{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-02-02/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those spiritual movements and world-conceptions of humanity which had knowledge of these things, have also hinted at this. 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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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. 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