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The Beings who are so to speak, nearest to God Himself, who, as is beautifully expressed in Christian Western Esotericism, ‘bask in the light of God's countenance,’ are the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones. These take up the plans of a new cosmic system streaming from the divine threefold Unity. This is naturally expressed more figuratively than it really is, for we have to express in human words such sublime activities, for which, in truth, this human language has not been created. No human words exist to express such sublime activity as that, for instance, when the Seraphim, in the beginning of our solar system received the highest plans of the divine Threefold Unity containing the evolution which our solar system has to pass through, namely Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth, Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan. Seraphim is a name which for those who understand it in its true sense, even in that of ancient Hebrew Esotericism, has always signified that the task of the Seraphim was to receive from the Trinity the highest ideas and aims for a system of worlds. The Cherubim, the next lower rank of the Hierarchies, had the task of building up in wisdom the aims and ideas which they received from the higher gods. Thus the Cherubim are spirits of highest wisdom, who understood how to transpose into workable plans, the inspirations given to them by the Seraphim. 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Nur waren sie sozusagen noch nicht aufgerufen zu ihrer Wirksamkeit; sie waren, wenn es trivial gesagt werden darf, noch nicht daran gekommen, etwas Erhebliches zu tun, aber vorhanden waren sie schon im Umkreis des alten Saturn. Und auch noch andere Wesenheiten waren im Umkreis des alten Saturn vorhanden, eine Klasse noch erhabenerer Wesenheiten als die Cherubim: Das sind die Seraphim. Und aus derselben Region her kommen ja auch die Throne. Nur fließt sozusagen die Substanz der Throne, die einen Grad niedriger sind als die Cherubim, herunter und bildet die Wärmesubstanz des Saturn, wie wir das ausgeführt haben. So also können wir uns vorstellen diesen Saturn als Riesen-Wärmekugel, umgeben von einem Reigen geistiger Wesenheiten, die außerordentlich erhabener Natur sind. Man nennt sie im Sinne der christlichen Esoterik Throne, Cherubim, Seraphim. Es sind die dhyanischen Wesenheiten der östlichen Lehre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":191,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p005"},{"locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Nun fragen wir uns einmal: Woher kommt denn dieser Reigen erhabener Wesenheiten? Alles in der Welt, alles im Universum hat sich entwickelt. Und wenn wir uns eine Vorstellung machen wollen davon, woher diese Cherubim, Seraphim und Throne kommen, so tun wir gut, uns auf unser eigenes Sonnensystem zunächst einmal einzulassen und uns zu fragen, was wird denn aus unserem Sonnensystem einstmals werden? Wir wollen die Entwickelung unseres Sonnensystems einmal kurz zeichnen. Wir wissen, es ist ausgegangen von dem alten Saturn, dann hat sich dieser alte Saturn umgewandelt zur alten Sonne, diese wandelt sich um zum alten Mond. In der Zeit, in welcher die alte Sonne Mond wird, tritt eine besondere Entwickelung ein. Dieser Mond geht aus der Sonne zum erstenmal heraus, und wir haben in dem alten Mond zuerst einen Weltenkörper, der außerhalb der Sonne ist. Dadurch kann die Sonne sich höher entwickeln, daß sie das Gröbste aus sich herausgesetzt hat. Nun entwickelt sich das ganze System zum System unserer heutigen Erde. Unsere Erde kommt dadurch zustande, daß sich wiederum außer allem übrigen Mond und Erde als die gröberen Substanzen und die Träger der gröberen Wesenheiten von der Sonne heraussondern. Aber die Entwickelung geht weiter. Die Wesenheiten, die jetzt auf der Erde abgesondert wohnen