{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When I tell you of the higher hierarchies, of Seraphim and Cherubim and Thrones, right down to Archangels and Angels, these are beings who must speak to the human soul from higher spiritual worlds. It is from those worlds that concepts and ideas come into the human soul, not from the world of the senses. In the 18th century what was considered a great word was uttered by a pioneer of thinking, “O, Man, make bold to use thy power of reason!” Today a great word must resound in men's souls, “O, Man, make bold to claim thy concepts and ideas as the beginning of thy clairvoyance.” What I have just expressed I said many years ago, publicly in my books *Truth and Science* and *The Philosophy of Freedom*, where I showed that human ideas come from super-sensible, spiritual knowledge. It was not understood at the time, and no wonder, for those who should have understood it were—well, like the chickens! We must realize that at the moment when Krishna stands before Arjuna and gives him the power of abstract judgment, he is thereby giving him, for the first time in the whole of evolution, the starting-point for the knowledge of higher worlds. The spirit can be seen on the very surface of the changes that take place within the external world of sense. Bodies die; the spirit, the abstract, the essential being, is eternal. The spiritual can be seen playing on the surface of phenomena. This is what Krishna would reveal to Arjuna as the beginning of a new clairvoyance for men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought","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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Und es ist ungeheuer wichtig, daß man zunächst verstehen lernt, daß der Anfang der Hellsichtigkeit etwas ganz Alltägliches eigentlich ist: man muß nur die übersinnliche Natur der Begriffe und Ideen erfassen. Man muß sich klar sein, daß aus den übersinnlichen Welten die Begriffe und Ideen zu uns kommen, dann erst sieht man recht. Wenn ich Ihnen erzähle von Geistern der höheren Hierarchien, von den Seraphim, Cherubim, von den Thronen herunter bis zu den Archangelo: und Angeloi, so sind das Wesenheiten, die aus geistigen, höheren Welten zu der Menschenseele sprechen müssen. Aus eben diesen Welten kommen der Seele die Ideen und Begriffe, sie kommen geradezu in die Seele aus höheren Welten herein und nicht aus der Sinnenwelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p019"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Es wurde als ein großes Wort eines großen Aufklärers gehalten, das dieser gesagt hat im 18. Jahrhundert: Mensch, erkühne dich, deiner Vernunft dich zu bedienen. — Heute muß ein größeres Wort in die Seelen klingen, das heißt: Mensch, erkühne dich, deine Begriffe und Ideen als die Anfänge deines Hellsehertums anzusprechen. — Das, was ich jetzt ausgesprochen habe, habe ich schon vor vielen Jahren ausgesprochen, ausgesprochen in aller Öffentlichkeit, nämlich in meinen Büchern «Wahrheit und Wissenschaft» und «Philosophie der Freiheit», wo ich gezeigt habe, daß die menschlichen Ideen aus übersinnlichem, geistigem Erkennen kommen. Man hat es dazumal nicht verstanden; das ist ja auch kein Wunder, denn diejenigen, die es hätten verstehen sollen, die gehörten, nun ja, halt zu den Hühnern. Wir müssen uns aber klar sein, daß in dem Augenblick, wo Krishna vor dem Arjuna steht, er ihm sozusagen zum ersten Male in der ganzen Menschheitsentwikkelung den Ausgangspunkt für die Erkenntnis der höheren Welten in der Durchdringung des abstrakten Urteilens gibt. Der Geist kann gesehen werden ganz in der Oberfläche der Verwandlungen innerhalb der äußeren Sinnenwelt. Die Leiber können sterben, der Geist, das Abstrakte, das Wesentliche ist ewig. Ganz in der Oberfläche der Erscheinungen kann das Geistige gesehen werden. 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