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Little by little I am pouring into man now, in the epoch of the Intellectual or Mind Soul, all that the other gods, whom I oppose, wish to give him only in the next culture-epoch.” An unjustified mingling of the Intellectual or Mind Soul with the Consciousness Soul was the object in view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":202,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/184/1918-10-11/p026","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-10-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 184/1918-10-11/p020"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":497,"en_words":499,"ratio":1.0,"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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If you consider the scientific ideals of to-day and hear people describing the wonderful progress made in recent decades ... just think what sort of picture these people could form of humanity in 2493, when in 1918 they are already so clever! People would not have built machines and so on, would not have made experiments, would not have gone the slow way ... with the forces of genius they would have foreseen everything and would also have created much. This year 666 was intended to deluge humanity with a knowledge and a culture which the primal gods had intended for men only during the third millennium. It cannot be conceived—need not be conceived—into what situation the so-called civilised world would have come if it had been deluged with this wisdom in the year 666! With their lack of self-discipline people would have come utterly to grief. For go to your history books and see what they say about man's unbalanced mood of soul in 666, and you will get some idea of how people would then have behaved if in this way genius had come among them. They have indeed brought things to a wonderful pass in what they have developed up to the year 1914 ... whatever would have become of them had they been deluged with all this wisdom of the Beast? It was nevertheless planned by certain higher spirits, particularly by a being of Ahrimanic nature who was to lead these spirits, that this being should appear, even if not on the physical plane—but he was to appear.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/184/1918-10-11/p028","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-10-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.91,"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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However many people there are who believe that nothing of this kind that can be given to mankind should be withheld, it had to be prevented, because it did not belong to human evolution in the spiritual sense. It could be prevented by the establishing of balance. Now, consider: 333 was the mid-point of the fourth post-Atlantean epoch; 333 years after that brings us to 666, when the Ahrimanic powers in all their strength would have brought to a climax the whole pride of materialism, but through the forces of genius. A state of balance could be maintained only by the appearance 333 years earlier—that is, at the beginning of our era—of that Being who threw into the balance His own substance, and prevented that being of whom I have spoken from appearing 333 years after 333. There you have one side of the scales—from 333 to 666 is 333 years. Here you have the other side bringing about equilibrium—from 333 back to the Mystery of Golgotha. Thus a state of balance was brought about. Thereby something has been enacted behind the scenes of external profane history. 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And in the age of the Consciousness Soul man can become man only by becoming conscious of what he is; otherwise he remains an animal, lags behind in his human evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/184/1918-10-11/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-10-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p025"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p026","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p026"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":154,"en_words":171,"ratio":1.11,"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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He said: “Men will come who no longer direct their gaze to the Spirit—the Spirit will not interest them. I shall see to it (and this he actually brought about) that in the year 869 a Council will be held in Constantinople at which the Spirit will be abolished. Men will no longer be interested in the Spirit; they will turn their attention to nature and form ghostlike concepts of nature. Then I shall do something that men will not notice, because they will not recognise themselves as real men, only as ghosts. I shall get complete control of the Consciousness Soul. I shall lead men astray about their own nature; I shall let them go on grasping only the ghost of themselves and I shall pour all the wisdom of the Consciousness Soul into their Intellectual or Mind Soul. Then I have them—then I shall have caught them.