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Those who, as initiates of the mysteries, were initiated in the more profound aspects of these truths were able to speak to their followers out of their initiation science in such a manner that these faithful could arrive at the conviction that they looked into an after-image of their pre-earthly existence, and at the same time into a spiritual world to which man belongs with the eternal core of his being. This, they felt, was a gift of grace bestowed by that spiritual being whose physical image is the physical sun we see in the sky.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-09-12","location":null,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/215/1922-09-12/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Lisa D. Monges, Doris M Bugbey. 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Und diejenigen, die in jenen älteren Zeiten als die Initiierten der Mysterien in diesen ganzen Sachverhalt auch noch eingeweiht waren in seinen tieferen Gestaltungen, die konnten dann zu denjenigen, die ihre Bekenner waren, aus ihrer Initiationswissenschaft heraus so sprechen, daß diese Bekenner, diese Gläubigen zu der Überzeugung kommen konnten, daß sie in einen Nachklang ihres vorirdischen Daseins hineinschauen und damit zu gleicher Zeit in eine geistige Welt, welcher der Mensch angehört mit seinem ewigen Wesenskern. Das ist eine Gnade des geistigen Wesens, dem als seinem physischen Abbilde die physische Sonne entspricht. So konnte also der Bekenner zur alten Mysterienweisheit sich sagen: Ich schaue zur Sonne hinauf, aber diese äußere physische Sonne ist nur ein Abbild eines geistigen Sonnenwesens. 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