{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 230/1923-11-04/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now let us proceed to the sylphs. In the course of the year we find the dying birds. I described to you how these dying birds possess spiritualized substance, and how they desire to give this spiritualized substance over to the higher worlds in order to release it from the earth. But here an intermediary is needed. And these intermediaries are the sylphs. It is a fact that through the dying bird-world the air is continually being filled with astrality. This astrality is of a lower order, but it is nevertheless astrality; it is astral substance. In this astrality flutter—or hover might be a better word—in this astrality hover the sylphs. They take up what comes from the dying bird-world, and carry it, again with a feeling of longing, up into the heights, only desiring to be inhaled by the beings of the higher hierarchies. They offer themselves as that which supplies breathing-existence to the higher hierarchies. Again a magnificent spectacle. With the dying bird-world, this astral, inwardly radiant substance is seen to pass over into the air. The sylphs flash like blue lightning through the air, and into their blue lightning, which assumes first greener, then redder tones, they absorb this astrality which comes from the bird-world, and dart upwards like upward-flashing lightning. And if one follows this beyond the boundaries of space, it becomes what is inhaled by the beings of the higher hierarchies.","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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Ich habe Ihnen dargestellt, wie diese ersterbenden Vögel ihre vergeistigte Substanz haben, wie sie diese vergeistigte Substanz übergeben wollen den höheren Welten, damit sie von der Erde hinaufkommt. Aber da bedarf es der Vermittler. Diese Vermittler sind die Sylphen. Es ist so, daß in der Tat durch die sterbende Vogelwelt sich die Luft fortwährend anfüllt mit Astralität, mit einer niedrigeren Astralität, aber mit Astralität eben, mit astralischer Substanz. In dieser astralischen Substanz, ich kann nicht sagen flattern, ich möchte sagen, wenn das Wort nicht häßlich klingen würde, verschweben, es verschweben die Sylphen. Sie nehmen auf, was aus der sterbenden Vogelwelt kommt, tragen es wiederum sehnsüchtig in die Höhe und wollen veratmet sein von den Wesenheiten der höheren Hierarchien. Sie bieten sich als dasjenige an, was Atmungswesen der höheren Hierarchien ist. Wiederum ein grandioses Schauspiel! 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