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More details about this will be discussed in connection with the initiation. But once these results have been expressed and clothed in forms that correspond to today's thinking, then everyone can understand them. The objection that one must be clairvoyant in order to understand the things communicated from secret science can never be valid. They are not incomprehensible to those who are not clairvoyant, but to those who do not want to apply their logical mind to its full extent. Once it has been expressed, everything can be understood, even in the highest realms.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-10-10","location":null,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p026","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071010p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-10-10/p026"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p026","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Alles, was im Laufe dieses Winters als Ergebnis der Forschung in der höheren Welt gesagt werden wird, konnte nicht ohne hellseherische Gabe gefunden werden, nicht ohne daß die in jedem Menschen schlummernden geistigen Augen und geistigen Ohren entwickelt wurden. Hierüber wird im Zusammenhang mit der Einweihung Näheres besprochen werden. Werden diese Ergebnisse aber einmal ausgesprochen und in solche Formen gekleidet, daß sie dem heutigen Denken entsprechen, dann kann sie jeder begreifen. Niemals kann der Einwand gelten, daß man hellsichtig sein müßte, um die Dinge zu begreifen, die aus der Geheimwissenschaft heraus mitgeteilt werden. Nicht demjenigen sind sie unverständlich, der nicht hellsichtig ist, sondern demjenigen, der seinen logischen Verstand nicht im ganzen Umfange anwenden will. 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