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Now, I told you in the last lecture that on the one side within the sphere of Jehovah, because they have remained at an earthly stage of evolution, Luciferic beings appear when we are present in the Jehovah sphere let us say in sleep, then the Luciferic beings make themselves felt in our feelings and impulses of Will. That sphere which we must dominate with our intellect and which is spread out around us as the mineral spheres, that is a sphere foreign to Jehovah and into that those beings have penetrated, who belong to the Ahrimanic sphere. The Ahrimanic beings however, because Jehovah could not, so to speak, keep them away from Him, have penetrated into that mineral sphere. (lower part of Diagram, blue on white) And so, when we turn our gaze to this sphere, we are every moment in danger of being taken by surprise, to our confusion, because of the Ahrimanic beings. These Ahrimanic beings—I have tried to present an image of this in the wooden group which will stand in our Goetheanum—these Ahrimanic beings can in reality only feel at home in the sphere which surrounds us in the mineral world. These Ahrimanic beings are specially intellectually-gifted beings. That Mephistophelian figure which you see below in our wooden group, that Mephistophelian-Ahrimanic figure is extremely clever, utterly and wholly permeated with intellect. 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Man was created of the dust of the Earth. The mineral element is the true sphere of Ahriman, he can enter that sphere, and feel comfortable there; he feels very comfortable whenever he can permeate us through that which is mineral in us. You secrete salts in your body, and thereby you are able to think; through the deposit of salt, through all the mineral processes valid and operative in you,—you become thinking-beings. Ahriman seeks to enter that sphere, but in reality he has only a part in the mineral. Therefore, he is fighting to get a share also in man's blood, in his breathing, and in his assimilation. He can only do this if he can inject certain characteristics into the soul of man; if for instance, he can inject into the human soul a tendency to a dry, barren understanding which seeks an outlet in materialism, and mocks all truths permeated by feeling. 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As a matter of fact, much has been attained by the Ahrimanic beings in this sphere; because, when man is born into physical existence, or is conceived, he descends, he comes down from the Spiritual psychic worlds and surrounds himself with physical matter. But in the present state of our civilisation and according to the customs of all the traditional Churches, man would like to forget his existence in a Spiritual psychic sphere before Birth. He does not wish to admit it. He would like, in a sense, to wipe out of human life any pre-birthly existence. Pre-Existence is being gradually declared heretical in the traditional Confessions. It is wished to limit man to starting with physical birth or conception, and then to link on to that, what follows after death. If this belief in a mere post-mortem condition, in an after-death condition, were to be finally forced on man, the Ahrimanic powers would then win their conflict; because if man only regards what he experiences between birth and death, and does not look to a pre-existence, to a life before birth, the Ahrimanic element would gradually overpower man from out of his mineral processes. Thereby everything of a Jehovistic nature would be thrown out of earthly evolution, everything which has come over from Saturn, Sun, and Moon, would be wiped away. 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It follows therefore, from what I have said, that (it is necessary that we should gradually take into our speech, a certain word which we have not yet got:—Just as we speak of immortality (Deathlessness) when we think of the end of our physical existence, so we must speak of un-bornness (ungeborenheit) for even as we are immortal, so also we, as human beings, are in reality unborn. But just seek everywhere in civilised language for a practicable word for “Birthlessness.” We have the word Immortal, everywhere, but “unborn” we have not got. We need that word;—it must be just as valid a word as the word immortal to-day. It is just in this that the Ahrimanising of our modern civilisation reveals itself; it is one of the most important symptoms of the Ahrimanising of modern civilisation, that we have no word for this “not-being born.” For, just as we do not fall a prey to death when we `die' as it is called neither do we first come into our so-called `birth.' 