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We have no more than when we talk about the human soul, which can only be present between birth and death because it develops out of something material, namely in our body. In the same way, the archangel, in guiding a people, is bound to the external material. The bridge between the purely spiritual nature of the archangel and the nature of the people is a material one, even if it is not as clearly defined and sharply contoured as our body. We ask, for example: What about the people who inhabit the Apennine Peninsula, what about the people who used to be Romans and are now Italians of Germanic origin? For basically, the majority of the inhabitants of today are only transformed Germanic peoples, but they get their configuration, their national determination, from something else, from the fact that in their breathing process, into the air of their breathing process, the archangel enters, not in the sense of incarnation, but in the sense of, well, let us say, permeation. And by breathing with the air, the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula are connected with their archangel. And anyone who really wants to study in order to recognize something of what is actually at work there must study the peculiar connection between the inhabitants of this peninsula (and also of the Iberian Peninsula, although to a lesser extent) and breathing, with the air. 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Through true spiritual science one can understand the process in all its concreteness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":110,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19180502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man has an inordinate fear of the truth because, of course, uncomfortable things come out through the truth. But as soon as the truth is taken seriously, it is necessary not to shy away from this discomfort.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19180502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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In America it is still different.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19180502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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It is just that today we do not seek this confirmation. In earlier years, I once pointed out that the development of the consciousness soul, which particularly emphasizes the egoism of man, is outwardly and materially increased by sugar. At the time, I pointed out how infinitely greater the consumption of sugar is in the British Isles than, for example, among the self-denying Russian people, where the consumption of sugar is infinitely lower. But if one describes how the consciousness soul only comes into being and develops from the 15th century onwards, one only has to look at the history of sugar production: it only begins in the 15th century. Where, then, does our sugar production actually come from? It is only in the 15th century that people begin to depend on sugar. Everything that is really evoked from the spiritual worlds in spiritual science is fully confirmed precisely when it develops so strongly in the spiritual that it can be submerged in the material, where it lives and must therefore be recognized. As soon as one crosses over to America, one finds not only externally that the Europeans who come to America gradually develop different arms and hands: the formation of arms and hands approaches that of the ancient Indians, the ancient Indian people who have been exterminated in America. And this also applies to the configuration of the facial features, even if it occurs only very gradually and only in the third or fourth generation. Of course, we should not imagine that a staid British philistine can suddenly become an Indian in the third or fourth generation, but it only shows in the finer facial features; but it does emerge. We must face these things squarely, for only by doing so will it be possible, through knowledge, to develop true love across the earth. Love can only be developed by truly empathizing with other people. But to do that, it is necessary to get to know them. The folk spirit works on the American people through the undergrounds of the earth, through the magnetic and electrical forces slumbering in the earth. It is the underground that radiates up and that in America provides the medium through which the national spirit directs the people.