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Something grand is contained in the other traditions that have as their source the initiation science of ancient times, if only the latter is correctly understood. One aspect is lacking, however; there is no reference at all to the riddle of human freedom in the initiation science of the ancient Mysteries, in the myths of the various peoples—even when they are comprehended esoterically—or in the traditions deriving from this initiation science. For, whoever proceeds from a present-day initiation knowledge, from an initiation of today, knows how present initiation compares to that of the past. He knows that in the course of its worldwide evolution mankind is only now entering the stage of real freedom, and that formerly it was simply not necessary to give to human beings an initiation science impregnated completely with the riddle of freedom. Today, hardly anybody has an inkling of what this riddle of freedom includes, what condition the human soul finds itself in when it becomes clearly aware of the burden it shoulders due to this enigma. New light must be shed, after all, on all initiation knowledge due to this riddle of human freedom. We observe how certain secret societies carry on in direct continuation from former times, some of them being quite strongly involved in present-day life. They only preserve the traditions of the past, however, only imitating and continuing on in the sense of the old practices. These societies are nothing more than mere shadows of the past; indeed, they represent something that can only do harm to mankind if it is active nowadays.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":350,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/199/1920-08-14/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-08-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p017"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":340,"en_words":350,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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No one who understands the nature of present initiation can possibly teach in a timely sense applicable to our age what was once taught in the Egyptian, Chaldean, the Indian or even those still so near our time, the Greek mysteries. After all, what has been propagated up to now as doctrine concerning Christianity has all been produced by these traditional teachings. What is needed is that we comprehend the Mystery of Golgotha anew based on a new teaching. 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Initiation science realizes that it must produce an initiation knowledge that is illuminated by the light of freedom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/199/1920-08-14/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-08-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":97,"en_words":104,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It is no longer possible for human beings to cooperate with group souls in the sense of the ancient group system. They have to develop into individualities. This striving, however, seems to be at variance with what is acquired by listening to initiation science, something that must obviously originate from individual persons in the first place. The ancient initiate had his own ways and means of seeking out his pupils and passing on to them the initiation wisdom, even of gaining recognition for them, himself and his Mystery center. The modern initiate cannot allow that, for it would necessitate working with certain forces and impulses of the group soul nature, something that is not permissible today. Thus, humanity's condition today is one where everyone, proceeding from whatever his standpoint happens to be, wishes to become an individuality. For that reason, he naturally does not care to listen to what comes from a human being as initiation science. Yet, no progress can be made until it is understood that men can become individualities only when, in turn, they accept the content of initiation science from other individualities. This is not only related to isolated ideological questions. It is connected with the basic nature of our whole age and its effects on the cultural, political and economic spheres. Humanity is yearning for freedom, and initiation science would like to speak of this freedom. We have, however, only just reached the point in the stage of mankind's evolution where sound human reasoning can grasp the idea of freedom. Today, we must gain insight into much that can be gathered from anthroposophical literature, and that I should like to summarize in turn from a number of viewpoints. It must be understood today what sort of being man is. All the abstract chatter concerning monism misses the point of true monism which can only be attained after one has gone through much else, but it cannot be proclaimed from the first as a world conception.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":347,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/199/1920-08-14/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-08-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":402,"en_words":421,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Großartiges, Gewaltiges haben die Lehrer der alten Mysterien der Menschheit überliefern können. Großartiges, Gewaltiges liegt in den mythischen Überlieferungen der verschiedenen Völker, die ja auch esoterisch erläutert werden dürfen, freilich nicht so, wie man es oft macht. Großartiges liegt in den sonstigen Überlieferungen, die ihren Quell in der Initiationswissenschaft alter Zeit haben, wenn man sie nur in der richtigen Weise versteht. Aber eines liegt in alledem nicht, eines liegt nicht in der Initiationswissenschaft der alten Mysterien, nicht in den Mythen der verschiedenen Völker, auch wenn sie esoterisch verstanden werden, nicht in den Traditionen, die sich herschreiben aus dieser Initiationswissenschaft: das ist das Rätsel von der menschlichen Freiheit. Denn derjenige, der von einer Initiationswissenschaft, von einer Einweihung