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In my quest for truth, I have turned to the things of the outer world. The Initiates of the Christ-Mystery, however, demand that I shall not wait until outer things tell me what is true but that in my *soul*, without being stimulated by the outer world, I shall seek the invisible.’—This quest of the soul for the highest was called by the outer world in later times: *The secret of the Holy Grail*. And the Parsifal or Grail legend is simply a form of the Christ Mystery. The Grail is the holy Cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and in which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood as it flowed on Golgotha. The Cup was then taken to a holy place and guarded. So long as a man does not ask about the invisible, his lot is that of Parsifal. 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But then the soul rises to “blessedness” (Saelde, Seligkeit)—to life in the spiritual worlds.—These are the three stages.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-05-06/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-05-06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":118,"en_words":117,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Out of the purified astral body there rises the “Spirit-Self” or “Manas.” Then man begins to permeate every thought with a definite element of feeling so that each thought may be said to have something ‘cold’ or ‘warm’ about it.—He is transforming his “ether-body” or “life-body.” Out of the transformed ether-body (it is a transformation of feeling), arises “Budhi” or “Life-Spirit.” And finally, he transforms his willing and therewith the physical body itself, into “Atma” or “Spirit-Man.” Thus by transforming his thinking, feeling and willing, man changes his astral body into Spirit-Self or Manas, his ether-body into Life-Spirit or Budhi and finally his physical body into Spirit-Man or Atma. This transformation is the result of the Initiates systematic work upon his soul, whereby he rises to the spiritual worlds. But something very definite happens when the path to Initiation is trodden in full earnest and not light-heartedly. In true Initiation it is as if a man's organisation were divided into three parts, and the Ego reigns as king over the three. Whereas in ordinary circumstances the spheres of thinking, feeling and willing are not clearly separated, when a man sets out on the path of higher development thoughts begin to arise in him which are not immediately tinged with feeling but are permeated with the element of sympathy or antipathy according to the free choice of the Ego. Feeling does not immediately attach itself to a thought, but the man divides, as it were, into three: he is a man of feeling, a man of thinking, a man of will, and the Ego, as king, rules over the three. At a definite stage of Initiation he becomes, in this sense, three men. He feels that by way of his astral body he experiences all those thoughts which are related to the spiritual world; through his ether-body he experiences everything that pervades the spiritual world as the element of feeling; through his physical body he experiences all the will-impulses which flow through the spiritual world. And he realises himself as king within the sacred Three. A man who is not able or ripe enough to bear this separation of his being, will not attain the fruits of Initiation. The sufferings that crowd upon him in his immature state will keep him back. A man who approaches the Holy Grail but is not worthy, will suffer as Amfortas suffered. He can only be redeemed by one who brings the forces of good.—He is freed from his sufferings by Parsifal.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":555,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-05-06/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-05-06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p022"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 57/1909-05-06/p022","GA 57/1909-05-06/p023"],"length_check":{"de_words":535,"en_words":555,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It is not permitted to ask his name or rank, in other words, what connects him with the world of sense. He who has neither name nor rank, is called a “homeless” man. Such a man is permeated through and through with the Christ Principle. He too looks down on the ether-body which has become Life-Spirit, as upon something that is now separate from the astral body. By this ether-body he is borne upwards to the higher worlds, where the laws of space and time do not hold sway. The symbol of this ether-body and its organs, is the Swan who bears Lohengrin over the sea in a boat (the physical body), over the material world. 