{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p021-p027","extent":"range","passage_number":21,"through":27,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p021","last_locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"12. 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The answer to this question can be found by examining nature carefully the origin of the old wisdom in its relation to mankind I have already indicated that in the old Atlantean age a connection existed between the physical body and the etheric body of man that differed greatly from the later relation. In regard to two of the principles of man's nature it can be said that the physical and etheric bodies are so related that they approximately coincide, especially in the region of the head; but this is only the case in our own time. Looking back to the Atlantean period we find the etheric head protruding far beyond its physical counterpart: the etheric body extended past the physical body, particularly in the head region. 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In a certain way—not completely—it tore itself away from these currents; it began to cut itself off from the currents which had provided the capacity for clairvoyantly penetrating the wisdom of the world. Conversely, when in the old initiations a man's etheric body was withdrawn, his etheric head became interpermeated once more with the surrounding currents, and clairvoyance set in again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":198,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-05/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-07-05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-07-05/p019","GA 112/1909-07-05/p020"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":806,"en_words":793,"ratio":0.98,"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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Keep well in mind that at the end of the Atlantean epoch, after man had drawn his etheric body into himself, there remained in it a sort of fund, the residue of what had once come to it from without—a small saving, if I may use the term: as if a son had a father, the father is earning money, and the son draws upon him according to his needs. In the same way, man drew upon his environment for all the wisdom he needed, up to the time when his etheric body severed the connection. Keeping to our simile, let us now assume that the son loses his father, there remains for him but a certain portion of his father's money, and he earns nothing to add to it. In time he will come to the end of it and have nothing left. That is the position in which the human being found himself. He had torn himself loose from his father-wisdom, had added nothing to it through his own endeavor, and subsisted on it into the Christian era—indeed, even now he is still living on his inheritance, not on anything he has earned. He lives on his capital, so to speak. In the earliest part of post-Atlantean development a bit of the capital was still left, though without his having himself earned the wisdom: he lived on the interest, as it were, and occasionally requested an additional sum from the initiates. But ultimately the coin of ancient wisdom lost its currency; and when it was given to Oedipus it no longer had any value: this old wisdom did not save him from the most frightful transgression, nor did it save Judas.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":389,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-05/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-07-05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":806,"en_words":793,"ratio":0.98,"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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These prevented him from adding, by his own labor, to the store of old wisdom, for they acted upon his being as follows: the Luciferic beings tended to corrupt his passions and feelings, while the Ahrimanic, the Mephistophelean beings were more concerned with outwardly distorting his view of the world. Had the Luciferic beings not intervened in Earth evolution, man would have developed no such interests in the physical world that drags him down beneath his true status; and if, as a result of the Luciferic influence, the Mephistophelian, the Ahrimanic, the Satanic beings had not taken a-hand, man would know, and would always have known, that underlying every object of the senses there is spirit, and he would look through the surface of the sense world upon the spirit. But Ahriman infused into human observation something like a dark smoke cloud that prevents penetration to the spiritual. Through Ahriman's agency man is enmeshed in lies, in *maya*, in illusion.—These are the two beings that prevent man from earning any increment to the store of ancient wisdom once bestowed upon humanity; and as a consequence, this heritage has dwindled away and gradually become wholly useless.