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Care was taken to ensure that the individual who was to become a pupil of the higher wisdom should not enter this spiritual world without guidance and succumb to that pathological scepticism of which I have spoken in these lectures. In very ancient times in the East the racial character was such that this would not, in any case, have been a matter for anxiety, but it was certainly to be feared as the evolution of humanity progressed. Hence the precautionary measure that was strictly applied in the schools of Eastern Wisdom, to ensure that the pupil should rely upon an inner, not an outer, authority. (Fundamentally speaking, what we understand by “authority” today first appeared in Western civilisation.) The endeavour in the East was to develop in the pupil, through a process of natural adaptation to prevailing conditions, a feeling of dependence upon the leader, the Guru. The pupil perceived what the Guru represented, how he stood firmly within the spiritual world without scepticism, indeed without even a tendency to scepticism, and through this perception the pupil was able, on passing into the sphere of Inspiration, to maintain such a healthy attitude of soul that he was immune from any danger of pathological scepticism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Natural Science and Its Boundaries","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-10-02","location":null,"word_count":348,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/322/1920-10-02/p016","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Und in den späteren Zeiten, in denen, weil die Menschheit schon vorwärtsentwickelt war, auch der Zustand eintrat, daß man sehr leicht ohne sein Ich da hinauskommen konnte in die äußere Welt, da wurde Vorsorge getroffen. Es wurde dafür gesorgt, daß der Betreffende, der der Schüler der höheren Weisheit werden sollte, nicht ungeleitet in diese geistige Welt hineinkam und etwa in jene Zweifelsucht pathologisch verfiel, von der ich in diesen Tagen hier gesprochen habe. In den alten orientalischen Zeiten wäre das wegen der Rasseneigenschaft ja ohnedies nicht zu fürchten gewesen. Aber beim weiter Fortrücken der Menschheit war es doch zu fürchten. Daher jene Vorsicht, welche gerade in den orientalischen Weisheitsschulen strenge gebraucht worden ist, die Schüler zu verweisen darauf, daß sie sich anlehnten an eine nicht äußere Autorität — das, was wir heute unter Autorität verstehen, kam im Grunde genommen erst in der abendländischen Zivilisation auf —, sondern durch ein selbstverständliches Sich-Anpassen an die Verhältnisse suchte man zu entwickeln in dem Schüler ein SichAnlehnen an den Führer, an den Guru. 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