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Wenn ich die Wahrheit wissen wollte, so bin ich zu den Dingen der Außenwelt gegangen. Als mich aber die Eingeweihten des christlichen Mysteriums übernommen haben, verlangten sie von mir, daß ich nicht warte, bis die Außendinge mir sagen, was wahr ist, sondern daß ich in meiner Seele frage nach dem Unsichtbaren, nicht nur durch die Außenwelt angeregt. — Das Fragen der Seele nach dem Höchsten, das sie finden konnte, wurde in den späteren Zeiten draußen in der Welt genannt «Das Geheimnis vom Heiligen Gral». Und die Gralsage, Parzivalsage, ist nichts anderes als ein Ausdruck des Christus-Mysteriums. Der Gral ist jene heilige Schale, in-der der Christus das Abendmahl genommen hat, in der der Josef von Arimathia aufgefangen hat das Blut des Christus, wie es geflossen ist auf Golgatha. Von einer solchen Schale umschlossen ist das Blut des Christus an einen heiligen Ort gebracht worden. Solange die Menschen nicht fragen nach dem Unsichtbaren, geht es ihnen wie Parzival. Erst als er fragt, wird er ein Eingeweihter des Christus-Mysteriums.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p020"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"So sehen wir, wie Wolfram von Eschenbach in seine Darstellung hineinverwebt die drei Stufen der Menschenseele, die erst ausgeht von der äußeren sinnlichen Wahrnehmung, wo sie, im Materiellen befangen, sich sagen läßt vom materiellen Geist, was wahr ist. Das ist die Seele in ihrer « Tumbheit», wie Wolfram von Eschenbach sich ausdrückt. Dann erkennt die Seele, wie die Außenwelt nur Illusionen gibt. Wenn die Seele merkt, daß in dem, was die Naturwissenschaft zu geben vermag, nicht Antworten zu finden sind, sondern nur Fragen, so verfällt die Seele in das, was Wolfram von Eschenbach nennt den «Zwifel». Dann aber steigt sie auf zur «Saelde», zur Seligkeit, zum Leben in den geistigen Welten. Das sind die drei Stufen der Seele.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p021"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Den Mysterien der späteren Zeit, die vom Christus-Impuls durchleuchtet sind, ist allen ein ganz bestimmter Zug eigen. Dadurch steigen sie herauf über alle alten Mysterien. Alle Einweihung beruht ja darauf, daß der Mensch sich erhebt zu einem höheren Anschauen, zu einer höheren Entwickelung der Seele. Bevor er sich so erhebt, hat er drei Fähigkeiten in seiner Seele: Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. Diese drei Seelenkräfte hat er in sich. So, wie er gewöhnlich lebt in der heutigen Welt, sind diese drei Seelenkräfte in einer innigen Verbindung. Mit seinem Ich ist er hineinverwoben in Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, weil der Mensch, bevor er durch die Einweihung aufsteigt, noch nicht vom Ich aus an der Entwickelung der höheren Leiber gearbeitet hat. Zunächst wird das, was im astralischen Leibe ist, das, was der Mensch an Gefühlen und Empfindungen, an Trieben und Begierden hat, geläutert und gereinigt. Dadurch entsteht das Geistselbst oder «Manas». Dann kommt der Mensch zunächst so weit, daß er jeden Gedanken mit einem bestimmten Gefühlston durchsetzt, daß jeder Gedanke kalt oder warm wird, daß er umwandelt seinen Äther- oder Lebensleib. Das ist die Umwandlung des Fühlens, und es entsteht so die «Buddhi». Dann folgt noch die Umwandlung des Wollens bis in den physischen Leib hinein zu «Atma» oder Geistesmensch. So wandelt der Mensch um sein Denken, Fühlen und Wollen und damit seinen Astralleib zu Manas oder Geistselbst, den Ätherleib zu Buddhi oder Lebensgeist, den physischen Leib zu Atma oder Geistesmensch. Diese Umwandlung ist der Ausdruck für das systematische Arbeiten des Eingeweihten an seiner Seele, wodurch er sich hinaufhebt in die geistigen Welten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p022"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Aber es tritt etwas ganz Bestimmtes ein, wenn die Einweihung in vollem Ernst betrieben wird, nicht als Spielerei. Wird die Einweihung mit Würde gepflogen, so ist es, als ob des Menschen Organisation in drei Teile geschieden würde und das Ich als König über diesen drei Teilen thronte, Während gewöhnlich beim Menschen die Sphären von Denken, Fühlen und Wollen nicht deutlich getrennt sind, ist der Mensch, wenn er sich höher entwickelt, immer mehr imstande, Gedanken zu fassen, die