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It means nothing other than being led into the temple of mystery, where one can gain immediate conviction of the eternity of the human soul and the reality of spiritual existence through contemplation, through mystical contemplation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/52/1904-01-04/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Spiritual Teachings Concerning the Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA052/English/SOL2025/19040104p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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They are extremely significant: “Elijah has come, but they did not recognize him, and they did to him what they wanted to do to him.” — “Elijah has come,” let us remember these words. And then it goes on to say: “Then the disciples realized that he was speaking of John the Baptist.” And Jesus had said beforehand: “Tell no one what you have learned today until the Son of Man is risen.” We are led into a mystery. Christ considered only three disciples worthy of learning this mystery. And what is this mystery? 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And it was none other than this occult theosophical teaching that Christ imparted to his trusted disciples. They were to learn about this teaching of reincarnation. But they should also gain the living word that must come from their mouths when it is enlivened and inspired by this conviction, until another has entered. First, they should have the immediate conviction that the Spirit has risen. When they have this behind them, then they should go out into the world and, from simple hearts, strike the sparks that have been kindled in them. This was one of the initiations, one of the parables that Christ gave and explained to his confidants.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/52/1904-01-04/p033","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Spiritual Teachings Concerning the Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA052/English/SOL2025/19040104p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Es heißt nichts anderes als, in den Mysterientempel hineingeführt werden, wo man durch Anschauen, durch mystisches Anschauen die unmittelbare Überzeugung schöpfen kann von der Ewigkeit der Menschenseele, von der Wirklichkeit des geistigen Daseins.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/52/1904-01-04/p031"},{"locus":"GA 52/1904-01-04/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Diese drei Jünger hatten eine noch höhere Erkenntnis als die anderen durch ihren Meister zu gewinnen. Sie hatten vor-allen Dingen hier auf dem Berge die Überzeugung zu gewinnen, daß der Christus wirklich war das lebendige, das Fleisch gewordene Wort. Deshalb zeigt er sich in seiner Geistigkeit, in jener Geistigkeit, welche erhaben ist über Raum und Zeit; in jener Geistigkeit, für welche es kein Vorher und kein Nachher gibt, in der alles Gegenwart ist. Auch das Vergangene ist Gegenwart. Da ist das Vergangene wesenhaft, als Elias und Moses neben der Gegenwart des Jesus erschienen. Und jetzt glauben die Jünger an den Gottesgeist. Aber sie sagen: Es steht doch geschrieben, daß, bevor der Christus kommt, noch der Elias kommt und ihn vorher verkündigt. Und nun lesen Sie das Evangelium. Es sind wirklich die Worte, welche auf das folgen, was ich erzählt habe. Sie sind im höchsten Grade bedeutend: «Elias ist gekommen, aber sie haben ihn nicht erkannt, und sie haben mit ihm gemacht, was sie mit ihm haben machen wollen.» — «Elias ist gekommen», halten wir die Worte fest. Und dann heißt es weiter: «Da merkten die Jünger, daß er von Johannes dem Täufer geredet hatte.» Und Jesus hatte vorher gesagt: «Teilet niemandem mit, was ihr heute erfahren habt, bevor der Menschensohn auferstanden ist.» In ein Mysterium sind wir geführt. Drei Jünger hat der Christus nur für würdig gehalten, dieses Mysterium zu erfahren. Und welches ist dieses Mysterium? Mitgeteilt hat er, daß der Johannes der reinkarnierte Elias ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/52/1904-01-04/p032"},{"locus":"GA 52/1904-01-04/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Die Wiederverkörperung wurde zu allen Zeiten gelehrt innerhalb der Mysterientempel. Und keine andere als diese okkulte theosophische Lehre hat der Christus seinen vertrauten Jüngern mitgeteilt. Sie sollten sie kennenlernen, diese Reinkarnationslehre. Aber gewinnen sollten sie auch das lebendige Wort, das aus ihrem Munde kommen muß, wenn es belebt und durchgeistigt ist von dieser Überzeugung, bis ein anderes eingetreten ist. Erst sollten sie die unmittelbare Überzeugung haben, daß der Geist auferstanden ist. Wenn sie dieses hinter sich haben, dann sollen sie hinausgehen in alle Welt und aus schlichten Herzen die Funken schlagen, die in ihnen angezündet worden sind. Das war eine der Einweihungen, das war eines der Gleichnisse, die der Christus seinen Vertrauten gegeben und ausgelegt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/52/1904-01-04/p033"},{"locus":"GA 52/1904-01-04/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Hören wir ein anderes. Auch das Abendmahl ist nichts anderes als eine Einweihung, eine Einweihung in die tiefste Bedeutung der ganzen christlichen Lehre. Wer das Abendmahl in seiner wahren Bedeutung versteht, der erst versteht die christliche Lehre in ihrer Geistigkeit und in ihrer Wahrheit. Gewagt ist es, diese Lehre auszusprechen, die ich Ihnen jetzt vortragen will, und ich weiß wohl, daß sie Angriffe erfahren kann von allen Seiten, weil sie dem Buchstaben widerspricht. Der Buchstabe tötet, der Geist macht lebendig. Nur mühsam kann man sich hinaufringen zu der Einsicht von der wahren Bedeutung des Abendmahls. 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