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Whereas their intention had been to develop man stage by stage, letting him be guided by Angeloi so that by the time of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch he would be ready to develop intellect which would be in unison with speech and language—this aim was thwarted owing to the fact that invisible Beings lived among men.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/162/1915-07-18/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-07-18","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":133,"en_words":108,"ratio":0.81,"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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And so in ancient times there were men who, if they had become what the Spirits of Form had intended, would have been naive, primitive natures—but as things were, Luciferic Angeloi-beings had entered into them, and the result was that they were exceedingly clever, exceedingly astute—to a degree that was not possible in the case of man himself until the fifth or sixth epoch of Earth-evolution. In ancient India there was still some understanding of what the seven Rishis represented; these were men \"illuminated by the Luciferic Angeloi-beings. They were men to whom naive and simple people naturally looked up to as standing at very lofty heights. In that time, and during later times too, these Luciferic Angeloi-beings again and again took possession of men, influencing either individuals or groups, they inculcated into humanity the notion of the \"internationality\" of the world of concepts, of the so-called uniformity of dogma over the whole Earth. 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These Archangeloi—they were no longer to be found in Heaven but on the Earth—were sent out by the highest among them to the different folk-groups. And these folk-groups dragged speech down a stage lower. 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Und das ist wiederum ein Erzengel, welcher seine sieben Glieder während der Mondenentwickelung ausgebildet hat. Aber es sind unter diesen eben solche gewesen, die es sozusagen nur bis zu sechs oder zu fünf Gliedern gebracht haben, die nicht völlig während der Mondenentwickelung ihre sieben Glieder alle entwickelt haben. Daher sind sie nicht fähig geworden, während der Erdenentwickelung als Engel Leiter der einzelnen Menschen, oder als Erzengel Leiter der Gruppen von Menschen zu werden. Diese geistigen Wesenheiten, welche entweder nur ihre sechs oder ihre fünf Teile ausgebildet haben, die sind nun gleichsam die unterste Hierarchie. Es gibt darüberstehende, wenn wir von Ahriman und Luzifer sprechen. Sie sind als die uns zunächststehenden luziferischen und ahrimanischen Wesenheiten anzusehen, sind also solche Wesenheiten, welche gar nicht eingehen konnten in regulärer Weise in die Erdenentwickelung, weil die Erdenentwickelung beherrscht wurde von den Geistern der Form: sie waren aber nicht dazu gekommen den Geistern der Form zu helfen, denn sie standen auf der Engelstufe. Menschen konnten sie auch nicht so ohne weiteres werden. Sie standen also zwischen den regulären Engeln und den Menschen mitten darinnen. So daß wir also folgendes haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p022"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Wir können sagen: Wenn das die Erdenentwickelung darstellt mit dem Menschen unten (siehe Zeichnung), so haben wir darüber die Schöpfer, die Geister der Form, dann die Geister der Persönlichkeit, die Geister aus der Hierarchie der Archangeloi, die Geister aus der Hierarchie der Angeloi. Diese haben also ihre Entwickelung durch ihre sieben beziehungsweise neun Glieder während der Mondenentwickelung durchgemacht; sie haben nicht nötig, in das einzugehen, was die Geister der Form für den Menschen schaffen als irdische Verkörperung; sie gehen nur ein in einen ätherischen Leib - die Engel zum Beispiel -, weil sie ja der nächsten Hierarchie angehören.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p023"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"![162-13](images/162-13.