{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Arjuna was a man who had received into his feeling something that the man of today no longer knows, but that in those ancient times was a primeval teaching of tradition. He knew that what is handed on from generation to generation in mankind is bound up with *the woman nature*; while the individual, personal qualities whereby a man stands out from his blood connections and his family line are bound up with *the man nature*. 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Ist es dann nicht klar, daß alle Stammessitten schwanken, daß dann auch der Stamm dahinsiechen muß, daß er vernichtet werden muß, daß die Moralität des Stammes dahinsinkt? Dann müssen die Gesetze wanken, die nach dem ewigen Schicksal die Menschen in die Kasten hineinstellen, dann müssen die Gesetze der Kasteneinteiltung wanken, dann wankt der Mensch, wankt der Stamm, dann wankt das Gesetz, dann wankt die ganze Welt, die ganze Bedeutung des Menschentums. — Das ist sein Empfinden, es ist so, wie wenn der Boden sich ihm unter den Füßen hinwegziehen wollte, wie wenn ein Abgrund sich auftun wollte für all sein Empfinden. Ein solcher Mensch wie Arjuna hat es mit seinem Gefühle aufgenommen, was heute die Menschen nicht mehr wissen, was in alten Zeiten aber uralte Überlieferung und Lehre war: daß dasjenige, was sich fortpflanzt von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht, von Generation zu Generation in der Menschheit, gebunden ist an die Natur der Frau, während das individuell Persönliche, dasjenige, was den Einzelmenschen als Individualität herausreißt aus dem Zusammenhang des Blutes, der Generation, gebunden ist an die Natur des Mannes. Dasjenige, was den Menschen mehr hineinstellt in die Reihe der Generationen, was sich als gemeinsame Natur, als Artnatur des Menschen vererbt, das ist der Teil, den die Frau vererbt auf die Nachkommen. Dasjenige, was die Menschen zu einem Besonderen, Individuellen gestaltet, was sie herausreißt aus der Generationenreihe, das ist der Teil, den der Mann gibt. 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