{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p018-p024","extent":"range","passage_number":18,"through":24,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p018","last_locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Lecture VI","date":"1912-08-30","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church","identified_edition":"AP1980","book_title":"Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA138/English/AP1980/19120830p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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While Lucifer reveals all that is hidden, Ahriman's task for the world of the senses can be described by saying that where our world of the senses is, where it becomes visible, there is Ahriman, but he permeates it invisibly, super-sensibly. How does Ahriman help us? He helps us considerably in the physical world; he helps every soul. Indeed, he helps every soul to carry into higher worlds as much as possible from the world of the senses, of what is played out only there, because the world of the senses exists for some purpose and is not merely maya. It exists as the stage for events that beings may experience, and what is thus enacted and experienced must be borne up into super-sensible worlds. The power to carry into eternity what is of value in sensory existence is the power that belongs to Ahriman. 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What men experience primarily in sensory existence is of infinite value to them, and I hardly think I shall meet with much opposition if I say that the enthusiasm and the inclination carefully to preserve what we experience in sensory existence, and to save it up as far as possible for eternity, is generally much greater than the other tendency, namely, to bring down into the world of the senses all that we can from the hidden spiritual worlds. Man loves the world of the senses quite naturally and comprehensibly, and would like to take as much as possible of it with him into spiritual existence. Certain religious faiths, in order to comfort their adherents, tell them that they can quite well take with them into spiritual life all that is in sensory existence. No doubt they say it because they unconsciously realise how much man loves what is his in physical existence. 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If you gained entrance there with your ordinary, normal impelling force, you would soon seize hold of Ahriman and feel him to be a most easy-going companion. But you cannot enter in that state. On entering higher worlds, you already have the faculty for recognising him as partaking in the divine, since with overwhelming tragedy he permeates earth evolution in sensory existence and is forever at pains so to transform it that it shall become a spiritual life. That is Ahriman's deep tragedy! He would like to change all that has ever appeared in the physical into the spiritual, and he battles in the world order for the purification and cleansing, in cleansing fires, of everything physical. 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By applying this comparison to the whole world order, you will be able to appreciate how Ahriman strives for himself after what he can call good, yet how impossible it is to fit this “good” into the whole world order.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":68,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/138/1912-08-30/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1912-08-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":462,"en_words":525,"ratio":1.14,"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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From time to time, it must lay aside its skin like a kind of image of itself and progress in life with a new form. Something has to be cast aside to give the being in question new possibilities of life. Ahriman would like to save everything and would like to prevent all snakes from casting their skin; he would like everything used up that, in the mind of the world order, must be cast aside. Man, too, would like to do that in sensory existence. There is a great deal he would prefer not to leave but to take with him, although in the mind of a higher world order it is destined for the temporal and the passing moment. Because the urge is so strong in him, man would, if it were possible for him among all his questions in the sensory world about unknown paths and so forth, want first to ask, “Where can Ahriman be found? Where can Ahriman help one to carry into eternity what is held in the passing moment?”