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So daß wir also auf die kosmische Tatsache hinweisen können: Michael hat die luziferischen Scharen in das Reich der Menschheit heruntergestoßen. Die luziferischen Scharen haben so zu ihrem Wohnsitz das menschliche Haupt bekommen, aber das menschliche Haupt im absterbenden Charakter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p011"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Hier begannen sie, diese luziferischen Scharen, fortdauernd gegen das Absterben des menschlichen Hauptes anzukämpfen. Und hier berühren wir ein zwar altbekanntes, in den verschiedensten Formen bekanntes, aber der neueren Menschheit fast ganz verhülltes Geheimnis der Menschennatur. Der Mensch trägt, wenn man seine göttliche Entwickelung ins Auge faßt, in seinem Haupt eine absterbende Entwickelung, ein fortwährendes Ersterben. Aber diesem fortwährenden Ersterben geht ein Anfachen des Lebens von seiten Luzifers parallel. Fortwährend will Luzifer unser Haupt zu einem so lebendigen machen, wie unser übriger Organismus ein lebendiger ist. Dadurch würde, wenn man auf das Organische sieht, Luzifer abtrünnig machen die Menschheitsentwickelung von ihrer göttlichen Richtung, wenn es ihm gelänge, tatsächlich das menschliche Haupt so zu beleben, wie der übrige Organismus des Menschen belebt ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p012"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Aber dagegen eben muß die göttliche Richtung der menschlichen Entwickelung sich wenden. Denn der Mensch muß verbunden bleiben mit der Erdenentwickelung, damit er mit der folgenden Erdenentwikkelung durch die Jupiter-, Venus- und Vulkanentwickelung weitergehen könne. Der Mensch würde diesen Weg, der ihm vorgezeichnet ist, nicht gehen, sondern er würde einem Kosmos einverleibt werden, der durch und durch intelligent wäre, wenn Luzifer sein Ziel erreichen würde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":65,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p013"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Ich möchte sagen, physiologisch gesprochen ist es eben so, daß Luzifer fortwährend in uns so tätig ist, daß er uns die Lebenskräfte, die das Haupt des Menschen durchdringen wollen, heraufsendet aus unserem übrigen Organismus. Seelisch gesprochen, will Luzifer fortwährend unserem Intelligenzinhalte, der ja nur Gedanken umschließt, Bilder umschließt, einen substantiellen Inhalt geben. Luzifer hat fortwährend die Tendenz - ich spreche dasselbe, was ich vorhin physisch gesprochen habe, jetzt seelisch —, Luzifer hat fortwährend die Tendenz, wenn wir formen, im Geiste ein Bild formen, irgend etwas, was meinetwillen künstlerische Gestaltung ist, dem einen wirklichen substantiellen Gehalt zu geben, also unsere Gedankeninhalte, unsere Vorstellungsinhalte zu durchdringen mit der gewöhnlichen irdischen Wirklichkeit. Dadurch würde er dasjenige erreichen, daß wir als Menschen verließen die andere Wirklichkeit und in eine Gedankenwirklichkeit überfliegen würden, die dann eine Realität wäre, nicht bloße Gedanken wäre. Diese Tendenz ist fortwährend mit unserem Menschenwesen verbunden, daß unsere Phantasien Wirklichkeiten werden sollen, und die größtdenkbaren Anstrengungen werden gemacht, damit die menschlichen Phantasien Wirklichkeiten werden können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p014"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nun hängt aber alles dasjenige, was es in der Menschheit gibt an inneren Krankheitsursachen, mit dieser luziferischen Tendenz zusammen. Das Durchschauen der Arbeit Luzifers in dieser Beziehung, des Hineinpressens von Vitalitätskräften in die absterbenden Kräfte des menschlichen Hauptes, das bedeutet in Wahrheit letzten Endes die Diagnose sämtlicher innerer Krankheiten. Und naturwissenschaftlich-medizinische Entwickelung muß dahin gehen, auf dieses luziferische Element zuletzt die Erkenntnis aufzubauen. Dies, einen solchen Einschlag zu