{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 223/1923-09-30/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What a very different wisdom that was from anything we have today! It was an organic force in man, related to growth, and other forces. It was simply wisdom of an entirely different nature, and what took place in connection with it I can best explain by a comparison. Suppose I pour some sort of liquid into a glass and then add salt. When the salt is dissolved it leaves the liquid cloudy. Then I add an ingredient that will precipitate the salt, leaving the liquid purer, clearer, while the sediment is denser. Very well: if I want to describe what permeated men during the period of primordial wisdom, I must say it is a mixture of what is spiritually wholly pure and of a physical animalistic element. What nowadays we think, we imagine our abstract thoughts simply as functioning and holding sway without having any being in us: or again, breathing and the circulation seem like something by themselves, apart. But for primeval man in earlier earth epochs, that was all one: it was simply a case of his having to breathe and of his blood circulating in him; and it was in his circulation that he willed.—Then came the time when human thinking moved higher up toward the head and became purer, like the liquid in the glass, while the sediment, as we may call it, formed below.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Cosmic Consciousness and the Michael Festival's Social Significance","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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Es war ein Wissen, das organische Kraft im Menschen war, das mit der Wachstumskraft und so weiter zusammenhing. Es war also diese Urweisheit von einem ganz andern Charakter, und das, was da geschah mit Bezug auf diese Urweisheit, kann ich nur durch einen Vergleich darstellen. Denken Sie sich, ich gieße in ein Glas erst irgendeine Flüssigkeit, gebe dann ein Salz hinein. Ich löse das Salz auf, so daß ich eine trübliche Flüssigkeit habe, dann mache ich irgend etwas, daß sich das Salz unten als Bodensatz niederschlägt und oben die Lösungsflüssigkeit übrigbleibt, dann ist die Lösungsflüssigkeit oben reinlicher, heller, und unten ist der Bodensatz dichter. Wenn ich nun das, was die Menschen durchwoben hat während der Zeit der alten Urweisheit, schildern will, so ist es so gemischt aus dem geistig ganz Reinen und dem physisch Animalischen. Wenn wir heute denken, so glauben wir, daß diese abstrakten Gedanken so, ohne irgend etwas zu sein in uns, walten und weben, und daß wiederum etwas für sich zum Beispiel das Atmen und die Blutzirkulation ist. Aber das war für den Urmenschen in den früheren Erdenzeiten alles eines: er mußte atmen, und sein Blut zirkulierte in ihm, und er wollte in der Blutzirkulation. 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