{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p019-p029","extent":"range","passage_number":19,"through":29,"paragraph_count":11,"first_locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p019","last_locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"VI. 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He appeared in the Graeco-Latin Age, that in which the Intellectual-Soul was developed. That age was particularly adapted to come forward to meet Christ, as it were. But Christ could not have made his appearance in Europe, because of the strong ego-feeling prevailing there. This strong, individual feeling of self, was not adapted to produce one single person having the sole prerogative of being able to provide the vehicle for the highest. A premature ego-feeling, a too great feeling of the equality of mankind, had developed in the countries of Europe. It would have been impossible there for one person to tower so greatly above his contemporaries, as did the one who was to provide the vehicle for the Christ. If Christ was to find a body fit for Him to occupy, there must be no premature appearance of the feeling of ‘ I.’ He had, therefore, to appear on the borders of the Egyptian-Chaldean and of the Graeco-Latin culture, where it was possible for a body to be formed not having the premature ego-feeling within it, but having nevertheless the profoundest comprehension of the Spiritual world given by the Egyptian and Chaldean cultures. But if Europe had not the power of preparing a body for the Christ, yet, just because it had prematurely developed the ego in the very dawn of the new life, it had also acquired other faculties, which served—after Christ had appeared—to bring to mankind a full consciousness of the ego, to help men to a full understanding of it. 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In Asia and Africa we find people who know much concerning the world-secrets, and who are skilful in the setting up of certain symbols—who have in fact cultivated their Sentient-Soul in such a way that they have a rich soul-life; but their Sense of Ego is weak. In Europe we find people who have received less culture through revelations from without; but on the other hand we find there the type of man who looks to himself, who finds the strongest support in himself. So in Asia the ground was prepared for the coming of Christ, for there a body could be found into which He could draw in,—and in Europe we find the people best prepared to understand the bringer of the ego-consciousness. He brought to the peoples of Europe what they were longing for. 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Again, we can actually point out how the Adriatic almost constituted a boundary between a rather weaker sense of self in Greece, where a man did not so much feel himself to be a separate individual as an Athenian, a Spartan, a Theban, a member of his city,—and the Roman culture on the other side, where the strong ego-feeling was developed in the consciousness of the Roman citizen, who stood firmly on his own ground as an individual person. In Greece we still find the ego somewhat of a retiring nature; man still took in more from the outer world, in such a way that the ego need not be present. If we cross the Adriatic and come to Rome we find the Roman citizen standing firmly on his feet—already conscious of his ego. All this is connected with deep and significant sub-depths. These things do not occur on the physical plane without corresponding events taking place in the Spiritual world. We see that in the culture of Greece there was still a strong influence of the ego that was withheld. Much in Greece was still taken impersonally. The Greek did not feel himself to be a separate citizen, but a member of the organism of Athens, Sparta, or Thebes. This had to be done away with. The longing of man to draw things into himself from without must disappear, and as he becomes more and more a Westerner he must learn to find entrance into the inner part of his soul. What is to be formed by the masses, must be lived and experienced in advance by the Great Leaders, the Great Individualities of humanity. Let us keep before our minds the fact to which we have often referred—that the Greek still had a strong consciousness that what was given him from without, apart from his having greatly developed his inner personality, was of particular value. Once more I would remind you of the saying of a very cultured Greek, which gives us a deep insight into the longings of the Greek people. ‘Better be a beggar in the upper world than a king in the realms of shades!’ The great value of the invisible, of the super-sensible life, had not then been realised. That which could be drawn from the environment without the help of the ego, is drawn from that environment. It is profoundly moving to perceive how at this juncture, at the turning-point of the times, a great Leading Personality stands like a sign-post, to cast off the disposition towards the earlier and to put on the disposition for the new; to ring forth far and wide, speaking as it were for the spiritual-world: ‘A time is now coming when men must no longer take into themselves that which can flow into their personality apart from the ego, but rather that which enters it through the ego!’","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":628,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-05-02/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-05-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p022"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p023"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":583,"en_words":628,"ratio":1.08,"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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There is a deep occult truth behind this. Among the Spiritual experiences in Sicily to-day is the following. If spiritually one breathes the air of Sicily one can still trace in it the after-effects of the deed of Empedokles!—His soul has continued to incarnate; but his body attained a special significance by having been consciously given over to the elements, so that it can still be found in the spiritual atmosphere of Sicily to-day. The body of Empedokles forms a considerable part of the spiritual atmosphere of Sicily. It was a very important moment to me—such things can be discussed within our groups—when a few days ago I was able to tell our Palermo friends in their actual presence, that if anyone wanders in Sicily with a spiritual consciousness, he certainly still breathes spiritually, even to-day, that which has permeated the air of Sicily ever since the death of Empedokles!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-05-02/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-05-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p025"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":304,"en_words":297,"ratio":0.98,"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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Thus in the East we see humanity doing everything possible to prepare a body or a corporality,—consisting of physical body, etheric body and astral body—into which could penetrate the Christ, He who, together with the ego-consciousness and by means of it, brings the impulse of Love to the earth. Love is that which, in its most psychic and spiritual form, came to the earth with Christ, appearing in its psychic and spiritual form in the East,—for thus we first see it—and then flowing on further, to the West, where it is understood. 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Therefore it throws its first rays like a rosy dawn, towards Greece and from thence towards Rome, where indeed we find it very strongly developed. We first meet with the word conscience,—conscientia—in the works of the Roman writers. Whereas among the Greeks we only find the first sporadic hints of it in Euripides, we find the Romans quite familiar with it, it had then become a word in general use. This is because of the influence of that strain of culture which came into being through the mutual inter-permeation of the Sentient-Soul and ego-feeling; for the ego-feeling, which lifts men up from the lowest to the highest, already speaks in the Sentient-Soul,—in which hitherto nothing spoke but instincts, desires and passions,—and speaks there like a voice from God, urging man to do what is right that he may press up to the higher ego.