{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The significance of Lucifer's influence becomes evident when we ask ourselves what would have transpired if since the Lemurian epoch there had been no Luciferic influence, if Lucifer and his hosts had remained separate and apart from man's evolution! Until the middle of the Atlantean epoch man would have evolved as a being who in every impulse of his astral body would have obeyed the influences of certain spiritual Beings of a higher rank than himself; these Beings would have retained their sway over him until the middle of the Atlantean epoch. If that had happened, man's faculties of perception and cognition would not have been directed to the material world until a much later period. During the Lemurian and early Atlantean epochs, no passions, no desires would have arisen from his sense-perceptions; he would have confronted the world of sense as it were in a state of innocence, obedient in his every action to the impulses instilled into him by higher spiritual Beings. The instincts prompting him to action would not have been of exactly the same nature as those of the higher animals to-day, but more spiritual. His every deed on earth would have been prompted, not by mere impulses, but by a kind of spiritual instinct. As things were, under the influence of Lucifer man came earlier to the stage where he said: This delights and attracts me, that is repellent to me! He reached the stage of following his own impulses earlier than would otherwise have been the case; he became an independent being, with a measure of inner freedom. The consequence was that he was detached in a certain way from the spiritual world. To put it concisely, one might say: Without this influence of Lucifer, man would have remained a spiritualized animal—an animal who would gradually have developed a form nobler and more beautiful than could have been developed by man under the influence of Lucifer. Man would have remained far more of an angelic being if Lucifer's influence had not taken effect in the Lemurian epoch; but on the other hand, the higher Beings would have guided him as it were on leading-strings. In the middle of the Atlantean epoch something would have befallen him suddenly: his eyes would have been fully opened, the tapestry of the whole material world of sense would have lain around him—but gazing upon it he would simultaneously have perceived the Divine-Spiritual, a Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. If, therefore, in his former state of dependence man had looked back into the bosom of the Divine whence he had proceeded, beholding the Gods of Light sending their radiance into his soul, guiding and leading him, something would have come about for him—this is not a mere picture but corresponds in a high degree with the reality—namely, that the world of sense in its entirety would have been outspread in transparency before him, revealing behind it those other Divine-Spiritual Beings who had taken the place of what had now been lost. One spiritual world would have closed behind him and a new spiritual world opened before him. Man would have remained a child in the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings; independence would not have been established in the human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Da würde der Mensch viel, viel später erst sein Wahrnehmungsvermögen, sein Erkenntnisvermögen auf die sinnliche Welt gerichtet haben, so daß den Menschen in der lemurischen Zeit und ersten atlantischen Zeit aus den Sinneswahrnehmungen heraus keine Leidenschaften, keine Begierden erwachsen wären und der Mensch sozusagen unschuldig der Sinneswelt gegenübergestanden hätte und in alledem, was er getan hätte, gefolgt wäre den ihm eingepflanzten Impulsen höherer geistiger Wesenheiten. Es wäre nicht ein Instinkt gewesen, wie der Instinkt der heutigen höheren Tiere, unter dem der Mensch alles unternommen hätte, sondern ein vergeistigter Instinkt. Zu jeder Tat, die er auf der Erde getan hätte, hätten ihn nicht gereizt die bloßen sinnlichen Impulse, sondern etwas geistig Instinktives. So aber ist der Mensch unter dem Einflusse Luzifers früher dazu gekommen, daß er sagte: Dies macht mir Freude, dies zieht mich an, dies stößt mich ab! - Er ist dazu gekommen, früher als sonst seinen eigenen Impulsen zu folgen, ein selbständiges Wesen zu werden, eine gewisse Freiheit in sich zu entwickeln. Eine gewisse Loslösung von der geistigen Welt trat dadurch für den Menschen ein. Man könnte sagen, wenn man sich klar ausdrücken wollte: Ohne diesen Einfluß Luzifers wäre der Mensch ein vergeistigtes Tier geblieben, ein Tier, das sich an Gestalt allmählich entwickelt hätte, sogar in edlerer und schönerer Form, als der Mensch unter dem Einflusse Luzifers sich entwickelt hat. Der Mensch wäre viel engelhafter geblieben, wenn dieser Einfluß Luzifers in der lemurischen Zeit nicht eingetreten wäre. Aber auf der anderen Seite wäre er von den höheren Wesenheiten wie an einem Gängelbande geleitet worden. In der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit wäre wie mit einem Schlage etwas an den Menschen herangetreten: Seine Augen wären voll geöffnet worden, und er hätte um sich gehabt den Teppich der gesamten physisch-sinnlichen Welt; aber er hätte ihn so um sich gesehen, daß er hinter jedem physischen Dinge sogleich ein Göttlich-Geistiges wahrgenommen haben würde, eine Welt göttlich-geistiger Untergründe. Während also der Mensch bis dahin, wenn er rückwärts geschaut hätte in seiner Abhängigkeit in den göttlichen Schoß, aus dem er hervorgegangen war, erblickt hätte die auf ihn einwirkenden, die in seine Seele hineinscheinenden Licht-Gottheiten, die ihn lenken und führen, so würde dann eingetreten sein für den Menschen - es ist das nicht etwa bloß ein Bild, sondern es entspricht das im höheren Grade der Wirklichkeit - das, daß vor ihm ausgebreitet worden wäre die volle deutlich erkennbare Sinneswelt. Aber diese Sinneswelt hätte sich dargestellt wie ein Durchsichtiges, hinter dem erschienen wären die anderen göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten, die an die Stelle dessen getreten wären, was der Mensch hinter sich verloren hätte. Eine geistige Welt hätte sich hinter ihm zugeschlossen, eine neue geistige Welt hätte sich vor ihm eröffnet. Der Mensch wäre ein Kind in der Hand höherer, geistig-göttlicher Wesenheiten geblieben. Die Selbständigkeit hätte sich nicht in die menschliche Seele hineingesenkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":576,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p009"}],"english":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":576,"en_words":542,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7750,"original_word_count":8170,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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