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Not much was known about the knowledge or the activities of these Initiates, or about the places where they worked. Those whom the world recognises as the great men of history were not really the greatest; the greatest, the Initiates, kept in the background.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-22/p003","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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Trithemius of Sponheim,[^3]a German scholar who was also an Initiate and the teacher of Agrippa von Nettesheim, used this method. Given the right key, you will find in his works much that is taught today in Theosophy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-22/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. Goddard and Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSPAP1986","book_title":"At the Gates of Spiritual Science","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA095/English/RSPAP1986/19060822p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 95/1906-08-22/p006"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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In this way all the great advances in the development of humanity owe their origin to impulses issuing from occultism. For this reason, too, all those who were to be instructed in theosophical teachings were obliged to undergo severe tests and trials to prove their worthiness; and then they were initiated step by step, and led upwards quite slowly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/95/1906-08-22/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"E.H. 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Das Wissen beschränkte sich auf die Kreise von Eingeweihten, auf okkulte Brüderschaften; die Allgemeinheit sollte nur die Früchte dieses Wissens haben. Weder von ihrem Wissen und von ihren Taten noch von dem Ort ihres Wirkens war viel bekannt. Was die Welt an großen geschichtlichen Menschen kennt, das waren eigentlich nicht die größten. Die Größten, die Eingeweihten, hielten sich zurück.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-22/p003"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-22/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"So trat im 18. Jahrhundert ein solcher Eingeweihter einmal in einem Augenblick, der gar nicht beachtet wurde, vor einen Schriftsteller hin, wurde mit ihm flüchtig bekannt und sprach Worte, die der andere gar nicht besonders beachtete, die aber dennoch in ihm nachwirkten und gewaltige Gedankenbilder erzeugten, deren schriftstellerische Früchte heute in unzähligen Händen sind. Dieser andere war Jean-Jacques Rosseau. Er war kein Eingeweihter, aber die Quelle seines Wissens ging auf einen solchen zurück.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":73,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-22/p004"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-22/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Ein anderes Beispiel: Jakob Böhme war als Schusterlehrling allein im Laden, in welchem er noch nichts verkaufen durfte. Da kam eine Persönlichkeit zu ihm, die einen tiefen Eindruck auf ihn machte; sie sagte einige Worte und entfernte sich dann wieder. Gleich darauf hörte er seinen Namen rufen: Jakob, Jakob, du bist jetzt noch klein, du wirst aber groß werden. Merke dir, was du heute gesehen hast. — Es blieb eine geheime Anziehung zwischen ihm und jener Persönlichkeit, die ein großer Eingeweihter war. Von ihm stammten die mächtigen Inspirationen Böhmes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-22/p005"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-22/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Es gab auch noch andere Mittel, durch die früher ein Eingeweihter gewirkt hat. Jemand hat zum Beispiel einen Brief bekommen, der dazu bestimmt war, irgendeine Tat zu veranlassen. Er war vielleicht Minister und hatte die äußere Macht, irgend etwas auszuführen, aber nicht den Gedanken dazu. In dem Briefe stand etwas, was gar nichts zu tun hatte mit dem, was übermittelt werden sollte, vielleicht ein Bittgesuch. Man hätte aber den Brief noch auf eine andere Art lesen können: Man brauchte nur immer vier Worte auszustreichen und das fünfte stehen zu lassen, dann gab der Rest einen neuen Zusammenhang, den natürlich der Empfänger gar nicht bemerkte, der aber zum Inhalt hatte, was geschehen sollte. Waren nun die Worte die richtigen, so wirkten sie, auch ohne daß der Leser den Sinn im Tagesbewußtsein aufgenommen hatte. In ähnlicher Weise schrieb ein deutscher Gelehrter, der zugleich ein Eingeweihter war, der Lehrer von Agrippa von Nettesheim, Trithem von Sponheim. In seinen Werken, mit dem richtigen Schlüssel gelesen, steht vieles, was heute in der Theosophie gelehrt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":170,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/95/1906-08-22/p006"},{"locus":"GA 95/1906-08-22/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Es war damals notwendig, daß nur einige wenige, die genügend vorbereitet waren, in diese Dinge eingeweiht wurden. Wozu war dieses Geheimhalten notwendig? Gerade um dem Wissen die richtige Stellung zu verschaffen, konnte man es nur den genügend Vorbereiteten geben; die anderen empfanden nur die Segnungen. Es war ja kein Wissen für die Befriedigung der Neugierde oder der bloßen Wißbegierde. Dieses Wissen sollte in die Tat umgesetzt werden, es sollte arbeiten an den staatlichen und gesellschaftlichen Einrichtungen, es sollte die Welt praktisch gestalten. Und so gehen alle großen Fortschritte in der Menschheitsentwickelung zurück auf die Impulse von Okkultem. 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