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And so impressed was Julian the Apostate by this teaching of the three aspects of the Sun that to him that which Christianity brought seemed small in comparison. For he still knew of the inexpressible glory and splendour into which Zarathustra had gazed; he had learned to know also of the activities of fire and of light, of the cosmic chemical forces, and of the cosmic life-forces, as man had been able to behold them in the ancient Mysteries. Of all this he, Julian, could in his time still learn,—although only by tradition. And the whole teaching seemed to him so sublime, so mighty, that he found himself unable to accept Christianity. The thoughts and purposes of his mind were, in fact, turned in quite another direction. He seized with the desire to impart to mankind the ancient Mysteries into which he had himself been initiated up to a certain degree. And this, my dear friends, was what led at last to the unsheathing of the dagger that brought his life to a violent end. 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A good deal of this threefold teaching of Zarathustra, Osiris, and Anaxagoras—the teaching of the spiritual Sun; of the elemental Sun; and of Zeus, the Sun-flooded ether environment of the Earth—found its way into the external exoteric culture of Greece. And the world would never have had such a sublime Greek art, nor such a wonderful Greek philosophy, would never have had a Plato and an Aristotle, were it not that into the art and philosophy of Greece, streams from this ancient wisdom were able to flow. A time came, however, when the initiation truths that were handed down from past epochs were no longer sufficiently protected from profanation. Many teachings that had their source in initiation wisdom passed into the hands of distinguished Romans, more especially the Romans, more especially the Roman emperors. Among them all, perhaps of Augustus alone can it be said that he still knew how to value the initiation wisdom that was imparted to him. In the Roman world there was, generally speaking, no understanding for the esoteric factor in Greek art and Greek wisdom, no recognition that these contained elements which could be traced back to the very most ancient wisdom teaching, Consequently, the hopelessly prosaic, the semi-barbarous civilisation of Rome took over what we may call the surface brightness, the sheen, of Greek culture, but was quite incapable of handing on, in its true form, to later generations what lived at the heart of this culture. 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The real essence of the Mystery of Golgotha does not lie in the fact that it teaches of the Christ. The initiates of olden times also knew and taught of Him. Only, they spoke of Him not as living on the Earth, in the forces of the Earth, but as living within the forces of the Sun. It is a mistake to think that the old initiates did not speak of the Christ Being. Christ was spoken of continually before the Mystery of Golgotha,—as a Being who is outside and beyond the Earth. Men have lost sight of this truth and are apt to regard the statement of it as unchristian. But why should such a statement be regarded as unchristian, seeing that the Early Church Fathers undoubtedly held this view? They said: “The wise men of olden times who are often described as heathen are, in a deeper sense, Christian. 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Es ist nicht jener Zarathustra, von dem die Geschichte erzählt, und der in etwas späterer Zeit lebte. Es ist ein viel älterer Lehrer der Menschheit. Aber es ist in jenen alten Zeiten durchaus so, daß die Schüler eines hohen bedeutenden Lehrers lange dessen Namen angenommen haben. Und so ist derjenige Mensch, der in der Geschichte Zarathustra genannt wird, der letzte der großen Zarathustra-Schüler. Zarathustra war in einer ganz besonderen Weise in die Geheimnisse des Daseins eingeweiht, und er konnte als ein großer Eingeweihter, als ein hervorragender Initiierter die Menschheit der damaligen Zeit lehren. Zarathustra wußte durch seine Initiation, daß an derjenigen Stelle des Raumes, wohin wir blicken, wenn wir die Sonne sehen, ein großer umfassender Weltengeist lebt. Zarathustra sah überhaupt nicht zuerst die physische Sonne, sondern Zarathustra sah an der Stelle, wo wIr heute durch das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein die physische Sonne sehen, einen großen umfassenden Weltengeist. Und dieser Weltengeist, der übte auf eine spirituelle Art seinen Einfluß auf Zarathustra aus. Und Zarathustra wußte dadurch, wie mit dem Schein, mit dem Glanz der Sonne, mit