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/138/1912-08-30/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1912-08-30","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":462,"en_words":525,"ratio":1.14,"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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It belongs to the obligations of the Guardian of the Threshold that Ahriman should remain as invisible as possible in the physical world. Thus, man can unfold what lies in his own forces alone for the preservation of the passing moment in eternity, and cannot unconsciously let Ahriman help him. Here again, good and evil play into man's physical life as two poles. Man as a soul passes through human evolution in which one task is good, genuine and true; that is, to carry out of the sensory world all that has eternal value and to make it part of the eternal kingdom. This is the duty laid upon us—to take the precious treasures of the moment and offer them up on the altar of eternity. When we let Ahriman help us with the real treasures of temporal life, then it is good. But when at the moment of entering the super-sensible world, we come to know Ahriman—until then we cannot see him—and show him the tendency that remains in us to carry out of the sensory world into the super-sensible world what has no value, then this has a great deal of value for him. It is worthless, however, for his opponents. Then he can find us to be useful tools to lead what is loved here in sensory existence over into eternity. 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Connections with super-sensible worlds are not maintained by striving for a knowledge based on that of the senses, so much as by creating a relationship with spiritual beings in the way we have just described. For this reason men must go into the darkness of life in which beings work who can just as well be good as evil, and who can become good or evil in the effects of what they do according to the way in which we relate ourselves to them. That is what constitutes the darkness of life. Hence, the light of life, spiritual light, can only shine into the darkness of life by our acquiring the right relation to, and getting to know, the several powers of the super-sensible world who play into our physical world. Also, when wishing to speak of super-sensible worlds, we change our ideas and concepts. 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Um zu Luzifer in der übersinnlichen Welt in ein Verhältnis zu kommen, braucht man sich im Grunde nur von allen Schlacken unrichtiger Egoität geläutert und gereinigt zu haben, von allen Egoismen im Sinnensein, dann wird einem Luzifer ein sehr guter Führer gerade in den übersinnlichen Welten sein, man wird ihm sozusagen nicht leicht verfallen können. Mit Ahriman steht die Sache anders. Ahriman hat in der Weltenevolution eine andere Aufgabe. Während Luzifer alles Unoffenbare offenbar werden läßt, hat Ahriman die Aufgabe, die sich für unsere Sinneswelt etwa so charakterisieren läßt, daß man sagt: wo unsere Sinneswelt ist, wo sie sichtbar werden kann, da ist auch Ahriman. Nur ist er die Sinneswelt unsichtbar, übersinnlich durchdringend. Wozu hilft Ahriman? Innerhalb der Sinneswelt hilft er gar sehr, er hilft jeder Seele. Er hilft jeder Seele nämlich dazu, daß möglichst viel aus der Sinneswelt, was sich dort abspielt und sich nur innerhalb der Sinneswelt abspielen kann, hinaufgetragen wird in die höheren Welten. Die Sinneswelt ist Ja zu etwas da, sie ist nicht bloß eine Maja. Sie ist dazu da, daß sich auf ihr Ereignisse abspielen, daß die Wesenheiten Erlebnisse haben. Was sich abspielt, was erlebt wird, das muß hinaufgetragen werden in die übersinnliche Welt. Und die Kraft, um das Wertvolle aus der Sinneswelt in die Ewigkeiten hinaufzutragen, ist die Kraft Ahrimans. Den Augenblick der Ewigkeit wieder zurückzugeben, das ist die Kraft Ahrimans. Hier aber macht sich dem Ahriman gegenüber etwas ganz anderes geltend für die einzelne Menschenseele. Was die Menschen zunächst im Sinnensein erleben, ist ihnen unendlich wertvoll, und ich glaube nicht, daß ich auf viel Widerspruch stoße, wenn