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On the astral plane, the clairvoyant finds the human group ego standing between the animal group ego and the human individual ego. The further back in time we go, the more we find that people take on one of these four forms in relation to their etheric body, and we assign one human group soul to each of these four soul groups: a human group soul to one, a lion group soul to the other, a bull group soul to the third, and an eagle group soul to the fourth. You would only get a wrong idea of these if you were to press these names, which are taken from physical animal forms, too hard. This etheric body of the lion people is much more similar to the group soul of the lions than to the individual lion here on the physical plane. Christianity has been presented by the evangelists as not being like ordinary human souls, but as comprising whole groups of people. This is due to the similarity that Christian esotericism attributed to the souls of the individual evangelists. We shall understand this more clearly when we see that the human being is on the one hand in a descent and on the other hand in an ascent. Here on earth, at the lowest point of materialism, the human being acquires the disposition of the individual soul. Man has descended from the ancient times when the individual group souls were more distinctly distinguished: man-man, lion-man, bull-man, eagle-man. When people ascend again in the future, they will retain their individual soul and develop it to a higher level with a higher consciousness of what they previously only had in a dim consciousness, the four group souls. That is why in Christianity the evangelists are given these qualities.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":344,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p020","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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These four types of group soul that we have discussed are only the four main types, but there are countless intermediate stages. We have only indicated the most characteristic forms of man, lion, bull, eagle, which can occur in all possible mixtures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p021","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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A physical being is born on the physical plane, grows, reaches a peak in life and dies again. Birth and death is the characteristic of the beings on the physical plane. This is not the case with the beings that live on the higher planes. If we follow animal group souls on the astral plane through thousands of years, their arising and passing away cannot be expressed by the words 'birth' and 'death'. Something quite different underlies it. It is based on transformation, metamorphosis. If you, with clairvoyant powers, were to encounter an animal group soul on the astral plane today and remember one of its previous embodiments, how it was with this animal group soul 1500 years ago, it will not appear to you as it would if you were to look at a younger person. You will, however, see the group soul passing through youth, middle age, and old age, but it does not give up consciousness in old age; it does not die. It is constantly transforming itself without passing through death. You can trace the animal group soul back to times immemorial – you will only encounter metamorphosis, not birth and death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":342,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p022","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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They have tried to determine an average number of times that a group soul, as it belongs to a particular human community, arises, metamorphoses out of another, grows and reaches its peak, only to undergo a descending development and then transform into another group soul. If we assume an average human lifespan of 75 years – calculated in lunar years – and multiply it by seven, we get the lifespan of a human group soul in its four types until its next transformation. Seven here refers to generations. Taking into account that we are dealing with lunar years, we arrive at a figure of approximately 500 years. 