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Denn eine esoterische Schule kann nicht aus menschlicher Willkür heraus geschaffen werden, auch nicht aus jener menschlichen Willkür heraus, die man mit dem Namen «menschliche Ideale» bezeichnet; sondern sie, diese esoterische Schule, muss der Leib sein von etwas, das aus dem geistigen Leben selber herausfließt. Sodass in all dem, was in einer solchen Schule geschieht, sich darstellt der äußere Ausdruck von einer Wirksamkeit, die eigentlich im Übersinnlichen, in der geistigen Welt selber geschieht. Daher hat diese esoterische Schule auch nicht geschaffen werden können, ohne dass jener Wille befragt wurde, der, wie ja des Öfteren hier auch in Mitgliedervorträgen auseinandergesetzt worden ist, seit dem letzten Drittel des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts als der Michael-Wille eigentlich die menschlichen geistigen Angelegenheiten führt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Dieser Michael-Wille ist ja einer derjenigen, die im Laufe der Zeit in zyklischer Folge immer wieder eingreifen aus der geistigen Welt in die Menschengeschicke. Und wenn wir zurückblicken in die Evolution der Zeit, so finden wir, dass derselbe Michael-Wille - was wir Michael-Herrschaft nennen können - in den geistigen Angelegenheiten der Menschheit, in den großen zivilisatorischen Fragen wirksam war vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha in der Alexanderzeit als dasjenige, was in Griechenland erarbeitet worden war durch die chthonischen und die Himmelsmysterien, als das verbreitet werden sollte hinüber nach Asien, verbreitet werden sollte in Afrika. Da, wo Michael-Wille herrscht, ist immer Kosmopolitismus vorhanden; da wird dasjenige, was Differenzierung unter den Menschen auf Erden ist, für das Michael-Zeitalter überwunden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"An jenes tief bedeutsame Wirken, das sich knüpft an die Ausbreitung des Aristotelismus und des Alexandrinismus, an dieses Wirken, das ein Michael-Wirken war, knüpfte sich dann an das andere Wirken, das des Oriphiel. Daraufhin, nach dem Oriphiel-Wirken, kam das Anael-Wirken, das Zachariel-Wirken, dann das bedeutsame Raphael-Wirken, dann das Samael-Wirken, dann das Gabriel-Wirken, das bis ins neunzehnte Jahrhundert hereinging. Und seit den letzten Siebzigerjahren des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts stehen wir wiederum in dem Zeichen des Michael-Wirkens. Es ist im Anfange. Aber einfließen muss dasjenige, was Michael-Impulse sind - und was ja klar werden kann Euch, meinen Schwestern und Brüdern, durch die allgemeinen Mitgliedervorträge -, einfließen muss das in alles wirklich zu Recht bestehende esoterische Wirken in bewusster Weise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Und durch alles dasjenige, was mit dem Impuls der Weihnachtstagung zusammenhängt, durch alles das ist die Möglichkeit herbeigeführt worden, dass diese den Kern der anthroposophischen Bewegung bildende esoterische Schule anzuschen ist als die von Michael selbst inspirierte und geleitete esoterische Schule. Dadurch besteht sie innerhalb unseres Zeitalters zu Recht, dass sie eine spirituelle Institution ist. Das muss von jedem, der zu Recht Mitglied dieser Schule sein will, im allertiefsten Ernste in sein Leben aufgenommen werden. Und es muss sich derjenige, der zu Recht Mitglied dieser Schule sein will, fühlen nicht bloß zu einer irdischen Gemeinschaft gehörig, sondern zu einer übersinnlichen Gemeinschaft gehörig, deren Lenker und Leiter Michael selber ist. Daher wird immer dann dasjenige, was hier mitzuteilen ist, nicht bloß als mein Wort zu gelten haben, insofern es Inhalt der Stunde ist, sondern es wird zu gelten haben als dasjenige, was Michael an diejenigen, die sich zu ihm gehörig fühlen, selber in esoterischer Art in diesem Zeitalter zu verkündigen hat. Das also, was diese Stunden enthalten, wird die Michael-Botschaft für unser Zeitalter sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p008"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Und damit, dass sie das ist, wird die anthroposophische Bewegung ihre eigentliche spirituelle Stärke erhalten. Dazu ist notwendig, dass im allertiefsten Ernste eben das genommen wird, was man Mitgliedschaft zu dieser Schule nennen kann. Es ist schon notwendig, meine lieben Schwestern und Brüder, gründlich und tief notwendig, dass in der aller-allerernstesten Weise hingewiesen wird auf den heiligen Ernst, mit dem die Schule genommen werden muss.