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And today I will begin by telling you how this work of ours is to be organized here over the next few days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/346/1924-09-05/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"UNK1995","book_title":"Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA346/English/UNK1995/19240905v02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 346/1924-09-05/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. 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It is in this spirit that we want to be together and it is from this spirit that the work we are now undertaking together should be shaped.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/346/1924-09-05/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"UNK1995","book_title":"Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA346/English/UNK1995/19240905v02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 346/1924-09-05/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Und wir werden gerade durch die Betrachtung der Apokalypse das in den Mittelpunkt unserer ganzen Arbeit hier setzen können, was dem priesterlichen Wirken den Sinn gibt: die Menschenweihehandlung. Und so werden vor uns stehen auf der einen Seite die Menschenweihehandlung und auf der anderen Seite die Apokalypse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p010"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Mit einigen Worten wird es heute schon angedeutet werden, wie wir dies jetzt hier inaugurieren wollen oder wie wir durch diese Arbeit Ihre Priesterbewegung inaugurieren wollen. Und so wollen wir das, was im Laufe der Zeit aus den unmittelbaren Bedürfnissen Ihres Priesterwirkens heraus zu sagen sein wird, was zu bringen sein wird über dieses praktische Priesterwirken, was an Rückblicken auf die Vergangenheit und an Ausblicken in die Zukunft zu leisten sein wird, all das wollen wir aufsparen auf die Zeit, wo es sich an die innere Betrachtung anschließt. Und heute werde ich zunächst vor Ihnen aussprechen, in welcher Art diese unsere Arbeit hier in den nächsten Tagen eingerichtet sein soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":110,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p011"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"So begrüße ich Sie zunächst alle aus dem vollsten Herzen heraus im Namen aller der Mächte, die Sie hier vereinigt haben und von denen Sie wissen, daß es die Scharen der Christus nachfolgenden Mächte sind. Sie mögen geben die rechte religiöse Impulsivität, die rechte theologische Einsicht und die rechten Impulse für das Kultuswirken in der Gegenwart, das Sie aus dem tiefsten christlichen Sinne heraus religiös, theologisch, zeremoniell übernehmen möchten. In diesem Sinne wollen wir beisammen sein und aus diesem Sinne soll die Arbeit gestaltet werden, die wir nun zusammen vornehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p012"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Wir gehen davon aus, daß wir auf das Große in unserer Zeit hinweisen, auf jenes Große, das bestehen muß in einer ganz neuen Stellung der Menschenseele zu dem, was durch priesterliches Wirken geht. Das, was anwesend ist im priesterlichen Wirken, wenn die Menschenweihehandlung vollzogen wird, ist etwas, was die Menschen immer gesucht haben, solange es eine Menschheit auf Erden gibt. Wollen wir aber durchschauen, in welchem Lichte heute die Menschenweihehandlung dem Priester erscheinen muß, der sie zelebriert und dem Laien, der sie aufnimmt, so müssen wir zunächst einen Blick werfen auf das, was die Menschenweihehandlung im Laufe der Zeiten in der Menschheitsentwickelung auf Erden gewesen ist, was sie ist, und was sie werden muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p013"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Aber zu dem, was die Menschenweihehandlung heute ist, wenn sie zelebriert wird, muß von einer anderen Seite her kommen das Durchdrungensein mit dem wahren Inhalt dessen, was Johannes, der durch Christus selbst Eingeweihte, der christlichen Nachwelt hat geben wollen mit der Apokalypse. Es gehört im Grunde genommen beides zusammen: rechter Sinn im Zelebrieren der Menschenweihehandlung und rechter Sinn im innerlichen Sichdurchdringen mit der Substanz der Apokalypse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p014"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Sehen wir jetzt ab von der besonderen Gestalt, welche nun einmal die Apokalypse des Johannes für den Christen hat. Bezeichnen wir alles dasjenige als «Apokalypse», was als okkulte Wahrheit gegeben wird, um der Menschheit den rechten priesterlichen Impuls für ihre Fortentwickelung zu verleihen. Da fällt vieles unter den Begriff der Apokalypse, was eben konzentriert zusammengefaßt ist in der Apokalypse des Johannes und das gestimmt ist auf den Christus. Immer war, indem man gestrebt hat nach einer Apokalypse, ein Verständnis dafür vorhanden, daß der tiefe volle Sinn für die Aufnahme des Apokalyptischen in dem Darinnenstehen in der Menschenweihehandlung gegeben sein muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p015"},{"locus":"GA 346/1924-09-05/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Es wird uns vieles anschaulich werden können, wenn wir zunächst uns sagen: Es gab einst Mysterien, die ich nennen will die alten Mysterien. Wir wollen uns jetzt in dieser Einleitung nicht mit Zeitangaben aufhalten, sondern nur die vier aufeinanderfolgenden Stadien der Mysterien charakterisieren. Es gab alte Mysterien, es gab halbalte Mysterien, es gab ein halbneues Mysterienwesen, und wir stehen jetzt am Ausgangspunkt eines neuen Mysterienwesens. Vier Stadien haben wir damit vor uns, vier Stadien in der Entwickelung der menschlichen Auffassung für Apokalypse und Menschenweihechandlung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/346/1924-09-05/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}