{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the older Grecian time there was no need to make written history. Why was this? Because men had the living shadow of everything of importance that had happened in the past. History could be read in what came to view in the Mysteries. There one had the shadow-pictures, the living shadow-pictures. What was there then to write down as history?","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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