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1910-05-02/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-05-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.1,"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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From thence it spreads its rays abroad to the other peoples of the Earth. Thus through a wise world-guidance, the humanity in one part of the world was so prepared that conscience could be added as a contribution to the whole collective development of humanity. We have now mentioned everything that can throw light upon conscience. We mentioned that indefinable attribute of conscience, its pressing forth from the depths of the soul. Conscience speaks like an urging impulse; but it is not an impulse. Those philosophers who so describe it, are far from hitting the mark. 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Hätte der Christus in Europa erscheinen können, sich in Europa verkörpern können im Fleische? Nein, das hätte er nicht können. Er erschien in der griechisch-lateinischen Zeit, in welcher die Verstandesseele ausgebildet worden ist. Die war dazu geeignet, gerade den Christus sozusagen entgegenzunehmen. Aber nie hätte der Christus in Europa erscheinen dürfen, weil dort das starke Ich-Gefühl geblieben war. Dieses starke individuelle Ich-Gefühl war nicht geeignet, einen einzigen Menschen zu erzeugen, der vor allen übrigen den Vorzug hatte, daß er allein das Höchste aufnehmen konnte. Ein verfrühtes Ich-Gefühl, ein zu großes Gefühl für die Gleichheit der Menschen hatte sich in den europäischen Ländern entwickelt. Da wäre es unmöglich gewesen, daß eine Persönlichkeit über die anderen so hinausgeragt hätte, wie jene Persönlichkeit über ihre Zeitgenossen hinausragte, die in Palästina das Gefäß bilden sollte für den Christus. So intensiv wie in Europa durfte auf einer frühen Stufe das Ich-Gefühl nicht erscheinen, wenn der Christus einen Körper finden sollte, um sich zu verkörpern. Er mußte also gerade dort erscheinen, wo an der Grenze der ägyptisch-chaldäischen und der griechisch-lateinischen Kultur es möglich war, einen solchen Körper auszubilden, der noch nicht in sich das verfrühte Ich-Gefühl trug, der aber dennoch das tiefste Verständnis hatte für ein Begreifen der geistigen Welt, das aufgenommen war in der ägyptischen und chaldäischen Kultur. Wenn aber Europa nicht die Fähigkeit hatte, den Leib zu liefern für den Christus, so hatte es doch dadurch, daß es zu früh in der Morgenröte des neueren Daseins das Ich ausgebildet hatte, vor allen anderen Errungenschaften das volle Verständnis dafür, nachdem der Christus einmal da war, um den Menschen das volle Bewußtsein vom Ich zu bringen, dieses Ich-Bewußtsein zu begreifen, aus dem Grunde, weil die europäischen Völker das Ich-Gefühl zu früh aufgenommen hatten und mit ihm gleichsam zusammengewachsen waren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":295,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p020"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Das müssen wir berücksichtigen, wenn wir den ganzen Aufgang der neueren Kultur verstehen wollen. In Asien und Afrika finden wir Menschen, die viel wissen über die Geheimnisse der Welt, die viel können in der Herstellung gewisser Symbole. Kurz, sie haben ihre Empfindungsseele so kultiviert, daß sie ein reiches Seelenleben haben, aber ihr Ich-Gefühl ist schwach. In Europa finden wir Menschen, die weniger Kultur haben durch das, was man durch Offenbarungen von außen sich aneignen kann, dafür finden wir aber dort den Typus des Menschen, der sich in sich sucht, der in sich die feste Stütze findet. So war in Asien vorbereitet der Boden für die Erscheinung des Christus, dort konnte es einen Leib geben, in den der Christus einziehen konnte; und in Europa finden wir die Menschen am besten vorbereitet zu einem Verständnis für den Bringer des Ich-Bewußtseins. Den europäischen Völkern brachte er das, wonach man gelechzt hatte. Daher entwickelt sich gerade in Europa jene wunderbare Mystik, die den Christus in die eigene Seele, in das Ich aufnehmen wollte: die christliche Mystik.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p021"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"So wird an den verschiedenen Punkten der Erde die Menschheit vorbereitet durch die weise Lenkung der Welt, daß ein jedes Entwikkelungsmoment zu seinem Recht kommt. Das ist eine der großen Errungenschaften der geisteswissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung, daß man immer mehr das Gefühl erhält, wie weise alles in der Menschheitsentwickelung und in der ganzen Welt eigentlich vor sich gegangen ist, wie durch Jahrtausende auf europäischem Boden die Seelen vorbereitet sind, daß sie so früh wie möglich einen festen Punkt im eigenen Innern hatten, und daß sie, um diesen festen Punkt