{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 196/1920-02-08/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, however, significant distinctions arose among these populations, and the after-effects of these distinctions are still present. The after-effects of these distinctions can be understood by considering the following: there were certain sections of the population that migrated from the Atlantic continent to the east. We will ignore America for the moment, which was also populated from the Atlantic continent at that time, but we will ignore that. So certain parts of the population moved east. A number of them moved far into Asia, and among the populations that had moved from west to east in this way, those cultures emerged that we have described as ancient Indian culture, ancient Persian culture, ancient Egyptian- Chaldean culture, then the Greek-Latin contemporary culture, and now in Europe the fifth post-Atlantic culture, in which we ourselves live, which began around the middle of the 15th century. But these cultures arose in the following way: certain sections of the population, because of their psychological and physical make-up, found themselves drawn to go furthest across to Asia, while others remained behind in Europe. Later, of course, those migrations took place, of which external history also speaks, through which in turn certain sections of the population of Asia moved across to Europe. But what now forms the European population is partly, but not merely, the descendants of those who later moved over from Asia. Rather, what populates Europe today is also the descendants of those who originally remained behind during the migration from the Atlantic continent to the East. And much of what lives in the European human being can be traced back to the constitutions of body and soul of those who remained behind in Europe, who did not migrate to Asia. In Europe, we are dealing with a confluence of the most diverse population elements. But the fact that certain parts of the population moved over to Asia, while others remained behind in Europe, brought about a significant difference, a significant differentiation of the European-Astatic population. The populations that had originally migrated to Asia in the 8th, 7th, and 6th millennia were of such a nature that they incorporated human spiritual culture, which was able to spread, very strongly into the soul element. Now, one can still see in the population of Asia, which has indeed degenerated in certain respects, that this population has developed the spiritual and also the intellectual element essentially in the soul realm. It can be said, and this is not a figure of speech, but is actually the absolute truth: this eastern population, of which the Asian population is the most outstanding member, has allowed the body to take little part in its development. All that has been invented, that has lived and, to a certain extent, still lives in the culture of Asia, even in its decadence, depends little on the physical properties of the human being; it depends strongly on the properties of the soul. That is why the spiritual culture that emerged in Asia, which no longer exists today and is not appreciated today because the historical documents say little about it, can only be admired by those who are able to truly empathize with the tremendous spiritual insights that the Asian population was once able to achieve thousands of years ago.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Consciousness Evolution: Atlantean Divergence and Christian Incarnation","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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Eine Anzahl derselben zog weithin nach Asien, und es entstanden unter den Bevölkerungen, die auf diese Weise von Westen nach Osten gezogen waren, jene Kulturen, die wir bezeichnet haben als altindische Kultur, als altpersische Kultur, als altägyptisch-chaldäische Kultur, dann als die griechisch-lateinische Zeitkultur, und jetzt in Europa die fünfte nachatlantische Kultur, in der wir selber drinnen leben, welche um die Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts begonnen hat. Aber diese Kulturen entstanden ja auf die folgende Art: Gewisse Bevölkerungsteile fanden sich durch ihre Seelen- und Körperkonstitution eben veranlaßt, am weitesten zu ziehen nach Asien hinüber, andere blieben zurück in Europa. Es haben später allerdings jene Wanderungen stattgefunden, von denen auch die äußere Geschichte redet, durch die wiederum gewisse Bevölkerungsteile Asiens herüber nach Europa gezogen sind. Aber das, was jetzt die europäische Bevölkerung bildet, ist zwar zum Teil, aber nicht etwa bloß die Nachkommenschaft von dem, was später wiederum aus Asien herübergezogen ist, sondern was heute Europa bevölkert, ist auch die Nachkommenschaft dessen, was früher ursprünglich zurückgeblieben ist bei der Wanderung von dem atlantischen Kontinente nach dem Osten. Und vieles von dem, was in europäischen Menschen lebt, führt zurück in Körper- und Seelenkonstitutionen, welche dadurch zu erklären sind, daß mit ihnen behaftet waren eben die Menschen, die zurückgeblieben waren in Europa, die nicht hinübergezogen waren nach Asien. In Europa haben wir es eben durchaus mit einem Zusammenfließen der allerverschiedensten Bevölkerungselemente zu tun. Daß aber gewisse Teile der Bevölkerung nach Asien hinübergezogen, andere in Europa zurückgeblieben sind, das bewirkte einen bedeutsamen Unterschied, eine bedeutsame Differenzierung der europäisch-astatischen Bevölkerung. Diejenigen Bevölkerungen, die ursprünglich im 8., 7., 6. Jahrtausend in Asien bereits eingewandert waren, waren so geartet, daß sie die menschliche Geisteskultur, die sich ausbreiten konnte, sehr stark in das seelische Element hereinnahmen. Jetzt noch kann man es an der Bevölkerung Asiens, die ja in gewisser Beziehung verkommen ist, bemerken, daß diese Bevölkerung das geistige, auch das verstandesmäßige Element ausgebildet hat wesentlich im seelischen Teil. Man kann sagen, und das ist nicht bildlich gesprochen, sondern ist eigentlich die volle Wahrheit: Diese östliche Bevölkerung, deren hervorragendstes Glied die asiatische Bevölkerung ist, hat den Körper wenig an ihrer Entwickelung teilnehmen lassen. Alles dasjenige, was ersonnen worden ist, was gelebt hat und bis zu einem gewissen Grade auch in der Dekadenz noch in der Kultur Asiens lebt, ist wenig von körperlichen Eigenschaften des Menschen abhängig, es ist stark von seelischen Eigenschaften abhängig. Daher konnte in diesem Asien jene heute durchaus nicht mehr so bestehende, aber auch, weil die historischen Dokumente nur weniges darüber aussagen, heute nicht gewürdigte geistige Kultur entstehen, die eigentlich nur derjenige bewundern kann, der sich so recht hineinzuversetzen vermag in jene ungeheuren geistigen Tiefblicke, welche einmal vor Jahrtausenden die asiatische Bevölkerung hat tun können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":518,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/196/1920-02-08/p006"}],"english":["GA 196/1920-02-08/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":518,"en_words":546,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5473,"original_word_count":5331,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SOL2024/19200208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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