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The luciferic and ahrimanic powers are working in this fifth post-Atlantean age to disturb these forces in the human soul, to employ them to a wrong end, thus bringing men's souls out of the earth sphere to establish a new sphere of their own. Many things must work together to disturb the right, quiet and slow unfolding of these forces. Note well that I say the quiet and slow unfolding because the entire period of 2,160 years, starting in 1413 A.D., should be used for the gradual unfoldment of the forces I have named, that is, free imaginations and the gradual development of working with primal phenomena. At intervals—by fits and starts, as it were—the luciferic and ahrimanic powers throw the whole weight of their opposition against this right evolution. 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These the priest communicated to a young man of remarkable energy and strength who, by virtue of this authority, received the name “The Great Ruler of the Earth” from his community. This was Genghis Khan. The Great Spirit, through his follower and through that priest, gave to Genghis Khan the command to summon all the powers of Asia to spread the influence that would lead the fifth post-Atlantean age back into a luciferic form. These forces—and they were far more powerful than the forces established in Greek culture—were all employed to this end. Free imaginations were to be changed into old, visionary imaginations. 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It would cut it off from the conditions of its further evolution and lead it altogether away from the earth, just as the East has experienced again and again this feeling of being filled with vision and of wanting to be estranged from the earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-09-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":156,"en_words":440,"ratio":2.82,"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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An opposite trend had to be created as a counterforce that moves in the direction of the normal evolution of mankind. The influence of Genghis Khan's priest was intended to bring about a kind of buoyancy and lightness in the human race that would draw man away from the earth. Over against this, a corresponding heaviness had to come to man from the weight of the earth; this was provided through the discovery of the western world. America, with all that it holds, was discovered and thereby earth heaviness, the desire to remain on earth, was given to man. The discovery of America and everything connected with it, and the way man carried his life into the many new places of the earth, all this, when seen in wider connections, shows itself as a counterbalancing force to the activity of Genghis Khan. America had to be discovered so that man might be brought to grow closer to the earth, to grow more and more materialistic. 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We must learn to recognize these ahrimanic forces.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-09-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":156,"en_words":440,"ratio":2.82,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. 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But you need only study how Spain, strictly Roman Catholic as it was, was fascinated by all the treasures of gold that were discovered in America. What a hold it had upon her! You can observe how strong the specter-like working of the old Romanism still was in such a ruler as Ferdinand of Castile or Charles V, the ruler of the kingdom over which the “sun never set.” Study the reaction of Europe to the gradual discovery and opening up of America and you will see what temptations came from that direction. Taken all in all, it is a history of temptation woven in with a history that runs a normal course.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-09-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p025"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":386,"en_words":296,"ratio":0.77,"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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In reality, I have said the very opposite. I have said that America had to be discovered and that the entire event was necessary to the progress of the world. Ahrimanic forces entered, however, and set themselves in violent opposition to what was happening quite rightly in the normal course of progress. Things are not so simple that we can say, “There is Lucifer, and there is Ahriman; they act and behave in such and such a way, and divide the world between them.” Things are by no means so simple as that.