ich sage: die Leidenschaft, der Hang, dasjenige, was man im Sinnensein erlebt, ja recht gut zu bewahren, womöglich viel davon für die Ewigkeiten aufzusparen, ist im allgemeinen viel größer als der andere Hang, möglichst viel aus den unoffenbarten Welten, aus den geistigen Welten hinunterzutragen in die Sinneswelt. Der Mensch liebt das Sinnensein auf eine ganz natürliche, begreifliche Weise und möchte möglichst viel daraus in die geistige Welt hinauftragen. Gewisse Konfessionen sagen ihren Leuten, um sie möglichst zu beruhigen, daß man alles, was in der Sinneswelt ist, hübsch mitnehmen kann in das geistige Dasein. Sie sagen es wohl, weil sie unbewußt wissen, wie der Mensch liebt, was er im Sinnensein hat. Und danach trachtet des Ahriman Kraft, daß alles, was man da hat, auch mit einem hinaufsteige in die übersinnlichen Welten. Dieser Hang, dieser Trieb, das Sinnliche in die übersinnliche Welt hinaufzutragen, ist stark, ist kraftvoll in der Seele. Das bekommt man nicht so leicht los, wenn man aus der Sinneswelt durch die Initiation oder durch den Tod hinaufsteigt in die höheren Welten. Daher hat man es in sich, wenn man ein Wesen der höheren Welt geworden ist. Und begegnet man dort dem Ahriman, so ist er gerade gefährlich in den höheren Welten, weil er einem hilft - was er so gern tut - das, was man im Sinnensein gewonnen und erfahren hat, in die übersinnliche Welt hinaufzutragen. Keinen lieberen Genossen als Ahriman gibt es für die, welche jeden Augenblick bewahren möchten für die Ewigkeit. Viele Menschen beginnen recht sehr, sobald sie die Pforte zur übersinnlichen Welt überschritten haben, Ahriman als einen sehr bequemen Genossen zu empfinden, denn er ist immer bestrebt, was sich auf der Erde abspielt, zu Anteilen der höheren Welt zu machen und es dort für sich und für seine Wirkungsgenossen in Anspruch zu nehmen. Aber das Schlimmste ist es noch nicht, denn man kommt ja nicht in die übersinnliche Welt hinein, wenn man nicht in einer gewissen Beziehung die Egoität abgestreift hat. Würde man mit der gewöhnlichen normalen Triebkraft hineingelassen werden in die übersinnlichen Welten, dann würde man sehr bald den Ahriman am Rockzipfel fassen und ihn als einen sehr bequemen Gesellen empfinden. Aber man kann nicht hinein, wenn man so ist. Indem man hineinkommt, hat man eben schon die Eigenschaft, ihn ein wenig göttlich zu erkennen, indem er - mit einer ungeheuren Tragik - die Erdenevolution gerade im Sinnensein durchdringt und immer bestrebt ist, das Sinnensein so umzugestalten, daß es ein Geistessein werde. Das ist die tiefe Tragik des Ahriman! Er möchte alles, was irgendwie jemals im Sinnlichen erschienen ist, unmittelbar in ein Geistiges umwandeln, und er kämpft in der Weltenordnung für die Läuterung und Reinigung, für das Durch-das-Feuer-Gehen alles Sinnlichen. Das ist in seinem Sinne gut. Aber es wäre sehr schlimm im Sinne der göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten, deren Gegner Ahriman in der Weltenordnung ist, wenn er alle seine Absichten ausführen könnte. Da muß vieles anders behandelt werden, als er möchte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":773,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p014"},{"locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"In einem Vergleich möchte ich mich darüber aussprechen. Aber indem Sie den Vergleich anwenden auf die ganze Weltenordnung, werden Sie empfinden können, wie Ahriman für sich das, was er gut nennen kann, anstrebt, wie es aber unmöglich ist, dieses Gute in seiner Gesamtheit der Weltenordnung einzufügen. Nehmen Sie irgendein tierisches Wesen, das zu seiner fortschreitenden Entwickelung im Sinnensein sich häuten muß, das von Zeit zu Zeit die Haut ablegen muß wie ein Abbild seiner selbst und in einer neuen Daseinsform weiter fortschreiten muß. Da muß etwas abgestreift werden zu einer neuen Daseinsmöglichkeit des betreffenden Wesens. Ahriman möchte alles retten, möchte keine Schlange sich häuten lassen, sondern alles verarbeiten, was da im Sinne der Weltenordnung abgestreift werden muß. Aber der Mensch möchte das auch im Sinnensein; er möchte vieles nicht lassen, sondern es mitnehmen, trotzdem es im Sinne einer höheren Weltenordnung für das Zeitliche, für den Augenblick bestimmt ist. Und wenn der Mensch es könnte, so würde er - weil der Hang dazu in ihm so stark ist - im Sinnensein immerdar unter all den Fragen, die