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Take in hand the little book 'The Education of the Child from the Point of View of Spiritual Science'. There you will find a description, so to speak, of the processes that take place in a developing human being from seven to seven years. It shows that up to the age of seven, until the change of teeth, we are mainly dealing with the development of the physical body; that in the next period, from the age of seven to fourteen, until sexual maturity, we are dealing with the development of the etheric body and so on. If you consider this development of the human being from seven to seven years, then you are primarily dealing with what the, so to speak, normal beings of the higher hierarchies bring about in human evolution. This is the true progressive evolution that takes place from seven to seven years, so that we can say: the actually progressive divine-spiritual powers guide and direct this evolution from seven to seven years. If only these progressive divine spiritual powers were active in man, then the whole of human life would take a completely different course, a completely different course from the one it actually takes. Above all, man would approach a small child in a completely different way. He would always have the feeling that a spiritual individuality was speaking through the child. One would even always have the feeling that the small child, in everything it does, receives the impulses from higher worlds. And people would certainly have no other feeling than that the child acts out of far higher impulses than those that they themselves can penetrate with their minds. 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For it is only through the progressive divine spiritual powers that the human being is actually called upon to gradually emerge completely with his ego between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-eight; and before that, what he does would appear much more as if higher spiritual, supersensible impulses were working through him. Of course, a certain dreamy life would be characteristic of the children; but this dreamy life would be felt as a blessing from God or the spirit, and there would be no attempt to educate the children to be precocious in the modern sense.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":223,"en_words":228,"ratio":1.02,"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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This is what we have often emphasized: the development of self-awareness in the third, fourth, fifth year, at that point in time that we can generally characterize by saying: it is the point in time up to which a person remembers in later life. It is the occurrence of that moment from which the person begins to say “I” to themselves. You must now actually think of the whole development of man as two currents: as that of evolution, in which the progressive divine-spiritual entities are at work, and in addition the other current, through which man, within the first seven-year period, begins to develop an inner self-awareness, to develop a memory that later allows him to consciously remember back to that point in time. This does not come from the progressive divine spiritual beings. They would let us dream for much longer and would work through us into the world. The fact that we become self-aware so early and say 'I' so early is purely the result of the forces of Lucifer working in people. Thus we are dealing with two currents, with a regular progressive divine-spiritual current, as it were, which would actually only lead us to a clear, distinct sense of self between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-eight, and with a Luciferic current within us. This luciferic current works in us in such a way that it completely crosses the other current, so that it does something completely different in us than what the progressive divine-spiritual beings actually want from us. They work in such a way that we learn to say “I” to ourselves in the midst of the first period, learn to develop our egoity inwardly, soul-wise, and to remember back in our memory.