{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we may venture to say that the seer or seers who were responsible for the Genesis account were aware that all the hierarchies we have mentioned had to work to make preparation for man. But they must also have been aware that for the creation of man himself, for the crowning fulfilment of this entire hierarchical order, help had to come from yet another quarter, from a source in a way still higher than any of these hierarchies. Thus we look up beyond the Seraphim to a divine Being unknown, only dimly sensed. Let us follow up the activity of some member of the hierarchical order, say of the Elohim; so long as they had not decided to put the finishing touch to their work by fashioning man, it sufficed for them to work in harmony with the other hierarchies up to the Seraphim. But then help had to come from a realm to which we can only raise our spiritual gaze in dim apprehension, it has to come from a sphere really above that of the Seraphim. For the Elohim to raise their creative activity to these dizzy heights, for them to obtain help from this source, something had to happen of which we must try to grasp the significance. They had, so to say, to grow beyond themselves. They had to acquire a greater ability than was theirs during the preliminary stages. To crown their work they had to unfold still higher powers. The Elohim, as a group, had to grow beyond themselves. Let us try to get an idea of how such a thing could happen. Let us start with an illustration from everyday life, to help us to form some idea of this. Take the development of a human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Verfolgen wir einmal die Tätigkeit zum Beispiel irgendeines Gliedes der hierarchischen Ordnung, sagen wir, die Tätigkeit der Elohim. Solange sie nicht zu dem Entschlusse gekommen waren, ihre Werke durch die Bildung des Menschen zu krönen, so lange reichte es aus, daß sie ihre eigene Tätigkeit in Einklang versetzten mit der Tätigkeit der Hierarchien bis zu den Seraphimen hinauf. Dann aber mußte ihnen eine Hilfe kommen von jener Seite, zu der wir eben ahnend den geistigen Blick erheben, die sozusagen über den Seraphimen steht. Wenn die Elohim zu dieser schwindelerregenden Höhe hinauf ihre schöpferische Tätigkeit richten wollten, so daß sie Hilfe von dieser Seite empfangen konnten, dann mußte etwas eintreten, was wir seiner ganzen Tragweite nach verstehen wollen. Sie mußten sozusagen über sich selbst hinauswachsen. Sie mußten lernen, mehr zu können, als sie bloß im Vorbereitungswerke gekonnt hatten. Um das Werk vollständig zu krönen, um es zu Ende .zu führen, dazu mußten die Elohim fähig werden, noch höhere Kräfte zu entwickeln, als sie bloß am Vorbereitungswerke entfaltet hatten. Es mußte also die Gruppe der Elohim gewissermaßen über sich selber hinauswachsen. Versuchen wir, uns einmal eine Vorstellung davon zu machen, wie so etwas geschehen kann. Versuchen wir uns diesen Begriff zu bilden, indem wir wiederum von etwas Trivialem ausgehen. 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