{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 110/1909-04-14/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Hence it is that these Beings have come into the actual direct vicinity of the highest Godhead of which we can speak at all: the Trinity, the three-fold Divinity. Beyond the Seraphim we have to see that highest Divinity of which we find mention by almost all nations as the threefold Divinity — as Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, as Father, Word, and Holy Ghost. From out [of] this highest Godhead, this most exalted Trinity, stream forth the plans for a new cosmic system. Glancing back at ancient Saturn we say to ourselves: before anything of this ancient Saturn came into Being, the plan of it had grown within the divine threefold Unity. But the threefold Unity has need of Beings to execute its plan. These Beings must first prepare themselves for the task. 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. And the Thrones, the third grade of the Hierarchies, counting from above, had the task — naturally very figuratively expressed. — of putting things into action, so that what had been thought out in Wisdom — these lofty cosmic thoughts which the Seraphim had received from the Gods, and which the Cherubim had pondered over, should be transformed into active reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution Through Spiritual Hierarchies and Planetary Formation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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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"}],"english":["GA 110/1909-04-14/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":381,"en_words":424,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4614,"original_word_count":4361,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"APC1928","book_title":"The Spiritual Hierarchies (1928)","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA110/English/APC1928/19090414p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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