{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1905-03-19/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the most ancient times everything was imbued with a religious atmosphere. Those who were to know something of the secrets of the world were prepared for their divine calling in mystery schools. There they were initiated into the riddles of existence. The secret schools of Egypt also served this purpose. Above all, those who were to be initiated had to have attained a certain maturity in life. Then one had to undergo very specific exercises that prepared the person to free themselves from the sensual, to purify the passions, so that the person no longer clung to the views that come through the gates of the senses. He had to free himself from this and reach a certain maturity. In the mystery schools, one received scientific, occult instruction. In it, it was made clear to the student how the spirit has developed. They thought of a sleeping god in the stone, then a god who has a little more consciousness in the plant and so on. The world spirit then woke up completely in man. All sciences were imbued with these views. They knew how man has developed through the realms. Goethe also depicted this in the development of the homunculus. Everything that is spread out in nature is, as it were, an outstretched human being. Every single link in the human being is related to something out there in the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXVII. 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Dort wurde er eingeführt in die Rätsel des Daseins. Dazu dienten auch die ägyptischen Geheimschulen. Da musste der, der eingeweiht werden sollte, vor allen Dingen im Leben eine gewisse Reife erlangt haben. Dann musste man sich ganz bestimmten Übungen unterziehen, welche den Menschen bereit machten, sich von dem Sinnlichen zu befreien, die Leidenschaften zu reinigen, sodass der Mensch nicht mehr klebte an den Anschauungen, die durch die Tore der Sinne kommen. Er musste sich davon frei machen und eine bestimmte Reife erlangen. Man bekam in den Mysterienschulen einen wissenschaftlichen, okkulten Unterricht. Darin wurde dem Schüler klar gemacht, wie der Geist sich ausgestaltet hat. Man dachte sich einen schlafenden Gott im Stein, dann einen Gott, der etwas mehr Bewusstsein hat in der Pflanze und so weiter. Der Weltengeist wachte dann vollends im Menschen auf. Alle Wissenschaften waren von diesen Anschauungen durchdrungen. Man wusste, wie sich der Mensch durch die Reiche hindurch entwickelt hat. Goethe hat das auch in der Entwicklung des Homunculus dargestellt. Alles, was in der Natur draußen ausgebreitet ist, ist gleichsam ein ausgebreiteter Mensch. 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