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Anyone who has really understood these in their full depths—naturally not as modern theologians speak of them, but in such a way that he has drawn from them the deepest that can be expressed in them—will take something with him into that emptiness, which seems to expand from a given point and fills emptiness with something similar to courage. It is a feeling of courage, of protection through being united with that Being Who accomplished the sacrifice on Golgotha. The other way is to penetrate into the spiritual worlds without the Gospels through a real true Theosophy. This is also possible. (You know that we emphasise the fact that we do not start from the Gospels when we consider the Mystery of Golgotha, but that we should arrive at it even if there were no Gospel at all). It would not have been possible before the Mystery of Golgotha took place; but it is the case to-day, because something entered the world through the Mystery of Golgotha which enables a man to understand the impressions of the spiritual world directly through his own impressions. This is what we call the ruling of the Holy Spirit in the world, the ruling of cosmic thought in the world. Whether we take one or the other of these two ways, we cannot lose ourselves and we cannot, so to say, fall into the bottomless abyss when we stand before the dreadful emptiness. If we now approach this dreadful emptiness with the other preparations given us by the various methods, for instance, those in my book, *The Knowledge of Higher Worlds* etc. and other methods dependent on these—and enter a world born from that which has so shaken our minds, which can now be grasped by our conceptions when we live into that world, when we place ourselves, so to say, in the Saturn existence, then we learn to know Beings—not in the least similar to those we perceive in the animal, plant or mineral kingdoms but Beings. This is a world where there are no clouds, no light, it is quite devoid of sound, but we become acquainted with Beings—indeed those Beings, called in our terminology, Spirits of Will or Thrones. 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Yet such is the case. Of such a nature are the Spirits of Will. To begin with, we shall only designate as Saturn-existence what the Spirits of Will, consisting of courage, represent,—and nothing else. Saturn is this to commence with. It is a world of which we cannot say that it is spherical, hexagonal or square. None of these definitions of space apply to it, for there is no possibility of any end being discoverable. 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This again can only be described by a feeling that time ceases. This feeling is certainly not pleasant. Imagine that your concepts are benumbed, that everything that you can remember, everything to which you look forward is benumbed into a rigid state, so that you feel yourself held in your conceptions and are no longer able to move, then you will no longer be able to say that what you formerly experienced you experienced formerly; you are fastened to it; it is there, but it is benumbed: time ceases to be of significance, it is absolutely no longer there. On this account it is rather foolish for anyone to say: ‘you describe the Saturn existence, the Sun existence etc, now tell us what was before Saturn.’ ‘Before’ has no longer any meaning because time ceases to exist; we have done with all definitions of time. It is true of the old Saturn existence, speaking very comparatively,—our ordinary world must be non-existent for us, in the fact that thought must be absolutely still: It is the same with clairvoyance, ordinary thoughts must be left behind, they do not extend so far. By way of a comparison and expressing it in image, we must say that our brain is frozen. 