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Progressive Development Through The Different Cycles Of Culture","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-26","location":null,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p010","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070626p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wenn Sie den Gneis untersuchen, so sagt Ihnen der Mineraloge, er besteht aus Feldspat, Hornblende und Glimmer. Dann muß der Mineraloge Halt machen. Der Seher sagt: Was im Gneis als Feldspat sich findet, zeigt sich dem geistigen Auge noch klar als das Festgewordene der Pflanzen im Stengel und den grünen Blättern, woraus sich die Pflanze aufgebaut hat; und die Glimmeranlage hat etwas zu tun mit dem, was sich heute noch in den Kelchblättern und Blumenkronen der Pflanzen bildet. Wenn also heute ein Okkultist ein Stück Gneis ansieht, wird er sagen: Das ist versteinerte Pflanze, und wie heute die Pflanzen Blätter und Blüten und so weiter haben, so ist die Glimmeranlage herrührend von alten Kelch- und Blumenblättern. — Und so können wir von allen Mineralien sagen, wie sie sich von alten Pflanzen her gebildet haben. Denn Pflanzen waren es ja, die von dem Monde herübergekommen sind, und erst in der flüssigen Erdmasse haben sie sich verdichtet. So wie wenn Sie ein Gefäß mit Wasser vor sich haben und das Wasser anfängt, sich zu verfestigen, Eis zu bilden, haben sich da immer mehr feste Einschlüsse gebildet. Und immer mehr bildete sich damit die feste Erdkruste aus der flüssigen Erde heraus. Je weiter wir gehen, um so höher und reiner werden die Wesen; diejenigen, welche nicht hinaufkommen konnten, versteinerten. Ebenso war es bei den Tieren und bei den Menschen. 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