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At that time, the twelve cosmic forces that act on man threatened to be thrown into disorder by demonic beings. As a result, man would have had to develop quite differently from what he has become today. The senses of man, which were developing at that time, would have become overly sensitive under the effect of the forces that were about to fall into disorder. Today, man is able to perceive light and all other perceptions calmly. Under the effect of the Luciferic-Ahrimanic impact, the life of the senses would have had to trigger the strongest desires and impulses. If, for example, the human being had seen a red color – and this is how the sun's rays would have had to have worked – the desiring soul would have had to flee in burning pain, and upon perceiving blue, it would have had to overcome itself in agony, consumed by itself. The soul would have had to suffer terribly with every sensory perception, hunted by animal lust and desire for scorching pain and agony.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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By moderating the excessive effect of the forces on the senses, it transformed the life of perception into a moderate passive one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Everything related to the functions of nutrition and life triggered a tremendous agitation of sympathy and antipathy, driving the soul from devouring greed to repulsive disgust.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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A second time it allowed itself to be permeated with the Christ-spirit and thereby saved the life forces of man, which would otherwise have been thrown into disarray.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":41,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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The spiritual being had to submerge itself in the human soul, which was filled with passion, had to become passion itself, had to become a dragon, in order to transform the soul forces and to allow the Christ-spirit to shine through a third time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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From spring to fall, Apollo dwells in his place, then he moves north to the land of the Hyperboreans. Apollo must move north as the spirit of the sun, while the physical sun moves south. And we find Apollo associated with music, the playing of the lyre. It represents the expression of the harmony of the three human soul powers. And it is said of a famous man with ears that were too large, King Midas, that Apollo caused him to grow the ears of an ass as punishment for his having decided the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas in favor of Apollo, because he preferred Marsyas's flute to Apollo's playing of the strings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-03-05/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Prelude to the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/SOL2024/19140305.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Es drohte in jener Zeit, daß die zwölf kosmischen Kräfte, die auf den Menschen wirken, durch dämonische Wesen in Unordnung gerieten. Dadurch hätte sich der Mensch ganz anders entwickeln müssen, als er heute geworden ist. Die Sinne des Menschen, die sich damals herausbildeten, sie wären unter der Wirkung der in Unordnung geratenwollenden Kräfte überempfindlich geworden. Die Lichtempfindung, alle Wahrnehmung vermag heute der Mensch in Gelassenheit aufzunehmen. Unter der Wirkung des luziferisch-ahrimanischen Einschlags hätte das Sinnesleben die stärksten Begierden und Impulse auslösen müssen. Hätte der Mensch zum Beispiel eine rote Farbe gesehen- und so hätten vor allem die Sonnenstrahlen wirken müssen, so hätte in brennendem Schmerz die begehrende Seele fliehen müssen, und bei der Wahrnehmung von Blau hätte sie sich, in sich verzehrend, in Qual überwinden müssen. Die Seele hätte furchtbar leiden müssen bei jeder Sinnesempfindung, gejagt von tierischer Wollust und Begehren zu versengendem Schmerz und Qual.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p007"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Da drang der Schmerzensschrei der gequälten Menschheit hinauf zu jenem Geisteswesen. Er trieb es hin zu dem Sonnengeist, so daß es sich von dem Christus durchdringen lassen durfte. Dadurch wurde abgemildert die innerliche Stärke der Sinneswahrnehmung, dadurch schlug das Wesen die stärkste Versuchung des Luzifer und Ahriman ab. Indem es die zu starke Wirkung der Kräfte auf die Sinne milderte, gestaltete es das Wahrnehmungsleben in ein maßvolles passives um.