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We might say that luciferic activity came to a kind of dead end during the Renaissance and that ahrimanic activity then took over. We can see how everything since then has gone in the direction of mechanization, and a science divorced from the realm of the spirit.","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1921-10-23","location":null,"word_count":173,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/208/1921-10-23/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Und so wie insbesondere Luzifer seine Hand im Spiele hat bei dem Künstlerischen, so hat Ahriman seine Hand im Spiele bei dem Ausbilden des Mechanischen, Technischen, dessen, was den Verstand wegziehen möchte vom Menschen, was ihn in die Maschine, sei es in das mechanische Werkzeug, sei es in die Maschinerie des Staatswesens hineinziehen möchte. Nur dadurch ist im wesentlichen möglich geworden, was da in der neueren Menschheit lebt, was da heraufgezogen ist insbesondere seit der Renaissancezeit. Man möchte sagen: Während der Renaissancezeit ist das luziferische Wirken in eine Art von Sackgasse gekommen; das ahrimanische Wirken, das hat sich jenseits der Wand dieser Sackgasse dann angesetzt. 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