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The spirit who said, as related in the Bible, “Your eyes shall be opened,” made it necessary to transfer man to a sphere of earthly life in which his eyes, if they had developed as they would have done under Lucifer's influence, would have become self-seeking. With every impression—and it would have been the same with the other senses—man would have cried out, “Oh, it stabs me here!” He would not have perceived red in his environment. Or he would have said, “Oh, something sucks in my eyes!” He would not have been aware of the color blue, but would have simply felt the suction. This danger to humanity was averted in the Lemurian age by a Being Who later, through the Mystery of Golgotha, incarnated in the body of Jesus of Nazareth. 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That this did not happen, that our vital organs were subdued and harmonized resulted from the great event in the first Atlantean epoch when, in supramundane spheres, the second step was taken toward the Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ Being ensouled Himself again in an archangel, and what was accomplished by this deed shone down into the earth's atmosphere. 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What would have been the result of this? Well, the human being would have intended this or that, and followed this or that impulse of will, while his thinking would have impelled him in quite a different direction, and his feeling in still another. It was necessary for human evolution that thinking, feeling and willing should become unselfish members of the united soul. Under the influence of Lucifer and Ahriman they could not have done this. Thought, feeling and will, becoming independently self-seeking, would have rent asunder the harmonious working of the Christ. In consequence, toward the end of the Atlantean evolution, the third Christ event occurred. Once more the Christ Being ensouled Himself in an archangel, and the power thus generated in the spiritual world made possible the harmonization of thinking, feeling and willing. 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The Greeks who in their wonderful mythology made copies of what happened in the spiritual world at the end of the Atlantean age, revered the Sun Spirit as the harmonizer of man's thinking, feeling and willing. “Thou Sun Spirit,” so said those who knew something about it, “Thou hast ensouled Thyself in an etheric spirit form,” for such is the form of those we call archangels today; “Thou has brought thinking, feeling and willing, which might otherwise rage through us in confusion, into order with Thy lyre, sounding upon it harmoniously the tones of the human soul!”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1914-06-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":417,"en_words":364,"ratio":0.87,"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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Aber zu dieser Selbstlosigkeit wären die Sinne nicht gekommen, schon in der lemurischen Zeit wäre ihnen die Selbstlosigkeit genommen worden, wenn Luzifer frei für sich hätte wirken können in dieser alten lemurischen Zeit. Der Geist, von dem mit Recht das biblische Wort gesagt wird: Euer Auge wird geöffnet sein -, dieser Geist hat notwendig gemacht, daß der Mensch in eine Sphäre des Erdenlebens versetzt worden ist, in welcher seine Augen, wenn sie sich so entwickelt hätten, wie sie sich unter dem Einflusse Luzifers hätten entwickeln müssen, selbstsüchtig geworden wären. Und bei jedem Eindruck - und so würde es auch für die andern Sinne sein — hätte der Mensch gerufen: Ach, hier sticht es! - und er hätte nicht die rote Farbe in seiner Umgebung wahrgenommen, oder er hätte gesagt: Ach, es saugt an mir — und hätte