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-09-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p025"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":386,"en_words":296,"ratio":0.77,"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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You have a true picture of Machiavelli when you study the history of his time and see him, not as a single personality, but as the outstanding expression of many who think in the same way. In him you can observe these forces trying to charge forward with all speed, bringing to their assistance the atavistic—and thus luciferic—forces that have been left behind. Had things gone as Machiavelli intended, all of Europe would have become nothing but a political machine. Opposing the violent onslaught of such forces are the forces that work in the normal direction. Over against a figure like Machiavelli, who was purely political and turned all man's thought into political thinking, we can place another great figure, Thomas à Kempis, who was also Machiavelli's contemporary. He stands entirely within the slow and gradual evolution, working slowly and gradually. He was anything but a man of politics.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-17/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-09-17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":257,"en_words":476,"ratio":1.85,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. 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Diese Kräfte sollen über die Menschenseele kommen im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum; aber sie sollen ergriffen werden im reinen geistigen Inneren. Sie sollen nicht irgendwelche irrtümliche Wege nehmen. Ungefähr so über diese Kräfte im 17. Jahrhundert müßte man reden, wie Jakob Böhme redet, dann redete man als ein ganz nur der göttlichen allgemeinen Gerechtigkeit hingegebener Mann von diesen Kräften. Daß weder die eine Art von Kräften, das reine Anschauen der Urphänomene, noch die andere Art von Kräften, die Entwickelung der freien Imaginationen, die nicht in Visionen bestehen, sondern die eben freie Imaginationen sind, aufkommen, daß diese Kräfte in der Menschenseele möglichst gestört werden, möglichst dazu verwendet werden, um nun wiederum die Menschheit als Seele hinauszubringen aus dem Erdenplan und mit ihnen einen besonderen Plan zu begründen, das ist nun die Wirkensart der luziferischen und ahrimanischen Mächte in dem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p019"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Vieles muß ja zusammenwirken, damit die richtige Entfaltung, die ruhige und langsame Entfaltung gestört werde. Hören Sie wohl: ich sage nicht nur die ruhige, sondern die ruhige und langsame Entfaltung, denn es soll ja der ganze Zeitraum von 1413 an durch 2160 Jahre ungefähr dazu verwendet werden, um diese Kräfte, die ich angeführt habe, freie Imaginationen und Urphänomene beziehungsweise urphänomenale Arbeit, nach und nach zu entwickeln. Stoßweise, mit allen möglichen widerstrebenden Kräften, wirken nun die luziferischen und ahrimanischen Mächte dagegen. Wenn wir nur ins Auge fassen wollen, daß das, was geschieht, immer lange vorbereitet wird von der außerirdischen Welt, dann wird es uns nicht unverständlich sein, daß Vorbereitungen getroffen worden sind, um recht, recht starke Gegenwirkungen gegen die normale Evolution der Menschheit zu bewirken. Wir haben ja gesehen, daß schon ins Griechentum und Römertum die luziferischen und ahrimanischen Mächte das hineingegossen haben, was sie in der atlantischen Zeit entwickelt haben. In einer veränderten Form versuchten sie nun diese Anstrengungen zu wiederholen schon vor dem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum für diesen fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum. Sie werden es also jetzt nicht unbegreiflich finden, wenn ich sage, daß notwendig war ein starker Anstoß mit Nachwirkungen, luziferisch-ahrimanischen Nachwirkungen der Atlantis auch für diesen fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum. Wir wissen ja, daß die atlantischen Wirkungen ausgestrahlt sind von dem, was ja Plato bereits kennt als die Atlantis. Wir wollen es einmal schematisch so machen, daß wir etwa die Atlantis uns hier denken (siehe Zeichnung); dann würde hier das europäische, asiatische Gebiet sein, und hier würde das amerikanische Gebiet sein. Davon strahlten also aus die alten arlantischen Kräfte, auch die alten atlantischen luziferischen und ahrimanischen Kräfte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p020"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"![171-01](images/171-01.