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But this repetition must not be imagined as a re-enactment of all the events which took place on Saturn and on the Sun. That which repeats itself, namely the development of a physical body and of an ether body, at the same time is subject to such a transformation that in the third Moon cycle these two members of the nature of man can be united with the astral body, a union which could not have taken place on the Sun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p002"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":475,"en_words":557,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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From the middle of the fourth Moon cycle onward, the Spirits of Personality begin with their principal task in the fifth Moon era: they inoculate the astral body with selfhood, as they have done in the preceding cosmic eras with respect to the physical and the ether body. But in order for the physical and the ether body to be so far advanced that they can harbor an independent astral body, at the time indicated, that is, in the middle of the fourth Moon cycle, they must first be brought to this point by the shaping spirits in the successive stages of development. This takes place in the following manner. The physical body is brought to the necessary maturity in the first course of the Moon (round) by the Spirits of Motion, in the second by those of Form, in the third by those of Personality, in the fourth by the Spirits of Fire, and in the fifth by those of Twilight. To be exact, *this* labor of the Spirits of Twilight takes place from the middle of the fourth Moon cycle onward, so that at the same time that the Spirits of Personality are engaged on the astral body the same is the case with the Spirits of Twilight with respect to the physical body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p002"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":475,"en_words":557,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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To be exact, this activity of the Fire Spirits takes place concurrently with the labor of the Spirits of Personality on the astral body, that is, from the middle of the fourth course of the Moon, onward into the fifth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p002"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":475,"en_words":557,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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On the other hand, around the middle of the fifth course of the Moon, he reaches the point where he can be engaged *unconsciously* on the physical body. Through this activity in the dullness of his consciousness he creates for himself the first germinal predisposition to what is called “spirit self” ( *Manas*). This “spirit self” attains its full unfolding in the course of the subsequent development of mankind. In its union with *Atma*, the “spirit-man,” and with *Buddhi*, the “life-spirit,” it is what later forms the higher, spiritual part of man. As on Saturn the *Thrones* or Spirits of Will permeated the “spirit-man” ( *Atma*), and as on the Sun the *Cherubim* permeated the life-spirit ( *Buddhi*) with wisdom, so now the *Seraphim* accomplish this for the “spirit-self” ( *Manas*). They permeate it, and thereby implant in it a capacity which at later stages of development—on the earth—becomes that conceptualizing faculty of man by means of which, as a thinking being, he can enter into a relation with the world which surrounds him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p003"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":962,"en_words":1065,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Then, together with all else that has developed on the Moon, the latter sleeps through a period of rest ( *Pralaya*), in order to continue the course of his development on the earth planet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p003"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":962,"en_words":1065,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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At this time, these Spirits of Personality have ascended to higher spheres.