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In ancient Lemuria and also later, in the Atlantean era, as the Akashic Records teach us, man felt the influence of his surroundings much more than he does today. The physical possibility of sleeping depended on the sunrise or sunset. In another way, people were subject to the influences of the moon. Certain bodily functions depended with great precision on the cosmic clock. Certain events occurred at sunrise and sunset. It was physically impossible at that time to turn night into day, as it happens now in our big cities. Mankind lived in harmony with the rhythms of nature. The fact that this harmony was lost in Lemuria was due to the unconscious ego. It was only with the conscious development of this ego that disharmony arose. The ego began to show its self-awareness by deviating from the rhythms of nature. The activities that had previously been connected with the course of the sun and moon were postponed. Until this time, when this took place (in the epoch of the transition to the fifth race), man had possessed a kind of dreamy clairvoyance. Now, in conquering our present form of consciousness, which, as I said, first expressed itself in the deviation from the rhythms of nature, this clairvoyance was temporarily lost. The effectiveness of the self that had awakened to consciousness consisted in the ordering and purifying of the astral body, and this purified and ordered part became Manas. This Manas encompasses all thoughts, all memories, every intellectual function, and we can call it the self of the spirit, the spirit self. And it is the task of the self to make the astral body a manasic body through purification. But how can clairvoyance and clairaudience, which used to be part of the human being, even if only in a dreamlike way, but has been lost through deviation from the rhythm of nature, be acquired again? This can only be done by the influence of the principle of Budhi on the etheric body, which is its shadow in the lower worlds. In this way it can be conquered again, but not in a dream-like state, but with full consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/111/1908-03-08/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA111/English/SOL2024/19080308p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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The content of meditation should be one or other profound saying, and it is best if the teacher chooses this, even if it is desirable that the saying itself comes to us from a high spiritual authority, such as: “Before the eye can see, it must wean itself from tears.” This sentence contains a world of spiritual depth and was given by a Master of Wisdom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/111/1908-03-08/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA111/English/SOL2024/19080308p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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And repetition means acting on a different spiritual vehicle than that of the intellect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/111/1908-03-08/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA111/English/SOL2024/19080308p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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These habits, these characteristics, these habits proceed from the etheric body. Only impulses from the buddhi, of which the etheric is the reflection, can have a determining and developing effect on the etheric body. These impulses, which must act on the etheric body again and again, are awakened by devotional religious feelings, true art, and music. Thus, through the influence of Budhi, the etheric body is awakened and transformed, and the power to consciously change a habit arises, which actually means to renounce a habit or to unlearn a moral failing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/111/1908-03-08/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA111/English/SOL2024/19080308p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Die physische Möglichkeit des Schlafens hing ab vom Sonnenaufgang oder Sonnenuntergang. Auf andere Weise wieder waren die Menschen unterworfen den Einflüssen des Mondes. Gewisse Funktionen im Körper hingen mit großer Genauigkeit ab von der Weltenuhr. Gewisse Ereignisse geschahen bei Auf- und Niedergang der Sonne. Es war damals eine physische Unmöglichkeit, dass man, so wie es jetzt in unseren großen Städten geschieht, die Nacht zum Tage macht. Die Menschheit lebte in harmonischem Zusammenstimmen mit dem Rhythmus der Natur. Die Tatsache dieses Zusammenstimmens in Lemurien war bedingt durch das unbewusste Ego. Erst durch die bewusste Entwicklung dieses Ego entstand Disharmonie. Das Ego begann sein Selbstbewusstsein zu zeigen, indem es von dem Rhythmus der Natur abwich. Die Verrichtungen, die vordem mit dem Lauf der Sonne und des Mondes zusammenhingen, wurden verschoben. Bis zu dieser Zeit, wo dieses stattfand (in der Epoche des Übergangs zu der fünften Rasse), hatte der Mensch eine Art von träumerischer Hellsichtigkeit besessen. Nun, beim Erobern unserer gegenwärtigen Form des Bewusstseins, welches sich, wie gesagt, zuerst