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And just as we humans must take our iron and our wood from the subordinate realms, that is, first from the mineral and then from the vegetable kingdom, in order to construct our machines, so the angels, archangels and archai also need materials to build, let us say, what they are to build, although the expression is of course very crude. And what are their materials? For much of what the angels, archangels and archai have to accomplish in the spiritual world, the materials are precisely the thoughts that people consider their own. And it is true: while we go through the world and harbor our thoughts, look at our thought life from within, as it were, and consider it our own, work on our thoughts without knowing it, the angels, archangels and archai are at work. We are aware of only the very least that lives in our thoughts, for thoughts signify much more than what comes to our consciousness, much more than what lives in our souls. While we think and remember our thoughts, the beings of the higher hierarchy, the next hierarchy, work from the outside in, so to speak, in accordance with the way they can use our thoughts. So you should imagine that only one side of the thought life of every human being takes place in their consciousness. While they are thinking, the beings of the hierarchies mentioned are constantly surrounding them and working with the help of their thoughts. These are their materials. And what they work with in this way is part of what is needed so that Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan can one day emerge from the earth. This is part of what brings about progress in the evolution of the universe. And our whole life until death is spent working on thoughts, insofar as they are, as it were, embraced by our being, from the outside in by the beings of the higher hierarchy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":422,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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What they can acquire by putting together the individual etheric bodies of the people they have worked with during the time of their physical life must be woven into the general world ether.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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And just as we humans could not make machines without wood and iron, so the higher beings could not continue to work on the evolution of the world if they could not find their building materials in the thoughts we can give them during our physical lives. We are the soil from which they take their wood, their iron and so on, that is, our thought fabric. They carry out their exalted work with these materials, guided by their wisdom, which transcends human existence; but the materials must provide them with what lies within us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19160315p01.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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Haben sie auch so etwas zu tun, was sich vielleicht vergleichen ließe mit der Tätigkeit, von der eben gesprochen worden ist, und die dazu führt, daß ein Reich der Maschinen geschaffen wird? Ja, diese Angeloi, Archangeloi und Archai, sie haben auch ihre Tätigkeit. Diese Tätigkeit spielt sich eben nur in der geistigen Welt ab. Und geradeso wie wir Menschen aus den untergeordneten Reichen, also zunächst aus dem mineralischen, aus dem pflanzlichen Reiche unser Eisen, unser Holz nehmen müssen, um unsere Maschinen zusammenzustellen, so brauchen die Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai auch Materialien, um dasjenige, nun, sagen wir, zu erbauen — obwohl der Ausdruck natürlich sehr grob ist —, was sie erbauen sollen. Und was sind ihre Materialien? Zu vielem, was die Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai zu leisten haben in der geistigen Welt, sind die Materialien gerade die Gedanken, die die Menschen als ihr Eigentum betrachten. Und es ist schon so: Während wir durch die Welt gehen und unsere Gedanken hegen, unser Gedankenleben gleichsam vom Inneren anschauen und als unser Eigentum betrachten, arbeiten an unseren Gedanken, ohne daß wir es wissen, die Angeloi, Archangeloi und Archai. Das allerwenigste, was in unseren Gedanken lebt, kommt uns zum Bewußtsein, denn die Gedanken bedeuten noch viel anderes, als was uns zum Bewußtsein kommt, viel anderes, als was in unseren Seelen lebt. Während wir denken und unsere Gedanken erinnern, arbeiten gleichsam von außen nach ihrer Art, so wie sie unsere Gedanken brauchen können, die genannten Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchie, der nächsten Hierarchie. Also stellen Sie sich durchaus jeden Menschen so vor, daß das nur eine Seite seines Gedankenlebens ist, was sich für sein Bewußtsein abspielt. Während er denkt, umschweben ihn fortwährend die Wesenheiten der genannten Hierarchien und arbeiten mit Hilfe seiner Gedanken. Das sind ihre Materialien. Und das, was sie auf diese Art arbeiten, das gehört zu dem dazu, was gebraucht wird, damit aus der Erde einmal Jupiter, Venus, Vulkan hervorgehen können. Das gehört zu dem, was den Fortschritt in der Entwickelung des Weltenalls bewirkt. Und unser ganzes Leben bis zum Tode hin arbeiten an den Gedanken, insofern sie von unserem Wesen gleichsam umschlossen werden, von außen herein die genannten Wesen der höheren Hierarchie.