{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The self-seeking strivings of every human soul that we regard as human and egoistic play into the life of the senses, and we know that the development of every soul must start from egoism. That is natural. We also know that man can work his way out from egoism. Into all that souls have been able to do on earth through egoism, there comes what we may call the manifestation of the eternal in the passing moment. Luciferic forces are forever playing into what is fixed in the individual soul and also into all that the individual man can do for the whole world-order and existence through being an egoist and having the power to develop within him inward greatness that wells forth from his inner being. For what is individual greatness in the individual soul but the seed of all the greatness in the whole world evolution of man? What gave Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, their power to affect mankind? It was their ego-hood, and because within them there were whole worlds, worlds that issued forth from their inner being alone, out of their ego-hood. In this indirect way, through ego-hood, the impulses of spiritual life are introduced, which are from epoch to epoch the mediators of the greatest spiritual deeds of mankind. In this we find Lucifer again. It is he who is Light-bearer, impulse and power behind all the greatness that radiates into human evolution from the mighty forces of eternity that, at certain points of time, surge up from the individual human soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"Lucifer and Ahriman: Spiritual Beings Beyond Good and Evil","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber noch in etwas anderes spielen sie hinein, nämlich in all das, was der einzelne Mensch gerade für die gesamte Weltenordnung, für das Weltendasein dadurch tun kann, daß er eine Egoität ist und hat, daß er in sich innerliche Größe entwickeln kann, die aus seinem Innern hervorsprudelt. Was ist denn das individuelle Große in der einzelnen Seele anderes als das, was der Keim des Großen in aller Weltenentwickelung der Menschheit ist? Wodurch haben Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe auf die Menschheit gewirkt? Dadurch, daß sie Egoitäten waren, daß in ihrem Innern ganze Welten waren, Welten, die nur aus ihrem Innern, aus ihrer Egoität herausgekommen sind. Dadurch aber werden - auf dem Umwege durch die Egoitäten - die Impulse des geistigen Lebens hereingetragen, welche von Epoche zu Epoche gerade die größten, nämlich die geistigen Taten der Menschheit vermitteln. Da ist wieder Luzifer drinnen. 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