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I know well, sponsors were there present at that time,—spirits of those who in the Middle Ages taught their pupils in the manner I have described to you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Burning of the Ephesian Temple and the Goetheanum","site_heading":"Divine Jealousy and Human Freedom: From Ephesus to Goetheanum","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1923-12-31","location":null,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-31/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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Es hat ja sollen, als ich zum letzten Mal auf dem Podium stehen durfte, das im Einklange mit dem ganzen Bau dort aufgerichtet war, es hat ja sollen der Blick der damaligen Zuhörer, der Seelenblick, hingelenkt werden auf den Aufstieg aus irdischen Gebieten in Sternengebiete, die ausdrücken den Willen und die Weisheit, das Licht des geistigen Kosmos. Ich weiß, Pate standen dazumal manche von den Geistern, die im Mittelalter also ihre Schüler lehrten, wie ich es Ihnen beschrieben habe. Und eine Stunde, nachdem das letzte Wort gesprochen war, wurde ich geholt zum Brande des Goetheanums. 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