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":408,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p008"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Und wenn wir durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, dann wird ja, wie wir schon bei meiner vorigen Anwesenheit angedeutet haben, einige Zeit nachdem wir durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen sind, unser ÄAtherleib von uns genommen und dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben. Da wird nicht nur dasjenige einverwoben, was wir zuletzt sehen, indem wir auf die eine Seite unseres Gedankengewebes hinsehen, sondern da wird einverwoben dem allgemeinen Weltenäther auch das, was die genannten Wesenheiten erarbeitet haben. Während sie gewissermaßen an unserem einzelnen Gedankengewebe während unseres Lebens arbeiten, fügen sie dann die einzelnen Gedankengewebe des einen, des anderen, des dritten Menschen zusammen, so wie sie sie brauchen können, damit Neues entstehe im Fortentwickelungsgange der Welt. Das muß hineinverwoben werden in den allgemeinen Weltenäther, was sie da erwerben können durch das Zusammenfügen der einzelnen Ätherleiber der Menschen, die sie während der Zeit des physischen Lebens bearbeitet haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p009"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Sie sehen daraus, wie ernst es eigentlich steht mit unserem gedanklichen Innenleben. Recht ernst steht es damit. Je nachdem wir denken, werden wir brauchbar gefunden für den allgemeinen Weltenentwickelungsgang. Derjenige, der sein ganzes Leben sich nur bemüht hat, Dummheiten zu denken, oder sich nur bemüht hat, die Dinge zu denken, die Abbilder der physischen Welt sind, der wird nicht sehr gute Baumaterialien liefern für dasjenige, was aus seinem Ätherleib dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben werden soll. Eine ernste Sache ist es um das innere Leben, um das innere Gedankenleben, das uns während des Lebens zwischen Geburt und Tod wie unser Eigentum erscheint. Es gehört auf diese geschilderte Weise eigentlich der ganzen Welt an. Und so wenig wir Menschen Maschinen ohne Holz und Eisen machen könnten, so wenig könnten die höheren Wesenheiten fortarbeiten an dem Weltenwerdegang, wenn sie nicht ihre Baumaterialien finden würden an dem, was wir während unseres physischen Lebens an Gedanken ihnen geben können. Wir sind für sie der Grund und Boden, aus dem sie ihr Holz, ihr Eisen und so weiter, das heißt unsere Gedankengewebe, nehmen. Ihre erhabene Tätigkeit mit diesen Materialien üben sie aus ihrer die menschliche Wesenheit überragenden Weisheit aus; aber die Materialien muß ihnen das liefern, was in uns liegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p010"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Dasjenige, was wir so diesen Wesenheiten, den Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai zu geben vermögen, das bildet für die ganze Zeit, die wir dann durchleben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, etwas, das wir anzuschauen haben, auf das wir hinzublicken haben. Wir wissen ja, es wird von uns genommen wenige Tage schon, nachdem wir durch die Pforte des Todes geschritten sind. Aber so, wie wir weiterleben zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt, ist unser seelischer Blick unablässig hingerichtet auf dasjenige, was wir so imstande waren hinzugeben zu dem allgemeinen Weltenäther-Gewebe. Und wie wir selber nun wiederum mitzuarbeiten haben an der Herstellung dessen, was sich dann mit der physischen Materie verbindet, um uns eine neue Inkarnation zu geben, so wirkt in diese unsere Arbeit hinein der Anblick dessen, was wir so der großen Welt gegeben haben. Kurz, ob wir auf etwas zu blicken haben, woraus wir neue Antriebe für eine nächste Inkarnation schöpfen können in diesem, dem Weltenäther einverwobenen Gedankengewebe, oder ob wir das nicht können, davon wird vieles abhängen in bezug auf die Art, wie wir imstande sein werden, für unsere neue Inkarnation vorzuarbeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1916-03-15/p011"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1916-03-15/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"So sind unsere Gedanken an unsere Körperlichkeit gebunden, bevor wir durch die Pforte des Todes gehen. Dann werden sie uns in einer gewissen Weise genommen, und sie werden in dem, was die genannten Wesenheiten aus ihnen gemacht haben, dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben, um nun nicht ein Dasein in uns zu haben, sondern ein Dasein außer uns. Daher kann man in der Geisteswissenschaft diesen Vorgang, um ihn sich immer zu merken, um ihn gewissermaßen zur Meditation immer vor sich zu haben, mit den Worten bezeichnen: Das Innere wird ein Äußeres. Denn genau so, wie wir hier mit dem physischen Auge auf Berge, Flüsse, Wolken, Sterne sehen, so sehen wir nach dem Tode auf das aus unserem Denken Gewobene hin als auf das Äußere, das von uns genommen und dem allgemeinen Weltenäther einverwoben ist. Außenwelt ist es jetzt, uns erhebende oder uns betrübende, uns stärkende oder schwächende Außenwelt. 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