{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 240/1924-07-18/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"By the twelfth century a certain School had come into being—as it were through inner necessity—a School in which the afterglow of the old Platonic seership lit up once again. It was the great and illustrious School of Chartres. In this School were great teachers to whom the mysteries of early Christianity were still known and in whose hearts and souls this knowledge kindled a vision of the spiritual foundation of Christianity. In the School of Chartres in France, where stands the magnificent Cathedral, built with such profusion of detail, there was a concentration, a gathering-together, as it were, of knowledge that only shortly before had been widely scattered, though confined to the small circles of which I have spoken. One of the men with whom the School was able to forge a living link was *Peter of Compostella*. He was able, with inspired understanding, to bring the ancient spiritual Christianity to life again within his own heart and soul. A whole succession of wonderful figures were teachers in Chartres. Truly remarkable voices spoke of Christianity in the School of Chartres in this twelfth century. There, for example, we find *Bernard of Chartres*, *Bernardus Sylvestris*, *John of Salisbury*, but above all the great *Alanus ab Insulis*. Mighty teachers indeed! When they spoke in the School of Chartres it was as if Plato himself, interpreting Christianity, were working in person among them. They taught the spiritual content and substance of Christianity. The writings that have come down from them may seem full of abstractions to those who read them to-day. But that is due simply to the abstract trend that characterises modern thinking. The impulse of the Christ is implicit in all the descriptions of the spiritual world contained in the writings of these outstanding personalities. I will give you an idea of how Bernardus Sylvestris and Alanus ab Insulis, above all, taught their initiated pupils. Strange as it will seem to the modern mind, such revelations were indeed given at that time to the pupils of Chartres.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Chartres School Platonists and Dominican Aristotelians","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":"1924-07-18","location":null,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/240/1924-07-18/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Das war die große, die herrliche Schule von Chartres. Sie hatte die großen Vertreter, welche noch Nachrichten hatten von den Geheimnissen des ersten Christentums; sie hatte diejenigen Vertreter, in deren Herzen und Seelen aus solchen Nachrichten dasjenige aufglänzte, was sie hineinschauen ließ in die geistigen Zusammenhänge, in die das Christentum hineingestellt war. In der Schule von Chartres in Frankreich, wo der herrliche, in so vielen großen Einzelheiten ausgeführteDom von Chartres ist, vereinigte sich, konzentrierte sich das, was kurz vorher, eben in kleinen Kreisen noch, viel verbreitet war. Wenn wir einen derjenigen nennen wollen, an den die Schule von Chartres anknüpfen konnte, die insbesondere am Ende des 11. und im 12. Jahrhundert blühte, so müssen wir nennen Peter von Compostella, der in inspirierten Einsichten in seiner eigenen Seele, in seinem eigenen Herzen das alte spirituelle Christentum erneuerte. Und neben ihm erleben wir eine ganze Reihe von wunderbaren Gestalten, die in Chartres lehrten. In diesem 12. Jahrhundert gab es in der Schule von Chartres ganz merkwürdige Töne über das Christentum. Da haben wir zum Beispiel Bernardus von Chartres, Bernardus Sylvestris, Johann Salisbury; da gab es aber namentlich den großen Alanus ab Insulis. Gewaltige Lehrer! Wie wenn Plato, interpretierend das Christentum, persönlich unter diesen Geistern gewirkt hätte, so sprachen sie in der Schule von Chartres. Sie lehrten den spirituellen Gehalt des Christentums. Die Schriften, die von ihnen herrühren, erscheinen vielleicht den heutigen Menschen, wenn sie sie lesen, abstrakt, was aber nur herkommt von der Abstraktheit der Seelen der heutigen Menschen. Die Schriften dieser großen Persönlichkeiten schildern die geistige Welt durchaus mit dem Einschlag des Christus. Und ich möchte Ihnen jetzt, meine lieben Freunde, so etwas vor die Seele hinstellen, wie es gelehrt wurde ganz besonders von Bernardus Sylvestris, von Alanus ab Insulis vor den eingeweihten Schülern. So paradox sich das für den heutigen Menschen ausnimmt - aber solche Erscheinungen gab es damals für den Schüler von Chartres.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/240/1924-07-18/p022"}],"english":["GA 240/1924-07-18/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":340,"en_words":337,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7420,"original_word_count":7161,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"D. S. 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