{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The spiritual scientific movement is a path that guides human beings to the higher secrets. A number of such paths exist. That is not to say that the ultimate truth attainable takes different forms. The highest truth is *one*. No matter where or when human beings ever lived or live, once they reach the highest Truth, it is the same for all. It is comparable to the view from the mountaintop, which is the same for all who reach it, no matter what different paths they choose to get there. When one stands at a certain spot an the mountainside, when a path is available, one does not walk round the mountain for another path. The same applies to the path of higher knowledge, which must be in accordance with a person's nature. What comes into consideration here is too often overlooked, that is, the immense differences in human nature. The people of ancient India were inwardly organized differently from modern people. This difference in the higher members is apparent to spiritual research, though not to the external science of physiology or anatomy. It is thanks to this fact that we have preserved up to our own time a wonderful spiritual knowledge, and also the method whereby initiation was achieved—the path of yoga. This path leads those who are constituted like the people of ancient India to the summit of knowledge. For today's European it is as senseless to seek that path as it would be to first walk to the opposite side of the mountain and use the path there rather than the path available where one stands. The nature of today's European is completely different from that of the Oriental. A few centuries before the Christian era began, human nature was different from what it was to become a few centuries later. And today it is different again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. 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Soweit es heute möglich ist und soweit es geschehen kann, die Menschen dazu vorzubereiten, allmählich den Weg finden zu können, zu den höchsten Geheimnissen der Natur und der geistigen Welt, soweit ist es auch möglich, die höheren Geheimnisse zu enthüllen. Was man die geisteswissenschaftliche Bewegung nennt, ist ein Pfad, der erschlossen ist, die Menschen dahin zu führen, daß sie den Weg zu den höheren Geheimnissen finden können. Solcher Wege zu den höheren Geheimnissen gibt es eine ganze Anzahl. Nicht als ob die letzte Weisheit, die der Mensch erringen kann, viele Gestalten annehmen könnte; das ist nicht der Fall. Die höchste Weisheit ist eine einheitliche. Wo und wann auch immer Menschen leben oder gelebt haben, wenn sie einmal zur höchsten Weisheit gekommen sind, dann ist diese höchste Weisheit für alle Menschen eine einheitliche, wie der Ausblick vom Gipfel eines Berges, wenn man ganz oben sich befindet, ein einheitlicher ist. Aber es gibt verschiedene Wege, um zum Gipfel des Berges hinaufzugelangen, und man wird denjenigen Weg wählen, welcher von dem Ausgangspunkte aus, an dem man sich befindet, der geeignetste ist. Wenn man an einem gewissen Punkte des Berges steht und einen Weg vom eigenenStandpunkte haben kann, so wird man nicht erst um den Berg herumgehen. So ist es auch mit dem Weg, der zu der höchsten Erkenntnis hinaufführt. Hier handelt es sich darum, daß die Ausgangspunkte, die man zu wählen hat, von der Menschennatur aus zu nehmen sind. Das, was hier in Betracht kommt, beachten die Menschen heutzutage viel zu wenig: Es ist die große Verschiedenheit der menschlichen Natur zu berücksichtigen. Anders organisiert als heute waren, wenn auch vielleicht nicht für die grobe Anatomie und Physiologie, aber für die feinere Geistesforschung, jene höheren Glieder des alten indischen Volkes, so daß es möglich war, bis heute eine wunderbare Geheim- oder Geisteswissenschaft zu bewahren und auch die dazugehörige Methode der Einweihung: die sogenannte Yoga-Schulung. Diese orientalische Yoga-SchuJlung ist der Weg, welcher zu dem Gipfel der Erkenntnis hinaufführt bei einer so organisierten Natur, wie die Angehörigen des alten indischen Volkes sie hatten. Für den heutigen Europäer würde derselbe Weg so unsinnig sein, wie wenn jemand, der an einem bestimmten Fußpunkte eines Berges steht, erst um den Berg herumgehen wollte, um einen Weg zu suchen und zu benützen. Die Natur des heutigen Europäers ist ganz anders als die orientalische Natur. Anders als heute war auch die menschliche Natur organisiert um die Zeit der Entstehung des Christentums herum, einige Jahrhunderte vorher und einige nachher.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":485,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-03-14/p011"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p015","GA 55/1907-03-14/p016"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":485,"en_words":423,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 55/1907-03-14/p011"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7578,"original_word_count":8755,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19070314p01.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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