{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But you must not think that such Beings as the Spirits of Will finished their work at a specific stage. Although they performed their main task on Saturn, yet they have continued to work during the whole course of development on Sun, Moon and earth. They have retained a certain connection with the substance for which they made their self-sacrifice. We saw that during the Sun evolution the warmth element transformed itself in the downward direction, that is, in the direction of densification, into the element of air. Such a process as the densification of warmth into air, which we can follow in its external manifestation—such a process is just *maya*; it gives us the illusion of densification. Within the process itself lies spiritual weaving, spiritual being, spiritual activity. And anyone who wishes to get to the bottom of things has to ask himself which of the hierarchies has brought it about that out of the more rarefied warmth-substance, the denser air comes into being. It is those very Spirits of Will who sacrificed the warmth-substance out of themselves who have brought this about! We may describe their activity by saying that during the Saturn evolution they were so advanced as to be able to allow their own substance to flow out as warmth, so advanced as to be able to offer their own substance as a sacrifice, so advanced that their fire streamed into the planetary existence of Saturn. Then during the Sun evolution they condensed this, their fire, into the gaseous element. But it was also they who during the Moon evolution condensed their gaseous element to water. During the earth evolution they have further condensed their watery element into the earth element, into solid. Thus, when we look upon the solid matter in the world, we have to say to ourselves that in this solid matter forces are at work which alone make its existence possible, forces whose very being flowed out from Saturn as warmth and whose effluence has become denser and denser until it has now reached the solid state, held together by their power. And if we would know who it is that brings this about, if we would look beyond the *maya* of solid matter, we should have to say that behind all this solid matter which we encounter there work and weave the Spirits of Will, the Thrones. Thus the Spirits of Will are still present in earth existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Ein solcher Vorgang, den wir etwa dem äußeren Schein nach verfolgen können wie eine Verdichtung des Wärmehaften in das Lufthafte, der ist eben nur der Maja, der Illusion nach ein Verdichtungsvorgang. In diesem Verdichten selber liegt ein geistiges Weben und Wesen, liegt eine geistige Tätigkeit. Und derjenige, der den Dingen auf den Grund gehen will, muß fragen: Wer hat es denn gemacht innerhalb der Reihe der Hierarchien, daß aus dem dünneren \\Wärmestoff, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, der dichtere Luftstoff gefestigt worden ist? — Niemand anders hat das bewirkt als wiederum dieselben Geister des Willens, die den Wärmestoff aus sich herausgeopfert haben. So daß wir diese Tätigkeit der Geister des Willens so auffassen können, daß wir sagen: sie waren während des alten Saturndaseins so weit, daß sie ihre eigene Substanz als Wärme ausfließen ließen, substantiell hinopferten, daß ihr Feuer in das planetarische Dasein des alten Saturn einströmte. Dann erhärteten sie dieses ihr Feuer während des alten Sonnendaseins zum Gasigen. Sie selber waren es aber auch, die ihr Gasiges während des alten Mondendaseins zum Wässerigen dichteten, und während des Erdendaseins verdichteten sie weiter ihr Wässeriges zum Erdigen, zum Festen. — Wenn wir also heute den Blick herumwenden in der Welt und das Feste erblicken, so müssen wir sagen: In diesem Festen wirken Kräfte, die es einzig und allein möglich machen, daß dieses Feste existiert, die durch ihre eigene Wesenheit, ausgeflossen sind als Wärme auf dem alten Saturn, die immer dichter diesen Ausfluß gemacht haben bis zum Festen, das sie nun kraftvoll zusammenhalten. — Und wenn wir wissen wollen, wer das tut, wenn wir den Blick über die Maja des Festen hinaus richten, dann müssen wir sagen: Hinter allem, was uns als Festes entgegentritt, wirken und weben die Geister des Willens, die Throne. — Also auch noch innerhalb des Erdendaseins sind die Geister des Willens vorhanden. 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