{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p010-p021","extent":"range","passage_number":10,"through":21,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p010","last_locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"III. 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Now, however, on account of the luciferic influence, man had to wait as long a time for the Christ-Impulse as had elapsed between the intervention of the luciferic influence and the middle of the Atlantean epoch. There was the same span of time between the entrance of Lucifer and the middle of the Atlantean epoch, as between that time and. the arrival of the Christ-Impulse. Thus, through man's having acquired a likeness to the gods before he was meant to do so, we have to describe a delay of the Christ-Impulse. For before that could come man had to go through the Earth-Karma due to him on account of the evil that had entered the earth through the luciferic impulse. He had to wait, not only till that influence had rendered him able to distinguish between good and evil, but until, in the course of the earth's development, all the consequences of the luciferic influence had come. He had to wait for these, for then only could the Christ-Impulse descend to the earth. In accordance with the wise guidance of the earth, man was not intended to escape for ever from what was to come to him through the luciferic influence, but it would not have come upon him till the middle of the Atlantean epoch. It must have come in any case; but it would certainly not have come in the same form. Not only did man acquire from Lucifer the power of free decision in everything connected with spiritual things, but also the capacity of enthusiasm for what is good and noble, wise and great. As human beings, we are not only able coldly to distinguish between good and evil, but also to feel a warm glow for the noble, good and wise. That is because something was carried into our astral body, which, if it had only reached man in the middle of the Atlantean epoch, would have been taken into the ego, that ego which is capable of judgment. All the feeling, the idealism and enthusiasm for what is good, for high ideals, we owe to the circumstance that something entered our astral body before we had acquired the likeness to God in our ego, before the acceptance of the Christ had taken place therein. The essential point is that this likeness to God, the possibility of finding the good within ourselves, had to come to man. 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The thought that man can take in the Divine in his Ego-being and that this Divine part can be active therein and distinguish between good and evil, underlies all the deeper sayings of the New Testament. We may therefore say that with the reception into the inner nature of man of the Christ-Impulse, it was made possible for man to say: ‘I must be my own guide for the knowledge of my existence and the distinction between good and evil.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":98,"en_words":103,"ratio":1.05,"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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Through their companionship with divine spiritual beings these Guides acquired it and it flowed from them into the souls of men, as though by suggestion. Had it not been for those guides, men could only have made feeble distinctions between good and evil in those days. If these guides had depended on their own hearts alone, they could not have done this either; but because they descended into those depths of the soul which were not yet accessible to man and entered in their ego-being into the kingdoms of heaven, they received the impulse needed by man to help him to decide between good and evil at the time of his need, that the good might nevertheless be implanted in the earth by way of preparation. Thus, before the time of Christ, man was a being still insufficiently prepared to acquire the likeness to God. On this account, since the Lemurian epoch, everything done by man was done less well than would otherwise have been the case. This applies above all to what regards himself. His astral, etheric and physical bodies, which but for the luciferic influence would have remained more spiritual, were, through that influence, less well formed, made more material. That was the reason of all the evil which developed in the life of man as time went on. In the course of a very long time have these evils developed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":365,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p015"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 116/1910-02-02/p015","GA 116/1910-02-02/p016"],"length_check":{"de_words":410,"en_words":365,"ratio":0.89,"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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In the astral body a high degree of egotism was developed; in the