{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-03-20/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You can therefore say that today, in this fifth post-Atlantean period, we are indeed different men in our sense-faculties from the characteristic men of the fourth period, the Greco-Latin people. This is all connected with what has been said before. During the time when spiritual forces still arose from the emotions, from sympathies and antipathies, even from the body in its hunger, thirst, its satiation, these spiritual forces poured into the sense-organs. And these spiritual forces, streaming up from the lower bodily nature to pour themselves into the sense-organs, are those which play the chief part for the eyes in giving life to the various shades of yellow and red, enabling these colours to be perceived. The time has now come when the reverse is the most important task for mankind. The Greeks were still organised in such a way that their beautiful world-conception was mediated through their senses, into which flowed their organic life permeated by spirit. In the course of centuries this spirit-filled organic life has been suppressed by men. Out of our soul, out of our spirit, we must infuse it with fresh life; we must acquire the faculty for making our way into soul and spirit—as spiritual science enables us to do. By acquiring this faculty through spiritual science we shall take the opposite direction. In the case of the Greeks the streams came from the body to pour into the eye (see red in diagram I); the reverse must take place with us; we have so to develop soul and spirit that the streams (see blue in diagram I) from the soul and spirit reach the human organisation; and we must receive these streams in the other senses as well as in the eye. The way for mankind in future must be in the reverse direction to that of the middle of the fourth post-Atlantean culture-epoch. Then the reflective man will once again become a knower of the spirit, but in another form, because of what comes to him from above. We have grown to be sensitive to the blue side of the spectrum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Knowledge as a Source of Healing I","site_heading":"Knowledge as Healing: Restoring Spiritual Science to Society","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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In der Zeit, in der noch aus den Emotionen, aus den Sympathien und Antipathien, selbst aus dem Körperlichen, wie Hunger und Durst und Sättigung, aufstiegen spirituelle Kräfte, da ergossen sich diese spirituellen Kräfte bis in die Sinnesorgane hinein, Und die gewissermaßen aus dem Unterleiblichen heraufströmenden, sich in die Sinnesorgane hineinergießenden Kräfte, sie sind für den Sinn des Auges diejenigen, die vorzugsweise die gelben und die roten Farbennuancen beleben, die Fähigkeit beleben, diese Farbennuance wahrzunehmen. Wir sind heute in das Zeitalter eingetreten, wo das Umgekehrte zu einer wichtigen Aufgabe der Menschheit wird. Die Griechen waren noch so organisiert, daß ihre schöne Weltanschauung dadurch durch ihre Sinne vermittelt wurde, daß in diese Sinne sich hineinergoß ihr durchgeistigtes organisches Leben. Wir haben unterdrückt als Menschheit durch Jahrhunderte dieses durchgeistigte organische Leben. Wir müssen es von der Seele aus, vom Geiste aus wieder beleben. Wir müssen uns die Fähigkeit aneignen, ins Seelisch-Geistige einzudringen, wie das Geisteswissenschaft vermitteln will. Und indem wir uns die Fähigkeit aneignen, ins Geistig-Seelische hineinzudringen, wie das Geisteswissenschaft vermitteln will, werden wir den umgekehrten Weg machen. Bei den Griechen war es so, daß von dem Leiblichen aus gewissermaßen die Strömungen gingen und sich ergossen bis ins Auge hinein (siehe Zeichnung, rot); bei uns muß das Umgekehrte stattfinden. Wir müssen das Geistig-Seelische ausbilden (siehe Zeichnung, blau), die Strömung muß sich von diesem Geistig-Seelischen nach der Organisation des Menschen erstrecken, und wir müssen vom Geistig-Seelischen die Strömungen in das Auge und in die anderen Sinne hineinbekommen. Der umgekehrte Weg muß derjenige der Zukunftsmenschheit werden gegenüber dem, der bis in die Mitte der vierten nachatlantischen Kultur der Weg der Menschheit war. 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