nicht die blaue Farbe wahrgenommen, sondern im Auge die saugende Wirkung. Abgewendet worden ist noch in der lemurischen Zeit diese Gefahr von der Menschheitsentwickelung dadurch, daß sich - aber jetzt nicht auf der Erde, sondern in den überirdischen Welten - diejenige Wesenheit, die später durch das Mysterium von Golgatha sich in dem Leib des Jesus von Nazareth verleiblicht hat, dazumal verseelt - ich kann nicht sagen verleiblicht — hat in ein Erzengelwesen, ein Wesen aus der Hierarchie der Archangeloi. So lebte, während die Erde ihr lemurisches Zeitalter durchmachte, in geistigen Höhen ein Wesen, welches - man möchte sagen, durch eine Art Vorbotschaft der Johannestaufe — dadurch entstanden ist, daß ein Erzengel seine Seelischheit hingeopfert hat und der Christus dieses Erzengelwesen durchdrang. Dadurch aber löste er eine Kraft aus, die in die menschliche Erdenentwickelung hereinwirkte. Und das Ergebnis dieser Einwirkung war eine Beruhigung der Sinne, ein Harmonischwerden der Sinne. Und wenn wir uns heute unserer Sinne so bedienen können, daß diese Sinne selbstlos sind, werden wir - wenn wir in bezug auf diese Tatsache verstanden haben und der Weltenordnung dankbar gemacht worden sind - hinschauen in alte Zeiten und werden sagen: Das, was wir als Sinnenmenschen sind, was möglich macht, daß wir nicht Schmerz durch unsere Sinne, sondern die herrliche Natur um uns herum empfinden, das rührt von dem ersten Christus-Opfer her. Dadurch, daß er sich verseelt hat in einem Erzengel, bringt er die Wirkung hervor, welche die Gefahr der Selbstsucht der Sinne von der Menschheitsentwickelung ablenkte. Das war die erste Vorstufe des Mystetiums von Golgatha.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":397,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p008"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Lernen wird der Mensch allmählich das tiefe, bedeutsame religiöse Gefühl entwickeln, wenn er hinschaut auf die Herrlichkeit der Natur, wenn er hinaufschaut zum Sternenhimmel, auf alles dasjenige, was das Sonnenlicht bescheint, was im tierischen, im mineralischen, im pflanzlichen Reich um uns herum ist, sagen lernen wird der Mensch: Daß ich so die Welt um mich herum schauen kann, daß ich so hineingestellt bin in diese Welt, daß meine Sinne nicht Quellen von Schmerzen sind, sondern das Werkzeug der Wahrnehmung der Herrlichkeit der Welt, das verdanke ich dem ersten Opfer, das von seiten des Christus als Vorbereitung vorangegangen ist dem Mysterium von Golgatha. Und vor uns erblicken wir perspektivisch eine Zeit, in der die Naturbetrachtung, der Naturgenuß durchchristet sein wird, wo die Menschen fühlen werden, sich sagen werden, wenn sie hinausgehen und sich erlaben an dem herrlichen Frühling, an den Schönheiten des Sommers oder an sonstigen Hertlichkeiten der Natur: Indem wir das alles aufnehmen können, was Herrliches die Natur um uns ausbreitet, müssen wir uns bewußt sein: Nicht wir, der Christus in unseren Sinnen Ist es, der uns geeignet macht, also die herrliche Natur zu empfinden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p009"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Und es war in den ersten Zeiten der atlantischen Entwickelung, da wollte sich - jetzt durch Luzifer und Ahriman bewirkt — die Selbstsucht eines andern Systems der menschlichen Organisation bemächtigen, nämlich der Lebensorgane. Versuchen wir einmal, uns das Wesentliche unserer Lebensorganisation von diesem Gesichtspunkt aus vor Augen zu führen. Was ist denn dieses Wesentliche? Man braucht nur zu denken, wie es dem Menschen ergeht, wenn dieses Wesentliche der Lebensorgane beeinträchtigt ist. Und es ist beeinträchtigt, wenn organische Erkrankungen der Lebensorgane auftreten. Da beginnt der Mensch zu erleben die Selbstsucht seiner Lunge, seines Herzens, Magens