müssen, die aus der Sonne sozusagen herausgeworfen sind, diese Wesenheiten entwickeln sich in ihrer Sonnenabgesondertheit immer höher und höher. Sie müssen noch einen Zustand durchmachen, den Jupiterzustand. Aber dadurch reifen sie allmählich heran, sich wiederum mit der Sonne zu vereinigen. Und wenn der Zustand der Venusentwickelung gekommen sein wird, dann werden alle die Wesen, die heute auf unserer Erde wogen und leben, sozusagen wiederum aufgenommen worden sein in die Sonne, und die Sonne wird selbst eine höhere Stufe der Entwickelung erreicht haben, eben dadurch, daß sie alle ihre Wesenheiten, die sie aus sich herausgesetzt hat, wieder zurückerlöst hat. Und dann kommt die Vulkanentwikkelung, die höchste Stufe der Entwickelung unseres Systems. Denn das sind die sieben Entwickelungsstufen unseres Systems: Saturn, Sonne, Mond, Erde, Jupiter, Venus und Vulkan. In der Vulkanentwikkelung sind alle die Wesenheiten, die sozusagen aus kleinen Anfängen des Saturndaseins hervorgegangen sind, im höchsten Sinne vergeistigt, sie sind zusammen nicht nur Sonne, sondern Über-Sonne geworden. Der Vulkan ist mehr als Sonne und damit hat er erlangt die Reife zum Opfer, die Reife dazu, sich aufzulösen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":379,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p006"},{"locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Das ist die nächste Stufe der Entwickelung, daß ein solches System, in welchem von einem Ausgangspunkte aus eine Sonne entsteht, diese Sonne sozusagen zuerst schwach ist und ihre Planeten hinauswerfen muß, damit sie sich selbst weiterentwickeln kann. Sie wird stark, nimmt ihre Planeten wieder auf, wird zum Vulkan. Und nun löst sich das Ganze auf, und es wird aus der Vulkankugel nachher eine Hohlkugel, es wird dann eben etwas Ähnliches, wie es dieser Reigen der Throne, Cherubim und Seraphim ist. Es wird also die Sonne sich auflösen, ins Universum hinaus sich hinopfern, ausstrahlen ihre Wesenheit. Und dadurch wird sie selbst ein Reigen von solchen Wesenheiten, wie die Seraphim, Cherubim und Throne es sind, der nun zum neuen Schaffen im Weltall fortschreitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p007"},{"locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Warum können die Throne aus ihrer Substanz heraus dasjenige abgeben, was der Saturn braucht? Weil die Throne sich vorbereitet haben in einem früheren System durch solche sieben Zustände hindurch, wie unser Sonnensystem es jetzt durchmacht. Bevor etwas ein System wird von Thronen, Cherubim, Seraphim, muß es ein Sonnensystem gewesen sein; das heißt, wenn eine Sonne so weit ist, daß sie sich mit ihren Planeten wieder vereinigt hat, dann wird sie Umkreis, dann wird sie selber ein Tierkreis. Das, was wir im Tierkreis kennengelernt haben, diese erhabenen Wesenheiten, sind die Reste, die uns herübergekommen sind aus einem alten Sonnensystem. Was früher innerhalb eines Sonnensystems sich entwickelt hat, das kann jetzt herunterwirken aus dem Weltenraum und kann selber ein neues Sonnensystem aus sich gebären und schaffen. Deshalb sind diese Wesenheiten, die Seraphim, Cherubim, Throne, für uns zunächst die höchste Hierarchie unter den göttlichen Wesenheiten, weil sie ihre Sonnensystem-Entwickelung bereits durchgemacht haben und zum großen kosmischen Opferdienst aufgestiegen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p008"},{"locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Diese Wesenheiten sind dadurch erst in wirklich unmittelbare Nähe gekommen der höchsten Göttlichkeit, von der wir zunächst überhaupt sprechen können, der Trinität, der dreifachen Göttlichkeit. Jenseits also der Seraphim haben wir zu sehen jene höchste Göttlichkeit, welche Sie bei fast allen Völkern finden als die dreifache Göttlichkeit, ausgedrückt als Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, als Vater, Wort und Heiliger Geist. Dieser höchsten Göttlichkeit, der