{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p022-p026","extent":"range","passage_number":22,"through":26,"paragraph_count":5,"first_locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p022","last_locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"V. The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence","date":"1919-11-29","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Lisa D. 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These beings possess chiefly the impulse of a force which is very similar to the human force of will, that force of will of which I told you yesterday that it exists in the deeper strata of the human consciousness. These invisible beings are related to that element of which ordinary consciousness thus remains unconscious today; but they already make themselves very strongly felt in the development of present-day humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-29/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":104,"en_words":107,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The one who knows that not more than thirty or forty people participated in Europe in the decisive events of the year 1914, and who also knows the soul condition in which most of these people were, will be confronted by this significant problem. For most of these people, as strange as it may sound today, my dear friends, most of these people had a dulled, obscured state of consciousness. During the last few years much has occurred that was caused by a dulled human consciousness. In the decisive places of the year 1914 we see everywhere that the most important decisions of the end of July and the beginning of August were reached with an obscured consciousness; and this has continued on right into our present day. This is a problem, terrifying in its nature. If we investigate it spiritual-scientifically, then we find that these obscured consciousnesses were the gateways through which precisely these will-beings were able to take possession of the consciousness of these men; they took possession of the obscured, veiled consciousness of these human beings and acted with *their* consciousness. And these beings who thus took possession, who are still sub-human beings, what kind of beings are they? 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Thus we may say: if we look back into the evolution of the *Earth*, we find the *Michael-deed*, and to this Michael-deed is joined the illumination of man by his reason.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":174,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-29/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p021"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":160,"en_words":174,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Indeed, my dear friends, as long as one does not take into consideration these forces as forces objectively existing in the world just as one takes into consideration what today is called magnetism, electricity, and so forth, one will not gain an insight into that nature which, according to Goethe's prose *Hymn to Nature*, comprises man. For nature, as it is conceived of in today's natural science does not contain man, but merely the human physical self.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-29/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1919-11-29","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p023"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p024"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":153,"en_words":151,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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We shall not comprehend the human race without taking these beings into consideration. And these beings, who are, as it were, pushed from behind, for behind them there stands the Ahrimanic power which endows them with their strong will power, which pours into them their directive forces,—these beings who as such are sub-human beings are controlled in their totality by higher Ahrimanic spirits and thus contain something which far surpasses their own nature and being. Therefore they show something in their appearance which, if it takes the human being captive, acts much more strongly, very much more strongly than that which the weak human being can control today, if he does not strengthen it through the spirit. What is the aim of this host? Well, my dear friends, just as the hosts which Michael has pushed down have aimed at human illumination, at human permeation with reason, so these hosts aim at a certain permeation of human willing. And what do they want? They burrow, as it were, in the deepest stratum of consciousness in which the human being is still asleep today in his waking state. Man does not notice how these beings enter his soul and also his body. Here they suck in, with their power of attraction, everything that has remained Luciferic, that has not become Christ-permeated. This they can reach: this they can take possession of.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":339,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/194/1919-11-29/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Lisa D. 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Diese Wesenheiten haben zunächst vorzugsweise ausgebildet den Impuls einer Kraft, die sehr ähnlich ist der menschlichen Willenskraft, jener Willenskraft, von der ich Ihnen gestern gesagt habe, wie sie unten ist in tieferen Schichten des menschlichen Bewußtseins. Mit dem, was da dem gewöhnlichen heutigen Bewußtsein unbewußt bleibt, mit dem verwandt sind diese unsichtbaren Wesenheiten, die sich aber schon sehr stark geltend machen in der Entwickelung der heutigen Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p019"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Für den, der die Geistesforschung konkret ernst nimmt, ist das ein Problem von gewaltiger Größe. Mir trat dieses Problem besonders stark entgegen — und ich habe es dazumal zu verschiedenen unserer Freunde in der einen oder in der anderen Form ausgesprochen -, mir trat dieses Problem besonders stark entgegen, ich möchte sagen, fordernd entgegen, als im Jahre 1914 diese Kriegskatastrophe ausbrach. Da mußte man sich fragen: Wie stürmte über die europäische Menschheit herein ein Ereignis, das etwa so auszumessen nach seinen Verursachungen, wie man das gewohnt ist gegenüber früheren geschichtlichen Ereignissen, tatsächlich unmöglich ist? Wer da weiß, daß bei den entscheidenden Dingen doch im Jahre 1914 kaum mehr als dreißig bis vierzig Menschen in Euröpa beteiligt waren, und wer da weiß, in welcher Seelenverfassung die meisten dieser Menschen waren, für den kommt das eigentlich bedeutsame Problem herauf: Denn die meisten dieser Menschen, so sonderbar das heute klingt, die