{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 102/1908-02-15/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The beings who stood nearest to man were the Venus and Mercury beings. Until, at the end of the Atlantean Age, man could make the first feeble efforts to work independently with his ego upon the three bodies—for that was just possible at the end of the Atlantean Age—he had to have teachers. These teachers were beings of Venus and Mercury, and they went on working far beyond the Age of Atlantis. But they are not to be looked on as we look on our present teachers; the Venus beings must rather be thought of as those who endowed man with his intellectuality. Men knew nothing at all of this; just as the different human fluids work upon man, so did the forces of these beings influence him until he could work upon his bodies independently. What we find in man today as intelligence was mediated to him through the spirits who remained behind on Venus as Fire-Spirits of a lesser order. In addition to these were other teachers and they were in fact perceived consciously as teachers by men who attained clairvoyance—the teachers of the great Mysteries of ancient times. In the far past there was not only that all-embracing influence of the Venus-Spirits who worked more or less on mankind as a whole, there were also Mystery centres where the most advanced human beings received instruction spiritually from the Fire-Spirits. The exalted Fire-Spirits of Mercury instructed in the Mysteries; there they appeared—if we may say so—in a spiritual embodiment and were the teachers of the first initiates. Just as the first initiates became the teachers of the great masses of mankind, so did the beings of Mercury work as the teachers of the first initiates. From this you may realize that the beings of other stars have an influence upon man, but the very complicated nature of this influence can be seen from the following.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings and Planetary Formation in Cosmic Evolution","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Bis der Mensch am Ende der atlantischen Zeit die ersten schwachen Versuche machen konnte, um von seinem Ich aus-selbständig auf die drei Leiber zu wirken — denn das ist erst am Ende der atlantischen Zeit möglich -, mußte er «Lehrer» haben, die noch weit über diese atlantische Zeit hinaus wirkten. Und diese Lehrer waren diejenigen Wesenheiten, die auf Venus und Merkur wirkten. Aber diese Wesenheiten sind nicht so zu denken, wie heute Lehrer sind; sondern Sie müssen sich vorstellen, daß die Venuswesen diejenigen Wesen sind, die den Menschen begaben mit seiner Intellektualität. Die Menschen wußten äußerlich gar nichts davon, daß diese Venuswesenheiten auf sie wirkten, ebensowenig wie sie wußten, daß vom Monde aus gewisse Wesenheiten in bezug auf ihre äußere Gestalt auf sie einwirkten. So wie ich Ihnen gezeigt habe, wie die verschiedenen Säfte auf den Menschen wirken, so wirkten die Kräfte dieser Wesenheiten auf den Menschen ein, bis er selbständig seine Leiber bearbeiten konnte. Was wir heute beim Menschen als Intelligenz finden, wurde dem Menschen vermittelt durch die Geister, die als Feuergeister minderer Sorte auf der Venus zurückgeblieben sind. Außerdem gab es noch andere Lehrer, die in der Tat von den ersten hellsehenden Menschen bewußt als Lehrer wahrgenommen wurden: die Lehrer der großen Mysterien in den alten Zeiten. In den Vorzeiten gab es nicht bloß jene umfassenden Einflüsse der Venusgeister, die mehr oder weniger auf die ganze Menschheit wirkten, sondern es gab auch Mysterienstätten, in denen die damals vorgeschrittensten Menschen auf geistige Art Unterricht bekamen von höheren Wesenheiten, von den Feuergeistern. In den Mysterien lehrten sie selbst, die erhabenen Feuergeister des Merkur. Da erschienen sie zunächst, wenn wir so sagen dürfen, in einer geistigen Verkörperung und waren die Lehrer der ersten Eingeweihten. So wie die ersten Eingeweihten die Lehrer der großen Menschenmassen wurden, so wirkten als die Lehrer der ersten Eingeweihten die Merkurwesenheiten. Auf diese Art sehen Sie zu gleicher Zeit, wie recht wahrnehmbar die Wesenheiten anderer Gestirne auf den Menschen einwirken; aber diese Einwirkungen sind sehr komplizierter Natur. Das können Sie aus folgendem sehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":349,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-02-15/p025"}],"english":["GA 102/1908-02-15/p026"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":349,"en_words":317,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5879,"original_word_count":6223,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP1961","book_title":"The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA102/English/AP1961/19080215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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