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":388,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p032","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19180502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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We still have the opportunity - if we are not Fritz Mauthner - to feel something of the after-effect, I would say, of being warmed through, in the element of language. If you are not abandoned by all the good spirits of language, you are able, for example, in German, to feel your way into the language, not just to stop at the abstract element, but to feel your way into the spirit of the language, because warmth is physically related to the soul in warmth. Nothing is more physically akin to the soul than soul warmth and soul coldness are to physical warmth and physical coldness. That which lives in the sentient soul is already much more foreign to the air; that which lives in the intellectual or mind soul is much more foreign to the element of water, and even that which lives in the consciousness soul is foreign to beefsteak, that is, to the earth. And what is expressed in the human soul is terribly foreign to the magnetic and electrical forces that radiate from the underground into the human development of the American character. That is why there is so much in the American national character that appears as if the American is obsessed by what he does, in contrast to the Central European, who must be with the soul in everything he does, and who can therefore also develop mystical warmth, while the American can so easily develop a spiritualist attitude, can be obsessed by some spiritual thing, just as one can become obsessed by something that no longer flows directly into people, like air, water, earth, but only works up from the earth's underworld to form the structures of a people.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":423,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p033","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Central Europe Between East and West","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174a/English/SOL2024/19180502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Sie wissen: Die führenden Wesenheiten aus den höheren Hierarchien gegenüber den Völkern - Sie wissen das aus dem Zyklus über die Völkerseelen — sind die Wesen der Erzengelhierarchie, die Archangeloi. Aber wie wirken sie? Damit ist natürlich zunächst nur die Abstraktion gesagt, daß man irgendeinen Erzengel als den Dirigenten dieses oder jenes Volkes ansieht. Da hat man nicht mehr, als wenn man von der menschlichen Seele redet, die zwischen Geburt und Tod nur dadurch da sein kann, daß sie an einem Materiellen, nämlich in unserem Leib sich herausentwickelt. So ist auch der Erzengel, indem er ein Volk leitet, an das äußere Materielle gebunden. Die Brücke zwischen dem rein geistigen Wesen des Erzengels und dem Volkswesen ist eine materielle, wenn auch nicht eine so festumrissene, scharf konturierte wie unser Leib. Wir fragen zum Beispiel: Wie ist das bei dem Volk, das die apenninische Halbinsel bewohnt, wie ist das bei dem Volk, das früher die Römer waren, das heute die italienisch gewordenen Germanen sind? Denn im Grunde genommen ist dort die Mehrzahl der Bewohner von heute nur umgewandeltes Germanenvolk, aber ihre Konfiguration, ihre Volksbestimmtheit bekommen sie durch etwas anderes, bekommen sie dadurch, daß in ihrem Atmungsprozeß, in die Luft ihres Atmungsprozesses, der Erzengel sich hinein, man kann nicht sagen, inkarniert, aber sich hinein, nun, sagen wir, verluftet. Und indem sie mit der Luft atmen, stehen die Bewohner der italienischen Halbinsel mit ihrem Erzengel in Verbindung. Und wer richtig studieren will, so daß er wirklich etwas erkennt von dem, was da eigentlich wirkt, der muß den eigentümlichen Zusammenhang der Bewohner dieser Halbinsel — auch der spanischen Halbinsel, aber da schon weniger — mit der Atmung, mit der Luft studieren. Er muß wissen, wie die Luft und der besondere Atmungsprozeß sich hineinleben in das menschliche Innenwesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p028"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Anders ist das bei denjenigen, die das heutige Frankreich bevölkern. Da schlägt der Erzengel eine andere Brücke, da wirkt er auf den Menschen durch alles dasjenige, was in des Menschen Naturentwickelung flüssig ist. Die Franzosen trinken vielfach ihren