zu entwickeln, sogar zurückgehalten wurden in den Kräften, die in Asien so hoch ausgebildet waren. Daher nimmt der Kulturstrom von Asien herüber seinen Weg, das starke Gefühl der Ich-Persönlichkeit geht in Europa auf. Ja, wir können geradezu wieder mit Fingern hinweisen darauf, wie das Adriatische Meer fast eine festbestimmte Grenze bildet zwischen einem sogar noch etwas schwächeren Ich-Gefühl in Griechenland einerseits, wo sich der Mensch noch nicht so fühlte als einzelne individuelle Persönlichkeit, sondern mehr als Athener, als Spartaner, Thebaner, angehörig seiner Polis, und zwischen den römischen Kulturgegenden andererseits, wo das starke Ich-Gefühl ganz wesentlich ausgebildet ist im Bewußtsein des römischen Bürgers, der als Persönlichkeit fest steht auf seinem Boden. Da sehen wir in Griechenland noch das im Menschen, was man bezeichnen könnte: Das Ich ist doch noch etwas zurücktretend, es wird doch noch mehr von der Außenwelt entgegengenommen, mehr auf eine Art, wo das Ich nicht dabei zu sein braucht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p022"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Und überschreiten wir das Adriatische Meer, so kommen wir nach Rom und sehen fest auf seinen Beinen stehen, mit dem schon gefühlten Ich, den römischen Bürger. Das alles hängt mit tieferen, mit bedeutsamen Untergründen zusammen. Diese Dinge gehen in der Welt nicht vor sich, ohne daß für die Dinge, welche sich auf dem physischen Plan abspielen, die entsprechenden Ereignisse in der geistigen Welt sich vollziehen. Wir sehen, daß in der griechischen Kultur noch ein starker Einschlag von zurückgehaltenem Ich sich finder. Viel wird dort noch unpersönlich aufgenommen. Der Grieche fühlt sich nicht als einzelner Bürger, sondern als Glied des athenischen, spartanischen oder thebanischen Organismus. Das muß abgestreift werden. Es muß die Sehnsucht des Menschen, von außen entgegenzunehmen, verschwinden, und der Mensch muß seinen Einzug halten in das Innere der Seele, wenn er immer mehr ein abendländischer Mensch wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p023"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Was die großen Massen bilden soll, das muß vorgelebt werden von den großen Führern, den großen Individualitäten der Menschheit. Da sehen wir, wenn wir etwas vor unsere Seele treten lassen, worauf wir wiederholt hingewiesen haben, daß der Grieche noch ein starkes Bewußtsein hatte, daß dasjenige, was ihm von außen gegeben wird, ohne das Innere seiner Persönlichkeit stark zu entwickeln, ein besonders Wertvolles ist. Noch einmal erinnere ich an den Ausspruch eines hochgebildeten Griechen, der uns tief hineinblicken läßt in das Sehnen des griechischen Volkes: Lieber ein Bettler sein in der Oberwelt als ein König im Reiche der Schatten! — Noch nicht ist begriffen der große Wert des Unsichtbaren, des übersinnlichen Lebens. Es wird aus der Umgebung herausgeholt, was ohne das Ich herausgeholt werden kann. Und es ist nun tief ergreifend, gerade an diesem Punkt zu sehen, wie an der Wende der Zeiten eine große führende Persönlichkeit wie ein Markstein dasteht, um abzulegen die Gesinnungen des Früheren und aufzunehmen die Gesinnungen des Neueren, um gleichsam weithin schallend für die Geistwelt zu sagen: Jetzt soll eine Zeit kommen, wo nicht mehr bloß aufgenommen werden soll, was ohne das Ich einfließt in die menschliche Persönlichkeit, sondern wo das aufgenommen werden soll, was durch das Ich in die menschliche Persönlichkeit kommt!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p024"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Diese Tat hat sich vollzogen in einem der großen Weisen jenes griechischen Altertums, das sich zum Teil abgespielt hat auf der Insel Sizilien, in Empedokles. In mancher Legende, die heute nur so hinerzählt wird, ruht etwas außerordentlich Tiefes. Von Empedokles, dem großen Weisen, der nicht nur ein großer Philosoph war, sondern ein Eingeweihter in die tiefen Geheimnisse der Zeit, der einer der größten Staatsmänner aller Zeiten gewesen ist und zugleich Opferpriester in Agrigent war, von ihm erzählt die Legende, berichtet aber auch die okkulte Wahrheit, daß er, nachdem er seine Aufgabe in Sizilien erfüllt hatte, seinen Leib in den Ätna versenkte, um zu vereinigen seine äußeren Hüllen mit dem Boden Siziliens, um damit gleichsam zu dokumentieren: Jetzt soll kommen der feste Glaube an das Ich, wenn das Äußere auch hinschwindet! — Das Opfer