er nach unbekannten oder sonstigen Wegen stellt, am meisten sich erkundigen: Wo findet man Ahriman, wo kann einem Ahriman wieder helfen, um das, was der Augenblick enthält, in die Ewigkeit hinaufzutragen? Da ist es das eine Gute, daß der Mensch in der Sinneswelt nicht Ahriman finden kann, weil er unsichtbar, übersinnlich in ihr ist. Und dies gehört zu den Obliegenheiten des Hüters der Schwelle, daß Ahriman möglichst stark unsichtbar in der sinnlichen Welt bleibt, so daß der Mensch nur das, was in seinen eigenen Kräften liegt, zur Bewahrung des Augenblickes in der Ewigkeit entfalten kann und sich nicht unbewußterweise von Ahriman helfen lassen kann. Gutes und Schlimmes spielen da wieder als zwei Pole in das Sinnensein des Menschen herein. Der Mensch schreitet als Seele durch die Menschheitsevolution. Eine Aufgabe innerhalb derselben, die gut und echt und wahr ist, ist diejenige, alles, was Ewigkeitswert hat, hinauszutragen aus der Sinneswelt und einzuverleiben dem Reiche der Ewigkeit. Das ist es ja gerade, was uns obliegt: die wertvollen Schätze der Augenblicke zu nehmen und hinzuopfern am Altare der Ewigkeit. Wenn wir uns für die wertvollen Schätze der Zeitlichkeit von Ahriman helfen lassen, so ist das gut. Wenn wir Ahriman in dem Augenblicke, wo wir die übersinnliche Welt betreten - vorher können wir ihn ja nicht sehen -, kennenlernen und ihm den Hang zeigen, der uns noch verblieben sein kann, auch Wertloses aus der Sinneswelt hinaufzutragen in die übersinnliche Welt, dann ist das ja für ihn ein Wertvolles - für seine Gegner ist es ein Wertloses. Da sind wir gute Werkzeuge für ihn, um aus der Sinneswelt in die Ewigkeit überzuleiten, was hier geliebt wird, und was dadurch, daß es von uns geliebt wird, auch seinerseits in diese Ewigkeit hineingestellt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":462,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p015"},{"locus":"GA 138/1912-08-30/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So sehen wir wieder, wie das, was von Ahriman ausgeht, absolut an sich - nicht gut und nicht böse genannt werden darf, sondern wie es gut oder böse wird je nachdem, wie sich der Mensch ihm unterstellt, je nachdem, wie der Mensch mit ihm in ein Verhältnis tritt. Daraus sehen wir aber überhaupt, wie oberflächlich leicht Beschreibungen werden können, welche den bequemen Fragen dienen möchten: wie ist Ahriman, wie ist Luzifer? Sprache, Antworten auf solche Fragen gibt es im Grunde genommen nicht in denjenigen Welten, wo solche Wesenheiten allein charakterisiert werden sollen: in den höheren Welten. So ist der Mensch eingesponnen in das Lebenslabyrinth. Sowohl Ahriman wie Luzifer wirken in das Lebenslabyrinth herein, und der Mensch hat den Weg zu suchen, um sich in der richtigen Weise zu solchen Mächten zu stellen. Das macht es gerade, daß wir uns entwickeln können, weil wir dadurch zu den Wesen der übersinnlichen Welten Verhältnisse suchen müssen. Und die Beziehungen zu der übersinnlichen Welt werden weniger durch eine nach dem Muster der Sinneserkenntnis angestrebte Erkenntnis erhalten, als dadurch, daß man sich im Sinne des Charakterisierten Beziehungen verschafft zu diesen übersinnlichen Wesenheiten. Deshalb muß der Mensch im Lebensdunkel sein, denn in dasselbe spielen die Wesenheiten herein, welche sowohl gut wie böse sein können, und gut oder böse in ihren Wirkungen werden können, je nachdem wir uns zu ihnen stellen. Das macht das Lebensdunkel aus. Das bewirkt es, daß Lebenslicht, Geisteslicht in dieses Lebensdunkel nur dadurch hereinleuchtet, daß wir zu den einzelnen Mächten der übersinnlichen Welt, die in unsere physische Welt hereinspielen, die richtigen Verhältnisse gewinnen, daß wir uns damit bekannt machen, daß sich unsere Vorstellungen und Begriffe wandeln müssen, wenn wir von den übersinnlichen Welten sprechen wollen. An einem anderen Beispiele möchte ich Ihnen noch vor die Seele führen, wie wir anders denken müssen, wenn wir die Beziehungen der Sinneswelt zu dem Übersinnlichen richtig finden wollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":311,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/138/1912-08-30/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[18,19,20],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21,22,23],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"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)."}}