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":306,"ratio":1.02,"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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Imagine for a moment the luciferic influence just characterized away and only what the progressive entities would make of man as a calmly flowing water. We think of this calmly flowing water as an image of the progressive life stream of man under the influence of the actually good divine entities. And now let us take the water that flows so calmly for a walk, then take a blue or red substance, pour it into the calmly flowing water and, choosing a chemical liquid that can be kept separate from the clear water, let a second current flow alongside the first current from a certain point on. Thus, in our own true, calmly progressive, we might say, “Yahweh-Christ” current, the Luciferic current flows with us from about the middle of our first seven-year period. And so Lucifer lives in us. If Lucifer did not live in us, we would not have this second current. But if we only lived in the first stream, then we would have the consciousness until well into our twenties: we are actually a member of the divine-spiritual powers. We attain the consciousness of independence, of inner individuality and personality, through the second stream. Thus we see at the same time that it is full of wisdom that this Luciferic stream pours into us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":239,"en_words":232,"ratio":0.97,"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 can only be said that once it happens, one might say, of its own accord, it can be observed, but one should not play with it, one should not make it a principle of education. If you let a child, especially around the age of nine or ten, look at himself naked in the mirror, and the child is not jaded by our often strange educational principles today, he will always feel a certain fear in a natural way at the sight of his own body, a certain fear if he has not been made flirtatious earlier through looking in the mirror a lot. This can be observed especially in naturally sensitive children who have not looked in the mirror much before, because during this time something grows in the human being that acts as a kind of counterbalance to the luciferic current that is present in the first period. In this second period, around the ninth or tenth year, Ahriman takes hold of the human being and forms a kind of balance with his current to the luciferic current. We can now accomplish that which does Ahriman the greatest favor if, at this very time, we develop the mind of the growing child, which is directed towards the external sensory world, if we say to ourselves: During this time, the child must be trained in such a way that it comes to its own independent judgment in everything. You know that I am mentioning an educational principle that is now quite generally accepted in pedagogy. The almost universal demand today is to foster independence, especially in these years. They even put adding machines in front of children so that they are not even encouraged to learn the multiplication table by heart. This is based on a certain benevolence of our age towards Ahriman. Our age wishes, unconsciously of course, to educate children in such a way that Ahriman can be cultivated as strongly as possible in the human soul. And when we go through the current educational methods today, we say to ourselves as occultists: These people who advocate these educational methods are only bunglers. If Ahriman himself were to write these educational principles, he would do better! But what is said there about children's independence and their own judgment is a true discipleship of Ahriman. What is implied here will become more and more prevalent in the near future. Ahriman will become a good guide for the external powers and spiritual guides of our age.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":559,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":528,"en_words":559,"ratio":1.06,"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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We must regard it as something quite natural and self-evident that it should appeal to man; that man feels Lucifer and Ahriman approaching him. It would be quite wrong to believe that it would be better if we were now to eliminate Lucifer and Ahriman altogether. That would be quite impossible. The following reflection can show you how impossible it would be. If our life were not regulated, as it were, by the interaction of the progressive divine spiritual beings with the Ahrimanic and Luciferic forces, if only the progressive powers were to work on us, then we would come to a certain independence much later and we would also have this independence in such a way that, just as we now perceive colors and light, we would