der äußeren Hülle des Empedokles wurde vollbracht damals, als er seine Hüllen hingab dem Ätna. Dahinter liegt eine tiefe okkulte Wahrheit. Für den, der nach Sizilien kommt, wird heute noch unter spirituellen Ereignissen dieses stehen: daß er in der Luft Siziliens, wenn er sie geistig atmet, heute noch die Nachwirkung der Tat des Empedokles findet. Empedokles’ Seele hat sich weiter inkarniert; sein Leib hat eine besondere Bedeutung dadurch erhalten, daß er den Elementen bewußt übergeben worden ist, so daß man ihn heute findet in der geistigen Atmosphäre Siziliens. Empedokles’ Leib bildet einen Bestandteil der geistigen Atmosphäre Siziliens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p025"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Es war mir ein wichtiger Augenblick - und wir dürfen ja in unserem Zweige auch über solche Dinge miteinander reden -, als ich vor einigen Wochen unseren Palermoer Freunden über ihren Empedokles in der unmittelbaren Nähe jenes Ereignisses dasselbe sagen konnte, was ich Ihnen jetzt sagte: Wer mit Bewußtsein geistig betritt eure Stätte hier in Sizilien, der atmet heute noch geistig dasjenige, was in die Luft Siziliens gekommen ist durch den Opfertod des Empedokles!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":74,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p026"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"So sehen wir, wie das, was wir äußerlich, räumlich mit dem Adriatischen Meer andeuten konnten — die Grenze zwischen Ost und West —, angedeutet wird durch einen großen Führer der Menschheit, der, indem er weiter wirken sollte im Westen, dasjenige bewußt abstreift, wodurch man wachsen konnte drüben im Osten, und retten will für die weitere Entwickelung das Bestehen dessen, was erhaben ist über alle Elemente des äußeren physischen Planes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":69,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p027"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Es ist etwas Gewaltiges, in diese Unterschiede hineinzuschauen, denn sie zeigen, wie auf getrennten Gebieten auch Getrenntes vorbereitet worden ist, damit in der Mannigfaltigkeit auch das Größte erreicht werden konnte. Durch die Zusammenwirkung des Mannigfaltigsten muß das Ziel der Gesamtentwickelung für die Menschheit erreicht werden. Daraus können wir sehen, daß der Christus, nachdem er im Osten erschienen war, hinüberzog nach dem Westen und dort aufgenommen wurde von denen, die vorbereitet waren mit einem starken Ich-Bewußtsein, um verstehen zu können den Bringer des starken Ich-Bewußtseins. Das war das Geheimnis vom Eintritt des Christus in den Okzident, daß er vorbereitete Seelen fand, und daß ihn diese Seelen aufnahmen. So sehen wir im Osten die Menschheit ‘vorbereiten alles, was möglich macht, daß ein Körper oder eine Leiblichkeit entstehen kann, bestehend aus physischem Leib, Ätherleib und astralischem Leib, in welche der Christus einziehen kann, der durch das Ich-Bewußtsein und mit dem Ich-Bewußtsein den Impuls der Liebe auf die Erde bringt. Die Liebe ist das, was in ihrer seelischsten, geistigsten Form mit dem Christus der Erde gebracht wird. Die Liebe, wie wenn sie entstehen würde sozusagen in ihrer seelisch-geistigen Form im Osten, so betrachten wir sie zuerst; und wie wenn sie sich verbreiten würde nach dem Westen und hier verstanden würde, so betrachten wir die Entwickelung weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p028"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Wodurch konnte gerade im Westen das Ich-Bewußtsein so wirken, daß es sich verwandt fühlte mit dem Christus? Was war mit den Seelen geschehen, die frühzeitig das Ich-Bewußtsein aufgenommen hatten?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":29,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p029"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Die ägyptisch-chaldäischen Völker warteten mit der Entwickelung des Ich bis zur Bewußtseinsseele, die griechisch-lateinischen Völker entwickelten das Ich schon in der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele, die Kultur des europäischen Nordens hat das Ich-Gefühl schon vorzeitig in der Empfindungsseele entwickelt. Da war es früh in der menschlichen Seele darinnen. Es hatte also zusammengewirkt die Empfindungsseele mit dem Ich-Bewußtsein hier in einer ganz anderen Weise als irgendwo in der Welt. In Nordeuropa haben sich zuerst in der Menschheitsentwickelung die Empfindungsseele und das Ich-Bewußtsein durchdrungen. Was war dadurch geschehen, daß sich bei den europäischen Völkern in der Empfindungsseele schon das Ich-Bewußstsein festgesetzt hatte, bevor Christus in die Menschheitsentwickelung eingetreten war, und bevor sie aufgenommen hatten, was sich in Asien entwickelt hatte?