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The forces of Lucifer are those that act on our astral body, that radiate their power into our astral body and tempt us in relation to it. The forces of Ahriman are those that tempt us in relation to our etheric body. Yes, it is Lucifer who, so to speak, grabs us by the scruff of the neck when we are envious people. Envy is truly a Luciferic quality, a quality that comes from Lucifer, whereas untruthfulness is a quality that comes from Ahriman. 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We can speak of these compromises when we consider human qualities such as envy and lying.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/125/1910-12-11/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19101211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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And because one hates envy so much, one fights against it, but if the soul is not yet strong enough to fight it thoroughly, it disappears as envy but reappears in another form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/125/1910-12-11/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19101211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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He says to himself: Yes, one sees the faults, one must see them, one cannot close one's eyes. — It is only a matter of why we see the faults of our fellow human beings, whether we see the intention to improve life, or whether we follow a tendency of our soul, which is often nothing more than a masked envy. People fight envy because they hate it, but they are too weak to uproot it. So it takes on the guise of a critical nature and continues to roam the soul in this way. Then you have not fought envy, you have only forced it into a different metamorphosis. In reality, what has happened is that man has fought Lucifer, because he is above the envy of the Regent, as he is above much. But Lucifer then says to Ahriman, if I may express it thus: 'See, dear Ahriman, man hates my mode of ruling envy; he does not want to be envious. Now you take him in relation to this quality! Then Ahriman says: Yes, I will press that into the etheric body. — And it is pressed into the etheric body as a critical mind, as a critical spirit, as a misguided judgment about the world. For the ability to judge always has something to do with the movements and forces of the etheric body. Here the command of our soul passes from Lucifer to Ahriman. And so many qualities, which if they presented themselves in their original form we would hate and fight against, appear in disguise. Sometimes they present themselves in such a way that we actually find them very justified and even take some pride in being able to see what is right in life. Then we are truly caught in the tentacles of the other power, the Ahrimanic power. We must not forget that a quality is much more dangerous when it appears in disguise than when it appears in its original form. Therefore, when we see this or that in life, it is always good to ask: Is it not perhaps only a transformed other vice? — This is extremely necessary so that we learn to look at life in its truth. We can only do this if we use the guidelines that anthroposophical wisdom gives us to properly observe life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":518,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/125/1910-12-11/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19101211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Die luziferischen Gewalten sind die, welche auf unseren astralischen Leib wirken, welche ihre Kraftwirkungen in unseren astralischen Leib hereinstrahlen und uns in bezug auf diesen versuchen. Die ahrimanischen Gewalten sind die, welche uns in bezug auf unseren Ätherleib versuchen. Ja, es ist Luzifer, der uns sozusagen am Kragen packt, wenn wir neidische Menschen sind. Der Neid ist so recht eine luziferische Eigenschaft, eine Eigenschaft, die von Luzifer kommt, wogegen die Lügenhaftigkeit eine Eigenschaft ist, die von Ahriman kommt. Denn Ahriman sendet die Kräfte und Mächte aus, die in unseren Ätherleib einstrahlen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-12-11/p011"},{"locus":"GA 125/1910-12-11/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Nun können wir sagen: Es war zwar durchaus absolut notwendig, daß Luzifer und Ahriman von den weisen Weltenmächten abgeordnet wurden, damit sie auf uns wirken zu unserer Selbständigkeit. Indem sie bewirken, daß wir unsere Selbständigkeit mißbrauchen, sind sie in gewisser Weise Feinde der höheren Entwickelung der Menschheit. Aber wenn sie auch dem Menschen in einer gewissen Weise in seiner höheren Entwickelung Feinde sind, sind sie