{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90a/1904-07-18/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The gospels are all written in or with a certain secret language. They are written in such a way that they can be understood by the most simple-minded people, but there is no degree of understanding, however high, that could not find ever deeper and deeper truths in them. Those who know what a mundane word actually means in the secret language can unravel the secret meaning of the Gospels. If you just read what is at the beginning of what we call the Sermon on the Mount, you will find that it says something very general: He sat down on a mountain and opened his mouth and spoke to his disciples. He did not speak to the people, he went away with the disciples and spoke to them. The initiate understands this immediately because he knows that the words “going up the mountain” have a certain meaning. It means going into the interior of a sanctuary, where secret teachings are received, so that nothing more is said with these lines than: Jesus saw that something had to be taught to the people; so he led the disciples into a temple and explained to them what was to be handed down to the people. In ancient traditions, every disciple learned what these words have meant since time immemorial. You can go through the religious books of all times and you will always find the meaning of these words “to go up the mountain”. It is necessary to really understand this language in order to learn the occult.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-07-18","location":null,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p012"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p012","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"listeners_notes","scope":"volume","note":"Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Frühe Vortragsreihen und Einzelvorträge für Mitglieder in Berlin 1903–1904 nach ausführlichen und z.T. fragmentarischen Mitschriften.","evidence_translation":"Early lecture series and single lectures for members in Berlin 1903-1904, from detailed and in part fragmentary listeners' transcripts.","evidence_source":"The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 90a); the description calls them \"Hörermitschriften\", and the served text carries the note-taker's gap marker \"[Lücke in der Mitschrift]\". 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Sie sind so geschrieben, dass sie zwar für die einfältigsten Menschen verständlich sind, dass es aber keinen Grad des Verständnisses gibt — er kann noch so hoch sein —, dass er nicht immer tiefere und tiefere Wahrheiten darin finden könnte. Derjenige, der weiß, was ein profanes Wort eigentlich in der Geheimsprache bedeutet, der kann den geheimen Sinn der Evangelien enträtseln. Wer nur liest, was am Anfang von dem steht, was wir die Bergpredigt nennen, der wird finden, dass da ganz im Allgemeinen etwas gesagt wird: Er setzte sich auf einen Berg und tat seinen Mund auf und sprach zu seinen Jüngern. Er sprach nicht zu dem Volke, er ging mit den Jüngern hinweg und sprach zu ihnen. Der Eingeweihte versteht das sofort, weil er weiß, dass die Worte «auf den Berg gehen» eine gewisse Bedeutung haben. Es heißt: in das Innere eines Heiligtums gehen, wo man geheime Lehren empfängt, sodass mit diesen Zeilen nichts anderes gesagt ist als: Jesus sah, dass dem Volke etwas gelehrt werden müsse; da führte er die Jünger in einen Tempel und setzte ihnen auseinander, was dem Volke nun überliefert werden sollte. - In uralten Traditionen lernte jeder Schüler, was seit urältesten Zeiten diese Worte bedeuten. Sie können die Religionsbücher aller Zeiten durchgehen, und Sie werden die Bedeutung dieser Worte «auf den Berg gehen» immer finden. Es ist notwendig, dass man diese Sprache wirklich erkannt hat, um Okkultes zu lernen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90a/1904-07-18/p012"}],"english":["GA 90a/1904-07-18/p012"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":246,"en_words":257,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6019,"original_word_count":5790,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090a/English/SOL2024/19040718p01.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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