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Hermes had lived according to this prescription, and thus, when he described his life, he described what others had already experienced before him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"34. The Bible and Wisdom II","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-09","location":null,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-06-09/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19070609p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Der alte Grundsatz war: sich nicht um Alltägliches kümmern, sondern das Wesentliche suchen. Damals beschrieb man, was einer zur Einweihung zu durchleben hatte. Das tausendjährig vorgeschriebene Leben war die Lebensbeschreibung. 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