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• Title: Foundation Course: Lecture 15: Ordination and Transubstantiation
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  • I know that many people who hear such things with today’s consciousness say: Why don’t you simply express it in a short and sweet answer, shaped in sharply outlined terms, this or that is apostolic succession? — If someone wants such sharply outlined concepts, his argument is inwardly untruthful. One only speaks truth when it introduces the view of something that has been experienced. Such a thing can’t be understood in sharply outlined concepts.
  • Well, if you take all of this in then we already come to what is of particular importance today. Of particular importance today for us is to again return to the ritual, to ceremonies. You are experiencing, at least many of you have said you experience it like this: you are actually experiencing necessities based on what has come out of, and is given by, this time. Of course we can’t undo events, we can’t go back to untruths for instance, we can’t reverse an untruth, such as taking something which no longer feels alive were to be changed externally, like being ordained by an olden-time Catholic priest. That would be contradictory to those who have already ignited the Protestant consciousness too strongly in themselves because for the Protestant consciousness this possibility doesn’t exist; in their experience one can’t oppose something which has been created out of quite other circumstances.