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The Science of Initiation knows that it is true that in the whole Ether of the Earth, because in the civilised language there is no word for “Un-bornness” (ungeborenheit), this “Birthlessness,” which is so important for humanity, is not imprinted into the Cosmic ether. Now everything which in such important words is imprinted in the Cosmic ether, signifies for the Ahrimanic beings a terrific fear. The word immortality the Ahrimanic beings can very well bear to find inscribed in the World-ether; they are quite pleased, because immortality means that they can start a new creation, with man, and wander forth with humanity. It does not irritate Ahrimanic beings when they shoot through the Cosmic ether, to play their game with man, and they find that from all pulpits immortality is being spoken of; that does not irritate them, it pleases them. But it is a terrible shock for them if they find the word Un-bornness inscribed in the World ether; it extinguishes the light in which these Ahrimanic being move. Then they can go no further, they lose their direction, they feel as though they were falling into an abyss, a bottomless pit. You can see by this that it is an Ahrimanic deed which restrains humanity from speaking of un-bornness. No matter how paradoxical it may appear to modern humanity that one should speak of these things, modern civilization requires that these things should be spoken of. Just as Meteorology describes the Wind, or Geography the Gulf Stream, so one must describe what is going on around us Spiritually, and how these Ahrimanic beings are permeating our environment; and one must describe how well they feel in everything connected; and with dying, even a negation of death itself is not admitted; and how they are filled with a terrible fear of darkness when one speaks of anything connected with the negation of Birth, with growth and thriving. 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Wenn wir im Jahve-Reiche anwesend sind, sagen wir zum Beispiel im Schlafe, da machen die luziferischen Wesenheiten sich geltend in unseren Gefühlen, in unseren Willensimpulsen. Dasjenige Reich, das wir mit unserem Intellekte zu beherrschen haben, das ist um uns ausgedehnt als das mineralische Reich. Das ist das Jahvefremde Reich, das ist das Reich, in das eingedrungen sind diejenigen Wesenheiten, welche dem ahrimanischen Reiche angehören. Die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten aber, sie sind eingedrungen, weil ja Jahve sie sozusagen nicht fernhalten konnte (siehe Zeichnung Seite 265, grün). Und indem wir den Blick über dieses Reich ausdehnen, sind wir in jedem Momente in Gefahr, in diesem Reiche überrascht zu werden zu unserer Verwirrung von den ahrimanischen Wesenheiten. Diese ahrimanischen Wesenheiten -— ich habe das Bild ja festzuhalten versucht in der Holzgruppe, die in unserem Goetheanum einmal stehen soll - können eigentlich nur heimisch sein in den Reichen, die uns umgeben innerhalb der mineralischen Welt. Diese ahriimanischen Wesenheiten sind vorzugsweise intellektbegabte Wesenheiten. Diese mephistophelische Gestalt, die Sie sehen unten an unserer Holzgruppe, diese mephistophelisch-ahrimanische Gestalt ist grundgescheit, ganz und gar vom Verstand durchdrungen; aber mit dem, was eigentlich jahvisch ist, mit demjenigen also, was sonst lebt im menschlichen Stoffwechsel, insofern dieser nicht Salze ablagert oder überhaupt mineralisch ist, sondern flüssiger Natur ist, im Flüssigkeitswechsel, in der Flüssigkeitsmetamorphose besteht, mit alledem, was in unserer Atmung lebt, was in unseren Wärmeverhältnissen lebt, mit alledem hat eigentlich das Ahrimanische keine direkte Verwandtschaft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p021"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Nun strebt es aber herein. Der Mensch ist nun einmal aus dem Staub der Erde gemacht. Das, was da das Mineralische ist, das ist das eigentliche