{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p007-p018","extent":"range","passage_number":7,"through":18,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p007","last_locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","date":"1920-12-12","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Here we have to become serious regarding anthroposophic wisdom. From this viewpoint we need to not merely look back at people or the number of people in the present, insofar this person or these people directly have inherited characteristics from their forebears, but we need to be practical and clear that in every one of these people there is a soul-spiritual element which had lived for a long time in the soul-spiritual world before it came in to a particular physical body. When we have a person present in front of us, we need to say to ourselves: we look lovingly at him, he actually displays inherited qualities from previous generations. We also observe him soul-spiritually. He has a soul which has absolutely nothing directly to do with previous generations, which also have not had much to do with generations even further back, who in a much earlier time than now had been on the earth, and who, during an entire row of generations, developed in such a way that he didn't stand directly in relation to the earth's evolution, who, during the course of generations, had been in the soul-spiritual world. It is one-sided to consider mankind only according to inherited characteristics of generations. It is finally also only an illusion to consider mankind or historical origins this way. It is argued that one would understand these things, but in fact they are not understood at all in reality. There is theorizing about this and that, what mankind is doing at present, how they live there, the affect of this or that inherited quality. Yet if we could be sufficiently impartial we would in innumerable situations, yes, everywhere, say: what a person takes on from generation to generation of further developing physical qualities, is not by any means clear in one or other area, whether with individuals or with some kind of nation, or race type of relationship. If one wants to come to the reality, if one doesn't allow the continuation of abstraction, when one is also a materialist—which is after all only an abstraction, even a materialistic abstraction—then one must consider how someone living in the present had taken what had been in his bloodline, and be clear about the forces within his soul, which had lived for a long time in the spiritual world before his reincarnation into this body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":462,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p007"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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This may not at all be understood as when something previously stated in all truthfulness, even applied to several people, should now be corrected; so to add to this, the following must be said.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":104,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.81,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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He expects nothing throughout, that this or that will be the result, but is surprised by the results.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p009","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.99,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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This was already becoming decadent during the times of the conquests, but this decadent revelation pointed back to the veneration of a Great Spirit, which flowed and wove through everything and had its lower forces within separate elemental spirits.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":171,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p010"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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In addition what developed in these souls was their ability to spend a relatively short time between death and a new birth. They needed no great period of time but it was intensive, unbelievably simple, elementary what these souls lived through in processing the spiritual world. So not only the souls of the Indian population, as they lived in the time of the conquest of the West—in this case nearly all—but also later souls, have already essentially returned into the western European population.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p011"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.93,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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Already in the first weeks of their upbringing spent in their environment—because even outer culture, outer civilization propagates in a straight line from generation to generation, but excluding inner soul impulses—these people outwardly adopt Christianity and then from outside they are moulded which we today often encounter as singular and unique. By our impartial observation these people may be seen, if our glance is penetrated thoroughly into its spiritual-intellectual-characteristic aspect, as if something is pulsing within them, something which had been conveyed by their soul from the past.