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This glimmer does not give the impression of a glimmering light, but as we must understand these things in various ways and we desire to make this comprehensible, we must imagine the following. Suppose a man says something to you and you think, ‘how clever he is!’ and as he talks on further, this feeling increases and the thought comes: ‘he is really wise, he must have had endless experience, to say such wise things’ ... Besides this feeling, the person makes an impression upon you like a breath of enchantment. Imagine this breath of enchantment enormously enhanced—and within it clouds, which do not flash up but glimmer; if you take this altogether you will have a conception of how Beings consisting entirely of Wisdom interact with the hierarchy of the Spirits of Will. Their Wisdom is not Wisdom alone, but streams which are actively radiant. In short, you then become clairvoyantly aware how the Cherubim are radiantly active there.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/132/1911-10-31/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1911-10-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":326,"en_words":300,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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I have already said, and have laid certain stress upon it, that we cannot say of it: ‘we have it around us,’ we can only say, ‘it is there.’ We must think ourselves into this. And concerning the conception that something is there flashing up, I said it was not a flash but a glimmering. It is not as though something arose and vanished again; everything is simultaneous. Now, however, the feeling comes that there is some connection between these Spirits of Will and the Cherubim. The feeling comes to us that they have established a relationship between themselves; we become conscious of this. And indeed we become conscious too that the Spirits of Will or Thrones sacrificed their own being to the Cherubim. That is the last conception to which we can attain when we approach Saturn in retrospect, that of the sacrificing Spirits of Will offering their sacrifice to the Cherubim. This is the first scaffolding of our world. And we can experience the sacrifice that the Spirits of Will make to the Cherubim; something is wrung from our being, which we can only express by saying, through the sacrifice made by the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim, time is born. But ‘time’ here is not the abstract time of which we usually speak, but independent being. We can now first speak of something that begins. Time begins with the birth of time-beings—whose nature is pure time. Beings are born consisting only of time. These are the Spirits of Personality, known to us as Archai in the hierarchy of spiritual beings. In the Saturn existence they are nothing but time. We have also described them as Time-Spirits, as Spirits who rule time. 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Wherever we see fire, wherever we are aware of heat, we should not think in so materialistic a fashion as is natural and usual to the man of to-day. But wherever heat is present we should feel that what is at the spiritual foundation of our life is present, though it is not yet visible, namely the sacrifice of the Spirits of Will to the Cherubim. 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And they send up this sacrifice as foaming heat, so that the sacrificial smoke ascends to the winged Cherubim. So might we picture it. And proceeding from this sacrifice (just as though a word of ours spoken into the air became time—in this case it is time-beings) and emerging from this sacrifice the Spirits of Time—Archai. 