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Let us, at the outset, fix our attention upon the most external aspect of these beings. They dwell in the same spheres in which we human beings live. Considering their most external aspect, we may think of all Luciferic beings as possessing those forces which we feel when there arises in us the tendency to become fantastic, when we yield one-sidedly to fancy and over-enthusiasm, when we—if I may express it pictorially—tend to go out with our being beyond our head. If we tend to go out beyond our head, we employ forces which play a certain role in our human organism but which are the universal forces of the beings we call Luciferic. 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One can say, man is always in a midway position between the intentions of his blood and the intentions of his bones. The bones constantly tend to ossify us; in other words, to “ahrimanize” our bodies, to harden us. The blood would like to drive us out beyond ourselves. Expressed in pathological terms, the blood may become feverish. Then the human being is organically driven into phantasms. The bones may spread their nature over the rest of the organism. Then the human being becomes ossified, becomes sclerotic, as nearly everyone does to a certain degree in old age. Then he carries the death-dealing element in his organism, namely, the Ahrimanic element. We may say that everything that lives in the blood tends toward the Luciferic, everything that lives in the bones has the tendency toward the Ahrimanic. The human being is the equilibrium between the two, as he, from the aspect of the soul, has to be the equilibrium between over-enthusiastic and sober philistinism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-21/p018","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. Monges","identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Mission of the Archangel Michael","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/MissMich/19191121p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 194/1919-11-21/p018"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Do not misunderstand me: it is not the prime intention of the Luciferic beings to appropriate the world to themselves. From various things I have said about them you can gather that this is not their chief intention; their chief aim is to make the human being forsake his own divine creator-beings, to liberate the world from these beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-21/p019","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. 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Fassen wir zunächst nur einmal, ich möchte sagen, das Alleräußerlichste an diesen Wesen, an den luziferischen und ahrimanischen Wesenheiten ins Auge. Sie bewohnen ebenso wie wir Menschen die Sphären, in denen wir eben drinnenstehen. Wenn wir ihr Außerlichstes ins Auge fassen, so können wir sagen: Alle luziferischen Wesenheiten können wir uns vorstellen als Inhaber derjenigen Kräfte, die wir als Menschen dann verspüren, wenn wir phantastisch werden wollen, wenn wir einseitig uns der Phantasie hingeben, wenn wir einseitig uns der Schwärmerei hingeben, wenn wir — um mich bildlich auszudrücken — mit unserem Wesen über unseren Kopf hinaus wollen. Wenn wir als Mensch mit unserem Wesen über unseren Kopf hinaus wollen, so sind das Kräfte, welche in unserer Menschenorganisation eine gewisse Rolle spielen, die aber die universellen Kräfte derjenigen Wesen sind, die wir luziferische Wesen nennen. Denken Sie sich Wesen, ganz geformt aus dem, was in uns über unseren Kopf hinausstreben will, so haben Sie die luziferischen, die mit unserer Menschenwelt in einer gewissen Beziehung stehen. Denken Sie sich umgekehrt alles dasjenige, was uns auf die Erde drückt, alles dasjenige, was uns zu nüchternen Philistern macht, was uns dazu bringt, materialistische Gesinnungen zu entwickeln, was uns durchdringt mit dem, was wir nennen können trockenen Verstand und so weiter, so haben Sie die ahrimanischen Mächte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p017"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Man kann alles dasjenige, was ich jetzt eben mehr seelisch gesagt habe, auch mehr leiblich ausdrücken. Man kann sagen: Der Mensch ist eigentlich immer in einer Art Mittelpunktslage zwischen dem, was sein Blut mit ihm will, und dem, was seine Knochen mit ihm wollen. Die Knochen wollen uns fortwährend zum Erstarren bringen, die Knochen wollen uns mit anderen Worten auch leiblich ahrimanisch machen, verhärten. Das Blut möchte uns über uns selbst hinaustreiben. Pathologisch gesprochen: Das Blut kann fiebrig werden, dann wird der Mensch auch organisch in die Phantasterei hineingetrieben; die Knochen können ihr Wesen ausdehnen über den übrigen Organismus, dann verknöchert der Mensch, er wird sklerotisch, wie es fast jeder Mensch im Alter bis zu einem gewissen Grade wird. Dann trägt er das tötende Element in seinem Organismus in sich: Das ist das Ahrimanische. Man kann sagen: Alles dasjenige, was im Blute liegt, hat die Hinneigung zum Luziferischen, alles dasjenige, was in den Knochen liegt, hat die Hinneigung zum Ahrimanischen, und der Mensch ist die Gleichgewichtslage zwischen beiden, so wie er die Gleichgewichtslage sein muß in seelischer Beziehung zwischen der Schwärmerei und der nüchternen Philistrosität.