then no longer doubt that divine spiritual entities also really prevail behind colors and light, behind that which we perceive externally. We would perceive the thoughts of the world simultaneously with our sense perceptions. We would only come to our independence in our twenties, but then we would also perceive world thoughts externally. We would then dream away our youth because divine spiritual powers would be working in us, and when these would cease to work from within, they would then confront us from without. We would perceive their thoughts from the outside as we now only receive sensory perceptions. We would therefore, with the exception of a few years, towards the twentieth year, when we would become visible, otherwise never have any proper independence at all. As children we would be dreamy beings, in middle age we would not be able to make our own decisions and determine our own course, but wherever we encountered the outer world we would simply see what we had to do, as the people of ancient Atlantis could still do. Independence flows into us through the working of Lucifer and Ahriman within us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p010","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":326,"en_words":328,"ratio":1.01,"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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If in the first seven years of the child's life we bring about conditions in which it lives in an environment that has a healthy effect on its physical body, we are doing something good for the child under all circumstances. If during the second period we create around the human being good authorities, authorities that may be called such in the noblest sense, so that the human being does not become a clever talker in these times, but rather a being that builds on the people around him as authorities, the child has respect for and devotion to, then we are doing something good for him under all circumstances. We are doing something good when we educate children who, in their ninth or tenth year, do not already want to know everything themselves, but who, when asked, “Why is this or that right or good?” they will say: because their father or mother said it was good, or because their teacher said so. If we educate our children in such a way that the adults around them are seen as self-evident authorities, then we are doing our children a favor in all circumstances. And if we violate these seven-year periods, if we bring about a situation in which children begin to criticize those who are self-evident authorities during this period, if we do not avoid this criticism, then we do something bad for the growing person under all circumstances. And if we do not find the opportunity to speak to a person between the ages of fourteen, fifteen and twenty-one in such a way that we can naturally rise with him to ideals, to ideals that fill the heart with joy, then we are not doing this young person any good either. With people in these years, one must speak of ideals, of what later life must bring under all circumstances to the person growing up properly. One may say: Today, one's heart could really break sometimes when eighteen-year-old boys – pardon me, personalities – come and already carry their feuilletons into the newspapers. If, instead of accepting something from them, one were to talk to them about things that do not yet interfere with their outward lives, but which they are only to realize later, if one were to talk to them about the great ideals of human life and be inspired by them, then one would relate to them in the right way. Actually, anyone who, as an editor, accepts the feature section of a person who has not yet reached the age of twenty, does something worse under all circumstances than someone who, when the young person comes up with this feature section, says to him: Yes, look, that's very nice what you've done. But when you are ten years older, you will have completely different ideas about it. Now put it nicely in your drawer and take it out again in ten or twelve years. The person who does that, then takes a look at the manuscript and talks to the person concerned about the ideals of life that can be associated with it, does something good for him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":667,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/150/1913-03-14/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-03-14","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"],"length_check":{"de_words":652,"en_words":667,"ratio":1.02,"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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If