Reich des Ahriman. Da hinein kann Ahriman, da fühlt er sich wohl. Und er fühlt sich auch wohl, wenn er uns selbst durchdringen kann in bezug auf alles das, was in uns Mineralisches ist. Sie sondern Salze ab, und dadurch können Sie eigentlich denken; durch das Salzablagern, überhaupt durch alles, was sich als mineralischer Prozeß in Ihnen geltend macht, durch das sind Sie ein denkendes Wesen. In dieses Reich hinein will Ahriman. Aber er hat eigentlich nur so recht eine Verwandtschaft zu diesem Mineralischen. Und deshalb kämpft er dafür, daß er auch Anteil bekomme am Blut, an der Atmung, am Stoffwechsel. Das kann er nur dann, wenn er gewisse Eigenschaften in den menschlichen Seelen züchtet, wenn er zum Beispiel in den menschlichen Seelen züchter die ganz besondere Hinneigung zu dem trockenen Verstande, der im Materialismus aufgehen will, zu dem Verstande, der da spottet über gefühlsmäßig durchdrungene Wahrheiten, wo er also in der menschlichen Seele heranzüchten kann den Hochmut des Verstandes. Dann macht er das menschliche Blut, die menschliche Atmung, den menschlichen Stoffwechsel auch geneigt für sich, und er kann dann gewissermaßen heraushuschen aus dem Salzigen, Mineralischen in das Blut, in die Atmung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":218,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p022"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Das ist der Kampf, der durch den Menschen von seiten des Ahriman in der Welt gekämpft wird. Indem Jahve sich auf die Erde begeben und den Menschen aus der Erde gemacht hat, hat er, um den Menschen weiterzubringen, als er ihn in seinem eigenen Reiche hätte bringen können, ihn aus einem ihm fremden Element gemacht und sein eigenes Element ihm nur eingeblasen, eingeimpft. Aber dadurch hat Jahve zu Hilfe genommen etwas, wozu die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten den Zugang haben. Dadurch ist Jahve verwickelt worden für die Erdenentwickelung in diesen Kampf gegen das ahrimanische Element, das kämpfen will mit Hilfe der Menschen, um auf dem Umwege durch den mineralischen Prozeß die Welt für sich zu bekommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p023"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Es ist ja im Grunde genommen den ahrimanischen Wesenheiten viel gelungen auf diesem Gebiete. Denn wenn der Mensch in das physische Dasein hereingeboren ist oder hereinempfangen wird, dann kommt er herunter, steigt er herunter aus geistig-seelischen Welten, umgibt er sich mit der physischen Materie. Aber so, wie nun einmal die gegenwärtige Zivilisation ist nach den Gepflogenheiten der traditionellen Bekenntnisse, möchte man vergessen dieses Dasein vor der Geburt im geistig-seelischen Reiche. Man möchte das nicht zugeben; man möchte gewissermaßen ausstreichen aus dem menschlichen Dasein das vorgeburtliche Wesen. Die Präexistenz ist immer mehr und mehr für ketzerisch erklärt worden von den traditionellen Bekenntnissen. Beschränken will man sich darauf, den Menschen anfangen zu lassen mit der physischen Geburt oder der physischen Empfängnis, und dann dasjenige, was nach dem Tode liegt, daran anknüpfen. Würde dieser Glaube an einen bloß Post-mortem-Zustand, an den bloß nachtodlichen Zustand, niemals zurückgedrängt werden, würde er die Menschheit ausschließlich umfassen, dann hätten die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten gewonnen. Denn dadurch, daß der Mensch nur berücksichtigen würde dasjenige, was er zwischen Geburt und Tod aus seiner irdischen Natur heraus erlebt, und nur würdigen würde ein Fortleben nach dem Tode, nicht hinschauen würde auf ein Vorleben vor der Geburt, würde tatsächlich allmählich das Ahrimanische von dem mineralischen Prozeß aus sich des Menschlichen bemächtigen. Es würde weggeworfen von der irdischen Entwickelung alles, was jahvisch ist, was also herübergekommen ist von Saturn, Sonne und Mond, und es würde mit der Erde eine neue Schöpfung beginnen, die aber verleugnen würde alles Vorhergehende.