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The desire will be to bring human evolution to the point when man no longer returns to a physical body, when souls are so spiritualised that they do not descend to earth any more in bodily form. From the middle of the sixth post-Atlantean epoch man will already be seeking to found for himself the Kingdom of the spirit. This would be possible only were certain ingredients of culture rejected. It is not only the initiates of the East who feel a decided aversion to certain European characteristics but every cultured oriental instinctively feels it also—he feels an aversion for just those characteristics on which the European particularly prides himself. For example, he has no use for the purely technical, material culture which has arisen both in Europe and in its off-shoot America. 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These 500,000,000 human forces are the opportunity for the same number of ahrimanic demons to take up their abode in human culture! These ahrimanic demons are certainly there. And the man of the East instinctively turns right away from these ahrimanic demons, and will have nothing to do with them. You see this in every manifestation of a highly culture oriental; he turns from this ahrimanic demonology. For this ahrimanic demonology weighs men down, weighs them down and deprives them of the possibility to bring about the aim of oriental initiation, namely, the end of the human race on earth from the middle of the sixth post-Atlantean epoch. 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They endeavour to form a more inner bond than is normal in the course of man's evolution between the human soul and that bodily nature that is to be found upon earth, the dense, coarse corporeality which from the sixth post-Atlantean epoch on, will be found on earth. The culture of the soul will be deepened, what is of a bodily nature will coarsen. A more inward connection with this bodily nature then is normal is, however, striven for in the least, in America, a more intensive descent into the body. Man will go towards what seeps through, will approach it by an intensive penetration into what is of the body. Whereas the Orientals wish to found a culture that takes no account of the human body, in the future earthly evolution, in the American culture of the West there will be an endeavor to chain the soul to the future evolution of the earth. 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Diese Leute sehen, was in der Entwickelung richtig liegt und versuchen dasjenige, was in der Entwickelung richtig liegt, soweit der Mensch es beeinflussen kann, zu beeinflussen. Sie suchen ihm eine gewisse Richtung, einen gewissen Impuls zu geben. Und der Impuls, der da von den orientalischen Eingeweihten der Entwickelung gegeben werden will, der beruht im wesentlichen darauf, daß man nicht mehr rechnen will, so ungefähr nach der Hälfte der sechsten nachatlantischen Zeit, auf die menschliche Generation. Man möchte verzichten auf das irdische Menschengeschlecht nach dieser Zeit. Man möchte die Entwickelung der Menschheit dahin bringen, daß die Menschen nachher eigentlich nicht mehr so recht physische Nachkommen haben, daß die Seelen dann schon sich vergeistigen, nicht mehr auf die Erde herunterkommen in Verleiblichungen. Man möchte das Reich des Geistes für die Menschheit schon von der Mitte der sechsten nachatlantischen Zeit an begründen. Dies würde man nur können, wenn man gewisse Kulturingredienzien abweisen würde. Nicht nur die Eingeweihten des Orients, sondern eigentlich instinktiv jeder gebildete Orientale lehnt daher im eminentesten Sinne gewisse Europäismen ab; gerade diejenigen Europäismen, auf die der Europäer ganz besonders stolz ist, lehnt er ab. Er lehnt ab namentlich alles dasjenige, was sich ja aus der rein technischen, materiellen Kultur in Europa und seinem Anhange Amerika ergeben hat. Wer die Entwickelung der Menschheit studiert, namentlich im 19. Jahrhundert und in das 20. Jahrhundert herein, der wird finden, daß man mit Recht sagt: Die Technik hat es ungeheuer weit gebracht, die Technik hat den Menschen Arbeitskräfte abgenommen. Wenn man heute davon redet, die Erde habe so und so viel hundert Millionen Einwohner, so ist dieses eigentlich nicht ganz richtig, weil man auch rechnen kann, wieviel die Erde Einwohner hat nach dem, wieviel gearbeitet wird. Nun wird mit vollständigem Recht gesagt, daß seit dem letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts von den Maschinen, die nach und nach entstanden sind, menschliche Arbeitskraft verrichtet wird. Man kann berechnen, ziemlich exakt berechnen, wieviel Millionen Menschen mehr die Erde haben müßte, wenn alle die Arbeit, die von den Maschinen verrichtet wird, von den Menschen verrichtet würde. Die Erde müßte fünfhundert Millionen Menschen mehr haben. Man kann schon sagen: Heute sind auf der Erde nicht nur diejenigen Menschen mit zwei Beinen und einem Kopf, die statistisch berechnet werden können, sondern fünfhundert Millionen mehr, gemessen an der Arbeitskraft; die Arbeitskraft wird eben von Maschinen verrichtet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":435,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-19/p013"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Aber es gibt nichts Materielles, hinter dem nicht ein Geistiges steht. Diese fünfhundert Millionen Menschenkräfte, die sind die Gelegenheit zum Aufenthalte von ebensovielen ahrimanischen Dämonen innerhalb der menschlichen Kultur. Diese ahrimanischen Dämonen sind einmal da. Und diese ahrimanischen Dämonen, die lehnt der Orientale aus einem gewissen Instinkt heraus radikal ab; die will er nicht. Das sehen Sie eigentlich aus jeder Manifestation eines feingebildeten Orientalen heraus, daß er diese ahrimanische Dämonologie ablehnt. Denn diese ahrimanische Dämonologie, die gibt dem Menschen eine gewisse Schwere, die niemals möglich macht, daß dasjenige geschieht, was die orientalische Initiation anstrebt: daß das Menschengeschlecht mit der Mitte der sechsten nachatlantischen Zeit physisch aufhört auf der Erde zu sein, weil die Menschen zurückgehalten werden durch das, was sich auf diese Weise dämonologisch-ahrimanisch entwickelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-19/p014"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Einem andern Ziel streben die Eingeweihten des Amerikanismus zu. Sie streben dem entgegengesetzten Ziele zu. Sie streben danach, eine innigere Gemeinschaft zu bilden, als im normalen Verlauf der Menschheitsentwickelung geschehen soll, zwischen den Menschenseelen und derjenigen Leiblichkeit, welche auf der Erde zu finden sein wird, der dichten, groben Leiblichkeit, die auf der Erde zu finden sein wird von dem sechsten nachatlantischen Zeitraume an. Die seelische Kultur wird sehr vertieft sein, aber die leibliche wird grob sein. Aber eine innigere Verbindung mit dieser groben Leiblichkeit strebt man im amerikanischen Westen an, eine innigere Verbindung als die normale ist, ein stärkeres Untertauchen in die Leiblichkeit. Man will entgegenkommen dem, was da durchsickert (siehe Zeichnung Seite 45, links), will ihm entgegengehen durch stärkeres Eindringen in die Leiblichkeit. Während man also eine Kultur begründen will von seiten der Orientalen, die nicht rechnet mit den Menschenleibern der späteren Erdenentwickelung, will man die Seelen ketten an diese spätere Erdenentwickelung innerhalb der amerikanischen Kultur des Westens. Man will die Leiber möglichst so gestalten, daß die Seelen, wenn sie durch den Tod gegangen sind, möglichst bald wiederum in einen Leib herunterkommen können, daß sie möglichst wenig sich aufhalten in der geistigen Welt. Man will die Seelen möglichst abhalten von einem Aufenthalt in der geistigen Welt, man will, daß sie möglichst bald wiederum auf die Erde herunterkommen. Man will sie innigst verbinden mit dem Leben der Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-19/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[21,22,23],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[25],"to":[15],"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)."}}