we wanted to fight Lucifer at all costs, we could do so in a very sure way: we would only have to prevent people from developing a memory. For just as it is true that certain lunar beings were brought into our earthly development, it is equally true that all memory is a Luciferic power. So we would simply have to avoid developing our memory! We must, however, realize that we have to develop this memory in the right way. And that is why it was said in that writing that the right period for the education of memory is between the ages of seven and fourteen. In the previous period, we do not particularly need to systematically educate memory, because it develops itself then, because that is when Lucifer is most present in man. We leave the children to themselves. But then, after the change of teeth, when Ahriman has most clearly taken hold of the human being, we begin to train the memory. For by then Ahriman has already created his counterweight to Lucifer, so we no longer work directly in the service of Lucifer when we train the memory. We must not even entertain the idea that we want to fight Ahriman. There would be a very simple way to combat the grossest Ahrimanic effects, but it would not do the human being any good. When the human being gets his second teeth, they would have to be hammered in, because that is when the most intense Ahrimanic effects occur. Of the progressive powers, man has only his so-called milk teeth. 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Nehmen Sie einmal in die Hand die kleine Schrift «Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft». Da wird sozusagen gezeigt, wie die Vorgänge am sich entwickelnden Menschen von sieben zu sieben Jahren sind. Da wird gezeigt, daß bis zum siebenten Lebensjahre, bis zum Zahnwechsel, wir es vorzugsweise in der Hauptsache mit der Entwickelung des physischen Leibes zu tun haben, daß wir es zu tun haben im nächsten Zeitraum, vom siebenten bis zum vierzehnten Lebensjahre, bis zur Geschlechtsreife, mit einer Entwickelung des Ätherleibes und so weiter. Wenn Sie diese Entwickelung des Menschen von sieben zu sieben Jahren ins Auge fassen, dann haben Sie es vorzugsweise zu tun mit dem, was die sozusagen normalen Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien an der menschlichen Evolution bewirken. Das ist so recht die fortschreitende Evolution, die da von sieben zu sieben Jahren verläuft, so daß wir sagen können: Die eigentlich fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Mächte, die leiten und lenken diese Evolution von sieben zu sieben Jahren. Würden nur diese fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Mächte an dem Menschen tätig sein, dann würde überhaupt das ganze menschliche Leben anders verlaufen, im ganzen anders verlaufen, als es tatsächlich verläuft. Dann würde vor allen Dingen der Mensch einem kleinen Kinde in ganz anderer Weise entgegentreten. Er würde bei dem kleinen Kinde immer das Gefühl haben: Da spricht durch das Kind eine geistige Individualität. Man würde sogar immer das Gefühl haben, daß das kleine Kind, bei alldem, was es tut, was es vornimmt, aus höheren Welten heraus die Antriebe, die Impulse empfängt. Und die Menschen würden sicher gar kein anderes Gefühl bekommen, als daß das Kind aus weit höheren Impulsen heraus handelt, als diejenigen sind, die sie selbst mit ihrem Verstand durchdringen können. Und das würde verhältnismäßig noch recht lange dauern.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p005"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Das, was den Menschen heute so sehr wünschenswert erscheint, daß die Kinder möglichst früh recht gescheit sind im menschlich-irdischen Sinne, das würde dann den Menschen höchst unwillkommen erscheinen, denn von einem Kinde, das heute das Entzücken seiner Umgebung hervorruft, weil es schon gar so gescheite Dinge sagt oder tut, von dem würden, wenn die Menschen nur Kinder hätten, die von den fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Mächten gelenkt werden nach den siebenjährigen Perioden, es würden die Menschen sagen, wenn das Kind möglichst früh im heutigen Sinne gescheit redete und sie an die anderen Verhältnisse gewöhnt wären: Wie früh ist das Kind gottverlassen! Worüber man heute entzückt ist, würde man dann als eine Strafe empfinden. Und einen jungen Menschen von fünfzehn Jahren, der so gescheit wäre, wie man