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What else would come in his train? Through certain stupendous arts he would bring to man all the clairvoyant knowledge which until then can be acquired only by dint of intense labour and effort. Men could live on as materialists, they could eat and drink—as much as may be left after the war!—and there would be no need, for any spiritual efforts. The Ahrimanic streams would continue their unimpeded course. When Ahriman incarnates in the West at the appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for the practice of magic arts of the greatest grandeur, and what otherwise can be acquired only by strenuous effort would be poured over mankind.","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. 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Deshalb muß eben vorgebaut werden in bezug auf alle die Strömungen, die die ahrimanische Kultur fördern.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-11-15/p014"},{"locus":"GA 191/1919-11-15/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Was würde nun aber eintreten, wenn zum Beispiel die Menschen so blieben, wie sie heute gute Neigung haben zu sein, wenn sie also die zu Ahriman hinführenden Strömungen nicht in der Weise auffassen, durchschauen und dadurch in das richtige Geleise führen würden, wie wir das neulich besprochen haben? Dann würde eben, sobald Ahriman in dem bestimmten Zeitpunkte sich in der westlichen Welt inkarniert, die Menschheitskultur ganz ahrimanisiert werden. Was würde Ahriman bringen? Ahriman würde den Menschen durch die grandiosesten Künste alles dasjenige bringen, was bis dahin nur mit großer Mühe und Anstrengung erworben werden kann an hellseherischem Wissen, wie es hier gemeint ist. Denken Sie sich, wie unendlich bequem das sein würde! Die Menschen würden gar nichts zu tun brauchen. Sie würden materialistisch hinleben können, sie würden essen und trinken können, so viel eben nach der Kriegskatastrophe da ist, und würden sich nicht zu kümmern brauchen um irgendein Geistesstreben. Die Ahrimanströmungen würden ihren «schönen, guten» Verlauf nehmen. 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