{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Man's soul is placed between two poles that are simply the impression and reflection of all the worlds in which the soul actually stands. At the one pole the human soul hardens within itself, winds itself into the cocoon of its selfhood, and only desires what is of service to itself, what is for its self-gratification. At the other pole the human soul draws forces from its own depths that are able to radiate into the whole life of humanity. When does this ego-hood of man come to light? This happens the moment we think how necessary it is for every man to sacrifice for others what is his own, what is his most individually, what belongs most deeply to his ego-hood. But in all that man can do for his fellows out of his ego-hood lives Lucifer, the other pole of Lucifer; in all that man can thus achieve for humanity under the influence of the Light-bearer, lies a reflection of what Lucifer really is in higher worlds, a reflection of his creative activity, which is the revealing of the un-revealed.","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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In allem aber, was der Mensch für den Menschen aus seiner Egoität heraus tun kann, lebt wieder Luzifer, der andere Pol des Luzifer. Und in dem, was der Mensch so unter dem Einfluß des Lichtträgers für die Menschheit leisten kann, liegt ein Abglanz dessen, was Luzifer in den höheren Welten wirklich ist, liegt ein Abglanz der schöpferischen Tätigkeit des Luzifer: das Unoffenbare zu dem Offenbaren zu machen. Kann man also sagen, Luzifer sei böse, oder kann man etwa sagen, Luzifer sei gut? - Man kann nur sagen: Wer behaupten will, Luzifer sei böse und müsse geflohen werden, der müßte auch sagen, das Feuer müsse geflohen werden, weil das Leben unter Umständen im Feuer ersterben muß. Man findet auf dem Wege zur Initiation, daß die Ausdrücke gut und böse gar nicht in dieser Art anwendbar sind, sobald man das Wesen der übersinnlichen Weltenordnung charakterisieren will. Das Feuer ist gut, wenn es unter guten Umständen wirkt; es ist schlecht, wenn es unter schlechten Umständen wirkt; an sich ist es nicht gut und nicht schlecht. So ist es mit Luzifer. Er übt einen guten Einfluß auf die Menschenseele aus, wenn er der Anreger wird zum Herausholen alles dessen aus der Menschenseele, was der Mensch als sein Individuelles hinopfern kann am Altare der Menschheitsevolution. Luzifer wird ein böses Wesen, das heißt, was er tut, wird böse, wenn er solche Impulse der Menschenseele gibt, daß diese nur alles zur Selbstbefriedigung in sich hineinführen will. Wie die Taten der Wesen wirken in der Welt, das muß man verfolgen, wenn man auf diese Wesenheiten hingewiesen worden ist. 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