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Such a codex of initiation always existed or was at least known by heart by those concerned with initiation. Knowing this, we can understand why the descriptions of different initiates of various people are similar This fact contains a great secret, a great mystery. The people always looked up to their initiates, insofar as they knew of them. What was said about initiates was not the kind of thing modern biographers relate about famous people; what was told was the course of the spiritual life experienced by the initiate. We can therefore understand why descriptions of the life of Hermes, Zarathustra, Buddha, Moses and Christ are similar It was because they had to experience a certain life if they were to become initiates. 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We can now answer the question: Who were the writers of the gospels? In my book, Christianity as Mystical Fact, you will find this question answered in greater detail from the viewpoint of spiritual science, and also indications of the spiritual authenticity of the Gospels. Here I can only give a few hints! In my book is explained that what is written in the Gospels is derived from ancient records of initiation. Naturally what initiates wrote differs in regard to incidentals, but all essentials were always the same. We must realize that the writers of the Gospels had no other sources than the ancient codex of initiation. When we look into the details, we recognize in the Gospels different forms of initiation. They differ because the writers knew initiation from different regions. 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Dann würden Sie ein typisches Bild bekommen dessen, der auferweckt werden soll. Solche Einweihungsbücher hat es gegeben, oder sie haben wenigstens in den Köpfen derjenigen gelebt, die die Einweihung geJleitet haben. Wenn wir verstehen, daß es solche Bücher gegeben hat, dann werden wir uns nicht mehr wundern, wenn wir die verschiedensten Eingeweihten der verschiedenen Völker in ähnlicher Weise beschrieben finden. Darin liegt ein großes Geheimnis, darin ruht ein wunderbares Mysterium. Zu ihren Eingeweihten haben die Völker immer aufgesehen, soweit sie von ihnen gewußt haben. Was sie von ihnen erzählt haben, war nicht das, was der heutige Biograph von den großen Männern erzählt. Was sie erzählten, war der geistige Lebensgang, den der Eingeweihte erlebte. So werden wir verstehen, warum — wenn wir den Lebensgang von Hermes, Buddha, Zarathustra, Moses und Christus verfolgen — wir bei diesen Gestalten zu einem ähnlichen Lebensbilde kommen. Und warum? Weil sie dieses Leben leben mußten, wenn sie zum Eingeweihten werden wollten. Einfach das Lebensbild des Eingeweihten steht vor uns in dem Leben des Hermes, Zarathustra, und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-04-26/p023"},{"locus":"GA 55/1907-04-26/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"In dem, was die äußere Struktur der Lebensbeschreibung ist, können wir überall das Bild des Eingeweihten sehen, und von hier aus können wir uns die Frage beantworten: Wer waren diejenigen, welche die Evangelien geschrieben haben? Sie finden auf diese Frage eine geisteswissenschaftliche Antwort in meinem Buche «Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache». Was ich hier nur mit kurzen Worten andeuten kann, finden Sie dort ausführlich dargelegt, und damit auch hingewiesen auf die geistige Glaubwürdigkeit der Evangelien, Es ist dargelegt, daß das, was in den Evangelien steht, alten Einweihungsbüchern entnommen ist. Natürlich unterschieden sich die Bücher, welche Eingeweihte über diese Dinge schrieben, durch Nebensächliches. In der Hauptsache aber kam der Inhalt immer auf dasselbe hinaus. Nur müssen wir uns klarmachen, daß die, welche die Evangelien geschrieben haben, nichts anderes hatten als solche alten Einweihungsbücher. Wenn wir dann das wirklich Darinstehende ansehen, dann können wir in den verschiedenen Evangelien verschiedene Formen der Initiation oder Einweihung erblicken. Und warum unterscheiden sie sich? Weil ihre Schreiber die Einweihung von verschiedenen Orten her kannten. Verstehen werden wir dies, wenn wir das Verhältnis der Männer, die die Evangelien verfaßt haben, zum Christus Jesus ansehen. Wir erlangen die beste Vorstellung, wenn wir uns an die schönen Worte erinnern, mit denen die Apokalypse beginnt. Der, welcher die Schrift des Johannes diktierte, wird genannt: das Erste und das Letzte, das Alpha und das Omega. Nichts anderes ist damit gemeint, als dasjenige, was — trotzdem die Zeiten und Formen der Welt sich wandeln von Menschengeschlecht zu Menschengeschlecht, von Menschenrasse zu Menschenrasse, von Planet zu Planet — als eine einheitliche, geistige Wesenheit immer vorhanden bleibt. Wenn wir dies immer vorhandenbleibende Wesen als das Göttliche bezeichnen und sehen, daß wir einen Funken davon in uns haben, so fühlen wir uns mit diesem Alpha und Omega verwandt, ja wir fühlen dieses als das letzte Ideal, zu dem sich das sich Entwickelnde immer mehr hinaufhebt. 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