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In occultism, this was represented in such a way that the group ego generally lives for 500 years, then it burns and is reanimated from its own fire, and this was called the “bird Phoenix”. The beautiful saga of the bird Phoenix has its factual background here. The Phoenix is the group ego with the characteristics of the four types, which burns itself after seven generations and is restored - one generation calculated at 75 lunar years of age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p024","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Der Hellseher findet auf dem astralen Plan zwischen dem tierischen Gruppen-Ich und dem menschlichen Individual-Ich das menschliche Gruppen-Ich stehen. Je weiter wir zeitlich zurückgehen, desto mehr finden wir die Menschen in bezug auf ihren Ätherleib eine dieser vier Gestalten annehmen, und wir schreiben diesen vier Seelengruppen je eine menschliche Gruppenseele zu, der einen eine Mensch-Gruppenseele, der anderen eine Löwen-Gruppenseele, der dritten eine Stier-Gruppenseele und der vierten eine Adler-Gruppenseele. Sie würden nur dann eine falsche Vorstellung davon bekommen, wenn Sie diese Namen, die von physischen Tierformen hergenommen sind, allzu stark pressen würden. Viel ähnlicher ist dieser Ätherkörper der Löwenmenschen der Gruppenseele der Löwen, als dem einzelnen Löwen hier auf dem physischen Plan. Das Christentum hat sich von den Evangelisten vorgestellt, daß ihre Seelen nicht so sind wie gewöhnliche Menschenseelen, sondern ganze Gruppen von Menschen umfassen, und hat nach dem inneren Seelencharakter Matthäus verglichen mit dem Menschen, Markus mit dem Löwen, Lukas mit dem Stier und Johannes mit dem Adler. Das rührt von jener Ähnlichkeit her, welche die christliche Esoterik den Seelen der einzelnen Evangelisten zugeschrieben hat. Noch genauer werden wir das verstehen, wenn wir sehen, daß der Mensch auf der einen Seite in einem Abstieg und auf der anderen Seite in einem Aufstieg begriffen ist. Hier auf der Erde im tiefsten Punkte des Materialismus, erlangt der Mensch die Anlage zu der Individualseele. Der Mensch ist heruntergestiegen von den alten Zeiten, wo man genauer unterschied die einzelnen Gruppenseelen: Menschmensch, Löwenmensch, Stiermensch, Adlermensch. Wenn die Menschen in der Zukunft wieder hinaufsteigen werden, werden sie ihre Individualseele beibehalten und auf höherer Stufe mit höherem Bewußtsein wiederum das entwickeln, was sie früher nur in dämmerhaftem Bewußtsein hatten, die vier Gruppenseelen. Daher legt man im Christentum den Evangelisten diese Eigenschaften bei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p020"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-27/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Halten wir noch für eine Weile diesen Begriff der Gruppenseelen der Menschen fest. Diese Gruppenseelen lebten sich viel mehr als im Raum, als im Nebeneinander, in der Zeit, im Nacheinander aus. Wenn wir die tierischen Gruppenseelen betrachten, dann sagen wir, wenn wir eine Gruppe von Löwen nehmen oder eine Gruppe von Walfischen: sie haben ihre gemeinschaftliche Gruppenseele auf dem astralen Plan nebeneinander. Wenn wir aber die menschlichen Gruppenseelen betrachten, so müssen wir mehr die Zeit ins Auge fassen. Eine menschliche Gruppenseele ist im Ätherischen sozusagen an der Grenze zwischen dem physischen und dem astralen Plan zu einer gewissen Zeit geboren und verwandelt sich wiederum in einer gewissen Zeit. Diese vier Gruppenseelenarten, die wir besprochen haben, sind nur die vier hauptsächlichsten Typen, es gibt aber unzählige Zwischenstufen. Wir haben nur die charakteristischsten Formen Mensch, Löwe, Stier, Adler angegeben, die in allen möglichen Mischungen auftreten können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p021"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-27/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Betrachten wir eine Gruppe von Menschen, sagen wir zum Beispiel einen Stamm; nehmen wir irgendeinen der alten mitteleuropäischen Stämme, meinetwegen den Stamm der Cherusker. Ein solcher Stamm entsteht einmal, und er vergeht. Der materialistische Weltbetrachter sieht in dem, was der Stamm der Cherusker ist, eigentlich nur etwas Abstraktes, einen Begriff, der sie zusammenhält. Das ist aber etwas Unreales. Der Okkultist sieht im Stamm der Cherusker eine Gruppenseele, die entsteht, «geboren wird», in der Zeit, wo der Stamm der Cherusker in die Geschichte eintritt; sie wächst, wie die Macht der Cherusker wächst, und sie «stirbt», wenn die Cherusker aus der Geschichte verschwinden. Hinter dem sich entwickelnden Stamm der Cherusker sieht der Okkultist eine sich entwickelnde Ätherwesenheit. Nun gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen einer Ätherwesenheit und einer physischen Wesenheit hier auf der Erde. Eine physische Wesenheit wird auf dem physischen Plan geboren, wächst, erreicht einen Lebenshöhepunkt und stirbt wiederum. Geburt und Tod ist das Charakteristische der Wesenheiten auf dem physischen Plan. So ist es nicht mit den Wesenheiten, die auf den