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We have pointed to the old Indian Period of civilisation, and have shown that the soul-qualities of man then were different from what they later were, how man then was still endowed to a high degree with clairvoyant consciousness. And we have shown that evolution through the following epochs consisted in man losing this clairvoyance ever more and more, and having to limit his power of perception and understanding more and more to the physical world. We have seen how the fourth epoch of civilisation was slowly prepared, in which man, as it were, appeared entirely in the physical world, so that that Being Whom we call Christ Jesus could incarnate in the physical world as a being, as a human being of the physical world. We have then seen how since that time, through a certain stream, the following appeared: how all human powers strengthened themselves still further in the physical world, how indeed the materialistic tendency of our age, the whole urge of man only to hold as valid what offers itself in the physical surrounding world, is connected with a further descent of man into the physical world. But by no means should things remain thus in evolution. Humanity must ascend again into the spiritual world, ascend with all the attainments men have acquired, with all the fruits of the physical world. 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We live in a spiritual world.” Fewer and fewer became the human beings who knew this; more and more were the powers of man limited to the perception of the senses. But if, on the one hand, today, the power of perception for the spiritual world is the least conceivable, yet, on the other hand, something is preparing in our age which is so significant that already for a great number of people, quite different faculties will exist in that incarnation which follows the present one. As the faculties of man have changed during the five epochs of culture, so they will also change into the sixth, and a great number of people today will clearly show already in their next incarnation through their whole mood of soul, that their faculties have essentially changed. 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Then we would see that the farther we go back to the ancient clairvoyance, at the same time, the more we have united with the human soul, what one can call the character of group-soulness [Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit]. It has often been pointed out to you that the consciousness of the group-soulness was existing in the ancient Hebrew people in an eminent degree. He who felt himself—really consciously felt himself as a member of the ancient Hebrew people—said to himself—especial attention has been drawn to this—” As an individual man I am a transitory phenomenon, but in me lives something that has an immediate connection with all the soul-being which has streamed down since the racial father Abraham.” A member of the old Hebrew people felt that. We can indeed esoterically admit as a spiritual phenomenon what was thus felt by the old Hebrew people. 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Although initiation was not so frequent among the ancient Hebrews as among other peoples, we could not characterise such a real initiate otherwise—not merely one initiated into the theories and the Law, but an initiate really seeing in the spiritual worlds—than by taking into consideration the entire racial peculiarity. It is the custom today in external science, which busies itself with documents without any misgiving, to take everywhere what stands in the Old Testament, to test it by all kinds of external records, and then find it unsubstantiated. We shall have occasion to point out that the Old Testament gives the facts more faithfully than external historical records. In any case, spiritual science shows that a blood relationship of the Hebrew people can really be demonstrated back to the racial father Abraham, and that the assumption of Abraham as racial father is fully justified. This was something especially known in the old Hebrew secret schools: Such an individuality, such a soul-being as that of Abraham, was not merely incarnated as Abraham, but is an eternal being, who remained existing in the spiritual world. And in truth a real initiate was inspired by the same spirit, as he who inspired Abraham, and he could testify for him of himself, that he was permeated by the same soul-nature as Abraham. There was a real connection between every initiate and the racial father Abraham. We must hold that fast: that expressed itself in the feeling of membership of the old Hebrew people. That was a kind of group-soulness. One felt what expressed itself in Abraham as the group-soul of the people. One felt group-souls similarly in the rest of humanity. Mankind in general goes back to group-souls. The farther we go back in human evolution, the less do we find expressed the single individuality. That which we still find today in the animal kingdom: that a whole group belongs together—that was existing among mankind, and appears ever clearer and clearer, the farther we go back to ancient times. 