nicht gleich zu Gefühlen gebracht werden, sondern die vom Ich in freier Wahl zu Sympathie und Antipathie gebracht werden. Nicht schließt sich das Gefühl gleich unmittelbar an einen Gedanken an, sondern der Mensch spaltet sich in Gefühlsmensch, Gedankenmensch, Willensmensch. Der Mensch fühlt sich als Ich-König, der thront über einer Dreiheit. In drei Menschen zerfällt er. Das tritt ein auf einer bestimmten Stufe der Einweihung. Er fühlt, daß er durch den Astralleib erlebt alle die Gedanken, die sich auf die geistige Welt beziehen. Durch den Ätherleib erlebt er alles das, was als Gefühle die geistige Welt durchzieht, durch den physischen Leib alles, was als Willensimpulse die geistige Welt durchlebt und durchsetzt. Man sagt: Der Mensch fühlt sich selbst als König innerhalb der heiligen Dreizahl. Aber der, der nicht fähig und reif ist, zu ertragen, daß er also gespalten ist, wird nicht die Früchte der Einweihung haben können. Er wird dadurch, daß ihm Leid über Leid entgegentritt, zurückgehalten von dem, wozu er noch nicht reif ist. Wer unwürdig in die Nähe des Heiligen Grals kommt, wird ein Leidender wie Amfortas und kann nur erlöst werden durch den, der die guten Kräfte in seine Nähe bringt. Er wird befreit durch Parzival.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":275,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p023"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Gehen wir jetzt wieder zurück zu dem, wie sich das Prinzip der Einweihung ausdrückt. Die suchende Seele findet die geistige Welt, den Heiligen Gral, der jetzt das Symbolum, der Ausdruck für die geistige Welt geworden ist. Was da geschildert wird, das haben einzelne Eingeweihte wirklich erlebt. Sie haben den Weg des Parzival zurückgelegt. Aber da waren sie auch wie jene, die als Könige auf die drei Leiber zurückschauten. Die das erlebten, sagten sich: Ich throne über meinem gereinigten Astralleibe, der aber nur gereinigt, geläutert ist dadurch, daß er nachfolgte dem Christus. Nicht durch irgendeinen äußeren Zusammenhang, nicht an irgend etwas, was mit der Außenwelt verbindet, durfte er hängen, sondern er mußte sich in der innersten Seele verbinden mit dem Christus-Prinzip. Alles, was ihn außen an die Sinnenwelt bindet, mußte in den höchsten Augenblicken, den wahrhaft mystischen Augenblicken, fallen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p024"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Der Repräsentant des Eingeweihten ist Lohengrin. Ihn darf man nicht fragen nach Namen und Stand, das heißt nach dem, was ihn mit der Sinnenwelt verbindet. Einen, der nicht Namen und Stand hat, nennt man einen «heimatlosen Menschen». Er ist durchwebt und durchlebt vom Christus-Prinzip. Er blickt auch auf den Äther- oder Lebensleib, der Lebensgeist geworden ist, herunter als auf etwas, was von dem astralischen Leibe getrennt ist, was gesondert ist. Er ist es, der ihn hinaufträgt in die höheren Welten, wo die Raum- und Zeitgesetze nicht gelten. Dieser Ätherleib und seine Organe entsprechen dem Schwan. Er trägt den Lohengrin über das Meer in einem Kahn, im physischen Leibe, über das Materielle. Den physischen Leib empfindet man als den Kahn. Und die auf der Erde befindliche suchende Seele, die durch die Einweihung ein Neues erfährt, ist symbolisiert durch die Elsa von Brabant. So haben wir hier die Gelegenheit, die Sage von Lohengrin, die _ auch noch viele andereBedeutungen hat, zu charakterisieren als einen Ausdruck der Einweihung innerhalb der Mysterien, die um den Heiligen Gral sich gliedern.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":175,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p025"},{"locus":"GA 57/1909-05-06/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"So waren im elften bis dreizehnten Jahrhundert diese Geheimnisse, die gelehrt wurden im Anschluß an das Christus-Mysterium, in dem Mysterium vom Heiligen Gral ausgedrückt. Die Ritter des Heiligen Gral waren die späteren Eingeweihten. Ihnen stand gegenüber das exoterische Christentum, während in den Mysterien immer gepflegt wurde das esoterische Christentum, das ein solches Verhältnis zum Christus suchte, so daß durch den äußeren Christus in der Seele geweckt wurde der innere Christus, der symbolisiert wird durch die Taube.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-05-06/p026"}],"beads":[{"from":[18],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[20],"to":[22,23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21,22],"to":[24,25,26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}