{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 239/1924-05-25/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There was a personality who received in these later Mysteries not only pictures but definite impressions of Beings then known by the names of Taotl, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcalipoca. These Beings made a tremendously strong impression, but it was an impure influence, impure in an ethical respect, as is often the case with decadent Mysteries. I see this personality born again later on as a man whose sub consciousness was permeated with the suggestive power that emanated from these Mysteries. He was reborn as Éliphas Lévi and his writings revive the abstract, rationalistic, purely external conceptions which invariably spring from decadent Mysteries. This throws light on an otherwise enigmatic figure, whose writings have a certain grandeur about them but also something that is apt to stupefy the soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Cosmic Karma: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Human Destiny","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 Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote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":"1924-05-25","location":null,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/239/1924-05-25/p029","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Die Mysterien, die einstmals eine große Rolle in Amerika gespielt haben, aber die in die Dekadenz gekommen sind, so daß die Vorstellungen, die sich gebildet haben von dem Kulte, und die Verrichtung der Kulte selber durchaus kindlich, möchte ich sagen, geworden waren gegenüber dem Großartigen, was früher vorhanden war. Es zeigt sich selbst in dem Abergläubischen, Zauberischen, Magischen dieser Mysterien vor der Entdeckung Amerikas, also doch vor nicht sehr langer Zeit, noch etwas von der Kraft, von der suggestiven Kraft dieser alten Mysterien. Da lebte wiederum eine Persönlichkeit darinnen, von der ich sprechen will, die innerhalb dieser Mysterien nicht nur Vorstellungen, sondern Eindrücke bekam von solchen Wesenskräften, die etwa dort bezeichnet werden als Taotel, Quitzalkaotel, Tetzquatlipoka, Wesenheiten, die allerdings einen starken, aber ich möchte sagen unreinlichen Eindruck auf den Menschen machen. Es ist vielfach die Eigenart von verfallenen Mysterien, daß sie einen unreinlichen Eindruck mit Bezug auf das Ethische machen. Ich sehe diese Persönlichkeit später als Mann wiedergeboren, durchdrungen im Unterbewußtsein stark von demjenigen, was an suggestiver Kraft von solchen Mysterien ausgehen kann. Da sehen wir diese Persönlichkeit wiedergeboren als Eliphas Levi und in ihm aufleben einfach mit den abstrakten, rationalistischen, rein äußerlichen Begriffen dasjenige, was eigentlich verfallenes Mysterienwesen ist. Sofort wird ein Licht geworfen auf eine sonst rätselhafte Erscheinung, die etwas von Großartigkeit hat in ihren Schriften, aber auch etwas von dem, was ganz inkohärent die menschliche Seele macht, sogar in gewisser Beziehung dumm und dumpf macht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/239/1924-05-25/p022"}],"english":["GA 239/1924-05-25/p028","GA 239/1924-05-25/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":251,"en_words":216,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5795,"original_word_count":6123,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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