{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 124/1911-01-16/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At a still higher level we come to the Exousiai. They are supersensible Beings of an essentially different order. To form an idea of how the Beings of these still higher Hierarchies differ from the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai, let us remind ourselves that there is no essential difference between a member of one Folk and a member of a different Folk as regards his outer, physical make-up and what he eats and drinks. It cannot be said that, except as regards soul and spirit, the peoples differ essentially from each other. The guiding spiritual Beings (the Time-Spirits) of the successive epochs are concerned with things of the soul and spirit only. Man does not, however, consist only of soul and spirit. It is the human astral body that is essentially influenced by whatever is of the nature of soul and spirit. There are also denser members of man's being which do not differ greatly from each other as far as the activities of the Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai are concerned. But creative influences are exercised upon these denser members of man's nature by spiritual Beings belonging to ranks from that of the Exousiai upwards. Language and current modes of thought belong to the sphere of the Folk-Spirits and the Time-Spirits—Archangeloi and Archai. But men are also influenced by the light and air and climate of a particular region. One type of human being thrives below the Equator, another in the regions nearer to the North Pole. We shall not agree with a German professor of philosophy whose view, presented in a very widely read book, was that civilisations of essential importance would have to develop in the Temperate Zone because the human beings responsible for such culture would freeze at the North Pole and scorch at the South Pole! But we can certainly speak of the different effects of food upon human beings living in different climates. External conditions are by no means without influence upon the character of a people—for example, whether they live in mountain valleys or on plains. We see there how the forces of nature penetrate into and affect the whole of man's constitution. Knowing from Spiritual Science that supersensible Beings are active in all the forces of nature and work upon men through these forces, we can make a distinction between Archai and Exousiai, and say: The Angeloi, Archangeloi and Archai influence man through what concerns the soul and spirit only—language, current modes of thought, ideas, and so on, but they do not work through the forces of nature; their operations do not directly affect the etheric body or the physical body, which are the lower members of man's organism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. The Son of God and the Son of Man. 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Um uns eine Vorstellung davon zu machen, wie sich die Wesenheiten höherer Hierarchien zunächst von den drei eben charakterisierten, Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai, unterscheiden, wollen wir daran denken, daß der Angehörige irgendeines Volkes doch im wesentlichen heute in bezug auf die äußere physische Konstitution, sagen wir in bezug auf das, was er ißt und trinkt, dem Angehörigen irgendeines anderen Volkes doch sehr ähnlich ist. Wir können nicht sagen, daß das, was über das Seelisch-Geistige hinausgeht, die Völker voneinander unterscheidet. Aber auch die aufeinanderfolgenden Zeitepochen sind noch so, daß wir sagen können: Die lenkenden geistigen Wesenheiten beziehen sich nur auf das, was das Geistig-Seelische ist. Der Mensch ist aber nicht nur abhängig von dem Geistig-Seelischen. Was Geistig-Seelisches ist, hat im wesentlichen Einfluß auf den menschlichen Astralleib. Aber es gibt im Menschen auch dichtere Wesensglieder. Dieselben unterscheiden sich in bezug auf das, was Archai, Archangeloi und Angeloi zu tun haben, nicht sehr wesentlich voneinander. Aber auf diese dichteren menschlichen Wesensglieder haben schöpferischen Einfluß, in bezug auf sie sind schöpferisch tätig diejenigen Wesenheiten, die mit den Exusiai nach aufwärts anfangen. Sprache, Zeitideen verdanken wir den Zeitgeistern, den Volksgeistern, den Archai, den Archangeloi. Aber in bezug auf die menschliche Wesenheit hat auch Einfluß, was in Licht und Luft lebt, in dem Klima einer bestimmten Gegend. Eine andere Menschheit gedeiht unter dem Äquator, eine andere in den Gegenden, die mehr dem Nordpol zu gelegen sind. Wir wollen allerdings dem Ausspruch, den ein deutscher Philosophie-Professor in einem sehr verbreiteten Buch getan hat, nicht gerade beistimmen: Die wesentlichsten Kulturen mußten sich in der gemäßigten Zone entwickeln; denn alle diejenigen Wesenheiten, welche die wesentlichsten Kulturen hervorgebracht haben, würden am Nordpol erfrieren und am Südpol verbrennen! — Aber wir können doch sagen: In den verschiedenen Klimaten sehen wir, wie verschieden die Ernährung und so weiter auf den Menschen wirkt. Es ist keineswegs gleichgültig für den Volkscharakter, wie die äußeren Verhältnisse sind, ob der Mensch zum Beispiel in Gebirgstälern oder in der weiten Ebene lebt. Da sehen wir, wie die Naturkräfte hereinwirken in die ganze menschliche Konstitution. Und da wir durch die Geisteswissenschaft wissen, daß wir in den Naturkräften nichts anderes zu sehen haben als das Auswirken derjenigen Wesenheiten, die geistiger, übersinnlicher Art sind, so müssen wir sagen: In den Naturmächten wirken geistige, übersinnliche Mächte, die gerade durch die Naturkräfte auf den Menschen hereinwirken. Deshalb können wir uns zwischen Archai und Exusiai eine Trennung in der Art denken, daß wir sagen: Angeloi, Archangeloi und Archai wirken auf den Menschen so, daß sie zu ihrem Wirken noch nicht die Naturkräfte benutzen, sondern sie benutzen nur das, was geistig-seelisch auf den Menschen einwirkt, also Sprache, Zeitideen und so weiter. Ihre Wirksamkeit ergreift nicht die niederen Glieder seiner Organisation, weder den Ätherleib noch den physischen Leib. Dagegen haben wir von den Exusiai nach aufwärts diejenigen Wesenheiten, die auf den Menschen wirken, die aber auch in den Naturkräften draußen wirken, die die Leiter und Lenker sind von Luft und Licht, von den verschiedenen Arten, wie die Ernährungsstoffe verarbeitet werden in den Reichen der Natur. Sie sind es, die diesen Reichen der Natur vorstehen. Was wir haben in Blitz und Donner, in Regen und Sonnenschein, wie in der einen Gegend diese oder jene Sorte von Ernährungsstoffen wächst, kurz die ganze Verteilung und Ordnung der irdischen Verhältnisse, schreiben wir geistigen Wesenheiten zu, die wir unter den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien suchen. 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