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p024"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Und zwischen drinnen stehen diejenigen Wesenheiten, welche gar nicht sich die Fähigkeit erworben haben, in diesen Evolutionen hier weiterzuschreiten, sondern welche dadurch, daß sie nicht ihre entsprechenden sieben Glieder ausgebildet haben, Wesenheiten sind, die von sich sagen können: Wir sind geschaffen von den Geistern der Bewegung; wir werden regiert von gewissen Geistern der Form, Archai, Archangeloi. - Aber nun waren sie da, und waren für ihre Aufgabe, wie sie ihnen eigentlich zugefallen wäre: mitzuregieren an der fortlaufenden Menschheitsentwickelung und auch an der Entwickelung der anderen Reiche der Erdennatur, sie waren dazu nicht befähigt; das konnten sie nicht mitmachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":98,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p025"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"So gab es also, ich möchte sagen, zwei Klassen - wenn wir zunächst auf die anderen nicht sehen - sowohl von Erzengeln wie von Engeln. Die regulär Entwickelten waren jene, die sich nun einreihten in die Tätigkeit, welche so hätte verlaufen sollen, wie ich sie eben charakterisiert habe zum Beispiel für die Sprache und das Denken. Wäre nur diese Veranlagung der Geister der Bewegung da, so wäre das Sprechen und das Denken in einem solchen Einklange entwickelt worden, wie ich es vorhin charakterisiert habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p026"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Nun entstand etwas, was trivial ausschaut, wenn man es ausspricht, aber es ist nicht so trivial. Es ist eben ein ungeheuer schwerwiegendes, großes, bedeutsames kosmisches Ereignis. Man möchte sagen: es waren jetzt im Geisterland, oder wenn wir im Sinne der Religion sprechen, es waren im Himmel, die regulär entwickelten Erzengel, die regulär entwickelten Engel und dasjenige, was sich als ein nicht fertiges Gezücht ergab. Und da stellt sich dann das heraus, daß die regulär entwickelten Erzengel und Engel diese nicht regulär entwickelten, die bloß ihre sechs oder fünf Glieder entwickelt hatten, herunterwarfen auf die Erde, aus dem Himmel auf die Erde, weil sie dort nicht zu gebrauchen waren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":108,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p027"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Und so mischte sich vom Beginn der Erdenentwickelung an, ich möchte sagen, in die Substantialität der Erdenentwickelung herein ein unsichtbares Reich: das Reich Luzifers und Ahrimans, die herausgestoßen waren aus jenem Reich, von dem aus regelrecht geschaffen und regiert wird fortlaufend der Mensch, Tiere, Pflanzen, Minerale. Heruntergestoßen waren sie, die nicht fertig geworden waren. Sie waren auf der Erde da. Natürlich konnten sie mit Erdensinnen nicht gesehen werden, aber sie waren da. Die regulären Erzengel und Engel waren, wenn wir einen religiösen Ausdruck gebrauchen, im Himmel; aber auf der Erde irrten herum die zurückgebliebenen. Darauf bezieht sich das biblische Wort: «Und ihr Ort ward nicht mehr im Himmel gefunden.» Sie waren heruntergestoßen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p028"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Nun bedenken Sie nur den wahren Sachverhalt, damit Sie über gewisse Dinge sich nicht falschen Vorstellungen hingeben. Da lebten auf der Erde die Menschen, in einer zunächst primitiven Entwickelung, so wie Sie es ja entsprechend in der «Geheimwissenschaft» dargestellt finden. Aber unmittelbar unter den Menschen, um sie herum lebten Wesenheiten - nehmen wir also nur die alleruntersten luziferischen Wesenheiten -, die auf dem Monde zurückgebliebenen Engel, die, statt daß sie nun zu regieren hatten, tatenlos zunächst waren. Aber während der Mensch erst dabei war, nach und nach seine sieben Glieder zu entwickeln, während er erst hoffen konnte, am Ende der Erdenentwickelung das siebente Glied zu entwickeln, oder in einer entsprechend näheren Zeit das sechste oder fünfte Glied, waren diese soweit, daß sie ihr sechstes oder fünftes Glied fertig hatten; nur ihr siebentes hatten sie nicht entwickelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":136,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p029"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Nehmen wir einmal die Sache, wie sie ist. Wir wissen ja, daß wir jetzt gerade daran sind, an der Entwickelung desjenigen zu arbeiten, was wir den Intellekt nennen. Wir leben in der fünften Periode der nachatlantischen Zeit. Ja, die Menschen in der lemurischen Zeit waren weit entfernt davon, dieses Glied ihrer Wesenheit etwa schon