{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Indeed, this or that opinion about Freemasonry predominates in large sections of the public. Today, to be sure, it is not all that difficult to form an opinion, as there is already a tolerably abundant literature, written partly by those who have studied many documents, but in part also containing things which the Freemasons would say had been brought into the open by turncoats. Anyone who concerns himself to any extent with this literature will draw some sort of conclusion from what it deals with. However, one can rule out coming to a correct conclusion from it, since it is still pre-eminently true what Lessing, who was himself a Freemason, said.[^5] When he was accepted, the Worshipful Master asked him: ‘Now you see, don't you, that you have not been initiated into anything particularly subversive or anti-religious?’ To which Lessing replied: ‘Yes, I must admit that I haven't learnt any such thing. I would in fact have been glad to do so, for then, at least, I would have learned something.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. The Royal Art in a New Form","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-02","location":null,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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Indessen, einen richtigen Begriff davon zu bekommen ist ganz ausgeschlossen, und zwar deshalb, weil heute in noch erhöhterem Maße richtig ist, was Lessing, der selbst im Freimaurerbund war, gesagt hat. Als er nämlich aufgenommen worden war, fragte ihn der Meister vom Stuhl: Nun sehen Sie doch selbst, daß Sie in keine Dinge eingeweiht werden, die besonders staats- oder religionsfeindlich sind? — Und Lessing antwortete: Ja, ich muß gestehen, solche Dinge habe ich nicht erfahren. 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