{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1909-10-25/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If this Bodhisattva was really to become the Buddha of the fourth Post-Atlantean period of civilisation, he had to bring in something new for the future. When the consciousness-or spiritual-soul has been fully developed, man will, by its means, gradually become sufficiently ripe to recognise of himself the great impetus given by Buddha. At a time when man had only developed the intellectual soul, it was necessary that Buddha should already have developed the spiritual soul. He had so to use the physical instrument of the brain that he was complete master of it; and this in quite a different fashion than could have been done by one who might have progressed in advance as far as the Graeco-Latin period of civilisation. The Graeco-Latin brain would have been too hard for him to use. It would only have enabled him to develop the intellectual or mind (Mind in the sense of ‘I have a mind to do a thing.’) soul, whereas he had to develop the spiritual soul. For that he required a brain that had remained softer. He made use of the soul that was only to develop later, in an instrument that had been used by man in earlier times and had been retained by the Indian people. Here again we have a recapitulation: Buddha repeated a human organisation belonging to earlier times, together with a soul-capacity belonging to times yet to come. The events that take place in the evolution of humanity are to this extent, of the nature of a necessity. In the 5th to the 6th century before our era, Buddha had the task of introducing the spiritual-soul into the organisation of man. He, as a single individual, could not, however, take over the whole task of doing all that was necessary in order that the spiritual-soul might prepare itself in the right way from the 5th century onward. His own particular mission only comprised one part of that task: that of bringing to man the doctrine of Compassion and Love. Other teachers of humanity would have other tasks. This part of the Ethics of Humanity, the ethic of Love and Compassion, was first introduced by Buddha, and its vibrations still endure; but humanity must in future develop a number of other qualities besides these, as, for instance, that of thinking in forms of pure thought, in crystal-clear thoughts. It was no part of Buddha's mission to build up thoughts, to add one clear thought to another. His task was to form and establish that which leads man of his own accord to find the eight-fold path.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Das griechischlateinische Gehirn wäre für ihn zu hart gewesen. Er hätte darinnen nur die Verstandesseele ausbilden können; er mußte aber die Bewußtseinsseele ausbilden. Daher brauchte er ein Gehirn, das weicher geblieben war. Er gebrauchte die Seele, die sich später entwickeln sollte, in einem Instrument, das vorher Usus war bei der Menschheit und das sich erhalten hatte bei dem indischen Volke.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1909-10-25/p024"},{"locus":"GA 116/1909-10-25/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Da haben Sie auch eine Wiederholung: Der Buddha wiederholt eine Menschheitsorganisation von vorher mit einer Seelenfähigkeit von nachher. Bis zu diesem Grade sind die Dinge, die in der Menschheitsentwickelung vorgehen, notwendig. Und der Buddha hatte die Aufgabe, im 5. bis 6. Jahrhundert vor unserer Zeitrechnung die Bewußtseinsseele hineinzutauchen in die menschliche Organisation. Er konnte aber als Einzelindividualität nicht die volle Aufgabe übernehmen, er konnte nicht alles tun, damit diese Bewußtseinsseele sich vom fünften Zeitraum ab richtig ausbildet. Er hatte nur einen Teil dieser Aufgabe als seine besondere Mission, nämlich die Aufgabe, der Menschheit die Lehre vom Mitleid und von der Liebe zu bringen. Andere Aufgaben oblagen anderen, ähnlichen Lehrern der Menschheit. Die in diesem Teil beschlossene Menschheitsethik, die Ethik der Liebe und des Mitleids, wurde angeschlagen von dem Buddha, und sie vibriert weiter fort. Die Menschheit aber muß außerdem für die Zukunft eine ganze Summe anderer Fähigkeiten entwickeln, zum Beispiel in reinen Formen des Denkens zu denken, in auskristallisierten Gedanken Gedankenplastik zu treiben, einen Gedanken als reinen Gedanken zu dem andern zu setzen. Diese Fähigkeit lag nicht in der Buddha-Mission. 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