{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Remarkable phenomena were planned. 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,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"Christ's Intervention: Preventing Ahrimanic Knowledge Premature Flooding","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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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"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-10-11/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6209,"original_word_count":6364,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"Three Streams in Human Evolution","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/RSP1985/19181011p02.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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