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The wise men of the Mysteries, the leaders in those centres which were school, church, and art-school at the same time, had around them people who knew nothing of nature in the Copernican sense, but in their soul and spirit had an instinctive, intimate experience of the Cosmos, expressed in their myths and legends, which in the ordinary civilisation of to-day are no longer understood. About this too we shall have more to say. The experience that men had in those early days was instinctive; an experience of soul and spirit. It filled their waking hours with the dreamlike pictures of imagination; and from these pictures came the legends, the myths, the sayings of the gods, which made up their life. A man looked out into the world, experiencing his dreamy imaginations; and at other times he lived in the being of nature. 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He then feels more sharply conscious of himself; he learns to find spirituality in that one point only, and he discovers an inner urge to unite this inner self with God. All he now needs—in addition to his knowledge of nature and in conformity with it—is that a new Initiation-knowledge shall lead him into the spiritual world. The old Initiation-knowledge could start from the spirit, which was then experienced by people instinctively, and, embodied in the myths, could lead them on to nature. 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Die geistige Welt kann er höchstens durch die religiöse \"Tradition noch festhalten. Will man zu der wirklichen geistigen Welt aufsteigen, dann muß man einen inneren Entwickelungsgang durchmachen durch Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, wie ich das geschildert habe. Man muß also durch die Initiationswissenschaft geführt werden von der gesetzmäßigen Durchdringung oder wenigstens von dem Glauben an die gesetzmäßige Durchdringung des naturalistischen Daseins zu der Erfassung des Geistigen. Alle Initiationswissenschaft muß heute darauf gehen, den Menschen von der ihm heute selbstverständlichen, natürlichen Erfassung des Kosmos hinzuführen zu der spirituellen Erfassung des Kosmos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p033"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Das Umgekehrte war in der alten Initiationswissenschaft vor Jahrtausenden vorhanden. Da hatten die Mysterienweisen, die Leiter der Initiationsstätten, die dazumal Schule und Kirche und Kunststätten zugleich waren, eine Menschheit um sich, welche eigentlich in dem Sinne von Natur nichts wußte, wie die heutige Menschheit es weiß seit der kopernikanischen Weltanschauung, eine Menschheit, die aber instinktiv innerlich Geistig-Seelisches auch als Kosmisches erlebte, dieses Geistig-Seelisch-Kosmische in Mythen, in Legenden brachte, die wir heute in der allgemeinen Zivilisation nicht mehr verstehen. Über sie werden wir auch noch ausführlicher zu sprechen haben. Aber dasjenige, was Erleben war, war instinktives seelisches, geistiges Erleben. Und das war dem Menschen dasjenige, was ihn wie mit traumhaften Bildern, Imaginationen während seines Wachdaseins erfüllte. Immer kamen aus dem Inneren der Urmenschheit heraus diese dann zu Legenden, zu Mythen, zu Göttersagen ausgebildeten traumhaften Imaginationen. In denen lebte man. Man sah hinaus in die Welt, und man erlebte seine traumhaften Imaginationen. Dann erlebte man: wenn man nicht in diesen traumhaften Imaginationen lebte, lebte man in dem Naturdasein. Man sah den Regenbogen, die Wolken, die Sterne, die über den Himmel eilende Sonne, man sah die Flüsse, man sah die Berge in ihrem Werden, in ihrem Wesen, man sah die Mineralien, die Pflanzen, die Tiere.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p034"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Und das alles, was man da sah mit den Sinnen, das wurde gerade für die Urmenschheit das große Rätsel. Denn der Zeitpunkt, den ich meine — es gab frühere oder spätere Zeiten, in denen die Zivilisation anders war —, aber der Zeitpunkt, den ich meine, der einige Jahrtausende zurückliegt vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha, in dem empfand die Menschheit sich innerlich beglückt, wenn sie ihre traumhaften Imaginationen hatte. Und die äußere Sinnenwelt, in der man nur dasjenige sah von Regenbogen, von Wolken, von der ziehenden Sonne, von Mineralien, von Pflanzen und Tieren, was das Auge sah — durch das man auch nur dasjenige in der Sternenwelt schaute, was dann registriert wurde im vorkopernikanischen, also im ptolemäischen Weltsystem -, diese äußere Welt der Sinne, die kam in jenem Zeitpunkt der allgemeinen Menschheit so vor, daß sich diese allgemeine Menschheit sagte: Ich mit meiner eigenen Seele lebe doch in einer göttlich-geistigen Welt. Da draußen ist eine entgötterte Natur. Die Quelle hat keine Geistigkeit, indem ich sie anschaue; der Regenbogen hat keine Geistigkeit; die Mineralien, die Pflanzen und die Tiere und die anderen physischen Menschen haben keine Geistigkeit, indem ich sie äußerlich mit den Sinnen anschaue. Und es erschien die Natur wie eine von der göttlichen Geistigkeit abgefallene universale Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p035"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Diese Empfindung der Menschheit lebte in jener Zeit, wo man den ganzen Kosmos in seiner Sichtbarkeit wie ein von dem Göttlich-Geistigen Abgefallenes erblickte. Und man brauchte nicht nur abstrakte Erkenntnis, um diese zwei Erlebnisse miteinander zu verbinden, das innerliche Gott-Erleben in sich und das äußere Erleben einer abgefallenen Sinneswelt, man brauchte eine Erkenntnis, die zu gleicher Zeit Trost dafür war, daß man als Mensch dieser äußeren abgefallenen Sinneswelt mit seinem physischen, mit seinem ätherischen Leibe angehörte. Man brauchte Trost, der einem besagte, wie sich diese abgefallene Sinneswelt zu derjenigen verhält, die man erlebt durch ein instinktives Imaginieren, durch ein traumhaft-dunkles, aber auch für die