{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-09-08/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When I spoke here some time ago, I made a certain demand of you. I spoke about the fact that the time as we experience it is actually an illusion, that time is in reality something quite different from how man experiences it, because man does not take time perspectively, I said at the time. Man experiences space perspectively; he sees the more distant trees smaller than the nearby trees. In reality, time is also to be seen perspectively. Events that lie far apart in time are to be seen differently than those that lie close together in time. But this is only the basis for time really being what the researchers of all times have regarded it as: time is the most important medium of human deception. We imagine, for example, that the beings of the higher hierarchies also flow through time as our own soul life flows through time: there is no truth in this. In reality, the essence of the higher hierarchies lies in elapsed times, but they work across from the elapsed times, as one can work across in space from a distant place, for example, through light signals or something similar, to beings in a nearby place in space. Time is not what people see it as, nor is time what philosophers like Kant see it as, but time in its reality is something completely different. And what man sees as reality is also a maja, a great deception. Above all, what we believe to be past remains, because we live in time as a deception. But it remains there; time really becomes something like space. And one looks at past events in the same way that one looks at distant objects in space, if one truly sees. Time is an illusion.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Sleep, Hierarchies, and Ahrimanic Materialism's Cosmic Consequences","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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Es ist aber nur die Grundlage dafür, daß die Zeit wirklich das ist, als was die Forscher aller Zeiten sie angesehen haben: die Zeit ist das wichtigste Medium der menschlichen Täuschung. Wir denken uns, daß zum Beispiel die Wesen der höheren Hierarchien auch so durch die Zeit fließen, wie unser eigenes Seelenleben durch die Zeit fließt: es ist keine Wahrheit darin. In Wahrheit liegt das Wesen der höheren Hierarchien in abgeflossenen Zeiten, aber sie wirken herüber aus den abgeflossenen Zeiten, wie im Raume von einem entfernten Orte man herüberwirken kann, meinetwegen durch Lichtsignale oder so etwas, auf in einem nahen Orte im Raume liegende Wesen. Die Zeit ist nicht das, als was sie die Menschen ansehen, die Zeit ist auch nicht das, als was sie solche Philosophen wie Kant ansehen, sondern die Zeit ist in ihrer Wirklichkeit etwas ganz anderes. Und das, was der Mensch als Wirklichkeit ansieht, ist eben auch eine Maja, eine große Täuschung. Vor allen Dingen bleibt immer das stehen, wovon wir glauben, indem wir in der Zeit als Täuschung leben, daß es vergangen sei. Es bleibt aber da; die Zeit wird wirklich zu etwas wie zu einem Raume. Und man sieht auf die rückwärtigen Ereignisse so, wie man auf entfernte Gegenstände im Raume sieht, wenn man wahrhaftig sieht. 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