{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 121/1910-06-16/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Therefore the East did not experience the whole process of receiving the ‘I’ as though coming from a higher spiritual world, with the assistance of a divine spiritual individuality such as Thor. This was experienced in Europe, and hence the European felt this gradual ascent to the individual ‘I’ as the emerging from a kind of group-soul. The Germanic Scandinavian still felt himself attached to a group-soul, belonging to a whole community, as if he were a part in the great body of his people. Thus only could it come about that nearly 100 years after the Christ-impulse had been given to the earth, Tacitus could describe the Germans of Central Europe as appearing to belong to separate tribes, and yet as members of one organism and belonging to the unity of the organism. At that time each individual still felt himself to be a member of the tribal ‘I’. He felt his individual ‘I’ being gradually born out of the tribal ‘I’, and in the God Thor he recognized the giver, the bestower of the ‘I’, the God who really presented him with the individual ‘I’. But he felt this God to be still united with the collective spirit of the tribe, with that which dwelt in the group-soul. To this group-soul was given the name Sif. That is the name of the spouse of Thor. Sif must linguistically be connected with the word Sippe-tribal relationship,—and this connection really exists, although veiled and hidden. Occultly, however, Sif signifies the group-soul of the individual community from which the single individual grows forth. Sif is the being who unites herself with the God of the individual ‘I’, with the giver of the individual ‘I’, with Thor. The individual man recognized Sif and Thor as the Beings who gave him his ‘I’. The Northman still felt thus about them, at a time when to the peoples in other parts of Europe other tasks had already been given in the educating of man up to the ‘I’.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture X","site_heading":"Folk-Souls and the Evolution of Individual Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Da war der Mensch schon subjektiv so weit entwickelt zu einer hohen Stufe menschlicher Vollkommenheit, daß er das Ich nicht als fremdes, sondern als eigenes empfand. Als der Mensch im Orient zum Ich erwachte, war die orientalische Kultur schon so weit, daß sie fähig war, eine so fein ausgesponnene Spekulation, Logik und Weisheit nach und nach zu entwickeln, wie wir sie in der orientalischen Weisheit vor uns sehen. Also den ganzen Prozeß des Empfangens des Ich wie aus einer höheren, geistigen Welt unter der Beihilfe einer solchen göttlich-geistigen Individualität wie der Thor es war, hat der Orientalismus nicht mehr mitgemacht. Ihn hat mitgemacht der Europäismus, und daher empfindet dieser Europäismus auch dieses allmähliche Hinaufsteigen zu dem individuellen Ich wie das Herauskommen aus einer Art von Gruppenseele. Der germanisch-nordische Mensch fühlte sich selbst noch wie mit einer Gruppenseele behaftet, wie zu einer ganzen Gemeinschaft gehörig, wie ein Glied in der großen Zusammengehörigkeit des Stammes. Nur so konnte es kommen, daß noch fast hundert Jahre, nachdem der christliche Impuls der Erde gegeben worden ist, Tacitus die Germanen Mitteleuropas so schildern konnte, daß sie immer als zu einzelnen Stämmen gehörig erscheinen, daß sie wie die Glieder eines Organismus sind und zu der Einheit des Organismus gehören. So fühlte sich der einzelne in jener Zeit noch wie ein Glied des Stammes-Ich. Er fühlte das nach und nach Heraus-geboren-Werden des individuellen Ich aus dem Stammes-Ich, und er fühlte in dem Gotte Thor den Geber, den Verleiher des Ich, den Gott, der ihn eigentlich mit dem individuellen Ich begabte. Aber er fühlte diesen Gott noch verbunden mit dem gesamten Geiste des Stammes, mit dem, was in der Gruppenseele lebt. Für diese Gruppenseele findet sich nun der Ausdruck «Sif». Das ist der Name für die Gemahlin des Thor. Sif muß sprachlich verwandt sein mit dem Worte Sippe, Stammeszusammengehörigkeit und ist es auch in der Tat, wenn das auch maskiert und verborgen ist. Okkult bedeutet aber Sif die Gruppenseele der einzelnen Gemeinschaft, aus der herauswächst das einzelne Individuum. Sif ist diejenige Wesenheit, die sich verbindet mit dem Gotte des individuellen Ich, mit dem Geber des individuellen Ich, mit Thor. Sif und Thor empfindet der individuelle Mensch als die Wesenheiten, die ihm das Ich gaben. 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