etheric body the possibility of mistaken judgment and the possibility of lying. If man had remained under the influence of divine-spiritual beings, acting instinctively in accordance with their impulses, he would not to-day, when he desires knowledge of the world around him, be able to fall into error, nor could he be led into untruth. Thus did the tendency to lying and the danger of error find place in the development of man; and since the spiritual is always the origin of the physical, and because the luciferic influence and its consequences ate their way more and more deeply into the etheric body during incarnation after incarnation, the possibility of disease entered the physical body. Illness is the evil that entered the physical body through that development; but something of still greater significance has come. If man had not been subject to these influences, if he had not allowed them to work upon him, he would never have supposed that anything more than a change of life takes place when the physical body falls away from us; consciousness of death would not have come to him. If man had descended less deeply into matter and had kept hold of the threads uniting him with the divine-spiritual, he would have been aware that when the physical sheath is laid aside, a new form of existence begins; but he would never have looked upon that as a loss, as the end of an existence he had grown fond of. 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Man is being led back into the spiritual world, so to speak, with the qualities he has acquired “from below.” The re-ascent will be a quicker progress than the descent; but it cannot be expected that in one or two incarnations man will be enabled, through what he can take in of the Christ-Impulse, to overcome selfishness and to heal his etheric body to such an extent that all danger of lying and error is at an end, still less can he be expected to be able to work healingly on his physical body. All this must go on slowly and gradually; but it is going on. Just as man has been led down into all those qualities by the luciferic impulse, so will he be led up out of them by the Christ-Impulse. Selfishness will be transmuted into selflessness, lying into truthfulness, the danger of error into absolute certainty and true judgment. Illness will become the foundation for more complete health; the illness we have overcome will be the germs of greater good-health; and when we have gradually learnt to understand death in such a way that the Death at Golgotha works as a prototype of death in our own soul, death will then have lost its sting. Man will then know why from time to time he must lay aside his physical covering, in order to rise higher and higher in the course of his embodiments. In particular, the Christ-Impulse brought with it the impulse to make good something connected with man's knowledge and observation, with his knowledge of the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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He long remained a participator in it; for a long time he continued to feel that his finer, more spiritual instincts were guided by the threads from the divine-spiritual world. For a long time he still continued to feel that his impulse was not a merely human one, it was as though the Gods had been at work behind it. That was more particularly the case in more ancient times. Man was driven slowly into matter and he thus gradually lost the consciousness of the divine.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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They said: There was once upon a time an age in which man was driven some way into material existence by the luciferic influence—though not so far as to prevent the divine influence from still having a powerful effect upon him. In the early ages of man's development this was known as the ‘Golden Age.’ This is no fanciful conception: ‘Golden Age’ is simply the expression used by those men of olden times who still had an inkling that there had been something like a primeval age of humanity, such as has just been described. This Golden Age, known to Eastern philosophy as Krita-Yuga, lasted, comparatively speaking, much longer than the Ages we still have to describe. After the Golden Age came the so-called ‘Silver Age.’ Man was pushed further down into the physical world; but the process went on slowly and gradually. Even then the doors of the spiritual world were not yet completely closed. Man still had intense moments in which, in a dreamy sort of clairvoyance, he saw the Gods at work behind his instincts. Man could no longer be called a companion of the Gods in this Silver Age, but he could still perceive them standing behind him. Eastern philosophy calls this age, Treta-Yuga. Then came an Age which extends into our own Post-Atlantean period; its last stragglers extended into historical times when there still were people gifted with the old dream-like, twilight consciousness. The consciousness of a spiritual world from which man had come forth, still existed; though only as a kind of memory remaining over from former incarnations. It was just as when we now remember our own childhood, our youth, and our present age. In childhood we had direct experience of our childish happenings; in like manner man still experienced in Treta Yuga in a direct way, the impulse of a divine-spiritual world. In the Age following on that, known as the ‘Bronze Age,’ what man had was more like a memory. It might be compared with the way a grown man contemplates his childhood; for we say: ‘I experienced my childhood; it was not a dream!’ That was like the state of things in the Third Age. Men then knew: ‘In earlier ages we had experience of communion with the Gods; that is now nothing but a memory!’ I have explained at some length how in the Old-Indian period of civilisation the memory of the Atlantean epoch worked retrospectively, thus enabling the holy Rishis to reveal their great divine teachings. This Bronze Age is known in Eastern philosophy as Dvapara-Yuga. That is followed by an Age in which all memory of the divine-spiritual world is lost, when man, with his knowledge and perception, is entirely given up to the physical world. That age began about the year 3101 B.C. In Eastern philosophy it is known as Kali-Yuga, ‘the dark age’; because man had then lost all connection with the spiritual world and become completely one with the physical world. I wish expressly to note that I am now using these expressions for smaller divisions of time, but they can also be applied to larger spans. We are now speaking of the divisions of time corresponding to the smaller ages, and we make Kali-Yuga begin, as does Indian philosophy, with the year 3101 before our era. The Age was then being prepared in which men were taught only to see that which conceals the divine-spiritual world as by a veil, by a covering; when they only perceived the external physical. 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This was shown to him by the announcement made on Mount Sinai in the ‘Ten Commandments.’ The people then heard proclaimed through Moses: ‘The good and evil thou hast already developed are not sufficient. I will show thee how these Commandments should sound if thou hadst not descended, and in return for thy defective qualities, received the power of judging between good and evil.’ The Decalogue, the law, given to man on Sinai, was given to man as he had then become; so that out of the spiritual worlds man heard sounding forth that which was right, in contrast to what he had insufficiently developed. The Ten Commandments stand forth as a law of iron, as a torch, showing man what he had not become. He had to submit himself to that law, with all he had become. Man could not at first have submitted to the Ten Commandments, because he had become lacking in decision, lacking in self-guidance. 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Therein is first shown the right attitude of the ego to the spiritual worlds; this is contained in the first three Commandments. The next ones refer to man's conduct towards his fellow-men in act and deed, and the last Commandments refer to the control of his feelings and sensations. The Ten Commandments give instructions for the education of the ego. This was the preparation by means of which the ego was to learn in its most inward being how to give itself the impulse after having descended into Kali-Yuga, into the age of darkness. At first man was to be given the Law from above. The Law of one's own ego could however, only become what it was to be, when that ego takes into itself the great Prototype of Golgotha, saying: ‘If I take into my soul such thinking as was thought by the Being Who offered Himself in sacrifice on Golgotha,—if I take into myself such feelings as were felt by the Being Who offered Himself as sacrifice on Golgotha,—if I take into myself such willing as was willed by the Being Who offered Himself in sacrifice on Golgotha, then will my being come to a decision within itself to develop increasingly a likeness to God, it will then no longer have to follow the Outer Law, the Ten Commandments, but an inner impulse, its own Law.’