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p003"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":962,"en_words":1065,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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This is the same world of emotions which man will experience for himself in his earth consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/11/l16/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 11/l15/p003"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":962,"en_words":1065,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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They enable it to carry on an active perception and feeling of the environment. Joy and pain, such as have been produced in the ether body by the Spirits of Twilight in the manner just described, have an inactive (passive) character; they present themselves as inactive mirrorings of the outside world. But what the Fire Spirits produce in the astral body are vivid *emotions*, love and hate, rage, fear, horror, stormy passions, instincts, impulses and so forth. Because the Spirits of Personality (the *Asuras*) have previously inoculated this astral body with their nature, these emotions now appear with the character of selfhood, of separateness. One must now represent to oneself how at that time the ancestor of man is constituted on the Moon. He has a physical body through which in dullness he develops a “spirit self” ( *Manas*). He has an ether body, through which the Twilight Spirits feel joy and pain; and finally he possesses an astral body which, through the Fire Spirits, is moved by impulses, emotions, and passions. But these three members of the Moon man still completely lack the object consciousness. In the astral body images flow and ebb, and in these there glow the emotions named above. When the thinking object consciousness will make its appearance on the earth, this astral body will be the subordinate carrier or the instrument of conceptual thinking. Now however, it unfolds in its own entire independence on the Moon. In itself it is more active here, more agitated than later on the earth. If one wishes to characterize it, one can say that it is an animal man. As such, it is on a higher level than the present-day animals of earth. It possesses the qualities of animality in a more complete way. In a certain respect these are more savage and unbridled than present-day animal qualities. Therefore, at this stage of his existence, one can call man a being which in its development stands midway between present-day animals and man. If man had continued to advance in a straight line along this path of development, he would have become a wild, unrestrained being. The development of earth represents a toning down, a taming of the animal character in man. 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Die beiden ersten Mondenumläufe stellen sich lediglich als Wiederholung dessen dar, was auf Saturn und Sonne durchgemacht worden ist. Doch darf auch diese Wiederholung nicht so vorgestellt werden, als ob alle auf Saturn und Sonne vorgefallenen Tatsachen noch einmal abliefen. Was sich wiederholt: die Herausbildung eines physischen Körpers und eines Ätherleibes erfährt zugleich eine solche Umformung, daß diese beiden Glieder der Menschennatur im dritten Mondenkreislauf mit dem Astralleib verbunden werden können, was auf der Sonne noch nicht hätte stattfinden können. In der dritten Mondenperiode — eigentlich beginnt der Vorgang schon um die Mitte der zweiten — strömen die Geister der Bewegung das Astrale aus ihrer eigenen Natur in den Menschenleib hinein. Während des vierten Kreislaufes — von der Mitte des dritten an — bilden die Geister der Form diesen astralen Leib so aus, daß seine Gestalt, seine ganze Organisation innerliche Vorgänge entwickeln kann. Diese Vorgänge tragen den Charakter dessen, was man gegenwärtig bei Tier und Mensch Trieb, Begierde — oder die Wunschnatur — nennt. Von der Mitte des vierten Mondenkreislaufes an beginnen die Geister der Persönlichkeit mit dem, was dann im fünften Mondenzeitalter ihre Hauptaufgabe ist: sie impfen dem Astralleib die Selbstheit ein, wie sie das in den vorhergehenden Weltaltern bezüglich