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In ancient times, the distinction between entities was not particularly important, for when the old students of occultism had brought their pupils to clairvoyance, the danger of error was not very great. Now, however, the possibility of error is very great. Therefore, in the guidance of mankind, care must be taken that the principle of initiation is always added to the principle of esotericism. 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Then the most outstanding spirits, who strove for a certain higher knowledge, said: \"What our reason, our intellect, what [our knowledge] can find is limited to the world that surrounds us on the outside; we cannot reach a spiritual world with our rational human research and cognitive faculty; it must be given to us through revelation! Knowledge and faith are two separate areas! - There is a good reason why this was said at the time when scholasticism was flourishing; it was said because at that time humanity was most closed off from the spiritual world. 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At that time, a new kind of leadership had to begin, a new way of guiding people and creating a balance between initiation and clairvoyance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p059","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Es kann also jemand theoretisch hellsehend sein für die höheren Welten, braucht aber kein Eingeweihter zu sein. Für die alten Zeiten war die Unterscheidung der Wesenheiten nicht besonders wichtig; denn, wenn die alten Geheimschulen die Schüler zum Hellsehen gebracht hatten, war die Gefahr des Irrtums keine sehr große. Jetzt aber ist die Irrtumsmöglichkeit eine sehr große. Daher musste in der Lenkung der Menschheit darauf Rücksicht genommen werden, dass immer zu dem Prinzip der Esoterik hinzugefügt wird das Prinzip der Einweihung. Der Mensch muss in dem Maße, als er hellseherisch wird, fähig werden zu unterscheiden zwischen den besonderen Arten der Wesenheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p057"},{"locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p058","passage_number":58,"text":"Diese besondere Aufgabe - ein Gleichgewicht zu schaffen zwischen den Prinzipien des Hellsehens und der Einweihung - trat einmal an die Führung der Menschheit heran. Notwendigerweise musste die Menschheit so etwas einmal in der Führung und Leitung bekommen, dass das richtige Gleichmaß zwischen Hellsehen und Einweihung hergestellt wurde. Da entsteht die Frage: Wann musste das geschehen? Das wurde notwendig in der Zeit, als die Menschheit eine Krisis durchmachte in Bezug auf ihr höheres Erkennen. In der Zeit des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, etwa um das Jahr 1250 herum, haben wir das Zeitalter, wo die Menschen sich am meisten abgeschlossen fühlten von der geistigen Welt. Da sagten die hervorragendsten Geister, die nach einem gewissen höheren Erkennen strebten: Was unsere Vernunft, unser Intellekt, was [unser Wissen] finden kann, ist beschränkt auf die Welt, die uns außen umgibt; wir können mit unserm vernünftigen menschlichen Forschen und Erkenntnisvermögen nicht eine geistige Welt erreichen; sie muss uns durch die Offenbarung gegeben werden! Wissen und Glauben sind zwei voneinander getrennte Gebiete! - Dass dies gesagt wurde in der Zeit, als die Scholastik blühte, hat seinen guten Grund; es wurde gesagt, weil damals eben die Menschheit am meisten vor der geistigen Welt abgeschlossen war. Ungefähr das Jahr 1250 ist die Zeit, in welcher die Menschen während des Mittelalters dazu kommen mussten, die Grenze zu ziehen zwischen dem, was man glauben kann und was man erkennen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1911-06-07/p058"},{"locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p059","passage_number":59,"text":"Und dann kam die Zeit, wo immer mehr und mehr die Möglichkeit sich ergab, hineinzuschauen in die geistige Welt. Immer zahlreicher wurden die Menschen, die ein natürliches Hellschen hatten, und sie werden weiter immer mehr und mehr werden. Um 1250 war die Krisis, da die Menschheit am meisten von den geistigen Welten abgeschlossen war, während sie dann wieder aufsteigen sollte, und wir sind heute schon wieder auf dem Gange nach der spirituellen Welt. Damals wurde es notwendig die Bilanz zu schaffen zwischen Einweihung und Hellscher-Prinzip. 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