{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104/1908-06-20/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As we have said, we are now living in the fifth of the sub-ages. Just as from the summit of a mountain, towns, villages and woods appear, so do the results of these ages of civilization appear from the pinnacle of initiation described. We perceive their significance. They represent what has taken place in our physical world as human civilization. For this reason we speak of ages of civilization, in contradistinction to races. All that is connected with the idea of race is still the remains of the epoch preceding our own, namely, the Atlantean. We are now living in the age of cultural epochs. Atlantis was the age in which seven great races developed one after another. Of course the fruits of this race development extend into our epoch, and for this reason races are still spoken of today, but they are really mixtures and are quite unlike those distinct races of the Atlantean epoch. To-day the idea of civilization has already superseded the idea of race. Hence we speak of the ancient Indian civilization, of which the civilization announced to us in the Vedas is only an echo. The ancient and sacred Indian civilization was the first dawn of the post-Atlantean civilization; it followed immediately upon the Atlantean epoch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Seven Post-Atlantean Ages and Spiritual Initiation","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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Wie Städte und Dörfer und Wälder vom Gipfel eines Berges aus, so erscheint von dem Gipfel der Einweihung aus die Folge dieser Kulturzeitalter. Ihre Bedeutung sehen wir ein. Sie stellen dar, was sich ausdehnt auf unserem physischen Plan als Menschheitskultur. Deshalb sprechen wir auch von Kulturzeitaltern im Gegensatz zu Rassen. Alles das, was etwa verknüpft ist mit dem Rassenbegriff, ist noch Überbleibsel des Zeitraumes, der dem unseren vorangegangen ist, des atlantischen. Wir leben im Zeitraum der Kulturepochen. Die Atlantis war der Zeitraum, wo sich nach und nach sieben aufeinanderfolgende große Rassen bildeten. Natürlich, die Früchte dieser Rassenbildung ragen herein auch in unser Zeitalter, daher spricht man auch heute noch von Rassen. Das sind aber schon Verwischungen jener scharfen Trennungen in der atlantischen Zeit. Heute hat schon der Kulturbegriff den Rassenbegriff abgelöst. Daher sprechen wir von der alten indischen Kultur, von welcher die Kultur, die uns in den Veden angekündigt wird, nur ein Nachklang ist. 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