{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In earlier times of humanity's evolution it was different. You know that until the sixteenth century, until the emergence of the Copernican view of the world, human beings believed something entirely different concerning the structure of the world. Obviously it has been necessary for human progress, and also for the penetration of human freedom into the evolution of humanity, that the Copernican world view appeared, just as now spiritual science must appear. A different physical view of the world prevailed in pre-Copernican times, a view that may be called erroneous today. This view believed that the physical structure of the world, that the earth, stands still, the sun moving around the earth, the stars moving around the earth, and that beyond the starry heavens there is a spiritual sphere inhabited by spiritual beings. With this view of the structure of the world the human being could still pass through the portal of death without being held back after death in the earthly sphere. This world view did not yet result in human beings becoming destructive in the earthly sphere after passing through the portal of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Mystery of the Double: Geographic Medicine","site_heading":"Geographic Medicine and the Ahrimanic Double in Human Nature","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Jahrhundert, bis zum Auftauchen der Kopernikanischen Weltanschauung, die Menschen ganz anderes geglaubt haben über das Weltengebäude. Nun ist es selbstverständlich notwendig gewesen für den menschlichen Fortschritt, auch für das Hereindringen der menschlichen Freiheit in die Menschheitsentwickelung, daß die Kopernikanische Weltanschauung gekommen ist, geradeso wie jetzt die Geisteswissenschaft kommen muß. Aber mit derjenigen physischen Weltanschauung, die die Menschen vor dem Kopernikanismus gehabt haben — man kann sie heute meinetwillen falsch nennen -, mit dieser Anschauung über das physische Weltengebäude, daß die Erde stillsteht, die Sonne sich um den Erdenhimmel herum bewegt, die Sterne sich um die Erde bewegen, daß jenseits des Sternenhimmels eine geistige Sphäre ist, in der die geistigen Wesenheiten wohnen, mit dieser Anschauung vom Weltengebäude konnten die Menschen noch durch die Pforte des Todes gehen, ohne zurückgehalten zu werden als Gestorbene in der irdischen Sphäre. 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