{"id":50169,"date":"2023-09-21T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=50169"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:03:51","slug":"the-hidden-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-hidden-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day, we were looking at photos from our vacation, and one had slipped in of grandma and grandpa back home. Meaning to say \u201cpeople who stayed home,\u201d our eleven-year-old, in a little slip of the tongue, referred to them as \u201cpeople who stayed hidden,\u201d like a secret. (In German, <em>Daheimgebliebenen<\/em> and <em>Geheimgebliebenen<\/em>.) It&#8217;s a magical word that we&#8217;ve been tasting, twisting, and turning ever since, wondering: who are the secret ones anyway? And what do they do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a lecture or seminar, some of the audience come up to the lectern with a question, a thank you, or their sympathy. The lecturers will remember them but hardly recall the many others who quietly leave the hall with a friendly nod of the head from a distance. Nevertheless, how often does a new world grow out of a thought, taken from the evening, in just such an unknown, silent listener? &#8220;The silence ripens,&#8221; Rudolf Steiner mused. Yes, often it happens in \u201csecret\u201d\u2014the currents of anthroposophy may be determined less in branch meetings and conferences than in reading at the doctor&#8217;s office, in the conversation on the train, or in the remark overheard in the corridor. Presumably, it is no different in the soul: there, too, the spiritual thought that remains tucked away inside, secret to the rest of us, bears the real fruit. Perhaps that is why early anthroposophy is a \u201csecret science\u201d (<em>Geheimwissenschaft)<\/em>, because it is about these quiet, secret pathways\u2014the ways to those who stayed hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>(Translator note: <em>Geheimwissenschaft<\/em> is sometimes translated as \u201coccult science\u201d, and continuing this lovely play of words, \u201coccult\u201d can also mean \u201chidden\u201d.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Title image <\/strong>Goetheanum cantilever chair Thonet S33, Photo: Johannes Kronenberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, we were looking at photos from our vacation, and one had slipped in of grandma and grandpa back home. Meaning to say \u201cpeople who stayed home,\u201d our eleven-year-old, in a little slip of the tongue, referred to them as \u201cpeople who stayed hidden,\u201d like a secret. (In German, Daheimgebliebenen and Geheimgebliebenen.) It&#8217;s a magical word that we&#8217;ve been tasting, twisting, and turning ever since, wondering: who are the secret ones anyway? And what do they do? After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":49923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8793],"tags":[11371,8819],"class_list":["post-50169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-philosophy","tag-2023-36-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}