damaligen Verhältnisse hinreichendes Erleben der geistigen Welt. Erkenntnis mußte Trost sein. Und Trost suchten diejenigen, die nun zu den Mysterien hineilten, entweder als Menschen, welche nur dasjenige, was in den Mysterien äußerlich gegeben werden konnte, wollten als solchen Trost, oder auch als Schüler solcher Weltenweisen, um eingeweiht zu werden gegenüber den Geheimnissen des Daseins, gegenüber dem Rätsel, das sich so vor die Menschheit hinstellt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p036"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Jene alten Mysterienweisen, die zugleich Priester und Lehrer und Künstler waren, die machten durch alles dasjenige, was auch noch geschildert werden muß, was in ihren Mysterien vorhanden war, dieser Menschheit klar, daß auch in der abgefallenen Welt, in der rieselnden Quelle, in dem blühenden Baum, in der blühenden Blume, in dem sich zum Kristall formenden Mineral, in dem erscheinenden Regenbogen, in der fliehenden Wolke und in der ziehenden Sonne dieselben göttlich-geistigen Gewalten leben, die der Mensch instinktiv in seiner traumhaften Imagination erlebte. Sie stellten dieser Menschheit dar die Versöhnung der gottabgefallenen Welt mit der göttlichen Welt, die der Mensch in seinen instinktiven Imaginationen wahrnahm. Sie brachten der Menschheit die trostvolle Erkenntnis; sie waren ihr die Erlöser durch eine Erkenntnis, die die ganze Natur wiederum zu einer gotterfüllten auch für das menschliche Anschauen machte, denn der Mensch suchte eben diese tröstende Erkenntnis in den Mysterien.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p037"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Wir sehen daher, wie gemeldet wird von diesen älteren Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung, daß gerade dasjenige - das wird noch von dem Griechentum gemeldet -, was wir heute den jüngsten Kindern in der Schule beibringen, daß die Sonne stillstehe und die Erde sich ringsherum drehe, daß das in den Mysterien wie eine Geheimwissenschaft bewahrt worden ist. Dasjenige, was bei uns ganz äußerliche Erkenntnis ist, war damals Geheimwissenschaft. Die Erklärung der Natur, die war damals Geheimwissenschaft. Heute ist, wie jeder ersehen kann, der den Entwickelungsgang der Menschheit innerhalb unserer Zivilisation durchlebt, was ja eigentlich jeder denkende Mensch tut, der erzogen und unterrichtet wird, heute ist die Natur mit ihren Gesetzen dasjenige, in das sich der Mensch einlebt. Dafür hat sich die geistige Welt zurückgezogen. Die alten traumhaften Imaginationen haben aufgehört. Der Mensch empfindet die Natur als dasjenige, in dem er zunächst nicht volle Befriedigung hat, das ihm neutral vorgeführt wird, nicht wie ein abgefallenes sündhaftes Weltenall, wie ein abgefallener Kosmos, sondern wie ein Kosmos, der durch eine innere Notwendigkeit so sein muß, wie er eben ist. Dann erfühlt der Mensch sein Selbstbewußtsein, dann lernt er erkennen in jenem einzigen Punkte die Geistigkeit, dann spürt er den inneren Drang, der das innere Selbst an Gott wieder knüpfen will. Und dann hat er nötig, daß jetzt zu der Naturerkenntnis, entsprechend dieser Naturerkenntnis, er in die geistige Welt hineingeführt werde durch eine neue Initiationswissenschaft. Die alte Initiationswissenschaft konnte vom Geiste, den der Mensch instinktiv erlebte, in seinen Mythen verkörperte, ausgehen und zur Natur hinführen. Die neue Initiationswissenschaft muß von demjenigen, was dem Menschen heute erstes Erlebnis ist, indem er seine Naturgesetze wahrnimmt, an die er dann glaubt, sie muß von dieser Naturerkenntnis ausgehen und zurück den Weg in die geistige Welt durch Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition zeigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p038"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"So haben wir in der Entwickelung der Menschheit ein paar Jahrtausende vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha denjenigen wichtigen Zeitpunkt, in dem die Menschen ausgingen von einem instinktiven Geist-Erleben, um zu jenen Begriffen und Ideen hinzukommen als der äußersten Geheimwissenschaft, die die Naturgesetze umfaßte. Heute erlebt man schon als Kind die Naturgesetze. Vor dieser Nüchternheit, vor dieser Prosa des Lebens, vor diesem Naturalismus hat sich zunächst die geistige Welt in dem Innern des Menschen zurückgezogen. Und heute muß eine Initiationswissenschaft umgekehrt den Weg weisen von der Natur hin zu der Geistigkeit. Die Natur war für eine alte Menschheit in der Finsternis, der Geist war im Hellen. Die alte Initiationswissenschaft hatte von dem Geistig-Hellen hineinzuführen das Licht, das dort entnommen, in die natürliche Finsternis, damit auch diese erhellt wurde. Die heutige Initiationswissenschaft hat auszugehen von demjenigen Lichte, das äußerlich naturalistisch durch Kopernikus, Giordano Bruno, Galilei, Kepler, Newton und so weiter in die äußere Natur hineingeworfen wird. Da ist dann dieses Licht zu nehmen aus der Totheit, zu beleben, und der Weg zu machen zu dem Geiste, der in seinem eigenen Lichte durch einen umgekehrten Weg gegenüber dem alten Initiationsweg gesucht werden muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p039"},{"locus":"GA 227/1923-08-20/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Davon will ich dann morgen weitersprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":6,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/227/1923-08-20/p040"}],"beads":[{"from":[36],"to":[33],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[37],"to":[34],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[38],"to":[35],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[39,40],"to":[36],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[41],"to":[37],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[42],"to":[38],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[43],"to":[39,40],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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