{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1902-03-22/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I must draw attention here to a misunderstanding which consists in the belief that this great symbolism between the small and the great world, between man and the small world occurrences and the great world mysteries is a product of the imagination. In our nineteenth century this doctrine has developed. We see in the popular religions the fairy tale that creates religion, the imagination that creates religion, which personifies the processes [in nature] in the circle of air, lightning, thunder and so on in manifold ways and forms gods for itself. The laws that the stars obey are seen as the expression of a divine-spiritual world order. But within the actual priestly theosophy there was the conviction that when the sun is followed as it moves across the celestial vault, it is not only the process of moving across the celestial vault that is to be seen. This process is only a symbol for the process taking place behind it. That which the popular imagination originally possessed in an exoteric way was later taught as a symbol by the priest. But he saw in the laws - we know that there was a highly developed astronomy in the Assyrian empire - he did not see in the laws the dry naturalistic law, he saw in them the language of the deity, only a symbol for the deeper spiritual process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. 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Aber es war innerhalb der eigentlichen Priester-Theosophie durchaus die Überzeugung vorhanden, dass, wenn die Sonne bei ihrem Gang über das Himmelsgewölbe verfolgt wird, man nicht nur den Vorgang des Dahineilens über das Himmelsgewölbe zu sehen hat. Dieser Vorgang ist nur ein Symbol für den dahinter sich vollziehenden Vorgang. Das, was die Volksphantasie in exoterischer Weise ursprünglich besessen hat, das wurde später von dem Priester als Symbol gelehrt. 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