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We do not speak of an Indian race, a Persian race, etc., because that is no longer correct. We speak of an old-Indian period of civilisation, of an old-Persian period of civilisation, etc. And it would be utterly devoid of sense if we would speak of our time preparing a sixth race. If relics of the old Atlantean distinctions, of their group-soulness, are still existing in our time, so that one can still say the racial division continues to work on—that which is preparing for the sixth period of time consists just in the character of race being stripped off. That is the essential. Therefore it is necessary that that movement which is called the anthroposophical movement, which should prepare the sixth period of time, adopts in its basic character this stripping off of the character of race—that especially it seeks to unite people out of all “races,” out of all nations, and in this way bridges over these differences, these distinctions, these gaps, which are existing between various groups of human beings. For the old racial standpoint had in a certain connection a physical character, whereas what will fulfil itself in the future will have a much more spiritual character. Therefore it is so urgently necessary to understand that our anthroposophical movement is a spiritual one, which looks to the spirit, and overcomes just that which arises from physical distinctions, through the force of a spiritual movement, It is, of course, thoroughly comprehensible that any movement has, as it were, its childish illnesses, and that in the beginning of the theosophical movement, matters were so represented as if the earth fell into seven periods of time—they were called Root-races—and each of these Root-races into seven sub-races, and that would always repeat itself, so that one could always speak of seven races, and seven sub-races, etc. But one must get beyond the illnesses of childhood, and be clear that the idea of race ceases to have any meaning, especially in our age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":475,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-12-04/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-12-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p013"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p014"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":463,"en_words":475,"ratio":1.03,"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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Wir haben hingewiesen auf die altindische Kulturperiode und haben gezeigt, wie die Seeleneigenschaften des Menschen dazumal anders waren als später, wie der Mensch noch in hohem Grade mit hellsichtigem Bewußtsein begabt war; und wir haben gezeigt, wie die Entwickelung durch die folgenden Kulturzeiträume darinnen besteht, daß die Menschen immer mehr und mehr die Hellsichtigkeit verloren haben und immer mehr ihr Wahrnehmungsvermögen, ihr Verstandesvermögen auf den physischen Plan zu beschränken hatten. Wir haben gesehen, wie sich langsam vorbereitete der vierte Kulturzeitraum, in dem die Menschen sozusagen ganz herausgetreten sind auf den physischen Plan, so daß da jene Wesenheit, die wir den Christus Jesus nennen, auf dem physischen Plan als ein Wesen, als ein Menschenwesen des physischen Planes sich verkörpern konnte. Wir haben dann gesehen, wie seit jener Zeit durch eine gewisse Strömung hindurch dieses heraustrat: wie alle menschlichen Fähigkeiten auf dem physischen Plan sich noch verstärkt haben, wie der materialistische Hang unserer Zeit, all das Drängen der Menschen, nur dasjenige gelten zu lassen, was sich in der physischen Umwelt darbietet, zusammenhängt mit einem weiteren Heruntersteigen des Menschen auf den physischen Plan. Aber dabei soll es nun in der Entwickelung keineswegs bleiben. Die Menschheit muß wiederum hinaufsteigen in die geistige Welt, hinaufsteigen mit all den Errungenschaften, die sie sich angeeignet hat, mit all den Früchten des physischen Planes. Und gerade das soll Anthroposophie sein, was den Menschen bringen kann die Möglichkeit, wiederum hinaufzusteigen in die geistige Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p006"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Nun können wir sagen: Gleich nach der großen atlantischen Katastrophe gab es zahlreiche Menschen, welche wußten durch ihr unmittelbares Wahrnehmungsvermögen, um uns herum ist eine geistige Welt, wir leben in einer geistigen Welt. Immer weniger und weniger wurden die Menschen, die das wußten, immer mehr und mehr beschränkten sich die Fähigkeiten des Menschen auf die sinnliche Wahrnehmung. Aber wenn auf der einen Seite heute noch die Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit für die geistige Welt die denkbar geringste ist, so bereitet sich doch auf der andern Seite etwas vor in unserer Zeit, was so bedeutsam ist, daß schon für eine größere Anzahl von Menschen in derjenigen Verkörperung, in der Inkarnation, die auf diese jetzige folgt, ganz andersartige Fähigkeiten da sein werden als heute. Wie sich die Fähigkeiten der Menschen geändert haben durch die fünf Kulturzeiträume hindurch, so werden sie sich in den sechsten hinein auch ändern, und eine große Anzahl von heutigen Menschen wird schon in der nächsten Inkarnation deutlich zeigen durch ihre ganze Seelenart, daß sich ihre Fähigkeiten wesentlich geändert haben. Und darüber wollen wir uns heute Klarheit verschaffen, wie andersgeartet diese Seelen der Menschen in der