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/184/1918-10-11/p031","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-10-11","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":166,"en_words":166,"ratio":1.0,"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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If man is to evolve at all normally, with no further intervention from this being, he will have to progress to Spirit-Self, Life-Spirit, Spirit-Man; and of this possibility he would have been absolutely deprived. He would have remained at the stage of the Consciousness Soul; he would have been able to receive what the earth could give him but never to go on to the Jupiter, Venus and Vulcan evolutions. If he succeeds in acquiring the content of the Consciousness Soul in the proper epoch through his primal forces, then, because of the evolution he will have gone through in the normal way, the predisposition will be in him to rise to Spirit-Self and so on. But that was to be prevented. He was to receive the Consciousness Soul with its content into the Intellectual or Mind Soul as an inoculation. Then he would have remained at the stage of the Consciousness Soul, and he would have been an automaton in face of the knowledge that from the sixth epoch onwards would have been poured into him. 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Wenn dieses Wesen in der Gestalt, wie es selbst die Sache projektiert hat, aufgetreten wäre, dann würden wir heute nicht 1918 schreiben, sondern — minus 666 — erst 1252; denn dieses Wesen würde die Menschen so inspiriert haben, daß sie auch die Zeitrechnung danach gerichtet hätten. Dieses Wesen würde, wenn es hätte so erscheinen können, wie es selbst dies projektiert hat, etwas sehr Eigentümliches bewirkt haben. Die Sache liegt nämlich so: 333 Jahre vorher, also gerade im Jahre 333 nach Christo, da war die Mitte des vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraumes, gerade die Mitte des griechisch-lateinischen Zeitraumes. Nun können Sie sich ja ausrechnen: 747 beginnt es, 1413 schließt es, das sind 2160 Jahre, wie es sein soll. Nehmen Sie die Hälfte von 2160 Jahren, so bekommen Sie 1080 Jahre, so daß 1080 Jahre seit 747 verflossen waren in der Mitte des nachatlantischen Zeitalters. Also wenn wir 747 wegrechnen, haben wir 333: so daß also im Jahre 333 nach unserer Zeitrechnung die Mitte des griechisch-römischen Zeitalters war. Sie war nicht vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha, sondern eigentlich erst nach dem Mysterium von Golgatha, diese Mitte; sie bedeutet die höchste mögliche, aber eigentlich nicht äußerliche Wirklichkeit, weil ja in der äußeren Wirklichkeit die andern Strömungen mit einlaufen. Aber wenn die Entwickelung geradlinig fortgegangen wäre und nicht die seitlichen Strömungen gekommen wären, dann wäre das die richtige Mitte, und es wäre der Höhepunkt gewesen des Zeitalters der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele. Da hätte die Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele zu ihrer äußersten, höchsten Entfaltung kommen müssen. So ist es nicht gekommen, weil gewissermaßen schon der Wurm nagte, der da projektierte, 333 Jahre danach, 666, eine ganz bestimmte Prozedur mit der Menschenentwickelung vorzunehmen. Die Prozedur, die da mit der Menschenentwickelung vorgenommen werden sollte durch dieses Wesen, den Sorat, das Tier, sollte darin bestehen, daß dieses Wesen, das schon voll ausgebildet hatte die Bewußtseinsseele, während der Mensch erst bei der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele angekommen war, dem Menschen geben wollte alle die seelisch-geistigen Errungenschaften, die der Mensch damals nicht hatte vermöge seiner Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele, sondern die er erst bekommen kann mit der Bewußtseinsseele, die also dem Menschen erst eignen können im späteren Zeitalter. Verfrüht sollte sie dem Menschen zukommen, die Kultur der Bewußtseinsseele. Und nach den Weltenverhältnissen war 666 der günstigste Zeitpunkt; da konnte dieses Wesen solchen Einfluß auf die Erde nehmen, daß es hätte sagen können: Ich lehre jetzt den Menschen alles, was sie jemals durch ihre Bewußtseinsseele finden können. Ich träufle das, was die andern Götter, die ich bekämpfe, erst im nächsten Kulturzeitalter den Menschen geben wollen, den Menschen jetzt schon ein in dem Zeitalter der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele. - Die Vermischung der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele mit der Bewußtseinsseele auf ungerechtfertigte Art, das war dasjenige, was beabsichtigt war.