{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we look beyond our own immediate civilisation, beyond what has taken place in our own times merely, or during the last three or four hundred years,—if we take a wide survey of the whole course of man's evolution we may observe that earlier ages had a groundwork for their civilisation, a foundation for the habits and thoughts of everyday life, such as we to-day only believe ourselves to have. These old civilisations, especially the heathen civilisations, had something of a scientific character about them, a scientific character of a sort which made men realise that what lived within their own souls was part of the life of the whole universe. Just think what a vivid conception the Greeks still possessed of worlds extending beyond the bounds of everyday existence, of a world of gods and spirits behind the world of sense. One has but to recall how great a part was played in everyday life by whatever could form any sort of link between the people of those older civilisations and a spiritual world to which they were no strangers. In all their daily transactions, these men of the old civilisations were conscious of forming part of a creation that was not exhausted within the limits of the everyday world, but where spiritual beings made their activities felt. The commonest everyday affairs were carried on under the guidance of spiritual forces. Thus, in the heathen civilisations especially, we find when we look back on them, a dominant scientific character, which is best described by saying: in those days people—we can put it in that way—people had a COSMOGONY; that is, they recognised themselves to be members of the whole universe. They knew that they were not merely beings that had gone astray and were wandering about over the face of the green earth like lost sheep, but that they were part and parcel of the whole wide universe, and had their own functions in the universe as a whole. The men of old days possessed a COSMOGONY.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-10-10","location":null,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191010p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Sie brauchen nur daran zu denken, wie lebendig die Vorstellungswelten noch der Griechen waren über das, was hinausgeht über das Alltägliche, was Götter- und Geisterwelt hinter der sinnlichen Welt ist. Und Sie brauchen sich nur daran zu erinnern, wie lebendig in das alltägliche Leben eindrang dasjenige, was diesen Menschen älterer Kulturen einen gewissen Zusammenhang mit einer von ihnen gewußten geistigen Welt gab. Bei allem alltäglichen Handeln haben diese Menschen der alten Kulturen durchaus ein Bewußtsein davon gehabt, in einer Welt zu stehen, die sich nicht erschöpft in der Alltäglichkeit, sondern in die hereinwirken geistige Wesenheiten. Unter dem Antriebe von geistigen Kräften wurde das alltägliche Handeln vollzogen. Insbesondere also, wenn wir zurückblicken in die heidnischen Kulturen, finden wir einen wissenschaftlichen Grundcharakter, von dem wir sagen können: Die Menschen hatten — wir können es so ausdrücken — eine Kosmogonie. Das heißt, sie wußten sich als Glieder des ganzen Weltenalls; sie wußten, daß sie nicht bloß verlorene Wesen sind, die hier auf dem grünen Rasen der Erde wie Lämmer herumgehen, sondern die im Zusammenhange stehen mit dem ganzen weiten Weltenall, und die ihre Bestimmung haben in dem ganzen weiten Weltenall. 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