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-05/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-07-05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":242,"en_words":248,"ratio":1.02,"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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During the Atlantean time the human etheric body merged with the physical body; and it was man's misfortune, so to speak—his fate—to be forced to experience the influence of Lucifer and Ahriman in his physical body in this physical world just at a time when he was God-forsaken, as it were. The result was that the old heritage of wisdom became useless precisely by reason of the influence of the physical body, of living in the physical body. How did this happen? Formerly man did not live in the physical body: he gathered his wisdom from his father's treasury, so to speak—from the ancient fund of wisdom. His source of supplies was outside his physical body, because he himself was outside it in respect of his etheric body; and this source finally dried up. In order to augment his fund of wisdom, man would have needed a treasury in his own body. But this he did not have; and consequently, in default of an inner source of wisdom, there remained less and less of it in his etheric body every time he abandoned his physical body at death. After every death, every reincarnation, the sum of wisdom in his etheric body was less: the etheric body became ever poorer in wisdom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-07-05/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-07-05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":217,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.02,"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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If the son, who had formerly lived on his father's fund, spends it all and earns nothing additional, his prospects will become increasingly dismal. But if this man now has a son of his own—that would be the grandson—the latter will not be in the same position as his father. The father at least inherited something and could go on spending, but there remains nothing at all for the grandson, nor does he inherit anything: for the time being he is left with nothing whatever. And in a certain way that describes the course of human evolution. When the etheric body entered the physical, bringing along a supply of divine wisdom from the treasury of the Godhead, it still provided wisdom for its physical body. But the Luciferic and Ahrimanic spirits prevented all augmentation of this wisdom in the physical body—contrived that none should be added. When now the etheric body begins to emerge again it takes nothing with it from the physical body, and the consequence is that if nothing else had intervened man would be heading for a future in which his etheric body, though belonging to him, would contain no vestige of wisdom or knowledge. And with the complete desiccation of the physical body the etheric body would be destitute as well, for nothing could be drawn from the dried-up physical body. Therefore, if the physical body is not to desiccate in that future period, the etheric body must he provided with strength, with the strength of wisdom. Before emerging from the physical body the etheric body should have been endowed with the power of wisdom. Within the physical body it must have received something it can take out with it. 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Wir können eine Antwort auf diese Frage erhalten, wenn wir die Herkunft der uralten Weisheit im bezug auf die Menschheit näher betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":55,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Ich habe Ihnen ja schon angedeutet, daß in der alten atlantischen Zeit ein ganz anderer Zusammenhang war zwischen dem menschlichen physischen Leibe und dem menschlichen Ätherleibe als später. Von den vier Gliedern der Menschennatur gilt heute, daß der physische Leib und Ätherleib so miteinander verbunden sind, daß sie sich ungefähr decken, und besonders ist das bei dem Kopfteil des Menschen der Fall. So ist es aber nur für die heutige Zeit. Wenn wir zurückgehen in die atlantische Zeit, so haben wir da einen solchen Zusammenhang, daß der menschliche Ätherleib in bezug auf den Kopfteil überall weit hinausragte. Der Mensch hatte seinen Ätherleib, besonders in bezug auf den Kopf, in der atlantischen Zeit weit aus dem physischen Leib heraußen. Nun ist die atlantische Entwickelung eben so, daß immer mehr und mehr der Ätherleib zur Deckung kam mit dem physischen Leibe, insbesondere in bezug auf den Kopf. Immer mehr zieht der Ätherleib sich in den physischen Leib hinein und verändert natürlich auch dadurch dieses Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit. Also das ist das Wesentliche in bezug auf diese Seite der menschlichen Entwickelung, daß der Ätherteil des menschlichen Kopfes immer weiter sich hineinzieht in den physischen Teil des Kopfes und daß beide zur Deckung kommen. Nun war der Ätherleib, solange er außerhalb des physischen Kopfes war, in einer ganz anderen Lage als nachher. Es war so, daß er von allen Seiten mit Strömungen verbunden war, mit anderen geistigen Wesenheiten; und was da aus- und einströmte, das gab diesem menschlichen Ätherleib in den atlantischen Zeiten