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Darkness gathered over the old clairvoyance, with the result that the special processes, which the Initiates had been able to make elective in the days of ancient India and ancient Persia, presented greater and greater difficulties. Up to the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, of course, and for a few centuries afterwards, remnants of the old clairvoyance persisted, particularly in certain regions. But it was already dim and by the second or third century B.C. the procedure of which I have spoken could no longer be as effective as it had been in the earliest times of human evolution after the Atlantean epoch. The Initiates of the Mysteries were more and more at a loss when they desired to make use of the power of the Moon-Beings in the guidance of mankind. If I am to describe what then took place between the Initiates and the Moon-Beings, I will say the following: When an Initiate of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch approached one of these Moon-Beings with the object of charging this Being, when he had entered into a man via the inbreathing, to instill this or that into the soul, the Moon-Being would often reply to the Initiate: During the hours of day-consciousness we no longer have any dwelling-place on the earth; we find a dwelling-place only during the hours of night.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/216/1922-09-22/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":376,"en_words":418,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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By peopling the burial places with mummies, the Egyptian priests found the solution to the secret of enticing the Moon-Spirits to come down to the earth, although according to the laws of world evolution this was no longer their allotted role. Mummified human beings, mummified corpses, became dwelling places for the Luciferic Moon-Beings. In earlier lectures I have spoken from a different point of view of what the mummified corpse signified, and I refer to it now from the aspect of cosmological history. Surrounded by their rows of mummies, the Egyptian Initiates were able to make observations that were no longer possible in a natural way. In earlier times it was merely a matter of being together with men and clairvoyantly observing their breathing. In substitution for this a method was found for bringing about what had once happened in the natural process of inbreathing. Places were established to which these Spirits could descend—the Spirits who now had no dwelling-place within humanity during the hours of day and would otherwise have been obliged to wander homeless about the earth. Under such conditions they could have played no part in the affairs of the earth, and places were therefore established where they could, as it were, be given shelter. These places were the mummies, the mummified corpses of men. The mummies became the dwelling places of the Moon-Beings. Standing with full understanding before the mummies, the Egyptian Initiate studied what the Initiates of earlier times had studied from life in its fresh and natural state. The Egyptian Initiate observed the activities of the Moon-Beings in the dwelling places that had thus been provided for them, and by this means he became aware of what these Moon-Beings were able to inculcate, in manifold ways, into the historical development of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":381,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/216/1922-09-22/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p015"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":342,"en_words":381,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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We can, in truth, only understand the origin of what is recorded in the ancient scripts when we are able to check out, in the life of the cosmos, those Beings who tell us: “During the third, second and first millennia before Christ we could come down to the earth only because the Priest-Initiates of Egypt provided dwelling places for us in the mummies.” From these Moon-Beings we can learn the intentions behind deeds that go to form the history of that epoch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/216/1922-09-22/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-09-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p017"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":332,"en_words":312,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Es war nicht bloß so, daß