vor die profane Welt hinstellt. Und wer diese Dinge versteht, der finder, wie unendlich vieles richtig gedeutet worden ist, so wie es nur deuten konnten Eingeweihte. Der chaotische Eindruck bleibt, und man kann ihn sich durch folgende, vernunftgemäße Beobachtung erklären: Die äußere Persönlichkeit von H. P. Blavatsky, insofern sie in ihrem physischen Leibe verkörpert war, mit ihrem Intellekt, auch mit ihren persönlichen Eigenschaften, ihrer Sympathie und Antipathie, sie zeigt uns in der Art, wie die «Entschleierte Isis» geschrieben ist, daß sie durchaus nicht aus ihrer Persönlichkeit, aus ihrer eigenen Seele hat hervorbringen können dasjenige, was sie der Welt zu geben hatte. Sie teilt Dinge mit, die sie selbst gar nicht hat verstehen können, und wenn man diesen Gedankengang weiter verfolgt, dann ist er ein Beweis dafür, daß höhere, spirituelle Individualitäten den Leib und die Persönlichkeit von H. P. Blavatsky benutzt haben, um dasjenige, was notwendig war, was einfließen mußte in die Menschheit, mitzuteilen. Gerade weil man Blavatsky nicht zuschreiben kann, was sie gegeben hat, gerade das ist ein lebendiger Beweis dafür, daß diejenigen Individualitäten, die mit der theosophischen Bewegung sind, die Meister der Weisheit und des Zusammenklanges der Empfindungen, in ihr ein Instrument fanden. Diejenigen, die in diesen Dingen klar sehen, wissen, daß die Dinge nicht von ihr selbst stammen, daß sie durch sie geflossen sind von hohen spirituellen Individualitäten aus. Es ist natürlich heute nicht Gelegenheit dazu, im einzelnen über diese Dinge zu sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-05-08/p006"}],"english":["GA 143/1912-05-08/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":383,"en_words":397,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7582,"original_word_count":7177,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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