First Lecture

GA 346/1924-09-05/p024 ·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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Thus, in those ancient mysteries, at the times when the cosmic language was spoken among people, not human language, people wanted to connect with the gods, who then descended into the mysteries and which each time newly hallowed what the Act of Consecration of Man was, but which also each time left behind an understanding of the apocalyptic for the those who performed this Act of Consecration of Man and participated in it. Thus the great truths were taught in those ancient times when to stand in the Act of Consecration of Man meant to be imbued with the substance of the Apocalyptic. The Act of Consecration of Man is the path of knowledge; the Apocalypse is the object of sacred knowledge.

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