den Strahlen der Sonne auf die Erde auch die göttlich- geistigen Gnadenstrahlen kommen, welche in der Seele, in dem Geist des Menschen entzünden den höheren Menschen, zu dem sich der gewöhnliche Mensch hinaufringen soll. Und da man in jenen alten Zeiten die Initiierten nicht mit äußeren Namen nannte, sondern mit den- jenigen Namen, die ihnen zukamen durch das, was sie wußten, so wurde dieser große Eingeweihte von seinen Schülern genannt und so nannte er sich: Zarathustra, Zoroaster, der strahlende Stern. Aber gemeint war die strahlende Gottheit, die die Strahlen der Weisheit auf die Erde sendet. Es war im Verhältnis zu allen späteren Einweihungen, zu allen späteren Initiationen eine höhere Initiation. Denn in dem- jenigen, was Zarathustra in der geistigen Weltensonne sah, lagen ja alle Kräfte, welche auf der Erde die Steine erhärten lassen, welche die Pflanzen aus ihren Keimen hervorwachsen lassen, welche die verschiedenen Tierarten über die Erde ausbreiten, welche den Menschen wachsen und gedeihen lassen. Alles dasjenige, was auf der Erde geschah, wußte der älteste Zarathustra - der strahlende Stern - durch dasjenige, was er von der Sonne als geistiges Wesen erlebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":398,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p004"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Und dann kam eine spätere Zeit, in der man nicht mehr so tief hineindringen konnte in die Weltengeheimnisse. Es war diejenige Zeit, die ich in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» die chaldäisch-ägyptische Menschheitskultur nannte. Auch da blickte man noch hinauf zur","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":38,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p005"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Sonne, aber man sah jetzt die Sonne nicht mehr als die strahlende, man sah das bloß Leuchtende, das bloß Glänzende. Und Ra, dessen irdischer Repräsentant Osiris war, erschien als die eigentlich um die Erde sich bewegende Sonne, die da glänzte. So waren gewisse Geheimnisse dadurch verlorengegangen, daß man nicht mehr als Initiierter der alten Zeit in vollständiger innerer Klarheit den strahlenden Weltengott sehen konnte, sondern daß man jetzt nur dasjenige sehen konnte, was mehr aus Urkräften heraus, aus astralischen Kräften heraus von der Sonne kommt. Zarathustra sah in der Sonne noch ein Wesen; er konnte zu jener Zeit noch in der Sonne ein Wesen sehen. Die ägyptischen, die chaldäischen Initiierten, sie sahen in der Sonne nur die Kräfte, welche als Lichtkräfte, welche als Bewegungskräfte von der Sonne nach der Erde kamen. Sie sahen schon nurmehr etwas niedrigeres als ein geistiges Wesen: sie sahen geistige Taten, aber nicht ein geistiges Wesen. Und als denjenigen, der auf der Erde das repräsentiert, was man von den Kräften der Sonne als Mensch in sich trägt, bezeichneten diese alten ägyptischen Eingeweihten den Osiris.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p006"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Und wenn wir in die griechische Zeit kommen, also schon in das achte, siebente, fünfte Jahrhunderz und so weiter vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha, da sah man nicht mehr in die Geheimnisse der Sonne, da sah man nur noch dasjenige, was sich um die Erde herum als Wirkung der Sonne zeigte. Da sah man gewissermaßen nur die Wirkung der Sonne in dem Äther, der den Raum um die Erde herum erfüllt. Und das, was sich als Äther um die Erde herum ausbreitet, was auch den Menschen durchdringt, das bezeichneten die griechischen Initiierten - nicht das Volk, aber die griechischen Initiierten - als den Zeus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p007"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Und so gab es eine Stufe der menschlichen Kulturentwickelung, In welcher die Initiierten in der Sonne ein göttlich-geistiges Wesen sahen, dann diejenige Stufe, in welcher die Initiierten in der Sonne Kräfte sahen, die da wirken, und eine dritte Stufe, in welcher die Initiierten nurmehr die Wirkungen des Sonnenwesens im Äther der Erde sahen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p008"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Sehen Sie, die Lehre von diesen drei Sonnenaspekten, dem Sonnenaspekt des Zarathustra, dem Sonnenaspekt des Osiris, dem Sonnenaspekt des Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, diese drei Sonnenaspekte kannte in der späteren Zeit noch einer, der so nahe an die Einweihungslehren herangekommen war, als man nur in der damaligen Zeit an sie herankommen konnte. Diese drei Aspekte kannte noch, nicht durchschauen, aber