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If we first see this for ourselves and then, having perhaps come across indirectly an ancient saying, through Goethe in this case, we let it work upon us, we see how an old instinctive truth—no matter whether mythical or legendary—was at one time widely current in the world. And then times change, and in our own time we see how the ancient truth has to be raised to a higher level.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. The Working Together of the Four Archangels","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-10-13","location":null,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/229/1923-10-13/p051","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Charles Davy and Dorothy S. 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Es hat auf ihn einen großartigen Eindruck gemacht. Dasjenige, was hier geschildert werden konnte, das kannte er nicht. Aber gerade das ist es, was einen so erschüttert, daß, wenn aus einer gewissen dichterischen Empfindung heraus ein solcher Geist wie Goethe etwas aufgreift, was durch alte Traditionen heraufgekommen ist, daß es dann so unglaublich die Wahrheit wiedergebend ist. Das ist jenes Großartige, das uns wieder verbindet, wenn wir Geisteswissenschaft in der Gegenwart treiben und diese Dinge sich für uns ergeben: wenn wir wirklich sehen, wie Uriel und Raphael und Michael und Gabriel zusammenwirken, wie sie wirklich das, was ihre eigenen Kräfte sind, einer dem andern reichen, wenn wir das ursprünglich sehen und dann uralte Sprüche, die vielleicht auf einem Umwege, wie hier durch Goethe, auf uns gekommen sind, auf uns wirken lassen und sehen, wie eine alte instinktive Wahrheit - meinetwillen mythisch, meinetwillen legendarisch — einstmals durch die Welt gebraust ist! 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