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Das kann man einsehen aus den Tatsachen, die das letzte Mal und heute dargestellt worden sind. Und wenn wir das einsehen, können wir uns sagen: Warum sollte der luziferische Einfluß, gerade weil er von früher her wirkt und sich umgewandelt hat in die Krankheit und ausgeglichen wird durch den Schmerz, warum sollte er nicht beim Menschen gleichsam nach sich ziehen den ahrimanischen Einfluß? Und warum sollte nicht bei dem, was uns Schmerz bereitet und uns den luziferischen Verlauf einer Krankheit anzeigt, mitspielen gerade als Folge des luziferischen Einflusses der ahrimanische Einfluß? Wie aber wirkt der ahrimanische Einfluß? Und wie wandeln sich die Verlockungen des Ahriman in Krankheitsursachen um? Wie tritt das auf in einer späteren Inkarnation?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":175,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-22/p017"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-22/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Was ahrimaniischem Einfluß zuzuschreiben ist, das ist mittelbar doch auf Luzifer zurückzuführen; aber wenn der luziferische Einfluß so stark war, daß er den ahrimanischen Einfluß herausgefordert hat, dann ist der ahrimanische Einfluß der heimtückischere. Er liegt tiefer unten, nicht nur in den Verfehlungen des astralischen Leibes, sondern in den Verfehlungen des Ätherleibes. In einem Bewußtsein, das unter dem Schmerzbewußstsein liegt, tritt der ahrimanische Einfluß auf mit einer Schädigung, welche nicht von Schmerz begleitet zu werden braucht, mit einer solchen Schädigung, die in dem betreffenden Organe, wo sich die Schädigung ausdrückt, zu einem Unbrauchbarwerden dieses Organs führt. - Nehmen wir an, in einer Inkarnation hätte ein ahrimanischer Einfluß gewirkt und hätte das hervorgerufen, was eben ein ahrimanischer Einfluß hervorrufen kann. Der Mensch durchlebt nun die Zeit zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt — und tritt wieder auf in einer neuen Inkarnation. Dann zeigt sich, daß irgendein Organ ergriffen ist von der ahrimanischen Wirkung, mit andern Worten: In diesem Organ sitzt der Atherleib viel tiefer darinnen, als er darinsitzen sollte; das Organ ist viel stärker durchdrungen von dem Ätherleib, als es sein sollte. In solchem Falle wird der Mensch wegen des fehlerhaften Organs verleitet, sich nur noch mehr in den Irrtum — das, was Ahriman vollbringt in der Welt - zu verstricken. Mit dem Organ, welches dem ahrimanischen Einfluß seine Schädigung verdankt, in das sich so recht tief hineinversetzt hat der Ätherleib, würde der Mensch, wenn er diesen ganzen Prozeß ausleben wollte, sich tiefer in das verstricken, was Ahriman bewirken kann: in die Maja. Da nun aber alles das, was die Außenwelt als Maja erzeugt, nicht mitgenommen werden kann in die geistige Welt, so entzieht sich uns die geistige Welt immer mehr. Denn dort gibt es nur Wahrheit, nicht Illusion! Je mehr wir also in die durch Ahriman bewirkte Illusion hineinverstrickt werden, desto mehr werden wir gerade dazu gedrängt, uns noch viel mehr in die sinnlich-äußere Welt, in die Illusion des Physisch-Sinnlichen hineinzuversetzen, als wir es ohne ein solches schadhaftes Organ tun würden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":330,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-22/p018"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-22/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Da aber tritt die gegensätzliche Wirkung ebenso auf, wie die gegensätzliche Wirkung im Schmerz bei dem luziferischen Einfluß auftritt. Da tritt die gegensätzliche Wirkung nun so auf, daß in dem Augenblick, wo die Gefahr vorhanden ist, daß wir uns zu sehr an die physischsinnliche Welt ketten und uns dadurch zu viel rauben von dem, was uns hinaufführen könnte in die geistige Welt, daß in diesem Augenblick das Organ zerstört wird, daß es entweder gelähmt oder zu schwach gemacht wird zum Wirken. Es tritt also ein Zerstörungsprozeß ein. Sehen wir also, daß ein Organ zerstört wird, so müssen wir uns klar sein, daß wir dies eigentlich wohltätigen Mächten verdanken müssen: das Organ wird uns genommen, damit wir wieder den Rückweg finden in die geistige Welt. So ist es in der Tat, daß uns - wenn es nicht anders geht - durch gewisse Mächte Organe zerstört werden oder daß wir mit kranken Organen ausgerüstet werden, damit wir nicht zu tief in die Illusion hineingestoßen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-22/p019"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-22/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Wenn also jemand zum Beispiel eine Leberkrankheit hat, die als solche nicht von schmerzlichen Erlebnissen begleitet ist, so haben wir es zu tun mit der Wirkung eines vorhergehenden ahrimanischen Einflusses, der dazu geführt hat, der Leber die betreffende Schädigung zuzufügen, weil wir sonst durch die Kräfte, welche verbunden sind mit dem Tieferhineingehen des Atherleibes, zu sehr in Maja hineingeführt würden, wenn uns dieses Organ nicht genommen würde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-22/p020"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-22/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Sagen und Mythen haben immer die tiefste Weisheit gewußt und haben sie in sich ausgedrückt. Gerade die Leber ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür. Denn sie ist ein Organ, das am leichtesten für das Hineingleiten des Menschen in die physisch-illusorische Welt wirksam sein kann. Und die Leber ist zugleich das Organ, das uns eigentlich an die Erde kettet. Mit dieser Wahrheit hängt zusammen, daß bei derjenigen Wesenheit, welche den Menschen der Sage nach die Kraft gebracht hat, die sie in das Erdenleben hineinführen und dort recht wirksam machen soll nämlich bei Prometheus -, gerade an der Leber ein Geier nagt. Ein Geier nagt an der Leber, nicht etwa darum, weil das dem Prometheus einen besonders tiefen Schmerz verursachen soll; denn in diesem Falle würde die Sage nicht stimmen mit den wirklichen Tatsachen. Aber Sagen stimmen immer überein mit den physiologischen Tatsachen! Der Geier nagt an der Leber, weil es nicht wehtut! Denn es sollte darauf hingewiesen werden, daß Prometheus der Menschheit etwas brachte, was sie tiefer hineinverstricken könnte in das Ahrimanische, wenn nicht die gegenteilige, ausgleichende Wirkung geschehen könnte. Okkulte Urkunden sind immer im Einklang mit den Wahrheiten, welche wir in der Geisteswissenschaft verkünden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-22/p021"}],"beads":[{"from":[18,19],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[20,21],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[19],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[20],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[21],"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)."}}