First Lecture

GA 346/1924-09-05/p017 ·1924-09-05 · 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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If we look at the ancient mysteries that existed among people at the first dawn of human development on earth, which had to bring everything that was sacred, true and beautiful to people, then we can say: the essential feature of the ancient mysteries was this: that in them the gods descended from their seats of power to mankind, and that within the mysteries, in priestly dignity, men communed with the gods directly, from being to being. Just as man and man, being with being, communicate with each other today, so in those ancient times the gods communicated with men and men with the gods in the mysteries.

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