{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p043","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The fifth cycle of culture is the one in which we now live, with our materialistic civilisation. It is the time in which man has descended most profoundly into the external world. Compare, our age with preceding ones: We know, to be sure, how to apply the forces of the spiritual world to our physical environment—we carry the spiritual world into it. But in the light of spiritual science this presents strange aspects. Think of the time when the human being still produced his flour by grinding corn between two stones—he did not apply much spiritual power to do this. In ancient Egypt and Chaldea he still immersed himself in the wisdom of the heaven; he still learned a great deal concerning the spiritual significance of the earth itself and of the starry sky. The Greek still placed into the world of physical reality the idealised human form. What is the aspect of our own time? A great amount of spiritual power is used to produce modern natural science with its technical appliances. How great is the difference between obtaining food by primitive means, and obtaining it from America with the aid of telephone, engines, etc.! Yet these complicated technical means are after all used to satisfy the same needs also felt by animals and which animals are able to satisfy by primitive means! Try to investigate how many of the modern inventions really serve spiritual life, and how much spiritual power is used for the sake of furthering material life! What an enormous amount of spiritual power must human beings develop at the present time for the satisfaction of material requirements! There is no great difference whether an animal satisfies its hunger by grazing, or whether man obtains his food from America or Australia through all kinds of means.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Progressive Development Through The Different Cycles Of Culture","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-26","location":null,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p043","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. 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Aber im alten Ägypten und Chaldäa vertiefte er sich in die Himmelsweisheit; viel ist ihm da noch gesagt worden über den geistigen Sinn des Sternenhimmels und der Erde selber. Der Grieche schuf noch hinein in diese Welt der Wirklichkeit die idealisierte Menschengestalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":130,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-26/p025"},{"locus":"GA 100/1907-06-26/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Und wie ist das Bild unserer Zeit? Viel geistige Kraft wird da angewendet, um unsere Naturwissenschaft mit ihren technischen Anwendungen hervorzubringen. Aber wie groß ist denn der Unterschied, ob Sie sich mit primitiven Mitteln, oder unter Zuhilfenahme von Telephon, Maschinen und so weiter die Nahrungsmittel von Amerika herüberschaffen, die doch nur dazu dienen, um dasselbe Bedürfnis zu befriedigen, welches auch das Tier hier befriedigt? Versuchen Sie einmal zu prüfen, wieviel von dem Geschaffenen dem Geistesleben dient, und wieviel Geisteskraft gebraucht wird für das materielle Leben. Welch ungeheure Geisteskraft muß die Menschheit heute entwickeln, um materielle Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen! Es ist kein großer Unterschied, wenn das Tier hingeht und Graß frißt, oder wenn man sich durch allerlei Mittel die Nahrungsmittel von Amerika und Australien herübeschafft. Aber das ist keine abfällige Kritik, das muß so sein. So untertauchen mußte der Mensch in diese Welt. Der Inder sah die Welt noch als Illusion an; der heutige Mensch sieht diese Welt als die einzige Wirklichkeit an. Wir sind am tiefsten heruntergestiegen und haben dadurch die größten Fortschritte gemacht auf dem physischen Plan. 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