{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1907-04-26/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One word more about this codex for initiation. Today things are different; the procedure of initiation also progresses. In ancient times, the neophyte was brought to a condition of ecstasy. This word had a different meaning; it did not indicate \"being out of one's mind\" but becoming conscious on a higher level. The spiritual guide led the neophyte to this condition of higher consciousness. Strict rules were observed; the prescribed length for the condition to last was three and one-half days. This procedure is no longer followed; today the consciousness is not subdued. But in ancient times a state of ecstasy, of rapture, was produced during which the neophyte knew nothing of what went on about him; to the external world he was like someone asleep. However, what was experienced in this condition differed considerably from the experiences of a contemporary person when the external objects disappear from his consciousness, on falling asleep. The neophyte experienced a world of spirit; all about him there was light, astral light. This is different from physical light; it appears like a sea of spirituality out of which spiritual beings emerge. If a very high stage had been attained, sound would also be experienced. What in the ancient Pythagorean schools was called “the harmony of the spheres” was heard. (What today we understand intellectually as universal laws are experienced as a kind of spiritual music at this level of consciousness. Spiritual forces are revealed as harmony and rhythm, but must not be thought of as ordinary music. The spiritual world, the heavenly world, resounds in the astral light.) In this world into which the neophyte was led, he learned to know stages of godliness that humanity will attain in a far distant future. During the three and one-half days a person experienced all this as reality, as Truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIII. 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Das ist heute nicht mehr so üblich wie in alten Zeiten. Die Einweihungsprozesse schreiten auch vorwärts. Der Schüler wurde in alten Zeiten in eine Art Ekstase gebracht. Das Wort hatte damals eine andere Bedeutung als heute, es bedeutete nicht Außer-sich-Sein, sondern ein Bewußtwerden in höheren Bewußtseinszuständen und dahin hatte der geistige Führer den Schüler geführt. Es war vorgeschrieben, wie lange man in solchem Bewußtseinszustande gehalten werden mußte; es waren dreieinhalb Tage. Heute ist es nicht mehr so, daß das Bewußtsein herabgedämpft wird. Damals aber war der Betreffende in Ekstase und Entrückung, da wußte er nicht, was um ihn herum in der Sinnenwelt vorging, da war der Einzuweihende auf dem Gebiete der sinnlichen Welt wie einer, der schläft. Er wurde also hingeführt zu einem Bewußtseinszustand, in dem die äußere Sinnenwelt schwand. Aber was er erlebte, unterschied sich beträchtlich von dem, was der heutige Mensch erlebt, wenn beim Einschlafen die äußeren sinnlichen Gegenstände um ihn herum verschwinden. Die äußeren sinnlichen Dinge verschwanden, aber der Mensch lebte in einer Welt des Geistes; licht wurde es um ihn herum. Das, was man Astrallicht nennt, ging ihm auf: ein Licht, das ein anderes Licht ist als das physische, das uns erscheint wie ein Meer von geistiger Substanz, in dem geistige Wesenheiten eingebettet sind und aus dem sie sich herausentwickeln. Und wenn er noch höher stieg, hörte er aus dieser Welt erklingen, was in den alten pythagoräischen Schulen die Sphärenharmonie genannt wird. Dasjenige, was der Verstand als Weltgesetz in Begriffen erkennt, das nimmt der, welcher auf solcher Stufe sich befindet, wie eine Art Klang, wie geistige Musik wahr. Die geistigen Kräfte äußern sich in Harmonie und Rhythmus. Es ist aber dabei nicht an die äußere Musik zu denken. Die geistige Welt, die Welt der Himmel klingt und tönt für das astrale Licht. In diese Welt wurde der Einzuweihende eingeführt. Da lernte er die Stufen der menschlichen Göttlichkeit kennen, die die Menschheit erst in fernen Zeiten erklimmen wird. Das alles wurde für ihn Wahrheit, das durchlebte er in dreieinhalb Tagen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":349,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-04-26/p021"}],"english":["GA 55/1907-04-26/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":349,"en_words":304,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.88,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5697,"original_word_count":6439,"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/AP1987/19070426p01.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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