als Lehre, als eine Tradition, die durch die Mysterienschule ging, Julianus der Apostat. Und Julian Apostata war so überwältigt von diesem dreifachen Sonnenaspekt, daß ihm dasjenige, was das Christentum brachte, demgegenüber als klein erschien. Er lernte noch etwas von der unsagbaren Herrlichkeit kennen, in welche Zarathustra hineingeschaut hat, er lernte noch etwas kennen von jener Wirksamkeit von Feuer, Licht, von kosmisch-chemischen Kräften, von kosmischen Lebenskräften, wie man sie in den alten Mysterien zuerst geschaut hat, und wovon er nur durch Traditionen noch hat lernen können. Diese Lehre kam ihm so großartig, so gewaltig vor, daß er sich zum Christentum nicht bekehren konnte. Aber er wollte dafür etwas an- deres: er wollte die alten Mysterien, in die er bis zu eInem gewissen Grade noch eingeweiht war, der allgemeinen Menschheit verkünden. Daher wurde für ihn jener Dolch geschliffen, welcher ihm den gewaltsamen Tod brachte. Jener Dolch wurde geführt von einer der Persönlichkeiten, die in jenen alten Zeiten der Meinung waren, daß man nicht der allgemeinen Menschheit die hohen Lehren der Initiation mitteilen dürfe. Geführt war jener Dolch von einer jener Persönlichkeiten, welche wollten, daß nur so, wie man eben im damaligen Zeitalter äußerlich über die Sonne sprach, zu den Menscheii gesprochen werden solle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p009"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Julian Apostata sagte, daß die Sonne drei Aspekte habe: einen des irdischen Athers, einen des dahinterstehenden Himmelslichtes und der chemischen und Wärme oder Feuer- und Lebenskräfte, und einen Aspekt ganz geistiger Wesenheit. Dafür wurde er hinweggeräumt. Und in der Tat, man muß ja sagen, in der damaligen Zeit war durchaus noch ein Augenblick in der Menschheitsentwickelung, in dem die allgemeine Menschheit nicht reif genug war, um solche bedeutsamen Wahrheiten zu empfangen. Aber etwas anderes, etwas außerordentlich Bedeutsames können wir sehen. In die griechische äußere, exoterische Kultur ist vieles übergegangen von dem, was enthalten war 1n diesen dreifachen Lehren des Zarathustra, des Osiris, des Anaxagoras, von der geistigen Sonne, von der elementarischen Sonne, von Zeus,dem sonnenhaften Erdenäther. Und wir haben nur deshalb eine so hohe griechische Kunst, eine so hohe griechische Philosophie, nur deshalb einen Plato und Aristoteles, weil vieles eingeflossen ist von jener alten Weisheit in diese Persönlichkeiten. Aber es war damals schon jene Zeit, in welcher die Initiationswahrheiten des Altertums nicht mehr genügend geschützt waren vor der Profanierung. Und so ist es gekommen, daß vieles von den Initiationsweisheiten übergegangen war an hervorragende Römer, namentlich an die römischen Kaiser,an die hervorragenden Führer des römischen Volkes. Höchstens noch Augustus aber hat zu schätzen gewußt dasjenige, was ihm mit der Initiationsweisheit übergeben worden war. Und deshalb war es auch, daß man im Römertum nicht erkennen konnte, wie in der griechischen Kunst, wie in der griechischen Weisheit esoterisch etwas enthalten war, was, richtig verstanden, in die ältesten Weisheitslehren zurückführte. Und so kam es, daß von dem ganz und gar prosaischen, ganz und gar halb-barbarischen Römertum aus, der äußere Glanz der griechischen Kultur übernommen worden ist, daß aber die Römer nicht in der Lage waren, dasjenige, was in der griechischen Kultur lebte, auf die Nachwelt in seiner wahren Gestalt zu überbringen. Und so ist es gekommen, daß dann mit dem Römertum jene alte Kultur nicht mehr übergehen konnte in das aufkommende Christentum, das sich anschloß an das Mysterium von Golgatha.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p010"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Wenn man so etwas ausspricht, wie ich es jetzt eben ausgesprochen habe, darf man es nicht als Tadel, nicht als Kritik aussprechen, denn alle diese Dinge sind notwendig für die Entwickelung der Menschheit. Man muß sich aber klar sein darüber, daß die eigentlichen alten Initiationswahrheiten durch das Römertum, das die Initiation nicht zu schätzen wußte, nicht auf das Abendland übertragen werden konnnen, und daß wir als Menschen des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins der neueren Zeit getrennt sind von der heiligen Wahrheit der alten Zeiten durch das Römertum, das diese Wahrheiten nicht verstehen konnte, wodurch ja auch bewirkt wurde, daß eine Persönlichkeit, die hervorgegangen war aus diesem Römertum, die letzten griechischen Philosophen vertrieben hat, so daß diese nach dem Orient flüchten mußten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p011"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Ich