geben, gehört zu den Tendenzen des in unsere menschliche Entwickelung hereinbrechenden Michael-Einflusses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p015"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Umgekehrt ist der ahrimanische Einfluß da. Er macht sich zunächst geltend aus der achten Sphäre heraus, aus der geschaffen ist unser übriger Organismus — außer dem Haupte -, der ist voller Vitalität, er ist durch seine eigene Organisation für die Vitalität geschaffen. Da hinein wirken nun die ahrimanischen Mächte. Die sind umgekehrt bestrebt, in die Vitalitätskräfte des übrigen Organismus hineinzusenden die Todeskräfte, die eigentlich der göttlichen Entwickelung nach in das Haupt gehören. So daß wir aus der achten Sphäre heraus die Kräfte des Todes in dieser Weise durch den Umweg des Ahriman vermittelt erhalten. Das ist wiederum physisch gesprochen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p016"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Seelisch gesprochen müßte ich mich so ausdrücken: Es wirkt alles dasjenige, was aus dieser achten Sphäre hereinwirkt, auf den menschlichen Willen, nicht auf die Intelligenz. Aber dem menschlichen Willen liegt der Wunsch zugrunde; in dem Willen steckt immer etwas vom Wünschen. Dasjenige, was als Wunschnatur zugrunde liegt dem Wollen, in das versucht fortwährend Ahriman hineinzubringen das persönliche Element des Menschen. Und dadurch, daß in der Wunschnatur das persönliche Element des Menschen verborgen liegt, dadurch ist unsere menschliche Seelen-Willenstätigkeit eben ein Abdruck unseres Entgegengehens dem Tode. Statt daß wir uns von den göttlichen Idealen durchdringen lassen, diese hineindringen lassen in unser Wünschen und dadurch in unseren Willen, wird etwas Persönliches in unser Wünschen, in unsern Willen hineingebracht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p017"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-23/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"So sind wir wirklich in dem Gleichgewichtszustande zwischen dem luziferischen und dem ahrimanischen Elemente. Das luziferisch-ahrimanische Element überliefert uns Krankheit und Tod im Physischen, im Seelischen entwickelt es uns all dasjenige, was als Täuschung auftritt dadurch, daß wir das eine oder das andere, was nur der Gedankenwelt, Vorstellungswelt, Phantasiewelt angehört, als eine Wirklichkeit ansehen. In bezug auf das geistige Element ferner dringt gerade die Begierde des Egoismus auf diesem Wege in unser Menschenwesen ein. Nun, so sehen wir verbunden mit der Menschennatur diese Dualität Luzifer-Ahriman. Und wie sich die moderne zivilisierte Menschheit über diese Dualität täuscht, täuschen kann, das habe ich Ihnen an Miltons «Verlorenem Paradies», an Klopstocks «Messias» und an Goethes «Faust» erläutert. Nun handelt es sich darum, daß wir als Menschheit in der Erdenentwickelung an einem Punkt angelangt sind, der sich dadurch charakterisieren läßt, daß wir gewissermaßen die Mitte der Erdenentwickelung schon überschritten haben. Nicht wahr, die Sache ist so (es wird gezeichnet): Die Erdenentwickelung war zunächst eine ansteigende, erreichte einen Höhepunkt, ist seit jener Zeit eine absteigende. Aus gewissen Gründen, die wir heute nicht zu erörtern brauchen, war eine Art von gleichbleibendem Niveau bis in die griechisch-lateinische Zeit, bis in das 15. Jahrhundert herein. Seit jener Zeit ist aber die Erdenmenschheitsentwickelung eine wirklich absteigende.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-23/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[10],"to":[11],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[11],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[13],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[15],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16],"to":[],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[17,18],"to":[17,18],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers).","unpaired":[16]}}