{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 113/1909-08-30/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In Egypt the procedure was not identical though similar. Then came the epoch which was to prepare for the descent of the cosmic sun god upon the earth. The spirit who previously had been external now had to enter into the human soul, had to be found within it, even as formerly the Luciferic divinities and Osiris were to be found there. The two paths clearly shown in the contrasts between the Chaldeans and the Egyptians had to make one another fruitful. Such an event was essential. How could it take place? It could only occur after a ‘connecting link’ had been created. This proceeded from Ur of Chaldea, as the Bible truly states. It takes up the revelation coming from without then it passes on into Egypt, absorbs that which comes from within and unites the two, so that for the first time in Jahve we have a being heralding the Christ who unites the two paths. Jahve or Jehovah is a divinity to be found on the inward path, but Jahve is not visible in himself. He only becomes visible when illuminated from without. Jehovah reflects the light of Christ. Here we can clearly see the two paths we have been studying so intensely, running side by side and each fructifying the other. And when this begins, quite a new process becomes apparent in human evolution. The outward an the inward fructify each other; the inward becomes the external and that which formerly lived only inwardly and within time now spreads out into space, so that the two paths continue side by side. Consider your own soul life! It does not spread out in ‘space,’ it runs its course in ‘time.’ Thoughts and feelings follow one another (in ‘time’). That which is outside is spread out in space, in simultaneous co-existence. Accordingly an event had to happen which may be called the outflow into space and co-existence of something which till then had only lived in time. And that event duly took place; something which had hitherto lived only in time became from that epoch onward a co-existing life in space. In this manner occurred a change of profound importance and one to which expression was given in an equally profound manner.","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":374,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/113/1909-08-30/p025","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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Dann aber rückte der Zeitpunkt heran, der vorbereiten sollte das Herabkommen des kosmischen Sonnengeistes auf die Erde. Der Geist, der vorher äußerlich war, sollte nun hineintreten in die menschliche Seele, daß er im Innern zu finden ist; wie früher die luziferischen Gottheiten zu finden waren, wie Osiris im Innern zu finden war. Die beiden Wege, die sich deutlich im Gegensatze bei den Chaldäern und Ägyptern zeigten, sollten sich gegenseitig befruchten. Das mußte geschehen. Wie konnte das geschehen? Es konnte dadurch geschehen, daß ein Bindeglied geschaffen wurde. Dieses Bindeglied geht aus von Ur in Chaldäa, wie richtig die Bibel vom hebräischen Volk erzählt. Da nimmt es jene Offenbarungen mit, die von außen kommen. Dann geht es nach Ägypten, nimmt auf, was von innen kommt, und vereinigt beides, so daß zum erstenmal in Jahve eine Wesenheit voranleuchtend auftritt für Christus, welche die beiden Wege vereinigt. Was frühere Götter waren, das wird jetzt von zwei Seiten her dem Menschen kund. Wie später der Christus innerlich beleuchtet wird, so wird wenigstens von außen beleuchtet dasjenige, was früher als gewisse Götter in der Dunkelheit erscheint. So sehen wir, daß in Jahve oder Jehova eine Gottheit auftritt, die auf dem Wege nach innen gefunden wird, aber noch nicht durch sich selbst sichtbar wird, die nur sichtbar wird, wenn sie von außen beleuchtet wird. Das zurückgeworfene Christus-Licht ist bei Jehova. Da sehen wir deutlich nebeneinandertreten und sich gegenseitig befruchten diese beiden Richtungen, die uns jetzt so viel beschäftigt haben. Damit aber beginnt überhaupt etwas ganz besonders Neues im Entwickelungsgange der Menschheit. Jetzt beginnt, daß sich Äußeres und Inneres befruchten; jetzt beginnt das, wo das Innere zum Äußeren wird, wo in den Raum hinausdringt, um nebeneinander zu sein, dasjenige, was früher nur innerlich in der Zeit gelebt hat. Durchsuchen Sie Ihr Seelenleben einmal. Dieses ist nicht im Raume ausgebreitet, das verläuft in der Zeit. Die einzelnen Gedanken und Empfindungen sind hintereinander. Was draußen ist, das ist im Raume ausgebreitet, das ist nebeneinander. Daher muß jetzt das eintreten, was man nennt: das Hinausfließen von etwas, was bisher nur in der Zeit gelebt hat, in den Raum zum Nebeneinander. Das geschieht auch, daß etwas, was nur in der Zeit gelebt hat, im Raume nunmehr nebeneinanderlebt. 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