führe Ihnen das alles an aus dem Grunde, weil es für die verschiedenen Betrachtungen, die ich dann anstellen werde, notwendig ist, daß wir einen flüchtigen Blick auf jene Zeit wenden, wo die alten geistigen Lehrer hinaufblicken konnten nach dem gestirnten Himmel und oben die dreifache Sonne sahen. Von diesem Wissen ist der Nachwelt nichts anderes geblieben als das Symbol davon in der dreifachen Krone des römischen Papstes. Das Äußere ist geblieben, das Innere verlorengegangen, und nur die neuere Initiation kann wiederum zurückblicken in jene alten Zeiten. Durch diese neuere Initiation, von der auch die Anthroposophie sprechen muß, können wIr wiederum zurückschauen in jene alten Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung, in denen der Sonne selbst abgelauscht war dasjenige, was man auf Erden als die Geheimnisse der Menschheitsentwickelung erfahren wollte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p012"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Wenn dann diejenigen, welche die Schüler der alten Initiierten waren, hinaussahen in das Weltenall und über dasjenige sprachen, was außerhalb der Erde in den Wirkungen der Sonne, in der Sonne selbst lebte, in dem großen Zarathustrischen Geisteswesen der Sonne, dann meinten diese alten Initiierten im Grunde genommen dasselbe, was man später als den Christus bezeichnet. So daß in aller Form gesagt werden muß, daß die alten Initiierten außerhalb der Erde im Kosmos, und zwar in demjenigen Kosmos, der durch die Sonne repräsentiert wird, den Christus geschaut haben. Und das Wesentliche des Mysteriums von Golgatha ist nicht die Lehre von dem Christus, denn diese Lehre von dem Christus, die haben auch die alten Initiierten gehabt. Sie haben nur etwa von dem Christus so gesprochen, daß er nicht auf der Erde lebt, daß er nicht in den Kräften der Erde ist, sondern daß er in den Kräften der Sonne lebt. Aber es ist durchaus falsch, zu glauben, daß die alten Initiierten nicht von dem Christus-Wesen gesprochen haben. Es ist auch eine von jenen Wahrheiten, die der Menschheit ganz verlorengegangen sind, daß vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha von dem Christus immer gesprochen worden ist als von einem außerirdischen Wesen. Heute nennt man eine solche Anschauung sogar unchristlich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p013"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Aber warum nennt man eine solche Anschauung unchristlich, da doch die ersten Kirchenväter durchaus diese Anschauung gehabt haben?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":18,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p014"},{"locus":"GA 211/1922-04-24/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Die ersten Kirchenväter haben gesagt: Die Weisen der alten Zeit, die man oftmals auch als Heiden bezeichnet, sind in einem tieferen Sinn Christen! Die ersten Kirchenväter haben durchaus von Heiden als von Christen vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha gesprochen. Dasjenige, was durch das Mysterium von Golgatha geschehen ist, es ist eben dieses, daß jenes Wesen, das man vorher nicht hat auf der Erde finden können, das nur außerhalb der Erde gefunden werden konnte, wenn man in die Mysterien der Himmel eingeweiht war, sich dann selber verkörpert hat in dem Jesus von Nazareth, auf der Erde gelebt hat in dem Jesus von Nazareth, gekreuzigt worden ist, in die Erde gelegt worden ist, und im geistigen Leibe seinen eingeweihten Schülern als Auferstandener erschienen ist. Das wirkliche Herunter- steigen des hohen Sonnenwesens von kosmischen Höhen auf die Erde, das ist dasjenige, was sich in dem Mysterium von Golgatha vollzieht. Und dieser Christus, der heruntergestiegen ist aus geistigen Welten, der durch den Tod gegangen ist, der in bezug auf seinen Leib in die Erde gelegt worden ist, dieser Christus hat nach seinem Tode, nach seiner Auferstehung auch eingeweihte Schüler gehabt. Dasjenige, was er seinen eingeweihten Schülern gelehrt hat, das sollten heute eigentlich viele Menschen schon wissen, damit man teilnehmen könne an den Kräften der Fortentwickelung der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/211/1922-04-24/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[5,6],"to":[4,5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[7],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11,12],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[14],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[15,16],"to":[13,14,15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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