der Mensch das einatmete, sondern mit diesem Vorgang, mit diesem gewissermaßen Untertauchen der Weltenformen in den Menschen war verbunden eine Tätigkeit geistiger Wesenheiten. Nehmen wir an, hier wäre solch eine Form (siehe Zeichnung Seite 43), der Mensch atmet sie ein, sie taucht unter in den Menschen (rot); aber gleichzeitig damit ist eine Tätigkeit geistiger Wesenheiten verbunden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p010"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Nun haben wir in den Vorträgen, die ich zum Teil öffentlich, zum Teil hier in der allerletzten Zeit gehalten habe, eine besondere Art geistiger Wesenheiten in ihrer Bedeutung für den Menschen kennengelernt. Es sind diejenigen geistigen Wesenheiten hier gemeint, die ihr physisches Abbild in dem Monde und seinem Leuchten haben. Es sind die geistigen Mondenwesen. Diese geistigen Mondenwesen waren es namentlich in jenen Zeiten, von denen ich jetzt spreche, welche ihre Wege aus dem äußeren kosmischen Kreis durch diese Formen in den Menschen hineinbilden konnten. So daß der Mensch also in jenen alten Zeiten seiner geschichtlichen Entwickelung auf der Erde mit dem Einatmungsprozeß den geistigen Mondenkosmos in sich aufsog und die geistigen Mondenwesen zu einer Tätigkeit in sich anregte. Was ich Ihnen da erzähle, das war der Inhalt einer in den ältesten Mysterien der Menschheit viel studierten Wissenschaft und Weisheit. Denn die Eingeweihten dieser Mysterien wußten, daß die Menschen diesem Vorgange unterliegen, daß sie den geistigen Mondenkosmos in sich einsaugen. Sie wußten aber auch, daß dieses Einsaugen vorzugsweise zur Nachtzeit stattfindet, wenn die Menschen schlafen. Aber dadurch, daß bei allen Menschen in der Urzeit ein traumhaftes Hellsehen, ein Zwischenzustand zwischen Wachen und Schlafen vorhanden war, konnte man auch darauf rechnen, daß diese geistigen Mondenwesen während gewisser Tageszeiten in die Menschen einzogen. Und die ganze Leitung, welche die Eingeweihten der alten Mysterien für die Menschheit leisteten, war darauf berechnet, dasjenige, was diese Mondenwesen auf dem Wege des Einatmungsprozesses in den Menschen hineintrugen, zu beherrschen, so daß der Mensch befähigt wurde, die Kräfte dieser Mondenwesen, die ja dadurch eigentlich ihre Wege in das Innere des Menschen machten, in seinem eigenen Tun auszunutzen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p011"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Sie müssen sich bewußt sein, ein Unterrichten in einer solch intellektuellen Art wie heute, war in jener älteren Zeit nicht vorhanden. Dennoch hatten die Initiierten der Mysterien Mittel und Wege, um die Völker in einer viel intensiveren Weise zu lenken und zu leiten, als das später der Fall war und als es namentlich jetzt der Fall ist. Es war zum Beispiel in den allerältesten Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung in den Mysterien durchaus die Kunst ausgebildet, mit diesen Mondenwesen, die der Mensch zur Nachtzeit und während der in seinem Tageswachen regsamen hellseherischen Zwischenzeit einatmete, in den Mysterien zu sprechen und sie anzuregen, etwas ganz Bestimmtes in die Menschheit hineinzubringen. Das war der Weg, durch den in einer großartigen Weise die alten Mysterieninitiierten die Menschen leiten konnten, indem die Mondenwesen auf dem Wege des Einatmens ihre Helfer waren. Von den besonderen, außerordentlich geheimnisvollen Vorgängen, die in allerlei Zeremoniellem ihr äußeres Gegenbild hatten, von diesen Vorgängen, die in älteren Zeiten verwendet wurden, um aus den Mysterienstätten heraus die Menschheit zu leiten, macht sich die Menschheit heute nur sehr ungenügende Begriffe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p012"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Nun aber kam mit der fortschreitenden Entwickelung der Menschheit eine andere Zeit. Immer mehr und mehr verdunkelte sich das alte Hellsehen, so daß jene besonderen Vorgänge, die in der eben beschriebenen Art von den alten Initiierten für den urindischen und urpersischen Zeitraum bewirkt werden konnten, immer schwieriger wurden. Gewiß, bis zum Mysterium von Golgatha hin und ein paar Jahrhunderte darüber hinaus gab es, namentlich in gewissen Gegenden, noch Überreste des alten Hellsehertums. Aber es war doch sehr abgedämpft, und namentlich wurden die Prozeduren, von denen ich jetzt gesprochen habe, schon im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend vor dem Mysterium von Golgatha nicht mehr in jener intensiven Weise ausgeführt, wie das in den urältesten Zeiten der menschlichen Erdenentwickelung, gleich nach der