es heute verlangt, den würde man als ein ganz gottverlassenes Wesen ansehen. Denn durch die fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Mächte ist eigentlich der Mensch erst berufen, nach und nach mit seinem Ich zwischen dem einundzwanzigsten und achtundzwanzigsten Jahre völlig herauszurücken, und vorher würde das, was er tut, viel mehr so erscheinen, daß durch ihn durchwirken höhere geistige, übersinnliche Impulse. Allerdings würde ein gewisses nach außen hin träumerisches Leben den Kindern eigen sein; aber man würde dieses träumerische Leben empfinden als Gott- oder Geistgesegnetheit, und man würde gar nicht das Bestreben haben, die Kinder zur Frühreife im heutigen Sinn irgendwie zu erziehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":223,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p006"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Nun fällt, wie wir wissen, etwas anderes in diese Entwickelungsperioden des Menschen auch hinein. Das ist, was wir oftmals hervorgehoben haben, die Ausgestaltung des Ich-Bewußtseins im dritten, vierten, fünften Jahre, in jenem Zeitpunkt, den wir im allgemeinen so charakterisieren können, daß wir sagen: Es ist der Zeitpunkt, bis zu dem der Mensch im späteren Leben sich zurückerinnert. Es ist das Auftreten jenes Momentes, von dem aus der Mensch anfängt, zu sich «Ich» zu sagen. — Sie müssen nun eigentlich die ganze Entwickelung des Menschen sich als zwei Strömungen denken: als die der Evolution, an der die fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten wirken, und dazu die andere Strömung, durch welche der Mensch innerhalb des ersten siebenjährigen Zeitraumes anfängt, innerlich ein Selbstbewußtsein zu entwickeln, ein solches Gedächtnis zu entwickeln, das ihn später im Bewußtsein sich zurückerinnern läßt bis zu jenem Zeitpunkt. Das rührt nun gar nicht von den fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten her. Die würden uns viel länger recht träumerisch sein lassen, würden durch uns hindurch in die Welt hereinwirken. Daß wir so frühzeitig zum Selbstbewußtsein kommen, daß wir so frühzeitig zu uns Ich sagen, das ist lediglich das Ergebnis der luziferischen Kräfte, die in den Menschen hereinwirken. So haben wir es mit zwei Strömungen zu tun, mit einer gleichsam regulären fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Strömung, die uns aber eigentlich erst zwischen dem einundzwanzigsten und achtundzwanzigsten Jahre zu einem deutlichen, klaren Ich-Bewußtsein führen würde, und mit einer luziferischen Strömung in uns. Diese luziferische Strömung wirkt in ihren Impulsen so in uns, daß sie die andere Strömung ganz durchkreuzt, so daß sie in uns etwas ganz anderes macht, als was die fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten von uns eigentlich haben wollen. Sie wirken so, daß wir also mittendrinnen im ersten Zeitraum schon lernen, zu uns «Ich» zu sagen, lernen die Egoität innerlich seelisch auszubilden und uns zurückzuerinnern in unserem Gedächtnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p007"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Wenn wir das so recht ins Auge fassen, so können wir uns ein Bild machen von dieser unserer fortlaufenden Entwickelung. Denken Sie sich einmal den eben charakterisierten luziferischen Einschlag weg und nur das, was die fortschreitenden Wesenheiten aus dem Menschen als ein ruhig dahinfließendes Wasser machen würden. Wir denken uns dieses ruhig dahinfließende Wasser als ein Bild des fortschreitenden Lebensstromes des Menschen unter dem Einfluß der eigentlich guten göttlichen Wesenheiten. Und jetzt gehen wir an dem Wasser, das so ruhig dahinfließt, ein Stück hin, nehmen dann eine blaue oder rote Substanz, gießen sie hinein in das ruhig dahinfließende Wasser und lassen, indem wir eine chemische Flüssigkeit wählen, die sich getrennt halten läßt von dem klaren Wasser, da eine zweite Strömung von einem bestimmten Punkt an neben der ersten Strömung mitfließen. So fließt in unserer richtigen, ruhig fortschreitenden, wir möchten sagen JahveChristus-Strömung, die luziferische Strömung von der Mitte ungefähr unseres ersten siebenjährigen Zeitraumes in unserem Inneren mit uns fort. Und so lebt Luzifer in uns. Würde dieser Luzifer in uns nicht leben, so würden wir diese zweite Strömung nicht haben. Aber lebten wir nur in der ersten Strömung, dann würden wir eben bis in die Zwanzigerjahre herein das Bewußtsein haben: Wir sind eigentlich ein Glied der göttlich-geistigen Mächte. - Das Bewußtsein von Selbständigkeit, von innerer