entwickelt zu haben, das erst jetzt, in der fünften, in der nachatlantischen Zeit, zum Ausdruck kommt. Was die Wesenheiten, die dazumal herabgestoßene Engel waren, gerade auszeichnet, das ist, daß sie von der Mondenzeit her längst das hatten, was der Mensch erst jetzt entwickelt; sie hatten schon das, was dem Menschen erst zugedacht ist in einer späteren Periode der Erdenentwickelung. Ja, das ist sogar durchaus eine Tatsache, daß lange Zeit, sogar noch in der nachlemurischen, in der atlantischen Zeit, solche unsichtbaren Wesenheiten eine große Rolle spielten, welche damals in hohem Grade das ausgebildet hatten, woran der Mensch in der atlantischen Zeit nicht denken konnte, woran er jetzt erst ist, es auszubilden: nämlich das intellektuelle Element.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p030"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Also hoch entwickelte Intelligenzen, Engelwesen schwebten gleichsam unsichtbar in dieser lemurischen und atlantischen Zeit herum als zurückgebliebene Geister. Hoch entwickelte Geister waren das, ganz außerordentlich hoch entwickelt. Wir können also sagen, wenn wir uns wieder trivial ausdrücken wollen: Es ist durchkreuzt worden die Absicht der Hierarchie der Geister der Form. Während diese Hierarchie sich gesagt hat: Wir entwickeln den Menschen nach und nach und lassen ihn leiten durch Engel, und in der fünften Zeitepoche, da soll er den Intellekt entwickeln, da soll er diesen Intellekt so entwickeln, daß er dann schon reif ist -, während es die Absicht war, es so kommen zu lassen, daß der Einklang von Intellekt und Sprache sich ausgebildet hätte, ist dies, was sonst gekommen wäre, durchkreuzt worden dadurch, daß unsichtbare Wesenheiten mitten drinnen gelebt haben unter den Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p031"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Von diesen unsichtbaren Wesenheiten betrachten wir zunächst die luziferischen Engelwesenheiten. Diese luziferischen Engelwesenheiten haben jetzt etwas getan, was man so bezeichnen kann: sie haben gewissermaßen einzelne Menschen einer früheren Erdenperiode überbefruchtet, sie sind in sie hineingefahren, sie haben sie von sich besessen gemacht. Diese Engelwesenheiten sind ja heruntergestoßen worden auf die Erde. Und so trifft man solche Menschen in alten Zeiten, die, wenn sie geworden wären, wie es ihnen von den Geistern der Form zugedacht war, einfache, ursprüngliche Menschen gewesen wären. So aber fuhren in sie hinein solche Engelwesenheiten. Dadurch wurden sie furchtbar gescheit, klug, wie der Mensch erst in der fünften, oder sogar sechsten Kulturepoche der Erdenentwickelung es werden sollte, und wovon man im alten Indien noch keinen Begriff hatte. Von den sieben Rishis oder Erleuchteten sprechen wir jetzt eigentlich. Das waren also solche besessene, von den luziferischen Engelwesenheiten erleuchtete Menschen. Es waren selbstverständlich solche Menschen, zu denen der naive Mensch hinaufblicken mußte als zu etwas besonders Hohem.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p032"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Diese Wesenheiten brachten, indem sie auch später immer wieder und wieder Menschen von sich besessen machten, entweder auf einzelne Menschen oder Menschengruppen wirkten, diese luziferisch gearteten Engelwesenheiten brachten unter die Menschen das Vorurteil von der Internationalität der Begriffswelt, von der sogenannten über die ganze Erde hinüberreichenden einheitlichen Dogmatik. Wo man an eine solche einheitliche Dogmatik glaubt, wo man glaubt, daß} es möglich sei, nicht in der Mannipgfaltigkeit, sondern in der Einheitlichkeit das Heil zu suchen, da wirken die luziferischen Geister. Sie haben losgerissen die Vorstellungswelt von der Sprachenwelt. Sie haben damit dasjenige heraufbeschworen, was unmöglich gemacht hat, daß die Vorstellungen ihren Sitz richtig in dem gesprochenen Wort drinnen behalten haben. Und so entstand die luziferische Einheitlichkeit, der luziferische Monismus oder das Streben nach dem luziferischen Monismus über die ganze Erde hinüber. Überall, wo Fanatiker auftreten, die da glauben, daß dasjenige, was sie gerade als das Richtige ansehen, nun so schnell als möglich von allen Erdenmenschen geglaubt werden müsse, da sind sie besessen von jenen luziferischen Engeln. Denn nicht darum handelt es sich, daß man von diesem Einheitswahn besessen ist, sondern darum handelt es