atlantischen Zeit, der Fall war. Ich möchte sagen, die Eingeweihten der Mysterien kamen immer mehr und mehr in Verlegenheit, wenn sie die Kraft der Mondenwesen benützen wollten, um die Menschheit zu lenken. Und wenn ich Ihnen verständlich machen soll, was sich zwischen den Eingeweihten der Mysterien und den Mondenwesen abspielte, die in älteren Zeiten zu den geschilderten Vorgängen benutzt worden sind, so möchte ich das so ausdrücken: Wenn zum Beispiel schon ein Eingeweihter der ägyptisch-chaldäischen Zeit an ein Mondenwesen herantrat und ihm einen Auftrag geben wollte, der dahin ging, nach dem Einziehen dieses Mondenwesens durch das Einatmen dies oder jenes der menschlichen Seele einzuprägen, so sagte gleichsam ein solches Mondenwesen oft zu dem Eingeweihten: Wir haben während der tagwachen Zeit kein Obdach mehr auf der Erde, wir finden nur Obdach noch während der Nachtzeit. - Während der Nachtzeit aber würde es den Eingeweihten außerordentlich bedenklich geschienen haben, auf dem Umwege durch die Mondenwesen auf die Menschen der Erde zu wirken, denn da würden die Menschen gleichsam automatisch behandelt worden sein. Da wäre etwas zustande gekommen, was man in einer gewissen Terminologie durchaus als schwarzmagische Kunst bezeichnet. Das haben natürlich die guten Eingeweihten weit von sich gewiesen; so daß es für sie eine ungeheure Bedeutung hatte, wenn ihnen die Mondenwesen, die ihre Helfer in der Leitung der Menschheit sein sollten, die Erwiderung gaben: Wir haben zur Tageszeit kein Obdach auf der Erde. — Und so standen die Initiierten dieser Mysterien vor der Gefahr, keine Helfer zu haben auf den Wegen, die sie zur Lenkung der Menschheit betreten hatten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":376,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p013"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Aber auf der andern Seite war auch noch nicht da, was dann durch das Christus-Mysterium in die Welt gekommen ist; so daß also eine Zwischenzeit vorhanden war zwischen der uralten Hellseherzeit, in der alles das stattfinden konnte, was ich beschrieben habe, und der Zeit, die dann alles veränderte im geistigen Wirken auf der Erde, der Zeit, die durch das Mysterium von Golgatha inauguriert worden ist. Diese Zwischenzeit können wir ganz besonders studieren an der ägyptischen Entwickelung. Es folgt ja auf die urpersische Zeit die ägyptisch-chaldäische Entwickelung. Die Initiierten der chaldäischen Menschheit wußten sich nur sehr wenig zu helfen in bezug auf die Fragen, von denen ich jetzt spreche. Sie waren in einer gewissen Weise außerordentlich ratlos und suchten infolgedessen das, was sie zur Lenkung der Menschheit brauchten, auf einem ziemlich äußeren Wege: durch ihre Sternenweisheit, durch ihre Sterndeutekunst. Denn was die chaldäischen Eingeweihten durch ihre Astrologie erfuhren, das konnte man gerade in jenen älteren Zeiten auf einem ganz andern Wege durch jene Mondenwesen erfahren, die mit dem Einatmen in die Menschenleiber hineinzogen. Jetzt aber sagten eben diese Wesenheiten, sie finden kein Obdach auf der Erde. Und da ersetzte man das, was sie früher gewissermaßen an innerer Kraft gegeben hatten, durch die Kraft einer äußeren Beobachtung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p014"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"In einer ganz andern Weise halfen sich die Initiierten der ägyptischen Welt. Die Initiierten der ägyptischen Welt suchten nach Mitteln und Wegen, den Mondenwesen auf der Erde Obdach zu geben. Den Wesen also, die eigentlich nach den urewigen Gesetzen der Weltenentwickelung jetzt nicht mehr zu einem Obdach auf der Erde bestimmt waren, denen versuchten die Initiierten der ägyptischen Mysterien, dieses Obdach zu verschaffen. Und gerade die ägyptischen Mysterienpriester, die ägyptischen Initiierten fanden die Möglichkeit, den luziferisch gestalteten Mondengeistern Obdach zu geben auf der Erde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p015"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Dieses Geheimnis zu lösen, die Mondengeister wiederum zum Herabsteigen auf die Erde zu bewegen, trotzdem eigentlich nach der urewigen Weltenentwickelung ihnen das nicht mehr bestimmt war, ist den ägyptischen Priestern dadurch gelungen, daß sie die Grabstätten mit Mumien bevölkert haben. Ich habe es in früheren Vorträgen von andern Gesichtspunkten erörtert. Ich möchte es heute von diesem kosmisch-historischen Gesichtspunkt erörtern. Der mumifizierte Leichnam des Menschen wurde das Obdach der luziferisch gestalteten Mondengötter. Was sich in alten Zeiten auf natürliche Art dadurch