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With the gradual ascent into the spiritual world this will change; man's body will become softer and softer and he will once more be able to influence the thoughts which now still exist so sparsely, will gradually grow stronger; these thoughts will then be able to transform even the body. Man will be able to mould his own body—but this will only be the case in a very distant future.","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":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p048","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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Schon in dem sechsten Zeitraum wird das, was heute für wenige verkündet wird, imstande sein, große Menschenmassen zu ergreifen und sie mit sich fortzureißen; und damit wird die Menschheit die Einsicht erlangen in die geistige Welt. Was heute Gedanke ist, wird in der Zukunft eine Kraft sein. In der sechsten Kulturperiode werden viele diese Gedankenkraft haben. Was sich heute theosophisches Christentum nennt, wird sich ausbreiten über große Menschenmassen. Immer kräftiger werden diese Gedanken werden; schöpferisch werden sie wirken bis auf die menschliche Gestalt. — Früher hat der menschliche Leib ganz anders ausgesehen als heute; Sie wären erstaunt, wenn ich Ihnen diesen früheren Leib schildern würde. Aber dadurch, daß der Körper noch weich war, hatte das Ich einen viel größeren Einfluß auf dessen Gestaltung. Von dem Einfluß des Willens der Seele auf den menschlichen Leib ist dem Menschen heute nur noch ein ganz spärlicher Rest zurückgeblieben: Wenn Sie einen Schreck erleben, werden Sie bleich, weil der innere Seelenzustand bis ins Blut dringt; die Körperfarbe verändert sich. Aber Sie könnten bei andern Körperzuständen sehen, wie wenig Gewalt nur der Mensch heute über seinen Körper hat. Beim Aufstieg wird das wiederum anders werden; der Körper wird sich immer weicher und weicher gestalten, und der Mensch wird wieder seinen Einfluß auf den Leib gewinnen, wenn er in sich immer kräftiger die Gedanken werden läßt, die heute erst spärlich auftreten; die werden dann den Körper selbst umgestalten können. 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