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Who are the Rosicrucians?","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-03-14","location":null,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-03-14/p054","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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Was Sie darüber in der Literatur finden, ist ziemlich unzutreffend, ja sogar meistens törichtes Zeug. Wäre der Stein der Weisen das, was da geschildert wird, so hätte jeder ein Recht, darüber zu spotten. Sie werden ein Stück davon erkennen, wenn Sie meiner Betrachtung folgen: sie wird Ihnen einen großen Einblick geben. Am Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts stand in einer ernstzunehmenden mitteldeutschen Zeitschrift eine Notiz über den Stein der Weisen. Wer diese Notiz liest und etwas von der Sache versteht, der findet, daß der Schreiber irgendwo einmal etwas darüber vernommen hat. Seine Worte sind ganz richtig, aber man sieht auch, daß er seine Worte selbst nicht richtig versteht. Der Verfasser der Notiz schreibt da: Der Stein der Weisen ist etwas, was alle Menschen kennen, etwas, was die meisten Menschen oft und oft in der Hand haben, was man an vielen Orten der Erde findet und von dem nur der Mensch nicht weiß, daß es der Stein der Weisen ist. — Eine sonderbare Beschreibung ist das, wie der Stein der Weisen sein soll, und dennoch wörtlich wahr. 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