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If we divide the human being in this way and now apply what we already know: that the formation of the head, the shape of the head points to forces of the previous incarnation, the limb man points to the future incarnation and actually only the trunk belongs to the present. So, after what I have explained today, you will no longer find it very incomprehensible when I tell you: insofar as the human being carries his head, this head points back to the earlier incarnation, into the past. The forces of the past, Ahrimanic forces, are at work in the head, and what applies to Ahrimanic forces in general applies to the human head in particular. Everything that is actually formed in the human head does not actually belong to the present, but the forces of the previous incarnation have an effect on the head; and the creative powers make use of the ahrimanic powers to shape our head, to give our head its actual form. If the creative powers did not make use of the ahrimanic spirits to shape our heads, then we would all – forgive me, but it is so – wear a much softer head, but we would all have an animal head: one who is bullish in character would have a bull's head, another who is lamb-like in character would have a lamb's head, and so on. It is due to the influence of the Ahrimanic powers, which the creative forces use to shape us, that this animal head, which we would otherwise wear, does not really sit on us, as the Egyptians drew it on some of their figures; that we do not go around like these Egyptian figures, who have good reasons for this, because in the Egyptian mysteries, too, though from an atavistic point of view, things were taught that can be taught again now. We also do not go around like that, as in the Rosicrucian pictures, where every woman is painted with a lion's head and every man with an ox's head. That is the Rosicrucian painting of man. The Rosicrucians chose a more average animal and therefore gave the women the head of the animal that most resembles them, the lion, and the man the head of the animal that most resembles him, the ox, the bull. That is why in Rosicrucian figures you see man and woman placed side by side: the woman with the most beautiful lion's head, the man with a bull's head. But this is absolutely correct. That metamorphosis – to use a Goethean term – can take place, that our head, which tends towards the animalistic in its form, can be shaped so that it is a human head, comes from the influence of the Ahrimanic powers. 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If they did not make use of these luciferic spirits, our limbless man would not be able to transform from the present to the next incarnation. The luciferic beings are necessary for this. And it is to the luciferic entities that we again owe the fact that, by dying, the form that the man of the extremities still has now is gradually transformed into the broader form that he is to have in the next incarnation. Then, in the middle of the path between death and a new birth, Ahriman must intervene to take on the other task: to reshape the head in the appropriate way. Just as we would go around with animal heads if we did not owe it to Ahriman that we get a human head, so our nature of the extremities would not metamorphose into the human until the next incarnation, but would pass over into the demonic. We lose our head, as we now have it, under all circumstances through death, not only as matter that unites with the earth, but also as form; in the next incarnation we carry over what will become the head from the extremity of man. 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Through the senses of the head we perceive nature primarily, and we build up an image of nature with the ahrimanic character just described, because we ourselves carry the ahrimanic in the formation, in the shaping of our head.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":67,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/183/1918-09-02/p040","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Science of Human Development","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/SOL2024/19180902p01.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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Through our head Ahriman tempts us to conceive of nature without spirit; through our extremity man Lucifer tempts us to conceive of ideals without the power of nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":86,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/183/1918-09-02/p041","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Science of Human Development","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/SOL2024/19180902p01.