des physischen und des Ätherleibes getan haben. Damit nun aber in diesem angedeuteten Zeitpunkte, inmitten des vierten Mondenkreislaufes, der physische und der Ätherleib so weit sein können, daß sie einen selbständig gewordenen Astralleib beherbergen können, müssen sie in den aufeinanderfolgenden Entwickelungsstufen durch die bildenden Geister erst dazu gebracht werden. Das geht nun in folgender Art vor sich. Der physische Körper wird im ersten Mondenlauf (Runde) von den Geistern der Bewegung, im zweiten von denen der Form, im dritten von denen der Persönlichkeit, im vierten von den Geistern des Feuers, im fünften von jenen des Zwielichtes zu der notwendigen Reife gebracht. *Genau* genommen vollzieht sich diese Arbeit der Geister des Zwielichtes von der Mitte des vierten Mondenkreislaufes ab, so daß also zu derselben Zeit, in der die Geister der Persönlichkeit am Astralleib tätig sind, dies bezüglich des physischen Körpers mit den Geistern des Zwielichtes der Fall ist. — mit dem Ätherleib verhält es sich in folgender Art. Im ersten Mondenlauf werden ihm seine nötigen Eigenschaften von den Geistern der Weisheit, im zweiten von denen der Bewegung, im dritten von denen der Form, im vierten von denen der Persönlichkeit und im fünften von denen des Feuers eingepflanzt. Genau genommen verläuft *diese* Tätigkeit der Feuergeister wieder gleichzeitig mit der Arbeit der Geister der Persönlichkeit am Astralleib, also von der Mitte des vierten Mondenlaufes an in den fünften hinüber.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":475,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p002"},{"locus":"GA 11/l15/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Betrachtet man zu dieser Zeit den ganzen Menschenvorfahren, wie er sich auf dem Monde ausgebildet hat, so ist somit zu sagen: der Mensch besteht, von der Mitte des vierten Mondenkreislaufes angefangen, aus einem physischen Körper, in dem die Söhne des Zwielichtes, aus einem Ätherleib, in welchem die Geister des Feuers, und endlich aus einem Astralleib, in dem die Geister der Persönlichkeit ihre Arbeit leisten. — daß die Geister des Zwielichtes in dieser Entwickelungsperiode den physischen Menschenkörper bearbeiten, das bedeutet für sie, daß sie sich jetzt zur Stufe des *Menschentums* erheben, was auf dem Saturn die Geister der Persönlichkeit, auf der Sonne die Feuergeister in demselben Kreislauf getan haben. Man muß sich vorstellen, daß die «Sinneskeime» des physischen Körpers, die sich nun auch weiter ausgebildet haben, von der Mitte des vierten Mondenlaufes an von den Geistern des Zwielichtes benutzt werden können, um mit ihnen die äußeren Gegenstände und Vorgänge auf dem Monde wahrzunehmen. Der Mensch selbst wird erst auf der Erde so weit sein, daß er sich von der Mitte des vierten Kreislaufes an dieser Sinne bedienen kann. Dagegen kommt er um die Mitte des fünften Mondenlaufes (Runde) so weit, daß er *unbewußt* an dem physischen Leib tätig sein kann. Durch diese Tätigkeit schafft er sich in der Dumpfheit seines Bewußtseins die erste Keimanlage dessen, was man «Geistselbst» (Manas) nennt (vergleiche meine «Theosophie»). Dieses «Geistselbst» gelangt dann im Laufe der weiteren Menschheitsentwickelung zur vollkommenen Entfaltung. Es ist dasjenige, was später in der Vereinigung mit Atma, dem «Geistesmenschen» und mit Buddhi, dem «Lebensgeist» den höheren, geistigen Teil des Menschen bildet. Wie nun auf dem Saturn die *Throne* oder die Geister des Willens den «Geistesmenschen» (Atma) durchdrungen haben, und wie das auf der Sonne die *Cherubim* mit der Weisheit getan haben bezüglich des Lebens-Geistes (Buddhi), so vollbringen es jetzt die *Seraphim* mit dem «Geistselbst» (Manas). Sie durchdringen dieses und pflanzen ihm dadurch eine Fähigkeit ein, die in späteren Entwickelungsstufen — auf der Erde — zu jenem Vorstellungsvermögen des Menschen wird, durch das dieser als *denkendes* Wesen in Beziehung treten kann zu seiner ihn umgebenden Welt. — Es soll hier gleich gesagt werden, daß sich von der Mitte des sechsten Mondenlaufes an auch wieder der «Lebensgeist» (Buddhi), von der Mitte des siebenten an der «Geistesmensch» (Atma) zeigen, die sich mit dem «Geistselbst» verbinden, so daß am Ende des ganzen Mondenweltalters der «höhere