{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 121/1910-06-16/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The collective culture of Europe is a gift of the European Mysteries. The progressive Folk-souls are, as they progress, always the leaders of the collective culture of humanity. But at the time when these Folk-spirits of Europe had to direct men to work from out of themselves, it became necessary that the Mysteries should begin to withdraw. Hence with the withdrawal of the Celtic element there took place a kind of withdrawal of the Mysteries into much more secret depths. At the time of the old Celts there was, through the Mysteries, a much more direct intercourse between the spiritual Beings and the people, because the ‘I’ was still united to the group-soul nature, and yet the Celtic element was to be the donor of the ‘I’ to the other part of the population. We might therefore say, that before the actual Germanic Scandinavian evolution began, the mystery-education could only be given to European civilization by the old Celtic Mysteries. This mystery-education allowed just so much to come to the surface as was necessary to form a foundation for the whole culture of Europe. Now out of this old culture, through intermingling with the many different races, peoples and subdivisions of peoples, the most varied Folk-souls and Folkspirits were able to fertilize themselves, and they brought the ‘I’ into ever different conditions in order to educate it, the ‘I’ which has worked its way up out of the foundations of all that lies below the ‘I’ of man.","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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Aber in der Zeit, in welcher diese Volksgeister Europas die Menschen dazu anleiten sollten, aus sich selber heraus zu arbeiten, aus sich selber heraus wirksam zu sein, war es notwendig, daß sich die Mysterien mehr zurückzogen. Daher trat mit dem Zurückziehen des keltischen Elementes auch eine Art Zurückziehung der Mysterien in viel geheimere Untergründe ein. Ein viel direkterer, unmittelbarer Verkehr der Geistwesen mit dem Volke durch die Mysterien war zur Zeit der alten Kelten vorhanden, weil das Ich noch gebunden war an die Gruppenhaftigkeit, und doch sollte das keltische Element der Verleiher des Ich für die übrige Bevölkerung sein. Wir können also sagen: In der Zeit, die vor der eigentlichen germanisch-nordischen Entwickelung liegt, konnte nur durch die alten keltischen Mysterien der europäischen Kultur die Mysterien-Erziehung gegeben werden. Diese Mysterien-Erziehung hat gerade so viel an die Oberfläche kommen lassen, als notwendig war, um eine Grundlage für die gesamte Kultur Europas zu geben. Aus dieser alten Kultur haben sich nun durch Vermischung mit den verschiedensten Rassensplittern, Volksbestandteilen und Rassengemeinschaften die verschiedensten Volksseelen und Volksgeister befruchten können und haben immer das Ich in andere Lagen gebracht, um es zu erziehen, das Ich, das sich herauswühlte aus dem Untergrunde dessen, was unter dem Ich des Menschen liegt. Man kann sagen, daß, nachdem die alte griechische Kultur bis zu einem gewissen Grade ihren Höhepunkt erreicht hatte in der Ausbildung desjenigen, was sie eben als ihre besondere Mission hatte, eine ganz andere Seite dieser selben Mission im alten Römertum und seinen verschiedenen Kulturperioden zutage trat. Wir haben bereits erwähnt, wie in einer strengen Stufenfolge aufeinanderfolgen die einzelnen nachatlantischen Kulturen. 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