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":497,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p020"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Es wäre ja wohl kaum gelungen, etwa die ganze Menschheit, die ja wiederum natürlich auf verschiedenen Stufen der Entwickelung steht, dazu zu bringen, in die Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele herein schon den Inhalt der Bewußtseinsseele zu bringen, aber bei einer großen Anzahl von Menschen hätte es gelingen können. Es hätte so gelingen können, daß, wenn dieses Wesen wirklich seinen Zweck erreicht hätte, dann unter den Menschen, namentlich der gebildeten Welt des Abendlandes, eine Anzahl Genies aufgestanden wären. Denn Genies wären sie ja gewesen. Das, was Menschen, die nicht ganz hätten mitgehen können, die noch mit der Entwickelung zurückbleiben, normalerweise erst im Jahre 2493 wissen werden — denken Sie, in der Mitte des Zeitalters, das 1413 begonnen hat; denn wenn Sie zu 1413 die Hälfte eines Kulturzeitalters dazurechnen, also 1080, so bekommen Sie 2493 —, das hätte dazumal — zwar nicht so, wie diesen Menschen dann, aber durch geniale Kräfte der ahnungsvollen Phantasie — hinübersprudeln und der ahnungslosen abendländischen Menschheit sich offenbaren können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p021"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Es waren merkwürdige Erscheinungen projektiert. Wenn Sie sich die naturwissenschaftlichen Ideale der Gegenwart denken, die Leute schildern hören, wie wir es in den letzten Jahrzehnten so herrlich weit gebracht haben — denken Sie sich nun, was dieselben Menschen sich für Vorstellungen machen könnten von dem, wie die Erdenmenschheit im Jahre 2493 sein werde, wenn sie nun schon im Jahre 1918 so gescheit sind! Also Maschinen und so weiter würden die Menschen nicht gemacht haben, würden nicht experimentiert haben, nicht den Schleppgang gegangen sein, aber mit genialen Kräften würden sie alles vorher geahnt haben und vieles auch gemacht haben. Dieses Jahr 666 war bestimmt, die Menschheit geradezu zu überschwemmen mit einem Erkennen und mit einer Kultur, die von den der Menschheit ureigenen Göttern eben erst im dritten Jahrtausend der Menschheit zugedacht ist. Es ist nicht auszudenken, braucht auch nicht ausgedacht zu werden, in welche Situation die sogenannte gebildete Welt gekommen wäre, wenn sie in solcher Weise mit diesem sechshundertsechsundsechziger Wissen überschwemmt worden wäre. Die Menschen würden in ihrer mangelnden Selbstzucht verkommen sein. Denn schlagen Sie die Geschichten auf, die ja immer nur die einseitigen Dinge erzählen über die Seelenverfassung, welche die Menschen 666 hatten, so werden Sie schon darauf kommen, wie die Menschen sich verhalten haben würden, wenn sie nun in dieser Weise Genialitäten unter sich gehabt hätten. Sie haben es schon so herrlich weit gebracht mit dem, was sie nun entwickelt haben bis zum Jahre 1914; wohin würden die Menschen erst gekommen sein, wenn sie nun mit all dieser Weisheit des Tieres überschwemmt worden wären! Aber projektiert war es von gewissen höheren Geistern, namentlich von einem Wesen ahrimanischer Natur, das der Führer dieser Geister sein sollte, das dann erschienen wäre, wenn auch nicht auf dem physischen Plane, aber das eben wirklich erschienen wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p022"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Das mußte verhindert werden. Und wenn auch noch so viele glauben, man soll doch der Menschheit nichts vorenthalten, wenn ihr so etwas gegeben werden kann: da es nicht im geistigen Sinne der menschlichen Entwickelung lag, mußte es verhindert werden. Und es konnte verhindert werden dadurch, daß die Waage gehalten wurde. Denken Sie, 333 war der Zeitpunkt der Mitte des vierten nachatlantischen Zeitalters; 333 Jahre später war 666; da hätten die ahrimanischen Mächte mächtig allen Hochmut materialistischer Art, aber mit genialen Kräften, in die Höhe gebracht. Da konnte nur das Gleichgewicht gehalten werden dadurch, daß 333 Jahre früher, also im Beginne der Zeitrechnung, das Wesen aufgetreten war, das seine eigene Substanz in die Menschheitsentwickelung zum Gleichgewicht hineinsetzte und verhinderte, daß 333 Jahre nach 333 dieses Wesen auftrat, von dem ich gesprochen habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p023"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Da haben Sie den einen Waagebalken: von 333 bis 666 sind 333 Jahre. Da haben Sie den andern Waagebalken, der das Gleichgewicht bewirkt: von 333 zurück bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha. Dadurch ist ein Gleichgewichtszustand hervorgerufen. Dadurch ist etwas geschehen, das gewissermaßen hinter den Kulissen der äußeren profanen enden Geschichte sich abgespielt hat. Etwas, was hätte geschehen können, ist verhindert worden durch etwas anderes, was wirklich geschehen ist, aber eben auch nur, wie ich neulich auseinandergesetzt habe, mit übersinnlichen Kräften erfaßt werden kann, weil der ganze Vorgang mit übersinnlicher Bedeutung sich für die Erdenentwickelung abspielte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p024"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"![184-15](images/184-15.