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And also be aware that explaining the Apocalypse is an extremely difficult task, because there can be so little preparation for such an understanding at the present time. Hardly any explanation of the Apocalypse was given in Europe during the nineteenth century. Only now, after a long time, are we able to speak of the Apocalypse again. Be aware that the explanation of the Apocalypse as we give it is related to the very deepest secrets, and that you are hearing something in our time that was closed to man through the course of spiritual development and through the general course of the world. One must be lenient with oneself if not everything can be clear and transparent from the beginning. 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Deshalb werde ich selbst einige Einschiebungen über die Entwicklung unseres Planeten und unseres Sonnensystems machen. Wir kommen da zu recht schwierigen Partien der theosophischen oder mystischen Lehre, und ich muss daher einiges vorausschicken über die Art und Weise, wie Sie so etwas aufzufassen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1905-01-30/p004"},{"locus":"GA 90b/1905-01-30/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Vor allen Dingen seien Sie sich darüber klar, dass die Apokalypse zu den bedeutendsten und tiefsten Werken der Welt gehört, dass die allergrößten Geheimnisse darin enthalten sind. Und außerdem seien Sie sich darüber klar, dass eine Erklärung der Apokalypse etwas außerordentlich Schwieriges ist, weil in der Gegenwart so wenig Vorbereitung für ein solches Verständnis vorhanden sein kann. Es ist im Laufe des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in Europa kaum eine Erklärung der Apokalypse gegeben worden. Erst jetzt, nach längerer Zeit, sind wir imstande, wieder von der Apokalypse zu sprechen. Seien Sie sich bewusst, dass die Erklärung der Apokalypse, wie wir sie geben, mit den allertiefsten Geheimnissen zusammenhängt, und Sie daraus in unserer Zeit etwas hören, was dem Menschen durch den Gang der Geistesentwicklung und durch den allgemeinen Weltengang verschlossen war. Man muss mit sich selbst nachsichtig sein, wenn nicht alles von Anfang an klar und durchsichtig sein kann. Es ist nicht möglich, dass das Schwierige von Anfang an klar ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/90b/1905-01-30/p005"},{"locus":"GA 90b/1905-01-30/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Die letzte Erklärung der Apokalypse gehört zu den tiefsten Geheimnissen der Einweihung, und der Schleier von dem, was heute gehoben werden kann, ist schon außerordentlich tiefliegend. 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