{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 206/1921-08-05/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Within the evolution of human world-conceptions, these gnostic documents represent that particular element which has, on the one hand, taken up something from older traditions, from what existed in Asia, Africa and southern Europe in the form of an ancient wisdom, from what could still be reached in these later times, in accordance with the faculties of human beings who were no longer able to rise to great heights of super-sensible vision. This older form of wisdom, the last echoes of which may still be found in the pre-Socratic philosophers and which contains last, pale gleams of Plato's arguments, this world-conception did not work with intellectual forces; essentially speaking, its contents were obtained through super-sensible vision, even if this was instinctive. At the same time, this super-sensible vision supplied what may be designated as an inner logical system. If we have within us the contents of super-sensible vision, no intellectual elaboration is needed, for the human being already possesses a logical structure through his own nature. Thus we may say that in the course of human evolution intellectualism has, in a certain respect, risen out of Gnosticism. It has risen out of super-sensible, spiritual contents. 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Der Intellektualismus als solcher ist zunächst im Verlaufe der Menschheitsentwickelung hervorgetreten,man kann sagen, in dem Zeitraume, der dreihundert Jahre umfaßt vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha, und er hat sich dann allmählich heraufentwickelt zu einer Höhe, über die er eigentlich nicht mehr weiter fortgeschritten ist in den drei Jahrhunderten nach dem Mysterium von Golgatha. Im Laufe der sechs Jahrhunderte etwa, kann man sagen, ist die Menschheit in diesem Intellektualismus erzogen worden. Und er hat sich herausentwickelt aus einer spirituellen Weltanschauung, aus jener spirituellen Weltanschauung, die in diesem Zeitalter, in diesen sechs Jahrhunderten zum Abfluten kommt. Man kann mit äußeren Dokumenten — darauf machte ich ja schon aufmerksam — das Abfluten dieser Weltanschauung kaum studieren, da die spätere Ausbreitung des Christentums es sich hat angelegen sein lassen, mit wenigen Ausnahmen die gnostischen Urkunden zu vernichten. Diese gnostischen Urkunden, sie sind dasjenige in der menschlichen Weltanschauungsentwickelung, das auf der einen Seite etwas aufgenommen hat aus älteren Traditionen, aus dem, was an alter Weisheit vorhanden war in Asien, in Afrika, in Südeuropa; aus dem, was eben in diesen späteren Zeiten nach den Fähigkeiten der Menschen, die ins übersinnliche Schauen nicht mehr weit hinaufgingen, da noch erreichbar war. Jene ältere Weisheit, die noch ihre letzten Nachklänge hat in den vorsokratischen griechischen Philosophen und die noch etwas hereinscheint in den Ausführungen des Plato, diese Weltanschauung, sie hat nicht mit Intellektualismus gearbeitet. Sie hat ihren Inhalt im wesentlichen, wenn auch auf instinktive Art, so doch durch übersinnliches Schauen gewonnen. Dieses übersinnliche Schauen gibt ja zu gleicher Zeit dasjenige mit, was man nennen könnte eine innere logische Systematik. 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