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But these colours and tones, these impressions of warmth and cold of which he was conscious, were the garments, the sheaths, of spiritual Beings who never descend to physical incarnation, Beings whose names and images are preserved in the myths and sagas. Myths and sagas are not just folk-songs; they are memories of the visions which in olden times came to men in these conditions of existence. Men were aware of the spiritual alike by day and by night. By night they were surrounded by that world of Nordic gods of which the legends tell. Odin, Freya, and all the other figures in Nordic mythology were not inventions; they were experienced in the spiritual world with as much reality as a man experiences his fellow-men around him to-day. 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As the Atlantean epoch took its further course, the kind of consciousness that is ours to-day gradually developed. The impressions received by man during the night when his Ego and astral body were outside his physical and etheric bodies became dimmer, less and less distinct; whereas the images of waking life coming to him when he was within his physical and etheric bodies by day, increased in clarity and definition. 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Wenn der Mensch des Morgens untertauchte in seinen physischen Leib und seinen Ätherleib, dann traten ihm nicht jene bestimmten, scharf umrissenen Bilder der physischen Außenwelt entgegen, sondern die Bilder waren viel unbestimmter, etwa so, wie uns heute die Straßenlaternen im dichten Nebel wie aurisch umsäumt erscheinen von regenbogenförmigen Farbengebilden. Da haben Sie einen kleinen Vergleich, um sich eine Vorstellung von dem zu bilden, was der Atlantier in der Mitte seines Zeitalters sah. Nur waren diese Farben, die die Gegenstände umsäumten und die ihre scharfen Grenzen, wie sie der Mensch heute sieht, noch nicht zuließen, und auch die Töne, die aus den Gegenständen erklangen, noch nicht solche nüchternen Farben und Töne wie heute. Es drückte sich in diesen Farbenrändern, die auch alle lebenden Wesen umgaben, etwas aus von dem inneren Seelenleben der Wesen, so daß der Mensch, wenn er in seinen physischen und seinen Ätherleib untertauchte, noch sozusagen etwas von dem geistigen Wesen der Dinge, die um ihn herum waren, wahrnahm, zum Unterschied von heute, wo er, wenn er am Morgen untertaucht in seinen physischen und Ätherleib, bloß die physischen Dinge in ihren scharfen Grenzen und farbigen Oberflächen wahrnimmt. Und wenn des Abends der Mensch seinen physischen und seinen Ätherleib verließ, dann breitete sich um ihn herum nicht lautlose Stille und Finsternis aus. Dann waren diese Bilder, die er wahrnahm, höchstens ein wenig anders, aber kaum viel schwächer als am Tage. Es bestand nur der Unterschied, daß er während des Tageslebens die äußeren Gegenstände des mineralischen, pflanzlichen, tierischen und Menschenreiches wahrnahm. Des Nachts aber, wenn der Mensch sich heraushob aus seinem physischen und Ätherleib, dann war ihm der Raum auch von solchen Farbenbildern und Tönen erfüllt, auch von allen möglichen Eindrücken des Geruchs und Geschmacks, von allem, was ringsherum war. Aber diese Farben und Töne und diese Eindrücke von Wärme und Kälte, die er da wahrnahm, das waren die Kleider und Hüllen von geistigen Wesenheiten, welche gar nicht heruntergestiegen waren bis zu einer physischen Verkörperung, von Wesenheiten, deren Namen und Vorstellung in den Sagen und Mythen erhalten sind. Denn Sagen und Mythen sind nicht «Volksdichtungen», sondern Erinnerungen an jene Schauungen, welche die Menschen in alten Zeiten in solchen Zuständen hatten; denn diese Menschen nahmen Geistiges bei Tag und Geistiges bei Nacht wahr. Der Mensch lebte wirklich umgeben in der Nacht von jener nordischen Götterwelt, die in Sagen und Mythen erhalten ist. Odin und Freya und all die anderen Gestalten der nordischen Sage sind nicht erfunden. Sie sind ebenso wahr erlebt worden in der geistigen Welt von jener Vormenschheit, wie heute der Mensch in seiner Umgebung seine Mitmenschen erlebt. Und die Sagen und Mythen sind die Erinnerungen an das, was der Mensch in allem erlebte, was er in seinem dämmerhaften, hellseherischen Zustande durchgemacht hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":474,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-04-13/p012"},{"locus":"GA 102/1908-04-13/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Als dieser Bewußtseinszustand, der sich aus einem noch älteren Zustand entwickelt hat, mehr und mehr herauswuchs, da war am Himmel stehend die Sonne im Zeichen der Waage in dem Zeitpunkt, den wir heute den Frühling nennen. Und indem wir uns jetzt weiterbewegen in der Zeit, die die atlantische heißt, sehen wir, wie sich immer mehr herausbildet der Zustand, den wir heute haben. Immer dumpfer, immer unbeträchtlicher wurden die Eindrücke, die der Mensch hatte, wenn sein Astralkörper und sein Ich in der Nacht aus dem physischen und dem Ätherleibe heraus waren. Immer deutlicher wurden die Tagesbilder, die er empfing, wenn er in seinem physischen und seinem Ätherleibe darinnen war, kurz, immer mehr und mehr - so dürfen wir paradox sagen — wurde für ihn die Nacht zur Nacht und der Tag zum Tage.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/102/1908-04-13/p013"},{"locus":"GA 102/1908-04-13/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Dann kam die atlantische Flut, und auf gingen die späteren nachatlantischen Kulturen, jene Kulturen, die ich Ihnen oft geschildert habe, die wir nennen die alte indische Kultur, innerhalb welcher die heiligen Rishis selber die Menschen gelehrt haben, die alte persische, die chaldäisch-assyrisch-babylonisch-ägyptische Kultur, dann die griechisch-lateinische und endlich unsere Kultur. Wollen wir heute die Stimmung schildern, in der die Menschen in der nachatlantischen Zeit und zum Teil auch schon in den letzten Zeiten der atlantischen Epoche waren, so tritt uns diese Stimmung so entgegen: Überall waren die Völker, auch die, welche nach dem Osten gezogen waren und sich dort angesiedelt haben als die Nachkommen der atlantischen Völker, noch im Besitz der alten Erinnerungen, der alten Sagen und Mythen, welche wiedergaben, was die Menschen in einer früheren Zeit, in einem früheren Bewußtseinszustande der atlantischen Zeit erlebt haben. Diesen Sagenschatz hatten sich die Völker aus der atlantischen Zeit mitgebracht, und sie bewahrten und erzählten ihn. Das war dasjenige, was sie erfüllte, und die ältesten Bewohner des Nordens spürten durchaus noch die Kraft, die aus den Sagen und Mythen zu ihnen sprach, weil die ältesten Ahnen die Erinnerung daran hatten, daß einst die Vorfahren selbst das geschen hatten, was da erzählt wird. Noch etwas anderes wurde innerhalb dieser Völker bewahrt, was zwar die Völker nicht erlebt haben, was aber diejenigen erlebt haben, welche die Eingeweihten jener alten Zeiten waren, die Mysterienpriester und Mysterienweisen. Sie hatten geistig hineinschauen dürfen in dieselben Tiefen des Weltendaseins, die heute wiederum durch die Geistesforschung erschlossen werden. Sie hatten hineinschauen dürfen, weil die Seelenzustände der menschlichen Vorfahren innerhalb der Eingeweihtenschaft geradeso waren, wie die der Volksseele, die in den alten Zeiten noch mitten darin lebte in der geistigen Welt. Wenn auch in dämmerhafter Weise, so war doch jener hellsehende Zustand in jenen alten Zeiten noch vorhanden. 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