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He does not see the play of the forces of nature itself, but he sees what lives in the play of the forces of nature, in wind and weather and in the other processes of nature. The beings that express themselves there are seen by the human being through his sentient soul. And when the sentient soul is particularly active, it is just as if the human being were still living in the time when he could not yet use his intellectual soul or his consciousness soul. Man is then transported back and sees his surroundings as he saw them in ancient times, when he did not yet know what to do with his intellectual soul and his consciousness soul. But in those ancient times, he himself was still in intimate union with the forces of nature. He himself was still embedded in all the forces of nature. He was a being consisting only of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and a sentient soul. This is how he populated the world. He could do the same things that the beings around him can do now, who live in the lower forces of nature. They appear to him as the expression of what he once was, when human beings were such that they could uproot trees in a rushing windstorm, that they could control the weather, fog, and rain. Thus, the beings around him appear to him as he himself once was in the past, when he was enormously powerful because he had not yet distanced himself so much from the forces of nature. The figures that appear to him—which are, of course, afterimages of his own form—appear to him as humans with enormous strength. These are the “giants.” In such an intermediate state, humans see the giants as real figures, and they represent a very specific type of being to them: humans with enormous strength. But the giants are stupid because they come from a time when they could not yet use the intellectual soul. They are strong and stupid.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. 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Dann sieht der Mensch alle diejenigen geistigen Wesenheiten in seiner Umgebung, welche mit den gewöhnlichen Naturkräften in einem innigen Verbande stehen, dasjenige, was sozusagen in den Elementen der Natur lebt. Er sieht nicht selbst das Spiel der Naturkräfte, aber er sieht das, was im Spiel der Naturkräfte lebt, in Wind und Wetter und in den anderen Vorgängen der Natur. Die Wesen, die sich da aussprechen, die sieht der Mensch durch seine Empfindungsseele. Und wenn insbesondere die Empfindungsseele tätig ist, dann ist es gerade so, wie wenn der Mensch in der Zeit noch lebte, als er seine Verstandesseele noch nicht benutzen konnte und auch seine Bewußtseinsseele noch nicht. Der Mensch ist dann zurückversetzt und sieht die Umgebung so, wie er sie in alten Zeiten sah, als er noch nichts mit der Verstandesseele und der Bewußtseinsseele anzufangen wußte. Aber in jenen alten Zeiten war er selbst noch in einem innigen Verbande mit den Naturkräften. Er selbst steckte ja noch in all den Naturkräften drinnen. Er war da ein Wesen, bestehend nur aus physischem Leib, Ätherleib, astralischem Leib und Empfindungsseele. So bevölkerte er die Welt. Da konnte er dasselbe, was jetzt jene Wesen um ihn herum können, die in den niederen Naturkräften leben. Sie erscheinen ihm als der Ausdruck dessen, was er einst war, als die Menschen so waren, daß sie im dahinsausenden Windsturm Bäume umreißen konnten, daß sie Wetter, Nebel und Regen beherrschen konnten. So erscheinen ihm die Wesen, die um ihn herum sind, wie er selbst einmal in einer Vergangenheit war, wo er riesig mächtig war, weil er sich noch nicht von den Naturkräften so entfernt hatte. Die Gestalten, die ihm da erscheinen - es waren ja die Nachbilder seiner eigenen Gestalt -, die erscheinen ihm als Menschen mit riesiger Stärke. Das sind die «Riesen». 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