der Gegenwart ausgeht, der begreift, wie Einweihung der Gegenwart sich hinstellt neben Einweihung der Vergangenheit, der weiß, daß die Menschheit in ihrer Entwickelung über die Erde hin erst jetzt in das Stadium wirklicher Freiheit eintritt, und daß es einfach früher nicht nötig war, der Menschheit eine Initiationswissenschaft zu geben, die ganz imprägniert wäre von dem Rätsel der Freiheit. Was alles das Rätsel der Freiheit umschließt, in welche Lage die menschliche Seele versetzt ist, wenn sie das Rätsel der Freiheit völlig klar auf sie abgeladen findet, das ahnen die wenigsten Menschen heute. Alle Initiationswissenschaft muß ja ein neues Licht empfangen durch dieses Rätsel der menschlichen Freiheit. Das auf der einen Seite. Wir sehen, wie sich fortsetzen aus alten Zeiten in direkter Kontinuation, möchte ich sagen, Geheimgesellschaften, die zum Teil recht stark in dem Leben der Gegenwart stehen, die aber nur das Alte bewahren, nur das Alte nachahmen, nur fortwirken im Sinne des Alten, und die doch nichts weiter sind, als Schatten des Alten, die nichts weiter sind als etwas, was, wenn es heute wirkt, der Menschheit schädlich sein muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p017"},{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Man muß einsehen, daß selbst die einstmals größten Mysterien, wollte sie heute jemand lehren, schädlich für die Menschheit wären. Niemand, der das Wesen gegenwärtiger Initiation versteht, kann wie etwas Gegenwärtiges lehren, was einst in den ägyptischen, in den chaldäischen, in den indischen, selbst in den griechischen Mysterien, die uns noch so nahestehen, gelehrt worden ist. Aber schließlich ist alles, was an Lehre über das Christentum vorgebracht worden ist bis jetzt, aus diesen traditionellen Lehren heraus vorgebracht worden. Und nötig haben wir, aus einer neuen Lehre neu das Mysterium von Golgatha zu verstehen. Das, wie gesagt, auf der einen Seite.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p018"},{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Auf der andern Seite sehen wir den Gang der Zeitereignisse. Wir sehen, wie aus unterbewußten, tiefliegenden Gründen der Menschenseele heraufzieht das Streben nach dem Freiheitsimpuls. Wir sehen, wie gewissermaßen dieser Ruf nach Freiheit das menschliche Streben der neueren Zeit durchtönt. Ja, er durchtönt dieses Streben, aber es durchtönt so vieles das menschliche Streben, was nicht klar verstanden wird, was nur aus unterbewußten Tiefen herauftönt und was eben mit klarem Verständnis erst durchdrungen werden muß. Man möchte sagen: Die Menschheit lechzt nach Freiheit! Die Initiationswissenschaft weiß, daß sie eine Initiationswissenschaft geben muß, beleuchtet von dem Lichte der Freiheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p019"},{"locus":"GA 199/1920-08-14/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Und diese zwei Dinge, dieses Streben der Menschheit und dieses Herausschaffen einer Initiationsweisheit, beleuchtet mit dem Lichte der Freiheit, diese zwei Dinge müssen zusammenkommen. Sie müssen zusammenkommen auf allen Gebieten. Daher darf man heute nicht aus allen möglichen alten Untergründen heraus über die soziale Frage reden. Man kann heute über sie nur dann reden, wenn man sie im Lichte der Geisteswissenschaft betrachtet. Das wird gerade der heutigen Menschheit so schwer. Warum? — Ja, die Menschheit strebt nach Freiheit, nach Freiheit der einzelnen Individualität, und mit Recht strebt sie darnach. Ich sage durchaus: mit Recht. Die Menschen können nicht mehr im Sinne des alten Gruppensystems mit den Gruppenseelen wirken. Die Menschen müssen Individualitäten bilden. Aber dieses Streben, Individualitäten zu bilden, das scheint zu widersprechen dem Hinhorchen auf das, was aus der Initiationswissenschaft kommt und was ja selbstverständlich zunächst durch einzelne Individuen kommen muß. Der alte Initiierte hatte Mittel und Wege, sich seine Schüler auszusuchen, seinen Schülern die Initiationsweisheit zu übertragen und auch Anerkennung für sie zu schaffen und Anerkennung für sich und seine Mysterienstätte. Der moderne Initiierte kann das nicht haben, denn es würde notwendig machen, daß man aus gewissen Kräften und Impulsen der Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit heraus wirke, und das geht heute nicht. So steht heute die Menschheit da; jeder möchte von dem Standpunkte aus, auf dem er gerade steht, eine Individualität werden. Da will er selbstverständlich nicht auf das hören, was da durch Menschen als Initiationswissenschaft kommt. Aber ehe nicht die Menschen einsehen, daß sie nur gerade dadurch Individualitäten werden können, daß sie wiederum durch andere menschliche Individualitäten den Inhalt der Initiationswissenschaft aufnehmen, eher kann es nicht besser werden. Das hängt nicht nur zusammen mit einzelnen Weltanschauungsfragen, das hängt zusammen mit dem Grundcharakter unseres ganzen Zeitalters und mit den Auswirkungen dieses Zeitalters auf geistigem, auf staatlichem und wirtschaftlichem Gebiete. Nach Freiheit dürstet die Menschheit. Von Freiheit möchte die Initiationswissenschaft sprechen. Wir sind aber im gegenwärtigen Entwickelungsstadium der Menschheit eigentlich erst da angekommen, wo Freiheit durch den gesunden Menschenverstand wirklich begriffen werden kann. Heute muß man manches einsehen, was Sie aus unserer anthroposophischen Literatur entnehmen können und was ich hier wiederum von gewissen Gesichtspunkten aus kurz zusammenfassen möchte. Man muß heute begreifen, was für eine Art von Wesen der Mensch ist. Alles abstrakte Schwätzen von Monismus läuft gerade vorbei an dem wahren Monismus, der errungen sein will, nachdem man manches andere durchgemacht hat, den man aber nicht von vornherein als eine Weltanschauung deklamieren kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":402,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/199/1920-08-14/p020"}],"beads":[{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[20,21],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","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)."}}