{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 113/1909-08-30/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those familiar with my ‘Outline of Occult Science,’ will know that human evolution in the post-Atlantean era is divided into the Old Indian, the Old Persian, the Chaldean-Egyptian, the Graeco-Latin, and the present cultural epochs; in the Graeco-Latin period came the Christ Event. Our culture epoch will be followed by another and this in its turn by the last, after which the earth will again undergo a change somewhat as it did at the time of the Atlantean catastrophe. We have therefore seven epochs of civilisation. In these seven we have a central one standing alone, the Graeco-Latin epoch of civilisation with the Christ Event. The other epochs of civilisation bear a certain relationship to one another. The Chaldean-Egyptian civilisation repeats itself in certain phenomena of the fifth, i.e. of our own epoch. Certain phenomena, facts and conceptions apparent in the Chaldean-Egyptian epoch reappear, but wearing of course a somewhat different form, because they are permeated by the intervening Christ impulse. This is not a simple repetition of the Chaldean-Egyptian civilisation, but a repetition wherein everything is steeped in what the Christ brought to the earth. It is in one sense a repetition and yet in another it is not. Men who have had a deeper understanding for the course of human evolution, and who have taken part in it with their souls have always felt something of the kind. Many such persons even if they have not advanced to occult knowledge, are pervaded by something like a recollection of old Egyptian experiences. The wonderful knowledge of the stars in their courses which the wise men of Egypt brought through into their Hermetic science has revived in our fifth epoch of civilisation in another and more material form. And those who participated in the revival felt this with special emphasis. Let me give one example only.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. The Nature of the Luciferic Influence in History","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-08-30","location":null,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/113/1909-08-30/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"RSPC1940","book_title":"The East in the Light of the West","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA113/English/RSPC1940/19090830p01.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 anderen Kulturepochen stehen aber in einem gewissen Verhältnisse zueinander. Die chaldäisch-ägyptische Kulturepoche wiederholt sich in gewissen Erscheinungen der fünften Epoche, das heißt in unserer eigenen, so daß in unserer Zeit gewisse Erscheinungen, gewisse Tatsachen, gewisse Anschauungen wiederum aufleben müssen, die in der alten chaldäisch-ägyptischen Kultur gelebt haben. Nur leben sie auf in einer anderen Form, nämlich so, daß sie durchtränkt sind von demjenigen, was geschehen ist durch den Christus-Impuls. Nicht etwa eine einfache Wiederholung der chaldäisch-ägyptischen Kultur haben wir, sondern wir haben in unserer Zeit eine solche Wiederholung dieser Kulturepoche, daß alles getaucht ist in das, was der Christus auf die Erde gebracht hat. Das ist eine Wiederholung und doch wieder nicht eine solche. Diejenigen Menschen, welche sich tiefer eingefühlt haben in den Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung und teilgenommen haben an diesem mit ihrer Seele, die haben immer so etwas gefühlt. Bei solchen Menschen ist, wenn sie auch noch nicht zu einem okkulten Wissen vorgerückt waren, doch etwas aufgetaucht wie eine Erinnerung an alte ägyptische Erlebnisse. Dasjenige, was die ägyptischen Weisen in ihrer wunderbaren Erkenntnis der Himmelsvorgänge auf ihre Art in ihrer Hermes-Wissenschaft durchdrungen haben, das lebt in unserer fünften Kulturepoche, in unserer eigenen Zeit in einer materialistischeren Form wieder auf. So gefühlt haben das Aufleben dieser Erscheinungen besonders diejenigen, die an ihm beteiligt waren. 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