sich, daß man nach Verständnis der Vielheit, der harmonisch wirkenden Mannigfaltigkeit strebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p033"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Und nun war die Bahn geebnet für andere Geister, nachdem diese luziferisch gestalteten Engelwesenheiten in der Form von besonders erleuchteten Individuen, namentlich innerhalb Indiens zunächst auftraten. Diese auserlesenen Menschen, die das, was der anderen Menschheit überhaupt erst zugedacht war in einer viel späteren Zeit, in ihrem besonders strahlenden Erleuchtetsein früh zeigten, die brachten über die Erde den Wahn von der Einheitlichkeit alles Denkens. Und jetzt war die Bahn geebnet für die anderen, die namentlich aus der Hierarchie der Archangeloi sind, aber solcher Archangeloi, welche während der Mondenentwickelung nicht ihre volle Entwickelung bis zum siebenten Glied erlangten, sondern beim sechsten Glied stehengeblieben sind. Sie wurden nun auch, weil sie nicht zu gebrauchen waren als Lehrer von Menschengruppen, die nach geographisch-klimatisch natürlichen Verhältnissen verteilt waren, hinuntergeworfen und sind nun auch unter den Menschen der Erde mitten drinnen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p034"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Diese Archangeloi, deren Ort nun auch nicht im Himmel zu finden war, sondern auf der Erde - das heißt, im Abgrund, in dem sie umherirrten -, sie wurden nun ausgesandt, von ihren Obersten ausgesandt, hinaus zu den einzelnen Volksgruppen. Und diese rissen nun ihrerseits auch das Sprechen um eine Stufe tiefer herunter. Während die vorhin genannten luziferischen Wesenheiten das Denken abgerissen haben vom Sprechen, ließen diese falsch entwickelten Erzengel die Sprach-Charaktere noch um eine Stufe tiefer hinuntersinken, so daß die Sprachen so geschieden waren, nun, wie sie eben auf der Erde geschieden wurden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p035"},{"locus":"GA 162/1915-07-18/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Diese Wesenheiten, die zurückgebliebene Erzengel sind, und die nun die Lenkung von Menschengruppen auf Erden in dem Sinne betrieben, daß sie die Menschheit spalteten, so daß die Menschen sich hassen, sich absondern, diese Sorte, die hat ahrimanische Natur. Es sind hoch entwickelte Wesenheiten; aber sie sind eben nicht dazu berufen, Völkerschaften zu leiten, aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil Völkerschaften zu leiten nach dem Sinne der Geister der Form die normal entwickelten Erzengel berufen sind, die ihre sieben Glieder ausgebildet haben. Namentlich solche, die nur ihre sechs Glieder ausgebildet haben, sind nun diejenigen, welche sich entgegenstellen den eigentlichen regulären Völkerlenkern. Ahrimanische Wesenheiten - wir haben sie jetzt einmal genauer ins Auge gefaßt -, das sind die Wesenheiten, welche es nun dahin gebracht haben, daß die Sprachen um eine Stufe tiefer noch hinuntergesunken sind, auf eine Stufe, auf der man eben zunächst gar nicht sieht, welche Begriffe, welche Vorstellungen in der Sprache als solcher enthalten sind. Wären nur die luziferischen Engelwesen gekommen, so wäre zwar der Einheitswahn über die Erde gekommen; aber es würden sich die einzelnen Sprachen so entwickelt haben, daß man, wenn man nur in seinem Gemüte den Einheitswahn überwindet, noch empfinden könnte in den verschiedenen Sprachen das, was in ihnen liegt. Aber nachdem einmal die Vorstellungswelt losgerissen war von den luziferischen Engeln, war es dann den ahrimanischen Erzengeln leicht, die Sprache noch um eine Stufe hinunterzutreiben; so daß dann keine Möglichkeit mehr war, die Sprache so zu entwickeln, daß in ihr die Empfindung für die unmittelbare Vorstellung geblieben wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/162/1915-07-18/p036"}],"beads":[{"from":[23],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[23,24,25],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25,26],"to":[26,27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[30],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[30],"to":[31],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[31],"to":[32,33],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[32],"to":[34,35],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[33],"to":[36],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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