{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-25/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus literally and truly the human being descended from spheres which we must designate water-vapour, water-air spheres. As long as he remained in the water-air sphere, his consciousness possessed the faculty of a clear astral perception, because whenever he was outside of the physical body he was above in the presence of the gods, but by virtue of the densification of the physical body, he cut himself off, as it were, from the divine substance. Like something that had acquired a shell, he slowly severed himself from his earlier connections, when he ceased to be watery and gaseous. As long as he was fluidic and airy in form, he remained above with the gods. He was not able to develop his ego, for he had not yet released himself from the divine consciousness. Because he descended into physical matter, his astral consciousness became ever more darkened. If we wish to characterize the significance of this evolutionary process, we may say that formerly, when the human being was still living with the gods, his physical and ether bodies were fluidic and gaseous in form, and were only gradually, simultaneously with the solidification of the earth, condensed to their present material form. That is the descent, but just as he has made this descent, so will he also ascend again. After he has had the experiences that are to be had in solid substance, he will again mount into those regions where his physical body will be fluidic and gaseous. He must bear within him the consciousness that if he wishes to unite himself again consciously with the gods, his true existence will be in those regions from which he has sprung. He has become condensed out of water and air and he will again become diffused into them. He can only spiritually anticipate this condition today by gaining within his inner nature a consciousness of the future state of his physical body. Only by becoming conscious of it today, however, will he gain the power to do so. When we have acquired this consciousness, our earthly goal will have been reached, our earthly mission attained. What does that mean? It means that human beings were at one time born, not of flesh and earth, but of air and water and that they must later be truly re-born in the Spirit, of air and water.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The “I AM”","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-05-25","location":null,"word_count":393,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/103/1908-05-25/p019","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maud B. 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Er hat zwar nicht sein Ich entwickeln können, aber hatte sich noch nicht losgelöst von dem göttlichen Bewußtsein. Indem er herunterstieg in das Physische, verdunkelte sich sein astralisches Bewußtsein immer mehr.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-25/p022"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-25/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wenn wir den Sinn dieser Entwickelung charakterisieren wollen, können wir sagen: Ehemals, als der Mensch noch bei den Göttern war, war der physische Leib und Ätherleib wässerig und luftförmig, und nach und nach hat er sich erst mit der Verdichtung der Erde verdichtet zu seiner heutigen Materialität. Das ist der Abstieg. Ebenso wie der Mensch heruntergestiegen ist, wird er auch wieder hinaufsteigen. Nachdem er das hier erfahren hat, was er in der festen Materie erfahren kann, wird er wieder hinaufsteigen in die Regionen, wo sein physischer Leib wässerig und luftförmig ist. Dieses Bewußtsein muß der Mensch in sich tragen, daß, wenn er sich wiederum verbinden will in seinem Bewußtsein mit den Göttern, sein wahres Sein in den Regionen sein wird, aus denen er entstammt. Herausverdichtet ist der Mensch aus Wasser und Luft; hineinverdünnen wird er sich wiederum. Geistig nur kann er sich diesen Zustand heute vorausnehmen, indem er sich innerlich das Bewußtsein von dem verschafft, was er später körperlich sein wird. Aber nur dadurch empfangen die Menschen die Kraft dazu, daß sie das bewußt heute aufnehmen. Wenn der Mensch sich dieses Bewußtsein erwirbt, wird er sein Erdenziel, seine Erdenmission erreichen. Was heißt denn das? Das heißt, der Mensch ist einstmals nicht geboren worden aus Fleisch und Erde, sondern aus Luft und Wasser. Und er muß später im Geiste wirklich wiedergeboren werden aus Luft und Wasser. — Der Sprachgebrauch der Zeiten, als die Evangelien entstanden sind, den wir auch studieren müssen, ist so, daß man «Wasser» auch Wasser genannt hat; aber «Pneuma», was heute als «Geist» gebraucht wird, war «Luft»; das Wort hatte dazumal durchaus eine solche Bedeutung. Man muß das Wort «Pneuma » übersetzen mit «Luft» oder mit «Dampf»; sonst ruft man ein Mißverständnis hervor. 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