Individualität und Persönlichkeit erlangen wir durch die zweite Strömung. So sehen wir zugleich, daß es weisheitsvoll ist, daß diese luziferische Strömung in uns sich hineinergießt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p008"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Aber auch im zweiten siebenjährigen Zeitraum tritt etwas ein, was wir in einer gewissen Weise als eine nicht mit den bloß fortschreitenden göttlichen Wesenheiten zusammenhängende Strömung auffassen können. Es wurde ja von einem gewissen Gesichtspunkt aus auch das schon wiederholt gekennzeichnet bei uns. Es tritt so um das neunte, zehnte Jahr, also im zweiten siebenjährigen Zeitraum auf. Da kommen für die einen, die sinnigen Menschen, die Erfahrungen, wie ich sie zum Beispiel von Jean Paul angeführt habe. Bei ihm trat es vielleicht etwas früher auf, bei anderen tritt esin der Regel um das neunte, zehnte Jahr auf. Da kann auftreten eine wesentliche Verstärkung, man möchte sagen Verdichtung des Ich-Gefühls. Aber es kann die Tatsache, daß da etwas Besonderes vorgeht, auch noch auf eine andere Weise konstatiert werden. Ich möchte aber nicht empfehlen, daß diese andere Weise eine besondere Erziehungsregel werden sollte. Es kann nur gesagt werden, daß wenn es einmal, man möchte sagen, von selbst geschieht, es beobachtet werden kann, aber man sollte ja nicht damit spielen, es ja nicht zum Erziehungsprinzip machen. Wenn man nämlich ein Kind, namentlich um das neunte, zehnte Jahr herum, unbekleidet in einen Spiegel schauen läßt, und das Kind nicht abgestumpft ist durch unsere heutigen oftmals sonderbaren Erziehungsprinzipien, so wird es immer auf naturgemäße Weise von dem Anblick dieser seiner Gestalt Furcht empfinden, eine gewisse Angst, wenn es nicht früher kokett gemacht worden ist durch vieles In-den-Spiegel-Schauen. Dieses kann gerade bei natürlich empfindenden Kindern, die nicht vorher viel in den Spiegel geschaut haben, beobachtet werden, weil nämlich in dieser Zeit in dem Menschen etwas heranwächst, was wie eine Art Ausgleich zu der luziferischen Strömung wirkt, die in der ersten Periode da ist. In dieser zweiten Periode, um das neunte, zehnte Jahr herum, da ergreift Ahriman nämlich den Menschen und bildet eine Art von Ausgleich mit seiner Strömung zur luziferischen Strömung. Wir können nun dasjenige vollbringen, was dem Ahriman den größten Gefallen tut, wenn wir gerade in diesem Zeitpunkt den Verstand, der auf die äußere Sinneswelt gerichtet ist, beim heranwachsenden Kinde ausbilden, wenn wir uns sagen: Das Kind muß in dieser Zeit möglichst so abgerichtet werden, daß es überall zu einem eigenen, selbständigen Urteil kommt. Sie wissen, daß ich da ein Erziehungsprinzip erwähne, das heute ziemlich allgemein in der Pädagogik ausgesprochen wird. Selbständigkeit heranerziehen, gerade in diesen Jahren, wird heute fast allgemein verlangt. Man stellt sogar Rechenmaschinen hin, damit die Kinder nicht einmal veranlaßt werden, das Einmaleins ordentlich gedächtnismäßig zu lernen. Das beruht durchaus auf einem gewissen Wohlwollen unseres Zeitalters gegenüber dem Ahriman. Unser Zeitalter wünscht, unbewußt natürlich, die Kinder so zu erziehen, daß Ahriman möglichst stark in der Menschenseele kultiviert werden kann. Und wenn wir heute die gangbaren Erziehungsmethoden durchnehmen, so sagen wir uns als Okkultisten: Diese Leute, die diese Erziehungsmethoden vertreten, sind nur Stümper. Wenn Ahriman selber diese Erziehungsprinzipien schreiben würde, er würde es gescheiter machen! — Aber es ist eine rechte Schülerschaft des Ahriman, was da ganz besonders über die Selbständigkeit, über das eigene Urteilen der Kinder gesagt wird. Es wird dies, was damit angedeutet ist, noch immer mehr und mehr überhandnehmen in der nächsten Zeit. Denn Ahriman wird ein guter Lenker werden für die äußeren Mächte und Geistesführungen unseres Zeitalters.