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p012"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.9,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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These things can't be solved by speculation. They have to come about through presented experiences and are often found in established literary methods. Whoever verifies this outwardly will find that light is shed on the outer world, based on knowledge like this.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":54,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p013"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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These souls certainly needed longer to return after death into a new birth than did the American Indian souls; it involved souls who had gone through their physical existence earlier than those others who we considered as the last Indian souls, actually the Indian souls during the time of conquest. What the destiny of these earlier Indian souls was, we will not explore now. However, these souls who incarnated in the first Christian century in Europe and who were present in the cultural spread of Christianity from the south to the north, these incarnated now more towards Asia. What I am now describing reveals, particularly clear in these times, how the dreadful catastrophe of the second decade of the twentieth century is so closely stitched into it. In our study of the present earth civilisation now appears something extraordinarily meaningful, for we notice that these souls have incarnated into the Japanese population; that the kind of Christianising a soul had undergone through Europe's Christianizing, who now hear no sound of Christianity from infancy, who only through the subconscious carry a certain nuance of Asian decadence as a result of the then Christianising impulse which they still carry within them, now turn against the present Europe. It is essentially a result of the total decadence of declining oriental wisdom—which at one time was so great, as I have depicted for you—in harmony with the first primitive Christian impulses, how they originated when Christianity in Europe spread from the south to the north under the barbaric populations. This is how it was essentially in the major part of the population. Certainly it complicated things as a result, that this population was thus originated—the souls of the American ancient population like the Central European population both moving eastwards—intermixing into many unique bodies now occupied by souls who had lived during the first Christian centuries more towards the south. These are now right within the populations which originated in this way as I have described to you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":408,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p014","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p014"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.91,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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I'm talking about souls who stood far from the Mystery of Golgotha but who had a particular culture of wisdom which could not be transplanted into the West, and from which the Mystery of Golgotha could be understood as coming out of Hellenism, out of the Roman culture.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p015"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":0.98,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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The philistine who wants to balance everything out, will also have an explanation, and the person with a disposition of having ingenious qualities will have another explanation. All three are confronted with the same reality but their explanations are completely different and one is not justified to identify either the one or the other as the actual reality. In the same way one may not identify the teachings of the first Christians with the reality of Christianity. These teachings of the first Christian centuries came out of the Orient. One actually learnt what the teachings of oriental wisdom were and they were used to illuminate the Mystery of Golgotha. It is naturally terribly tyrannical when progressive churches take this teaching as the only valid interpretation of the Mystery of Golgotha, because it is nothing other than an interpretation according to the preconditions of a certain age. Other times could interpret the Mystery of Golgotha differently. We must explain it spiritual scientifically to justify the demands of the present time.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"discrepancy","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":["Christ"],"bead_confidence":"high","bead_length_ratio":1.05,"likely_cause":"unresolved","note":"NAME MISMATCH between this English passage and its German counterpart. 