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":69,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p008"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Und gehen wir weiter in die atlantische Zeit herein. Eine neue Gefahr schwebte da über den Menschen: Durch den luziferischahrimanischen Einfluß waren bedroht die Lebensverrichtungen, die Lebensorgane des Menschen. Hätte zum Beispiel eine Speise vor dem Menschen gestanden, wäre tierische Gier, sie zu verschlingen, erwacht. Seine Seele wäre ganz Gier gewesen. Besonders empfindsam wäre das Atmen gewesen, das Ein- und Ausatmen. Schlechte Luft hätte den Menschen mit schauderndem Ekel erfüllt. Alles, was mit den Ernährungs- und Lebensfunktionen zusammenhing, löste eine ungeheure Aufstachelung von Sympathie und Antipathie aus, trieb die Seele von verschlingender Gier zu abstoßendem Ekel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":96,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p009"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Und wiederum war es jenes Geistwesen, das diese Gefahr für den Menschen abwandte. Ein zweites Mal ließ es sich mit dem Christus-Geist durchdringen und rettete dadurch die sonst in Unordnung geratenden Lebenskräfte des Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":34,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p010"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Und am Ende der atlantischen Zeit erstand eine dritte Gefahr für den Menschen durch den luziferisch-ahrimanischen Einfluß. Es drohte, daß die menschlichen Seelenkräfte, Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, in Unordnung, in Disharmonie zueinander gerieten, daß die drei Kräfte nicht mehr recht zusammenklingen konnten in der menschlichen Seele. In Leidenschaft erglüht wäre der Mensch jedem Impulse gefolgt, oder von Furcht und Haß erfüllt geflohen, ohne daß Vernunft die Kräfte hätte regeln können. Wie brachte da das Geisteswesen Hilfe? Das Geisteswesen mußte untertauchen in die von Leidenschaft erfüllte menschliche Seele, mußte selbst die Leidenschaft werden, mußte zum Drachen werden, um umzuwandeln die Seelenkräfte, und ein drittes Mal von dem Christus-Geist sich durchleuchten lassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":110,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p011"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Widergespiegelt finden wir dieses geistige Geschehnis in den Mythen aller Völker, in dem Mythos von Sankt Georg, dem Erzengel Michael, den Drachen besiegend. In den nachatlantischen Kulturen sehen wir ein Bewußtsein lebendig von den in geistigen Welten sich vollziehenden Einwirkungen des Christus auf das Menschenwerden durch jenes Geisteswesen. In dem Zarathustra-Kult tritt uns das hohe Sonnenwesen entgegen, und wie ein Abbild davon zeigt sich im griechischen Bewußtsein der Apollo-Dienst. Am kastalischen Quell ist der Tempel des Apollo, wohin wohlvorbereitet die Griechen ziehen, um sich bei Apollo Rat zu holen. Python, der über den Dämpfen ruht, die aus dem Spalt aufsteigen und den Berg Parnaß umwinden wie eine Schlange, er wird durch Apollo besiegt, und an seine Stelle tritt die Priesterin Pythia, durch deren Mund Apollo seine Weisheit den Griechen offenbart. Von Frühling bis Herbst weilt Apollo in seiner Stätte, dann zieht er nach Norden in das Land der Hyperboräer. Nach Norden muß Apollo ziehen als der Geist der Sonne, während die physische Sonne nach Süden zieht. Und verbunden finden wir mit Apollo die Musik, das Saitenspiel. Es stellt dar den Ausdruck des Zusammenstimmens der drei menschlichen Seelenkräfte. Und von einem berühmten Manne mit zu großen Ohren, dem König Midas, wird gesagt, daß Apollo ihm die Eselsohren wachsen ließ als Strafe dafür, daß Midas beim musischen Wettkampf zwischen Apollo und Marsyas gegen Apollo entschied, weil er Marsyas Flöte dem Saitenspiel Apollos vorzog.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p012"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Dreimal also, ehe das Mysterium von Golgatha eintrat, hatte von den geistigen Welten aus der Christus sich mit der Menschheit verbunden, durch dreimaliges Durchdringen jenes Geistwesens, das später der nathanische Jesusknabe war: Erstens maßvoll die Sinneserfahrung zu regeln in der lemurischen Zeit, zweitens die Lebenskräfte zu regeln im Anfang der atlantischen Zeit, drittens zu regeln die Seelenkräfte am Ende der atlantischen Zeit. Dann erst vollzog sich als viertes das Mysterium von Golgatha, um zu regeln das Ich in seinem Verhältnis zur Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p013"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-03-05/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Vorgefühlt wurde die Gefahr für das menschliche Ich, in die es durch die Versuchungen Luzifers und Ahrimans geführt wurde, in den ägyptischen Priesterstätten in der griechisch-lateinischen Zeit. Man fühlte das Ich herannahen, und man suchte mit den Kräften, die es in Unordnung bringen wollten, zu ringen. Da sah man in den Tempeln an vielen Orten etwa folgende Zeremonien und oft sich wiederholend: Der Priester formte ein scheußliches, unförmliches Gebilde, ein Krokodil, spuckte es an, warf es zur Erde und verbrannte es. Andere Priester erzählten dem Volk: Re, die Sonnengottheit, zieht ihre Bahn am Himmelsraum von Ost nach West. Im Westen wird sie fahl, stürzt hinab, weil sie gegen dämonische Wesenheiten zu kämpfen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-03-05/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"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)."}}