die Fähigkeit des Hellsehens. Also diese Fähigkeit des Hellsehens rührt davon her, daß der Ätherleib noch nicht ganz im physischen Leibe drinnen war in bezug auf den Kopf, und daß von allen Seiten Ströme hineingingen in den Kopf und diesem Ätherleib die Fähigkeit des Hellsehens gaben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Nun kam die Zeit, da sich der Ätherleib hineinzog in den physischen Leib. Da riß sich der Ätherleib in einer gewissen Weise - nicht ganz — von diesen Strömungen los. Er fing also an sich abzuschneiden von den Zuflüssen, die ihm die Fähigkeit des Hellsehens gegeben hatten, um in die Weisheit der Welt hineinzuschauen. Wenn umgekehrt jemand eingeweiht wurde in den alten Zeiten und sein Ätherleib herausgehoben war, dann wurde sein Ätherkopf wiederum eingeschaltet in die umliegenden Strömungen, und dadurch wurde er wiederum hellsehend. Wäre nun mit einem Schlage das geschehen um die Mitte der atlantischen Zeit, daß der Ätherleib plötzlich ganz abgeschnitten worden wäre von der Berührung mit der Außenwelt, dann würde der Mensch viel schneller alles alte Hellsehen verloren haben. Es wären auch dann keine Reste dieses alten Hellsehens für die nachatlantische Zeit zurückgeblieben, und der Mensch wäre in die spätere Zeit gekommen ohne Erinnerung an das Hellsehen. Der Mensch ist jedoch in gewisser Beziehung noch verbunden geblieben mit den äußeren Strömungen, und es trat noch etwas anderes ein. Dieser Ätherleib des Menschen, der sich losgerissen hatte aus den Strömungen seiner Umgebung, der behielt in sich Reste der alten Weisheitsfähigkeit. Nun merken Sie wohl: Am Ende der atlantischen Zeit, nachdem der Mensch seinen Ätherleib in sich aufgenommen hatte, war in diesem Ätherleib noch ein Fonds, ein Rest dessen, was der Ätherleib draußen einmal gehabt hatte, ein «Sparpfennig », wenn ich so sagen darf. Es ist so, wie wenn ein Sohn einen Vater hat. Der Vater verdient, und der Sohn bezieht immerfort von seinem Vater dieses oder jenes, was er braucht. So bezog der Mensch Weisheit, soviel er brauchte, aus seiner Umgebung bis zum Losreißen seines Ätherleibes. Nun nehmen wir aber an, um bei unserem Vergleich zu bleiben: Der Sohn verliert den Vater, es bleibt ihm nur irgendein bestimmter Teil übrig, und der Sohn verdient nichts hinzu; dann wird er einmal damit fertig sein und nichts mehr haben. In dieser Lage war der Mensch. Er hatte sich losgerissen von seiner Vater-Weisheit, hatte nichts hinzugewirtschaftet, hatte davon gelebt bis in die christliche Zeit hinein. Ja bis in unsere Zeit hinein lebt er noch immer von dem, was er ererbt hat, nicht von dem, was er erworben hat. Er lebt sozusagen vom Kapital. In den ältesten Zeiten der nachatlantischen Entwickelung hatte der Mensch noch etwas vom Kapital, zwar ohne daß er die Weisheit selbst erarbeitet hatte; er lebte sozusagen von den Zinsen und hat sich manchmal eine Zulage geben lassen von den Eingeweihten. Aber zuletzt wurde die Münze der alten Weisheit nicht mehr gangbar. Und als man diese alte Münze dem Oedipus auszahlte, da galt sie nicht mehr. Diese alte Weisheit bewahrte ihn nicht vor dem furchtbarsten Irrtum, und sie bewahrte auch nicht den Judas davor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":455,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p020"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"So weit war es mit dem Gange der Menschheitsentwickelung gekommen. Woher kam es denn eigentlich, daß der Mensch allmählich sein Weisheitskapital aufzehrte? Es kam daher, weil er früher schon zwei Arten von geistigen Wesenheiten in sich aufgenommen hatte: zuerst die luziferischen Wesenheiten, und dann infolge der luziferischen Wesenheiten die ahrimanischen oder mephistophelischen Wesenheiten. Die hinderten ihn daran, zu der alten Weisheit etwas hinzuzuerwerben. Denn die wirkten in seiner Wesenheit in der Art: mehr die Leidenschaften verderbend, die Gefühle verderbend die luziferischen Wesenheiten äußerlich verderbend unsere Anschauung über die Welt, unsere Beobachtung die ahrimanischen, die mephistophelischen Wesenheiten. Würden nicht die luziferischen Wesenheiten in die Erdentwickelung eingegriffen haben, so würde der Mensch nicht das Interesse gewonnen haben für die physische Welt, das ihn herabzieht unter seinen Stand. Würden nicht als Folge der luziferischen Wesenheiten die mephistophelischen, die ahrimanischen oder satanischen Wesenheiten eingegriffen haben, so würde der Mensch wissen und immer gewußt haben: Hinter jedem äußeren Sinnesding ist ein Geistiges. Und er würde durchschauen durch die Oberfläche der äußeren Sinneswelt auf das Geistige. Aber Ahriman hat ihm hineingemischt in seine Anschauung etwas wie einen dunklen Rauch, und so kann der Mensch nicht durchschauen auf das Geistige. Durch Ahriman wird der Mensch in die Lüge hineinverstrickt; dadurch wird er in die Maja, in die Illusion hineinverstrickt. Diese zwei Wesensarten hindern ihn, sich etwas hinzuzuerwerben zu dem alten Weisheitsgut, das der Mensch einmal empfangen hat. Und so versiegte es und verlor nach und nach völlig seine Brauchbarkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p021"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Aber