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Those souls who lived just before and also during the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and who were actual oriental souls, experienced a long stretch of time between their death and rebirth while the oriental culture, even in its decadent form, presented extraordinary images to these souls.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":94,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p017","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-12/p017"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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The entire American culture with its materialistic aspect, essentially originated out of this appearance of souls who were essentially oriental souls during the time which I have just characterized for you, and who now penetrated bodies with the experience that this embodiment was strange, allowing themselves to be sucked into this embodiment which they did not understand, but took as primitively materialistic and appeared strange because they had basically lived in strong abstractions in their previous earthly life. They could not enter into themselves in their present incarnation but carried over from their previous life what had then been experienced as outer nature observation in an attitude of secluded, often sectarian religiosity. This exists in the denial of matter with Mrs *Eddy*, with the Scientologists and so on. 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Aber hier ist es gerade, wo Ernst gemacht werden muß mit dem, was uns die anthroposophischen Erkenntnisse geben. Von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus müssen wir ja nicht bloß hinblicken auf den Menschen oder auf eine Anzahl von Menschen der Gegenwart, insofern dieser Mensch oder diese Menschen die von den unmittelbar vorangehenden Generationen vererbten Merkmale haben, sondern wir müssen uns praktisch klar sein darüber, daß in jedem einzelnen Menschen ein Seelisch-Geistiges vorhanden ist, das ja eine lange Zeit in der geistig-seelischen Welt durchlebt hat, bevor es in diesen physischen Leib hereingekommen ist. So daß, wenn wir einen gegenwärtigen Menschen vor uns haben, wir uns sagen müssen: Wir sehen ihn leiblich an; da trägt er allerdings die vererbten Merkmale, von den früheren Generationen herrührend. Aber wir sehen ihn auch geistig-seelisch an. Da trägt er in sich eine Seele, die ja zunächst gar nichts zu tun hat mit den unmittelbar vorangehenden Generationen, die auch mit weiter zurückliegenden Generationen nicht viel zu tun hat, die in einer sehr viel früheren Zeit als die jetzige hier auf der Erde war, die also, während eine ganze Reihe von Generationen sich entwickelt hat, gar nicht im unmittelbaren Zusammenhange mit der Erdenentwickelung gestanden hat, die, während diese Generationen abgelaufen sind, in der geistig-seelischen Welt war. Es ist ja einmal eine Einseitigkeit, den Menschen nur nach den in der Generationenfolge vererbten Merkmalen zu betrachten. Es ist ja schließlich auch nur eine Illusion, wenn man den Menschen oder das geschichtliche Werden so betrachtet. Man redet sich eigentlich nur ein, daß man die Dinge verstünde; man versteht sie in Wirklichkeit gar nicht. Man theoretisiert darüber, das oder jenes, was die Menschen in der Gegenwart machen, wie sie sich darleben, das rühre von den oder jenen vererbten Qualitäten her. Aber würde man unbefangen genug sein dazu, so würde man an unzähligen Stellen, ja überall sich sagen müssen: Was man da annimmt als von Generation zu Generation sich fortentwickelnde physische Qualitäten, das erklärt irgendeine Lage der Gegenwart durchaus nicht, weder beim einzelnen Menschen, noch bei irgendeinem volks- oder rassenmäßigen Zusammenhang der Menschen. Wenn man zur Wirklichkeit kommen will, wenn man nicht in dieser Abstraktion stehenbleiben will, die, wenn sie auch materialistisch ist, dennoch nur eine Abstraktion ist — eben eine materialistische Abstraktion -, dann muß man Rücksicht darauf nehmen, wie dasjenige, was sich in der Gegenwart darlebt, neben dem, was in der Blutsströmung zurückliegt, sich erklärt aus dem, was in den Kräften der Seelen liegt, die eine lange Zeit hindurch in der geistigen Welt gelebt haben, bevor sie zur Wiederverkörperung in diese Leiber heruntergestiegen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":485,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p007"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Nun habe ich in bezug auf diese Dinge ja im Laufe der Jahre schon Andeutungen gemacht. Ich habe Andeutungen gemacht, wie in unserer Zeit, insbesondere in der Zeit, die vor den katastrophalen Ereignissen gelegen hat, namentlich die europäische Bevölkerung mit Menschen durchmischt worden ist, die Seelen in sich tragen aus den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten. Die Welt ist jedoch kompliziert, und indem man solche Angaben macht, trifft man eigentlich immer