{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-07-28/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We have traced the events in the physical and super-physical worlds which underlie what is now striving to make itself known to the world in Anthroposophy. We know, my dear friends, that in the last few decades two very important incisions have occurred,—important for the whole evolution of mankind. There is the one to which I have so often drawn attention, I mean the end of the so-called Dark Age at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. An age of light has now begun as against the preceding age of darkness. We know that the age of darkness led eventually to that condition of the human soul which closed the spiritual eyes of man completely to the super-sensible world. We know that in ancient times of human evolution it was a common condition of mankind to see into the spiritual world, albeit in a dream-like and more or less instinctive way. To doubt the reality of the spiritual world was utterly impossible in olden times of human evolution. But if that old condition had continued—if mankind had lived on in that instinctive vision of the spiritual world—there would never have arisen in human evolution what we may call the Intelligence of the individual human being, the manipulation of the intellect or reasoning faculty by the individual, personal man. And this, as we know, is connected with that which leads the human being to freedom of will. The one is unthinkable without the other. Thus in that dim, instinctive condition which once belonged to mankind, wherein they experienced the ever-present spiritual world, man could not attain to freedom, nor could he attain to that independent Thinking which we may call: the use of Intelligence by the single human individual.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The New Age of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-07-28","location":null,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-07-28/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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Ein lichtes Zeitalter gegenüber dem finsteren Zeitalter hat begonnen. Wir wissen ja, daß dieses finstere Zeitalter eingemündet ist in diejenige menschliche Seelenverfassung, welche die geistigen Augen der Menschen verschließt gegenüber der übersinnlichen Welt. Wir wissen, daß es in alten Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung ein allgemeiner Zustand des Menschen war, wenn auch traumhaft, wenn auch mehr oder weniger instinktiv, so doch hineinzuschauen in die geistige Welt. Zu zweifeln an der Wirklichkeit der geistigen Welt, das war in älteren Zeiten der Menschheitsentwickelung ganz unmöglich. Hätte dieser Zustand aber fortgedauert, hätte die Menschheit weitergelebt in diesem instinktiven Hineinschauen in die geistige Welt, so würde dasjenige in der Menschheitsentwickelung nicht heraufgekommen sein, was man Intelligenz des einzelnen Menschen nennen kann, die Handhabung des Verstandes, der Vernunft durch den individuellen, durch den persönlichen Menschen. 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