äußerte in dem Abweichen von Rhythmen der Natur, ging diese Hellsichtigkeit zwischenzeitlich verloren. Die Wirksamkeit des zum Bewusstsein erwachten Ich bestand in dem Ordnen und Läutern des Astralleibes, und dieser geläuterte und geordnete Teil wurde Manas. Dieses Manas umfasst alle Gedanken, alle Erinnerungen, jegliche intellektuelle Funktion, und wir können es nennen das Selbst des Geistes, das Geistselbst. Und es ist die Aufgabe des Ich, den Astralleib durch Läuterung zu einem manasischen Leib zu machen. Aber wie kann die Hellsichtigkeit, die Hellhörigkeit wiederum erworben werden, welche dem Menschen früher eigen gewesen - sei es auch in traumhafter Weise -, ihm aber doch verloren gegangen ist durch das Abweichen vom Rhythmus der Natur? Dies kann allein geschehen durch Einwirkung des Prinzips der Budhi auf den Ätherleib, welcher ihre Abschattung ist in den niedrigeren Welten. Auf diese Weise kann sie wiederum erobert werden, aber nicht traumhaft, sondern mit voller Bewusstheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/111/1908-03-08/p007"},{"locus":"GA 111/1908-03-08/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Das esoterische Leben will diesen hellsichtigen Bewusstseinszustand wiederum erwecken durch Methoden, welche die Seele beeinflussen. Die Gabe der Hellsichtigkeit wird dem Menschen nicht geschenkt. Der Meister oder [der von ihm geprüfte Schüler] gibt dem Kandidaten Anweisungen, deren Befolgung ihn wieder in Harmonie bringen muss mit dem Rhythmus der Natur. Als Vorbereitung kann er sich auf dem Wege des Studiums in Berührung bringen mit den Theorien und Lehren der großen esoterischen Weisheit, aber diese rein intellektuelle Übung genügt nicht. Der Kandidat muss sich zu regelmäßigen Zeiten jeden Tag der Meditation und Konzentration hingeben, innere Versenkung in sein eigenes Seelenleben pflegen. Die regelmäßige Wiederholung wirkt auf das höhere Seelenleben, von dem der Ätherleib das Fahrzeug ist. Als Inhalt der Meditation ist zu wählen der eine oder andere tiefsinnige Spruch, und es ist am besten, wenn der Lehrer diesen wählt, wenn es auch wünschenswert ist, dass der Spruch selber auf hohe geistige Autorität hin zu uns gekommen ist, wie zum Beispiel: «Bevor das Auge sehen kann, muss es der Tränen sich entwöhnen.» In diesem Satz liegt eine Welt von geistiger Tiefe, und er ist gegeben durch einen Meister der Weisheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/111/1908-03-08/p008"},{"locus":"GA 111/1908-03-08/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Aus einem solchen Brunnen fließt die Wahrheit unerschöpflich und quillt beim neuen Überdenken immer wieder aufs Neue und in tausenderlei Schattierungen von geistigem Licht. Das esoterische Leben besteht nicht darin, solch einen Spruch intellektuell zu verstehen, man mnussimmer’wieder mit'seinier ganzen Seeleinuhmanfgehen. Nicht immer einen neuen Spruch soll man suchen oder wollen, sondern immer aufs Neue muss der gleiche Inhalt durch die Seele gehen. Dieses erklärt auch die folgenreiche Kraft des Gebetes: Wer betet, lässt immer wieder denselben geistigen Strom durch seine Seele gehen. Und die Wiederholung bedeutet einwirken auf ein anderes geistiges Fahrzeug als das der Intelligenz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":97,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/111/1908-03-08/p009"},{"locus":"GA 111/1908-03-08/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wenn wir die Gliederung des Menschen verfolgen, finden wir einerseits das Ich, diesen von der Umwelt unaussprechlichen Namen, andererseits die zunächst vier niedrigeren Prinzipien, wovon jedes für sich durch das Ich umgearbeitet, bewusst gemacht werden muss. So müssen die Begierden umgearbeitet werden in moralische Ideale. Wenn wir mit dem okkulten Blick den Wilden mit dem Europäer vergleichen, so sehen wir, dass bei dem Ersteren der Astralleib einheitlich ist, beim Zweiten jedoch ist ein Teil durch das Ich umgearbeitet zu Manas. Der Anblick der Aura beweist dies. Und dieses Manas ist im Okkultismus das geistige Selbst, jedoch in seiner niedrigsten Form. ‚Aber der Mensch ist nicht allein Manas. Wenn der Mensch älter wird, nimmt er an Kenntnis zu, wenigstens bis zu einem gewissen Alter. Aber was nahezu gleich bleibt - es sei denn, dass er sein Wesen nach okkulten Methoden entwickelt -, das sind seine Gewohnheiten und sein Temperament. Dieses Temperament, diese Charaktereigenschaften, diese Gewohnheiten gehen hervor aus dem Ätherleib. Auf den ätherischen Leib bestimmend, entwickelnd einwirken kann nur geschehen durch Impulse aus der Budhi heraus, von der das Ätherische die Widerspiegelung ist. Diese Impulse, welche immer und immer wieder auf den Ätherleib einwirken müssen, werden geweckt durch devotionelle religiöse Gefühle, wahre Kunst, Musik. So entspringt aus dem durch den Einfluss von Budhi erweckten und umgearbeiteten Ätherleib die Kraft, die Willenskraft, bewusst eine Gewohnheit zu verändern, was eigentlich heißt, auf eine Gewohnheit zu verzichten oder sich einen sittlichen Mangel abzugewöhnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/111/1908-03-08/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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