{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You must make yourselves familiar with such ideas. You must get used to the thought that in what lies nearest to us, and which we often regard as very lowly, we sometimes meet very high and exalted Beings. It is easy to say of the solid element that it is only matter. Perhaps some may be tempted to say that it is no concern of the spiritual investigator—that matter is a low level of existence. Why should we bother with it? We pass beyond and above matter into the spiritual. Anyone who thinks in this way forgets that through countless ages high, exalted spiritual Beings have worked in the object of his contempt to bring it into this solid state. Actually, when we penetrate through external matter, through the elementary covering of the earth, to what has made this earth covering solid, it would be natural to feel the deepest reverence for the exalted Beings we call the Spirits of Will, who have laboured so long in this earth element to build up the solid ground upon which we tread, and which we ourselves bear within us in the earthly constituents of our physical bodies. It is these Spirits of Will, whom in Christian esotericism we also call the Thrones, who have in fact constructed—or rather condensed—the solid ground upon which we walk. The esotericists who gave names to what the Spirits of Will brought forth within our earth existence called these Spirits Thrones, because they built thrones upon which we are all the time being supported, as upon a solid ground, and upon which all the rest of our earth existence continues to base itself as upon firm seats. 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Wir dringen über die Materie hinauf ins Geistige! — Derjenige, der so denkt, beachtet nicht, daß in dem, was er so sehr verachten möchte, durch unzählige Zeiträume hindurch gearbeitet haben, um es in diesen Zustand des Festen zu bringen, hohe, erhabene geistige Wesenheiten. Und in der Tat, unser Gefühl müßte, wenn es normal empfände, in einer tiefen Ehrfurcht leben, wenn es vordringt von dem äußeren Stoff, gleichsam von der elementarischen Erdendecke, zu dem, was diese Erdendecke verfestet hat. Unser Gefühl sollte in tiefster Verehrung sich aneignen die höchste Achtung für die erhabenen geistigen Wesenheiten, die wir nennen die Geister des Willens, die in diesem Erdenhaften in langer Tätigkeit den festen Grund aufgebaut haben, über den wir dahinschreiten und den wir selbst in uns tragen in den erdenhaften Bestandteilen unseres physischen Leibes. Diese Geister des Willens, die wir in der christlichen Esoterik auch die Throne nennen, sie haben uns in der Tat den festen Untergrund gebaut oder, besser gesagt, gedichtet, auf dem wir dahinschreiten. Diejenigen, die als Esoteriker den Erzeugnissen der Geister des Willens innerhalb unseres Erdendaseins Namen gaben, sie nannten diese Geister die Throne, weil sie uns in der Tat die Throne gebaut haben, auf die wir als auf einen festen Untergrund uns immerdar stützen, auf dem alles andere Erdendasein wie auf seinen festen Thronen weiterfußt. 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