hat beobachten lassen, daß man einfach mit Menschen zusammengekommen ist und ihr Atmen hellseherisch beobachtet hat was jetzt in diesen natürlichen Vorgängen gar nicht mehr stattfindet, was aber durch das alte Einatmen der Menschen überall im sozialen Leben gewissermaßen herumschwirrte und eine Rolle in der Menschheit spielte —, das fand einen Ersatz an denjenigen Stätten, wo die Geister, die während der Tageszeit kein Obdach in der Menschheit hatten, die obdachlos auf der Erde hätten herumirren müssen und für das historische Erdengeschehen nicht hätten verwendet werden können, wo diese Geister gewissermaßen untergebracht wurden in den mumifizierten Menschen, in den Mumien. Denn die Mumien waren die Wohnhäuser der Mondenwesen. Und wenn der ägyptische Eingeweihte mit vollem Verständnis vor der Mumie stand, dann studierte er an der Mumie, was früher draußen am frischen Leben studiert worden war. Er schaute gewissermaßen auf das hin, was die Mondengötter in den Wohnungen verrichteten, die man ihnen gewährt hatte. Und auf diese Art wurde den Eingeweihten das bewußt, was sie dann durch diese Mondengötter dem historischen Werden der Menschheit auf den mannigfaltigsten Wegen einimpfen konnten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p016"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So paradox das einem heutigen materialistisch gesinnten Menschen erscheint, wahr ist es doch: Will man verstehen, was sich als historisches Werden innerhalb der ägyptischen Kulturepoche abgespielt hat, so kann man das nicht anders, als indem man nicht bloß die äußeren geschichtlichen Denkmäler studiert, sondern indem man aus jener ewigen Weltenchronik, die im imaginativen und inspirierten Schauen zu lesen ist, studiert, was jene geistigen Mondenwesenheiten getan haben, denen man nicht äußerliche Monumente errichtet hat und die auch nicht historische Dokumente schriftlich hinterlassen haben. Aber was jene Menschen verrichtet haben, denen die äußerlichen Monumente errichtet sind, das war von den geistigen Mondenwesenheiten auf einem Umwege inspiriert, durch die Arbeit der Initiierten mit den Mondenwesen, denen man in den Mumien während des Tages auf der Erde Obdach gewährt hatte. Und was in den schriftlichen Urkunden steht, lernt man seinem Ursprung nach nur richtig erkennen, wenn man in der Weltenchronik die Wesenheiten aufsuchen kann, die einem sagen: Während der Zeit des 3., 2., 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausends konnten wir nur dadurch die Erde bewohnen, daß uns die ägyptischen initiierten Priester in den Mumien Erdenwohnungen gegeben haben. — Von diesen Mondenwesen können wir erfahren, woraus die Absichten der geschichtlichen Handlungen in jener Zeit entsprungen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p017"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Will man also den Menschen seiner wahren Wesenheit nach erkennen, so muß man zu den Sternen und zu den Hierarchien gehen, wie ich in den letzten zwei Vorträgen hier auseinandergesetzt habe. Will man aber das geschichtliche Werden der Menschheit in richtiger Weise erkennen, dann muß man die geistigen Mächte studieren können, die in dieses geschichtliche Werden der Menschheit hereinspielen. Dann muß man sich dazu bequemen, den Sinn einer so auffälligen Erscheinung, wie es die Mumifizierung des Menschen durch die alten Ägypter ist, zu studieren. Dinge, die oftmals der Menschheit vor der heutigen materialistischen Betrachtungsweise nur wie eine Kuriosität, wie ein Gebrauch erscheinen, lernt man in ihrem inneren Sinn kennen, wenn man sie mit wirklich spiritueller Wissenschaft durchforschen kann. Götterhäuser waren einstens die Mumien. Schon luziferisch gewordene Mondengötter hatten in den Mumien ihre Wohnhäuser.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p018"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"In der griechisch-römischen Zeit, also im vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraum, wurden die Dinge etwas anders. Da hörte überhaupt jenes Überragende der Einatmung auf. Das Einatmen behielt seine Bedeutung, aber es hörte das Überragende des Einatmens auf. Und gewissermaßen wurden Ein- und Ausatmen für den Menschen gleichbedeutende Prozesse, gleichbedeutende Vorgänge. Das ist etwas, worauf die griechischen Initiierten wiederum bei ihrer Arbeit ganz besonders achteten. Und jener wunderbare Gleichgewichtszustand zwischen dem Einatmen und dem Ausatmen, der insbesondere das griechische Volk auszeichnete, der konnte dazu führen, daß gerade die griechische Kunst als vorbildlich in der Weise entstanden ist, wie wir sie in der Geschichte