{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-29/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This can only be understood by an examination into the secrets of existence. Development is only possible through differentiation, through organisation; and if all men had wished to arrive at the degree of wisdom reached in the Brahmin caste not a single one would have been able to achieve it. If all human beings do not attain to the highest wisdom, one may not say that it is a contradiction of the Divine regulation of the world, for this would have no more sense than if someone were to demand of the infinitely wise and infinitely mighty Deity that He should make a triangle with four angles. No god could make a triangle other than with three angles. That which is ordered and determined inwardly in spirit must also be observed by the divine regulation of the world, and just as the laws concerning the limits of space are strict, for example, that a triangle can only have three angles, so also if is a strict law that development must come about through differentiation, that certain groups of people must be separated in order that a particular quality of human nature can be developed. To this end the others must be excluded for a time. This is not only a law for development of mankind, it is a law for the whole of evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Moral Impulses: From Atlantean Fall to Francis of Assisi","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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Und wenn zu jener Ausbildung von Weisheit, zu welcher es gekommen war in der Kaste der Brahminen, hätten alle Menschen kommen wollen, dann hätte gar keiner dazu kommen können. Man darf nämlich nicht sagen: Es widerspricht der göttlichen Weltenordnung, der göttlichen Weltenlenkung, daß nicht alle Menschen in gleicher Weise zur höchsten Weisheit gelangen, denn das würde nicht mehr Sinn haben, als wenn jemand fordern würde von der unendlich weisen und unendlich mächtigen Gottheit, daß sie ein Dreieck aus vier Ecken bilde. Keine Gottheit könnte ein Dreieck anders als aus drei Ecken machen. Das, was innerlich, was im Geiste geordnet und bestimmt ist, das muß eingehalten werden auch von der göttlichen Weltenregelung, und ein ebenso strenges Gesetz der Entwickelung, wie es das Gesetz für die Raumesgrenzen ist, nämlich, daß ein Dreieck nur drei Ecken haben kann, ist es, daß die Entwickelung durch Differenzierung geschehen muß, daß gewisse Gruppen von den Menschen abgesondert werden müssen, damit eine besondere Eigenschaft der menschlichen Entwickelung Platz greifen kann. Da müssen zunächst für eine gewisse Zeit die anderen Menschen ausgeschlossen sein. Das ist nicht nur ein Gesetz für die Entwickelung des Menschen im großen, sondern das ist ein Gesetz für die Entwickelung überhaupt. Betrachten Sie die menschliche Gestalt. Sie werden ohne weiteres sich gestehen, daß die vorzüglichsten, die am meisten schätzbaren Teile an der menschlichen Gestalt die Kopfknochen sind. Aber wodurch konnten die Kopfknochen nur Kopfknochen und die Umhüller des edlen Organes des Gehirns werden? Der Anlage nach kann jeder Knochen, den der Mensch an sich hat, Kopfknochen werden. Damit einige Knochen von dem gesamten Knochensystem diese Höhe der Entwickelung durchmachen können, Vorder- oder Hinterhaupthülle zu sein, mußten die Hüftknochen oder die Gelenkknochen zurückbleiben auf einer untergeordneten Stufe der Entwickelung, denn jeder Hüftknochen oder Gelenkknochen hat in sich die Anlage, geradeso Kopfknochen zu werden, wie diejenigen, die es geworden sind. So ist es überhaupt in der Welt: nur dadurch, daß das eine zurückbleibt, das andere vorrückt und sogar über einen gewissen Punkt der Entwickelung hinausrückt, ist eine Fortentwickelung möglich. 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