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And sleep brought him again other experiences. Sleep for him was not that deep heavy sleep we have when we lie, as we say, ‘like a log’ and know nothing of ourselves. I believe there are people who sleep so in these days, are there not? But then there was no such thing: even in sleep man had still a dull form of consciousness. While on the one hand he was, as we now say, resting his body, the spiritual was weaving within him in a spiritual activity of the external world. And in this weaving he perceived the Beings of the Third Hierarchy. Asia he perceived in his ordinary waking-dream condition, that is to say in what was the everyday consciousness of that time. At night, in sleep, he perceived the Third Hierarchy. And from time to time there entered into his sleep a still more dim and dark consciousness, but a consciousness that graved its experiences deeply into his thought and feeling. 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Draußen fährt die Feuerwehr vorbei, um irgendwo ein Feuer zu löschen. - Wie weit verschieden ist dasjenige, was trocken die menschliche Vernunft, wie man sagt, und das gewöhnliche sinnliche Anschauen von diesem Tun der Feuerwehr vernehmen, von dem, was der Traum dem Menschen vorspiegeln kann. Aber so in Träume gegossen war alles das, was jene alte orientalische Menschheit erlebte. Da verwandelte sich alles, was draußen in den Reichen der Natur war, in Bilder. Und in diesen Bildern erlebte man die Elementargeister des Wassers, der Erde, der Luft, des Feuers. Und jener Plumpsackschlaf, den wir haben - ich meine, jener Schlaf, wo man eben ganz daliegt wie ein Sack und gar nichts von sich weiß -, den hatten die Menschen in damaliger Zeit nicht. Nicht wahr, diesen Schlaf gibt es doch heute. Den hatten aber die Menschen in der damaligen Zeit nicht, sondern sie hatten auch während dieses Schlafes ein dumpfes Bewußtsein. Während sie auf der einen Seite, wie wir es heute nennen, ihren Körper ausruhten, wob das Geistige in ihnen in einem Tätigsein der äußeren Welt. Und in diesem Weben nahm man wahr dasjenige, was die dritte Hierarchie ist. Asien nahm man wahr im gewöhnlichen Wach-Traumzustande, das heißt in dem alltäglichen Bewußtsein von damals. Die dritte Hierarchie nahm man wahr im Schlafe. Und in den Schlaf tauchte dann zuweilen ein noch dumpfes Bewußtsein ein, aber ein Bewußtsein, welches seine Erlebnisse tief in das Menschengemüt hineingrub. So daß es also für diese orientalische Bevölkerung dieses Alltagsbewußtsein gab, wo alles sich in Imaginationen und Bilder wandelte. Sie waren nicht so real, wie jene der älteren Zeit, zum Beispiel der atlantischen oder gar der lemurischen Zeit oder der Mondenzeit, aber es waren immerhin Bilder, die da noch vorhanden waren auch während dieser orientalischen Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-25/p010"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-25/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Also diese Menschen hatten diese Bilder. Dann hatten sie in den Schlafzuständen dasjenige, was sie in die Worte kleiden konnten: Entschlummern wir dem gewöhnlichen irdischen Dasein, dann treten wir ein in das Reich der Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai und leben unter ihnen. Die Seele macht sich frei vom Organismus und lebt unter den Wesen der höheren Hierarchien.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":56,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-25/p011"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-25/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Zu gleicher Zeit war man sich klar darüber, daß, während man in Asien lebte, mit Gnomen, Undinen, Sylphen, Salamandern, das heißt mit den Elementargeistern der Erde, des Wassers, der Luft, des Feuers, daß man in dem Schlafzustand, in dem der Körper sich ausruhte, erlebte die Wesenheiten der dritten Hierarchie, aber zu gleicher Zeit erlebte mit dem planetarischen Dasein, mit demjenigen, was in dem Planetensystem lebt, das zur Erde gehört. - Dann aber trat manchmal herein in das Schlafbewußtsein, wo man die dritte Hierarchie wahrnahm, ein ganz besonderer Zustand, in dem der Schlafende fühlte: Es kommt ein ganz fremdes Bereich an mich heran. Es nimmt mich etwas an sich, es holt mich etwas weg aus dem irdischen Dasein. Das fühlte man noch nicht, indem man in die dritte Hierarchie vetsetzt war, aber indem dieser tiefere Schlafzustand kam, fühlte man dieses. Eigentlich war niemals ein deutliches Bewußtsein davon vorhanden, was während dieses Schlafzustandes der dritten Art geschah. Aber tief, tief bohrte sich ein in das ganze menschliche Sein dasjenige, was da erlebt wurde aus der zweiten Hierarchie heraus. Und der Mensch hatte es bei seinem Aufwachen in seinem Gemüte, und er sagte: Ich bin begnadet worden von höheren Geistern, die über dem planetarischen Dasein ein Leben haben. - Und so sprachen diese Menschen dann von jener Hierarchie, welche die Exusiai, die Kyriotetes und die Dynamis umfaßt. - Und dieses, was ich Ihnen jetzt erzähle, das war sozusagen im älteren Asien im Grunde das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein. Die zwei Bewußtseinszustände, das Wachend-Schlafen, Schlafend-Wachen, und den Schlaf, in den die dritte Hierarchie hereinragte, das hatten schon von vornherein alle. Und manche hatten durch ihre besondere Naturanlage dann dieses Hereinragen eines tieferen Schlafes, wo die zweite Hierarchie in das menschliche Bewußtsein hereinspielte. Und die Eingeweihten in den Mysterien, sie bekamen einen weiteren Bewußtseinszustand. Welchen? Das ist eben gerade das Übertaschende. Wenn man die Antwort darauf gibt: Welchen Bewußtseinszustand bekamen nun die Eingeweihten der damaligen Zeit? -, so lautet sie: Den Bewußtseinszustand, den Sie heute am Tage immer haben. - Sie entwickeln ihn in Ihrem zweiten, dritten Lebensjahre auf natürliche Weise. Der alte Orientale ist auf natürliche Weise nie dazu gekommen, sondern er mußte ihn künstlich heranbilden. Er mußte ihn heranbilden aus dem wachenden Träumen, träumenden Wachen. Während er, wenn er herumging mit seinem wachenden Träumen, träumenden Wachen, Bilder überall sah, die mehr oder weniger symbolisch nur dasjenige gaben, was wir heute mit scharfen Konturen sehen, kamen die Eingeweihten dazu, die Dinge dazumal so zu sehen, wie sie der Mensch heute mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein alle Tage sieht. Und die Eingeweihten kamen dazumal dazu, dutch dieses erst heranentwickelte Bewußtsein das zu lernen, was heute jeder Schulknabe und jedes Schulmädchen in der Volksschule lernt. Und der Unterschied bestand nicht darin, daß der Inhalt etwas anderes war. Allerdings jene abstrakten Buchstabenformen, die wir heute haben, die hatte man damals nicht. Die Schrift wies Charaktere auf, welche in innigerem Zusammenhange mit den Sachen und Vorgängen der Welt standen. 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