{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we look at a tiny child on the threshold of earthly life, we know that a unitary consciousness has not yet been developed in him. It is only after some time that a child even utters the “I” which holds consciousness together. It is only then that the contents of his soul-life become knit together in a conscious unity. The human being grows to a higher stage through the bringing together of activities which in the baby are still decentralised. Thus, in the human being this concentration signifies an advance to a higher level. We can think of the progressive development of the Elohim as analogous to this. During the preparatory stages of man's development they practised a certain activity. This activity has taught them something, has helped to raise them to a higher stage. They have now acquired a certain unified consciousness *as a group*. That is as much as to say that they have not remained simply a group but have become a unity, and a unity possessing real being. What I am here saying is extremely important. Hitherto I have only been able to say that the several Elohim each had his own special capacity. Each of them was able to contribute something to the common resolve, the common picture of the human being they wished to form; and at the same time this human being was only an idea, upon which they could co-operate. To begin with, it was not real. Something real was first brought into existence after they had created the common product. But in the course of this work they themselves developed to a higher stage, developed their own unity to a reality, so that they were no longer seven, but a sevenfold whole. We can now speak of an “Elohimhood,” which reveals itself in a sevenfold way. This unity of the Elohim had first to come into being. It is something to which the Elohim work themselves up. The Bible is aware of this. The Bible is acquainted with the idea that the Elohim were first separate members of a group, and that they then form themselves into a unity; that to begin with they co-operate as members of a group, and later become directed out of a unified organism. This real unity, in which the Elohim act as the organs of a body, the Bible calls Jahve-Elohim. ![122-06-01](images/122-06-01.gif)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Elementary Existence and the Spiritual Beings behind it. 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Dadurch, daß sie diese Tätigkeit ausgeführt haben, haben sie selber etwas gelernt, selber etwas dazu beigetragen, um sich zu einer höheren Stufe emporzuheben. Sie haben nun als Gruppe ein gewisses Einheitsbewußtsein erlangt, sind gleichsam nicht nur Gruppe geblieben, sondern sind Einheit geworden. Die Einheit wurde gleichsam wesenhaft. Das ist etwas außerordentlich Wichtiges, was wir in diesem Punkt aussprechen. Ich konnte Ihnen bisher nur sagen: Die einzelnen Elohim waren so, daß jeder etwas Besonderes konnte. Jeder konnte zum gemeinsamen Entschluß, zum gemeinsamen Bild, nach dem sie den Menschen formen wollten, etwas hinzubringen, und das, was der Mensch war, war gleichsam nur eine Vorstellung, in der sie zusammenwirken konnten. Das war in der Arbeit der Elohim zunächst noch nichts Reales. Reales war erst vorhanden, als sie das gemeinsame Produkt geschaffen hatten. In dieser Arbeit selber entwickelten sie sich aber höher, entwickelten sie ihre Einheit zu einer Realität, so daß sie jetzt nicht etwa nur sieben waren, sondern daß die Siebenheit ein Ganzes war, so daß wir jetzt von einer Elohimheit sprechen können, welche sich auf siebenfache Weise offenbart. Diese Elohimheit ist erst geworden. Sie ist das, wozu sich die Elohim hinaufgearbeitet haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/122/1910-08-22/p021"},{"locus":"GA 122/1910-08-22/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Das kennt die Bibel. Die Bibel kennt die Vorstellung, daß die Elohim gleichsam vorher die Glieder einer Gruppe sind und sich dann zusammenordnen zu einer Einheit, so daß sie vorher zusammenarbeiten wie die Glieder einer Gruppe, und nachher von einem gemeinsamen Organismus aus gelenkt werden. Und diese reale Einheit der Elohim, in welcher die einzelnen Elohim tätig als Glieder, als Organe wirken, nennt die Bibel Jahve-Elohim. Da haben Sie nun in einer noch tieferen Weise, als es bisher möglich war, den Begriff des Jahve, des Jehova. Daher spricht die Bibel auch zunächst in ihrem Berichte nur von den Elohim, und fängt an, da wo die Elohim selber zu einer höheren Stufe, zu einer Einheit vorgeschritten sind, von Jahve-Elohim zu sprechen. Das ist der tiefere Grund, warum am Ende des Schöpfungswerkes der Jahvename plötzlich auftritt. 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