Volkscharakter mit ihren Weinen, aber auch noch mit anderem, was in dem Organismus als flüssiges Element figuriert. Sie sehen, auf diesem Wege kommt man nicht bloß zu abstrakten Schilderungen des Zusammenhanges der geistigen Welt mit der physischen. Es ist da ein Schildern, das gleichsam den Erzengel nur andeutet, und unten wimmeln die Völker, die Menschen, und der Erzengel führt die Menschen. Durch wahre Geisteswissenschaft kann man den Prozeß in seiner ganzen Konkretheit begreifen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":111,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p029"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Die Bewohner der britischen Insel, sie empfangen mit dem im Leibe sich entwickelnden Festen dasjenige, was ihnen der Erzengel zu geben hat. Sie nehmen es auf, indem sich die festen Bestandteile in ihrem Leibe bilden, mit der festen Organisation. Es ist natürlich nur auf einem Gebiet, wo es sich radikal ausdrückt, aber es ist trotzdem nicht bloß eine bissige Wahrheit, sondern eine geist&swissenschaftliche Wahrheit: Indem der Engländer sein Beefsteak ißt, wirkt der Erzengel an ihm. Natürlich kann das nicht - denn die einzelne Individualität sondert sich davon aus - in chauvinistischem Sinn ausgedeutet werden. Der Mensch gehört ja nur mit einem Teil seines Wesens dieser Sache an, aber insofern der Mensch dem Volk angehört, ist das in ihm wirksam. Man lernt sich über die Erde nur dadurch auskennen, daß man sich in der Zukunft nicht scheuen wird, auf diese Dinge einzugehen. Der Mensch hat eine heillose Angst vor der Wahrheit, weil durch die Wahrheit natürlich unbequeme Sachen herauskommen. Aber sobald Ernst gemacht wird mit der Wahrheit, ist es notwendig, daß man vor dieser Unbequemlichkeit nicht zurückschreckt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p030"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Gehen wir hinüber nach Amerika: schon äußerlich, in der äußerlichen Konfiguration, zeigt sich ja da, wie abhängig die Menschen werden von dem, was aus dem Boden ausstrahlt! In Italien aus der Luft, in Frankreich aus dem Wasser, in England aus dem, was bestimmt ist, als feste Ingredienzien in den Leib hineinzugehen, oder in ihm fest zu werden. In Amerika ist das noch anders.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p031"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Sie werden überhaupt sehen, daß die geisteswissenschaftlichen Wahrheiten, an der Wirklichkeit gemessen, überall ihre Bestätigung finden. Man sucht nur heute diese Bestätigung noch nicht. Ich habe in früheren Jahren einmal angeführt, daß die Entwickelung der Bewußtseinsseele, die die Egoität des Menschen besonders heraushebt, äußerlich materiell durch den Zucker gehoben wird. Ich habe damals darauf hingewiesen, wie unendlich größer der Zuckergenuß auf den britischen Inseln ist als zum Beispiel bei dem selbstlosen russischen Volk, wo der Zuckergenuß unendlich viel geringer ist. Aber wenn man schildert, daß erst mit dem 15. Jahrhundert die Bewußtseinsseele heraufkommt, um sich zu entwickeln, so sehe man nur in der Geschichte der Zuckerproduktion nach: Sie beginnt erst mit dem 15. Jahrhundert. Woher stammt denn eigentlich unsere Zuckerproduktion? Die Menschen fangen erst mit dem 15. Jahrhundert an, auf den Zucker angewiesen zu werden. Alles, was geisteswissenschaftlich wirklich aus den geistigen Welten hervorgerufen wird, wird voll bekräftigt gerade dann, wenn es so stark geistig sich entwickelt, daß es untertauchen kann in das Materielle, wo es lebt und deshalb erkannt werden muß. Sobald man hinübergeht nach Amerika, findet man nicht bloß äußerlich, daß die Europäer, die nach Amerika hinüberkommen, nach und nach andere Arme und Hände bekommen: es nähert sich die Arm- und Handbildung derjenigen der alten Indianer an, des alten Indianervolks, das in Amerika ausgerottet worden ist. Und das gilt auch von der Konfiguration der Gesichtsbildung, wenn es auch leise und erst in der dritten, vierten Generation auftritt, und natürlich darf man sich das nicht so vorstellen, daß da in der dritten, vierten Generation ein biederer britischer Spießer nun gleich ein Indianer werden könnte, sondern es zeigt sich nur in den feineren Gesichtszügen; aber es tritt schon hervor. Diesen Dingen muß man ins Gesicht sehen, denn nur dadurch wird es möglich sein, durch die Erkenntnis richtige Liebe über die Erde hin zu entwickeln. Liebe läßt sich nur dadurch entwickeln, daß man sich wirklich in die anderen Menschen