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And the experience that had been attained by the pupil when the teacher led him up into the Ether-heights and down into the deep clefts of the Earth—even in those times it was no longer possible in the form it had taken in the ancient Mysteries—this experience was now, in later times, directly connected with an experience of Nature (though not with Nature on the Earth's surface itself) which came to man in a more unconscious form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233a/1924-01-06/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1924-01-06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 233a/1924-01-06/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233a/1924-01-06/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":263,"en_words":284,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It sets out on new paths with inner zeal, with sincere and whole-hearted devotion, and these paths are followed by large circles of knowledge-seekers. What we may truly call the knowledge of the Spiritual, that too continued its way. And after a few centuries we come to the time when Rosicrucianism proper was founded. Rosicrucianism is connected with a change that took place in the whole spiritual world in respect of man. 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There were however men who yearned for knowledge in the sense of the ancient Mysteries, and who experienced hard and heavy conflicts of soul when they heard how in the past men had been led up to the mountain and down to the clefts of the Earth, and had thus found knowledge. They developed all possible inner methods, they made all possible inner efforts in order to rouse the soul within them, that it might after all yet find the way. And he who is able to see such things can find in those times, as we said just now, not places of the Mysteries, but gatherings of knowledge-seekers who met together in an atmosphere warmed through and through with the glow of piety. What appears later as Rosicrucianism, sound and genuine Rosicrucianism, as well as the debased and charlatan kinds, comes in reality from men who gathered together in this simple way and sought so to temper their souls that genuine spiritual knowledge might yet be able to arise for them. In such a gathering, that took place in most unpretentious surroundings, the simple living-room of a kind of manor house, a few persons were once met, who, through certain exercises half thoughtful and meditative in character, half of the nature of prayer, done in common by them all, had developed a mystical mood in which all shared. It was the same mystical mood of soul that was cultivated in later times by the so-called “Brothers of the Common Life,” and later still by the followers of Comenius and by many other Brotherhoods. In this small circle, however, it showed itself with a peculiar intensity, and whilst these few men were there gathered together, making devotion, so to say, of their ordinary consciousness, of their whole intellect, in this intense mystical atmosphere of soul, it happened that a being came to them, not a being of flesh and blood like the teacher whom the pupil met and who led him to the mountains and to the clefts of the Earth, but a being who was only able to appear in an etheric body in this little company of men. This being revealed himself as the same who had guided the pupil about the year 1200. He was now in the after-death state. 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Und diese Form, sie war im Grunde genommen ein Letztes, das sich abspielte, bevor für die menschliche Geistesentwickelung ein Tor geschlossen worden ist, das ja durch Jahrhunderte geöffnet war: das Tor eines gewissen, durch natürliche Begabung kommenden Eintrittes in die geistige Welt. Dieses Tor ist ja geschlossen worden zu der Zeit, in der die Menschen gewissermaßen mit ihren unwillkürlichen Fähigkeiten herausgestellt werden sollten aus dem Bereiche des sie beherrschenden göttlich-geistigen Willens und in ihrem Innersten, in dem eigenen Willen finden sollten die Möglichkeit, Freiheit in der Seele zu entwickeln, bewußte Freiheit. Alle Entwickelungsbewegungen geschehen aber langsam und allmählich, nach und nach. Und so ist es denn auch gekommen, daß dasjenige, was zwar nicht mehr in der-Form der alten