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p018"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Wir können aber auch in einer gewissen Weise tiefer diese beiden Wesenheiten charakterisieren. Wir können einmal uns die luziferischen Wesenheiten anschauen, was sie gewissermaßen im kosmischen Dasein für Interessen haben. Und da findet man, daß die Juziferischen Wesenheiten vor allen Dingen das Interesse haben im Kosmos, die Welt, namentlich die Menschenwelt, abtrünnig zu machen von denjenigen geistigen Wesenheiten, die wir als die eigentlichen menschenschöpferischen Wesenheiten auffassen müssen. Die luziferischen Wesenheiten möchten nichts anderes, als die Welt, man könnte sagen, von den göttlichen Wesenheiten abtrünnig machen. Nicht so sehr, daß luziferische Wesenheiten in erster Linie die Absicht hätten, sich selber die Welt anzueignen. Sie werden aus Verschiedenem, was ich schon gesagt habe über die luziferischen Wesenheiten, entnehmen können, daß das nicht die Hauptsache ist bei den luziferischen Wesenheiten, sondern die Hauptsache ist: von dem, was der Mensch empfinden kann als seine eigentlichen göttlichen Wesenheiten, abtrünnig zu machen die Welt, frei zu machen die Welt davon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p019"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten haben eine andere Absicht. Sie haben die entschiedene Absicht, namentlich das Menschenreich, aber damit die übrige Erde, in ihre Machtsphäre zu bekommen, von sich abhängig zu machen, namentlich zunächst die Menschen als solche zu beherrschen. Während also die luziferischen Wesenheiten darauf hinarbeiten zunächst und immer hingearbeitet haben, die Menschen abtrünnig zu machen von dem, was die Menschheit als ihr Göttliches empfinden kann, haben die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten die Tendenz, die Menschheit und alles, was dazu gehört, in ihre Machtsphäre allmählich einzubeziehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":83,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p020"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"So ist eigentlich in unserem Kosmos, in den wir hineinverwoben sind als Menschen, ein Kampf vorhanden zwischen den fortwährend nach Freiheit, nach universeller Freiheit strebenden luziferischen Wesenheiten, und den nach einer immerwährenden Macht und Kraft strebenden ahrimanischen Wesenheiten. Dieser Kampf, in dem wir drinnenstehen, durchdringt alles. Das bitte ich Sie als die zweite für unsere weitere Betrachtung wichtige Idee festzuhalten. Die Welt, in der wir drinnenstehen, ist durchdrungen von luziferischen und ahrimanischen Wesenheiten, und es besteht dieser gewaltige Gegensatz zwischen der befreienden Tendenz der luziferischen Wesenheiten und der nach Macht strebenden Tendenz der ahrimanischen Wesenheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p021"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Wenn Sie diese ganze Sache ins Auge fassen, dann werden Sie sich sagen: Verstehen kann ich die Welt eigentlich nur, wenn ich sie mit Bezug auf die Dreizahl ins Auge fasse. Denn wir haben auf der einen Seite alles dasjenige, was luziferisch ist, auf der anderen Seite alles dasjenige, was ahrimanisch ist, mitten hineingestellt den Menschen, der als ein Drittes, wie im Gleichgewichtszustande zwischen beiden, sein Göttliches empfinden muß. Nur dadurch kommt man mit dem Weltverständnis zurecht, daß man diese Dreiheit zugrunde legt, daß man sich klar darüber ist: Es ist dieses menschliche Leben wie ein Waagebalken (siehe Zeichnung S. 19). Hier das Hypomochlion, da eine Waagschale, das Luziferische, das aber in Wirklichkeit hinaufzieht. Auf der anderen Seite das Ahrimanische, das in Wirklichkeit hinunterzieht. Den Waagebalken im Gleichgewicht zu erhalten, das ist das Wesen des Menschen. Es haben diejenigen, die eingeweiht waren in solche Geheimnisse, immer betont in der geistigen Menschheitsentwickelung, daß man das Weltendasein, in das der Mensch hineingestellt ist, nur im Sinne der Dreizahl verstehen kann, daß man nicht verstehen kann die Welt, wenn man sie gewissermaßen auffassen will in ihrer Grundstruktur im Sinne der anderen Zahlen als im Sinne der Dreizahl. So daß wir sagen dürfen, in unserer Sprache sprechend: Wir haben es zu tun im Weltendasein mit dem Luziferischen, das die eine Waagschale, dem Ahrimanischen, das die andere Waagschale darstellt, und dem Gleichgewichtszustande, der uns darstellt den Christus-Impuls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p022"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"![194-02](images/194-02.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p023"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-21/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Nun können Sie sich denken, daß es durchaus im Interesse der ahrimanischen und der luziferischen Mächte liegt, dieses Geheimnis der Dreizahl zu verhüllen. Denn die richtige Durchdringung dieses Geheimnisses der Dreizahl befähigt ja die Menschheit, den Gleichgewichtszustand zwischen ahrimanischen und luziferischen Mächten herzustellen. Das heißt auf der einen Seite, alle Tendenz nach Freiheit, das Luziferische, zu benützen zu einem gedeihlichen Weltenziele, auf der anderen Seite das gleiche zu tun mit dem Ahrimanischen. Des Menschen normalster Geisteszustand besteht darin, in der richtigen Weise sich hineinzuversetzen in diese Trinität der Welt, in diese Struktur der Welt, insofern ihr die Dreizahl zugrunde liegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-21/p024"}],"beads":[{"from":[16,17],"to":[17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[18],"to":[18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19],"to":[19],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[20],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[22],"to":[22,23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[23],"to":[24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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