{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 204/1921-04-16/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"People have grown accustomed to developing the kind of intelligence that found its highest form in Arabism. They are in the habit of not looking for the meaning of external facts, but are satisfied with being told of these outer facts from the aspect of sensory reality. One must penetrate to an understanding of the Mystery of the Bread, which is said to have been broken by Christ Jesus in the same chalice in which Joseph of Arimathea caught His blood. As legend tells it, this chalice was then removed to Europe, but was preserved by angels in a region high above the surface of the earth until the arrival of Titurel[^9] who created for this Grail, this sacred chalice, a temple on Mont Salvat. Through the clouds of abstraction and narrations of mere facts, those who had become European mystery sages in the manner described above wished to behold in a sacred, spiritual temple the Mystery of the Grail, the mystery of the cosmos that had disappeared along with etheric astronomy and the Mystery of the Blood that had vanished along with the ancient view of medicine. For just as the ancient medicine had fallen victim to abstract thinking, the old etheric astronomy, too, had passed over into abstract thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The Holy Grail Mystery and Europe's Materialistic Turn","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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Durchdringen muß man zu demjenigen, was in dem Geheimnis des Brotes ist, das ja in derselben Schale gebrochen worden sein soll durch den Christus Jesus, in der dann das Blut durch Joseph von Arimathia aufgefangen worden ist, welche Schale dann entrückt worden ist nach Europa, aber, wie die Sage sagt, so von Engeln über der Erdoberfläche, hoch oben über der Erdoberfläche gehalten wurde, bis Titurel kam, der diesem Gral, dieser heiligen Schale, dieser das Mysterium des Brotes und Blutes umfassenden Schale den Tempel auf dem Montsalvatsch schuf. In heiliger spiritueller Tempelstätte wollten schauen diejenigen, die auf diese Weise europäische Mysterienweise geworden waren, durch die Nebel der Abstraktion hindurch und durch die Nebel der reinen Tatsachenerzählungen hindurch das Geheimnis vom Gral, das Geheimnis vom Kosmos, das verschwunden war mit der ätherischen Astronomie, das Geheimnis vom Blute, das verschwunden war mit der alten medizinischen Anschauung. Wie die alte medizinische Anschauung übergegangen ist in abstraktes Denken, so ist übergegangen die alte ätherische Astronomie in abstraktes Denken. Das hatte sich in der höchsten Blüte zu einer bestimmten Zeit gerade durch die Araber in Spanien abgelagert. In diesem Spanien war es, wo man äußerlich unter den Menschen nicht finden konnte das Geheimnis des Grales. Da war nur abstrakte Verstandesweisheit. Bei den Christen war nur äußere Tatsachenerzählung, bei den Arabern, bei den Mauren phantastische Verstandesentwickelung. Und in Höhen nur über dieser Erde schwebte der Heilige Gral, und nur von denjenigen, denen von göttlichen Mächten dazu die Fähigkeiten gegeben wurden, konnte betreten werden dieser spitituelle Tempel, dieser Heilige Gral, dieser die Geheimnisse des Brotes und Blutes umschließende Tempel. 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