höheren Planen leben. Wenn wir die tierischen Gruppenseelen auf dem Astralplan verfolgen durch Jahrtausende hindurch, so ist ihr Entstehen und Vergehen gar nicht auszudrücken durch die Worte «Geburt» und «Tod». Es liegt da etwas ganz anderes zugrunde. Es liegt Verwandlung, Metamorphose, zugrunde. Wenn Sie mit hellseherischem Vermögen einer tierischen Gruppenseele auf dem Astralplan heute begegnen und sich erinnern an eine ihrer vorhergehenden Verkörperungen, wie es mit dieser tierischen Gruppenseele vor 1500 Jahren war, so wird sie Ihnen nicht so erscheinen, wie wenn Sie einen jüngeren Menschen betrachten. Allerdings sehen Sie die Gruppenseele auch Jugend, mittlere Lebenszeit und Alter durchmachen, aber sie gibt im Alter ihr Bewußtsein nicht auf, sie stirbt nicht. Sie verwandelt sich immerfort, ohne daß sie durch den Tod hindurchgeht. Sie können die tierische Gruppenseele zurückverfolgen bis in ururferne Zeiten — Sie treffen nur Metamorphose an, nicht Geburt und Tod.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p022"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-27/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Etwas Ähnliches ist der Fall bei solchen Gruppenseelen, wie es die des Cheruskerstammes ist. Wenn der Stamm der Cherusker als eine Anzahl physischer Menschen auf dem physischen Plan erscheint, hat sich die Cheruskerseele eben gebildet; aber sie ist nicht geboren worden, sondern hat sich aus einer anderen Zeit heraus umgebildet, verwandelt. Sie wächst mit der Macht der Cherusker, erlangt ihren Höhepunkt, wenn der Stamm der Cherusker seinen Höhepunkt erlangt, und wenn der Cheruskerstamm in der Geschichte auf dem physischen Plan degeneriert und verschwindet, ersteht die Cheruskerseele aufs neue in Jugend, um die Seele eines anderen Stammes zu werden; sie metamorphosiert sich. Physische Geburt und physischen Tod gibt es nicht, wenn wir die Seelen auf höheren Planen betrachten. Geburt und Tod, wie wir sie kennen, gibt es nur auf dem physischen Plan, nicht auf den höheren Planen. Die okkulte Weisheit hat das wohl verstanden zum Ausdruck gebracht und dabei große Sorgfalt auf Zahlen verwendet. Man hat versucht, eine Durchschnittszahl festzulegen, wann eine Gruppenseele, wie sie zu einer bestimmten menschlichen Gemeinschaft gehört, entsteht, sich aus einer anderen herausmetamorphosiert, wächst und den Höhepunkt erlangt, um wiederum eine absteigende Entwickelung durchzumachen und sich dann zu einer anderen Gruppenseele umzuwandeln. Wenn man das Lebensalter des Menschen auf durchschnittlich 75 Jahre ansetzt diese Zahl als Mondjahre angenommen - und mit 7 multipliziert, so ergibt sich das Leben einer menschlichen Gruppenseele in ihren vier Typen, bis zu ihrer nächsten Verwandlung. Mit 7 sind hier Generationen gemeint. Wir kommen - wenn wir berücksichtigen, daß wir es dabei mit Mondjahren zu tun haben - auf ungefähr 500 Jahre. Und so sagte man im Okkultismus: Das Leben einer Gruppenseele dauert 500 Jahre; nach 500 Jahren wird sie zu einer anderen, sie gebiert sich selbst neu, ohne daß sie ihr Bewußtsein verliert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p023"},{"locus":"GA 101/1907-12-27/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Wenn wir das Ich einer solchen Gruppenseele betrachten und für das Ich äußerlich im Physischen ein Ausdrucksmittel suchen, so ist es ja das Blut. Das Blut ist für den Okkultisten der Ausdruck des : Feuers, vom Feuer durchglühte Substanz. Wie der menschliche physische Leib der Ausdruck der Erde ist, der Ätherleib der Ausdruck des Wassers, der Astralleib der Ausdruck der Luft, so ist das Ich, das noch nicht an den Egoismus gekettet ist, der Ausdruck des Feuers. Wir sagen daher - wir werden das noch morgen besprechen -, daß das Blut durch den Egoismus den Tod gefunden hat. Das Ich des Menschen «verzehrt sich in seinem eigenen Feuer», durch sich selbst. Das ist ein okkulter Ausdruck. Nur wenn der Mensch die Ichsucht überwindet, erlangt er die Unsterblichkeit. Das menschliche Gruppen-Ich verzehrt sich in seinem eigenen Feuer. Wenn 500 Jahre herum sind, verbrennt es und erschafft sich aus sich selber eine neue Form. Das stellte man im Okkultismus so dar, daß das Gruppen-Ich im allgemeinen 500 Jahre lebt, dann verbrennt und aus seinem eigenen Feuer wieder beseelt wird, und man nannte dies den «Vogel Phönix». Die schöne Sage vom Vogel Phönix hat hier ihren tatsächlichen Hintergrund. Der Phönix ist das Gruppen-Ich mit den Eigenschaften der vier Typen, das sich nach sieben Generationen verbrennt und wiederherstellt - eine Generation mit 75 Mondjahren Lebensalter gerechnet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/101/1907-12-27/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}