und anderer Organe. Da beginnen die Zeiten, wo der Mensch, erst indem er den Schmerz fühlt, weiß, er hat einen Magen, ein Herz, wo er es weiß im unmittelbaren Bewußtsein: Kranksein heißt, ein Organ ist selbstsüchtig geworden, führt ein eigenes Leben in unserem Organismus. In dem gewöhnlichen normalen Menschenleben ist das nicht der Fall. Da leben in der Gesamtorganisation des Menschen die einzelnen Organe des Menschen selbstlos. Und unsere alltägliche Verfassung hält uns nur dann sicher in der Welt aufrecht, wenn wir mit selbstlosen Organen durch die Welt gehen können, wenn wir nicht spüren, daß wir Magen, Lunge und so weiter haben, sondern wenn wir sie haben, ohne sie zu spüren, wenn sie nicht selbst sich gleich geltend machen, sondern wenn sie im ganzen Organismus dienende Glieder sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p010"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Bei anderer Gelegenheit, ein andermal werden wir davon sprechen, warum Krankheit durch die Selbstsucht der Organe bewirkt wird, heute soll nur auf den normalen Zustand hingewiesen werden. Wäre es nur auf Ahriman und Luzifer angekommen, so wären ganz andere Zustände eingetreten schon in der atlantischen Entwickelung. Jedes einzelne menschliche Organ wäre selbstsüchtig geworden und etwas ganz Merkwürdiges hätte sich ereignet. Nehmen wir an, der Mensch näherte sich irgendeiner Frucht, also etwas, was in der Außenwelt ist und was von uns genossen werden kann oder was in irgendeiner Beziehung zu unserer Leibesorganisation steht. Es wird einmal gerade diese Beziehung zu unseren Lebensorganen ein Gegenstand des medizinischen Studiums sein, wenn die Wissenschaft sich wird anregen lassen von der Geisteswissenschaft. Dann wird man wissen, daß, wenn der Mensch zum Beispiel sich Kirschen pflückt vom Baum und sie ißt, gerade das, was mit den Kirschen in die Organisation übergeht, eine besondere Beziehung zu gewissen Organen hat, andere Früchte haben andere Beziehungen zu andern Organen. Alles was in die menschliche Organisation hineinkommt, hat gewisse Beziehungen zu dieser Organisation. Wenn das erfüllt worden wäre, was durch Ahriman und Luzifer hätte geschehen sollen in der atlantischen Zeit, dann hätten wir zum Beispiel Kirschen gepflückt, und im höchsten Maße hätte das Organ, das zu den Kirschen Beziehung hat, eine Gier gehabt. Eine unendliche Gier wäre da zum Ausdruck gekommen, und der Mensch hätte gespürt das betreffende Organ, das selbstsüchtig sich herausstellen würde aus dem Gesamtorganismus, aber die andern Organe würden dafür ebenso selbstsüchtig dagegen streiten in seinem Organismus. Oder nehmen wir einen andern Fall: es sei irgend etwas da, was dem Menschen schädlich ist. Geradeso wie die Dinge der Außenwelt gewisse Beziehungen zum Menschen haben im guten Sinn, so haben andere Dinge der Außenwelt nachteilige Beziehungen. Wenn der Mensch sich irgendeiner giftigen Pflanze näherte oder etwas anderem, was nur nachteilige Beziehungen zu diesem oder jenem Organ hätte, so würde er diese Beziehung durch die innere Tätigkeit des Organes spüren, und dies würde sich ausdrücken in einem furchtbaren, quälenden Angstgefühl. Der Mensch würde fühlen: vor ihm ist etwas, was da auf sein Organ so wirkt, daß es sich gleichsam ausgebrannt fühlt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":352,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p011"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Nehmen wir jetzt nicht dasjenige, was der Mensch ißt, nehmen wir die Luft, die uns umgibt. Alles was in der Luft auftritt, hat Beziehung zu unseren Organen. Wenn das in Erfüllung gegangen wäre, was Ahriman und Luzifer gewollt haben, wenn der Mensch nur so auf sich angewiesen wäre, so würde er gejagt werden durch die Welt zwischen tierischster Begierde nach dem, was dem einen oder