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":528,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p009"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Nun nehmen Sie eine solche Sache, wie wir sie jetzt ausgesprochen haben. Wir müssen es als etwas ansehen, was ganz naturgemäß und selbstverständlich ist, daß es an den Menschen herankommt; daß der Mensch Luzifer und Ahriman an sich herantreten fühlt. Es wäre ganz falsch, zu glauben, daß es besser wäre, wenn wir nun überhaupt Luzifer und Ahriman ausschalten würden. Das würde ganz unmöglich sein. Wie unmöglich es sein würde, das kann Ihnen etwa die folgende Betrachtung darlegen. Wenn nicht unser Leben reguliert würde gleichsam von einem Zusammenwirken der fortschreitenden göttlich-geistigen Wesenheiten mit den ahrimanischen und luziferischen Gewalten, wenn also nur die fortschreitenden Mächte an uns arbeiten würden, dann würden wir viel später zu einer gewissen Selbständigkeit kommen, und wir würden auch diese Selbständigkeit so haben, daß, so wie wir jetzt Farben, Licht wahrnehmen, wir dann gar nicht daran zweifeln würden, daß hinter den Farben und dem Licht, hinter dem also, was wir äußerlich wahrnehmen, auch wirklich göttlich-geistige Wesenheiten walten. Wir würden zugleich mit unseren Sinneswahrnehmungen die Weltgedanken wahrnehmen. Wir würden zwar, aber erst in den Zwanzigerjahren, zu unserer Selbständigkeit kommen, aber wir würden dann auch außen Weltgedanken wahrnehmen. Wir würden dann unsere Jugend verträumen, weil in uns göttlich-geistige Mächte wirken würden, und wenn diese aufhören würden von innen zu wirken, dann würden sie uns von außen entgegentreten. Wir würden von außen ihre Gedanken so wahrnehmen, wie wir jetzt nur die Sinneswahrnehmungen empfangen. Wir würden also, mit Ausnahme einiger Jahre, so gegen das zwanzigste Jahr hin, wo wir uns sichtbar würden, sonst gar niemals eine ordentliche Selbständigkeit haben. Wir würden als Kinder träumerische Wesen sein, wir würden im mittleren Lebensalter gar nicht so recht aus unseren Impulsen und unseren Entschließungen heraus über uns bestimmen können, sondern wir würden überall, wo wir der Außenwelt entgegentreten, einfach sehen, was wir zu tun haben, ähnlich wie es die Menschen in der alten Atlantis noch gekonnt haben. Die Selbständigkeit fließt in uns herein dadurch, daß Luzifer und Ahriman in uns wirken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p010"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun kommt natürlich ungeheuer viel darauf an, daß wir nicht so reden, wie die törichte Pädagogik von heute über den Menschen redet, die immer von Entwickelung redet, daß man gleichsam das Innere aus dem Menschen herausholen solle. Gescheit redet man in pädagogischer Beziehung nur dann über den Menschen, wenn man weiß, daß ein Dreifaches an seiner Seele beteiligt ist: die fortschreitenden guten göttlichgeistigen Wesenheiten und Luzifer und Ahriman, und wenn man diese auseinanderhalten kann. Es ist nun von besonderem Wert, zunächst einmal den Hauptgesichtspunkt von den fortschreitenden göttlichgeistigen Wesenheiten aus zu nehmen und vor allem zu berücksichtigen: Was sind die Anforderungen, wenn wir auf die siebengliedrigen Perioden der Entwickelung des Menschen sehen? Denn in bezug darauf können wir jedem Menschen wirklich einfach dadurch helfen, daß wir uns sinngemäß zu diesem Menschenkinde verhalten. Wenn wir in den ersten sieben Jahren des Kindes Verhältnisse herbeiführen, daß es in einer Umgebung lebt, die auf seinen physischen Leib gesundend wirkt, so tun wir unter allen Umständen dem Kinde etwas Gutes. Wenn wir in der zweiten Periode uns so verhalten, daß wir gute, im edelsten Sinne so zu nennende Autoritäten um den Menschen herum schaffen, so daß der Mensch nicht ein Klugredner wird in diesen Zeiten, sondern daß er ein Wesen wird, das auf die Menschen seiner Umgebung als auf Autoritäten baut, vor denen das Kind Respekt hat, zu denen es Hingabe hat, dann tun wir ihm unter allen Umständen etwas Gutes Wir tun etwas Gutes, wenn wir heranerziehen solche Kinder, die nicht im neunten, zehnten Jahre alles schon selber wissen wollen, sondern die, wenn man sie fragt: Warum ist dieses oder jenes richtig oder gut? — dann sagen: Weil der Vater, weil die Mutter es gesagt hat, es sei gut, oder weil der Lehrer es gesagt hat. - Wenn wir so die Kinder erziehen, daß in ihrer Umgebung eben die Erwachsenen als selbstverständliche Autoritäten walten, dann tun wir den Kindern unter allen Umständen etwas Gutes. Und wenn wir gegen diese siebenjährigen Perioden verstoßen, wenn wir also herbeiführen etwa einen solchen Zustand, daß schon gerade in dieser Zeit die Kinder anfangen, diejenigen, die selbstverständliche Autoritäten sind, zu kritisieren, wenn wir das nicht vermeiden, daß diese Kritik eintritt, so tun wir unter allen Umständen etwas Schlimmes für den heranwachsenden Menschen. Und wenn wir nicht die Gelegenheit finden, zu einem Menschen zwischen dem vierzehnten, fünfzehnten und einundzwanzigsten Jahre so zu sprechen, daß man sich in naturgemäßer Weise mit ihm zu Idealen erheben kann, zu Idealen, die das Herz mit Freude durchdringen, so tut man diesem jungen Menschen auch wiederum nichts besonders