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Wer sie wirklich in ihrer vollen Tiefe verstanden hat — natürlich nicht so, wie die modernen Theologen heute darüber reden, sondern so, daß er daraus herausgesogen hat das Tiefste, was der Mensch daraus innerlich erfahren kann -, der nimmt etwas mit in jene Leere hinein, das sich wie von einem Punkte aus vergrößert und die Leere ausfüllt mit etwas, was mutähnlich ist, was ein Gefühl von Mut, von Geborgensein ist durch das Vereintsein mit jener Wesenheit, die auf Golgatha das Opfer vollbracht hat. Das ist der eine Weg. — Der andere Weg ist der, daß wir ohne die Evangelien eindringen in die geistigen Welten, daß wir durch wahre, echte Anthroposophie in die geistigen Welten eindringen. Das kann auch geschehen. Sie wissen, daß wir zunächst immer betonen: wir gehen nicht von den Evangelien aus, wenn wir das Mysterium von Golgatha betrachten, sondern wir kämen dazu auch, wenn es gar keine Evangelien gäbe. Das hat, bevor das Mysterium von Golgatha geschehen ist, nicht sein können; das ist aber heute der Fall, weil etwas in die Welt gekommen ist durch das Mysterium von Golgatha, wodurch der Mensch die geistige Welt unmittelbar aus den Impressionen heraus selber begreifen kann. Das ist das, was wir das Walten des Heiligen Geistes in der Welt nennen können, das Walten der Weltgedanken in der Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p013"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wenn wir eines oder das andere mitnehmen, können wir uns nicht verlieren und können nicht sozusagen abstürzen in den unendlichen Abgrund, wenn wir der schauervollen Leere zunächst gegenüberstehen. Wenn wir uns nun dieser schauervollen Leere nähern mit den anderen Vorbereitungen, welche uns durch die verschiedenen Mittel gegeben sind, wie es zum Beispiel in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» ausgeführt ist und in dem, was sich weiter darauf aufbaut, und eindringen in die geistige Welt, in eine Welt, aus der alles heraus ist, was unser Gemüt erschüttern, was unsere Vorstellung erfassen kann, wenn wir uns einleben in diese Welt, dann lernen wir, indem wir uns sozusagen einstellen auf das Saturndasein, zunächst Wesenheiten kennen, jetzt aber nicht etwas, was ähnlich schaut dem Tierreich, Pflanzenreich oder Mineralreich, sondern Wesenheiten - es ist ja eine Welt, in der keine Wolken sind, auch kein Licht ist, in der es auch ganz tonlos ist —, aber wir lernen kennen Wesenheiten, und zwar jene Wesenheiten lernen wir kennen, die in unserer Terminologie genannt werden die Geister des Willens oder die Throne. Diese Geister des Willens — sie lernen wir gerade so kennen, daß es wie eine richtige Gegenständlichkeit für uns wird, man könnte sagen: ein wogendes Meer des Mutes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p014"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Was sich der Mensch zunächst nur vorstellen kann, das wird hellseherisch Gegenwart. Denken Sie sich getaucht in das Meer, aber jetzt getaucht als geistiges Wesen, welches sich eins fühlt mit der Christus-Wesenheit, getragen von der Christus-Wesenheit, schwimmend, aber jetzt nicht in einem Meere von Wasser, sondern in einem den unendlichen Raum erfüllenden Meere von - es gibt keine andere Bezeichnung dafür — flutendem Mute, flutender Energie! Das ist nicht etwa bloß ein gleichgültiges, undifferenziertes Meer, sondern alle Möglichkeiten und Unterschiedlichkeiten dessen, was man bezeichnen kann mit dem Gefühl des Mutes, treten uns da entgegen. Wir lernen kennen Wesenheiten, die zwar aus Mut bestehen, die aber sehr wohl spezifiziert sind, die wir, wenn sie auch nur aus Mut bestehen, sehr wohl als konkrete Wesenheiten treffen. Es erscheint natürlich ganz sonderbar, wenn man sagt, man treffe Wesenheiten, die ebenso real sind wie der Mensch aus - Fleisch, und die nicht aus Fleisch, sondern aus Mut bestehen. Aber es ist so. Als solche Wesenheiten treffen wir die Geister des Willens, und zunächst bezeichnen wir nur das als Saturndasein, was die Geister des Willens, die aus Mut bestehen, darstellen; nichts sonst. Das ist zunächst Saturn. Das ist eine Welt, von der wir nicht sagen könnten, sie sei eine Welt, die kugelförmig, sechseckig oder viereckig ist. Alle diese Bestimmungen des Raumes passen nicht darauf, denn es gibt dort nicht die Möglichkeit, ein Ende zu finden. Wenn wir noch einmal das Bild vom Schwimmen gebrauchen wollen, so können wir sagen: es ist nicht ein Meer, wo man an eine Oberfläche kommen