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• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 11: Insights into the Mystery of Golgotha, Priest Ordination.
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  • Now I must speak to you about my conviction which is based — even though it is called a conviction — on knowledge. For me it certainly is knowledge. I am not in the position to speak in the same way about chance or coincidences like other people because coincidences also belong to an order of things which is usually ignored. I can’t attach it to an actual incident in Luther’s life, I can’t be indifferent to a lightning strike in a tree beside him, but I can see it, according to my knowledge, only as the effect of a truly supersensible intrusion. You can think about it in any way you like, but if I speak sincerely and honestly, I certainly regard part of Luther’s soul constitution as this pointing in, if I may call it so, of God’s finger, not out of belief but out of recognition. Luther’s state of mind or soul constitution became something quite different under the influence of such a deed; it happened so that certain inner sources were opened. These sources, or better said, the effectiveness of these sources, had already been prepared through the wrestling with misunderstood lore. It could not rise up, it was like a turning point in the soul itself, but it could not consciously show itself. Then it rose up into consciousness and became a turning point for only that which was happening. If I want to express myself roughly, the body has been softened, so to speak, and what had been prepared in Luther for a long time, permeated through a soft body.
• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 12: Prophecy, Dogma and Paganism
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  • Now, as we’ve said, we must at least familiarise ourselves with such abilities which can be called looking into the future, abilities present in ancient times and certainly understood in the surroundings of Christ Jesus, when he spoke in a certain way about the future. In order not to be misunderstood, I want to call your attention straight away to something else.
• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 14: Gnostics and Montanists
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  • with Basilides, will be totally misunderstood if compared with what we understand today under “manifestation”; one should not say “it manifests itself” but “it is formed out of,” it is individually shaped — out of the unknown God is formed the Nous, which also appeared with Anaxagoras as the first creation of the unknown God.
• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 15: Ordination and Transubstantiation
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  • Well, the catholic consciousness has basically always acted quite consistently according to these prerequisites; quite consistently. In order not to be misunderstood regarding what follows, I would like to introduce it like this. When today we want to prepare someone — in fact, I mean for something which we see as a new ritual — when we, today, want to prepare someone to perform ceremonial actions, then we would for those who stand outside Catholicism in the world, no longer with full inner devotion be able to integrate a person into the apostolic succession. As I’ve mentioned to you, there have been remarkable Theosophists like Leadbeater and similar ones, who have likewise tried to place themselves in the apostolic succession, but that’s going to resist any man who’s honest with the world, if he is not imbued with Catholic consciousness.