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What we have acquired from the ancient Saturn evolution can be met with nowhere today in the external world. In primeval ages the Saturn evolution arose and again passed away; it possessed characteristics, forces, which seek in vain if we look around us today. For even if we look out to the stars in cosmic space we do not at first find what prevailed within the old Saturn evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/161/1915-01-10/p003","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"M. 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Das was die alte Saturnentwickelung an uns getan hat, das ist heute nicht mehr irgendwo innerhalb unserer äußeren Welt anzutreffen. Diese alte Saturnentwickelung ist in urferner Vergangenheit einmal heraufgezogen, ist wiederum vergangen, hat Eigentümlichkeiten, Kräfte gehabt, die wir heute, wenn wir um uns herumblicken, zunächst vergeblich suchen. Denn auch, wenn wir zu den Sternen aufschauen in den Weltenraum hinaus, finden wir heute zunächst nicht das, was innerhalb der alten Saturnentwickelung herrschend war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-10/p003"},{"locus":"GA 161/1915-01-10/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Es ist ja, nachdem diese alte Saturnentwickelung abgedämmert war, die Sonnenentwickelung und dann die Mondenentwickelung gekommen. Heute leben wir innerhalb der Erdenentwickelung. Drei Entwickelungsperioden sind vergangen. Das, was ihre Eigentümlichkeiten waren, ist mit vergangen, ist jetzt nicht mehr, ich möchte sagen, inunseremBlickfelde. Nur unter den verborgenen, unter den okkulten Wirkungen, die die Welt durchwallen, können wir das finden, was Eigentümlichkeit der alten Saturnentwickelung war. Wir können noch die Kräfte gewissermaßen entdecken, die dazumal an unserem physischen Leibe gearbeitet haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-10/p004"},{"locus":"GA 161/1915-01-10/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Wenn Sie sich erinnern an das, was in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß» dargestellt ist, so werden Sie wissen, daß damals tätig war ein Zusammenwirken der Geister des Willens und der Geister der Persönlichkeit. Dieses Zusammenwirken ist auch heute noch da, aber, wie gesagt, wir können es nicht im äußeren Blickfelde finden. Wir finden es, wenn wir in das hineinblicken, was wir unser persönliches Schicksal nennen. Unser persönliches Schicksal wird ja so gewoben, daß in den aufeinanderfolgenden Inkarnationen das, was uns trifft, wie Ursache und Wirkung zusammenhängt. Und was da wirksam ist in unserem persönlichen Schicksalsstrom, das sind keine Kräfte, die der äußere Naturwissenschafter untersuchen kann. Denn er wird unter den Kräften, die er auf dem Gebiete der Physik, Chemie, Biologie, Physiologie und so weiter entdeckt, nichts finden, was hervorruft jenen Zusammenhang von Ursache und Wirkung, der in unserem persönlichen Karma zum Ausdruck kommt. Die Gesetze, die da walten, entziehen sich der physikalischen Beobachtung. Aber sie entziehen sich auch der historischen Beobachtung, derjenigen Beobachtung, die die sogenannten Kulturwissenschafter materialistischer Färbung heute pflegen. 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