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-02-02/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-02-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p030","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p030"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":247,"ratio":0.97,"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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Jetzt mußte er aber, weil der luziferische Einfluß da war, auf diesen Christus-Impuls so lange warten, als die Zeit betrug von dem luziferischen Einfluß bis zur Mitte der atlantischen Zeit. So viel Zeit früher, als Luzifer vor der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit an den Menschen herangetreten ist, so viel Zeit später kam der Christus-Impuls. So haben wir dadurch, daß der Mensch sich seine Gottähnlichkeit früher erworben hat als es hätte sein sollen, eine Verzögerung des Christus-Impulses zu verzeichnen. Denn der Mensch mußte erst alles durchmachen, was ihm im Erdenkarma werden mußte für das, was in ihn Schlechtes hineingekommen war durch den luziferischen Einfluß. Das mußte erst sozusagen ausgelitten werden durch die Menschheit. Der Mensch mußte warten, bis nicht nur der luziferische Einfluß ihn zu einem Entscheider gemacht hatte zwischen Gut und Böse, sondern bis im Laufe der Erdenentwickelung auch alles das eingetreten war, was als Folge dieses luziferischen Einflusses kommen mußte. Das mußte abgewartet werden. Dann erst konnte der Christus-Impuls auf die Erde herniedersteigen. Der Mensch sollte nicht etwa nach der weisen Lenkung der Welt dasjenige ewig entbehren, was ihm durch den luziferischen Einfluß geworden ist, sondern er hätte es in der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit erhalten sollen. Werden sollte es ihm also unter allen Umständen. Allerdings in der Form, in der es ihm geworden ist durch den luziferischen Einfluß, wäre es ihm im anderen Falle nicht geworden. Durch Luzifer hat der Mensch für alles, was zusammenhängt mit geistigen Dingen, nicht nur die freie Entscheidung bekommen, sondern auch die Fähigkeit, sich zu enthusiasmieren für das Gute und Edle, Weise und Große. Wie wir als Menschen heute sind, können wir nicht bloß kalt, nüchtern und trocken entscheiden zwischen Gut und Böse, sondern wir können auch für das Schöne, für das Edle, Gute und Weise entflammt werden. Das rührt davon her, daß in unseren astralischen Leib etwas hineingetragen worden ist, was sonst, wenn es erst in der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit dem Menschen zugekommen wäre, nur in das Ich, in das urteilende Ich hineingetragen worden wäre. Also alles, was wir an Gefühlen, an Idealismus, an Entflammtsein haben für das Gute, für hohe Ideale, das verdanken wir dem Umstande, daß in unseren astralischen Leib etwas hineingekommen ist, bevor uns die Gottähnlichkeit in unserm Ich, die Aufnahme des Christus in unserm Ich zuteil geworden ist. Das ist das Wesentliche, daß diese Gottähnlichkeit, diese Gottgleichheit, diese Möglichkeit, das Gute in sich selbst zu finden, über den Menschen kommen sollte. Wäre der luziferische Einfluß nicht gekommen, so wäre dieser Impuls in der Mitte der atlantischen Zeit gekommen; so ist er aber jetzt in der Zeit gekommen, in der der Christus Jesus eben gewirkt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":473,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p013"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Es ist also durch den Christus-Impuls in den Menschen das Bewußstsein eingezogen, daß er in seinem Ich etwas von göttlicher Substanz und Wesenheit hat. Das liegt ja all den tieferen Aussprüchen auch des Neuen Testamentes zugrunde, daß der Mensch in seine Ich-Wesenheit das Göttliche aufnehmen kann, und daß dieses Göttliche darin wirken und Entscheidungen treffen kann zwischen Gutem und Bösem. Wir können daher sagen, mit der Aufnahme des Christus-Impulses in das menschliche Innere kam über den Menschen die Möglichkeit, sich zu sagen: Ich bin mir Richtschnur für die Erkenntnisse meines Daseins, für die Entscheidungen über Gut und Böse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p014"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wenn wir nun zurückblicken auf die vorchristlichen Zeiten, müssen wir sagen: Da damals jener Impuls, der den Menschen zum wahren Entscheider macht zwischen Gut und Böse, noch nicht da war, so war die Entscheidung zwischen Gut und Böse, war das Urteil, die Erkenntnis über das Gute, Schöne und Wahre in der vorchristlichen Zeit notwendig eine mangelhafte und eine solche, die sich nicht eigentlich aus dem Innersten des Menschen heraus ergeben konnte. Der Mensch hatte auch nicht die Möglichkeit, bevor der Christus-Impuls gekommen war, aus seinem innersten Wesen heraus über das Gute und das Böse zu entscheiden. Die Entscheidung über das richtige Gute, über das richtige Wahre, über das richtige Schöne konnte in vorchristlichen Zeiten nur dadurch getroffen werden, daß einzelne Individualitäten, wie die Bodhisattvas, mit einem Teile ihres Wesens im Laufe der Zeit hinaufreichten in göttlich-geistige Welten, also die Entscheidung über Gut und Böse nicht eigentlich aus dem Innersten der Menschennatur holten, sondern aus den göttlichen Welten. Durch ihren Verkehr mit göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten bekamen sie es und flößten es dann wie suggestiv der Menschenseele ein. Ohne solche Führer hätten die Menschen in den vorchristlichen Zeiten immer nur mangelhafte Entscheidungen treffen können über Gut und Böse. Wenn sich diese Führer auf ihr eigenes Herz verlassen hätten, so hätten sie es auch nicht gekonnt; nur