{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 103/1908-05-30_02/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us call to mind that in the course of human evolution, the various constituent parts of the human being have experienced their own evolution. Let us recall how it was in the later Atlantean period. We have described how the ether head sank into the physical body and how at that time people developed the rudimentary capacity for saying “I AM” to themselves. When the Atlantean Flood occurred, the human physical body was permeated by the power of the “I AM;” this means that human progress had advanced far enough to have prepared the physical instrument for the ego or for self-consciousness. By this we understand quite clearly that if we were to go back into the middle of the Atlantean period, we should find no human being in the position to develop a self-consciousness in which it was possible for him to speak the words, “I am an I” or “I AM,” out of himself. That could only occur after that part of the ether head, of which we have spoken, has united with the physical part of the head. Up to the time of the submersion of Atlantis by the Flood, the human being had developed the rudiments of the physical brain, which was to become the bearer of this self-consciousness, and the germs of the other configurations of his physical body. Up to the time of the Atlantean Flood, the physical body was being made ready to be the bearer of the ego. We may ask: What was the mission of Atlantis? It was to implant the ego in the human being, to imprint it upon him, and this mission then reached out beyond the Flood—described as the Deluge—over into our age. In our post-Atlantean epoch, however, something else had to enter; gradually and by degrees, Manas or Spirit-Self had to enter into the human being. The influence of Manas or Spirit-Self begins with our post-Atlantean age. We know that after we have passed through various embodiments in our sixth or seventh epochs, Manas or Spirit-Self will have overshadowed us to a certain degree. But a longer preparation is needed for the human being to become a fit instrument for this Manas or Spirit-Self. Before that, he will first have to become a true bearer of the “I” or ego, even though it take thousands of years. He will not only have to make his physical body an instrument for the ego, but the other members of his being as well.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Damit wir uns ganz genau verstehen: Wenn wir in die Mitte der atlantischen Zeit zurückgingen, würde kein Mensch in der Lage gewesen sein, ein solches Selbstbewußtsein zu entwickeln, um aus sich selbst heraus «Ich bin ein Ich!» oder «Ich bin» auszusprechen. Das konnte nur dadurch eintreten, daß jener Teil des Ätherkopfes, von dem wir gesprochen haben, sich verband mit dem physischen Teile des Kopfes. Damals, bis zum Untergang der Atlantis durch die atlantische Flut, bildete der Mensch das erste aus, was ausgebildet werden mußte, um ein Träger dieses Selbstbewußtseins werden zu können: er bildete die physische Gehirnanlage und die andere Gestaltung des Körpers aus. Also der physische Leib wurde bis zur atlantischen Flut hin reif, ein Ichträger zu sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":214,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/103/1908-05-30_02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 103/1908-05-30_02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Wir können also fragen: Welches war denn die Mission des Atlantiertums? Die Mission des Atlantiertums war, dem Menschen das Ich einzuimpfen, einzuprägen; und diese Mission geht dann über die atlantische Flut, die man als Sintflut beschreibt, hinüber in unsere Zeit. Aber in unserer nachatlantischen Kulturepoche muß schon wieder etwas anderes kommen: da muß langsam hineingehen in den Menschen Manas oder das Geistselbst. Mit unserer nachatlantischen Zeit beginnt der Einfluß von Manas oder Geistselbst. Wir wissen also, daß dann, wenn wir in unserer sechsten und siebenten Epoche verschiedene Verkörperungen werden durchgemacht haben, wir von Manas oder Geistselbst bereits werden überschattet sein bis zu einem gewissen Grade. Aber es bedarf einer längeren Vorbereitung für den Menschen, um überhaupt ein geeignetes Werkzeug für dieses Manas oder Geistselbst zu werden. Er hatte dazu - wenn es sich auch um Tausende von Jahren dabei handelt - vorher erst ein Ich-Träger im eigentlichen Sinne zu werden. 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