nur ein Partielles. Solche Angaben müssen immer wieder erweitert werden, damit man allmählich einer totalen Ansicht näher rückt. Das darf durchaus nicht so aufgefaßt werden, als wenn irgend etwas Früheres, was gesagt worden ist und was durchaus richtig ist, sich aber eben auf eine Anzahl von Menschen bezieht, korrigiert werden sollte; sondern zur Ergänzung soll das Folgende gesagt werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p008"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Es ist ein verhältnismäßig nicht allzugroßer Teil der mitteleuropäischen Bevölkerung, welcher unmittelbar Seelen birgt, die in diesen ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten, so wie wir uns diese ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte nach der landläufigen Geschichte vorstellen, gelebt haben. Die Dinge sind viel komplizierter. Da zeigt sich der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung etwas, was in mancher Beziehung paradox erscheinen wird; aber es ist schon einmal so, daß die Dinge, die für die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung erscheinen sollen, eben nur aus der wirklichen Anschauung, aus der wirklichen übersinnlichen Erfahrung gewonnen werden müssen, und daß man in der Regel Irrtum auf Irrtum häuft, wenn man bloß spekuliert, wenn man sich bloß philosophischen oder sonstigen Spekulationen über die Dinge hingibt. Die Erfahrungstatsachen sprechen dann immer anders, und das ist ja gerade etwas, was der Geistesforscher so intensiv empfindet: daß er selber von seinen Resultaten eigentlich überrascht wird. Er erwartet zunächst durchaus nicht, daß dies oder jenes herauskommt, sondern er wird überrascht von seinen Resultaten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p009"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Um Ihnen einige von solchen Resultaten vorzuführen, möchte ich Ihren Seelenblick hinlenken auf diejenige Bevölkerung, welche in Amerika war in den Zeiten, als die Europäer die Eroberung Amerikas begonnen und dann immer fortgesetzt haben. Sie wissen, es war eine Bevölkerung, die man von dem zivilisierten Standpunkte Europas aus als eine wilde Bevölkerung bezeichnete. Aber eine solche wilde Bevölkerung, wie sie in Amerika war, die indianische, ist zwar wild in bezug - auf das, was in den letzten Jahrhunderten innerhalb der europäischen Welt als Zivilisation bezeichnet worden ist, aber es lebt doch in ihr in bezug auf andere Seelenkräfte, die nicht der Intellekt sind, zuweilen etwas, was sich der sogenannte zivilisiertere Mensch wohl zurückwünschen könnte. Vor allen Dingen lebte in der indianischen Bevölkerung eine Anschauung von den geistigen Mächten der Welt, welche eigentlich, wenn man näher auf sie eingehen kann, etwas Imponierendes hat. Diese Bevölkerung verehrte einen Großen Geist. Es war allerdings bei der Eroberung die Sache schon in der Dekadenz, aber diese dekadenten Erscheinungen weisen zurück auf die Verehrung eines Großen Geistes, der alles durchflutet, durchwebt, der in den einzelnen elementarischen Geistern seine Unterkräfte hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p010"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Mit diesen, ich möchte sagen, religiös-pantheistischen Vorstellungen lebte diese amerikanische Bevölkerung. Vor allen Dingen aber müssen wir festhalten: Diese amerikanische Bevölkerung hatte im äußeren Sinne nichts mitgemacht von dem, was die europäischen Bevölkerungen mitgemacht hatten im Laufe der sogenannten christlichen Entwickelung. Was das Christentum der europäischen Bevölkerung gebracht hat, das haben die Generationen dieser amerikanischen indianischen Bevölkerung nicht mitgemacht. Die ganze Seelenkonstitution dieser Bevölkerung war so, daß sie intensiv pantheistische Gefühle entwickelte und aus Impulsen heraus, die mit diesen Gefühlen zusammenhingen, handelten auch diese Menschen. Aber es entwickelten sich diese Seelen so, daß sie verhältnismäßig nur kurze Zeit zubringen konnten zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt. Keiner langen Zeitdauer bedurfte dasjenige, was zwar intensiv, aber ungeheuer einfach, elementar diese Seelen durchlebten zur Verarbeitung in der geistigen Welt. So sind nicht nur die Seelen der indianischen Bevölkerung, wie sie gelebt haben zur Zeit der ersten Eroberungen des Westen — diese fast alle -, sondern auch spätere Seelen jetzt schon wiedergekommen, und zwar im wesentlichen in der westeuropäischen Bevölkerung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p011"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Wir können also die Generationenfolgen betrachten von der jetzigen Zeit ab bis ins Mittelalter zurückgehend; da bekommen wir die physisch vererbten Merkmale. Aber wenn wir das als die volle Wirklichkeit betrachten, wiegen wir uns in Illusionen. Wir haben ein Abstraktum, wenn wir die gegenwärtigen Westvölker Europas bis sehr weit herein in das Mitteleuropäische und, immer wiederum alles durchsetzend, sogar bis nach Osteuropa hinüber, nur so betrachten, daß wir sagen: Diese Nationen haben ihre Merkmale von den vorhergehenden