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p030"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Dadurch war mit der Empfindungsseele eine Kraft der menschlichen Seele entwickelt worden, die sich nur dadurch hatte entwickeln können, daß die Empfindungsseele, die noch ganz jungfräulich war und unbeeinflußt von anderen Kulturen, sich durchdrungen hatte mit dem Ich-Gefühl. Und diese Seelenkraft ist das Gewissen geworden: die Durchdringung von Ich-Gefühl mit Empfindungsseele. Daher das merkwürdig Unschuldige des Gewissens! Wie redet das Gewissen? Es spricht in dem einfachsten, naivsten Menschen wie in der kompliziertesten Seele. Es sagt unmittelbar: Das ist recht! Das ist unrecht! — Ohne eine Theorie, ohne irgendeine Lehre. Mit der Gewalt eines Triebes, eines Instinktes wirkt das, was uns sagt: Das ist recht! Das ist unrecht! — Nirgends sonst finden Sie das, was sich so im Westen entwickelte, in der Art, wie wir es heute auseinandergesetzt haben. Deshalb wirft es seine ersten Strahlen wie eine Morgenröte voraus nach Griechenland und von dort nach Rom, und dort tritt es uns sogar schon sehr stark entgegen. Da finden wir bei den römischen Schriftstellern zuerst das Wort Gewissen: conscientia. Während wir es bei den Griechen nur sporadisch finden, in ersten Andeutungen bei Euripides, finden wir es bei den Römern schon sehr stark hervorgehoben, schon als allgemein gebräuchliches Wort. Das ist der Einfluß jener Kulturströmung, die dadurch entstanden ist, daßß Empfindungsseele und Ich-Gefühl sich durchdrungen haben, daß das Ich-Gefühl, das den Menschen hinaufträgt vom Niederen zum Höheren, schon in der Empfindungsseele wie eine Gottesstimme spricht, wie sonst nur Triebe, Begierden und Leidenschaften in der Empfindungsseele sprechen, und dort so spricht mit dem Drang, das Richtige zu tun, um hinaufzudringen zu dem höheren Ich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p031"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"So sehen wir in der Menschheitsentwickelung bei den europäischen Völkern zuerst das Gewissen entstehen. Von dort strahlt es aus und teilt sich dann den anderen Menschen der Erde mit. So ist durch eine weise Weltenlenkung vorbereitet worden, daß die Menschheit auf einem Punkte so präpariert wurde, daß das Gewissen als ein Beitrag zur Gesamtentwickelung der Menschheit gebracht werden konnte. Damit haben wir im Grunde schon alles gegeben, was uns auch das Gewissen erklärt. Wir haben jenes Undefinierbare des Gewissens gegeben, das Herausdringen des Gewissens aus den Tiefen der Seele. Das Gewissen redet so, wie ein Trieb redet, und es ist doch kein Trieb. Diejenigen Philosophen, die es als Trieb schildern, hauen weit daneben. Es spricht mit derselben Großartigkeit, mit der die Bewußtseinsseele selber spricht, wenn sie auftritt; aber es spricht zugleich mit den elementaren, mit den ursprünglicheren Kräften.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p032"},{"locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"So sehen wir, wie auf der Erde drüben im Osten die Liebe auftaucht, hier im Westen das Gewissen. Das sind zwei Dinge, die zusammengehören: wie im Osten der Christus erscheint, wie im Westen das Gewissen erwacht, um den Christus als Gewissen entgegenzunehmen. In diesem gleichzeitigen Entstehen der Tatsache des Christus-Ereignisses und des Verständnisses des Christus-Ereignisses, und in der Vorbereitung dieser zwei Dinge an verschiedenen Punkten der Erde sehen wir walten eine unendliche Weisheit, die in der Entwickelung vorhanden ist. Damit haben wir auf die Vergangenheit des Gewissens hingedeutet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p033"}],"beads":[{"from":[19],"to":[19,20],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[20],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21],"to":[22,23,24],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[25,26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[30],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[32],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[33],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}