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p025"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Was hätte denn also eigentlich geschehen sollen von 666 an, wenn das Tier dazumal in die Menschheitsentwickelung hätte eingreifen können, ohne daß vorher das Mysterium von Golgatha dagewesen wäre? Was hätte denn geschehen können? Sie werden sich eine Vorstellung von dem machen können, was hätte geschehen können, wenn Sie das bedenken, was ich vorhin gerade charakterisiert habe. Die Menschen eilten zu dem 15. Jahrhundert; hätte das Tier von 666 an seinen Unfug mit den Menschen getrieben bis ins 15. Jahrhundert hinein, dann hätte es sich ganz und gar bemächtigt dessen, was heranzog. Es zog heran das gespenstische naturwissenschaftliche Erfassen der Welt, und damit die Emanzipation der menschlichen Triebe. Weil die Bewußtseinsseele nur erfassen sollte das Gespenst vom Menschen, blieb der wirkliche Mensch zurück; er erfaßte sich nicht. Nun kann im Zeitalter der Bewußtseinsseele der Mensch nur dadurch Mensch werden, daß er es bewußt wird, sonst bleibt er Tier, bleibt er zurück hinter seiner Menschheitsentwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p026"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Das aber wollte das Wesen, das da 666 eingreifen wollte: sich zum Gotte machen. Es sagte: Da werden Menschen kommen; auf den Geist werden sie ihre Blicke nicht mehr hinrichten, der Geist wird sie nicht interessieren. Ich werde dafür sorgen — das hat ja dieses Wesen noch erreicht -, daß im Jahre 869 in Konstantinopel ein Konzil abgehalten wird, wo der Geist abgeschafft werden wird. Die Menschen werden sich weiter nicht für den Geist interessieren, sie werden ihr Interesse der Natur zuwenden, gespenstische Vorstellungen über die Natur ausbilden. Und dann werde ich, was die Menschen dann nicht bemerken, weil sie sich nicht als wirkliche Menschen erkennen werden, sondern als Gespenst, dann werde ich alle Regierung über die Bewußtseinsseele in die Hand bekommen. Ich werde den Menschen über sich selber irreführen; ich werde ihn dabei lassen, daß er nur sich als Gespenst faßt, und ich werde dann in seine Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele schon alle Weisheit der Bewußtseinsseele hineingießen. Dann habe ich ihn, dann habe ich ihn erfaßt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p027"},{"locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Denn, was wäre dann erreicht? Der Mensch muß, wenn er einigermaßen normal sich entwickelt, wenn er so sich entwickeln würde, daß jenes Wesen nichts weiter dabei zu tun hätte, vorschreiten zum Geistselbst, Lebensgeist, Geistesmensch; das wäre ihm gründlich weggenommen. Er sollte bei der Bewußtseinsseele bleiben, er sollte das erhalten, was die Erde ihm geben kann, aber nicht mehr, nicht hinausgehen zu Jupiter-, Venus- und Vulkanentwickelung. Käme es dazu, daß er im richtigen Zeitalter durch die ihm ureigenen Kräfte den Inhalt der Bewußtseinsseele bekommt, dann wäre schon in ihm durch die Entwickelung, die er mittlerweile im normalen Sinne durchgemacht hat, die Anlage vorhanden, auch zum Geistselbst und so weiter aufzusteigen. Aber das sollte verhindert werden. Deshalb sollten die Menschen die Bewußtseinsseele mit ihrem Inhalte schon früher in die Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele eingeflößt, eingeimpft erhalten. Dann wäre der Mensch in seiner Entwickelung bei der Bewußtseinsseele stehen geblieben; dann wäre er ein Unding von Wissen, welches ihm vom sechsten Zeitraum an überlassen sein würde! Dann aber wäre es mit ihm aus; er würde sich nicht weiterentwickeln, sondern das seiner Bewußtseinsseele einverleiben, alles in seinen äußersten Egoismus stellen, in den Dienst der Bewußtseinsseele.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-10-11/p028"}],"beads":[{"from":[24,25,26],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[27],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[28],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[29],"to":[23,24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[25,26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[31],"to":[27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[32],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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