Generationen und so weiter. Das ist eben nicht allein der Fall, sondern es sind in diese Leiber, die das Blut der Vorfahren in sich tragen, namentlich in das Gros der Bevölkerung eingezogen die westlichen Seelen; Seelen also, welche durch ihre innere Entwickelung noch nichts von dem christlichen Impuls hatten, die im wesentlichen eine Art pantheistischen Impulses in sich trugen. Durch die Erziehung in den ersten Wochen schon, die sie in ihrer Umgebung verbrachten — denn gerade die äußere Kultur, die äußere Zivilisation pflanzt sich in geradliniger Weise von Generation zu Generation fort, nicht aber die inneren Impulse der Seele -, nahmen diese Menschen von außen her das Christentum an; von außen her wurden sie geformt zu dem, als was sie uns heute oftmals einzig und allein erscheinen. Wer aber unbefangen ist und auf die Menschen hinsieht, wer sie betrachtet so, daß er mit seinem Blick sie wirklich charakterologisch durchdringt, der sieht in ihnen pulsieren, was mit den Seelen in sie herübergekommen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p012"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Ich sagte, die Dinge, die die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung ergibt, sind vielfach paradox. Ausspekulieren kann man diese Dinge nicht. Sie müssen erfahrungsgemäß durch die Ihnen oftmals geschilderten und auch in der Literatur niedergelegten Methoden zustande kommen. Aber wer sie dann äußerlich verifiziert, der wird finden, wie die äußere Welt erklärlich wird dadurch, daß man solche Erkenntnisse zugrunde legt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":57,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p013"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wir finden Menschen, welche zu der Zeit, die man in der Geschichte gewöhnlich die Zeit der Völkerwanderung nennt, in Europa gelebt haben und ausgewandert sind. Die Seelen dieser Bevölkerungen waren denen ähnlich, die das sich vom Süden nach dem Norden ausbreitende Christentum angenommen haben, Seelen also, die äußerlich in die Christianisierung hineinwuchsen. Diese Seelen, die das Christentum so angenommen haben, wie es in den ersten Jahrhunderten in Europa gelebt hat — und das ist sehr verschieden von dem, wie das Christentum heute lebt -, verkörperten sich nicht etwa wiederum in einer mitteleuropäischen Bevölkerung. Es waren Seelen, die allerdings länger brauchten, um von dem Tode zu einer neuen Geburt zu leben als die amerikanischen Indianerseelen; aber wir haben es ja dafür auch mit Seelen zu tun, die ihr physisches Dasein früher hier durchgemacht haben als jene anderen, die wir als die letzten Indianerseelen, eben die Indianerseelen zur Zeit der Eroberungen, betrachteten. So weit gehen wir dabei zurück. Was das Schicksal der früheren Indianerseelen war, das wollen wir dabei nicht berühren. Diejenigen Seelen aber, die in den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten in Europa verkörpert waren, die dabei waren, als das Christentum sich kulturell ausgebreitet hat vom Süden nach Norden, die verkörperten sich jetzt mehr nach Asien hinüber. Es zeigt sich das, was ich jetzt beschreibe, besonders deutlich in den Zeiten, in denen die furchtbare Katastrophe des zweiten Jahrzehnts des 20. Jahrhunderts herangenaht ist. Und von ganz besonderer Bedeutung erscheint es der Betrachtungsweise unserer gegenwärtigen Erdenzivilisation, wenn wir sehen, daß namentlich im Japanervolke solche Seelen verkörpert sind; Seelen also, die die besondere Art der Christianisierung in Europa einmal durchgemacht haben, die aber jetzt von Kindheit auf keinen Laut vom Christentum hören, die nur aus dem Unterbewußten heraus eine gewisse Nuancierung des dekadenten Asiatentums durch die damaligen christlichen Impulse in sich tragen, die auch all das heute in sich tragen, was gegen das heutige Europa sich wendet. Es ist ja im wesentlichen ein Ergebnis der ganz in die Dekadenz verfallenen orientalischen Weisheit — die einstmals eine so große war, wie ich es Ihnen geschildert habe - im Zusammenklingen mit den ersten primitiven christlichen Impulsen, wie sie eben entstanden, als in Europa sich das Christentum vom Süden nach dem Norden unter den barbarischen Völkerschaften ausbreitete. So war es im wesentlichen in bezug auf das Gros der Bevölkerung. Allerdings kompliziert sich die Sache dadurch, daß in diese so entstandene Bevölkerung - die Seelen der amerikanischen Urbevölkerung sowie der mitteleuropäischen Bevölkerung zogen beide ostwärts — sich hineinmischten viele einzelne Leiber, die bewohnt wurden von Seelen, die in den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten mehr südwärts lebten. Die sind nun auch mitten drinnen in der Bevölkerung, die auf diese Weise entstanden ist, wie ich es jetzt beschrieben habe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":447,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p014"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Dann haben wir, wenn wir die gegenwärtige Zivilisation betrachten, es zu tun mit einer großen Anzahl von Seelen, welche gerade in den Jahrhunderten, die der