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p024"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Deshalb ist es so wichtig, daß mit aller Energie bekämpft werde diese Anschauung, die nicht die Präexistenz will. Der Mensch muß erkennen, daß er war, ehe er geboren oder empfangen wurde im physischen Dasein. Er muß ehrerbietig und heiligend aufnehmen dasjenige, was ihm aus göttlich-geistigen Welten zugeteilt war vor diesem physisch-irdischen Dasein. Dadurch, daß er zu dem Glauben an das Nachtodliche fügt das Erkennen des Vorgeburtlichen, bereitet er seine Seele so vor, daß sie von Ahriman nicht angefressen werden kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":80,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p025"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"So ist es nötig — das folgt aus diesen Auseinandersetzungen -, daß wir nach und nach schon ein Wort in die Sprache aufnehmen, ich habe Sie schon aufmerksam darauf gemacht, welches wir nicht haben. Wir müssen ebenso, wie wir von Unsterblichkeit reden und an das Ende unseres physischen Daseins dabei denken, auch reden lernen von Ungeborenheit. Denn ebenso wie wir unsterblich sind, sind wir in Wirklichkeit als Menschen ungeboren. Suchen Sie aber in den Kultursprachen ein gangbares Wort für «ungeboren»! «Unsterblich» haben Sie überall, aber «ungeboren» haben Sie nicht. Das Wort «ungeboren» brauchen wir; das muß ebenso ein gangbares Wort sein in den Kultursprachen, wie das Wort «unsterblich», das die Sprachen schon haben. Daran zeigt sich die Verahrimanisierung der modernen Zivilisation. Es ist eines der wichtigsten Symptome für die Verahrimanisierung der modernen Zivilisation, daß wir kein Wort haben für das Nichtgeborensein. Denn ebensowenig wie wir mit dem Tode der Erde verfallen, ebensowenig sind wir mit der Geburt oder mit der Empfängnis erst entstanden. Wir müssen ein Wort haben, das deutlich hinweist auf die Präexistenz. Man darf überhaupt nicht unterschätzen die Bedeutung, welche im Worte liegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p026"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Sie mögen noch so viel denken, noch so scharfsinnig denken, so ist etwas in Ihnen, das eben intellektualistisch in dem Menschen ist. In dem Augenblicke, wo sich der Gedanke umprägt zum Worte, selbst wenn das Wort als solches nur gedacht wird, wie in der Wortmeditation, in demselben Moment prägt sich das Wort ein in den Äther der Welt. Der Gedanke prägt sich als solcher nicht in den Äther der Welt ein, sonst könnten wir niemals im reinen Denken freie Wesen werden. Wir sind ja in dem Augenblicke gebunden, wo sich etwas einprägt. Wir sind ja nicht durch das Wort frei, sondern durch das reine Denken - das können Siein meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» des weiteren ersehen -, aber das Wort prägt sich dafür in den Weltenäther ein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p027"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Nun bedenken Sie: Für die Initiationswissenschaft liegt ja heute einfach die Tatsache vor, daß im ganzen Erdenäther dadurch, daß die zivilisierten Sprachen kein gangbares Wort für Ungeborenheit haben, dieses für die Menschheit wichtige Ungeborensein überhaupt nicht dem Weltenäther eingeprägt wird. Alles das aber, was an wichtigen Worten eingeprägt wird in den Weltenäther vom Entstehen, von alldem was den Menschen betrifft in seiner Kindheit, in seiner Jugend, all das bedeutet einen furchtbaren Schrecken für die ahrimanischen Mächte. Unsterblichkeit im Weltenäther eingeschrieben, das vertragen die ahrimanischen Mächte eigentlich sehr gut, denn Unsterblichkeit bedeutet, daß sie mit dem Menschen eine neue Schöpfung beginnen und mit dem Menschen hinauswandern wollen. Das irritiert die ahrimanischen Wesenheiten nicht, wenn sie immer wieder den Äther durchsausen, um mit dem Menschen ihr Spiel zu treiben, wenn da so und so viel von den Kanzeln von Unsterblichkeit verkündet wird und in den Weltenäther eingeschrieben wird. Das tut den ahrimanischen Wesen sehr wohl. Aber ein furchtbarer Schrecken für sie ist es, wenn sie das Wort «Ungeborenheit» in den Weltenäther eingeschrieben finden. Da löscht für sie überhaupt das Licht aus, in dem sie sich bewegen. Da kommen sie nicht weiter, da verlieren sie die Richtung, da fühlen sie sich wie in einem Abgrund, wie im Bodenlosen. Und daraus können Sie ersehen, daß es eine ahrimanische Tat ist, die Menschheit davon abzuhalten, vom Ungeborensein zu sprechen. Mag es der modernen Menschheit noch so paradox vorkommen, wenn man ihr von solchen Dingen spricht, es bedarf die moderne Zivilisation des Sprechens über solche Dinge. Genau ebenso wie der Meteorologe