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p021"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Nun wurde von diesen etwas zurückbehalten, um als luziferische und ahrimanische Mächte zu wirken im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum, und zwar auch von den guten Kräften etwas zurückbehalten, von den in der atlantischen Zeit berechtigten Kräften etwas zurückbehalten, was jetzt auch luziferisch und ahrimanisch ist. Nur wurde der Mittelpunkt nach einem anderen Punkte der Erde verlegt. Die Atlantis ist ja fort. Der Mittelpunkt wurde nach Asien hinüber verlegt, so daß Sie also sich vorstellen würden auf der abgekehrten Seite desjenigen, was ich da schematisch gezeichnet habe, in Asien drüben, von da ausstrahlend Nachwirkungen der alten atlantischen Kultur als Vorbereitung für den fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum, ihn zu luziferisieren und zu ahrimanisieren. Es waren im wesentlichen Nachkommen der alten atlantischen Lehrer, welche nun wirkten von einem Punkt in Asien drüben. Ein Priester war dazu erzogen worden, das, was man in der alten Atlantis gesehen hat, nachträglich zu schauen, zu schauen das, was der Atlantier nannte den Großen Geist, und von diesem Großen Geist Aufträge zu empfangen. Und diese Aufträge teilte der mit diesen Aufträgen initiierte Priester einem jungen, außerordentlich starken, tatkräftigen, tüchtigen Menschen mit, der durch diese Aufträge dann innerhalb seiner Gemeinschaft den Namen «Der große Beherrscher der Erde» erhielt, Dschingis-Khan. Und der Große Geist hatte durch seinen Nachfolger, auf dem Umwege durch diesen Priester, an Dschingis-Khan den Auftrag gegeben, alles, was aufzubringen war an Mächten in Asien, dazu zu verwenden, um auszubreiten das, was den fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum zurückführen konnte in eine luziferische Gestaltung. Diese starken Kräfte, die noch viel stärker waren als die im Griechentum einsetzenden, die wurden aufgewendet von dieser Seite her. Von dieser Seite her sollten alle freien Imaginationen verwandelt werden in alte Imaginationen, in visionäre Imaginationen. Es sollte in der stärksten Weise gearbeitet werden, die Seele des Menschen ganz einzulullen in dämmerndes Erleben der Imaginationen, nicht in freies, von der Vernunft durchtränktes Erleben der Imaginationen. Die Absicht bestand, mit den besonderen Kräften, die da aus der Atlantis herein erhalten waren, so nach dem Westen zu wirken, daß die Kultur des Westens eine visionäre Kultur geworden wäre. Dann hätte man die Seelen abtrennen und einen besonderen Kontinent, einen besonderen planetarischen Körper mit ihnen bilden können. Alle Unruhen, welche durch die Mongolenstürme und alles das, was damit zusammenhängt, in die Entwickelung der neueren Menschheit gekommen sind und was fortgewirkt hat im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum, nachdem sie vorbereitet waren schon früher, alle diese Unruhen bedeuten den großen, von Asien ausgegangenen Versuch, die europäische Kultur zu «vervisionieren», um sie abzutrennen von den Bedingungen der fortlaufenden Evolution, um sie gewissermaßen hinwegzuführen von der Erde. Der Osten empfand sehr wohl immer wieder und wiederum dieses Durchvisionieren, dieses Entfremdenwollen von der Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":437,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p022"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"![171-02](images/171-02.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p023"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Dem mußte ein Gegengewicht geschaffen werden. Und dieses Gegengewicht war zunächst eines, das in die normale Entwickelung der Menschheit gehört. Es mußte also gegenüber dem, was unter dem Einflusse des Priesters des Dschingis-Khan hat bewirkt werden sollen, die «Erleichterung» des Menschengeschlechts, um es hinwegzuführen von der Erde, es mußte ein Erdenschwere-Gegengewicht geschaffen werden. Und dieses wurde dadurch geschaffen, daß die westliche Welt, daß Amerika gefunden wurde mit all dem, was Amerika barg, und dadurch Erdenschwere, Lust, auf der Erde zu bleiben, für die Menschen geschaffen worden war. Die Entdeckung Amerikas und alles, was damit zusammenhängt, überhaupt das Sich-Hineinleben in die materiellen Schauplätze der Erde, das bedeutete, von großen Gesichtspunkten aus gesehen, das Gegengewicht gegen die Tätigkeit des Dschingis-Khan. Amerika sollte entdeckt werden, um die Menschen dahin zu bringen, mit der Erde mehr zusammenzuwachsen, materieller und materieller zu werden, damit sie Schwere habe, ein Gegengewicht gegen die Spiritualisierung, die durch die Nachkommen des Großen Geistes angestrebt war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p024"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Aber auf der anderen Seite setzten gleichzeitig mit diesem normalen Prozeß des Ausdehnens des Menschheitsschauplatzes über Amerika wiederum die anderen, die ahrimanischen Mächte des Großen Geistes ein. Ein Zug ging von dort herüber nach Europa, der andere aber von Asien nach der anderen Seite herüber und durchsetzte Amerika, so