{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As a result of the luciferic influence man now became a being capable of making distinctions; that is, he became a being who developed divine qualities within him prematurely. In this way and through this influence, something entered human nature which would otherwise have been withheld from his evolution till the middle of the Atlantean epoch. As you can well imagine, man would have been quite different if this descent into matter had not taken place till then; his soul would have been more mature for the descent. He would have descended into matter as a better, a riper, man. He would have brought quite different qualities into his physical, etheric and astral bodies and would have possessed a very different power of distinguishing between good and evil. Because man was already a being able to distinguish between good and evil from the Lemurian epoch to the middle of the Atlantean epoch, he made himself worse than he would otherwise have been; he entered a state of lesser perfection. He would otherwise have spent all the intervening time in a much more spiritual way; but as it was, he passed through it more materially. The effect of this was that if he had received in the middle of the Atlantean epoch what the gods had intended him to have, he would have fallen utterly and completely.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Entrance of the Christ-Being into the Evolution of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-02","location":null,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1926","book_title":"The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA116/English/APC1926/19100202p01.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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So ist auf diese Weise durch den luziferischen Einfluß etwas in die Menschennatur hineingekommen, was sonst aufbewahrt geblieben wäre für die menschliche Entwickelung bis in die Mitte der atlantischen Zeit. Nun können Sie sich denken, daß der Mensch ein ganz anderer gewesen wäre, wenn ihm dieser Herunterstieg in die Materie erst in der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit beschieden gewesen wäre, denn dann wäre seine Seele reifer von diesem Herunterstieg getroffen worden. Er wäre als ein besserer, als ein reiferer Mensch in der Materie angekommen. Er hätte also in alles Physische, Ätherische und Astralische andere Eigenschaften hineingebracht und wäre ganz anders fähig geworden, zwischen dem Guten und dem Bösen zu entscheiden. Dadurch, daß sich der Mensch von der lemurischen Zeit bis zur Mitte der atlantischen Zeit zu einem Entscheider zwischen Gut und Böse gemacht hat, dadurch hat er sich schlechter gemacht, als er sonst geworden wäre, und kam dadurch in einem weniger vollkommenen Zustand an. Er hätte die ganze Zeit bis zur Mitte der atlantischen Zeit sonst in einer viel geistigeren Art durchgemacht, so aber hat er sie materieller durchlaufen. 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