würde, sondern nach allen Seiten findet man immer Geister des Mutes oder des Willens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p015"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Ich werde in späteren Vorträgen charakterisieren, wie man nicht gleich auf einmal zu dieser Sache kommt, ich will jetzt nur dieselbe Ordnung einhalten wie früher: Saturn, Sonne, Mond; denn es ist viel besser, wenn man die umgekehrte Richtung einhält: von der Erde zum Saturn, wie es in Wirklichkeit hellseherisch geschieht. — Jetzt charakterisiere ich umgekehrt, das macht aber nichts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p016"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Das Eigentümliche ist: wenn man sich bis zu diesem Anschauen erhoben hat, tritt eines ein, was für den ungeheuer schwer ist, sich vorzustellen, der sich nicht bemüht, langsam und allmählich zu solchen Vorstellungen zu kommen. Denn es hört etwas auf, was mit dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Vorstellen so verquickt ist wie nur irgend etwas: der Raum hört auf. Es hat keinen Sinn mehr, zu sagen, man schwimme oben oder unten, vorn oder hinten, rechts oder links oder überhaupt Raumverhältnisse anzuwenden. Es hat keinen Sinn bei dem alten Saturn; es ist überall gleich in dieser Beziehung. Aber das Wichtige ist: wenn man in die ersten Zeiten des Saturndaseins kommt, so hört auch die Zeit auf. Es gibt kein Früher oder Später mehr. Das ist natürlich für den Menschen heute sehr schwer vorzustellen, weil sein Vorstellen selbst in der Zeit verfließt: ein Gedanke ist vor oder nach dem anderen. Daß die Zeit aufhört, das ist nun wieder nur durch ein Gefühl zu charakterisieren. Dieses Gefühl ist wahrhaftig nicht angenehm. — Denken Sie sich einmal Ihre Vorstellungen erstarrt, so daß alles, woran Sie sich erinnern können und was Sie sich vornehmen, wie zu einem starren Stabe erstarrt, so daß Sie sich festgehalten fühlen in Ihrem Vorstellen und sich nicht mehr rühren können. Dann werden Sie nicht mehr sagen können, Sie haben etwas, was Sie früher erlebt haben, «früher» erlebt. Sie sind angebunden daran, es ist da, aber es ist erstarrt. Die Zeit hört auf, eine Bedeutung zu haben. Sie ist überhaupt nicht mehr da. Deshalb ist es auch ziemlich unsinnig, wenn man fragt: Du schilderst da das Saturndasein, das Sonnendasein und so weiter, sage doch, was vor dem Saturndasein war! «Vorher» hat da keinen Sinn mehr, weil die Zeit aufhört, so daß man auch aufhören muß mit allen Zeitbestimmungen. Es ist wirklich beim alten Saturndasein - in einem sehr vergleichsweisen Sinn kann man das sagen — die Welt wie mit Brettern verschlagen, indem man mit dem Gedanken stillestehen muß. Mit dem Hellsehen auch. Die gewöhnlichen Gedanken muß man schon lange zurücklassen, die gehen nicht bis dahin. Bildlich, vergleichsweise ausgedrückt, müßten Sie sich sagen, daß Ihr Gehirn einfriert. Und indem Sie diese Starrheit gewahr werden, würden Sie ungefähr eine Vorstellung haben von dem Bewußtsein, das sich nicht mehr in der Zeit abschließt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p017"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Nun wird man, wenn man so weit gekommen ist, eine merkwürdige Abwechslung in dem ganzen Bilde gewahr. Es zeigt sich jetzt, daß aus der Starrheit, der Zeitlosigkeit, durch welche dieses unendliche Meer des Mutes mit seinen Wesenheiten, die wir die Geister des Willens nennen, charakterisiert ist, Wesen anderer Hierarchien wie durchschlagen, wie hineinspielen. Erst in dem Moment, wo man dieses Nichtmehrvorhandensein der Zeit spürt, merkt man es, daß da andere Wesen hineinspielen. Man merkt nämlich ein unbestimmtes Erleben, von dem man nicht sagen kann, daß man es selbst erlebt, sondern daß es da ist, kann man nur sagen, daß es in dem ganzen unendlichen Meere des Mutes drinnen ist. Man merkt etwas wie ein durch dieses Feld gehendes Aufblitzen, wie ein Hellerwerden, aber nicht eigentlich ein Blitzen, sondern mehr ein Aufglimmen. Es ist eine erste Differenzierung. Ein