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For that reason Mephistopheles is at first decked out with Luciferic features, and the Mephistopheles of the *first* part of Faust's poem is essentially a Luciferic being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Whitsuntide Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-05-21","location":null,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/181/1918-05-21/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRC0049","book_title":"Anthroposophical Life Gifts","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA181/English/LRC0049/19180521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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Das ist das Motiv der Selbstbeobachtung. Faust zieht nur alle Konsequenzen, aber er holt nach, was er in seiner Jugend versäumt hat. Er holt es nach und kann es nachholen. Dadurch wird er eine Stufe höher geführt. Dadurch rechtfertigt es sich, daß jetzt noch einmal die Frage aufgestellt wird: «Wem denn?» Dem, der ihm im «Pudel» entgegenkommt: Mephistopheles. Aber was ist dies? Dies ist diejenige Gegenkraft der menschlich strebenden Kräfte, die sich dem Menschen so entgegenwirft, wie Faust sich dem Erdgeist entgegenwirft, da er mit dem Makrokosmos nichts zu tun haben will. Das sind die luziferischen Kräfte, die aus des Menschen Innerem herauskommen. 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