dadurch, daß sie herunterstiegen in die Tiefen der Seele, die dem Menschen noch nicht beschert waren, dadurch, daß sie aus ihrer eigenen Ich-Wesenheit herausgingen in die Reiche der Himmel, bekamen sie die Impulse, welche die Menschen brauchten, um in der Zeit des mangelhaften Entscheidens über Gut und Böse dennoch das Gute vorbereitend auf die Erde zu verpflanzen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p015"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So war der Mensch in der vorchristlichen Zeit ein Wesen, welches sich für noch nicht genügend gereifte Eigenschaften die Gottgleichheit angeeignet hatte, für etwas, was noch gar nicht dazu geeignet war, die Gottgleichheit zu haben. Dadurch hat der Mensch seit der lemurischen Zeit alles, was er getan hat, schlechter, mangelhafter getan, als er es sonst getan haben würde. Vor allen Dingen hat er durch den luziferischen Einfluß in der vorchristlichen Zeit dasjenige schlechter und mangelhafter getan, was sich auf ihn selbst bezieht. Seinen astralischen Leib, Ätherleib und physischen Leib, die sonst geistiger geblieben wären, wenn nicht der luziferische Einfluß gewirkt hätte, hat er dadurch, daß das alles so gekommen ist, schlechter, materieller gestaltet. Dadurch sind aber auch alle Übel in das Menschenleben gekommen, die sich im Laufe der Zeit entwickelt haben. Im Laufe einer langen Zeit haben sie sich entwickelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p016"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Von der lemurischen Zeit bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha haben sich im physischen Leibe, im Ätherleib und im astralischen Leibe Übel entwickelt. Im astralischen Leibe hat sich ein hochgradiger Egoismus entwickelt, im Ätherleibe haben sich entwickelt die Möglichkeiten des Irrtums, wenn wir irgend etwas beurteilen wollen, und die Möglichkeit der Lüge. Wenn der Mensch unter dem Einfluß göttlich-geistiger Wesenheiten geblieben wäre, instinktiv nach ihren Impulsen gehandelt hätte, so würde er, wenn er sich heute Erkenntnisse würde erwerben wollen über die Umwelt, weder in Irrtum verfallen können, noch zur Lüge verführt werden können; so aber ist der Hang zur Lüge und die Gefahr des Irrtums in die menschliche Entwickelung hineingekommen. Und weil das Geistige immer der Verursacher ist des Physischen, und weil der luziferische Einfluß und dessen Folgen sich von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation immer mehr hineingefressen haben in den Ätherleib, so ist dadurch in den physischen Leib hineingekommen die Möglichkeit zur Erkrankung. Krankheit ist das Übel im physischen Leibe, das durch diese Entwikkelung gekommen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p017"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Aber etwas noch Bedeutsameres ist gekommen. Wäre der Mensch nicht diesen Einflüssen unterlegen, hätte er sie nicht auf sich wirken lassen, so wäre auch nicht das Bewußtsein gekommen, daß in dem Moment, wo der physische Leib von uns abfällt, irgend etwas anderes geschieht, als eine Verwandlung im Leben: Das Bewußtsein des Todes wäre nicht gekommen. Denn wenn der Mensch weniger tief in die Materie heruntergestiegen wäre und die Fäden, die ihn mit dem Göttlich-Geistigen verknüpfen, behalten hätte, so würde er gewußt haben, daß mit dem Ablegen der physischen Hülle eben nur eine andere Form des Daseins beginnt. Er hätte es nicht angesehen als das Verlieren, als das Ende einer ihm lieb gewordenen Existenz. Also alle Dinge in der Entwickelung würden ein anderes Gesicht bekommen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p018"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Weil der Mensch nun tiefer hinuntergestiegen ist in die Materie, hat er sich dadurch freier und unabhängiger gemacht, aber er hat auch seine Entwickelung zu einer mangelhafteren gemacht, als sie sonst geworden wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":33,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p019"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Diejenigen Geistesströmungen und Weltanschauungen in der Menschheit, die ein Wissen von diesen Dingen gehabt haben, haben daher immer darauf hingedeutet: Es hat ein altes Zeitalter gegeben, da war der Mensch zwar durch den luziferischen Einfluß schon etwas heruntergestoßen ins materielle Dasein, aber doch noch nicht so weit, als daß nicht dieser göttliche Einfluß noch stark in ihm gewirkt hätte. Dieses Zeitalter nannte man in alten Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung das goldene Zeitalter. Das ist nicht irgendein Phantasieprodukt, sondern der Ausdruck «goldenes Zeitalter» ist einfach ein Ausdruck, welchen diejenigen Bekenner gebraucht haben, die in älteren Zeiten noch eine Ahnung davon hatten, daß es so etwas wie eine Urzeit der Menschheit, wie sie eben geschildert wurde, einmal gegeben hat. Dieses goldene Zeitalter, das man mit einem Ausdruck der orientalischen Philosophie als «Krita Yuga» bezeichnet, hat verhältnismäßig von all den Zeitaltern, die wir noch charakterisieren werden, am längsten gedauert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p022"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Nach diesem goldenen Zeitalter kommt dann das sogenannte silberne Zeitalter. Da war der Mensch schon mehr heruntergestoßen in die physische Welt. Aber alles geschah langsam und allmählich. Es waren auch jetzt noch nicht die Tore gegenüber der geistigen Welt ganz zugeschlossen. Der Mensch hatte noch starke Momente, in denen er wie in einem traumhaften Hellsehen die Götter treibend hinter seinen Instinkten merkte. In diesem silbernen Zeitalter könnte man den Menschen zwar nicht mehr einen Genossen der Götter nennen, aber er merkte noch, daß Götter hinter ihm standen. Dieses Zeitalter wird mit einem Ausdruck der orientalischen Philosophie auch «Ireta Yuga» genannt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p023"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Dann kommt ein Zeitalter, das geht hinein bis in unser nachatlantisches Zeitalter; es erstreckt seine letzten Ausläufer bis in historische Zeiten hinein, wo es noch immer Menschen gegeben hat, mit altem traumhaftem, dämmerhaftem Hellsehen begabt. Aber das Bewußtsein von der geistigen Welt, aus der der Mensch herausgewachsen war, war in diesem Zeitalter nur noch wie eine Art Erinnerung vorhanden, die geblieben war aus früheren Inkarnationen. Es war so, wie wenn Sie sich heute Ihre Jugend, Ihr Kindesalter und Ihr jetziges Lebensalter denken. In unserer Kindheit haben wir die Kindheitserlebnisse unmittelbar erlebt, so haben die Menschen noch im Treta Yuga unmittelbar die Impulse der göttlich-geistigen Welt erlebt. In dem Zeitalter, das dann darauf folgte, das man auch das eherne Zeitalter nennt, da war nur mehr etwas wie eine Erinnerung daran vorhanden. Man könnte es vergleichen mit der Art, wie der erwachsene Mensch seine Kindheit betrachtet. Denn Sie werden sagen: Ich habe meine Kindheit erlebt, es ist kein Traum! So war es in dem dritten Zeitalter, da wußten die Menschen: Wir haben in früheren Zeiten den Zusammenhang mit dem Göttlichen erlebt, aber jetzt ist er nur noch wie eine Erinnerung da. — Ich habe ausführlich gezeigt, wie in der altindischen Kultur die Erinnerung an die atlantische Zeit nachwirkte; daher konnten die heiligen Rishis, weil diese Erinnerung noch nachwirkte, auch gerade damals ihre großen göttlichen Lehren verkündigen. Dieses eherne Zeitalter wird in der orientalischen Philosophie als «Dvapara Yuga» bezeichnet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p024"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Danach kommt ein Zeitalter, in dem die Erinnerung an die göttlich-geistige Welt verlorengeht, wo der Mensch mit seinem Erkennen und Anschauen ganz herausgesetzt wird in die physische Welt. Dieses Zeitalter beginnt etwa mit dem Jahre 3101 vor unserer Zeitrechnung, vor der Geburt des Christus Jesus, und man nennt es auch mit einem Ausdruck der orientalischen Philosophie «Kali Yuga», das finstere Zeitalter, weil da der Mensch alle Zusammenhänge mit der geistigen Welt verloren hat und vollständig zusammengewachsen ist mit der physischen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":81,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p025"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Ich bemerke ausdrücklich, daß ich diese Ausdrücke jetzt gebrauche für kleinere Zeitabschnitte; man kann sie aber auch ausdehnen über größere Zeiträume. Wir sprechen also von jener Auffassung der Zeitalter, wie sie zunächst den kleineren Zeitaltern entsprechen, und lassen Kali Yuga beginnen, wie es die indische Philosophie lehrt, mit dem Jahre 3101 vor unserer Zeitrechnung. Da bereitet sich jener Zeitraum vor, in welchem die Menschen angewiesen werden, nur dasjenige zu sehen, was wie ein Schleier, wie eine Hülle die göttlich-geistige Welt verbirgt, wo sie nur das äußere Physisch-Sinnliche wahrnehmen. Zwar sind im Anfange des Kali Yuga noch viele Menschen vorhanden, die hineinschauen oder sich erinnern können an die göttlich-geistige Welt, aber für die normale Menschheit beginnt jetzt die Zeit, wo sie nur noch Physisch-Sinnliches wahrnimmt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p026"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Das war das Heruntersteigen der Menschen bis zu einem Kali Yuga. Das war die Zeit des tiefsten Herunterstieges. Da hinein mußte der Impuls fallen, wieder hinaufzusteigen. Daher kommt der Impuls wieder hinaufzusteigen, der Christus-Impuls, im Kali Yuga, im finsteren Zeitalter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":40,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p027"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Dieser Christus-Impuls war vorbereitet worden durch die Jahve- oder Jehova-Religion. Denn durch die Jahve-Religion war der Mensch aufmerksam gemacht worden auf das Mangelhafte