meisten dieser Menschen waren von getrübtem Bewußtsein, von verdunkeltem Bewußtsein. Überhaupt hat sich in den letzten Jahren ungeheuer viel zugetragen von der Art, das verursacht ist von getrübtem menschlichem Bewußtsein. An den entscheidenden Stellen des Jahres 1914 sehen wir überall, wie geradezu aus Bewußtseinsverdüsterung heraus Ende Juli und Anfang August die wichtigsten Entschlüsse gefaßt wurden, und wiederum durch diese Jahre hindurch bis in unsere Gegenwart herein. Das ist ein Problem, furchtbar in seiner Art. Untersucht man es geisteswissenschaftlich, dann findet man, daß diese verdunkelten Bewußtseine die Tore waren, durch die gerade diese Willenswesen von dem Bewußtsein dieser Menschen Besitz ergriffen haben, von dem umdunkelten, umflorten Bewußtsein dieser Menschen Besitz ergriffen haben und gewirkt haben mit ihrem Bewußtsein. Und diese Wesen, die da Besitz ergriffen haben, die noch untermenschliche Wesen sind, was für Wesenheiten sind sie wiederum? Diese Frage müssen wir uns einmal ganz ernsthaftig vorlegen: Was sind das eigentlich für Wesenheiten?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p020"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Nun, wir haben gefragt nach dem Ursprung der menschlichen Intelligenz, nach dem Ursprung des menschlichen intelligenten Verhaltens, das, einfach gesprochen, zu seinem Werkzeug unsere Kopforganisation hat. Und wir haben gesehen, daß diese intelligente Verfassung unserer Seele herrührt von jener Tat Michaels, des Erzengels, die man gewöhnlich symbolisch darstellt als den Sturz, das Herabwerfen des Drachens. Das ist eigentlich ein sehr triviales Symbolum. Denn wenn man sich richtig vorstellt Michael mit dem Drachen, so hat man sich vorzustellen: das Michael-Wesen — und der Drache ist eigentlich alles das, was einzieht in unsere sogenannte Vernunft, in unsere Intelligenz. Nicht in eine Hölle stürzt Michael seine gegnerischen Scharen, sondern in die menschlichen Köpfe hinein. (Es wird gezeichnet.) Da lebt dieser luziferische Impuls weiter. Ich habe Ihnen ja charakterisiert die menschliche Intelligenz als einen eigentlich luziferischen Impuls. Wir können also sagen: Blicken wir zurück im Erdenwerden, so finden wir die Michael-Tat, und an diese Michael-Tat ist gebunden die Erleuchtung des Menschen mit seiner Vernunft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p021"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"![194-09](images/194-09.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p022"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Was jetzt eintritt, die untermenschlichen Wesenheiten, die in ihrem Hauptcharakter einen Impuls haben, der sehr stark übereinstimmt mit dem menschlichen Willen, mit der menschlichen Willenskraft, die kommen gewissermaßen von unten herauf, während jene von Michael gestürzten Scharen oder Kräfte von oben kamen. Und während diese Besitz ergriffen von dem menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögen, ergreifen jene Besitz von der menschlichen Willenskraft, vereinigen sich mit ihr und sind Wesen, die aus dem Reich des Ahriman erzeugt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":73,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p023"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"![194-09a](images/194-09a.webp)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":0,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p024"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Ahrimanische Einflüsse waren es, die durch diese umdunkelten Bewußtseine wirkten. Ja, so lange man nicht wird diese Kräfte ebenso behandeln als objektiv in der Welt vorhandene Kräfte wie dasjenige, was man heute Magnetismus, Elektrizität und so weiter nennt, solange wird man keine Einsicht gewinnen in diejenige Natur, die nach Goethes Dichtung, Goethes Prosahymnus auch den Menschen mit umfaßt. Denn die Natur, die sich die heutige Naturforschung vorstellt, in der ist der Mensch nicht drinnen, sondern nur das menschliche physische Gehäuse.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p025"},{"locus":"GA 194/1919-11-29/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Diese Wesenheiten, die also ebenso einen Aufstieg ahrimanischen Wesens vorstellen, wie das, was im Beginne des Erdenwerdens das Herabfallen des luziferischen Wesens ist, diese Wesen, die ebenso eine Influenzierung der menschlichen Willenskraft darstellen, wie die anderen Wesen eine Influenzierung der luziferischen Vorstellungskraft, diese Wesenheiten müssen wir in ihrer Ankunft innerhalb der Menschheitsentwickelung erkennen. Wir müssen uns klar sein, daß diese Wesen ankommen und daß wir rechnen müssen mit einer Naturauffassung, die zunächst sich allerdings nur auf den Menschen erstreckt. Denn das Tierreich wird erst später in der Erdenzeit einbezogen, auf das Tier haben sie noch keinen Einfluß. Das Menschengeschlecht aber wird man nicht verstehen, ohne daß man auf diese Wesen Rücksicht nehmen wird. Und diese Wesen, die, ich möchte sagen, von hinten geschoben werden — denn hinter ihnen steht eigentlich das Ahrimanische, das ihnen ihre starke Willenskraft gibt, das ihnen eingießt ihre Richtungskräfte und so weiter —, diese Wesenheiten, die für sich untermenschliche Wesenheiten sind, sind aber in ihrer Masse beherrscht von höheren ahrimanischen Geistern und haben dadurch etwas in sich, was weit hinausgeht über ihre eigene Natur und Wesenheit. Dadurch zeigen sie in ihrem Auftreten etwas, was sogar, wenn es den Menschen gefangen nimmt, stärker wirkt, wesentlich stärker als dasjenige, worüber der schwache Mensch, wenn er es nicht durch den Geist stärkt, heute Herr sein kann. Worauf geht diese Schar aus? Sehen Sie, so wie die Scharen, die Michael herabgestoßen hat, diese luziferischen Scharen, ausgegangen sind auf menschliche Erleuchtung, auf menschliche Durchvernünftigung, so gehen diese Scharen aus auf eine gewisse Durchdringung des menschlichen Willens. Und was wollen sie? Sie wühlen gewissermaßen in der tiefsten Schichte des Bewußtseins, wo der Mensch heute auch noch wachend schläft. Der Mensch merkt nicht, wie sie in sein Seelenwesen, wie auch in sein Leibeswesen hereinkommen. Da aber ziehen sie mit ihren Anziehungskräften an alledem, was luziferisch geblieben ist, was nicht durchchristet geworden ist. Das können sie auch erreichen, dessen können sie sich bemächtigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":319,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/194/1919-11-29/p026"}],"beads":[{"from":[22],"to":[19],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[20],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[21,22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[23,24,25],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"high"}],"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)."}}