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":65,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p009"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Und hier innerhalb der Schule muss denn doch einmal und immer wieder und wieder gesagt werden: Es herrscht in Anthroposophenkreisen viel zu geringer Ernst für dasjenige, was durch die anthroposophische Bewegung eigentlich fließt, und es muss wenigstens in den esoterischen Mitgliedern der esoterischen Schule jener Kern herangezogen werden einer Menschheit, der sich allmählich heranbildet zu dem Ernste, der da notwendig ist. Daher ist es notwendig, dass die Leitung der Schule wirklich sich vorbehält, nur diejenigen gelten zu lassen als richtige, würdige Mitglieder der Schule, die in jedem Einzelnen ihres Lebens würdige Repräsentanten der anthroposophischen Sache sein wollen; und die Entscheidung darüber, ob das der Fall ist, muss bei der Leitung der Schule liegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p010"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Betrachten Sie das, meine Schwestern und Brüder, nicht als eine Beeinträchtigung der Freiheit. Die Leitung der Schule muss ebenso ihre Freiheit haben und anerkennen können, wer zur Schule gehört und wer nicht, wie es ja jedem auch in seinen Willen hinein freigestellt wird, zur Schule gehören zu wollen oder nicht. Aber es muss durchaus sozusagen ein freier ideell-spiritueller Vertrag sein, der zwischen dem Mitglied der Schule und der Leitung geschlossen wird. In anderer Weise könnte niemals die esoterische Entwickelung eine gesunde genannt werden, insbesondere nicht eine der Tatsache würdige, dass diese esoterische Schule unter der unmittelbaren Kraft der Michael-Wirksamkeit selber steht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":101,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p011"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Sorgfältiges Hüten der mantrischen Sprüche, sodass sie nicht in unrechte Hände kommen, das ist die erste Anforderung; aber auch wirklich sein ein würdiger Repräsentant der anthroposophischen Sache.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":27,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p013"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Ich brauche ja nur einzelne Tatsachen zu erwähnen, um hinzuweisen darauf, wie wenig eigentlich noch durchgreifend die anthroposophische Bewegung mit vollem Ernste aufgefasst wird. Vor Einzelnen von Ihnen habe ich es schon erwähnt. Es ist vorgekommen, dass Mitglieder der Schule hier ihre Plätze mit den blauen Zertifikaten, die ihnen das Recht geben, in der Schule zu sitzen, belegt haben. Es ist vorgekommen in der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft, dass man ganze Stöße von Mitteilungsblättern, die nur für die Mitglieder bestimmt sind, in der Tramway, die von Dornach nach Basel fährt, aufgefunden hat. Und ich könnte diese Liste in der mannigfaltigsten Weise vermehren. Und es kommt immer wieder und wieder dahin, dass über diesen mangelnden Ernst geradezu verblüffende Tatsachen geliefert werden. Es ist ja geradezu so, dass selbst Dinge, die im äußeren Leben ernst genommen werden, in dem Augenblicke, wo die Betreffenden dieselben Dinge innerhalb der anthroposophischen Bewegung zu üben haben, sie nicht ernst genommen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p014"},{"locus":"GA 270/1924-09-20_02/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Das alles sind Dinge, die durchaus in Betrachtung gezogen werden müssen im Zusammenhange mit dem festen Gefüge, das diese Schule haben muss. Deshalb muss dies gesagt werden, weil man eigentlich, ohne dass man die Dinge beachtet, nicht in würdiger Weise entgegennehmen kann als Offenbarung aus der geistigen Welt, was hier in der Schule gegeben wird. Und es wird jedes Mal am Ende der Stunde ausdrücklich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass die Wesenheit des Michael selber anwesend ist, während hier die Offenbarungen der Schule gegeben werden. Und es wird dieses bekräftigt durch Zeichen und Siegel Michaels.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/270/1924-09-20_02/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[8],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[9],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[10],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[11],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}