Mysterien, aber in der Form des Hinaufführens in Ätherhöhen, des Hinunterführens in Erdenklüfte unmittelbar im Zusammenhange mit dem menschlichen Erleben der Natur, wenn auch nicht auf der Erdoberfläche selber, erreicht werden konnte, nun in der Folgezeit in einer mehr unbewußten Form an die Menschen herangetreten ist. Denken Sie sich nur einmal, wie es jenen Persönlichkeiten gegangen ist, die nach Erkenntnis gestrebt haben, um das Jahr 1200 und in dem folgenden 13. Jahrhundert, die ja natürlich Nachricht gehabt haben davon, daß Schüler noch solche Lehrer wie den, von dem ich gestern gesprochen habe, vor kurzer Zeit hatten finden können, denken Sie nur, wie es denen ergangen ist, die diese Nachricht gehabt haben und die nunmehr eigentlich darauf angewiesen waren, Erkenntnis nur mehr durch das menschliche Denken zu finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233a/1924-01-06/p003"},{"locus":"GA 233a/1924-01-06/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Wir sehen ja dann in der Folgezeit des Mittelalters mehr in größetem Kreise dieses menschliche Denken in einer wirklich imponierenden Weise ausgebildet. Wir sehen dieses menschliche Denken Wege nehmen, die aus innerstem Eifer, aus einer wirklichen Hingabe der ganzen Seele der Menschen gegangen worden sind. Das waren so mehr die Wege der größeren Kreise von erkenntnissuchenden Menschen. Aber das eigentlich Geisteswissenschaftliche setzte sich doch auch fort. Und wir kommen dann, indem wir wenige Jahrhunderte weitergehen, in die Zeit hinein, in der das eigentliche Rosenkreuzertum begründet worden ist. Aber dieses Rosenkreuzertum hängt eben mit einer Umänderung in der ganzen geistigen Welt in bezug auf den Menschen zusammen. Und ich werde Ihnen diese Umänderung wiederum am besten schildern, wenn ich auch hier Ihnen ein Bild gebe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233a/1924-01-06/p004"},{"locus":"GA 233a/1924-01-06/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Mysterien im alten Sinne des Wortes waren nicht mehr möglich seit jenem Zeitpunkte, von dem ich Ihnen gesprochen habe; aber Menschen, die nach Erkenntnis lechzten im Sinne dieser alten Mysterien und die schwere Seelenkämpfe erlebten, wenn sie hörten von der Führung auf den Berg, von der Führung in Erdenklüfte, diese Menschen, sie entwickelten in ihren Seelen alle möglichen inneren Methoden, Anstrengungen, um die Seele aufzurufen, nun dennoch den Weg zu finden. Und derjenige, der solche Sachen sehen kann, sieht hinein, wie gesagt, nicht in Mysterienstätten, aber in von einer Atmosphäre von Frömmigkeit durchwärmte Versammlungsstätte von Erkenntnis suchenden Menschen. Und eigentlich ist dasjenige, was dann später sowohl die gute Rosenkreuzerei war wie auch die entartete, die scharlatanhafte, ausgegangen von solchen Menschen, die im Zusammensein, in anspruchslosem Zusammensein versuchten, ihre Seelen so zu arten, daß nun wirklich geistige Erkenntnisse noch hätten zustande kommen können. Und bei einer solchen Versammlung, die wirklich in recht anspruchsloser Umgebung, in dem einfachen Wohnraum eines schloßartigen Hauses stattgefunden hat, in einer solchen Versammlung von wenigen Menschen begab es sich einmal, daß diese Menschen durch gemeinsame Exerzitien, die halb denkerisch-meditativ, halb gebetartig waren, in Gemeinsamkeit eine Art mystischer Stimmung entwickelten, jene mystische Stimmung, die dann viel gepflegt worden ist von den sogenannten «Brüdern des gemeinsamen Lebens», gepflegt worden ist später von den Anhängern des Comenius und vielen anderen Bruderschaften, die sich aber ganz besonders intensiv einmal in einem solchen kleineren Kreise ausgeprägt hat. Und während mit einer wirklichen Hingabe des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins, mit einer Hingabe des ganzen Intellektes in intensiv mystischer Stimmung diese wenigen Menschen beisammen waren, geschah es, daß zu ihnen ein Wesen trat, aber jetzt ein Wesen, das nicht Fleisch und Blut hatte wie jener Lehrer, dem der Schüler begegnete zu der Führung nach dem Berge, nach den Erdenklüften, sondern ein Wesen, das eigentlich nur im ätherischen Leibe in dieser kleinen Gemeinschaft erscheinen konnte. Und dieses Wesen enthüllte sich als dasselbe, das jenen Schüler um das Jahr 1200 geführt hatte. Aber es war im post mortem-Zustande. 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