Aufglimmen - aber ein Aufglimmen, das nicht den Eindruck macht des aufglimmenden Lichtes, sondern - man muß ja bei diesen Dingen zu mancherlei greifen — wenn Sie es sich begreiflich machen wollen, so denken Sie sich folgendes. Sie treten einem Menschen gegenüber, der Ihnen etwas sagt, und Sie bekommen das Gefühl: Wie ist doch der klug! - und indem er weiterredet, steigert sich dieses Gefühl, und Sie empfinden: Der ist weise, hat Unendliches erlebt, daß er so weise Dinge sagen kann! - und diese Persönlichkeit wirkt außerdem so, daß Sie förmlich etwas wie einen Zauberhauch von ihr ausgehen fühlen. Denken Sie sich diesen Zauberhauch unendlich gesteigert - und denken Sie sich das in dem Meer des Mutes auftauchen wie Wolken, die darinnen nicht aufblitzen, sondern aufglimmen. Wenn Sie das alles zusammennehmen, haben Sie eine Vorstellung davon, daß hineinspielen in die Hierarchie der Geister des Willens Wesenheiten, welche ganz Weisheit sind, aber eine solche Weisheit, die da hineinspielt strahlend, die nicht bloß Weisheit ist, sondern hinstrahlende Weisheit ist. Kurz, Sie bekommen eine Vorstellung zunächst dessen, was hellseherisch Wahrnehmung ist von dem, was die Cherubim sind. Die Cherubim spielen da hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p018"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Jetzt denken Sie sich gar nichts um sich als das, was ich eben beschrieben habe. Ich sagte vorhin, indem ich darauf einen gewissen Wert legte: Man kann nicht sagen, man habe es um sich -, sondern man kann nur sagen, es ist eben da -, wie ich es jetzt beschrieben habe. Man muß sich da hineindenken. Nun aber die Vorstellung, daß etwa da ein Aufblitzen sei, ist nicht ganz richtig; deshalb sagte ich, es ist nicht ein Blitzen, sondern ein Glimmen, weil alles gleichzeitig ist. Es ist eben nicht etwa so, daß eines entsteht und vergeht, sondern alles ist gleichzeitig. Aber man bekommt jetzt ein Gefühl von einer Beziehung dieser Geister des Willens und der Cherubim. Man bekommt das Gefühl, daß die ein Verhältnis zueinander gewinnen. Dieses Bewußtsein erlangt man. Und zwar erlangt man das Bewußtsein, daß die Geister des Willens oder die Throne ihre eigene Wesenheit den Cherubim opfern. Das ist die letzte Vorstellung, zu der man überhaupt kommt, wenn man sich, rückwärtsgehend, dem Saturn nähert — die sich opfernden Geister des Willens, die ihre Opfer hinauflenken zu den Cherubim -, weiter geht es nicht, da ist die Welt wie mit Brettern verschlagen. Und indem man erleben kann dieses Opfern der Geister des Willens gegenüber den Cherubim, preßt sich etwas los aus unserem Wesen. Das kann man jetzt nur mit dem Worte sagen: Durch das Opfer, das die Geister des Willens den Cherubim bringen, wird die Zeit geboren. — Aber die Zeit ist jetzt nicht jene abstrakte Zeit, von der wir gewöhnlich sprechen, sondern sie ist selbständige Wesenheit. Jetzt kann man anfangen zu reden von etwas, was beginnt. Die Zeit beginnt mit dem, was da zunächst als Zeitwesenheiten geboren wird, die nichts sind als lauter Zeit. Es werden Wesenheiten geboren, die nur aus Zeit bestehen; das sind die Geister der Persönlichkeit, die wir dann als Archai in der Hierarchie der geistigen Wesenheiten kennenlernen. Im Saturndasein sind sie nur Zeit. Bei uns haben wir sie auch beschrieben als Zeitgeister, als Geister, welche die Zeit regeln. Aber die da geboren werden als Geister, sind wirklich Wesenheiten, die überhaupt nur aus Zeit bestehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p019"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Das ist etwas außerordentlich Wichtiges: teilzunehmen an diesem Opfer der Geister des Willens gegenüber den Cherubim und an der Geburt der Geister der Zeit. Denn erst jetzt, indem die Zeit geboren wird, tritt etwas anderes auf, was uns jetzt überhaupt erst möglich macht, von dem Saturnzustande als von etwas zu sprechen, was sozusagen einige Ähnlichkeit hat mit dem, was uns jetzt umgibt. Gleichsam der Opferrauch der Throne, der die Zeit gebiert, ist das, was wir die Wärme