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In this astral world, we receive images of all events as reflections, not in reality. These images of the astral world of the past are essentially different from the images of the physical world. They have life and act themselves, they are mobile, so that in this way one sees history unfolding in the astral world in active action. Those who have reached the level of purification see, as it were, only the mirror images of the true inner events. Only those who have reached the second stage, the stage of enlightenment, see further. They see the thoughts of the people, of which they were inspired after seeing them in the image. 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This may become completely clear to you when I say that the ultimate truths were not written down in what they wrote; so of course they cannot be found in them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1904-07-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":184,"en_words":179,"ratio":0.97,"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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Er hatte die sogenannte historische Erklärung des Christentums. Wer weiter war, wer die Stufe der Erleuchtung erreicht hatte, der konnte einsehen, was Origines die Weisheitserklärungen nannte, der konnte einsehen jene Erklärungen, welche auf der Verbreitung moralischer Wahrheit beruht. Und wer die Stufe der Einweihung erreicht hatte, der konnte die sogenannte typische Grundlage des Christentums erreichen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p006"},{"locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Wenn wir das einmal erkannt haben, können wir das alles auch in den Schriften finden. Wer die Stufe der Reinigung erstiegen hat, wer nicht mehr imstande ist, von seinem Standpunkte, von seiner persönlichen Meinung zu reden, wer ganz zurücktreten lässt, was er will, was seine persönliche Meinung ist, lediglich sich zum Mundstück dessen macht, welcher zu ihm spricht in der astralischen Welt, der ist imstande, den geschichtlichen Verlauf auch ohne äußere historische Denkmäler zu sehen. Das ist das sogenannte Sehen in der astralen Welt, jenes Sehen, das ein ganz anderes ist, als das Sehen mit physischen Augen. In dieser astralischen Welt sind uns die Bilder aller Vorgänge im Spiegelbild erhalten, nicht in der Wirklichkeit. Diese Bilder der astralen Welt der Vergangenheit unterscheiden sich wesenhaft von den Bildern der physischen Welt. Sie haben Leben und handeln selbst, sie sind beweglich, sodass man auf diese Weise in der astralen Welt die Geschichte im tätigen Handeln vor sich abspielen sieht. Wer die Stufe der Reinigung erreicht hat, sieht gleichsam nur die Spiegelbilder der wahren inneren Vorgänge. Erst derjenige, der die zweite Stufe, die Stufe der Erleuchtung erstiegen hat, sieht weiter. Er sieht die Gedanken der Menschen, von denen sie beseelt waren, nachdem er sie im Bilde gesehen hatte. Und steigt jemand bis zur Stufe der Einweihung, dann sieht er eine noch viel höhere Welt, dann erkennt er die Intentionen, die Absichten, die in der Geschichte durch die Inkarnation der großen Individualitäten selbst herrschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":240,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p007"},{"locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Das sind die drei Stufen, die der Initiierte zu ersteigen hat und von denen man auch geschichtlich eine Art von Abglanz erhalten kann, wenn man liest, was Gregorios Thaumaturgos über seinen Lehrer Origines sagt. Was er sagt, ist eine Schilderung, die mit einem höheren Enthusiasmus geschrieben ist über das, was Origines ihn gelehrt hat. Das, was sie geschrieben haben, ist so aufzufassen wie die Worte eines jener christlichen Schriftsteller aus dem dritten Jahrhundert, wie des Clemens von Alexandrien, welcher sagt: Ich weiß wohl, dass die Niederschrift meiner Erinnerungen schwach ist im Vergleich zu der Gnade, welcher ich gewürdigt wurde zu hören; aber es wird eine Erinnerung für denjenigen, den der Thyrsus traf. - Den Ausdruck «Thyrsus> weiß jeder Okkultist zu deuten. Jeder Okkultist kennt das Instrument; jeder Okkultist weiß, dass die Wahrheit mündlich überliefert wurde von Mensch zu Mensch, und dass das Tiefste nicht in den Schriften aufgezeichnet worden ist. 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