Zukunft, also bei einer großen Anzahl schon in der nächsten Inkarnation, bei andern in der zweitnächsten, sein werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p007"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Wir könnten auch noch in einer andern Weise zurückblicken in verflossene Zeiträume der Menschheitsentwickelung. Da würden wir sehen, daß wir immer mehr, je weiter wir zum alten Hellsehen zurückkommen, zugleich mit der menschlichen Seele verknüpft haben das, was man nennen kann den Charakter der Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit. Sie sind schon öfter darauf aufmerksam gemacht worden, daß beim althebräischen Volk im eminentesten Sinne das Bewußtsein von dieser Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit vorhanden war. Wer sich fühlte, sich recht bewußt fühlte als ein Glied des althebräischen Volkes, der sagte sich — darauf ist ja insbesondere aufmerksam gemacht worden: Als einzelner Mensch bin ich eine vorübergehende Erscheinung, aber in mir lebt etwas, was einen unmittelbaren Zusammenhang hat mit all dem Seelenwesen, das herunterströmte seit dem Stammvater Abraham. - Das fühlte der Angehörige des althebräischen Volkes. Wir können sogar esoterisch dieses, was da vom althebräischen Volke gefühlt wurde, als eine spirituelle Erscheinung angeben. Wir verstehen besser, was da geschah, wenn wir folgendes ins Auge fassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p008"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Nehmen wir einen althebräischen Eingeweihten. Obwohl gerade im althebräischen Volke die Einweihung nicht so häufig war wie bei andern Völkern, so können wir doch einen solchen wirklichen Eingeweihten, nicht bloß einen in die Theorien und in das Gesetz eingeführten, sondern einen wirklich in die geistigen Welten hineinsehenden Eingeweihten nicht anders charakterisieren, als indem wir auf die ganze Volkseigentümlichkeit Rücksicht nehmen. Es ist heute Sitte in der äußeren Wissenschaft, die ahnungslos nach ihren Dokumenten wirtschaftet, überall das, was im Alten Testament steht, an allerlei äußeren Urkunden zu prüfen und es dann nicht bestätigt zu finden. Wir werden Gelegenheit haben, darauf hinzuweisen, daß das Alte Testament treuer die Tatsachen gibt als die äußere Urkundengeschichte. Jedenfalls zeigt die Geisteswissenschaft, daß tatsächlich eine Blutsverwandtschaft des hebräischen Volkes bis zum Stammvater Abraham hinauf nachzuweisen ist, und daß die Annahme Abrahams als Stammvater eine vollberechtigte ist. Insbesondere aber war das etwas, was man in den althebräischen Geheimschulen wußte: solch eine Individualität, solch eine Seelenwesenheit wie die des Abraham, die war ja nicht bloß als Abraham inkarniert, sondern sie ist eine ewige Wesenheit, die in der geistigen Welt vorhanden blieb. Und in Wahrheit war derjenige ein wirklicher Eingeweihter, der inspiriert wurde von demselben Geiste, von dem Abraham inspiriert worden ist, der ihn für sich beschwören konnte, der durchdrungen war von derselben Seelenhaftigkeit wie Abraham. So daß zwischen jedem Eingeweihten und zwischen dem Stammvater Abraham ein realer Zusammenhang war. Das müssen wir festhalten; das drückte sich in dem Gefühl des Mitgliedes des althebräischen Volkes aus. Das war eine Art Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit. Man fühlte dasjenige, was in Abraham sich ausdrückte, als die Gruppenseele des Volkes. Und so fühlte man in der übrigen Menschheit Gruppenseelen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p009"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Die Menschheit geht überhaupt auf Gruppenseelen zurück. Je weiter wir zurückgehen in der Menschheitsentwickelung, desto weniger ausgeprägt finden wir die einzelne Individualität. Was wir heute noch im Tierreich finden: daß eine ganze Gruppe zusammengehört, das war so bei den Menschen vorhanden und tritt immer deutlicher und deutlicher auf, je weiter wir in Urzeiten zurückgehen. Gruppen von Menschen gehören da zusammen, und die Gruppenseele ist wesentlich stärker als dasjenige, was die Individualseele ist im einzelnen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p010"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Wir können nun sagen: Heute in unserer Zeit ist noch immer nicht die Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit der Menschen überwunden, und wer da glauben würde, daß sie vollständig überwunden ist, der würde eben gewisse feinere Erscheinungen des Lebens nicht ins Auge fassen. Wer diese aber ins Auge faßt, wird sehr bald sehen, daß in der Tat gewisse Menschen nicht nur in ihrer Physiognomie einander ähnlich sehen, sondern daß auch die Seeleneigenschaften in Gruppen von Menschen einander ähnlich sind, daß man die Menschen sozusagen in Kategorien einteilen kann. Jeder Mensch kann sich heute noch zu einer gewissen Kategorie rechnen. In bezug auf diese oder jene Eigenschaften wird er vielleicht zu verschiedenen Kategorien gehören, aber eine gewisse Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit ist nicht nur geltend dadurch, daß Völker da sind, sondern auch in anderer Beziehung. Die Grenzen, die zwischen den einzelnen Nationen gezogen sind, fallen immer mehr und mehr dahin; aber andere Gruppierungen sind noch wahrnehmbar. Gewisse Grundeigenschaften stehen bei einzelnen Menschen durchaus so zusammen, daß derjenige, der