{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What I have to say has already been taught in the schools of the first Christian centuries from the same point of view, on the basis of the so-called occult or secret methods. We should not be surprised if those who want to prove the truth of Christianity from the scriptures, from what has remained, if they want to prove this truth historically, cannot arrive at any real result, just as, on the other hand, even today the occultist is not able to put down in writing the most important thing he has to say. It is the same today. Not the evangelists, nor their successors, were able to communicate the most important thing. But in the occult schools the methods had been preserved by which these truths could be found; they were partially continued, reproduced. These truths have been partially 'shown' to the students of the occult schools. I say 'shown', not 'taught'. Anyone who wants to talk about such truths must have seen them as fact.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XLV. 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Wir dürfen uns nicht wundern, wenn diejenigen, welche aus den Schriften die Wahrheit des Christentums beweisen wollen, aus dem, was geblieben ist, wenn sie geschichtlich diese Wahrheit belegen wollen, zu keinem rechten Resultat kommen können, so wie andererseits auch heute noch der Okkultist nicht in der Lage ist, das Wichtigste, was er zu sagen hat, in Schriften niederzulegen. So ist es auch heute noch. Nicht die Evangelisten, noch ihre Nachfolger waren in der Lage, das Wichtigste mitzuteilen. Aber in den okkulten Schulen waren die Methoden erhalten geblieben, wodurch diese Wahrheiten gefunden werden konnten; sie wurden teilweise fortgesetzt, fortgepflanzt. Diese Wahrheiten sind teilweise den Schülern der okkulten Schulen ‹gezeigt› worden. Ich sage ‹gezeigt› worden, nicht ‹gelehrt›. 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