in gewisser anderer Beziehung geht dann die Entwickelung doch ihren Gang weiter. Der Mensch ist in der atlantischen Zeit untergetaucht mit dem Ätherleib in den physischen Leib. Das war sozusagen sein Unglück, als er in gewisser Beziehung gottverlassen war, daß er da in dieser physischen Welt innerhalb des physischen Leibes die Einflüsse Luzifers und Ahrimans erlebte. Es war sein Verhängnis. Und die Folge davon war, daß gerade durch den Einfluß des physischen Leibes, durch das Leben im physischen Leibe das alte Weisheitsgut unbrauchbar wurde. Wie geschah das? Früher hat der Mensch nicht im physischen Leibe gelebt. Da hat er sozusagen aus der Kasse seines Vaters, der alten Weisheitsgüter heraus die Weisheit genommen, das heißt, er hatte seine Kasse außerhalb seines physischen Leibes, weil er eben mit seinem Ätherleib draußen war. Diese Kasse war allmählich versiegt. Der Mensch hätte müssen in seinem eigenen Leib eine Kasse haben, um sein Weisheitsgut zu vermehren. Die hatte er aber nicht. Und so kam es denn, weil der Mensch in seinem eigenen Leib keinen Quell hatte zur Erneuerung der Weisheit, daß jedesmal, wenn er herausstieg nach dem Tode aus seinem physischen Leib, in seinem Ätherleib weniger Weisheit drinnen war. Jedesmal nach dem Tode, nach einer jeden Verkörperung, war in seinem Ätherleib weniger Weisheit drinnen. Immer ärmer an Weisheit wurde der Ätherleib.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p022"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Aber der Gang der Entwickelung geht fort, und genau so, wie einstmals in der atlantischen Zeit der Mensch sich so entwickelt hat, daß sein Ätherleib untertauchte in seinen physischen Leib, so vollzieht sich die Entwickelung, indem wir in die Zukunft hineingehen, so, daß der Mensch allmählich wieder herausrückt aus seinem physischen Leib. Während der Ätherleib vorher hineingezogen ist und bis zum Erscheinen des Christus immer noch ein Stück weiter hineingegangen ist, kam jetzt die Zeit, wo der Gang der Entwickelung sich änderte. In dem Moment, wo der Christus erschien, da fing der Ätherleib wieder an herauszugehen, und heute ist er schon bereits weniger mit dem physischen Leibe verbunden als zur Zeit der Anwesenheit des Christus. Der physische Leib ist dadurch noch gröber geworden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":123,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p023"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Der Mensch geht also einer Zukunft entgegen, in der immer mehr und mehr sein Ätherleib sich wieder heraushebt, und er wird allmählich wieder einmal an einem Punkte ankommen, wo wieder sein Ätherleib ganz so weit draußen ist wie in der atlantischen Zeit. Wir werden unseren Vergleich noch ein Stück weiter fortsetzen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":52,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p024"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-07-05/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Wenn der Sohn, der früher aus der Kasse seines Vaters gelebt hat, alles ausgibt und nichts hinzuerwirbt, so wird es bei ihm immer trübseliger ausschauen. Aber wenn er nun auch einen Sohn hat, so wird dieser Sohn, also der Enkel, nicht in der gleichen Lage sein wie sein Vater. Der Vater hat wenigstens etwas geerbt und konnte immerfort noch ausgeben. Der Enkel hat nun gar nichts mehr, er erbt auch nichts, er steht ohne etwas da zunächst. So war in einer gewissen Beziehung der Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung. Der Ätherleib, als er hereinkam und ‘ sich aus den Kassen der Gottheit die göttliche Weisheitssumme. mitnahm, da brachte er seinem physischen Leibe noch Weisheit mit. Aber im physischen Leibe hinderten die luziferischen und die ahrimanischen Geister, daß sich die Weisheit vermehrte, daß etwas hinzukam. Wenn jetzt der Ätherleib wieder herausrückt, dann nimmt er aus dem physischen Leibe nichts mit heraus. Und die Folge würde sein, wenn nichts anderes eingetreten wäre, daß der Mensch einer Zukunft entgegenginge, in welcher sein ätherischer Leib zwar ihm gehört, aber gar nichts von Weisheit, gar nichts von Wissen hätte. Und während der physische Leib völlig vertrocknet, würde der Ätherleib auch nichts haben, denn er kann ja von dem vertrocknenden physischen Leib nichts gewinnen. Wenn also der physische Leib nicht vertrocknen soll in jener Zukunft, dann muß dem Ätherleibe Kraft, Kraft der Weisheit gegeben werden. Es müßte dieser Ätherleib, indem er herausgeht aus dem physischen Leib, im physischen Leibe Kraft der Weisheit erhalten haben. Da drinnen müßte er etwas erhalten haben, was er mit hinausträgt. Wenn er dann draußen ist, und er hat diese Weisheit erhalten, dann wirkt er wieder zurück auf den physischen Leib und gibt ihm Leben, läßt ihn nicht vertrocknen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-07-05/p025"}],"beads":[{"from":[21,22,23],"to":[18,19,20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[25],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[26],"to":[23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[27],"to":[24,25],"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)."}}