nur sehen will, letzte Reste von Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit bei den Menschen heute noch wahrnehmen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p011"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Nun leben wir nämlich gerade in der Gegenwart im eminentesten Sinn in einem Übergange. Alle Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit soll nach und nach abgestreift werden. So wie die Abgründe zwischen den einzelnen Nationen immer mehr und mehr verschwinden, so wie sich die einzelnen Teile der verschiedenen Nationen immer mehr und mehr verstehen, so werden sich auch andere Gruppenseelenhaftigkeiten abstreifen, und immer mehr wird das Individuelle des einzelnen Menschen in den Vordergrund treten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":69,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p012"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Damit haben wir aber etwas ganz Wesentliches in der Entwickelung charakterisiert. Wenn wir es von einer andern Seite fassen wollen, so können wir sagen, innerhalb der Entwickelung der Menschheit verliert immer mehr und mehr der Begriff, worin sich die Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit am meisten ausdrückt, an Bedeutung, nämlich der Rassenbegriff. Wenn wir hinter die große atlantische Katastrophe zurückgehen, so sehen wir ja, wie sich die menschlichen Rassen vorbereiten. In der alten atlantischen Zeit haben wir durchaus die Menschen gruppiert nach äußeren Merkmalen in ihrem Körperbau, noch viel stärker als heute. Was wir heute Rassen nennen, das sind nur noch Überbleibsel jener bedeutsamen Unterschiede der Menschen, wie sie in der alten Atlantis üblich waren. So recht anwendbar ist der Rassenbegriff nur auf die alte Atlantis. Daher haben wir, da wir rechnen mit einer wirklichen Entwickelung der Menschheit, für die nachatlantische Zeit gar nicht den Begriff der Rasse im eminentesten Sinne gebraucht. Wir sprechen nicht von einer indischen Rasse, persischen Rasse und so weiter, weil das nicht mehr richtig ist. Wir sprechen von einem altindischen Kulturzeitraum, von einem altpersischen Kulturzeitraum und so weiter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p013"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Und vollends würde es jeden Sinn verlieren, wenn wir davon sprechen wollten, daß sich in unserer Zeit vorbereite eine sechste Rasse. Wenn noch in unserer Zeit Reste der alten atlantischen Unterschiede, der alten atlantischen Gruppenseelenhaftigkeit vorhanden sind, so daß man noch sprechen kann davon, daß die Rasseneinteilung noch nachwirkt — was sich vorbereitet für den sechsten Zeitraum, das besteht gerade darinnen, daß der Rassencharakter abgestreift wird. Das ist das Wesentliche. Deshalb ist es notwendig, daß diejenige Bewegung, welche die anthroposophische genannt wird, welche vorbereiten soll den sechsten Zeitraum, gerade in ihrem Grundcharakter dieses Abstreifen des Rassencharakters aufnimmt, daß sie nämlich zu vereinigen sucht Menschen aus allen Rassen, aus allen Nationen und auf diese Weise überbrückt diese Differenzierung, diese Unterschiede, diese Abgründe, die zwischen den einzelnen Menschengruppen vorhanden sind. Denn es hat in gewisser Beziehung physischen Charakter, was alter Rassenstandpunkt ist, und es wird einen viel geistigeren Charakter haben, was sich in die Zukunft hinein vollzieht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p014"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Daher ist es so dringend notwendig, zu verstehen, daß unsere anthroposophische Bewegung eine geistige ist, die auf das Spirituelle sieht, und gerade das, was aus physischen Unterschieden herrührt, durch die Kraft der geistigen Bewegung überwindet. Es ist ja durchaus begreiflich, daß eine jede Bewegung sozusagen ihre Kinderkrankheiten hat und daß man im Anfang der theosophischen Bewegung die Sache so dargestellt hat, als wenn sozusagen die Erde in sieben Zeiträume zerfiele - man nannte das Hauptrassen - und jede der Hauptrassen in sieben Unterrassen; und daß das alles sich so stetig wiederholen würde, so daß man immer von sieben Rassen sprechen könnte und sieben Unterrassen. Aber man muß über die Kinderkrankheiten hinauskommen und sich klar sein darüber, daß der Rassenbegriff aufhört eine jegliche Bedeutung zu haben gerade in unserer Zeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p015"},{"locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Etwas anderes bereitet sich ferner vor - etwas, das mit der Individualität des Menschen in ganz eminentem Sinne zusammenhängt — im Individueller-Werden und immer Individueller-Werden der Menschen. Es handelt sich nur darum, daß diese Individualität es im rechten Sinne wird, und dazu soll nun die anthroposophische Bewegung dienen, daß die Menschen im rechten Sinne Individualitäten werden, oder Persönlichkeiten, könnten wir auch sagen. Wie kann sie das aber?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/117/1909-12-04/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[8],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[9],"to":[8],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[9,10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13,14,15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[16],"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)."}}