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Think of the large numbers of people nowadays who have become teachers in secondary schools, civil servants, and the like. They have learned a great deal, they have been to secondary schools, even to universities, and have really become exceedingly clever. (I do not mean this ironically, I only ask you to take it in connection with what I have said at other times about such things.) There are untold numbers of clever people to-day. The majority, indeed, are so clever that one can hardly tell them anything, for they know it already! 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In der gegenwärtigen Entwickelungsepoche der Menschheit sind sehr viele Menschen vorhanden, die ihre letzte maßgebende Inkarnation — nicht als ob darauf keine mehr gefolgt wäre, aber die war dann weniger maßgebend — durchgemacht haben so in den ersten Jahrhunderten nach der Begründung des Christentums bis zum 8., 9. Jahrhundert hin. Wenn wir bei den weitaus meisten Menschen, die in der Gegenwart leben und Anteil an der Kultur haben, Umschau halten, dann finden wir, daß die Mehrzahl dieser Menschen ihre maßgebende Inkarnation in den ersten sieben bis acht Jahrhunderten seit der Begründung des Christentums hatten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-18/p037"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-18/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Das war aber die Zeit, die in folgender Weise eigentümlich auf die Menschen wirkte — das geht einem heute auf, wenn man karmisch gewisse Menschen betrachtet. Immer wieder habe ich es mir zur Aufgabe gemacht, gerade auch nach diesem Gesichtspunkte viele Menschen karmisch zu betrachten, Menschen, die eine gewisse Bildung erreicht haben, die heute Zeitbildung ist, Kopfbildung hauptsächlich ist, Menschen, die eigentlich verhältnismäßig viel gelernt haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-18/p038"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-18/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Sie brauchen ja nur zu beachten, wie groß das Heer derjenigen Menschen heute ist, die Gymnasiallehrer, Beamte und so weiter geworden sind. Die haben verhältnismäßig viel gelernt, das Gymnasium oder die Realschule, sogar die Universität besucht — wirklich, ich meine das nicht ironisch, aber wohl im Zusammenhang mit alldem, was ich über solche Begriffe schon gesagt habe -, sie sind eigentlich ungeheuer gescheit geworden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":64,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-18/p039"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-18/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Nach dieser Richtung hin gibt es heute wirklich außerordentlich viel gescheite Leute. Denken Sie nur, daß ja die meisten Menschen heute so gescheit sind, daß man ihnen kaum etwas sagen kann; sie wissen ja schon alles. Jeder hat einen Standpunkt. Jeder urteilt über das, was ihm gesagt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":48,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-18/p040"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-18/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"So ist es nur in unserer Zeit, so war es durchaus nicht in früheren Zeitepochen. Da waren einzelne Leute, die haben etwas gewußt; die anderen haben hingehorcht auf diejenigen, die etwas gewußt haben. Da war es gar nicht üblich, daß so viele Menschen gescheit waren wie heute. Nicht wahr, man wird schon in sehr früher Jugend heute gescheit; denken Sie nur, wie viele Menschen unter ihrem 21. Lebensjahre heute schon, ich will gar nicht sagen, Gedichte machen, das haben sie immer getan, sondern sogar Feuilletons schreiben, ja sogar Kritiken schreiben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":90,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/236/1924-05-18/p041"},{"locus":"GA 236/1924-05-18/p042","passage_number":42,"text":"Also die Ausbildung der Intellektualität, die ist heute eine außerordentlich starke. Aber sie ist heute bei den meisten Menschen im wesentlichen beeinflußt von denjenigen Inkarnationen, die in den ersten sieben bis acht Jahrhunderten seit der Begründung des Christentums stattgefunden haben. Da wurde immer geringer und geringer das Gefühl in der menschlichen Seele für das, was aus vorirdischem Leben in das irdische hereinkommt. Die Menschen fingen an, sich eigentlich immer mehr und mehr nur für das zu interessieren, was auf den Tod folgt, und interessierten sich immer weniger und weniger für das, was dem Erdenleben vorausgegangen war. Ich habe das oftmals dadurch ausgedrückt, daß ich sagte: Wir haben ja für die Ewigkeit keine durchgreifende Bezeichnung, sondern nur für die halbe Ewigkeit, die eigentlich anfängt und niemals aufhört. Da, für diesen Teil der Ewigkeit (siehe Zeichnung, Pfeil) des Menschen haben wir das Wort Unsterblichkeit; aber wir haben nicht für die andere Hälfte der Ewigkeit, die niemals angefangen hat, ein Wort Ungeborenheit, wie es ältere Sprachen hatten. Das haben wir nicht. 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