andern Organ zuträglich ist, und furchtbarem Ekel vor dem, was dem einen oder andern Organ schädlich ist. Stellen wir uns vor, wenn wir so hineingestellt wären in die Welt, mit solchen Leibesorganen, daß wir im höchsten Maße ein Spielball wären für jedes angenehme Aroma, dem wir, wennschon es eine Stunde entfernt ist, nachlaufen würden, oder ein Ekelgefühl nötigte uns schon von weither, daß wir entflöhen. Wenn wir so wie ein Kautschukball hin- und hergeworfen würden, denken Sie sich, wie könnten wir uns da entwickeln in der Welt? Daß das nicht so kam, daß unsere Lebensorgane abgedämpft worden sind, daß sie harmonisiert worden sind, ist die Folge davon, daß sich in der Zeit, in der der Mensch die erste atlantische Entwickelung durchmachte, in überirdischen Sphären die zweite Vorstufe des Mysteriums von Golgatha ereignete. Wieder verseelte sich die Christus-Wesenheit in einer Erzengelwesenheit, und das, was dadurch bewirkt wurde, das strahlte in die Erdenatmosphäre herunter. Da entstand jene Harmonisierung, jene Abdämpfung der Lebensorgane, die die Organe im Menschen selbstlos macht. In unserem Zusammensein mit der Außenwelt würden wir fortwährend die Ursache haben von den schlimmsten Erkrankungen, wir könnten gar nicht gesund sein, wenn nicht dieses zweite Christus-Ereignis eingetreten wäre. Und wiederum wird sich — das tritt uns als eine Perspektive für die Zukunft entgegen - die Menschheit, wenn sie sich wird durchdringen können mit einem wirklichen Verständnis von der geistigen Welt, ein Dankbarkeitsgefühl aneignen gegenüber den geistigen Wesenheiten, von denen der Mensch abhängt. Es wird sich die Menschheit erfüllen mit jenem wahren Frommsein, durch das sie sagen wird: Ich empfinde es, daß ich ein physischer Mensch mit der Selbstlosigkeit der Organe nur sein kann dadurch, daß nicht ich allein in der Welt mich entwickelt habe, sondern der Christus in mir, der mir meine Organe so gestaltet hat, daß ich Mensch sein kann! - So lernen wir immer mehr und mehr, daß wir im Grunde genommen alles dasjenige, was uns zum Menschen macht, im allerumfassendsten Sinne so auffassen müssen, daß wir sagen: Nicht ich, der Christus in mir. -Der Christus hat gesorgt für die ganze Menschheitsentwickelung in den drei Vorstufen des Mysteriums von Golgatha, die er verrichtet hat vor dem eigentlichen Mysterium von Golgatha.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":425,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p012"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Es war in den letzten Zeiten der atlantischen Entwickelung, da stand die Menschheit vor einer dritten Gefahr. Da sollte in Unordnung kommen Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. Die Selbstsucht sollte einziehen in Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. Was würde dadurch entstanden sein? Nun, der Mensch würde dieses oder jenes gewollt haben, würde diesen oder jenen Willensimpulsen nachgegangen sein, einem andern Impuls würde sein Denken, wieder einem andern sein Fühlen nachgegangen sein. Notwendig war es für die Menschheitsentwickelung, daß Denken, Fühlen und Wollen sich als selbstlose Dinge der Gesamtheit der Seele einfügten. Unter dem bloßen Einfluß von Luzifer und Ahriman würden sie das nicht gekonnt haben. Da würden Denken, Fühlen, Wollen selbstsüchtig geworden sein, sie hätten gleichsam das harmonische Wirken der Seele zerrissen. Da trat dann, gegen Ende der atlantischen Entwickelung, das dritte Christus-Ereignis ein. Wiederum verseelte sich die Christus-Wesenheit in einem Erzengelwesen, und die Kraft, die in der überirdischen Welt dadurch entstand, daß der Christus ein Erzengelwesen durchdrang, die ermöglichte die Harmonisierung von Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. Wahrhaftig, so wie die physischen Sonnenstrahlen auf die Erde wirken