{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And so it was realised that when twelve men united together to develop a power which enabled a higher being to dwell among them, they were rising out of the physical into the spiritual world, rising to their God. They regarded themselves as the twelve attributes, the twelve qualities of the God. This was all reflected in the figures of the twelve Germanic Gods in the Northern sagas. He who desired to become a member of this noble circle was told that he must seek Baldur—in other words, he must seek Initiation. And who is Baldur? Baldur is the *Spiritual* in man, the principle for which the soul is seeking and which is found in Initiation. Who slew Baldur? Those who killed out the clairvoyant faculties in man, who organised his physical nature, who endowed him with material sight and who could prematurely misuse the forces of physical matter—Loki, the power of Fire, and Hodur the Blind, representing the principle in man's being that is incapable of beholding the spiritual world. This is only a way of describing processes of Initiation. Material existence has made man blind; through Initiation he again finds the path leading to the higher worlds. The *trained* clairvoyance of the old Initiates was a higher faculty than the innate, natural clairvoyance possessed by all human beings in those days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The European Mysteries and Their Initiates","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-06","location":null,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-05-06/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090506p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Die haben Baldur getötet, die das Hellseherische am Menschen getötet haben, die das Physische zusammengefügt haben, die dem Menschen das sinnliche Schauen gegeben haben, die das Physische zu schnell mißbrauchen konnten: Loki, die Feuerkraft, und ihr Ausdruck Hödur, der Blinde, der darstellt die menschliche Sinnlichkeit, die unfähig ist, in das Höhere, in die geistige Welt hineinzuschauen. Das ist der Ausdruck für die Einweihungsprozeduren, die durchgemacht wurden. Die Sinnlichkeit hat den Menschen blind gemacht, durch die Einweihung findet er wieder den Zugang zu den höheren Welten. So haben wir gleichsam sich erhebend über dem allgemeinen Hellsehen das geschulte Hellsehen der Eingeweihten in der alten entsprechenden Form. Druiden- und Drottenmysterien waren das, woraus die europäische Kultur im vorchristlichen Zeitalter hervorgegangen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p012"}],"english":["GA 57/1909-05-06/p012"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":238,"en_words":223,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5514,"original_word_count":5566,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090506p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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