{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 230/1923-11-04/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All this, however, is different for the undines. It causes them no unpleasant sensations; but when the millions and millions of water-creatures which perish in the sea enter into the state of decomposition the sea becomes for the undines the most wonderful phosphorescent play of colours. It shines and glitters with every possible colour. Especially does the sea glitter for them, inwardly and outwardly, in every shade of blue, violet and green. The whole process of decomposition in the sea becomes a glimmering and gleaming of the darker colours up to the green. But these colours are realities for the undines, and one can see how, in this play of colours in the sea, they absorb the colours into themselves. They draw these colours into their own bodily nature. They become like them, they themselves become phosphorescent. And as they absorb the play of colours, as they themselves become phosphorescent, there arises in the undines something like a longing, an immense longing to rise upwards, to soar upwards. Upwards they soar, led by this longing, and with this longing they offer themselves to the beings of the higher hierarchies—to the angels, archangels and so on—as earthly sustenance; and in this sacrifice they find their bliss. Then within the higher hierarchies they live on further.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IX","site_heading":"Elemental Beings and the Creative World-Word","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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Die Undinen empfinden dabei nichts Unangenehmes, sondern wenn diese Millionen und Millionen von Wassertieren, die da verwesen im Meere, in die Zerstörung hineinkommen, dann wird das Meer für die Undinen ein in den wunderbarsten phosphoreszierenden Farbenspielen erglänzendes. Es glänzt und glitzert alles in allen möglichen Farben. Insbesondere in bläulichen, violettlichen, grünlichen Farben glitzert für sie das Meer innerlich und äußerlich. Das ganze Verwesen im Meere wird ein solches Glimmern und Glitzern in den dunkleren Farben bis zum Grün hin. Aber diese Farben sind Realitäten für die Undinen, und man sieht dann die Undinen, wie sie in diesem Farbenspiele des Meeres selber diese Farben in sich aufnehmen. Sie ziehen diese Farben in ihre eigene Leiblichkeit herein. Sie werden so, wie diese Farbenspiele sind; sie werden selber phosphoreszierend. Und indem sie diese Farbenspiele aufnehmen, indem sie selber Phosphoreszierend werden, entsteht in ihnen etwas wie eine Sehnsucht, wie eine ungeheure Sehnsucht, nach oben zu gehen, nach oben zu schweben. Diese Sehnsucht führt sie dazu, nach oben zu schweben, und sie bieten sich mit dieser Sehnsucht den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien, den Angeloi, Archangeloi und so weiter als die Erdennahrung an; sie finden darin ihre Seligkeit. 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