den Windhauch beschreibt, wie man den Golfstrom beschreibt in der Erdenbeschreibung, genau ebenso muß beschrieben werden dasjenige, was geistig um uns her geschieht, wie ahrimanische Wesenheiten unsere Umgebung durchziehen, wie sie sich wohlfühlen bei alldem, was sich auf Tod und Sterben bezieht, auch wenn das Sterben negiert wird, und wie sie versetzt werden in den Schrecken der Finsternis, wenn sie auf all dasjenige kommen, was auf das Geborenwerden, auf das Wachsen und Gedeihen hinweist. Und wir müssen lernen, wissenschaftlich ebenso von diesen Dingen zu sprechen, wie gesprochen wird in der modernen Wissenschaft von dem mineralischphysischen Reiche, das von Jehova verlassen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":356,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p028"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Es ist im Grunde genommen nichts Geringeres als der Kampf gegen die ahrimanischen Mächte, den wir selber aufnehmen müssen. Und schließlich, mögen es die Leute wissen oder nicht, das, was vielfach gegen anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft vorgebracht wird, es ist zu gleicher Zeit der Kampf des Ahriman gegen dasjenige, was als der Menschheit notwendig immer intensiver und intensiver durch anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft betont werden muß.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":64,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p029"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Wenn man so etwas erlebt wie gerade die jüngsten Angriffe, sieht man denn da nicht handgreiflich: an die Geisteswissenschaft selber kommen die Leute nicht heran. Ich habe Ihnen gesprochen von dem besonders häßlichen, ruchlosen Angriff, der jetzt in Deutschland wiederum stattfindet, bei dem sich die «edle» «Frankfurter Zeitung» in besonders schmachvoller Weise benimmt. Sie hat zwar unsere Erwiderung aufgenommen, nachdem sie den ganz abscheulichen Angriff gemacht hat, aber nur, um ihre eigenen blödsinnigen Bemerkungen durch eine ganze Spalte lang daran anzuschließen. Diese Dinge gehen ja zurück auf diejenigen Menschen, die durchaus die Wissenschaft der Anthroposophie verschwinden lassen möchten, aber zu faul oder auch zu unfähig sind, um sich mit ihr zu beschäftigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p030"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-03-13/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Diese Leute greifen also zu solchen Angriffsmomenten, wie sie jetzt zum Beispiel in Deutschland auftauchen, um das, was man nicht widerlegen kann, eben zu verdächtigen. Wenn Sie die Sache mit den ahrimanischen Wesenheiten zusammenbringen, so werden Sie die Dinge ein wenig durchschauen. Es sitzen heute im wissenschaftlichen Betriebe sehr viele Menschen, die scheinbar sehr gut denken. Aber warum? — Ahriman dringt ja ein in die mineralische Welt, und verwundern Sie sich daher nicht, wenn diese Leute recht viel Intellekt entwickeln. Es ist der Ahriman in ihnen, und es ist bequemer, den Ahriman in sich denken zu lassen, als selber zu denken. Man kann ja auch seine Examina leichter ablegen, wenn man Ahriman in sich denken läßt. Man kann leichter Privatdozent und Universitätsprofessor werden, wenn man den Ahriman denken läßt auf dem Katheder, als wenn man selber denkt. Und weil so viele Leute den Ahriman in sich denken lassen, kommen natürlich ja die Angriffe von ahrimanischer Seite her. Also die Dinge haben schon einen innerlichen geistigen Zusammenhang, den man durchschauen muß. Daher darf man dann nicht so töricht sein, immer wieder und wiederum zu tadeln, wenn wir genötigt sind, mit recht scharfen Hieben auf das zu schlagen, was Geisteswissenschaft in Grund und Boden hinein vernichten möchte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-03-13/p031"}],"beads":[{"from":[20],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[23,24],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[23],"to":[25,26],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[24],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[25],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[26],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[27],"to":[30],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[31],"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)."}}