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But you will always find people, especially among Western initiates, who disapprove of and condemn the fact that so much of what has been communicated here is being made public today. This is due to a distorted conception of the science of initiation. In order to make you understand this distorted conception, I must first say the following.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/196/1920-01-17/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SOL2024/19200117p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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There is some truth to such mass hypnosis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":157,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/196/1920-01-17/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SOL2024/19200117p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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It must speak as though addressing each individual person and appeal to the powers of persuasion of each individual person. The way of speaking which the science of initiation, which today stands at the height of human development, must make use of, has not yet existed. Therefore, the way in which, for example, I speak here and in my books is still an abomination to some people today, because the way of speaking strictly adheres to the rule of appealing only to the power of persuasion of the individual individuality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/196/1920-01-17/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SOL2024/19200117p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und wenn Sie das durchblicken, was im Laufe der Jahre vor Ihnen vorgetragen worden ist, so werden Sie darin, wenn Sie wirklich unschlafend die Dinge verfolgen, eine ganze Reihe von wichtigen Initiationswahrheiten finden, welche geeignet sind, nicht bloß einen Teil der Menschheit, sondern über die Erde hin die ganze Menschheit über die jetzige Krise hinauszubringen und einer wirklichen Weiterentwickelung entgegenzuführen. Aber Sie werden namentlich unter den westlichen Eingeweihten immer Leute finden, welche verpönen, verurteilen, daß so viel, wie hier mitgeteilt worden ist, heute an die Öffentlichkeit mitgeteilt wird. Das hängt zusammen mit einer schiefen Auffassung von der Wissenschaft der Initiation. Um Ihnen diese schiefe Auffassung begreiflich zu machen, muß ich heute das Folgende vorausschicken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/196/1920-01-17/p009"},{"locus":"GA 196/1920-01-17/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Die Wissenschaft der Initiation wendet sich schlechterdings immer an den einzelnen Menschen. Auch wenn sie zu einer Summe von Menschen spricht, so wendet sie sich in Wirklichkeit an den einzelnen Menschen. Man kann nicht die wahre Wissenschaft der Initiation so vortragen, wie man in früheren Zeiten auf die Menschen gewirkt hat. Die katholische Kirche zum Beispiel verpflanzte diese Art auch in die Gegenwart herein, übrigens nicht bloß die katholische Kirche, sondern auch gewisse Parteirichtungen bedienen sich heute noch derselben Methode. Man hat ja so gewirkt, daß man, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, die Massenpsyche zu Hilfe nimmt, daß man appelliert an das, was.einer Menschengemeinschaft in einer gewissen, ich möchte sagen, hypnotisierenden Weise etwas einimpft. Sie wissen ja, daß man in der Regel, wenn man nur die entsprechenden Mittel anwendet, einer Versammlung Dinge leichter beibringen kann als jedem einzelnen, zu dem man sprechen wollte. Es ist etwas Wahres an einer solchen Massenhypnose.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/196/1920-01-17/p010"},{"locus":"GA 196/1920-01-17/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Dieser Mittel, die durchaus wirksam sind, kann sich eine wahre Weisheit der Initiation nicht bedienen. Sie muß so sprechen, daß sie zu jedem einzelnen Menschen spricht und daß sie an die Überzeugungskraft jedes einzelnen Menschen appelliert. Die Art zu sprechen, der sich die heute auf der Höhe der Menschheitsentwickelung stehende Initiationswissenschaft bedienen muß, war bisher noch nicht da. Daher ist die Art, wie zum Beispiel hier und in meinen Büchern gesprochen wird, manchen Menschen heute noch ein Greuel, weil eben schon durch die Art des Sprechens streng die Regel eingehalten wird, nur an die Überzeugungskraft der einzelnen Individualität zu appellieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/196/1920-01-17/p011"}],"beads":[{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}