{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 200/1920-10-22/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The East had once a grand and lofty life of spirit. All spirituality—with the exception of what is striven for in Anthroposophy and is trying to give itself new form—all spirituality of the civilized world is, in actual fact, a legacy of the East. But the real glory of this religious-spiritual life was present in the East only in ancient times. And today the Eastern human being, even in Russia, finds himself in a strange disharmony because on the one hand he still lives in the ancient spiritual element of his heritage and, on the other, there is also working in him that which comes out of the present epoch of human development; namely the training towards becoming an individuality. This brings about a situation such that, in the East, there is a strong decadence in humanity; that, in a sense, the human being cannot become a full human being; that hard on the heels of this Eastern human being, as far west as Russia, is the spiritual heritage of ancient times. And this has the effect that when today the consciousness of this Eastern human being is lowered, when he is in a condition of sleep or dreaming, or in some kind of mediumistic trance state which is so very frequent in the East, he is then, indeed, not entirely impregnated by another being as in the West, but this being works into his soul nature; these beings, as it were, appear to him. Whereas in the West it is premature beings of three kinds that are at work (which I have ennumerated), in the East it is retarded beings, beings that have remained behind from an earlier evolutionary stage of perfection and who now appear to human beings of the East in a mediumistic state, in dreams, or simply during sleep, so that the human being in a waking state then bears within him the inspirations of such beings; is inspired during the day by the after-effects of beings of this kind who come over him during the night.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Spiritual Beings Behind Economic, Political, and Religious Impulses","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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Alle Geistigkeit, mit Ausnahme dessen, was angestrebt wird in der Anthroposophie und was neu sich gestalten will, alle Geistigkeit der zivilisierten Welt ist ja im Grunde genommen Erbstück des Ostens. Aber die eigentliche Glorie dieses religiös-geistigen Lebens war im Osten eben in sehr alten Zeiten vorhanden. Und heute ist gerade der östliche Mensch bis herein nach Rußland in einem merkwürdigen Zwiespalt, weil er auf der einen Seite noch aus seinem Erbe heraus in dem alten spirituellen Elemente lebt, und weil auf der anderen Seite auch auf ihn wirkt dasjenige, was aus der gegenwärtigen Epoche der Menschheitsentwickelung kommt, das Drängen zur Individualität hin. Das bedingt, daß im Osten eine starke Dekadenz der Menschheit ist, daß gewissermaßen der Mensch nicht Vollmensch werden kann, daß ihm noch im Nacken sitzt, diesem östlichen Menschen bis herein nach Rußland, was geistiges Erbe uralter Zeiten ist. Und das bedingt, daß dieser östliche Mensch heute dann, wenn sein Bewußtsein herabgestimmt ist, wenn er im Schlaf- oder Traumzustand ist, oder in irgendeinen da im Osten so unendlich häufigen medialen Zustand kommt, daß er dann zwar nicht imprägniert wird, wie im Westen, mit einer ganz anderen Wesenheit, daß aber diese Wesenheit hereinwirkt in sein Seelisches, daß ihm gewissermaßen diese anderen Wesenheiten erscheinen. Während es im Westen verfrühte Wesenheiten von drei Gattungen sind, die ich aufgezählt habe, die da wirken, sind es im Osten verspätete Wesenheiten, die ihre Vollkommenheit früher gehabt haben, die zurückgeblieben sind, und die jetzt den Menschen des Ostens in medialem Zustande, im Traume erscheinen, oder auch über sie kommen ohne Traum, ohne medialen Einfluß, einfach dadurch, daß sie in den Schlaf hineinkommen, und der Mensch dann im wachen Zustande die Inspiration solcher Wesenheiten in sich trägt, also gewissermaßen bei Tag von den Nachwirkungen solcher Wesenheiten, die über ihn in der Nacht kommen, inspiriert ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p018"}],"english":["GA 200/1920-10-22/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":305,"en_words":341,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.13,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5286,"original_word_count":4688,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Paul King","identified_edition":"RSP1988","book_title":"The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA200/English/RSP1988/19201022p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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