{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 90b/1905-10-22/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I can only give a very general indication of why this is so. In fact, we have to talk in general terms about the tasks of such occult brotherhoods. Those revered friends who have heard me speak about such things before will understand me all the better today. Occult brotherhoods are brotherhoods of guides for humanity. Their task is to prepare the things of the future. Everything that is to happen in the future is already being prepared in the present, finding its expression in the present as an idea, as a plan, and is then realized in the future. Even if you look at the development of the human race on the external physical plane, you will still find that things that were later realized first germinated as ideas in the minds and souls of leading personalities and individuals, striving for expression. Take the steam engine, for example. If you trace the matter back, you will find how the steam engine developed from the simplest facts; how even the cooking pot filled with boiling water contains the idea of the steam engine, which then progresses from this simplest form to the most complicated mechanism. But these are trivialities compared to the great structure of humanity that we have before us. The most important things presuppose much larger and much more meaningful perspectives. They presuppose that what is to happen in the distant future is, in a sense, already being prepared today. How can such a thing happen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XVII. The Relationship of Occultism to the Theosophical Movement","site_heading":null,"date":"1905-10-22","location":null,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/90b/1905-10-22/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA090b/English/SOL2024/19051022p01.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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Okkulte Brüderschaften sind Führerbrüderschaften der Menschheit. Sie haben die Aufgabe, die Dinge der Zukunft vorzubereiten. Alles, was in der Zukunft geschehen soll, bereitet sich ja schon in der Gegenwart vor, findet in der Gegenwart seinen Ausdruck als Idee, als Plan und wird dann in der Zukunft verwirklicht. Selbst wenn Sie auf dem äußeren physischen Plan die Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechtes ansehen, so werden Sie doch finden, dass Dinge, die später eine Verwirklichung erfuhren, viel früher in Köpfen und Seelen von führenden Persönlichkeiten und Individualitäten als Idee aufkeimten und nach Ausdruck rangen. Nehmen Sie zum Beispiel die Dampfmaschine: Sie werden finden, wenn Sie die Sache zurückverfolgen, wie sich die Dampfmaschine aus den einfachsten Tatsachen heraus entwickelt hat; wie schon der mit kochendem Wasser gefüllte Kochtopf die Idee der Dampfmaschine enthält, die sich dann von dieser einfachsten Form bis zum kompliziertesten Mechanismus fortsetzt. Das sind aber Kleinigkeiten gegenüber dem großen Menschheitsbau, den wir vor uns haben. Die wichtigsten Sachen setzen viel größere und viel bedeutungsvollere Perspektiven voraus. Sie setzen voraus, dass dasjenige, was in weiter ferner Zukunft geschehen soll, in gewisser Weise heute schon vorbereitet wird. 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