Gutes. Mit Menschen in diesen Jahren muß man von Idealen sprechen, von dem, was das spätere Leben unter allen Umständen dem richtig heranwachsenden Menschen bringen muß. Man darf sagen: Heute könnte einem da wirklich manchmal das Herz brechen, wenn da achtzehnjährige Knaben — pardon, Persönlichkeiten - kommen und ihre Feuilletons schon in die Zeitungen tragen. Wenn man, statt von ihnen etwas anzunehmen, sich unterhalten würde mit ihnen von dem, was durchaus noch nicht eingreift in das äußere Leben, sondern was sie später erst realisieren sollen, wenn man mit ihnen reden würde von den großen Idealen des Menschenlebens und sich mit ihnen begeistern würde, dann würde man sich in richtiger Weise zu ihnen verhalten. Eigentlich tut derjenige, der etwa als Redaktor das Feuilleton annimmt eines Menschen, der noch nicht das zwanzigste Jahr erreicht hat, unter allen Umständen etwas schlimmeres als jener, der, wenn der junge Mensch mit diesem Feuilleton kommt, zu ihm sagt: Ja, sieh einmal, das ist ja sehr schön, was du gemacht hast. Aber wenn du zehn Jahre älter sein wirst, dann wirst du darüber ganz andere Ideen haben. Lege dir das jetzt hübsch in deine Schublade und nimm es in zehn, zwölf Jahren wieder vor. — Der, welcher das macht, dann einen Blick hineinwirft in das Manuskript und über die Lebensideale, die man daran anknüpfen kann, mit dem Betreffenden spricht, der tut an ihm etwas Gutes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":652,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p011"},{"locus":"GA 150/1913-03-14/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Ich will damit nur charakterisieren, daß diejenigen Dinge, die da gesagt worden sind in meiner Schrift «Die Erziehung des Kindes», unter allen Umständen eigentlich in der Erziehung immer berücksichtigt werden sollten. Alles andere, wo es auf Luzifer und Ahriman ankommt, das läßt nicht allgemeine Regeln zu, das ist tatsächlich bei jedem Menschen anders, denn das bezieht sich gerade auf das Persönliche. Da handelt es sich vielfach um den persönlichen Takt des Erziehers, da kann man nicht eingreifen mit allerlei pedantischen Regeln in diese Dinge. Ich wollte Ihnen charakterisieren, was alles in der menschlichen Seele ist, und wie wir berücksichtigen müssen Luzifer und Ahriman, wenn wir die volle Menschennatur verstehen wollen, wenn wir wirklich alles ins Auge fassen wollen, was wir nicht nur so anzusehen haben, daß wir sagen: Bekämpfen müssen wir Luzifer und Ahriman. — Wenn wir den Luzifer unter allen Umständen bekämpfen wollten, so könnten wir das. auf sehr sichere Weise tun: wir brauchten den Menschen nur davor zu bewahren, ein Gedächtnis zu entwickeln. Denn wie es wahr ist, daß in unsere Erdenentwickelung gewisse Mondwesen hereingebracht wurden, so wahr ist es, daß alles Gedächtnis eine luziferische Kraft ist. Wir müßten also unser Gedächtnis einfach nicht entwickeln! Wir müssen uns jedoch klar sein, daß wir dieses Gedächtnis in der richtigen Weise zu entwickeln haben. Und deshalb wurde gesagt in jener Schrift, daß der richtige Zeitraum für die Erziehung des Gedächtnisses derjenige zwischen dem siebenten und vierzehnten Jahre ist. Im vorhergehenden Zeitraum, da brauchen wir nicht besonders das Gedächtnis systematisch zu erziehen, denn da entwickelt es sich selber, weil da am meisten der Luzifer im Menschen steckt. Da überlassen wir den Menschen sich selber. Dann aber, nach dem Zahnwechsel, wenn Ahriman am deutlichsten herangetreten ist an den Menschen, dann fangen wir mit der Ausbildung des Gedächtnisses an. Denn da hat Ahriman schon sein Gegengewicht gegen Luzifer geschaffen, da werden wir nicht mehr geradezu dem Luzifer in die Hand arbeiten, wenn wir das Gedächtnis ausbilden. Daß wir etwa Ahriman bekämpfen wollen, das dürfen wir uns gar nicht einfallen lassen. Es gäbe wieder ein sehr einfaches Mittel, die gröbsten ahriimanischen Wirkungen zu bekämpfen, aber es würde dem Menschen nicht gut bekommen. Man müßte dann, wenn der Mensch die zweiten Zähne bekommt, sie ihm einschlagen, denn da sind die allerschärfsten ahrimanischen Wirkungen. Von den fortschreitenden Mächten hat der Mensch nur seine sogenannten Milchzähne. Das, was der Mensch als seine durch das Leben hindurchwirkende selbständige Bezahnung bekommt, ist eine rein ahrimanische Wirkung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":407,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/150/1913-03-14/p012"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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