müssen, damit nicht alles Pflanzenleben verdorrt, so muß von überirdischen Welten der Sonnengeist spiegelnd auf die Erde herein wirken, wie ich es jetzt geschildert habe. Auf der dritten Stufe hat er harmonisiert Denken, Fühlen und Wollen, so wie sie für das normale Menschenleben harmonisiert werden mußten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p013"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Was wäre aus dem Menschen geworden, wenn dieses dritte Christus-Ereignis nicht eingetreten wäre? Furienhaft würde er erfaßt worden sein von seinen wilden Begierden, von seinem Willensleben. Rasend hätte er werden können, trotzdem auf der andern Seite wiederum sein Verstand selbstsüchtig höhnisch gedacht hätte über dasjenige, was rasend der Wille vollbringt. Das ist abgewendet worden durch das dritte Christus-Ereignis, da der Christus zum dritten Mal als Christus-Wesenheit in der äußeren Seele eines Erzengels war, eines Wesens aus der Hierarchie der Archangeloi.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p014"},{"locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Die Menschheit hat sich eine Erinnerung erhalten daran, wie die menschliche Leidenschaft und das menschliche Denken harmonisiert worden sind durch die Kräfte, die damals herunterwirkten aus den überirdischen Welten. Und dieses Erinnerungszeichen ist vorhanden, wird nur nicht in richtiger Weise verstanden. St. Georg, der den Drachen besiegt, oder Michael, der den Drachen besiegt, ist das Zeichen, das gebildet worden ist für das dritte Christus-Ereignis, da in Erzengelgestalt sich verseelt hat der Christus. Und der Drache, den er zertritt, ist derjenige, der in Unordnung gebracht hat das menschliche Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. Alle, die auf St. Georg mit dem Drachen oder auf Michael mit dem Drachen oder auf ähnliche Angelegenheiten hinblicken, sprechen in Wahrheit von dem dritten Christus-Ereignis. Und die Griechen, welche in ihrer wunderbaren Mythologie etwas geschaffen haben wie Nachbilder desjenigen, was sich am Ende der atlantischen Zeit in der geistigen Welt zugetragen hat, verehrten den Sonnengeist als den Harmonisator von Denken, Fühlen und Wollen in den Menschen. Du Sonnengeist — so sagten sich diejenigen Menschen in Griechenland, die etwas davon gewußt haben -, du hast dich in ätherischer Geistgestalt - denn so ist die Gestalt derer, die wir heute Archangeloi nennen — verseelt. Da hast du dasjenige, was sonst wild und unbeherrscht in der menschlichen Seele als Denken, Fühlen und Wollen durcheinanderrasen würde, zur Harmonie entfaltet auf deiner wunderbaren Leier, auf der du die Töne der menschlichen Seele harmonisch erklingen läßt! - Da wurde der Sonnengeist der Schutzgeist der im Menschen wild stürmenden Leidenschaften, wenn sie, wie es geschehen konnte, auflebten in den wilden Dämpfen, die aus dem Innern der Erde aufsteigen, die durch die Erde brechen. Und wenn nun ein Mensch sich ihnen aussetzen würde und nur diese Dämpfe auf sich wirken ließe, er würde wild durcheinanderrasen haben in sich Denken, Fühlen und Wollen. So setzte der Grieche die Pythia über solche, die Leidenschaften von der Erde aus durch Luzifer und Ahriman in Unordnung bringenden Dämpfe, aber Apollo überleuchtete die Pythia, besiegte die Wildheit der Leidenschaften - und sie wurde zur Weissagerin. In dem Sonnengeist des Apollo empfand der Grieche den Christus des dritten Christus-Ereignisses. Und in dem Verhältnis dazu der die Leidenschaften beherrschenden Stimmung der Pythia, in diesem Schutz, den der Gott Apollo der Pythia angedeihen ließ, in ihm sah der Grieche die Wirkung des dritten Christus-Opfers: die Harmonisierung der in Unordnung kommenden menschlichen Leidenschaften durch das dritte Christus-Ereignis. 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