{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The Druidic and Trottic Mysteries were the inspiring source of European civilisation and culture in pre-Christian times. Now the essential feature of European culture, namely, the development of a *consciousness of personality*, is likewise a danger—a danger likely to be far greater here than in other regions of the earth. Consciousness of personality is a keynote of all European culture. It was present in all Germanic lands, in a much stronger form than in the East where men loved to surrender themselves to Brahman. But this consciousness of personality brought with it the danger that those who were initiated could readily misuse what they learnt in Initiation and turn it into caricature. Initiation gives man control of spiritual forces and those who have learnt to use them can also misuse them. So it came about that the Mysteries of ancient Europe began to degenerate, the unripeness of the Initiates began to give rise to all kinds of atrocities and in many regions they were dreaded by the people. Much that we hear of the Mysteries to-day, although not everything, refers to the period of their decline. In this age we need not, after all, be so very astonished that the Mysteries are so often misunderstood. For if Spiritual Science does not help a man to realise what went on in the Mysteries and he has to rely merely on the tittle-tattle of history written down much later on, his ideas on the subject will be utterly barren. Just think what happens when people are content to draw their information about Spiritual Science from what the outside world has to say about it. They get a fine picture! And if what is being said about Spiritual Science to-day were to live on, it would do far more harm than the fragmentary knowledge of the Mysteries has done.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The European Mysteries and Their Initiates","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-06","location":null,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-05-06/p013","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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Wer sie gebrauchen lernt, der lernt leicht sie zu mißbrauchen. Daher kam es, daß die Mysterien des alten Europa leicht verfielen, daß die Eingeweihten sich nicht reif erwiesen und Veranlassung von vielfachen Greueln wurden, daß sie der Abscheu des Volkes in vielen Gegenden wurden. Mancherlei, was heute erzählt wird von den Mysterien, bezieht sich auf den Verfall der Mysterien, wenn auch nicht alles. Daß das Mysterienwesen vielfach mißverstanden werden kann, braucht ja den heutigen Menschen gar nicht so sehr in Erstaunen zu setzen. Denn wenn jemand nicht durch die Geisteswissenschaft erfahren kann, was in den Mysterien getrieben wurde, sondern wenn er nur auffangen kann das, was später niedergeschrieben wurde, das weltgeschichtliche Geklatsch und Getratsch, so kann er zu den wüstesten Anschauungen über Mysterienwesen kommen im Verlaufe der Zeiten. Denken Sie nur einmal, wie jemand daran ist, wenn er sich heute unterrichten will über das, was Anthroposophie und anthroposophische Bewegung ist, durch das, was draußen mitgeteilt wird: er würde ein schönes Bild bekommen! Und wenn man das heute darüber Gesagte aufbewahrte, so könnte noch etwas viel Schlimmeres herauskommen als das über die Mysterien Bekannte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p013"}],"english":["GA 57/1909-05-06/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":283,"en_words":306,"ratio":1.08,"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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