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In the centuries preceding the fourteenth century, the human being had to be guarded from this double. The double had to be gradually withdrawn from man's circle of vision. Only now is he gradually permitted to come into it again, now when the human being must adapt his relationship to him. A really significant arrangement was required, which could be attained only in the following way. Since the ninth or tenth century, conditions in Europe were gradually adjusted in such a way that the European people lost a certain connection that they had formerly, a connection that was still important for human beings in earlier centuries, the sixth and seventh centuries A.D. Beginning in the ninth century and especially from the twelfth century on, the entire shipping exchange with America with the *kind* of ships there were at that time, was abolished.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/178/1917-11-16/p048","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1917-11-16","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p037","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p037"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":516,"en_words":523,"ratio":1.01,"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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Seit jener Zeit haben wir die fünfte nachatlantische Zeit, in der wir drinnen leben, und die allmählich erst ihre Charaktereigentümlichkeiten in unserer Zeit so ganz herausbringt, aber sie haben sich vorbereitet seit dem 15. Jahrhundert. In der vierten nachatlantischen Zeit, da war es vorzugsweise die Verstandes- und Gemütsseele, die sich entwickelte; jetzt ist es die Bewußtseinsseele, die sich entwickelt in der Gesamtmenschheitsentwickelung. Als der Mensch eingetreten ist in dieses Zeitalter, da war es seine besondere Schwachheit, auf welche die führenden geistigen Wesenheiten Rücksicht nehmen mußten gegenüber diesem Doppelgänger. Hätte der Mensch da viel in sein Bewußtsein hereingenommen von alldem, was zusammenhängt mit diesem Doppelgängerwesen, ja, dann wäre es den Menschen schlecht, recht schlecht gegangen. Schon die Jahrhunderte her vor dem 14. Jahrhundert mußten die Menschen vorbereitend davor geschützt werden, um recht wenig aufzunehmen, was irgendwie erinnerte an diesen Doppelgänger. Daher ist auch die Erkenntnis dieses Doppelgängers, die durchaus in älteren Zeiten da war, verlorengegangen. Man mußte die Menschen davor beschützen, ja nichts aufzunehmen, also nicht nur die Theorie von diesem Doppelgänger nicht aufzunehmen, sondern möglichst wenig mit Dingen in Berührung zu kommen, die mit diesem Doppelgänger etwas zu tun haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":229,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p036"},{"locus":"GA 178/1917-11-16/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Dazu bedurfte es einer ganz speziellen Veranstaltung. Die Sache, die sich da entwickelt, müssen Sie versuchen zu begreifen: In den Jahrhunderten, die vorangingen dem 14. Jahrhundert, da mußten die Menschen geschützt werden vor dem Doppelgänger; er mußte allmählich aus dem Gesichtskreise der Menschen heraus und durfte erst allmählich wieder hereinkommen jetzt, wo der Mensch sein Verhältnis zu ihm regeln muß. Das bedurfte wirklich einer recht bedeutsamen Veranstaltung, die nur auf die folgende Weise erreicht werden konnte: So allmählich, seit dem 9., 10. Jahrhunderte, richtete man in Europa die Verhältnisse so ein, daß die europäischen Menschen einen gewissen Zusammenhang verloren, den sie früher gehabt haben, einen Zusammenhang, der für die früheren, noch für die Menschen des 7., 6. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts wichtig war. Es wurde nämlich vom 9. Jahrhundert angefangen, vom 12. Jahrhundert ab dann besonders ausgesprochen — eingestellt der gesamte Schiffahrtsverkehr nach Amerika hinüber, wie er eben dazumal war, mit der Art von Schiffen, die man hatte. Das mag Ihnen sonderbar klingen! Sie werden sagen: Wir haben ja in der Geschichte so etwas nie gehört. — Ja, die Geschichte ist eben in vieler Beziehung wirklich eine Fable convenue, eine Legende; denn in den älteren Jahrhunderten der europäischen Entwickelung fuhren die Schiffe von Norwegen aus, vom damaligen Norwegen aus immer nach Amerika hinüber. Man hat es natürlich nicht Amerika genannt, es hatte dazumal andere Namen. In Amerika wußte man dasjenige Gebiet, wo insbesondere jene magnetischen Kräfte aufsteigen, welche die Menschen in Beziehung bringen zu diesem Doppelgänger. Denn die deutlichsten Beziehungen zum Doppelgänger gehen aus von demjenigen Gebiete der Erde, das vom amerikanischen Kontinente bedeckt ist; und in den älteren Jahrhunderten fuhr man mit norwegischen Schiffen hinüber nach Amerika und studierte da drüben Krankheiten. Von Europa aus wurden in Amerika gewissermaßen die unter dem Einflusse des Erdenmagnetismus bewirkten Krankheiten studiert. Und der geheimnisvolle Ursprung der älteren europäischen Medizin, der ist da zu suchen. Da konnte man den Verlauf beobachten, den man nicht hätte beobachten können in Europa, wo die Menschen empfindlicher waren gegen die Einflüsse des Doppelgängers. Man mußte allmählich — und das Wesentliche tat dazu die römisch-katholische Kirche durch ihre Edikte -, man mußte allmählich über den Zusammenhang mit Amerika Vergessenheit bringen. Und erst nachdem der fünfte nachatlantische Zeitraum eingetreten war, wurde Amerika auf physisch-sinnliche Weise wieder entdeckt. Das ist aber nur eine Wiederentdeckung, die allerdings so bedeutsam aus dem Grunde ist, weil die Mächte, die am Werke waren, es tatsächlich erreicht haben, daß in den Urkunden nirgends sehr viel gemeldet wird von den alten Beziehungen Europas zu Amerika. Und da wo es gemeldet wird, da erkennt man es nicht, da weiß man nicht, daß sich die Dinge auf den Zusammenhang von Europa und Amerika in alten Zeiten beziehen. Die Besuche waren allerdings mehr Besuche. Daß die Europäer selber dann amerikanisches Volk werden — wie man heute sagt, wo man den Ausdruck Volk mit Nation mißverständlicherweise verwechselt —, amerikanisches Volk geworden sind, das war erst nach der physischen Entdeckung Amerikas, physischen Neuentdeckung Amerikas möglich. Es waren vorher eher Besuche, die man ausführte, um zu studieren, wie an der andersartigen indianischen Rasse der Doppelgänger eine ganz besondere Rolle spielt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":516,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/178/1917-11-16/p037"}],"beads":[{"from":[46,47],"to":[36],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[48,49,50],"to":[37],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}