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Denken Sie daran, daß ja in den beiden Seelen, in der Seele desjenigen, der dann Aristoteles wurde, und desjenigen, der Alexander der Große wurde, zunächst das lebte, was innerlich verarbeitet war aus uralter Zeit heraus, dann das lebte, was in Ephesus ihnen ungeheuer wertvoll geworden war. Ich möchte sagen, ganz Asien, aber in der Form, in der es griechisch geworden war in Ephesus, lebte in den beiden, insbesondere in der Seele desjenigen, der später Alexander der Große geworden ist. Nun stelle man sich auch den Charakter vor — ich habe ihn geschildert aus der Gilgamesch-Zeit -, und man denke sich, daß sich ja nun im lebendigen Verkehr zwischen Alexander und Aristoteles das Wissen, das an den alten Orient und an Ephesus gebunden war, wiederholte, aber in der neuen Form des Wissens wiederholte. Man stelle sich das nur vor. Man stelle sich vor, was hätte werden müssen, wenn das gigantische Dokument, das eigentlich in diesen Seelen mit einer ungeheuren Intensität gelebt hat, wenn dieses gigantische Dokument, das Mysterium von Ephesus, dagewesen wäre, wenn also auch in der Alexander-Inkarnation Alexander das Mysterium von Ephesus noch angetroffen hätte! Man stelle sich das vor, und man würdige dann die Tatsache, daß an dem Tage, an dem Alexander geboten wurde, Herostrat die Brandfackel in das Heiligtum von Ephesus geworfen hat, so daß der Dianentempel von Ephesus an dem Tage, an dem Alexander geboren wurde, durch Frevlerhand abgebrannt ist. Es ward nicht mehr gefunden dasjenige, was gerade geknüpft war an seine Denkmal-Dokumente. Das war nun nicht da; das war im Grunde genommen allein jetzt als historische Mission in der Seele des Alexander und in seinem Lehrer Aristoteles.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-28/p025"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-28/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Und nun verbinden Sie dasjenige, was da in ihnen als Seelisches lebte, mit dem, was ich gestern, als wie aus der Konfiguration der Erde heraus folgend, in der Mission Alexanders des Großen zeigte. Und nun werden Sie verstehen können, daß ja mit Ephesus wie ausgelöscht war dasjenige, was im Orient real, reale Offenbarung des Göttlich-Geistigen war. Die anderen Mysterien waren im Grunde genommen nur noch Dekadenzmysterien, in denen Traditionen aufbewahrt wurden, wenn auch manchmal sehr lebhafte Traditionen, und Traditionen, die in besonders veranlagten Naturen allerdings hellseherische Kräfte hervorriefen. 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