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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But for a certain reason we cannot do this, and that is because we have a memory. What we absorb from nature in the way of ideas and concepts, of impressions, we store in our memory. And if here (see diagram on page 179) we have only schematically drawn the head human being, the trunk and torso human being, and the extremities human being, then in the trunk human being there is the septum, which leads to that which we take in through the head, in the natural order, coming back to us as memory material. As a result, we do not see down to the Luciferic, and thus we do not notice the Ahrimanic, as we do not see what is behind a mirror, but rather what is reflected. Here the natural order is reflected in what at the same time separates our Ahrimanic from our Luciferic, and what is the basis for the forming memory, for the forming power of recollection. 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Aber ich habe mich ja darüber auch ausgesprochen in den Schlußnotizen zu meinem Buche «Von Seelenrätseln». Wir können den Menschen gliedern in drei Teile: den Hauptesmenschen, den Rumpfmenschen und den Extremitätenmenschen, indem zum Extremitätenmenschen alles dasjenige gehört, was inwärts der Extremitäten gelegen ist, also auch alles Sexuelle zum Extremitätenmenschen gehört. Wenn wir den Menschen so gliedern und jetzt anwenden dasjenige, was wir schon wissen: daß die Kopfbildung, die Kopflform auf Kräfte hinweist der vorigen Inkarnation, der Extremitätenmensch hinweist auf die zukünftige Inkarnation und eigentlich nur der Rumpfmensch der Gegenwart angehört, so werden Sie nach dem, was ich heute ausgeführt habe, es nicht mehr sehr unbegreiflich finden, wenn ich Ihnen sage: Insofern der Mensch sein Haupt trägt, weist dieses Haupt auf die frühere Inkarnation zurück, in die Vergangenheit. Ins Haupt herein wirken Kräfte der Vergangenheit, ahrimanische Kräfte, und dasjenige, was für die ahrimanischen Kräfte im allgemeinen gilt, gilt für das menschliche Haupt im besonderen. Alles, was eigentliche Hauptesbildung im Menschen ist, gehört nicht eigentlich der Gegenwart an, sondern in das Haupt wirken hinein die Kräfte der vorgehenden Inkarnation; und die schöpferischen Mächte bedienen sich der ahrimanischen Mächte, um unser Haupt zu formen, um unserem Haupte die eigentliche Formung zu geben. Würden nicht die schöpferischen Mächte sich der ahrimanischen Geister bedienen, um unser Haupt zu formen, dann würden wir alle — verzeihen Sie, aber es ist so — zwar ein viel weicheres Haupt tragen, aber wir würden alle ein tierisches Haupt tragen: der eine, welcher in seinem Charakter stiermäßig ist, würde ein Stierhaupt, der andere, der in seinem Charakter lammäfßig ist, würde ein Lämmerhaupt tragen und so weiter. Von dem Einfluß der ahrimanischen Mächte, deren sich die schöpferischen Gewalten bedienen, um uns zu formen, rührt es her, daß dieses tierische Haupt, das wir sonst tragen würden, nicht wirklich uns aufsitzt, so wie es die Ägypter gezeichnet haben an manchen ihrer Figuren; daß wir nicht so herumgehen wie diese ägyptischen Gestalten, die ihre guten Gründe haben, weil in den ägyptischen Mysterien auch, wenn auch von einem atavistischen Standpunkte aus, solche Dinge gelehrt worden sind, wie sie jetzt wieder gelehrt werden können; daß wir auch nicht so noch herumgehen wie in den Rosenkreuzerbildern etwa, wo jede Frau mit einem Löwenkopf, jeder Mann mit einem Ochsenkopf gemalt wird. So ist ja das Rosenkreuzergemälde des Menschen. Die Rosenkreuzer haben mehr ein Durchschnitts-Tier gewählt und haben daher das, was für die Frauen am meisten ähnlich ist, den Löwenkopf, den Frauen aufgesetzt, und dem Manne, was ihm am meisten ähnlich ist, den Ochsenkopf, den Stierkopf. Sie sehen daher auf rosenkreuzerischen Figuren Mann und Frau nebeneinandergestellt: die Frau mit dem schönsten Löwenkopf, den Mann mit einem Stierkopfe. Dies ist aber durchaus richtig. Daß die Metamorphose - jetzt goethisch gesprochen - sich vollziehen kann, daß unser in seiner Form nach der Tierheit tendierendes Haupt so gestaltet wird, daß es Menschenhaupt ist, rührt von dem Einfluß der ahrimanischen Mächte her. Würden sich nicht die Gottheiten Ahrimans bedienen, um unser knöchernes Haupt zu formen, dann würden wir mit Tierhäuptern herumgehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":541,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p035"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Aber die göttlichen Mächte bedienen sich auch der luziferischen Geister. Würden sie sich dieser luziferischen Geister nicht bedienen, so würde wiederum unser Extremitätenmensch von der jetzigen zu der nächsten Inkarnation sich nicht umwandeln können. Dazu sind die luziferischen Wesenheiten notwendig. Den luziferischen Wesenheiten verdanken wir es wiederum, daß, indem wir sterben, umgewandelt wird nach und nach die Form, die jetzt noch der Extremitätenmensch hat, in die weitere Form, die sie in der nächsten Inkarnation haben soll. Da muß dann in der Mitte des Weges zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt Ahriman eintreten, um die andere Aufgabe zu übernehmen: um das Haupt wiederum in der entsprechenden Weise umzuformen. Wie wir mit Tierhäuptern herumgehen würden, wenn wir es Ahriman nicht zu verdanken hätten, daß wir einen Menschenkopf bekommen, so würde unsere Extremitätennatur sich nicht ins Menschliche metamorphosieren bis zur nächsten Inkarnation, sondern sie würde ins Dämonische übergehen. Unseren Kopf, wie wir ihn jetzt haben, verlieren wir ja unter allen Umständen durch den Tod, nicht nur als Materie, die sich mit der Erde vereinigt, sondern auch als Form; in die nächste Inkarnation tragen wir ja das, was Kopf wird, vom Extremitätenmenschen hinüber. Aber das würde ein dämonisches Wesen werden, wenn wir es nicht den luziferischen Mächten, die mit uns verbunden sind, zu verdanken hätten, daß die Umgestaltung stattfinden könne vom Dämon, der ein bloß Geistig-Seelisches wäre, in die Menschengestalt der nächsten Inkarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p036"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"So müssen bei unserem Menschenwerden ahrimanische und luziferische Mächte mitwirken, und es kann das Menschliche nicht begriffen werden, ohne daß das Ahrimanische und das Luziferische zu Hilfe gerufen wird. Der Menschheit kann es gegen die Zukunft hin nicht erspart werden, die Wirksamkeit Ahrimans und Luzifers wirklich zu verstehen. Mit vollem Rechte sagt die Bibel, daß jene Gottheit, von der im Anfange der Bibel die Rede ist, dem Menschen den lebendigen Odem einhauchte. Aber der lebendige Odem wirkt im Rumpfmenschen. Insofern wir es also zu tun haben mit den normal wirkenden göttlichen Wesenheiten, haben wir es nur mit dem Rumpfmenschen zu tun. Insofern wir es mit dem Kopfmenschen zu tun haben, haben wir es mit einem Gegner der Jahvemächte zu tun, dadurch auch mit einem Gegner des Christus. Und auch insofern wir es mit dem Extremitätenmenschen zu tun haben, haben wir es mit dem luziferischen Gegner zu tun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p037"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Daher wird man den Menschen nur verstehen, wenn man ihn unter diesen drei Aspekten vorstellt. Sie haben daher in unserer Mittelpunktsgruppe für unseren Bau eben diese Trinität: den Menschheitsrepräsentanten, der aber so ausgebildet ist, daß in ihm vorzugsweise die Kräfte der Atmung, des Rumpfes wirken, die Herztätigkeit und so weiter — das ist die mittlere Figur -, dann diejenige Figur, in der alles Hauptmäßige, Kopfmäßige wirkt: Ahriman; diejenige Figur, in der alles Extremitätenmäßige wirkt: Luzifer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p038"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Man muß das Menschliche in dieser Weise auseinandernehmen, wenn man den Menschen verstehen will, denn im Menschen ist der Mensch als solcher mit Ahriman und Luzifer vereint. Das ist gleichzeitig wohl darauf hinweisend, daß alles, was mehr oder weniger mit dem menschlichen Denken zusammenhängt, welches ja in bezug auf","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":49,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p039"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"seinen physischen Zusammenhang an den Kopf gebunden ist — das menschliche Denken verfließt auf Grund der Wahrnehmungen als eines Äußerlich-Sinnenfälligen -, daß alles das einen ahrimanischen Charakter hat. Durch die Sinne des Kopfes nehmen wir ja vorzugsweise die Natur wahr, und wir bauen uns ein Naturbild auf mit dem eben vorhin geschilderten ahrimanischen Charakter, weil wir selbst das Ahrimanische in der Bildung, in der Formung unseres Kopfes an uns tragen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":70,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p040"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Die