XV. The Lord's Prayer: An Esoteric Study, Movement and Change an Essential Principle in the World of the Spirit, School of Turanian Adepts

At the time, it had to be taken into account that human beings were in an intermediate state and had only part of today’s ability for sensory perception. They were only able to see objects in vague outlines. At the same time they were still able to receive some of the truth from inside. Very few people would have been able to count up to five at that time. This is not possible without self-awareness. But they were able to take in the things reflected on to their inner, half somnambulant state of consciousness. They had to be enlightened to teach them the most sublime wisdom. But this had to be given in images, and the Turanian adepts had special methods for this. They could not have done it the way one does when giving a lecture today. The adepts themselves were well ahead of humanity and knew all these things themselves, but the rest of humanity was still extraordinarily primitive.