{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-03-14/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In order to make accessible the elementary stages of Rosicrucianism, it was necessary to make available in print and through lectures, material that had for centuries been guarded in closed circles. However, what has been released in recent decades is only the rudiments of an immeasurable, far-reaching world knowledge. In the course of time more and more will flow into mankind. Study of this material schools the pupil's thinking. For those who seek a still stricter schooling, my books *Truth and Knowledge* and *The Philosophy of Freedom* are particularly suitable. Those two books are not written like other books; no sentence can be placed anywhere but where it stands. Each of the books represents, not a collection of thoughts, but a thought-organism. Thought is not added to thought, each grows organically from the preceding one, like growth occurs in an organism. The thoughts must necessarily develop in like manner in the reader. In this way a person makes his own thinking with the characteristic that is self-generating. Without this kind of thinking the higher stages of Rosicrucianism cannot be attained. However, a study of the basic spiritual scientific literature will also school thinking; the more thorough schooling is not absolutely necessary in order to absolve the first stage of Rosicrucian training.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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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Für diejenigen, die das gründlicher machen wollen, die also in eine solche strenge SchuJlung des Denkens eintreten wollen, sind meine beiden Bücher «Wahrheit und Wissenschaft» und «Die Philosophie der Freiheit» bestimmt. Diese Bücher sind nicht so geschrieben wie andere Bücher, daß sie einen Satz einer bestimmten Stelle auch an eine andere Stelle des betreffenden Buches setzen könnten. Diese Bücher sind keine Gedanken-Aggregate, sondern Gedanken-Organismen. Ein Gedanke wächst wie ein Organismus, er wächst organisch aus dem anderen heraus. Diese Bücher sind also nicht so geschrieben, daß einfach ein Gedanke zum anderen hinzugefügt wird, sondern so, daß die späteren Gedanken aus den vorhergehenden herausgewachsen sind wie bei einem Organismus. 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