des Saturn nennen. Daher sagte ich früher immer, der Saturn ist im Wärmezustand, indem ich beschrieb, was da ist. Gegenüber all den Elementen, die wir gegenwärtig um uns haben, können wir bei dem alten Saturnzustand nur sprechen als von einem Wärmezustand. Aber diese Wärme entsteht als Opferwärme, welche die Geister des Willens darbringen den Cherubim. Nun gibt uns das zugleich eine Anleitung, wie wir in Wahrheit über das Feuer denken sollen. Wo wir Feuer sehen, wo wir Wärme empfinden, sollten wir nicht so materialistisch denken, wie es dem heutigen Menschen natürlich und gewöhnlich ist, sondern wo wir Wärme auftreten sehen und fühlen, da ist auch heute noch in unserer Umgebung unsichtbar vorhanden, geistig zugrunde liegend, das Opfer von den Geistern des Willens gegenüber den Cherubim. Dadurch gewinnt die Welt erst ihre Wahrheit, daß wir wissen, daß hinter jeder Wärmeentwickelung ein Opfer ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p020"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"In der «Geheimwissenschaft» ist, um die Menschen draußen nicht gar zu sehr vor den Kopf zu stoßen, zunächst mehr der äußere Zustand des alten Saturn geschildert. Es sind ja schon genug dadurch vor den Kopf gestoßen, und die Menschen, die nur im heutigen wissenschaftlichen Sinne denken können, sehen das Buch als reinen Unsinn an. Aber nun denken Sie sich, was es hieße, wenn man gar sagen würde: Der alte Saturn hat in seiner innersten Wesenheit, in dem, was ihm zugrunde liegt, das, daß die Wesenheiten, welche den Geistern des Willens angehören, den Cherubim opferten; daß aus dem Opferrauch die Zeit geboren wird, aus dem Opfer, welches sie den Cherubim bringen; daß daraus die Archai, die Zeitgeister, hervorgegangen sind und daß die Wärme nur ein äußerer Abglanz, eine Maja ist gegenüber dem Opfer der Geister des Willens. Aber es ist so: Die äußere Wärme ist nur eine Maja, und wollen wir in Wahrheit sprechen, so müssen wir sagen: Überall, wo Wärme ist, haben wir in Wahrheit Opfer — Opfer der Throne gegenüber den Cherubim.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p021"},{"locus":"GA 132/1911-10-31/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Und nun ist eine gute Imagination das Folgende. Es wird in «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» sehr häufig davon gesprochen, und auch sonst ist es gesagt worden, daß die zweite Stufe der rosenkreuzerischen Einweihung die Bildung von Imaginationen ist. Diese Imaginationen muß sich der Anthroposoph bilden aus den richtigen Vorstellungen gegenüber der Welt. So kann er sich, was wir heute besprochen haben, umgewandelt denken in eine phantasieartige Imagination: die Throne, die Geister des Willens, kniend in voller Hingebung, voller mutartiger Hingebung vor den Cherubim, aber so, daß die Hingebung nicht hervorgeht aus der Empfindung der Kleinheit, sondern aus dem Bewußtsein, daß man etwas hat, was man opfern kann. Die Throne in dieser Opferwilligkeit, der die Stärke, der Mut zugrunde liegt, wie kniend vor den Cherubim und das Opfer zu ihnen hinaufschickend, und dieses Opfer schicken sie hinauf wie brodelnde Wärme, flammende Wärme, so daß der Opferrauch hinaufflammt zu den geflügelten Cherubim! So könnte das Bild sein. Und von diesem Opfer ausgehend -— als wenn wir in die Luft hinein das Wort sprechen könnten und dieses Wort die Zeit wäre, aber die Zeit als Wesenheiten -, von dem ganzen Vorgange ausgehend: die Geister der Zeit, die Archai. Dieses Hinaussenden der Archai, das gibt ein grandioses, mächtiges Bild. Und dieses Bild, vor unsere Seele hingestellt, ist außerordentlich impressionierend für gewisse Imaginationen, die uns dann immer weiter und weiter auf dem Gebiete des okkulten Erkennens bringen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/132/1911-10-31/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[13,14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[17],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[17],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}