daß durch das Entdecken Amerikas sich nicht nur die normalen Kräfte entwickelten, sondern von dort her zugleich starke ahrimanische Anstürme kamen, die zunächst noch schwach einsetzten - sie werden schon weiter einsetzen, sie müssen nur erkannt werden -, in der Form, daß gerade die Evolution, welche das Römertum in der Kirche und im kirchlichen Staate erreicht hatte, von diesem ahrimanischen Einsatz erfaßt wurde. Während es verhältnismäßig leicht zu sagen ist, wie der luziferische Einfluß über dem Dschingis-Khan gewirkt hat, indem man eben ganz genau weiß, daß ein Priester initiiert worden ist von dem Nachkommen des Großen Geistes, ist es viel schwerer zu sagen, weil es in Einzelheiten zerfällt, wie der ahrimanische Geist von der anderen Seite wirkte. Aber Sie brauchen nur zu studieren, wie ergriffen wird das katholische, das streng katholische Spanien von all den Goldschätzen, die in Amerika gefunden werden, von all dem, was damit verbunden ist. Studieren Sie gerade jene merkwürdige Nachwirkung, die das alte Römertum als Gespenst in einem solchen Herrscher hat wie in Ferdinand dem Katholischen von Kastilien, oder in Karl V., insofern er Herrscher ist in einem Reich, in dem die Sonne nicht untergeht: Immer wiederum neue Versuche dieses Ausbreitens! Studieren Sie die Beziehungen Europas zu dem aufblühenden, nach und nach entdeckt werdenden Amerika, dann werden Sie sehen, wie von da die Versuchungen kommen. Es ist im ganzen eine Versuchungsgeschichte, zugleich hineinverwoben in eine Geschichte, die in normalen Bahnen verläuft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p025"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Ich bitte Sie nur, durchaus nicht zu erzählen, daß ich heute etwa die Entdeckung Amerikas als eine ahrimanische Tat hingestellt habe, sondern ich habe das Gegenteil davon gesagt. Ich sagte, daß Amerika entdeckt werden mußte, gefunden werden mußte, daß das ganze notwendig war im fortschreitenden Weltengang, nur daß sich hineingemischt haben ahrimanische Kräfte, die Anstürme sind gegen das, was im fortschreitenden Weltengang geschehen sollte. Die Dinge sind nicht so einfach in der Wirklichkeit, daß man sagen kann: Da ist Luzifer, da ist Ahriman, und so verhalten sich Luzifer und Ahriman, und so verteilen sie die Welt. So verhalten sich die Dinge nicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p026"},{"locus":"GA 171/1916-09-17/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"So also sehen wir das Zusammenwirken vieler Kräfte, die wir versuchten zu belauschen auf ihrem Felde hinter dem physischen Plan. Alle diese Kräfte bemächtigten sich wieder anderer. Sie suchen sich dessen, was hereinragt an Menschenkräften aus dem vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraum, zu bemächtigen und es in ihrer Art zu verzerren, es in ihren Dienst zu stellen. Sie brauchen nur zu studieren eine solche Begleiterscheinung der Renaissance, wie es Machiavelli ist, dann werden Sie ein menschliches persönliches Symbolum finden für diese ganze Art, die da beginnt, die Politisierung des Gedankenlebens. Machiavelli ist geradezu ein Ausdruck, eine Offenbarung dieser Politisierung des Gedankenlebens, ein großer, gewaltiger Geist, aber ein Geist, der unter dem Ansturm der Mächte, von denen ich gesprochen habe, ganz die Gesinnungen erneuert, die aus dem heidnischen antiken Römertum kommen. Wenn wir wirklich die Geschichte studieren, wie Machiavelli nicht eine einzelne Persönlichkeit, ein einzelner Mensch ist, sondern nur der besonders signifikante Ausdruck für viele so Denkende, dann sehen wir die Dinge recht. Da sehen wir das, was schnell vorwärtsstürmen, was mit den hinterlassenen atavistischen Kräften, also luziferischen Kräften, schnell vorwärtsstürmen will. Wäre es nach Machiavellis Sinn gegangen, so wäre schon ganz Europa verpolitisiert. Solchen Kräften, die wie im Sturm wirken, wirken dann die normal wirkenden entgegen. Einer solchen rein politischen und alles menschliche Denken zum Politischen machenden Figur, wie es der Machiavelli ist, können wir eine Persönlichkeit, die fast Zeitgenosse war, gegenüberstellen: den Thomas a Kempis, der ganz in der langsamen, allmählichen Entwickelung drinnensteht und der ein ganz und gar nicht politischer Geist ist, der langsam und allmählich wirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/171/1916-09-17/p027"}],"beads":[{"from":[24,25,26],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[27,28],"to":[20,21],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[29,30],"to":[22,23],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[31,32,33],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[34,35],"to":[25,26],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[36,37,38],"to":[27],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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