verzeichnet finden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p019"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Die Griechen waren nicht veranlagt, durch die Einatmung die Mondenwesen besonders aufzufangen. Ihnen war es aber eigen, durch ihre Eingeweihten ganz besonders diejenigen Wesen wirksam zu machen, die gewissermaßen ein in der Luft halb Fliegendes, halb Schwimmendes entwickelten und die sich am liebsten in dem Gleichgewichtszustande zwischen Ein- und Ausatmen wiegten. Und wenn man in jene alten Zeiten der griechischen Entwickelung zurückgeht, in denen eigentlich das inspiriert worden ist, was dann später schon in einer mehr äußerlichen Form zum Vorschein gekommen ist, wenn man zurückgeht in die Zeiten, die eigentlich doch aus grandios primitiven Formen heraus der griechischen bildenden Kunst, der griechischen tragischen Kunst und auch der griechischen Philosophie den Ursprung gegeben haben, so findet man, wie gerade die griechischen Mysterieninitiierten die Gabe hatten, jene Wesenheiten bei ihrer Leitung der Menschheit ganz besonders zu benützen, die sich eben leicht wiegten in dem Gleichgewichtsmaß, das zwischen menschlichem Einatmen und Ausatmen herbeigeführt wurde. Und im Grunde genommen lernt man die Kunst des Apollo und die orphische Weisheit nicht kennen, wenn man nicht weiß, daß beide dadurch ihre besondere Beseelung erhielten, daß ihre Helfer elementar-dämonische Wesen waren, welche sich auf diesem Gleichmaß von Ein- und Ausatmen bewegten. Die Saiten der Leier des Apollo waren gestimmt aus dem heraus, was man beobachten konnte, wenn diese Wesenheiten auf dem Gleichmaß zwischen menschlichem Einatmen und Ausatmen zwischen der Monden- und Erdensphäre da, ich möchte sagen, auf den Saiten des Kosmos, die durch Ein- und Ausatmung im Gleichmaße gewoben wurden, tanzten. Die Tänze der Luftdämonen waren es, die nachgeahmt wurden bei der Stimmung, die den Saiten der Leier des Apollo und anderem ähnlichen gegeben wurde. Wir müssen eben in die geistige Welt hineinschauen, wenn wir erkunden wollen, was sich in der äußeren geschichtlichen Welt zugetragen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":289,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p020"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Stellen wir uns doch einmal vor, was ich vor einiger Zeit hier sagen konnte: daß das Skandieren, das Ausbilden des alten Rezitativs, das Ausbilden des Hexameters auf jenem Verhältnis beruht, in dem im rhythmischen Menschen der Atmungsrhythmus und der Blutzirkulationsrhythmus stehen. Erinnern Sie sich daran, was ich in einem Kurse drüben im Bau in dieser Beziehung gerade mit Bezug auf die Bildung des Hexameters auseinandergesetzt habe. Das Studium, um zu diesem Hexameter zu kommen, war für die griechischen Eingeweihten einmal ein durchaus konkretes Studium. Indem wir einatmen, nehmen wir die Schwingungen des Kosmos in uns auf und passen sie unserem inneren Menschen an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":103,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p021"},{"locus":"GA 216/1922-09-22/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Indem wir wieder ausatmen, geben wir dem Atmungsrhythmus etwas mit von dem Vibrieren unseres Pulses in der Blutzirkulation; so daß wir sagen können, in unserem Einatmen pulsiert die äußere Welt herein, in unserem Ausatmen lebt die Pulsation unseres eigenen Blutes nach außen. So daß im ätherischen Leib des Menschen gerade für den griechischen Eingeweihten, der auf diese Dinge hin geschult war, zu beobachten war, wie sich um den Menschen herum im ätherischen und astralischen Leibe kosmischer Rhythmus und Pulsationsrhythmus begegneten, die ineinanderschwebten und auf denen sich die Luftdämonen wiegten und ihre Tänze ausführten. Das war das Studium, dem Homer oblag, als er insbesondere den Hexameter zur höchsten Blüte entfaltete, denn der ist aus dem Zusammenhange des Menschen mit der Welt herausgeboren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/216/1922-09-22/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[8,9],"to":[10,11],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[10,11],"to":[12],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[12,13],"to":[13],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[15],"to":[15,16],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[16,17],"to":[17,18],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[18],"to":[19,20],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[19,20],"to":[21,22],"confidence":"medium"}],"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)."}}