18. Germanic and Indian Secret Doctrine

GA 68a/1906-04-22/p035 ·1906-04-22 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: unknown. How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.

What then is initiation? Every nation has developed its secret teaching in a way that corresponds to its customs and traditions. The Germans were warriors, and a hero was called one who had fallen on the battlefield; he began the journey to Valhalla. The Valkyrie met him, that is, his own higher soul meets him when he passes through the gates of death.

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1906-04-22/p035.json
Cite: GA 68a/1906-04-22/p035 · edition English