seiner früheren Entscheidungen. Während des Zeitraumes von der alten lemurischen Zeit bis zur Verkündigung auf dem Sinai haben wir ja jenes Zeitalter, wo der Mensch zwar zu einem Selbstentscheider wird über Gut und Böse, wo er auf der anderen Seite aber auch in Irrtum verfällt über das Böse und Gute und immer mehr dasjenige auf die Erde bringt, was in der Bibel die Sünde genannt wird. Da frißt sich die Sünde ein in das Erdenleben. Der Mensch hat sich die Gottgleichheit angeeignet, aber er hat sie für Eigenschaften in Anspruch genommen, die durchaus nicht reif waren für die Gottgleichheit. Was mußte nun geschehen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p028"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Zunächst mußte dem Menschen gezeigt werden, was die Gottheit von ihm verlangt, wenn er ein selbstbewußtes Ich werden sollte. Und das wurde ihm gezeigt durch die Verkündigung auf dem Sinai, durch die Verkündigung der Zehn Gebote. Da hörten die Menschen durch Moses: Was du bisher entwickelt hast über Gut und Böse, das ist mangelhaft. Ich zeige dir, wie die Gesetze lauten würden, wenn du nicht heruntergestiegen wärest und für deine mangelhaften Eigenschaften die Entscheidung über Gut und Böse in Anspruch genommen hättest! — So steht das Gesetz vom Sinai, der Dekalog, zu dem, was der Mensch geworden war, so daß ihm heruntertönt aus den geistigen Welten, was das Richtige wäre gegenüber dem, was er als mangelhaft ausgebildet hat. Als ein ehernes Gesetz stehen die Zehn Gebote da, als eine Fackel, welche dem Menschen anzeigt alles, was er nicht geworden ist. Er soll sich diesem Gesetz unterwerfen mit all dem, was er geworden ist. Der Mensch konnte sich diese Zehn Gebote zunächst nicht selbst geben, weil er in seinem Entscheiden, in seiner eigenen Gesetzgebung mangelhaft geworden war. Daher mußten ihm die Zehn Gebote durch einen Inspirierten, durch Moses gegeben werden, das heißt durch göttliche Eingebung von oben. Aber sie waren so gegeben, daß sie alle auf das Ich gerichtet waren. Sie sagten dem Menschen, wie sich ein Ich benehmen muß}, wenn es das Ziel der Menschheit erlangen soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p029"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"In dem Vortrag über die Zehn Gebote des Moses, am 16. November 1908, ist das im einzelnen ausgeführt worden. Da ist gezeigt worden, wie das Ich zunächst sich benehmen soll zu den geistigen Welten, in den ersten drei Geboten, wie es sich verhalten soll zu den Mitmenschen in bezug auf seine Taten und Handlungen, in den nächsten Geboten und wie es sich benehmen soll in bezug auf seine Empfindungen und Gefühle, in den letzten Geboten. Die Erziehung, die Kultur des Ich wird befohlen in den Zehn Geboten. Das war die Vorbereitung dafür, daß das Ich in seinem Innersten lernen sollte, sich selber den Impuls zu geben, nachdem es in das Kali Yuga, bis in das finstere Zeitalter hinuntergestiegen ist. Es sollte den Menschen zunächst vorgeführt werden ein Gesetz von oben. Was das Gesetz des eigenen Ich werden sollte, das konnte es aber nur werden, wenn das Ich das große Vorbild von Golgatha in sich aufnahm, wenn das Ich sich sagte: Wenn ich in meine Seele ein solches Denken aufnehme, wie das Wesen gedacht hat, das sich auf Golgatha geopfert hat, wenn ich ein solches Fühlen in mich aufnehme, wie das Wesen gefühlt hat, das sich auf Golgatha geopfert hat, wenn ich ein solches Wollen in mich aufnehme, wie das Wesen gewollt hat, das sich auf Golgatha opferte, dann wird mein Wesen in sich selber die Entscheidung finden, wird die Gottgleichheit immer mehr und mehr entwikkeln, wird nicht mehr bloß zu folgen haben einem äußeren Gesetz, den Zehn Geboten, sondern einem inneren Impuls, seinem eigenen Gesetz!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p030"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"So hat Moses zunächst das Gesetz hingestellt vor den Menschen, der Christus aber das Vorbild und die Kraft, welche die Seele aufnehmen sollte, um sich zu entwickeln. Daher mußte alles bis zur Innerlichkeit vertieft werden durch den Christus Jesus, alles bis in die tiefste Seele hineingetragen werden, was an geistigen Impulsen da war, bis in das Ich selber. Das konnte nur geschehen, wenn folgendes gedacht wurde, wenn der Christus Jesus folgendes als einen Impuls ausstreute.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-02-02/p031"}],"beads":[{"from":[10],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[11],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[12],"to":[15,16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[17,18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[17],"to":[22,23,24,25,26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[18],"to":[27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[28,29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[21],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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