Begründung des Christentums vorangegangen sind, in Asien, in Vorderasien, oder überhaupt über das ganze Asien hin gelebt haben. Es war das natürlich schon nicht mehr die große Blütezeit orientalischer Weisheitskultur, aber es war diejenige Zeit, aus der sich herausgebildet haben die Begriffe, die Ideen, mit denen das Mysterium von Golgatha dann verstanden worden ist. Ich rede also jetzt von Seelen, die dem Mysterium von Golgatha ferne standen, die aber eine gewisse Weisheitskultur hatten, die sich dann nach dem Westen herüber verpflanzte, und von welcher das Mysterium von Golgatha zunächst aus dem Griechentum, aus dem Römertum heraus verstanden worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p015"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wir müssen ja immer unterscheiden zwischen dem Mysterium von Golgatha, wie es als Tatsache dasteht, und den verschiedenen Interpretationen, die es im Laufe der Jahrhunderte erfahren hat. Denn diese Tatsache kann von jedem Zeitalter in einer neuen Weise interpretiert werden, und es wäre Unsinn, irgendeine Lehre über das Mysterium von Golgatha zu identifizieren mit dem Tatsächlichen des Mysteriums von Golgatha. Ich brauche Ihnen das nur durch einen Vergleich klarzumachen. Denken Sie sich, wir hätten einen sehr genialen Menschen. Dann wäre da ein Kind, ferner ein mittelmäßiger, alles nivellierender, etwas spießiger Mensch, eben ein Mittelmensch, und drittens ein auch zur Genialität veranlagter Mensch. Alle drei haben dasselbe vor sich: Die reale Wirklichkeit des genialen Menschen. Das Kind wird irgendeine Erklärung haben für das, was der geniale Mensch tut. Der Philister, der alles nivellieren will, wird auch eine Erklärung haben, und der ebenfalls mit genialen Eigenschaften veranlagte Mensch wird eine andere Erklärung haben. Sie haben alle drei mit derselben Wirklichkeit zu tun, ihre Erklärungen sind aber ganz verschieden, und man ist nicht berechtigt, das eine oder das andere zu identifizieren mit der tatsächlichen Wirklichkeit. Ebenso darf man nicht die Lehren des ersten Christentums identifizieren mit der Tatsächlichkeit des Christentums. Diese Lehren der ersten christlichen Jahrhunderte waren herübergekommen aus dem Orient. Man hat eigentlich gelernt, was orientalische Weisheitslehren waren, und hat diese benützt, um das Mysterium von Golgatha zu erklären. Es ist natürlich nur eine furchtbare Tyrannis, wenn die sich fortentwickelnde Kirche diese Lehren als die allein gültigen ansieht, denn sie sind nichts anderes als das, wonach ein Zeitalter nach seinen Vorbedingungen das Mysterium von Golgatha erklärt hat. Andere Zeiten können dieses Mysterium von Golgatha anders erklären. Wir müssen es geisteswissenschaftlich erklären, um den Anforderungen der Gegenwart gerecht zu werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p016"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Was also in den Lehren über den Christus-Impuls in den ersten Jahrhunderten lebte, das finden wir — aber nicht auf das Christentum angewendet, sondern mehr oder weniger absehend vom Mysterium von Golgatha - bei den damaligen Gebildeten mehr, bei dem damaligen überwiegenden Gros der Bevölkerung natürlich sehr viel weniger, im Orient ausgebildet. Diejenigen Seelen, die da unmittelbar vor dem Verlauf und auch während des Verlaufs des Mysteriums von Golgatha gelebt haben, die also orientalische Seelen waren, die haben eine lange Zeit durchzumachen gehabt zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt, weil die orientalische Kultur selbst noch in Dekadenz außerordentlich komplizierte Vorstellungen an die Seelen heranbrachte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":105,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p017"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-12/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Diese Seelen, sie erscheinen namentlich in derjenigen Bevölkerung, die die Bevölkerung Amerikas wird, als Erobererbevölkerung allmählich Amerika von Europa aus überflutend. Die ganze amerikanische Kultur, die eine materialistische Nuance hat, geht im wesentlichen daraus hervor, daß da Seelen erscheinen, die eigentlich orientalische Seelen waren in der Zeit, die ich charakterisiert habe, und die nun untertauchen in Leiber so, daß ihnen diese Leiblichkeit fremd ist, daß sie sich, ich möchte sagen, mit ihren damals schon sehr in der Dekadenz befindlichen Begriffen hineinsaugen in die Leiblichkeit, daß sie die Leiblichkeit nicht verstehen, sondern sie ziemlich primitiv materialistisch nehmen, mehr oder weniger eben an dem Menschen vorbeigehen, der ihnen fremd wird dadurch, daß sie im grunde genommen nach starken Abstraktionen gestrebt haben in ihrem vorigen Erdenleben. Sie können sich nicht hineinfinden in die gegenwärtige Inkarnation, tragen aber aus ihrem vorigen Erdenleben all das herauf, was dann lebt in der von der äußeren Naturbetrachtung abgesonderten, oftmals sektiererischen Religiosität. Das lebt sogar in der Leugnung der Materie bei der Mrs. Eddy, bei den Scientisten und so weiter. 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