{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The connection of the human being with the macrocosm was revealed in many different Mysteries in an equally sublime manner to that I pictured for you yesterday, in connection with the Mysteries of Hibernia and also with the teachings that Aristotle had still to give to Alexander the Great. An outstanding characteristic of all ancient Oriental Mysteries was that moral impulses were not sharply distinguished from natural impulses. When Aristotle points Alexander to the North-West, where the Spirits of the element of Water held dominion, it was not only a physical impulse that came from that quarter—as we to-day feel how the wind blows from the North-West and so forth—but with the physical came also moral impulses. The physical and the moral were one. This was possible, because through the knowledge that was given in these Mysteries—the Spirit of Nature was actually perceived in the Mysteries—man felt himself one with the whole of Nature. Here we have something in the relation of man to Nature, that was still living and present in the time that intervened between the life of Gilgamesh and the life of the individuality Gilgamesh became, who was also in close contact with the Mysteries, namely, with the Mystery of Ephesus. There was still alive in men of that time a vision and perception of the connection of the human being with the Spirit of Nature. This connection they perceived in the following way. Through all that the human being learned concerning the working of the elementary spirits in Nature, and the working of the Beings of Intelligence in the planetary processes, he was led to this conclusion: All around me I see displayed on every side the plant-world—the green shoots, the buds and blossoms and then the fruit. I see the annual plants in the meadows and on the country-side, that grow up in Spring-time and fade away again in Autumn. I see, too, the trees that go on growing for hundreds of years, forming a bark on the outside, hardening to wood and reaching downwards far and wide into the Earth with their roots. But all that I see out there—the annual herbs and flowers, the trees that take firm hold into the Earth—once upon a time, I, as man, have borne it all within me.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus","site_heading":"Ephesus: Bridge Between Eastern and Western Mysteries","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Durch alles das, was da der Mensch kennenlernte über die Wirkung der Elementargeister in der Natur, über die Wirkung der intelligenten Wesenheiten in den planetarischen Vorgängen, kam der Mensch zu der Überzeugung: Da draußen sche ich überall ausgebreitet die Pflanzenwelt, die grünende, die sprießende, die sprossende, die fruchtende Pflanzenwelt. Da sehe ich die einjährigen Pflanzen auf der Wiese, auf dem Felde, die im Frühling heranwachsen, die im Herbste wieder vergehen; da sehe ich jahrhundertelang wachsende Bäume, welche Rinde und Holz außen bekommen und mit ihren Wurzeln weit in die Erde hineinreichen. 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