{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-20/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Indeed, this very tendency led at a certain time in the evolution of intellectual life to an outlook which is still shared by many persons who call themselves “thinkers”. For the new edition of my *Welt- und Lebensanschauungen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert* (Views of the World and of Life in the Nineteenth Century).[^1] I tried to rearrange the book quite thoroughly, first by prefacing it with an account of the evolution of Western thought from the sixth century B.C. up to the nineteenth century A.D., and then by adding to the original conclusion a description of spiritual life in terms of thinking up to our own day. The content of the book has also been rearranged in many ways, for I have tried to show how thought as we know it really appeared first in a certain specific period. One might say that it first appeared in the sixth or eighth century B.C. Before then the human soul did not at all experience what can be called “thought” in the true sense of the word. What did human souls experience previously? They experienced pictures; all their experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have often spoken of this from certain points of view. This picture-experience is the last phase of the old clairvoyant experience. After that, for the human soul, the “picture” passes over into “thought”.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought as Gateway to Cosmic Understanding","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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Auch der Inhalt, der schon da war, ist vielfach umgestaltet worden. Da habe ich denn zu zeigen gehabt, wie der Gedanke in einem bestimmten Zeitalter eigentlich erst entsteht. Er entsteht wirklich erst, man könnte sagen, um das 6. oder 8. vorchristliche Jahrhundert. Vorher erlebten die menschlichen Seelen gar nicht das, was man im rechten Sinne des Wortes Gedanken nennen kann. Was erlebten die menschlichen Seelen vorher? Sie erlebten vorher Bilder. Und alles Erleben der Außenwelt geschah in Bildern. Von gewissen Gesichtspunkten aus habe ich das oftmals gesagt. Dieses Bilder-Erleben ist die letzte Phase des alten hellseherischen Erlebens. 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