{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1914-06-01/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In our senses unselfishness reigns, but they would never have reached this unselfishness if Lucifer, even in the old Lemurian age, had been left to his own devices. 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. In this earlier age, however, He ensouled Himself—I cannot say incarnated—in one of the archangels.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-06-01","location":null,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Four Sacrifices of Christ","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/Singles/19140601p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1914-06-01/p008"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1914-06-01/p008","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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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. 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