{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 56/1907-10-10/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who, without being clairvoyant themselves, understand everything that secret science has to say are initiates. But those who can enter these worlds, which we call invisible, are clairvoyants. In ancient times, which are not so long ago, there was a strict separation between clairvoyants and initiates in the secret schools. As an initiate, without being clairvoyant, one could ascend to the knowledge of the higher worlds if one applied one's intellect in the right way. On the other hand, one could be clairvoyant without being particularly highly initiated. You will already understand what this means. Imagine two people, a very learned gentleman who knows everything there is to know about physics and physiology in relation to light and light phenomena, but who is so short-sighted that he can hardly see ten centimeters ahead: he does not see much, but he is initiated into the laws of light. In the same way, someone can be initiated into the supersensible world and yet have poor vision in it. Another may see excellently in the outer sensory world, but know as good as nothing of what the learned gentleman knows. So there may also be clairvoyants whose spiritual eyes are open to the spiritual worlds. They can look into the spiritual world, but have no science, no knowledge of it. That is why, for a long time, a distinction has been made between the clairvoyant and the initiate. In order to embrace the fullness of life, it was often necessary to have not one but many people. Some were not made clairvoyant in order to progress. Others were given spiritual eyes and ears. What was present in secret science came about through communication and the exchange of ideas between secret scientists and clairvoyants.","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":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-10-10/p027","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/p027"},{"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/p027","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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Denken Sie sich zwei Menschen, einen sehr gelehrten Herrn, der alles mögliche weiß, was die Physik und die Physiologie über das Licht und die Lichterscheinungen zu sagen haben, jedoch so kurzsichtig ist, daß er kaum zehn Zentimeter weit sehen kann: er sieht nicht viel, ist aber eingeweiht in die Gesetze des Lichtwirkens. So kann jemand eingeweiht sein in die übersinnliche Welt und schlecht darin sehen. Ein anderer kann ausgezeichnet in der äußeren sinnlichen Welt sehen, aber so gut wie nichts wissen von dem, was der gelehrte Herr weiß. So kann es auch Hellseher geben, vor deren geistigen Augen die geistigen Welten offen daliegen. Sie können hineinschauen in die geistige Welt, haben aber keine Wissenschaft, keine Erkenntnis von derselben. Daher hat man eine lange Zeit hindurch den Unterschied gemacht zwischen dem Hellseher und dem Eingeweihten. Um die Fülle des Lebens zu umfangen, brauchte man oft nicht einen, sondern viele Menschen. Die einen wurden, um weiterzukommen, nicht hellsichtig gemacht. Anderen wurden die geistigen Augen und Ohren geschaffen. 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