Mensch» vorbereitet ist. Dieser schläft dann mit dem anderen, was sich auf dem Monde entwickelt hat, durch eine Ruhepause (Pralaya) hindurch, um auf dem Erdenplaneten seinen Entwickelungsweg fortzusetzen. Während nun von der Mitte des fünften Mondenkreislaufes in den sechsten hinein der Mensch in Dumpfheit an seinem physischen Körper arbeitet, betätigen sich an seinem Ätherleib die Geister des Zwielichtes. Sie haben sich, wie gezeigt worden ist, durch ihre in der vorhergehenden Epoche (Runde) erfolgte Arbeit am physischen Körper dazu vorbereitet, jetzt im Ätherleib die Feuergeister abzulösen, die ihrerseits die Arbeit am Astralleib von den Geistern der Persönlichkeit übernehmen. Diese Geister der Persönlichkeit aber sind in dieser Zeit zu höheren Sphären aufgestiegen. — die Arbeit der Zwielichtgeister am Ätherleib bedeutet, daß sie ihre eigenen Bewußtseinszustände mit den Bewußtseinsbildern des Ätherleibes verbinden. Dadurch pflanzen sie diesen die *Lust* und den *Schmerz* an den Dingen ein. Auf der Sonne war in dieser Hinsicht der Schauplatz ihres Wirkens noch der bloß physische Leib. Daher waren dort bloß mit den Verrichtungen dieses Leibes, mit *seinen* Zuständen Lust und Leid verknüpft. Jetzt wird das anders. Lust und Leid knüpfen sich nunmehr an die Sinbilder, die im Äther-Körper entstehen. Es wird somit im menschlichen Dämmerbewußtsein von den Geistern des Zwielichtes eine Gefühlswelt erlebt. Es ist dies dieselbe Gefühlswelt, welche der Mensch in seinem Erdenbewußtsein für sich selbst erleben wird. — im Astralleib wirken zu der gleichen Zeit die Feuergeister. Sie befähigen diesen zu einem regsamen Empfinden und Fühlen mit der Umwelt. Lust und Leid, wie sie in der eben beschriebenen Art durch die Geister des Zwielichtes im Ätherleib bewirkt werden, tragen einen unregsamen (passiven) Charakter; sie stellen sich mehr als untätige Spiegelbilder der Außenwelt dar. Was aber die Feuergeister im Astralleib bewirken, das sind rege *Affekte,* Liebe und Haß, Zorn, Furcht, Grauen, sturmbewegte Leidenschaften, Instinkte, Triebe und so weiter. Weil nun vorher die Geister der Persönlichkeit (die Asuras) ihre Wesenheit in diesen Leib geimpft haben, so kommen diese Affekte jetzt mit dem Charakter der Selbstheit, der Sonderheit zum Vorschein. Man muß sich nun vergegenwartigen, wie der Menschenvorfahr auf dem Monde zu dieser Zeit beschaffen ist. Er hat einen physischen Körper, durch welchen er in Dumpfheit ein «Geistselbst» (Manas) entwickelt. Er ist mit einem Ätherleib behaftet, durch den die Zwielichtgeister Lust und Leid fühlen, endlich besitzt er einen Astralleib, der durch die Feuergeister in Trieben, Affekten, Leidenschaften bewegt ist. Aber diese drei Glieder des Mondenmenschen entbehren noch völlig des Gegenstandsbewußtseins. Im Astralleib wogen Bilder Auf und Ab, und diese werden eben durchglüht von den genannten Affekten. Auf der Erde, wenn das denkende Gegenstandsbewußtsein eintreten wird, wird dieser Astralleib der untergeordnete Träger oder das Werkzeug des vorstellenden Denkens sein. Jetzt aber, auf dem Monde, entfaltet er sich in seiner eigenen vollen Selbständigkeit. Er ist für sich also hier tätiger, bewegter als später auf der Erde. Man kann, wenn man ihn charakterisieren will, davon sprechen, daß er Tier-Mensch ist. Und als solcher ist er in seiner Art auf einer höheren Stufe als die gegenwärtigen Erdentiere. Er trägt die Eigenschaften der Tierheit vollständiger an sich. Diese sind in einer gewissen Beziehung wilder, ungezügelter als die gegenwärtigen Tiereigenschaften. Deshalb darf man auf dieser Stufe seines Daseins den Menschen ein Wesen nennen, das zwischen dem gegenwärtigen Tiere und dem jetzigen Menschen in seiner Entwickelung mitten darinnensteht. Schritte der Mensch in gerader Linie auf dieser Entwickelungsbahn fort, so würde er ein wildes, zügelloses Wesen. Die Erdenentwickelung bedeutet eine Herabstimmung, eine Bezähmung des Tiercharakters im Menschen. Das Gedankenbewußtsein bewirkt das.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":962,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/11/l15/p003"}],"beads":[{"from":[5,6,7,8],"to":[2],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9,10,11,12,13,14],"to":[3],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}