sehr befreundet und beschließen untereinander ganz sonderbare Kompromisse. Wir können gerade von diesen Kompromissen sprechen, wenn wir solche menschliche Eigenschaften wie Neid und Lügenhaftigkeit betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-12-11/p012"},{"locus":"GA 125/1910-12-11/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Neid! Der Mensch, der nicht ganz verdorben ist, wird in dem Augenblick, wo er sich sagen muß: Ich bin eine neidische Natur -, wirklich alles tun, man braucht gar nicht besonders hochzustehen, um alles zu tun, diesen Neid zu bekämpfen. Aber die Dinge sitzen manchmal viel tiefer, als unsere Macht reicht, die vom Bewußtsein ausgeht. Und der Mensch stellt sich manchmal doch zu leicht vor, wie es mit dem Bekämpfen solcher Dinge liegt. So kommt es dann vor, daß er solche Dinge bekämpft, weil er sie als häßlich empfindet, daß sie aber nicht fortgehen, daß sie eigentlich nur ihre Form ändern, daß sie in einem anderen Gebiet wiederum auftreten. In Masken, in Verlarvungen treten sie dann auf. Und weil man den Neid so haßt, bekämpft man ihn, aber wenn die Seele noch nicht stark genug ist, um ihn gründlich zu bekämpfen, verliert er sich als Neid, tritt aber in anderer Form auf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-12-11/p013"},{"locus":"GA 125/1910-12-11/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Sie alle kennen jene Eigenschaft der Menschen, die man so häufig findet und die man nennen könnte: Kritikasterei und Tadelsucht, das Aufmerken auf die Fehler unserer Nebenmenschen. Wenn sich jemand sagen muß: Ich bin ein neidischer Mensch, ich will nicht haben, daß meine Mitmenschen Vorzüge haben -, fühlt er sich schlecht. Er fühlt, daß er das bekämpfen muß. Wenn er sich aber sagen kann: Der oder die hat das oder jenes Schreckliche getan -, da fühlt er, daß die Tadelsucht in gewisser Weise berechtigt ist, da fühlt er sich so recht in seinem Element. Denken Sie sich doch einmal, wenn das nicht so wäre, wie viele Kaffeegesellschaften und Biergesellschaften wegfallen müßten, wo im Grunde genommen so sehr häufig nichts anderes getan wird, als daß man dieser Kritikasterei und Tadelsucht die Zügel schießen läßt. Und da findet sich der Mensch dann vor sich selbst gerechtfertigt. Er sagt sich: Ja, man sieht die Fehler, man muß sie sehen, man kann sich die Augen nicht verschließen. — Es handelt sich nur darum, aus welchen Gründen wir die Fehler unserer Mitmenschen sehen, ob wir sein der Absicht sehen, das Leben zu verbessern, oder ob wir einem Hang unserer Seele folgen, der oftmals nichts anderes ist als ein maskierter Neid. Den Neid bekämpfen die Menschen, weil sie ihn hassen, aber sie können ihn nicht ausreißen, weil sie zu schwach sind. So nimmt er das Gewand der Tadelsucht an und wandert in der Seele auf diese Weise weiter. Dann hat man den Neid nicht bekämpft, man hat ihn nur in eine andere Metamorphose gezwungen. In Wahrheit ist dann das geschehen, daß der Mensch den Luzifer bekämpft hat, weil er über den Neid der Regent wie über vieles ist. Aber Luzifer sagt dann zu Ahriman, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf: Sieh, lieber Ahriman, mein Regiment des Neides haßt der Mensch, er will nicht neidisch sein. Nun nimm du ihn in bezug auf diese Eigenschaft! Dann sagt Ahriman: Ja, dann werde ich das in den Ätherleib hineinpressen. — Und es wird in den Ätherleib hineingepreßt als Tadelsucht, als Kritikasterei, als irregeführtes Urteil über die Mitwelt. Denn Urteilsfähigkeit hat immer etwas zu tun mit den Bewegungen und Kräften des Ätherleibes. Da geht dann das Regiment in bezug auf unsere Seele von Luzifer auf Ahriman über. Und so treten viele Eigenschaften, die wir, wenn sie sich uns in ihrer ursprünglichen Gestalt zeigen würden, haßten und bekämpften, maskiert auf. Da treten sie manchmal so auf, daß wir sie eigentlich sehr gerechtfertigt finden und uns sogar etwas zugute darauf tun, daß wir uns aufschwingen können, das Richtige im Leben zu sehen. Dann sind wir so recht in den Fangarmen der anderen Macht, der ahrimanischen Macht. Da dürfen wir nicht vergessen, daß eine Eigenschaft viel gefährlicher ist, wenn sie in der Maske auftritt, als wenn sie in ursprünglicher Gestalt auftritt. Daher ist es immer gut zu fragen, wenn wir dieses oder jenes im Leben sehen: Ist das nicht vielleicht bloß eine verwandelte andere Untugend? — Das ist außerordentlich notwendig, daß wir so das Leben in seiner Wahrheit betrachten lernen. Das können wir im Grunde genommen nur, wenn wir die Richtlinien, die uns die anthroposophische Weisheit gibt, benützen, um das Leben ordentlich anzuschauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":530,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-12-11/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}