Ideale wiederum haben innerlich, psychologisch- darauf komme ich dann in der nächsten Zeit noch zurück -, sehr viel mit der Liebe zu tun, mit alldem, was dem Extremitätenmenschen angehört. Daher hat zu den Idealen die luziferische Macht den besonderen Zutritt. Durch unser Haupt faßt uns Ahriman, durch unsere Extremitäten faßt uns Luzifer. Durch unser Haupt verführt uns Ahriman dazu, die Natur geistlos vorzustellen; durch unseren Extremitätenmenschen verführt uns Luzifer dazu, die Ideale ohne Naturgewalt vorzustellen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p041"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Das aber ist die Aufgabe des gegenwärtigen Menschen, dadurch, daß er solches überschaut, zu einer richtigen Übersicht zu kommen. Denn sehen Sie: In uns ist eine gewisse Grenzscheide, gerade in unserem Brustmenschen, in unserem Rumpfmenschen, wodurch die Gewalten des Hauptes, welche ahrimanische Gewalten sind, abgetrennt werden von den luziferischen Gewalten, die dem Extremitätenmenschen angehören. Würden wir, indem wir mystisch in uns hineinschauen, uns ganz durchschauen können, dann würden wir zwar durch das Haupt die Naturordnung begreifen, aber wir würden auch durch die Naturordnung in uns selbst hineinschauen. Und würden in uns die luziferischen Mächte entscheiden, dann würden die luziferischen Mächte uns auch über die ahrimanischen Mächte aufklären, und wir würden auf diese Weise zu einer Verbindung zwischen Naturordnung und Geistordnung kommen. Aber das können wir aus einem gewissen Grunde nicht, und zwar aus dem Grunde, weil wir ein Gedächtnis haben. Dasjenige, was wir aus der Natur aufnehmen an Vorstellungen und Begriffen, an Eindrücken, das speichern wit in unserem Gedächtnisse auf. Und wenn das da hier (siehe Zeichnung Seite 179) schematisch nur gezeichnet - der Hauptesmensch, das der Brust- und Rumpfmensch, das der Extremitätenmensch ist, so ist im Rumpfmenschen die Scheidewand, die dazu führt, daß dasjenige, was wir durch das Haupt aufnehmen an Naturordnung, uns wiederum als Gedächtnisstoff zurückkommt. Dadurch sehen wir nicht bis zum Luziferischen hinunter, und dadurch bemerken wir das Ahrimanische nicht, wie wir das nicht sehen, was hinter einem Spiegel ist, sondern dasjenige, was sich spiegelt. Hier spiegelt sich die Naturordnung in dem, was zu gleicher Zeit unser Ahrimanisches von unserem Luziferischen abtrennt, und was die Grundlage ist für das sich bildende Gedächtnis, für die sich bildende Erinnerungskraft. Wenn wir uns nicht an die erlebten Dinge erinnern könnten, wenn diese Scheidewand nicht da wäre, wenn wir uns, in uns blickend, durchschauen würden, so würden wir bis zum Luziferischen hinunterblicken in uns. Dann würden wir auch das Ahrimanische wahrnehmen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":310,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p042"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p043","passage_number":43,"text":"![Diagram 4](images/183-04.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p043"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-09-02/p044","passage_number":44,"text":"Aber jetzt bedenken Sie: Dasjenige gerade, was uns durch diesen Spiegel erscheint, das ist ja dasjenige, was wir im Lebenslauf durchleben, das ist, worauf wir nach dem Tode zurückblicken, das ist, was aus einem flüssigen Ich zu einem festen Ich wird. Darauf blicken wir zurück. Das ist dasjenige, womit wir leben. Und Ahriman und Luzifer wirken mit uns, wirken mit uns so, daß Ahriman uns dahin bringt, ein Menschenhaupt zu tragen, Luzifer uns dahin bringt, nicht zum Dämon zu werden, sondern die Möglichkeit zu haben, zu einer nächsten Inkarnation zu kommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-09-02/p044"}],"beads":[{"from":[35],"to":[35],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[36],"to":[36],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[37],"to":[37],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[38],"to":[38],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[39],"to":[39],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[40],"to":[40],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[41],"to":[41],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[42],"to":[42],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[43],"to":[43],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[44],"to":[44],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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