{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-11-15/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These things are part of the Initiation-science which must gradually come within the ken of humanity, although on account of the kind of education that has now been current for centuries in the civilised world, men shrink from such truths. The caricatured figure of Lucifer and Ahriman—the medieval devil—is constantly before their minds and they have been allowed to grow up in this philistine atmosphere for so long that even to-day they shudder at the thought of approaching treasures of wisdom that are intimately and deeply connected with evolution. It is much pleasanter to say: “If I protect myself from the devil, if I give myself to Christ with the simple-heartedness of a child, I shall be blessed, and my soul will find salvation.”—But in its deep foundations, human life is by no means such a simple matter. And it is essential for the future of human evolution that these things we are now discussing shall not be withheld from mankind. It must be known that the art of speaking and the art of thinking have become part of evolution only because they were received through the mediation of Lucifer. The Luciferic element can still be observed in thinking. Speech, which has for long ages been differentiated and adapted to earthly needs, has already been assailed by Ahriman. It is he who has brought about differentiation, who has degraded the one, cosmic speech into the different tongues on earth. Whereas the Luciferic tendency is always towards unification, the fundamental tendency of the Ahrimanic principle is differentiation.—What would thinking be if it were not Luciferic?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Lucifer and Ahriman: Wisdom's Cosmic Struggle","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1919-11-15","location":null,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-11-15/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Man hat die Menschen so lange in einer philisterhaften Atmosphäre aufwachsen lassen, daß sie diese Weistümer, die aber mit der Entwickelung der Menschheit innig zusammenhängen, heute immer noch eigentlich nur mit Schaudern aufnehmen, denn es ist ja den Menschen so furchtbar angenehm, wenn sie sagen können: Vor dem Teufel hüte ich mich, dem Christus gebe ich mich gefangen in kindlicher Einfalt, dann werde ich selig, dann bin ich mit meiner Seele unter allen Umständen gerettet. — So leicht in seinen Untergründen ist das Menschenleben eben nicht. Es handelt sich durchaus darum, daß für die Zukunft der Menschheitsentwickelung diese Dinge, von denen wir jetzt reden, der Menschheit nicht vorenthalten werden dürfen. Denn es muß gewußt werden, daß gerade die Kunst des Sprechens und die Kunst des Denkens etwas ist, was in diese Erdenentwickelung nur hat hereinkommen können dadurch, daß der Mensch es auf dem Umwege durch die luziferische Vermittlung erhalten hat. Ich möchte sagen: Sie können heute noch Ihrem Denken das luziferische Element anmerken. Über die Sprachen, die ja seit langem differenziert der Erde angepaßt sind, ist Ahriman bereits hergefallen, der die Differenzierung bewirkt hat, der die einheitliche Sprache in die differenzierte Erdensprache heruntergebildet hat. Während Luzifer immer die Tendenz der Vereinheitlichung hat, ist das ahrimanische Prinzip von der Tendenz durchdrungen, zu differenzieren. Wie wäre denn das Denken, wenn es nicht luziferisch wäre?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-11-15/p011"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-11-15/p011"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":264,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4648,"original_word_count":5223,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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