obersten Dreieinigkeit, entspringen gleichsam die Pläne zu einem jeden neuen Weltensystem. Blicken wir zurück zum alten Saturn, so sagen wir uns: Bevor irgend etwas ins Dasein getreten ist von diesem alten Saturn, ist in der göttlichen Dreieinigkeitder Plan erwachsen. Aber diese Dreieinigkeit braucht Wesenheiten zur Ausführung des Planes. Diese Wesenheiten müssen sich erst reif machen dazu. Die ersten Wesenheiten, die um die Gottheit sozusagen selber sind, die, wie man es schön ausgedrückt hat in der christlichen abendländischen Esoterik, «unmittelbar den Anblick Gottes genießen», das sind die Seraphim, Cherubim, Throne. Die nehmen nun die Pläne eines neuen Weltensystems entgegen von der göttlichen Dreieinigkeit, der sie entspringen. Es ist das natürlich, Sie verstehen, meine lieben Freunde, mehr bildlich gesprochen als wirklich, denn wir müssen mit menschlichen Worten solch erhabene Tätigkeiten ausdrücken, für die menschliche Worte wahrhaftig nicht geschaffen sind. Menschliche Worte sind nicht da, um solch hohe Tätigkeit auszudrücken, durch die zum Beispiel am Beginn unseres Sonnensystems die Seraphim entgegennahmen die höchsten Pläne der göttlichen Dreieinigkeit, die da enthalten, wie sich unser Sonnensystem durch Saturn, Sonne, Mond, Erde, Jupiter, Venus und Vulkan hindurchentwickeln soll. Seraphim ist ein Name, der von all denen, die ihn richtig im Sinne der alten hebräischen Esoterik selbst verstanden haben, immer so gedeutet worden ist, daß die Seraphim die Aufgabe haben, die höchsten Ideen, die Ziele eines Weltensystems entgegenzunehmen aus der Trinität. Die Cherubim, die nächstniedrige Stufe der Hierarchie, haben die Aufgabe, in Weisheit nunmehr auszubauen die Ziele, die Ideen, die von den höchsten Göttern entgegengenommen werden. Die Cherubim sind also Geister höchster Weisheit, die in ausführbare Pläne dasjenige umzusetzen verstehen, was ihnen angegeben wird von den Seraphim. Und die Throne hinwiederum, der dritte Grad der Hierarchie von oben, der hat die Aufgabe, nunmehr, natürlich sehr bildlich gesprochen, Hand anzulegen, damit das, was in Weisheit ausgedacht ist, damit diese hehren Weltengedanken, die die Seraphim von den Göttern empfangen, die die Cherubim durchgedacht haben, in Wirklichkeit umgesetzt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":381,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p009"},{"locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wir sehen förmlich, wenn wir nur mit der Seele sehen wollen, wie durch das Herunterfließen der Feuersubstanz durch die Throne die erste Stufe der Verwirklichung der göttlichen Pläne geschieht. So stellen uns die Throne diejenigen Wesenheiten dar, die die Kraft haben, das zunächst durch die Cherubim Ausgedachte umzusetzen in eine erste Wirklichkeit. Das geschieht, indem diese Throne hineinfließen lassen in den Raum, der sozusagen in Aussicht genommen worden ist für ein neues Weltensystem, ihre eigene Substanz, die Substanz des ursprünglichen Weltenfeuers. Wenn wir uns das recht bildlich vorstellen wollen, so können wir sagen: Ein altes Sonnensystem ist verschwunden und verklungen; innerhalb dieses alten Sonnensystems sind herangereift zur höchsten Reife der Reigen der Seraphim, Cherubim, Throne. Nun suchen sich diese nach den Angaben der höchsten Dreieinigkeit einen Kugelraum im Weltenraum aus und sagen sich, hier wollen wir beginnen. Und jetzt nehmen die Seraphim die Ziele des Weltensystems entgegen, die Cherubim arbeiten dieses Ziel aus, und in diesen Kugelraum lassen fließen aus ihrer eigenen Wesenheit heraus die Throne das Urfeuer. So haben wir den Anfang unseres Weltensystems erfaßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/110/1909-04-14/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[6,7],"to":[6],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[8],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[10],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}