Eleventh Lecture

GA 319/1924-08-29/p067 ·1924-08-29 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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These ancient mysteries were organized in such a way that those who had to teach did not initially present what they had to communicate to people in abstract terms, but in images, images that in their inner configuration represented the real conditions, the real effects in the world. This enabled them to present these images in what we would today call a cult-like manner.

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