hineinfindet. Dazu ist aber notwendig, daß man sie kennenlernt. Der Volksgeist wirkt auf das amerikanische Volk durch die Untergründe von der Erde herauf, durch die in der Erde schlummernden magnetischen und elektrischen Kräfte. Das Unterirdische ist es, das da heraufstrahlt und das da in Amerika das Medium abgibt, durch das der Volksgeist das Volk dirigiert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":373,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p032"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Und gehen wir nach Mitteleuropa; da ist es gut, die Menschen selbst nachdenken zu lassen. Aber einiges kann doch gesagt werden: Da ist eigentlich etwas stark Labiles, etwas sehr stark Intimes, was mit der materiellen Ausgestaltung des Volksgeistes, mit der materiellen Auswirkung des Volksgeistes zusammenhängt. Da ist es im wesentlichen die Wirkung von Wärme auf Wärme. Die Wärmedifferenzen, die auftreten zwischen äußerem Warmsein und innerem Warmsein, Wärme des Winters, des Frühlings, des Sommers, kurz alles, was sich in den Wärmeverhältnissen ausdrückt, das ist das Medium, durch das der Volksgeist in Mitteleuropa wirkt. Alles das, was ausden Wärmeverhältnissen heraus auf die Blutzirkulation und die Atmung wirkt, das ist der Umweg, durch den der Volksgeist hier wirkt. Sie können das auch im Seelischen verfolgen. Wir haben noch die Möglichkeit — wenn wir nicht gerade Fritz Mauthner sind -, im Element der Sprache etwas von der Nachwirkung, ich möchte sagen, des Durchwärmtseins zu fühlen. Wenn man nicht von allen guten Geistern der Sprache verlassen ist, so ist man soch im Deutschen zum Beispiel imstande, in die Sprache sich hineinzufühlen, nicht bloß beim abstrakten Element stehenzubleiben, sondern sich hineinzufühlen in den Geist der Sprache, weil Wärme in Wärme physisch verwandt dem Seelischen ist. Nichts ist physisch so verwandt mit dem Seelischen als die Seelenwärme und Seelenkälte mit der physischen Wärme und physischen Kälte. Dasjenige, was in der Empfindungsseele lebt, ist schon viel fremder der Luft; dasjenige, was in der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele lebt, ist viel fremder dem Element des Wassers, und gar dasjenige, was in der Bewußtseinsseele lebt, ist fremd dem Beefsteak, will sagen der Erde. Und gar furchtbar fremd ist, was in der menschlichen Seele zum Ausdruck kommt, demjenigen, was an magnetischen und elektrischen Kräften vom Unterirdischen hereinstrahlt in die menschliche Entwickelung im amerikanischen Volkscharakter. Daher ist so vieles da, was im amerikanischen Volkscharakter so aussieht, als ob der Amerikaner von dem, was er treibt, besessen ist, im Gegensatz zum Mitteleuropäer, der bei allem, was er treibt, mit dem Seelischen dabei sein muß, der daher auch mystische Wärme entwickeln kann, während der Amerikaner so leicht spiritistische Gesinnung entwickeln, besessen sein kann von irgendeinem Geistigen, wie man auch besessen wird von dem, was nicht mehr unmittelbar in den Menschen hereinströmt, wie Luft, Wasser, Erde, sondern nur vom Unterirdischen der Erde aus heraufwirkt, um die Volksstrukturen zu bilden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":383,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p033"},{"locus":"GA 174a/1918-05-02/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Im russischen Volkscharakter, in dem, was sich im Osten vorbereitet - wir werden über solche Dinge noch übermorgen weiterreden —, da wirkt der Volksgeist, der aber erst berufen ist in der Zukunft, durch sein Volk eine besondere Rolle zu spielen, da wirkt der Volksgeist durch das Licht, und zwar so durch das Licht, daß er nicht durch das unmittelbar von der Sonne herstrahlende Licht wirkt, sondern durch das Licht, das sich erst einsaugt in die Vegetation und in die Erde selbst und wieder zurückstrahlt. Die von der Erde, namentlich von der Vegetation zurückgestrahlte Sonnenkraft, die vom Boden aus wirkende Sonnenkraft ist dasjenige, was der russische Volksgeist benützt als sein Medium, um die Volksstruktur, die Volksorganisation zu bewirken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174a/1918-05-02/p034"}],"beads":[{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[31],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[32],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[33],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[34],"to":[34],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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