Crossword-Solution: DIENER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Perhaps the best example of this is “Diener”, which means “servant”, according to the dictionary, and was used to designate those who “served” the Congregation in various ways.

Anton (Seifert) to the office of a “Diener” in the Congregation, that he might marry and baptize, but the Brethren did not think it necessary to ordain him on Waschke’s account, and voted that Toeltschig should marry them.

Anton (Seifert) had ordained me a “Diener” in the Congregation.” It frequently happens that a puzzling action becomes clear when it is considered from the standpoint of the man who has done it, but when the motive can not be fathomed many things are hard to understand.

Nietzsche thought it was a bad sign of the times that even rulers have lost the courage of their positions, and that a man of Frederick the Great’s power and distinguished gifts should have been able to say: “Ich bin der erste Diener des Staates” (I am the first servant of the State.) To this utterance of the great sovereign, verse 24 undoubtedly refers.

The formula of an Attis initiate was "I have eaten from the tympanum, I have drunk from the cymbals." As I have remarked above, the food thus partaken of was a Food of Life--"Die Attis-Diener in der Tat eine magische Speise des Lebens aus ihren Kult-Geräten zu essen meinten."[16] Dieterich in his interesting study entitled Eine Mithrasliturgie refers to this meal as the centre of the whole religious action.