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I must return to this primeval holy realm from which I once started out to the world of the senses, and I can return only by giving free rein to my spiritual powers, thereby diverting my attention from the lure of the outer world.” In the days of the ancient Indian culture it was possible for human beings to take this step back into the far-distant past. Inside of them, they had retained much of the force that could help an individual, if properly applied, to find the way back to the old gods. Thus did the human being in ancient India find his *Devas*, the beings from whom everything had come into existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. 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Ich kann nur dadurch zurückkommen, daß ich mein Geistiges wirken lasse, wenn es den Blick ablenkt von der Außenwelt. - Das konnte man in jener Zeit: man konnte den Schritt zurückwenden. Es war noch so viel in diesem Innern geblieben von der Kraft, zu den alten Göttern aufzuschauen, daß bei Anwendung dieser Kraft der Weg zu den Göttern gefunden werden konnte. So fand der Inder seine Devas, aus denen alles entsprungen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/109/1909-05-25/p021"},{"locus":"GA 109/1909-05-25/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Nun kam die persische Zeit, in der die menschliche Seele nicht mehr so viel hatte von der Kraft, die wie ein Erbgut aus der alten Zeit war. Hätte jetzt die Seele gesagt: Ich lenke meine Schritte zurück, ich will nicht in dieser Welt bleiben -, so würde sie nicht mehr die alten Götter gefunden haben. Dazu reichte die Kraft nicht mehr aus. Das ist mit der Fortentwickelung der Menschheit verbunden. Versuchte jetzt die Seele den Blick hinwegzulenken über die äußere Welt und sie bloß als Maja anzusehen, so hätte das dazu geführt, nicht die hohen Götter zu sehen, sondern nur die untergeordneten Devas, die schlimmen geistigen Wesenheiten, die nicht zu den hohen Göttern gehören, und die in das Böse herabgefallen sind. Dies hätten die Seelen gefunden. Weil diese Gefahr vorlag, mußte der Seele gezeigt werden, wie sie, nicht sich abwendend von der Sinneswelt, sondern ausgehend von ihr, in ihr mehr sehen kann, wie die Sinneswelt ein äußerer Ausdruck für ein Geistiges ist. 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