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But to achieve this, very special measures were essential.—It was necessary that from the whole of Post-Atlantean civilisation, faculties of the highest quality should be extracted, which would enable mankind to develop powers *in place of the old clairvoyant gifts*. It was the Hebrew people which was chosen for this task, to the end that it might provide a bodily constitution which, right into the most delicate vessels of the brain, was so organised that what we call *knowledge of the world* might evolve, free from the influences of the old clairvoyance.—This was to be the mission of the ancient Hebrew people. And in Abraham, the progenitor of this people, such an Individuality was chosen, that out of his bodily constitution, a suitable instrument might be fashioned for the development of reasoned thinking.[^2] All previous thinking of any significance was still subject to the influences of the old clairvoyance. 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Es mußte sozusagen im althebräischen Volke alles so eingerichtet sein, daß es zuletzt in jener einen Persönlichkeit des bethlehemitischen Jesus gipfelte. Dazu aber waren besondere Einrichtungen notwendig. Es war notwendig, daß aus der Gesamtsumme der Kultur der nachatlantischen Zeit dasjenige herausgenommen wurde, was am meisten fähig war, jene Kräfte in der Menschheit zu entwickeln, die entwickelt werden mußten, auf daß die Menschheit etwas an die Stelle des alten hellseherischen Vermögens setzen konnte. Es war gerade das hebräische Volk dazu ausersehen, zunächst eine solche Körperlichkeit darzubieten, die bis in die feinsten Fasern des Gehirns hinein so organisiert war, daß das, was wir Erkenntnis der Welt nennen, ohne den Einfluß des alten Hellsehens zustande kam. Das sollte die Mission dieses Volkes sein. In dem Stammvater dieses Volkes, in Abraham, war auch tatsächlich eine solche Individualität auserlesen, daß dessen Leiblichkeit ein geeignetes Instrument war für das urteilende Denken. Alles, was vorher groß und bedeutend war, stand noch unter den Nachwirkungen alten Hellsehens. Nun sollte aber eine Persönlichkeit ausersehen werden, welche das geeignetste Gehirn hatte, um sich nicht drängen und stoßen zu lassen von den hellseherischen Imaginationen und Intuitionen, sondern berufen war, die Dinge rein mit dem Verstande zu betrachten. Dazu aber bedurfte es eines besonders eingerichteten Gehirnes, und die Persönlichkeit, die dieses Gehirn hatte, mußte ausersehen werden. Diese haben wir zu sehen in Abram oder Abraham.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-11-09/p008"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-11-09/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Und auch das stimmt mit den Beobachtungen der Akasha-Chronik überein, daß die Richtung, aus der jener Abraham herkam, von jenseits des Euphrat nach dem Westen ging, gegen Kanaan zunächst. Abraham wurde hergeholt, wie es in der Bibel heißt, aus Ur in Chaldäa. Während in der ägyptischen sowohl wie in der chaldäisch-babylonischen Kultur noch die Nachklänge des alten dämmerhaften Hellsehens da waren, wurde aus dem chaldäischen Volke ein Individuum auserlesen, welches nicht mehr darauf aufbaute, sondern auf die Beobachtungen der Erscheinungen der Außenwelt. Damit sollte jene Kultur eingeleitet werden, deren Früchte noch heute unserer ganzen westlichen Kultur und Zivilisation einverleibt sind. 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