{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 208/1921-10-23/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Humanity is halfway between the world of the angels and that of the animals. In past ages the human form was quite animal-like, but ensouled with the element I have just described. Without a clue as to the reality of this situation, modern geologists and palaeontologists are turning up ancient human remains that show receding foreheads and animal-like human forms and believe this shows that humans are related to animals. This is quite right if one considers only the outer physical form, but the more animal-like those forms become as we go back in time, the more are they ensouled with original wisdom. If all that modern geologists and palaeontologists are able to say about the remains dug up in some parts of Europe a few years ago is that these were human beings with low skulls, receding foreheads, prominent brows and eye-sockets, anyone who knows the true situation has to say: This human being, who may look animal-like today and to palaeontologists who see only the outer appearance may appear to have evolved from apes, was fully ensouled with an ancient, original wisdom. Another spiritual entity had that wisdom in the human being who merely had a share in it. In the past, therefore, human beings held within them a superhuman principle. They grew increasingly towards this as they evolved out of animal-like forms, finally to become a kind of super-animal which included all the different animal forms. This super-animal offered conditions where an ahrimanic entity that was very different from the usual angelic spirits was able to enter. The human being who combines intellectual thinking with an animal-like organization came to the fore at the time when the wisdom of old was fading and becoming tradition. From the 8th century BC, human evolution took a course, slowly at first, but progressively, where a kind of ahrimanic super-animal nature developed from inside which then also entered the human soul from the other side.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Luciferic and Ahrimanic Forces in Human Evolution","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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Und wenn man diese tierähnlichen Formen vor ein paar Jahren in gewissen Gegenden Europas ausgrub und nun mit heutiger Geologie und Paläontologie nur zu sagen weiß: Das sind Menschen mit einem niedrigen Schädel, mit zurückfliehender Stirn, mit vortretenden Augenbrauen, Augenhöhlen -— muß man sagen, wenn man die Wahrheit kennt auf diesem Gebiete: Dieser Mensch, der heute vielleicht so tierähnlich aussieht, der dem äußeren Paläontologen wie ein höher entwickelter Affe erscheint, der war aber voll durchseelt von uralter Weisheit, die eben ein anderes Wesen in ihm hatte. Er nahm nur teil daran.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/208/1921-10-23/p023"},{"locus":"GA 208/1921-10-23/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"So kann man sagen: Den Menschen erfüllt in alten Zeiten ein Übermenschliches. Er wächst dem immer mehr und mehr entgegen, indem er sich von tierähnlichen Formen heraufentwickelt, bis er eine Art von Übertier wird, das die verschiedenen tierischen Gestalten zusammenfaßt. In diesem Übertier kann sich nun ein Wesen ganz anderer Art als es die gewöhnlichen Engelwesen sind, einleben, ein ahrimanisches Wesen. Und gerade in derselben Zeit, in der zur Tradition abglimmt das Wesen der uralten Weisheit, in der Zeit wird immer mehr und mehr dieser Mensch mächtig, der nun an seine tierische Organisation heranzieht das Verstandeswesen. 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