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A certain memory has been preserved of what these high beings once revealed to the peoples of a remote past, to human beings whose nature was quite different from human nature as it is today. If we succeed in fathoming this mystery, which I will call it the universe’s Moon-mystery, we realize that these high beings now entrenched in the Moon-fortress were once the great teachers of earthly humanity, but that all consciousness of the realities of spirit and soul hidden in this fortress has been lost. 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Wir ringen uns dann durch die innerlich bedeutungsvollen Wahrheiten durch, die noch aufgeschrieben sind, die als ein letzter Nachklang der orientalischen Weisheit zum Beispiel in den Veden und im Vedanta erglänzen, wir ringen uns da durch zu den Uroffenbarungen der Menschheit, welche noch hinter den Mythen und Sagen liegen, und kommen zunächst voller Ehrfurcht und voller Erstaunen dazu, anzuerkennen, wie die Menschheit einmal eine großartige Weisheit besessen hat, die sie, ohne Anstrengung des Verstandes, als eine Gnade der geistigen Weltenwesen erhalten hatte. Und wir werden zuletzt zurückgeführt zu all dem, was einmal auf der Erde den damals schon auf Erden vorhandenen Urmenschen lehren konnten diese Wesenheiten, die sich nun in die Mondenfestung des Universums zurückgezogen haben, die mit dem Monde hinausgegangen sind aus der Erde. Die Menschen haben dann die Erinnerung bewahrt an dasjenige, was einstmals diese Wesenheiten geoffenbart hatten den ältesten Urvölkern der Menschheit, die noch etwas ganz anderes in ihrem Wesen hatten als die heutige menschliche Gestalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/228/1923-07-27/p011"},{"locus":"GA 228/1923-07-27/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Aber wenn man dieses Geheimnis — ich möchte es das Mondengeheimnis des Universums nennen - durchdringt, wird man gewahr, wie diese Wesenheiten, die heute in der Mondenfestung des Universums sich verankert haben, einmal die großen Lehrer der Erdenmenschheit waren, und wie die Erdenmenschheit verloren hat gerade dasjenige, was heute an Geistigem und Seelischem in dieser Universumsfestung verborgen liegt. 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