{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-06-06/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The fifth is the *Mystic Death*. The pupil raises himself ever higher to the feeling: I belong to the whole world; I am as little an independent being as the finger on my hand. He feels himself embedded in the whole world, as if a part of it. Then he experiences the feeling that all around him grows dark, as if a black darkness envelops him, like a pall that becomes dense around him. During this time, the pupil of the Christian initiation learns to know all the sorrow and all the pain, all the evil and wickedness that attaches itself to mortal man. That is the *Descent into Hell*; each one must live through it. Then something comes to pass as if the veil were torn asunder, and the pupil sees into the spiritual worlds. This is called the *Rending of the Veil*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. 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Ich bin so wenig ein selbständiges Wesen wie der Finger an meiner Hand. — Eingebettet fühlt er sich in die ganze übrige Welt, wie zu ihr gehörig. Dann erlebt er, als ob alles um ihn herum sich verdüstere, als ob eine schwarze Finsternis ihn einhülle, wie ein Vorhang, der sich um ihn verdichtet. Während dieser Zeit lernt der christlich Einzuweihende alles Leid und alle Schmerzen, alles Böse und alles Unheil, das der Kreatur anhaftet, kennen. Das ist das Hinabsteigen in die Hölle; das muß jeder erleben. Dann tritt etwas ein, wie wenn der Vorhang risse, und der Mensch sieht dann hinein in die geistigen Welten. 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