{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104/1908-06-20/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now we have come to our own epoch, the one to which we belong and have to ask: Is this Revelation fulfilled right into our own age? Were it to be fulfilled, he who has spoken through the four preceding ages would have to speak to us, and we should have to learn to understand his voice and become familiar with our task for the spiritual life. If there is to be a spiritual movement and if it is to understand the mysteries of the universe, then, in so far as it is to agree with the Revelation of John, it must fulfil what the speaker, this great Inspirer, demands of this age. What does he demand and who is he? Can we know him? Let us try. (Rev. iii. 1): “And unto the Angel of the Church in Sardis write.” (We must feel that we ourselves are spoken to here.) “These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars.” What are the seven Spirits and the seven stars?","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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Können wir ihn erkennen? Versuchen wir es. «Und dem Engel der Gemeinde zu Sardes schreibe» — wir selbst müssen uns hier angesprochen fühlen —: «Das sagt, der die sieben Geister Gottes hat und die sieben Sterne» (Offenbarung Johannis 3, 1). Was sind sie hier, die sieben Geister und die sieben Sterne? Im Ton des Apokalyptikers ist der Mensch, wie er uns hier erscheint, ein äußerer Ausdruck der sieben menschlichen Prinzipien, die wir aufgezählt haben. Das Prinzip des physischen Leibes, von dem der äußere physische Leib der Ausdruck ist, das Prinzip des Lebensleibes, dessen Ausdruck der Ätherleib ist, das Prinzip des astralischen Leibes, der umgewandelt Manas ergibt, Buddhi oder der umgewandelte Ätherleib, Atma oder der umgewandelte physische Leib, und mitten drinnenstehend das Ich-Prinzip: das sind die sieben geistigen Ingredienzien, in welche die göttliche Wesenheit des Menschen wie in Glieder eines Fächers auseinandergelegt ist. Nach dem technischen Ausdruck des Okkultismus nennt man diese sieben Prinzipien die sieben Geister des Gottes im Menschen. Und die sieben Sterne, das sind die Sterne, nach denen wir verstehen, was der Mensch heute ist und was er in der Zukunft werden soll. Wenn wir sie aufzählen, die aufeinanderfolgenden Sterne der Erdenverkörperung: Saturn, Sonne, Mond, Erde, Jupiter, Venus und Vulkan, dann sind das die sieben Sterne, die uns die Entwickelung des Menschen verständlich machen. Der Saturn hat dem Menschen die Anlage zu seinem physischen Leibe, die Sonne die zu seinem ätherischen, der Mond jene zum astralischen Leib und die Erde hat ihm das Ich gegeben. Die drei nächstfolgenden, Jupiter, Venus, Vulkan, bilden die geistigen Wesensglieder des Menschen aus. Verstehen wir den Ruf des Geistes, der diese sieben Sterne und die sieben Geister Gottes, die siebengliedrige Natur in der Hand hat, dann treiben wir im Sinne des Apokalyptikers Anthroposophie. Nichts anderes heißt Anthroposophie treiben, als zu wissen, daß hier hingedeutet wird auf die fünfte menschliche Entwickelungsepoche der nachatlantischen Zeit, zu wissen, daß wir in unserer Zeit, wo man am tiefsten heruntergestiegen ist in die Materie, in das spirituelle Leben wieder hinaufschreiten sollen im Gefolge der großen Individualität, welche die sieben Geister Gottes und die sieben Sterne uns zur Führerschaft gibt, damit wir uns zurechtfinden auf dem Wege.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":470,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104/1908-06-20/p026"}],"english":["GA 104/1908-06-20/p029","GA 104/1908-06-20/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":470,"en_words":519,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7128,"original_word_count":6750,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell","identified_edition":"APC1958","book_title":"The Apocalypse of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA104/English/APC1958/19080620p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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